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Title: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Parasaurolophus on May 19, 2019, 07:01:52 PM
Today's earworm: Rachel Platten, Fight Song.

I heard it out in the world yesterday. It stuck.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: polly_mer on May 19, 2019, 07:04:10 PM
I heard Alice Merton's No Roots for the first time driving home on Friday.  It's stuck in my head now.
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Post by: Anonymath on May 20, 2019, 05:34:31 AM
Tiger Family Trip from the PBS show Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.

We're heading out on a two week road trip and this is how we get our son ready.
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Post by: ohnoes on May 20, 2019, 05:54:24 AM
Incubus, Aqueous Transmission.

I loved the song years ago; less now that it's been stuck in my head for over two weeks.
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Post by: mamselle on May 20, 2019, 09:24:02 AM
My ear-worms are mostly task-specific.

Really annoying ones remind me I need to pay a bill.

The tunes my music students are working on remind me I need to do my weekly scheduling email on Sunday nights.

Playford dance tunes remind me I need to get my clothes in shape for tours starting in July.

Swing tunes tell me there's a Sat. PM dance upcoming.

Chant reminds me to get that paper on medieval processions done.

Or, if I'm trying to sort out a chord progression on a tune I'm working on for a performance, it will intrude in the most unfair way on almost anything else, anytime, anyplace (going home on the subway at midnight last night? Hunh?)

I also have a most disciplined/undisciplined auditory memory...  Tunes I heard once a long time ago will also come bouncing back, and I'll have to reconstruct context and content to figure out what it was.

The inner radio of my life.

It ain't easy bein' green...

M.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: sprout on May 20, 2019, 11:40:51 AM
"Ring of Keys" from Fun Home
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: waterboy on May 20, 2019, 12:18:01 PM
"Daybreak" - Barry Manilow.  Don't ask.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: mamselle on May 21, 2019, 10:00:54 AM
Quote from: waterboy on May 20, 2019, 12:18:01 PM
"Daybreak" - Barry Manilow.  Don't ask.

I always liked that song. I learned it at one point and performed it.

M.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: waterboy on May 21, 2019, 10:25:37 AM
OK...I can admit I like Barry Manilow.  My kids do the eye-roll thing.
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Post by: Vkw10 on May 21, 2019, 06:56:50 PM
Quote from: waterboy on May 21, 2019, 10:25:37 AM
OK...I can admit I like Barry Manilow.  My kids do the eye-roll thing.

My Monday morning playlist is an hour of Barry Manilow. I've been enjoying Manilow Sings Sinatra lately.
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Post by: ergative on May 22, 2019, 01:30:00 AM
Australia's Eurovision song Zero Gravity. Dang, that was cool!
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Tenured_Feminist on May 22, 2019, 03:56:50 AM
Ugh, I heard a snippet of Dark Side of the Moon yesterday and now I CANNOT MAKE IT GO AWAY.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: professor_pat on May 23, 2019, 12:46:26 PM
Quote from: Parasaurolophus on May 19, 2019, 07:01:52 PM
Today's earworm: Rachel Platten, Fight Song.

I heard it out in the world yesterday. It stuck.

Oooh, Parasaurolophus, this is an evil thread...yikes! <Runs away covering ears>
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: cathwen on May 23, 2019, 12:57:41 PM
My current earworm is "Born to Be Alive."  Although I'm not usually into disco, this was on the playlist in my dance exercise class, and the instructor's choreography was particularly fun. 
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Parasaurolophus on May 23, 2019, 02:19:33 PM
Quote from: professor_pat on May 23, 2019, 12:46:26 PM
Quote from: Parasaurolophus on May 19, 2019, 07:01:52 PM
Today's earworm: Rachel Platten, Fight Song.

I heard it out in the world yesterday. It stuck.

Oooh, Parasaurolophus, this is an evil thread...yikes! <Runs away covering ears>


Hehehe!

I was always told that you can get rid of an earworm by singing Oh Canada! to yourself. I imagine the same should be true of the Star-Spangled Banner/God Save the Queen/etc.? It's always worked relatively well for me, at least.


