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Sunday, February 16
REMEMBER YESTERDAY
WALKING HAND IN HAND
[something something something]
I RE MEM BER YOU
Sex in the Kitchen,
Over by the stove,
Put you on the counter
By the buttered rolls.......
"Hangin' Tough" NKOTB, lord help me!
Just kidding, more like "Even Tho" by Joseph Arthur.
"Paint it Black" - Rolling Stones
lol...how'd ya know I had a song stuck in my head? ;o)
Un Beso by Aventura......love it!
Pop life
Everybody needs a thrill
Pop life
We all got a space 2 fill
Pop life
Everybody can’t be on top
But life it ain’t real funky
Unless it’s got that pop
Pop Life - Prince circa 1993
A Madonna song off her new album. The one with the worst lyrics EVER:
"I don't like cities
But I like New York
Other places make me feel like a dork"
and
"Other cities always make me mad
Other places always make me sad"
A dork? Seriously, Madonna, is that the best you can do? And rhyming mad with sad is just pathetic, unless you're Doctor Suess.
Boy, I sound bitter. A good earworm will do that to you.
"Roll...out...those...LAZYHAZYCRAZYDAYSOFSUMMER!!!!"
Seriously, are there other words to that song? Because just that one line has been stuck in my head all week, and I want to cry.
"Safety Dance" ever since I listened to this Hungry Mag interview with "Hot" Doug Sohn. (He says it's one of his favorite party songs.)
Public Pervert - Interpol
for the last four days, my officemate has continually acknowledged that 'eye of the tiger' is running through her head. it kicks back up when she accomplishes something here, no matter how small. office work, 'eye of the tiger?' I guess I put that song in the gym category, following the socialization of 'rocky.'
A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
"Beeeeeing drunk on their plan, they lifted up the saaaaaaahhhhhhhaaaaaaan
DEENERNEENER ...
BWSSSHHHHH!
DEENERNEENER ...
BWSSSHHHHH!"
oh i'd like to know where... you got the notion...
yes i'd like to know where... you got the notion...
said i'd like to know where... you got the notion...
to rock the boat.
(rock the boat)
At all times, when another song is not taking its place, I have the limbo song on a loop in my head. It makes me crazy. And every so often, it will go away, and right at that moment, my sister will ask, "Limbo?" and it will start up again. She's evil. But same sister bought me seasons 1 and 2 of Tales from the Crypt for my birthday, so the intro to that is in my head right now.
Oh, and Sebastian, it's "Love letters in the sand." come on now.
"Mister" by Laurie Berkner
Mister Elephant
Living in a tent
You don't pay any rent
Cause you're an elephant
Yes, it's a kids song. Snippet here.
"You Got the Touch" by Stan Bush as made famous by Transformers the Movie and then infamous by Marky Mark in Boogie Nights.
"Tom's Diner" - the DNA (?) Remix... Suzanne Vega.
It's been in my head on and off since 1990. Quite possibly the most evil goddamned song in all of recorded history.
Ride - "Chrome Waves"
This strange machinery
Is keeping you from seeing me
I'll meet you on the way down
My roommate got the Fraggle Rock 1st season on DVD for Christmas and has been watching it nonstop. Thus, I always have the Fraggle Rock theme song in my head these days.
The gameshow-esque horns from RJD2's "1976" have been on a continuous loop in my head for several years.
"Just One Look" by Doris Troy...
"Just one look and I felt so, oh, oh, oh, in love with you and oh, oh, oh."
mmmmhh!
Yeah how'd you know I had one stuck in my head?
Right now it's Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" which came to me from the Mountain Dew commercial featuring the singing nocturnal animals.
Cripes.
I think we all know what song is going through my head..
BUM-BUM! da da da daa daaaaa BUM-BUM!
...and so forth.
"thrills" by lcd soundsystem.
Gah! Remember the horrible song about hearts and minds that was the "anthem" for the Catskills resort in Dirty Dancing? I haven't seen it for years, but the song has been stuck in my head since yesterday.
and i'd like to add that i really wish i hadn't read this thread, as tom's diner is now battling it out with the ride of the valkyries for control of the auditory cortex.
arrrgh.
"Your city's a sucker...your city's a sucker, my city's a creep."
Don't tell anyone, but it's that Patrick Swayze song
"she's like the wind"
Well, nothing at the moment but a few weeks back I kept humming "I've got you under my skin, so deep in the heart of me" while waiting at my dermatologist's office. Pretty ironic,no?
I want the fraggle dvd!! oh my god, I need to get on top of things like this coming out!
Now, having said that, I am currently song-stuck-in-my-head free.
Amyc-
"Roll...out...those...LAZYHAZYCRAZYDAYSOFSUMMER!!!!"
"Those days of soda...and pretzels...and beer"
"Roll...out...those...LAZYHAZYCRAZYDAYSOFSUMMER!!!!"
