Gawd, Id, I’m sorry - I started that thread so I feel at least partly responsible for your suffering.
Just to make it worse, I currently have one of those earworms you’re perfectly content to have:
Skinny white sailor, the chances were slender, the beauties were brief
Shall I mourn you decline with some Thunderbird wine and a black handkerchief?
I miss your sad Virginia whisper, I miss the voice that called my heart
Sweet Gene Vincent
Young and old and gone
Sweet Gene Vincent
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Monkey’s Gone to Heaven - Pixies
*96 Tears*by ? and the Mysterians.
Came up right away on the car stereo’s mSD card when I went out this morning. Listened to it three times thru. Solid gold.
Tunes I’m digging these days:
Pink, “What About Us”: - YouTube
Taylor Swift, “You Need to Calm Down”: Taylor Swift - You Need To Calm Down (Lyric Video) - YouTube
Goo Goo Dolls, “Miracle Pill”: Goo Goo Dolls - Miracle Pill [Official Audio] - YouTube
George Winston, “February Sea”: George Winston - February Sea - YouTube
Ingrid Andress, “More Hearts Than Mine”: More Hearts Than Mine - YouTube
Frosty The F***ing Snowman. For like the last week. Damn you, catchy seasonal children’s song! The original source was the parody version in the new Dog Man book, but now I hear the real lyrics and those interchangeably. It’s very annoying.
Currently, So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings by Caroline Polachek (ex-Chairlift)
For the last 2 weeks I have been suffering from this Slavic hard bass number: Il-76 by “Uamee”
Soul #5 sorry. I’ve woken up the past three days with that damn thing in my head.
For the last three days I’ve had “Fuwa Fuwa Time”, from the anime K-On!, stuck on repeat in my head.
Moody Blues “The Story in Your Eyes”.
Right now, “broken” by lovelytheband.
Life is not a love song, we can try
To fix our broken pieces one at a time
Earlier today, for no apparent reason, I had The Killers’ “Somebody Told Me” going through my head, and I don’t even like the song that much.
I can’t help it. I play it on mandolin or mandola, 'ukulele or something larger, harmonica or tinwhistle: Blue Skies.
“Fourteen joys and a will to be merry”.
Just kill me now.
Shonen Knife - Tomato Head…Final Fantasy XII’s Alraune enemies always cause it. (The Wild Onion variants split between that and a rewritten Glass Onion…)
Had a bad one last night. A fragment (not more than a couple lines) of the Kenny the Gardener theme song from Letterman. Over and over and over.
Which raises the Important Question: why did Kenny get a theme but not Lyle the intern? And at best Flunky the clown only got generic circus music.
“One Thing” by Finger Eleven (a big hit from c. 2004)
Okay, this one is so obscure it’ll take some explaining.
I was listening to Good Vibrations on the car stereo yesterday. I’ve been realizing lately that I have been misunderstanding the lyrics of many classic songs here and there so I paid attention. Um, it wasn’t a question of misunderstanding them, I didn’t have a clue about several lines. Had to look up the lyrics. Gobsmacking ensued.
Really weird part: this was the first 45 I ever bought. I still have it. So I went looking for it today. Found my stash of four 45s I bought in my younger days. (We weren’t exactly the Rockefellers.) GV, Instant Karma, Celebrate and … a 45 by a group called Fantasy from 1970. Um, what? One side was Understand and the other Stoned Cowboy.
Here’s Understand. Note the singer is remarkably like Janis Joplin. So that’s the reason I bought it, right? Nope.
Here’s the other track. It’s an instrumental! No great vocals.
The group was a house band in Miami. After their lead singer disappeared (and died) they hired a 16 year old girl Lydia Janene Miller with an operatically trained voice. They did one self-title album. Had one single from that, Spaced Cowboy, that charted at #77. If you have the album in good condition it’s worth money.
So I now have this 50 year old obscure instrumental song going thru my head. My brain keeps trying to insert lyrics. But at least I’m not getting them wrong.
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
I have musical ear syndrome and can literally hear a voice singing. The voice likes to sing Mademoiselle from Armentieres and Oh Little Town of Bethlehem. It also sings Jingle Bells in French, a language I don’t speak.
The theme from Monty Python’s Flying Circus has been bouncing between my ears since the announcement of Terry Jones’ passing this morning. I think it will be with me for a couple of days.