Today's, for no reason I can discern: Tegan and Sara, How Come You Don't Want Me
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: professor_pat on May 23, 2019, 02:41:46 PM
Here in Pat_Paradise, we use "Freude Schöner Götterfunken" to clean out earworms. It hasn't failed yet.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Vkw10 on May 23, 2019, 05:35:37 PM
Henry the Eighth I Am by Herman's Hermits.
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Post by: Tenured_Feminist on May 23, 2019, 05:41:13 PM
Quote from: Vkw10 on May 23, 2019, 05:35:37 PM
Henry the Eighth I Am by Herman's Hermits.

YOU MONSTER
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Post by: polly_mer on May 23, 2019, 06:30:21 PM
Blue Oyster Cult's Veteran of the Psychic Wars was on the radio as I drove home.
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Post by: mamselle on May 30, 2019, 02:03:46 PM
Yesterday it was Faure's Pavane (Op. no. 50)

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpgyTl8yqbw

but for some reason I kept looking for it among Satie's works

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQeJjno6Y2I   

and then I thought it was the other well-known pavane from that era:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvRrWLDfXwI

So I spent some time enjoying them all...

M.
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Post by: quasihumanist on May 30, 2019, 04:59:13 PM
Various random snippets of the Kreutzer Sonata.

Occasionally interrupted by snippets of the 5th cello sonata or the 10th violin sonata.
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Post by: polly_mer on May 31, 2019, 05:19:09 AM
Alice Cooper's "School's Out" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oo8QzDHimQ)
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Juvenal on June 02, 2019, 07:16:11 PM
God has a lot to do, especially in the second verse of "God Save the Queen," where in some lines the Deity is implored to deal with the enemies of the serenity of the monarch:

"Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks"

Considering what's going on in the UK lately, the Almighty seems asleep at the switch.  Clever rhyme, 'tho.

For some reason this was running through my head as I was re-heating coffee in the microwave this a.m.  Why the Queen and the UK were in my mind... I despise tea, after all.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: mamselle on June 03, 2019, 10:08:59 AM
Considering the knavish trick that traded away the hard-won French fort at Louisberg for Madras' tea plantations, I could understand your antipathy to tea, juvenal.

That chimes with the "New England Bravery" text, set to the tune of 'Chevy Chase' that is squirreling it's way around in my brain now....or what's left of it.


M.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: ab_grp on June 04, 2019, 03:41:56 PM
Quote from: Tenured_Feminist on May 23, 2019, 05:41:13 PM
Quote from: Vkw10 on May 23, 2019, 05:35:37 PM
[NO!!!]

YOU MONSTER

Okay, I have to try to put an end to this.  I had previously come here to share my ear worm, saw Vkw10's post, and added a +1 to TF's post.  Then, my post was lost in the lost post disaster.  Now, every time I come to this thread I see Vkw10's post again and forget my own ear worm! I am adding my +1 again but am redacting the original tune listed in the hopes of breaking myself out of this vicious cycle.  Again I don't remember which song I came here to post!
 
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Vkw10 on June 04, 2019, 05:19:44 PM
A snatch of You'll Be Back from Hamilton.


And when push comes to shove
I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love
Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da
Da da dat dat da ya da
Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da
Da da dat dat da

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Post by: chemigal on June 05, 2019, 09:31:08 AM
My mother once told me she met a man who'd gone deaf in a motorcycle accident.  The last song he heard was "American Pie".  He told her it had been stuck in his head for TWENTY YEARS!!!!
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Post by: southerntransplant on June 05, 2019, 09:32:40 AM
The Eagles" "I Can't Tell You Why" has been stuck in my head since I heard it on the radio last week.

I've always liked this song, even though the lyrics are pure twaddle. I wonder if I can get my band to do it.
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Post by: polly_mer on June 07, 2019, 06:42:34 AM
Eddie Rabbit  "I love a rainy night" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWoL65SexB4)

"I wake up to a sunny day!"
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Post by: backatit on June 07, 2019, 04:01:10 PM
I have Snow Patrol's Lifening (weird word thread crossover here) stuck in my head because of the Women's World Cup - there's a line in it that goes "Ireland in the World Cup, either North or South," and that darned line has been running through my brain for DAYS...of course Ireland isn't playing in this one.