"You'll wish that summer..was already...HERE!!!"
That song came on the radio many many years ago when I was tripping my brains out, so the chorus was thus forever burned into my brain. I don't even think there are any verses, just that "100 bottles of beer on the wall"-esque repetition.
And now it will play through MY head for at least a week. THANKS!
"Here we go...Here we go...Pittsburgh's going to the Super Bowl...here we go" from 1997-1998, written by some super fan with a Casio keyboard, a tin ear, and way too much time. This song was EVERYWHERE for 2 months. I'm originally from there and somehow managed to avoid football for most of my life - and now it's back to haunt me.
“How We Ride” by Mannie Fresh ft. David Banner and Bun-B
Yesterday it was Earth Wind and Fire “Do You Remember”
Stacy's Mom, after reading the great article about Doug Sohn at Hungrymag.com.
"I Love Myself Today" by Bif Naked. I have no idea where it came from, but seeing as how I'm having a supremely horrid day at work, it's nice that my subconscious is trying to cheer me up.
Ana Ng by TMBG, especially the "I don't want the world. I just want your half" part
Na Na Na Nanananana... katamari damacy!
The National, "Mr. November"
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders....
Juan Gabriel ¨No Tengo Dinero¨
Eric Prydz' Call On Me. NSFW!
We built this city.
We build this city on rock and roll.
I need a coat hanger to get it out.
Oh, and Avril, Pop Life was off of Around the World in a Day, which was 1985, not 1993. :)
And Naz, you can never have enough Stan Bush.
just read through. And yeah c, i literally threw my headphones off the wall halfway through madonna´s öther cities make me feel like a dork escapade. The mfer´s still in there though, the cser.
As c mentioned above, the term for this is an earworm.
To Sheila - Smashing Pumpkins
"twilight fades through blistered avalon
the sky's cruel torch on aching autobahn
into the uncertain divine
we scream into the last divide"
No Dr. Suess here...
"one two three FOUR FIVE six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve..."
...all i need is a miracle...all i neeeeeed is youuuuuuuuuuuu.....
give it up for mike and the mechanics!
Why--why?
Tell 'em that it's human nature--why? Why?
Mmmmblubbydoodlydoo [never been able to decipher this part.]
Oh oh! It's back! You know that Beyonce song?
Ooooh boy you're lookin' like you like what you see....
Yeah, due to its hourly presence on MTV Europe, that was in my head the entire time I was in Amsterdam, and now it's back!
Alternately -
This Magic Moment - Jay & the Americans
Wraith Pinned to the Mist... - Of Montreal.
BUM-BUM! da da da daa daaaaa BUM-BUM!
Lennie - I can never shake that one either.
See the chameleon,
lying there in the sun,
all things to everyone,
run, run away.
Good ole Slade.
Right now it's "We Repel Each Other" by the Reigning Sound. Which means I get a quick break from "True" by Paul Wall.
"Why does he do me that way?" is the missing link to "Human Nature," sirs.
My song is "Come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners, an accidental song, as I hate everything it stands for, notably overalls without undershirts.
Other stuck in my head songs: "Goodbye Holly" by the Left Banke, a cover of "Landslide" by the Dixie Chicks (guilty pleasure!) and "Penthouse in the Woods" by Scud Mountain Boys.
Another winner: every Sundays song ever made. When did I lose that album?
Disturbingly enough, the old "NBA on NBC" theme. It's such a memento of the Jordan era. Am I wrong?
That, and "Bones of an Idol" by the New Pornograpers.
Air - Run
Stay with me
I feel sad
When you run run run run run run run run
I reallllly want to get blazed right now because this song is so much better that way.
Two songs, actually, and they alternate. Just when I think one is gone, the other is back.
The first:
The B-52s "Mesopotamia"
"six or eight thousand years ago/
they laid down the law!/
in Meso... potamia!"
The second:
Talking Heads "Burning Down the House"
"I'm... an... or... di... nar... ry... guy
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE!"
Barenaked Ladies - One Week
"...how can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad?"
This happens and it inevitably leads to inappropriate laughter and puts me in the dog house.
That Beyonce song Check On It!!
from that steve martin movie coming out!
it's everywhere!
you're *SO* unbelievable...
This gospel song by the Winans either "Don't leave" or "Living in the last Times". I have no clue where this came from, just woke up with it in my head
Ring ring ring ring....Bananaphone!
"Condor Ave." and a brief doxology.
God help me, it's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and I actually SANG it to the baby boy last night.
Sukie in the Graveyard from the new Belle and Sebastian CD The Life Pursuit. Total sugar-coated ear candy with a filthy bass line, mmmbopp boy-girl harmonies and hooks that just wont quit!
