get out of my head!!!!!
Live Wrong and Prosper, the what would you do for $1,000,000 blog that we adore, posed a question today that scares us to the core: Would you have a chip painlessly implanted that would download and play Joy Division songs directly to your brain, so that you heard Ian Curtis singing in your head – every single hour of every single day for the rest of your life?
On this one, we and Live Wrong agree. They write: “But having anything piped directly into my head for every single moment of every single day right up until the moment I die just raises a red flag with the words YOU WILL LOSE YOUR *@#&** MARBLES on it.” Yeah, no kidding!
We’ve talked about this topic before, but this naturally leads us into what songs are lodged in your head right now? And are there any you don’t mind, even?
I’ve got one bad one currently: Phoenix’s “Listzomania,” a song that I love with the power of the sun, but even seeing its name in print will get the hook in my head for the next 24 hours minimum. (See the sacrifice I’m making for this post?) I apologize to anyone who I may have just now cursed with this affliction.
But what gets in your head? And anything in your head that you can’t place? Those are the worst!
I have a two year old, so it’s always some kid’s thing getting stuck in my head. Lately the Bob the Builder theme song. So it goes.
I have Love Language’s “Lalita” in my head. Great song, but LEAVE!
http://www.emusic.com/album/The-Love-Language-The-Love-Language-MP3-Download/11381571.html
I seriously have not been able to get this out of my head in the 6 months since my son turned 2. As tv kid themes go, it’s not that bad, and any tv kids show which even attempts to incorporate Mozart, Dvorak and Jackson Pollock into its story lines deserves some sort of nod, but it’s tentacles dig disturbingly deep into the brain. Hilariously/tragically/upsettingly, this youtube version has the song looped, for optimal effect.
As of now: SFA’s Inagural Trams and The Very Best of Neil Diamond.
Having just read the feature all I can hear is “Isolation”.
The Drumless Drum
http://thedrumlessdrum.blogspot.com
It pops in a very regular basis, and almost always stays for a very long time…but since I heard the wonderful use of “Sabotage” in the new Star Trek movie, I have the feeling it may be stuck in my head for the next year.
1) An outrageously good movie.
2) I have no doubt whatsoever that people will be still be listening to “Sabotage” as they drive much too fast 300 years from now.
I wouldn’t even do it if It was my favorite music.
Future iPod idea?
I often find myself working, tapping my foot, and humming along to random Ray Conniff songs. Couldn’t quote you song names, they’re somewhere on the ‘s series though. Lately I’ve been getting this stuck in my head too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me71IIYkSo8
Pretty much anything by [url=http://www.emusic.com/artist/Mantovani-MP3-Download/11578093.html]Mantovani[/url].
Yesterday and today? “Spread My Wings,” by Troop. I know, right?
Today and for the past few days alternating between 3 songs:
The Mountain by Heartless Bastards.
Out At Sea by Heartless Bastards.
I finally go to see them play earlier this week and highly recommended.
Tearjerker by Thee Vinyl Creatures.
These guys are generic indie guitar band from Ballarat , Victoria, Australia
@Daniel: That new SFA album is a good wan, but “Inaugural Trams” sounds a lot like “Pop Goes the World”!
The major earworm for me this past month has been the Johnny Foreigner album. Almost every song on it has been my favorite at one time or another. Today I woke up with the chorus of “Lea’s Room” in my head — “Where is that happiness?”
It’s a frenetically noisy record (but well-produced), so it takes a couple listens before the pop hooks start to sink in, but I soon found myself singing along with improbable phrases like “I may be drunk but at least I’m standing up” and “mutton dressed as mutton dressed as mutton dressed as lamb”. RIYL the Pixies, the Wedding Present, McLusky, Superchunk and the Blood Brothers (bassist Kelly can really scream).
http://www.emusic.com/album/Johnny-Foreigner-Waited-Up-Til-It-Was-Light-MP3-Download/11251232.html
Oops, I got both the song title wrong (Lea Room) and the lyric wrong (heaviness, not happiness).
:’( for the past ten years I haven’t been able to get cher’s Believe (life after love) out of my skull. . . I’m going insane. . . my only cure is robbie fulks’ version (disc 2 track 3 http://www.emusic.com/album/Robbie-Fulks-Revenge-MP3-Download/11032823.html)
Joy divison would much more preferable but OMG i’d have to Ian Curtis myself after a few weeks
“@Daniel: That new SFA album is a good wan, but “Inaugural Trams” sounds a lot like “Pop Goes the World”!”
Haha. That’s okay; I LOVE “Pop Goes The World.” It’s on eMusic, btw, but it better to seek out the whole disc (here, the single appears on a MWH best-of compilation).
Other earworms of the moment: Wilco’s new disc, which is streaming on their website (link below).
http://beta.wilcoworld.net/records/thealbum/
Joinder, you can play “Spot The Similar Song” with the Wilco disc, too: my favorite song on it — You Never Know — has a guitar riff that sounds just like “My Sweet Lord.”
Sorry: Jonder (not Joinder)!
My daughter joins the Australian Navy later this year and i’ve been looking for songs for a leaving party.Apart from the obvious Village People “In The Navy” I found [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU]this[/url] by The Lonely Island feat T.Pain.Can’t get it out of my head.A modern anthem for navies around the world?
I can’t think of a clever rejoinder re: joinder.
I inexplicably woke up from far too little sleep this morning to find “Rock Me Amadeus” on endless repeat. Pretty sure I haven’t even heard the song for a decade at least. Much as I can appreciate the artistry and humor of Falco, I think I’d prefer Joy Division (well, maybe not “She’s Lost Control.”)