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Post by: Parasaurolophus on June 07, 2019, 04:37:55 PM
Brody Dalle - Meet the Foetus/On the Joy
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Post by: polly_mer on June 07, 2019, 04:53:33 PM
Apparently, Eddie Rabbit holds a big place in my mind  "Drivin' My Life Away" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85FjvRefXAY)

"Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away, lookin' for a better way for me
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away, lookin' for a sunny day"
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: ab_grp on June 08, 2019, 11:33:35 AM
I have had "Food, Glorious Food" from Oliver! in my head since I saw it in an NYT archive crossword this morning.  Those are the only three words I know (though I can sort of hum along for a little while after), so it's quite a tight loop.
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Post by: mamselle on June 08, 2019, 01:58:28 PM
.....
Cold jelly and custard!
Three meals a day,
Hot (something) and mustard...

Hmm, hmm, humm hmm,
Hmm hmm hmm,
Da,da, da da dah!
In a minute!

(Now I have to go look THAT up!; I just played accompaniment on it so I didn't really learn all the words....just my cues...)


But I did know more of them at the time....thanks!

I'm just glad to be out of the house and away from the truly dreadful garage band my neighbor across the street is fielding for our town's Porchfest...think, a very bad takeoff on "I can't get no..satisfaction" at very loud volume, off key, and repeated ad infinitum to great, roaring cheers by all their high school friends...


M.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Vkw10 on June 09, 2019, 10:18:08 AM
Joyful, joyful, we adore thee ... in my elderly neighbor's quavering soprano.

Think I'll take her a few of the peaches from my farmer's market trip, then dig through my mother's albums for a baritone version.
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Post by: mamselle on June 09, 2019, 07:30:49 PM
Ohhhh....how lovely.

Both of you.

M.
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Post by: polly_mer on June 09, 2019, 08:00:50 PM
The theme song to the television show Psych (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyR-tE0siwY)

"I know you know I'm not telling the truth"
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Post by: ab_grp on June 10, 2019, 09:23:37 AM
Quote from: mamselle on June 08, 2019, 01:58:28 PM
.....
Cold jelly and custard!
Three meals a day,
Hot (something) and mustard...

Hmm, hmm, humm hmm,
Hmm hmm hmm,
Da,da, da da dah!
In a minute!

(Now I have to go look THAT up!; I just played accompaniment on it so I didn't really learn all the words....just my cues...)


But I did know more of them at the time....thanks!

I'm just glad to be out of the house and away from the truly dreadful garage band my neighbor across the street is fielding for our town's Porchfest...think, a very bad takeoff on "I can't get no..satisfaction" at very loud volume, off key, and repeated ad infinitum to great, roaring cheers by all their high school friends...


M.

Well, you know a lot more words than I do! In retrospect, I (sadly) think that even though it was triggered by that clue, my earworm was more from a commercial that I don't think I am making up that sang "Cheese, Glorious Cheese" to that tune.   I'm not sure if there were any other words in the commercial rendition of the song, so maybe that's why those are the only words I know.  I'm sorry to say that it is rather more likely that I can recall a commercial or jingle than a piece of culture (although maybe cheese is cultured). 

I loved Psych and was trying to remember the theme song but instead got "Hey Ya!" from OutKast stuck in my head.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: polly_mer on June 10, 2019, 05:01:40 PM
The radio was playing "Trashy Women" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fntaXDX44bo) as I drove home so now it's stuck in my head.
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Post by: mr_spicoli on June 10, 2019, 07:38:08 PM
Jethro Tull  Aqualung

And the flowers bloom like madness in the spring...
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Post by: sinenomine on June 11, 2019, 04:35:47 AM
I'll be singing in the premiere of a new choral oratorio this weekend, and keep waking every day with random movements stuck in my head. This morning it's the opening movement.
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Post by: ciao_yall on June 11, 2019, 06:05:10 AM
Go Where You Wanna Go

The Mamas and the Papas
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Post by: ab_grp on June 11, 2019, 09:23:15 AM
"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" by Shania Twain, thanks to my trivia league.
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Post by: mamselle on June 11, 2019, 10:50:29 AM
Quote from: ab_grp on June 10, 2019, 09:23:37 AM
Quote from: mamselle on June 08, 2019, 01:58:28 PM
.....
Cold jelly and custard!
Three meals a day,
Hot (something) and mustard...