"Don't belive the Hype" Public Enemy
My worst earworm is a kids' song I heard ONCE while flipping past Nickelodeon years ago:
I-am-slow-ly-go-ing-cra-zy-1-2-3-4-5-6-SWITCH!
Cra-zy-go-ing-slow-ly-am-I-6-5-4-3-2-1-SWITCH!
I also scramble for the mute button whenever a Menards, Luna, or Empire commercial airs to try to head off those horrible, insidious jingles.
"Separate Lives" Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin, only because my friends did a brilliant karaoke version Friday.
Menah-menah
Do-do-do-do-do
Menah-menah
Do-do-do-do-do
Menah-menah
Do-do-do-do! do-do-do! do-do-do-do-dahd-dah-dah dattah dah!
(repeat)
My perennials are "867-5309," which has been in my head since it was a hit, and the theme from the Monkees, which has been in there since the mid-70s, when I was a tiny little boy.
"People Who Died" by The Jim Carroll Band.
Those are people who died, died.
Those are people who died, died.
Steve, I'll trade you for RJD2's "1976." I'm always psyched when that's stuck in my head.
There are two:
"Walk or Ride" by the Ditty Bops
"Hip Hug Her" by Booker T & The MGs (DARN IT)
When the mooooon is in the seventh house
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the Age of Aqarius...
DK you're evil, but at least now I'm rid of Aqarius.
Lately, it's been Steak for Chicken by The Moldy Peaches.
It's so close to one of those weird stupid dithyrambs that my brain will make up on its own (and then play incessantly) that I keep forgeting it's from an actual band.
That darn cheese comercial...
"Your'e Cr-umbelievable"
stolen from EMF
Wake Me UP!
before you gogo,
don't leave me hangin like a yoyo
take me dancing TONIGHT
We're leaving together
But still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back
To earth, who can tell
I guess there is no one to blame
We're leaving ground (leaving ground!)
Will things ever be the same again?
It's the final countdown...
Stained window, yellow candy screen
See speakers of kite - with velvet roses diggin' freedom flight
A present from you - Strawberry letter 22
The music plays, I sit in for a few
Ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh...
A present from you - Strawberry letter 22
The music plays, I sit in for a few
Ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh...
Jamiroquai, "Seven Days In Sunny June." I swear, I was dancing to it in my sleep.
All the songs on Katamari Damacy rule! They need put out a soundtrack.
Golden Girls theme song "Thank You for Being a Friend"
Thank you for being a friend
Traveled down the road and back again
Your heart is true you're a pal and a confidant
And if you threw a party
Innnnvited everyone you ever knew-oooooh
You would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say thank you for being a friennnnnnnnnnnnd.
And then I think of Bea Arthur biting into her fist.
"Master of the House" from Les Mis.
"Happy Phantom" by Tori Amos
and
"Shosholoza" by Ladysmith Black Mombasa.
Yeah I don't know what's wrong with me either.
oh carrie, why did you have to put this song in my brain? except we used to sing:
"I don't care if i go crazy, 1 2 3 4 5 6 switch/ crazy go i if care don't I, 6 5 4 3 2 1 switch."
the horror... the horror...
'Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the left' - Andrew Bird
Mmmbop!
Bop Gun (Endangered Species) - Parliament
"Got ta get over the hump", repeated ad infinitum.
Hey Rev -- like my boy James Frey, I left Jim Carroll behind years ago. Make no doubt, though, we did much junk but could not dunk hi ho, hi ho.
Today, the RJD2 horn jam is intercutting with that goofy Blondie/Doors mashup, "Rapture Riders."
Inexplicably, Kiss the Girl from the Little Mermaid popped into my head today and WON'T LEAVE. AAAARGH.
There are several songs at all times... most prominent right now the Jefferson Starship song from Mannequin and the first track off of Neutral Milk Hotel's On Avery Island.
They're not getting along very well.
Fraulein Ohrwurm-- I think Michael Jackson's unintelligible phrase is "does he do me this way" but I might be way off on this. I used to think that Elvis Presley's "Return to Sender" was "Return Lucinda. . .cause I'm all alone."
BTW, Return to Sender is another Earworm from hell. It's been bugging me for 2 decades.
"Rule Britannia." HELP ME.
Fluoroscences by stereolab. it makes me sooo happy.
booty call booty call i think i got a booty call...
thankfully, the "i don't care if i go crazy" song referenced above has now been replaced by war photographer by jason forrest, which is blessed relief.
I was moving some boxes of CDs from my parents house and I looked in and saw the Led Zeppelin box set and 'The lemon song' caught my eye. I listened to it once.
I can't get it out of my head
"I should have quit you a long time agooooo...."
"Ma---MA---MAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa...you ain't nothing but a 2 bit no good-----------------"
the song changes with every post i read. i feel insane.
Love Lift us Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker and someone else
Believe it or not, George isn't at home
Or where or where could I beeeee?...
