The song I woke up with Today

Pretty much every day, I wake up with a song in my head. It might be the same song as yesterday, or the day before.... sometimes it seems completely random. Something I caught a snatch of on the radio, or a tv commercial or it was on at work.... and sometimes it's a persistent earworm, which is what inspired this thread.



I'd like to try to make a point of recording which song it is on a daily basis. For Science.


I'll have to start tomorrow, because I can't remember what it was this morning. Feel free to join in the fun. Youtube for extra credit. Extra extra credit if it's a gay song and we can rip on you for it. I'm looking at You, Toad.


oh, and one more thing.....

I don't often wake up with a song in my head but today it was "Levon"...

... because Shabbey Road did it last night, and I didn't feel like we did the best job of it, and I'm trying to figure out how to make it better

Ironically a not-gay song... sung by a gay singer, how's that work

"Alvin Tostig has a son today"

In the isolation tank, my brain kept going back to the opening bars of "Never Gonna Give You Up," and it was a long time before I even realized what it was. Rickrolled my own damn self.

Hah!

Rickrolled my own damn self.

That is Too damn Funny !!!!

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The Chain by Fleetwood Mac

Mexican Radio.

LOVE it!

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this is a sticky one

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Country music - you have been warned.
But also strikes the funny bone.

lumberjim;1008567 wrote:

this is a sticky one

I liked that a lot. Til the vocals started.

I can tell that guitar riff is gonna be sticky, though.

I've forgotten it now, but whatever I had in my head this morning was some easy listening thing ...something about when the night comes, loneliness something something.....



glad it's gone now. Replaced with.....


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Oh, there's worse things to have in ya haid.

I like me some Gentleman Rocker, I do!

This might not work. This morning I had a song I know... Def Leppard or Bon Jovi.... and I thought of this thread...but I was on my way out the door. Now it's completely gone. No idea.

In my head since wake up...
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Back in the high life again.... Steve Winwood?

Or Warren Zevon. Fairly stripped down version.

I woke up to this at 9:30 this morning.

Took me a minute to find the volume button.

And then the walls started shaking.:cool:

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me likey

Woke up with

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in my head this morning. And I was ok with that.:rolleyes:

Then this happen.:yelsick:

Pillow of Winds.

http://youtu.be/wFt99jcazHs

Dis in m'haid dis mornin':

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Golly.:joylove::love::heartpump

Today I woke up with

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Stuck in my head

ARRE YOUUU REEAADDDYYYY :devil:

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I hadn't heard Still In Saigon in a long, long time.

Not today, but yesterday . . .

I have no idea how this could possibly have occurred, but this lyric was stuck in my head:

"lookin' better than a body has a right to"

I finally figured out what it was, and I continue to be shocked, amazed, and a little freaked out. I never cared much for Dolly Parton, never listened intentionally to her music, and haven't thought about her or heard her name or music for years.

But there it was in my head.




My clearly psychologically unstable head. :eyebrow:

Have you watched Dumplin', on Netflix?

Momdigr watched it, and I couldn't help but notice that the entire soundtrack, I think, is Dolly Parton.

"Here You Come Again"

IIRC the song does a nice key change for the choruses

I always liked the line "here you come again, and here I go".

I want to listen to it now but I'm at work.

Songwriters are songwriting royalty: Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, contemporaries of Gerry Goffin/Carole King. They have like 150 hit songs.

Heh, don't get caught at the stoplight blasting that alone in the car.:lol2:

It's in a tv commercial right now, Glinda.

Don't ask which, but I heard it last night or the night before.

Heh, don't get caught at the stoplight blasting that alone in the car.

How can you be from Tenntucky. Dolly is a national treasure, and gets a full pass.

Anyway, I don't care. I recommend not caring because you get to enjoy so much more. I blasted the song away, rolling down the goddamn turnpike. And then I listened to it five more times at home to verify what I was hearing.

Here is the secret to the song. The key just keeps moving around.

Verse 1: G flat
Verse 2: G flat
Chorus 1: A
Verse 3: G
Bridge: G
Chorus 2: B flat
Verse 4: A flat

Bumping up the key is an old songwriter trick. Usually they bump it a full step, so it sounds like the song is moving to another "gear". My favorite cheesy example of a song doing this is "My Baby Takes The Morning Train" :eyeroll: which does it in such a cheesy way that you can't miss it. The first chorus is in G, the second in A, and the last in B. So you can really tell that they are ramping it up in that way, and that's part of what makes it 100% cheese.

