Poll: how much music plays in your head?

Please to answer poll above thank you.

The bigger issue is that if it's playing it my head, it's also usually coming out of my mouth. Fortunately I spend most of my day alone.

it depends on the day ,
if im feeling good , shits going right all is good and fine with the universe ,
yeah man theres tunes , good tunes , keep ya moving stuff

Other wise im concentrating to hard to unfuck the problem im dealing with

If it's there, it's not as loud as the tinnitus, so I don't know.:(

LOL, me too Bruce.

Sometimes, at night, if I'm reading or just being very still and quiet, the tinnitus sounds like the walls are picking up a faint radio frequency.

I just can't get those night time coyote songs out of my mind...

During the day, the music playing in my head generally comes from what I happen to be streaming on my computer or what I'm listening to on my i-phone. If I go outside, it all goes staccato to the beat of the rancher next door shooting at the prairie dogs that infest his fields. "The hills are alive..." WHAM! :eek:

Wait. I guess they're not.

About a quarter seems right. I do wonder if my tinnitus has interfered with the production it as it used to be more...

Pico and ME;983853 wrote:

LOL, me too Bruce.

Sometimes, at night, if I'm reading or just being very still and quiet, the tinnitus sounds like the walls are picking up a faint radio frequency.

Oh god, I'm constantly thinking I'm having auditory hallucinations, sometimes I can hear that when there is another faint sound and they seem to harmonize or something and then I'm searching for the source of the music.

Sometimes, there actually is music, my kids will say, yeah, it's the neighbors.

I always have a song in my head. I wake up to them. Yesterday it was Hootie and the Blowfish, 'I only wanna be with you'.. .but the Ted version, where he sings it karaoke and only uses vowels.

All day, every day.
Might appear random, but always attributable back to an event which precipitated the song.

Could be a few words out of a sentence someone said made a partial match, either semantically or thematically, to the words of a song I know.

Could be the words to the song are an answer to (or analysis of) an emotional event I'm wrestling with. This means that my subconscious is trying so hard to help me figure out a problem, it literally sends a message to my consciousness, encoded in bits of data from my memory banks.

The reason I'm stuck on a song is usually word-based, but can also be a rhythm or melody I've become obsessed with. It just sounds like the most captivating piece of music, and I go over and it again and again, trying to decode the magic that makes it catchy.



I heard "Sunset Grill" by Don Henley at the grocery store on Monday morning, and two parts of that song have held a fascination for me all week:
1) The keyboard phrase that opens the song, and prefaces the verse that comes after the keyboard solo. This is a very creepy phrase, and falls under the category of, "how do you write something like that?"
2) The bridge section that prefaces the keyboard solo. I love dramatically up-transposing 1980s bridge sections. I try to sing this in the shower (tuesday, wednesday, and thursday), although it goes way above my vocal range.



I don't remember if there have been other songs this week.
Maybe only one song at a time is held in that "repeat" file.

*It goes above Henley's vocal range, too. He's no more capable of hitting those notes than he is of fulfilling the (unconvincing) pledge to his girlfriend that, "one day soon, we're gonna get in that car and get out of here." That is never going to happen, just like he's never going to be able to hit those high notes. He's fooling himself.


Maybe I'm fooling myself, too.

*That keyboard phrase is the Mona Lisa. Is it smiling or frowning?

(now listening to the song again)

When my buddy's air conditioner is on, and I'm there by myself, I can hear music.

I don't hear music much, but I hear rhythms and patterns of words. If a phrase pops into my head, I might realize that it's been repeating itself for half a minute or so before I get annoyed at it and consciously stop it. But once in a while a melody will pop into my head for no reason and get stuck there. Every couple days.

Flint;983893 wrote:

I heard "Sunset Grill" by Don Henley at the grocery store on Monday morning, and two parts of that song have held a fascination for me all week:
1) The keyboard phrase that opens the song, and prefaces the verse that comes after the keyboard solo. This is a very creepy phrase, and falls under the category of, "how do you write something like that?"

This intrigged me, so I investigated. Benmont Tench is the keys player and gets a songwriting credit.

Benmont Tench is a Heartbreaker, as in Tom Petty and the *. But y'know what... Benmont Tench doesn't have one songwriting credit on any Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers albums.

So maybe Mr. Tench had this one in his back pocket for a while, and Tom always told him that it was a little too much for anything in their catalogue.

Just speculatin'

2) The bridge section that prefaces the keyboard solo. I love dramatically up-transposing 1980s bridge sections. I try to sing this in the shower (tuesday, wednesday, and thursday), although it goes way above my vocal range.

It is the best section of the song.

I mark the song down, though, for two aspects.

1) It up-transposes again, this time by one note, for the final bit. I just personally find that to be a hokey songwriting trick most of the time. (It shares that trick with "My Baby Takes the Morning Train", for example.)

2) As with Mr. Phil Collins before him, here you have a drummer who over-employs the shitty drum machines of the early 80s. Not one real drum on the song. Sir are you not offended.

I certainly am. I never like that guy.

Undertoad;983924 wrote:

I mark the song down, though, for two aspects.

1) It up-transposes again, this time by one note, for the final bit. I just personally find that to be a hokey songwriting trick most of the time. (It shares that trick with "My Baby Takes the Morning Train", for example.)

2) As with Mr. Phil Collins before him, here you have a drummer who over-employs the shitty drum machines of the early 80s. Not one real drum on the song. Sir are you not offended.

As a whole, I mark the song down for the 2-3 minutes of aimless keyboard noodling that occurs after the song should have faded out. It's like 6 minutes long, and I'm sorry but you better be a progressive band with elaborate song sections to sustain an over 5-minute length.

Aimless noodling over a repeating pattern is the reason--I think--that Rush's album Caress of Steel reviewed poorly. They were trying too hard to be a 'standard rock' band, and not playing to their song-structuring strengths. Except in Bastille Day. Great song, and also a great message, that the Ayn Rand-reading Rush fans should remember, along with their fevered anti-communist fantasies.



ANSWER TO THE QUESTION:
Yes, more than one song can get stuck in the repeat file, because Bastille Day is the other one I've been stuck on all this week. Also, singing in the shower. Presumably both in the same shower, at some point.

Since reading this thread, I am noticing a lot more music in my head. Numerous times a day.

Is it that there is music now, or that I'm noticing it now?

Just now, it was Cecelia by Simon and Garfunkel. There's a cow orker on my floor with that name and she recently walked by. Must be it.

Undertoad;983924 wrote:

Not one real drum on the song. Sir are you not offended.

The drum pattern is awesome. I don't care what it's played on.

Maintaining interest in the rhythm section of a popular, radio-friendly song, for six minutes, without ever playing a crash cymbal--or any cymbals, is deserving of a Nobel Prize, honestly.

glatt;983955 wrote:

Just now, it was Cecelia by Simon and Garfunkel. There's a cow orker on my floor with that name and she recently walked by. Must be it.

I had various songs by Simon and Garfunel stuck in my head for about a month and a half. Many different songs of theirs, all the time. That was a weird one.

glatt;983955 wrote:

Is it that there is music now, or that I'm noticing it now?

Have y'all heard linguists/neuro-psychologists discussing the link between language and music? Like, using similar brain parts, possibly things that were evolved for one purpose being used for another? I'm fuzzy on the details...

I used to be able to hear random music. Heard it for weeks. Sometimes it was there, sometimes not. Then I discovered the radio was on and the volume was turned down to 3.

:D

Was it the commercials that clued you in or that you somehow knew the weather?

Ha! Funny Griff.

The Shins have been in my head recently. Pilgrims and A Comet appears.