You have to order overseas, but the Katamari soundtrack is available from CD Japan.
Actually Katamari fans can find the soundtrack here.
The song that the boss from BBC's The Office was singing during the episode where they are at the all-day company training - "Free Love on the Free Love Freeway..."
"A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off" by Magnetic Fields ("Eligible/Not too stupid/Intelligible/And cute as Cupid/Knowledgeable/But not always right/Salvageable/And free for tonight/Now my heart's running round like a chicken with its head cut off..")
Could be worse. Could be Private Dancer.
"Study In Red" by Brad Peterson. Effing catchy tune.
All. My. Friends. know the lowrider.
Oddly enough, Kate, even though I watched Dazed & Confused yesterday, and heard Lowrider about ten times during the course of the movie, that song did NOT get stuck in my head.
Except for the horn part. Damn. Thanks a lot.
That damn Coldplay song! Don't know the name, but it sounds vaguely like a U2 riff, and is REALLY catchy. Whistling it right now...
'Missing Link' by Curve
"Mother"
Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?
Mother do you think they'll like this song?
Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls?
Mother should I build the wall?
Mother should I run for president?
Mother should I trust the government?
Mother will they put me in the firing line?
Mother am I really dying?
For me, it's the CBS 2 Chicago stinger theme:
Dododo-DO-do...do-DOdodo-do-do
Primes me all day long for the day's end dose of what's blown up or who's been killed...
It was "Heaven" by Talking Heads.........but just before I read this it became the jingle for Jewel Foods.
That sucks cuz heaven is a much better song.
Thanks SCF & Avril. My lyrical mystery pretty much solved.
T$, that MF song is one I actually _like_ running round in my head. It was like a personal theme song back in my college days. . . . That'd be a good thread--personal theme songs . . .
that weight watchers commercial has, unfortunately, stuck cher's "song for the lonely" in my head.
Devendra Banhart, At The Hop, wont get out.
"mushaboom" by leslie feist. it's been about 7 days and counting and it's still in my head!
"Take a Chance on Me" - ABBA
Heard it on the way into work. Great song.
Today it's "Yesterday's Numbers" by the Flamin' Groovies:
Girl I want your love tonight
Just to make my head feel light
Oh won'cha tell me babe...
TELL ME IT'S ALL RIGHT (woo!)
[riff riff-riff, riff-riff riff-riff, riff, riff, riff]
TELL ME IT'S ALL RIGHT
Eye of the Tiger.
Belinda Bye-Bye by Barbies Cradle , filipino now defunct rock band.. random I know.
Peanut butter jelly!
peanut butter jelly!
Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat!
Freestyle, freestyle.
Freestyle your style.
There you go ...
Damn you Shylo, damn you. That song invaded my dreams the last time round...
I met a girl last week and I am so crazy about her I indulged my sappy dreamer self and wrote a song about her. Mind you, I will never share this song with anyone. I 4-tracked it last night and now I can't get it out of my head. Does anyone else write songs and experience this? It's happened to me with every song I've written. I want it to stop.
"Dark Day," a 1979 song by the Fred Anderson Quartet, including Fred, Billy Brimfield, Steve Palmore and Hamid Drake. Recorded live at the MCA.
Although unrelated, the song has, at times, reminded me of some lines from a Henry Chinaski poem:
"in the most decent sometimes sun
there is the softsmoke feeling from urns
and the canned sound of old battleplanes
and if you go inside and run your finger
along the window ledge you'll find
dirt, maybe even earth.
and if you look out the window
there will be the day, and as you
get older you'll keep looking
keep looking
sucking your tongue in a little
ah ah no no maybe
some do it naturally
some obscenely
everywhere."
I always manage to get songs stuck in my head for which I can't understand the lyrics. as my brain replays the song over and over, I start deciding what the lyrics are. rarely are they correct. (a rare triumph: "we've got 200 couches" actually is a lyric for Interpol's "PDA.") often I prefer my own lyrics. I still think Pixies' "Debaser" is more evocative if it's "sex in a bottle" instead of "slicing up eyeballs," and Black Francis isn't a lyricist I generally want to quibble with. anyway, right now I've yet to decide on any lyrics for "center of things" by Arks, but that's the song on repeat in my head right now, so I'm sure I'll be misquoting them soon.
(and no, I'm not just pretending that's the song in my head 'cause I thought having a song off an album that's not on any label would make me cool. or because I want the people who run Gapers Block to be impressed by my mentioning a band from their Transmission page. I'd actually already heard of them before I read of them here. I actually do have that song stuck in my head. download the mp3 off arksmusic.com and join me.)
I would like to salute the ashes of the american flag....... wilco
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"I Remember You" by Skid Row. Heard it on the radio a couple weeks ago, and it's been popping into my head ever since.