Hmm, hmm, humm hmm,
Hmm hmm hmm,
Da,da, da da dah!
In a minute!

(Now I have to go look THAT up!; I just played accompaniment on it so I didn't really learn all the words....just my cues...)


But I did know more of them at the time....thanks!

I'm just glad to be out of the house and away from the truly dreadful garage band my neighbor across the street is fielding for our town's Porchfest...think, a very bad takeoff on "I can't get no..satisfaction" at very loud volume, off key, and repeated ad infinitum to great, roaring cheers by all their high school friends...


M.

Well, you know a lot more words than I do! In retrospect, I (sadly) think that even though it was triggered by that clue, my earworm was more from a commercial that I don't think I am making up that sang "Cheese, Glorious Cheese" to that tune.   I'm not sure if there were any other words in the commercial rendition of the song, so maybe that's why those are the only words I know.  I'm sorry to say that it is rather more likely that I can recall a commercial or jingle than a piece of culture (although maybe cheese is cultured). 

I loved Psych and was trying to remember the theme song but instead got "Hey Ya!" from OutKast stuck in my head.

So I had some parts backwards and some parts incorrect.

Anyway, found it: https://www.google.com/search?q=food+glorious+food+lyrics&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b

M.
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Post by: polly_mer on June 12, 2019, 07:37:29 PM
Someone mentioned a squirrel on another thread so now I've got Ray Stevens The Mississippi Squirrel Revival (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU).

I'm really hoping to get over to Ray Stevens The Streak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzoUu7w-YM), but my mind tends to have a will of its own.  "Don't look, Ethel!"
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Post by: polly_mer on June 12, 2019, 08:22:18 PM
Doggone autoplay on YouTube: I ended up with Mac Davis' It's Hard to Be Humble (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WTrMuZOZvM)

To know me is to love me
I must be a hell of a man
Oh Lord It's hard to be humble,
But I'm doing the best that I can
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Post by: ab_grp on June 21, 2019, 06:42:05 PM
Argh.  Thanks to a podcast by two people I do enjoy listening to quite a lot, I now have "Call Me Maybe" (Carly Rae Jepsen?) stuck in my head.
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Post by: ciao_yall on June 24, 2019, 07:12:01 AM
"My Ding-a-Ling"

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/23/698212277/dave-bartholomew-a-father-of-rock-and-roll-dead-at-100

I will be saying "vestibule" at every chance I get today.
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Post by: polly_mer on June 26, 2019, 05:55:49 AM
Kenny Rogers Lucille (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvr5Z0NsDm8)

"You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille
With four hungry children and a crop in the field
I've had some bad times, lived through some sad times
But this time your hurting won't heal
You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille"
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Post by: Parasaurolophus on June 26, 2019, 11:26:37 AM
Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
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Post by: polly_mer on June 28, 2019, 06:21:32 AM
Dolly Parton 9 to 5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxUSsFXYo4)

9 to 5, yeah they got you where they want you
There's a better life, and you dream about it, don't you?
It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it
And you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet
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Post by: polly_mer on July 05, 2019, 05:07:38 AM
Fun's Some Nights (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkBeOisNM0)


This is it, boys, this is war, what are we waiting for?
Why don't we break the rules already?
I was never one to believe the hype,
Save that for the black and white I try twice as hard and I'm half as liked
But here they come again to jack my style
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Post by: monarda on July 05, 2019, 08:41:13 AM
Good morning, Starshine
the earth says 'hello'

my love and me as we sing, our early morning singin'-song

shoo-bee-doo-bee- wahbah
doo-bee-ah-bah-naba, libby, low low
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Post by: Vkw10 on July 08, 2019, 07:10:20 PM
In 1814 we took a little trip
We took a little trip up the mighty Mississip
We took a little bacon
And we took a little beans
And we fought the bloody British
In a town called New Orleans
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Post by: mamselle on July 09, 2019, 08:48:02 PM
Quote from: Vkw10 on July 08, 2019, 07:10:20 PM
In 1814 we took a little trip
We took a little trip up the mighty Mississip
We took a little bacon
And we took a little beans
And we fought the bloody British
In a town called New Orleans

We fired our guns an' they commenced a-runnin'....