For "Here You Come Again", Mann/Weil figured out a way to do that in the choruses as well as the verses!, and they jump up a half step instead of a full step. It's very subtle, and it fools you.

lumberjim;1022411 wrote:

It's in a tv commercial right now, Glinda.

Don't ask which, but I heard it last night or the night before.

Oh, I hope this is true! If not, there's definitely something wrong with my brains. :D

Different does not equal wrong/defective/diminished.

xoxoxoBruce;1022452 wrote:

Different does not equal wrong/defective/diminished.

Well, I'm certainly different; I won't argue that. ;)

Illegal Smile: John Prine

By way of explanation, I saw him on Austin City Limits recently. John is a must see before he shows up on one of our celebrity lists.
My favorite cut would be Paradise.
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Wow, I never really heard that song before. Sad.

I've hunted on the site of the coal field that lay underneath Paradise. It's a weird dangerous place now. Canals from and to the Green River, narrow and deep. Cuts in the ground from ten to 100 feet deep, 30 to over 100 feet long, some filled with water, just anywhere and/or everywhere.

The roads there are a hundred feet wide in some places, to allow those ginormous dump trucks to pass each other, and you got to navigate around/amongst those behemoths, because they have the right-of-way.

One of the cooler things about the place is the abandoned equipment. There used to (I assume it's still there) be an enormous shovel out in this huuuuge open field, with a sign saying walking on the field is expressly forbidden. Lots of places with stay out signs. One of the world's largest shovels is buried there on the Peabody Wildlife Manage Area.

I once hunted turkey from underneath a dump truck bed out in the most BFE of woods. On my way out I walked past a sign, from the wrong side, warning to stay out of this area due to the ground might give way at any old time. They (Peabody WMA) used to charge $10 for a year land use permit, IDK what is now. Ya had to sign a liability waiver also, iirc.

There's hardly anything left to say that the community of Paradise was ever there. Indeed, Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

Thanks for the on the ground report. Is the cover growing back?

fargon;1022459 wrote:

Wow, I never really heard that song before. Sad.

Yeah, Prine plays a lot of humorous music but he tapped into the saddest vein here.

"Paradise"

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.

[Chorus:]
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

[Chorus]

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

[Chorus]

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.

[Chorus]

Griff;1022521 wrote:

Thanks for the on the ground report. Is the cover growing back?

There are still ugly places and pockmarks on the land, but, it's recovering nicely. Still active mining in places, y'know. Land will recover given the chance.

People have put fish in some of the exploratory strip cuts. When ya get poor/hungry ya 'hit the strip' for a guaranteed fish dinner.

lumberjim;1022411 wrote:

It's in a tv commercial right now, Glinda.

Don't ask which, but I heard it last night or the night before.

Ah-HAH! I was watching TV tonight and an Applebee's commercial came on with that song in the background.

I'm not crazy, after all!











Well, at least not on this topic. :p:

Glinda;1022603 wrote:

I'm not crazy, after all!











Well, at least not on this topic. :p:

Thanks for clarifying, I was confused. ;)

Jackson Browne - The Load-Out/Stay

♪ ♫But when that last guitar's been packed away♪ ♫
♪ ♫You know that I still want to play♪ ♫
♪ ♫So just make sure you got it all set to go♪ ♫
♪ ♫Before you come for my piano♪ ♫

:devil:

That. Is. An. Awesome. Fucking. Song.

Damn, the song is 42 yrs old.

...old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn...

That hit me square in the feels for some reason this soggy morning.

Funny how circumstances change things/feelings/outlooks.

Gravdigr;1026385 wrote:

Jackson Browne - The Load-Out/Stay

♪ ♫But when that last guitar's been packed away♪ ♫
♪ ♫You know that I still want to play♪ ♫
♪ ♫So just make sure you got it all set to go♪ ♫
♪ ♫Before you come for my piano♪ ♫

:devil:

That. Is. An. Awesome. Fucking. Song.

Damn, the song is 42 yrs old.

One of my huge pet peeves is that streaming services always break it into two songs and they don't play the second one. How fucking criminal is that?

