Si_Amigo posted The Unicorn - the Irish Rovers in the Topic Playlist thread, and it’s been firmly embedded in my brain for the past 10 minutes. My kids used to love it, 15 years ago, and the lyrics and tune variations are clever, but I need to listen to something else and replace it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EPsuOEH1fY&ab_channel=XxMrBlondexX
Luckily, you caught me in a rare month or so where all my earworms are fun:
Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello: Most of Live at 54th, but especially Toledo and My Little Red Book.
Zac Brown Band: The really escapist stuff, like “Got my toes in the water, my ass in the sand…” and “Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair?”
And I nabbed a picture disk in the dollar LP bin: Culture Club’s classic album Colour By Numbers. So now I’ve got the whole 45 minutes of that running through my head.
Seriously, this is one reason I listen to audiobooks so much: if I didn’t, I’d have non-stop Boy George running through my head (usually with me obliviously singing along).
Jefferson Airplane, “Lather.” I was at a hotel where the touletries brand was Lather 2 weeks ago and it’s been stuck in my head since then. At least I know all the words. An odd song but catchy. A strange choice for the B side of Crown of Creation.
Here, why should I enjoy it alone?
If you’re going to have a Melanie song stuck in your head you might as well bring Miley Cyrus along. I think this one is excellent.
Read a review of an upcoming radio documentary In Suburbia, which takes it’s title from the Pet Shop Boys’ song - which has been stuck in my head for days now. But hell, I love the Pet Shop Boys - all they did was produce perfect pop records. Best earworm I’ve had in years.
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Elvis - You Ask Me To, it’s a Waylon Jennings/Billy Jo Shaver song but I think Elvis did a great cover.
My neighbor had never heard of the concept of earworms. He described one he was having, and he was relieved to find out he wasn’t having a mental problem.
There’s a local car dealership and they advertise on the radio with a catchy jingle. I can’t get it out of my head. And every time it comes on, it gets worse. I change the station when it comes on.
It’s gotten so bad that when it comes on I start singing It’s A Small World to purge it from my brain.
I haven’t bought much in the way of new music in many years, but I’ve had this song on repeat for a few weeks now:
From Risky Business - love it!
I love these guys …
Brian Cox, perhaps best known for Succession, as Prof. Harold Hill. Great stuff!
This is my current earworm. It’s also my ringtone.
It’s alternating between
and
Because of all the threads and articles on abortion, I keep having the first two lines of the Sex Pistol’s Bodies run through my head
She was a girl from Birmingham
She just had an abortion
Lonely Days by the Bee Gees came up on the car stereo card yesterday. Brought back memories, etc.
But it’s a freakin’ earworm, and a Bee Gees one as well. After hearing it several hundred times in my head since it’s time for the ice pick.
Bring on the ice pick! The Tiki Room song from Disney has settled in my head. Follow the link at your own risk.
A more pleasant earworm today, Dave Mallett singing his “Garden Song”. I don’t know why he’s not better known.
Listening to a book that keeps mentioning two henchmen, Wenk and Gilley.
So of course I canNOT stop singing:
Ziggy played guitar,
jamming good with Weird and Gilly…
(and the Spiders from Mars)
I love Carrie’s comment: Short people. Short marriage.
My earworm is alternating between Superfreak and Catwalkin’…guess what I watched recently.