Our modern class danced this, in ranks of five, with mock salutes, falling all over each other, arms and legs poking out of the melee like jackstraws...it was hilarious....thanks!

M.
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Post by: polly_mer on July 10, 2019, 05:06:57 AM
Extreme's Get the Funk Out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqP76XWHQI0)

If you don't like what you see here
Nobody wants to take you prisoner
So let me make it nice and clear dear
The exit is right there
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Post by: archaeo42 on July 10, 2019, 05:17:56 AM
I woke up at 4:30am with Kokomo in my head. I was displeased.

Aruba, Jamaica, oh I want to take ya
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go, Jamaica
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Post by: ciao_yall on July 10, 2019, 06:56:04 AM
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me
Than a frontal lobotomy


Tom "T-Bone" Stankus
"Existential Blues"
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Post by: egilson on July 10, 2019, 10:42:43 AM
Oh, it's dangerous for me to have found this thread.

My current earworm is Pere Ubu, "Goodbye (https://youtu.be/QZhutnqlGOA)," from New Picnic Time.
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Post by: ciao_yall on July 11, 2019, 01:00:03 PM
Quote from: FishProf on July 11, 2019, 09:12:14 AM
Plasticine

With plasticine porters and looking-glass ties...
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Post by: Vkw10 on July 12, 2019, 06:36:19 PM
I could have danced all night, with lots humming where I forget the words.
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Post by: polly_mer on July 13, 2019, 07:38:21 AM
Ray Stevens' Shriner's Convention (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO_tXzeiZAQ)

What? Well, how'd you get that big motor sickle
Up there on the high dive, Coy?
Now Coy, dad blame it, that ain't no way to act
We supposed to be pillars of the community
When we get back to Hahira, you can just turn in your ring
And your tie tack 'cause Coy, hehe, you are out of the shrine!
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Post by: Parasaurolophus on July 13, 2019, 09:45:13 AM
The theme song from Unsolved Mysteries.
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Post by: hmaria1609 on July 13, 2019, 05:38:20 PM
"Downton Abbey--the Suite" by John Lunn

From YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZHaJngGbuQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZHaJngGbuQ)
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Post by: mamselle on July 16, 2019, 10:23:38 AM
Music and dance, both...I'm in love with a bird....

   https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/07/study-of-snowball-the-cockatoo-suggests-humans-arent-the-only-ones-who-can-dance/

I just have to figure out the part where you stand on one foot with the other above your head and nod.

They didn't teach us that one in ballet class...

M.
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Post by: polly_mer on July 31, 2019, 05:41:49 AM
Daft Punk's Get Lucky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I)

Like the legend of the phoenix
All ends with beginnings
What keeps the planet spinning (uh)
The force of love beginning
We've come too far to give up who we are
So let's raise the bar and our cups to the stars
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Post by: Vkw10 on July 31, 2019, 07:01:14 PM
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one and another one
And another bites the dust

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Post by: polly_mer on August 16, 2019, 06:15:19 AM
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks: How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9-FOLG-iA)

Your never ending presence really cramps my style
I dream that it won't always be the same
At first I was attracted but after a while
Have you ever heard of the hard-to-get game?
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Post by: Parasaurolophus on August 18, 2019, 01:15:48 PM
The Cranberries - Zombie
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Post by: mamselle on August 22, 2019, 06:32:56 AM
Road to the Isles--one of the folk dances we did last night...