Felonious.

It's a fugacious abstraction of justice

Bought Jackson Browne tickets yesterday. July 3.

:jig

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Those guys are from right around here. I like some of their stuff. That's one of them, right thar.:jig:

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Thanks griff , thats was a nice way to start my day

It was a nice way to wake up and count my blessings.

zippyt;1026622 wrote:

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LIKE! "No rest for the wicked" is one of my favorite sayings. :cool:

I remember all the times I tried so hard
But you laughed in my face because you held the cards

I don't care anymore

ahh some Phill to start the day , interesting

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A little rowdier today.
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(These guys crush it live.)

I just cannot decide if I like Volbeat.

I ought to make up my mind one way or the other.

Should I like them?:lol2:

Yes.


They’re big Johnny Cash fans of that helps.

Yeah, Cmon. They rock. Rockabilly metal. Lonesome rider is a hoot. You can listen to an entire album. Which is rare lately

Ohhh, alright.:)

But ima hafta get past that thing he does w/his voice when he says 'you', or 'true', or the like.

So, what's their signature tune? The one everybody names when asked to name a Volbeat song?

And what's y'alls fav Volbeat song?

Last 2 days in a row its been Billy stinking Joel. Italian restaurant.

Bottle o red... Bottle o white.... Whatever the fuck he says, alright....

Gravdigr;1027665 wrote:

So, what's their signature tune? The one everybody names when asked to name a Volbeat song?

And what's y'alls fav Volbeat song?

The radio song is the hangman body count

Puuut on the rope, you knew the day was coming...say your prayers once more, you're part of the hangman's body count, whoa.....

I like that one and Lola Montez and that whole album really. https://open.spotify.com/album/5SBrIIYCvThaqN9r1SV2pv?si=auXqzX5oSzOpnVPRI9ptag

I been listening for minute.

Heard 'Sad Man's Tongue'...

I did not understand a. word. he. sang.

It kicks ass, though.

I like that they have 'a sound', but everything doesn't sound the same.

True. I can hit all the notes he does when I sing along, too. His voice is distinctive. I think they are foreign... Like Danish or some shit

Yeah, I think Danes. He was speechifying before the concert I saw him at talking about finding his sound somewhere between Motley Crue and Johnny Cash. I like the earlier album best. Still Counting would be my fave.

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His voice sounds the same live, good stuff.

I woke up with Volbeat's cover of I Only Want To Be With You in m'head this morning...

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Rose In Paradise

She was a flower for the takin',
Her beauty cut just like a knife
He was a banker from Macon,
He swore he'd love her all his life

He bought her a mansion on the mountain,
With a formal garden and a lot a land
But paradise became her prison,
That Georgia banker was a jealous man!

Every time he'd talk about her,
You could see the fire in his eyes
He'd say, "I would walk through Hell on Sunday,
To keep my Rose in Paradise"

He hired a man to tend the garden,
And keep an eye on her while he was gone
Some say they ran away together
Some say that gardener left alone

Now the banker is an old man
That mansion's crumbling down
He sits all day and he stares at the garden
Not a trace of her was ever found

Every time he'd talk about her,
You could see the fire in his eyes
He'd say, "I would walk through Hell on Sunday,
To keep my Rose in Paradise"

Now there's a rose out in the garden
Its beauty cuts just like a knife
They say that it even grows in the winter time
And blooms in the dead of the night

whatever happened to gettin a good old-fashioned passionate ass whoopin and gettin your shoes coat and your hat tooken?

What the I don't even.

dude woke up to Eminem, is all

Heh, it never occurred to me to search that phrase.

I just assumed he posted in the wrong thread, or was off his meds...Or something.

Thanks 'Toad, sorry Flint.

:lol2: I just realized that 'Will the real Slim Shady please stand up' is the complete and total extent of my Eminem knowledge.

That line, and his name is Marshall Mathers. That's all of it, right there.

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You're missing out, man.

He's a Rap God.

Listen to Stan

Gravdigr;1028081 wrote:

[emoji38]2: I just realized that 'Will the real Slim Shady please stand up' is the complete and total extent of my Eminem knowledge.

That line, and his name is Marshall Mathers. That's all of it, right there.