M.
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Post by: polly_mer on August 24, 2019, 05:10:43 AM
I need more cowbell!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsQLlk-T0s
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Post by: ab_grp on September 17, 2019, 11:08:06 AM
My partner brought this song into my life a few weeks ago.  I thought it was catchy but no big deal.  I have now heard it pretty much nonstop in my head since last night.  Although I have heard of the band lots of times, I don't think I had ever listened to any of their music before.  Scissor Sisters I Don't Feel Like Dancin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H5I6y1Qvz0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H5I6y1Qvz0)
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Post by: archaeo42 on September 18, 2019, 06:59:28 AM
Part of the refrain from Entitlement Crew off the new Hold Steady album.
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Post by: Parasaurolophus on September 30, 2019, 03:34:57 PM
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole - Hawai'i '78
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Post by: clean on November 25, 2019, 10:56:42 PM
I was getting ready for bed and I think that South Park was on in the background.  The episode had an old song Sixteen Tons (Tennessee Ernie Ford)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUpTJg2EBpw

I played it a few times and enjoyed singing  along.  However, the next song came on and it was also an oldie

Big Bad John. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN3exiuyQJc
However, As much as I tried (several times!) I could NOT sing the song.  My voice cracked and my eyes teared!  How heartless was Jimmie Dean to sing that song without breaking his voice?

(How heartless are you?  can YOU sing it through without a voice crack?)
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Post by: mamselle on November 26, 2019, 10:48:54 AM
I'm female and I'm not a basso profondo.

So, no.

But it never bothered me much, either...

;--}

M.
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Post by: ab_grp on December 20, 2019, 06:38:33 PM
At this time of year, it tends to be Dominick the Donkey.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: apl68 on December 21, 2019, 06:22:51 AM
Handel's "Messiah."
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Parasaurolophus on January 04, 2020, 03:09:59 PM
Evelyne Brochu - Maintenant ou jamais


It's weirdly earwormy. I only heard the tail of it the one time, and it stayed stuck.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: apl68 on January 13, 2020, 08:23:38 AM
The Air National Guard holds maneuvers above our town every so often that leave the sky crisscrossed with condensation trails.  They did it again this morning.  For some reason the sight of them simulating impious war in heaven makes me think of Zankoku na Tenshi no Teze from Neon Genesis Evangelion.  Especially the opening line:

Zankoku na tenshi no you ni

(Like a cruel, merciless angel)
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: mamselle on January 13, 2020, 10:41:20 AM
Those contrails can be beautiful or threatening, I agree. I actually got a photo of one from a plane once that looked liked scratched glass.


The sound in my head at the moment is the theme from the ITV/BBC? series "Vera," which I've been re-watching...very modal and mournful and....unceasing...

M.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: waterboy on January 13, 2020, 11:47:14 AM
Pretty much anything by Herb Alpert at the moment - just had Pandora going.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: mamselle on January 13, 2020, 12:38:40 PM
Oh, thanks ....

Now it'll be "Tijuana Taxi" for the rest of the day.....

M.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: waterboy on January 14, 2020, 10:59:27 AM
Beep.....
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: mamselle on January 14, 2020, 05:16:18 PM
Or Joe Dassin...

M.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: LuciferStar on January 15, 2020, 05:46:58 AM
Snoop Dogg - Vato
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: sprout on January 21, 2020, 12:29:25 PM
Toss a coin to your witcher...
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: evil_physics_witchcraft on July 20, 2020, 10:53:46 AM
"She's a superfreak, superfreak! She's super freaky. Yow!"
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: ab_grp on July 20, 2020, 11:05:02 AM
I've got Noreste Caliente (A Band of Bitches) in my head.  It's superfun, but the lyrics (which are in Spanish and spoken pretty quickly a lot of times) are a bit NSFW at times, as is the video https://youtu.be/nAS9mtDlV-c.  That song just sound like a party.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: evil_physics_witchcraft on July 27, 2020, 09:04:19 AM
"Roll over Beethoven"- the Chuck Berry version.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: monarda on July 29, 2020, 08:50:35 AM
This, from west side story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7TT4jnnWys)

and the parody (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUiDLcp_hIw)
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: mamselle on July 29, 2020, 02:10:17 PM
Very much like^
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: traductio on July 29, 2020, 03:35:09 PM
Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime"

Same as it ever was... (https://youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8)
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: mamselle on July 29, 2020, 04:35:42 PM
Now....

    Tinker Polka, don't know why, we didn't dance to it last night but I woke up hearing it and had to look it up to get the right name!!!

     Then I found all these different versions:

Like the group and their setting!!

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raBu58tm7Zk

These guys, too...but they're so dour!!

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fypM6v5ayA

OK for orchestration, but too slow to really dance to with a good partner:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyTzhlnzXgk         

This was the most like the tempo I had in mind:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB7NyQIg_nA

Anyway, now I'm not hearing it in my inner ear anymore....but probably someone else is....

;--}

M.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: writingprof on July 29, 2020, 05:17:18 PM
"Never My Love" by The Association, used to good effect in the season finale of Outlander and stuck in my head ever since.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Parasaurolophus on August 07, 2020, 04:56:33 PM
Alanis Morissette - Ablaze

I can't help, it's so personal that it makes me choke up a little every time.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: mamselle on August 07, 2020, 05:14:54 PM
Chopin Nocturne Opus 55 no. 1, because my student is playing it and I've fallen in love with it.

It's like a <<marche funebre>> or <<pavanne pour une enfante defunte>> in my mind--that's how I'm teaching it, anyway.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qHO9aOQYM

Gloriously beautiful, sad and wistful...with a positive, picardy third-like ending.

M.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: ab_grp on August 08, 2020, 10:09:31 AM
Quote from: mamselle on August 07, 2020, 05:14:54 PM
Chopin Nocturne Opus 55 no. 1, because my student is playing it and I've fallen in love with it.

It's like a <<marche funebre>> or <<pavanne pour une enfante defunte>> in my mind--that's how I'm teaching it, anyway.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qHO9aOQYM

Gloriously beautiful, sad and wistful...with a positive, picardy third-like ending.

M.

I love this one! I think I have most of his nocturnes (and others) played by various people, but it's always nice to listen to another performance.  You know much more about music theory than I do, but I just love Chopin and always have.  Some of my favorites to play when I was younger.  My dad was also a big fan (probably why I got into Chopin), so I tried to learn to play one of the polonaises, but I never got near to playing it well or fully before he passed away.   I always hope to rectify that someday when I get a piano back in the house, though I'm sure that would be quite a relearning curve and then some.  Thanks so much for posting this.  The screen's getting a little blurry.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Economizer on August 08, 2020, 03:23:46 PM
" Crying" by Roy Orbison. It is famous in part for the clarity of and the range of notes the artist is able to reach. An earnest plea by a man. Sometimes, using Karaoke technology, I try to duplicate Mr. Orbinson
in performance. But, alas, to no avail. Maybe there is something that will allow me to squeeze out those higher notes? "Crying,  Crying, O-0- ver YOU-U-U..!"

Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: traductio on August 09, 2020, 11:19:22 AM
The theme song to the 1980s version of Inspector Gadget.

This -- this is what I get for trying to teach my kids some culture!
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Vkw10 on August 09, 2020, 01:23:06 PM
The very last paper to grade just had to include "Celebrate good times, come on!" by Michael Jackson as an example of cross-generation music appeal. It's by Kool and the Gang and it's stuck in my head.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: mamselle on August 09, 2020, 03:37:07 PM
My best memory of that is the cruise boat the school rented for our M.A. class graduation party.

We were bouncing around on the top deck to that and a bunch of others, it was soooo cool and breezy out.

Many thanks for the pleasant image....

....whizzing around the bay, with the stars and the moon, and our friends....

M.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Larimar on August 09, 2020, 05:00:47 PM
Ben E. King's "Stand By Me".
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Economizer on August 10, 2020, 06:18:05 PM
Operatic presentation in a TV commercial format for J.G. Wentworth, a consumer loan concern. The voices are very pleasing, as is the setting, a public city bus loaded with an assortment of passengers. The singers were a cross section of the general public, black/white/male/female/young/old. I did notice that there were no Arabs, Hispanos, Asians portrayed or featured, although one Norse "warrior" became prominent. Also, the theme of the presentation seemed to me of great relevance and wide appeal to current audiences.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: ab_grp on August 17, 2020, 12:12:15 PM
Agghh... we were sitting outside, and some individuals working on a nearby house were apparently listening to an oldies station.  Now I have Surfin' Bird by the Trashmen (https://youtu.be/9Gc4QTqslN4) stuck in my head.  Yes I had heard about the bird back in the day, and I hadn't heard about it in a while, and now all I can do is hear about it again and again in my skull.  Help...
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: evil_physics_witchcraft on August 17, 2020, 12:33:14 PM
Here's something even worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg)