I've done Stan at karaoke.
I practiced every day in the shower for like a month.

My favorite Eminem track is 'No Love'

It's an adrenaline rush to feel the bass thump in the place
All the way to the parking lot, fellow
Set fire to the mic and ignite the crowd
You can see the sparks from hot metal
Cold-hearted from the day I Bogarted the game I so started
To rock fellow, when I'm not even in my harshest
You can still get roasted 'cause Marsh is not mellow
'Til I'm toppling from the top I'm not going to stop, I'm standing on my Monopoly board
That means I'm on top of my game and it don't stop, 'til my hip don't hop anymore
When you're so good that you can't say it 'cause it ain't even cool for you to sound cocky anymore
People just get sick 'cause you spit, these fools can't drool or dribble a drop anymore
And you can never break my stride,
You never slow the momentum at any moment I'm about to blow
You'll never take my pride, killing the flow, slow venom and the opponent is getting no
Mercy, mark my words, ain't letting up, relentless I smell blood,
I don't give a fuck, keep giving them hell
Where was you when I fell and needed help up? You get no love

This is the hardest phrase from No Love:
"You never slow the momentum at any moment I'm about to blow"

You have to practice: slow the mo- minnemenniminute imbouttablow"

If that's what it takes to be one of the cool kids, I'm out.

I'm not a rap fan. I have like 6 rap CDs I can think of off the top of my head: Rob Base/EZ Rock, Kool Moe Dee, Heavy D, Tone Loc, Dr Dre, & Snoop.

Kid Rock is the only white rapper I've ever been able to stand, and I'm not a big fan of the rap part of his act either.

Your recommendations are appreciated, though, gentlemen.

:hattip:

look at the beasty boys

Fergot about the Beasties. Some of there stuff is okay. I have Licensed to Ill.

This is my favorite version (edit: Tapatalk won't let me use YouTube tags, apparently...)

https://youtu.be/nRtxqrAXZfE

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:)

Hold It, Now Hit It

You wanna get something stuck in your head? Play tenacious D's first album.

Oh, hell no.

Jack and Kyle can just stay right the fuck outta my head.

:p:

Thanks Griff i needed that , not the best end to the day ,
Head phones on cranked untill my wife in the other room was yelling , WHAT THE HELL !!!!

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Last one i swear
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Friggn in the Riggen !!!

I say this every time we use a crane
Not many folks catch it

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I'm so into turkish rap these days..

Turkish Rap
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I get turkey wraps at Subway.

They don't sound nuthin like that.

I saw the guy w/the marijuana leaf on his shirt...

...ain't he watched Midnight Express?!?!?!:eek:

Things are a changing.

Woke up about 8 this morning, with Mas Tequila (Sammy Hagar) in my head. Haven't heard it in a long time.

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Not sure this is the exact version I woke up with, but this is the version I'm posting.

UFO Lights Out

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Tonight I'm in a production of Rimski-Korsakov's Snegurochka, The Snow-Maiden. Sung in Russian. It's been arduous rehearsing.

Sounds like the audience is in for an arduous evening, too.

That NRA Russian totalitarian narrative gains traction. ;) Just busting, good luck with your endeavor.

Urbane Guerrilla;1035201 wrote:

Tonight I'm in a production of Rimski-Korsakov's Snegurochka, The Snow-Maiden. Sung in Russian. It's been arduous rehearsing.

https://www.discoverlosangeles.com/event/2019/07/05/independent-opera-company-presents-the-snow-maiden-by-rimsky-korsakov ?

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In my head at wake up.

Cosmo Jarvis really knows how to wake people up.

Woke up with this stuck in my head:

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"Lets get it on" by Marvin Gaye. Stuck in my head, listened to it before falling asleep on the couch.

Peterdowe;1036412 wrote:

"Lets get it on" by Marvin Gaye. Stuck in my head, listened to it before falling asleep on the couch.

You can be the DJ when you come over.

:)

I've woke with Jimmy Buffett lyrics in m'head for the last 3 days in a row.

As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man
I have chalked up many a mile
Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks
And I've learned much from both of their styles

...

Haul the sheet in as we ride on the wind that our
Forefathers harnessed before us
Hear the bells ring as the tight rigging sings
It's a son of a gun of a chorus

~Son of a Son of a Sailor