Thanks SO.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: monarda on August 17, 2020, 04:31:15 PM
so many songs from Hamilton are in my head
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: ab_grp on August 17, 2020, 05:02:23 PM
Quote from: evil_physics_witchcraft on August 17, 2020, 12:33:14 PM
Here's something even worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg)

Thanks SO.

Just so you know, I was only recently able to remove from my brain the insult you added to my injury after listening to many songs on a Spotify playlist that had been curated for me based on my assumed listening preferences.  And I had to listen to a lot of very bizarre and, sometimes, awful songs to get to this point.  But, I think both of our posted songs are now out of my head (agh trying to come back). ;-)
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: mamselle on August 17, 2020, 05:37:13 PM
"Casey Jones," both because one of my students is working on it, and because the phrase, "two locomotives that are going to bump!" is going around and around as something prophetic, in my mind....

M.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: evil_physics_witchcraft on August 17, 2020, 05:55:33 PM
Quote from: mamselle on August 17, 2020, 05:37:13 PM
"Casey Jones," both because one of my students is working on it, and because the phrase, "two locomotives that are going to bump!" is going around and around as something prophetic, in my mind....

M.

Now, this is in my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxCfnq7A56M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxCfnq7A56M)
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Economizer on August 17, 2020, 07:57:46 PM
Quote from: Economizer on August 10, 2020, 06:18:05 PM
Operatic presentation in a TV commercial format for J.G. Wentworth, a consumer loan concern. The voices are very pleasing, as is the setting, a public city bus loaded with an assortment of passengers. The singers were a cross section of the general public, black/white/male/female/young/old. I did notice that there were no Arabs, Hispanos, Asians portrayed or featured, although one Norse "warrior" became prominent. Also, the theme of the presentation seemed to me of great relevance and wide appeal to current audiences.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: MarathonRunner on August 22, 2020, 07:40:43 AM
Quote from: monarda on August 17, 2020, 04:31:15 PM
so many songs from Hamilton are in my head

Yes! I've watched Hamilton on Disney Plus twice, and so many Hamilton songs are now in my head: You'll Be Back, What'd I Miss, Room Where It Happens, My Shot, etc. So many Hamilton songs are such earworms! Even my "default" songs to get rid of earworms (i.e. The Beatles Oh La Di) don't work!
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: notmycircus on August 22, 2020, 03:23:25 PM
You Make My Dreams by Hall and Oates.  Jimmy Butler, Miami Heat.  Great ad.

Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74SxUZ4D9S8
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Parasaurolophus on March 12, 2021, 09:46:25 AM
Brody Dalle - Meet the Foetus/Oh the Joy

(I haven't met anybody. I'm just on a Brody Dalle kick today.)
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: ab_grp on March 12, 2021, 10:49:21 AM
Quote from: Parasaurolophus on March 12, 2021, 09:46:25 AM
Brody Dalle - Meet the Foetus/Oh the Joy

(I haven't met anybody. I'm just on a Brody Dalle kick today.)

Thanks for clarifying!
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Parasaurolophus on October 20, 2021, 02:54:34 PM
The Misfits - Pumpkinhead
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Vkw10 on October 20, 2021, 05:23:19 PM
The 1812 Overture? At least, I think that's what I'm hearing random snatches of today. Going to listen to some Hall & Oates (see notmycircus's post) in an attempt to clear my head.
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: Wahoo Redux on October 20, 2021, 05:37:02 PM
"Do You Wanna Touch" - - - Joan Jett.

I hadn't thought of that song in years until a Joan Jett documentary turned up on NetFlix.

At least it is a great old rocking tune!!!
Title: Re: The Song in Your Head Thread
Post by: mamselle on October 20, 2021, 08:41:56 PM
"Ode to Joy," because my recorder student just played it for his lesson.

M.