<p>Julian Casablancas’ “Out of the Blue”. Omigod, I have to youtube it about a thousand times a day. It’s just ridiculous.</p>
<p>Okay, now back to your regularly scheduled CC discussion…</p>
<p>No, but I think my S has an even stranger problem…He says that music plays in his head constantly. How can someone live with that???</p>
<p>Not lately, but I remember as a teenager hearing “Killing Me Softly” by Roberta Flack for the first time and telling myself that it was sure to shoot to the top. It’s still one of my favorites.</p>
<p>Toledo–music plays in my head constantly, too. I thought that was true of just about everyone!</p>
<p>I can relate to that toledo, but I’ve never found it to be a problem. It’s always really good music!</p>
<p>Don’t ask me where I have been for the last year (actually, listening to my iPod and iTouch, and not the radio), but a couple of weeks ago I heard Viva la Vida by Coldplay on the car radio, and couldn’t even get out of my car because I had to hear the whole thing. Had to buy it immediately, and am embarrassed to tell you the play count two weeks later… I mentioned it to both Ds, and they both said, “Oh, yeah, I bought it too, Grammy for song of the year 2009”. </p>
<p>“For some reason I can’t explain, I know St. Peter won’t call my name…” intparent wanders off singing…</p>
<p>I was there the first time Don McLean sang “American Pie”. He pulled a piece of yellow legal paper out of his jeans pocket and said “I wrote this last night and I want to sing it for you. Tell me what you think.” We made him sing it twice. (It was a small audience, in the stands of a basketball court.) I never did get that song out of my head ;-)</p>
<p>Oh, yes, this happens to me all the time. I am currently obsessed with the song, “You’re the Song” by Paul Jacobsen and the Madison Arm. I cannot get the whole album out of my head but that song is on the top of my playlist, both on my ipod and in my mind. If you like good singer-songwriters in the folk/rock genre, I highly recommend the album. I got it on itunes.</p>
<p>I only recently found out that not every hears music as they fall asleep. That’s how I know I’m actually falling asleep; when a song gets stuck on replay in my mind. I can’t just pick a song (believe me, as an insomnia, I’ve tried!), so it’s usually a nice suprise at the very end of my day.</p>
<p>inparent, that was the song going through my head about a month ago ( and that I kept playing repeatedly on my ipod ) I googled the lyrics and learned that there are a lot of people out their disecting the meaning of the song.
I love that song and all of the instrumentals</p>
<p>S was in the cast of the middle school musical which ran the last two weekends. Songs from the show have been running in my brain for 2 weeks!</p>
<p>“Soul Sister” by Train…and…“Just haven’t met you yet” by Michael Buble…</p>
<p>I find that if I have seen the music videos of songs that I like, the songs become engraved in my head…</p>
<p>like “take on me” from the 1980’s…</p>
<p>I seem to be alternating between Wilco’s “Heavy Metal Drummer” and Enya’s “How can I keep from singing.”</p>
<p>Well, I have replaced the first song. ESPN keeps playing the Bono Soccer World Cup commercial constantly, so now I’m back to U2’s “Magnficent” which owned my ears for months last year.</p>
<p>So now, I’m thinking of ELO’s “Can’t get it out of my head”</p>
<p>Also, LaRoux’s “Bulletproof”
If anyone has seen that video, have you noticed the 80’s references and similarities? So very many!</p>
<p>I recently have seen Mike McCready do acoustic sets ( in separate shows), and although I don’t remember Neil Young’s version- I keep hearing " Too Far Gone", probably because Mike tells a different little NY story first.</p>
<p>( which is *much *better than the UFO I heard him play last week )</p>
<p>None of the songs mentioned so far is truly embarrassing. I remember years ago getting “Oops, I Did It Again” stuck in my head the first time I heard it. That was embarrassing. Or Taylor Swift’s “Love Story”, which I performed on the street late at night with a 16-year-old friend one day after hearing it for the first time, and then three more times (in a row).</p>
<p>The last three such songs, for me:</p>
<p>Spoon - “Trouble Comes Running” (Like hearing “Shake Some Action” for the first time – some great, lost 70s garage-rock nugget.)</p>
<p>Everybody Was In The French Resistance Now - “G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N.” (I swear I’m not making up either the name of the group or of the song. Both are jokes. It’s a side project for Eddie Argos of Art Brut. I was driving with my daughter and we heard this on the radio, and bought it immediately.)</p>
<p>Kid Creole and the Coconuts - “Dancing At Les Bains ******s” (I bought a Kid Creole greatest hits CD for $5, and this song, which I had never heard before, was the greatest thing on it. A reminder of why sometimes I think Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band – whose demise spawned Kid Creole – was the absolute pinnacle of American popular music.)</p>
<p>EDIT: Ha! CC won’t let you read the French word for “shower”, even when paired with the French word for “baths”, and referring to a Parisian nightclub in an erstwhile Parisian bathhouse.</p>
<p>When I was testing a little girl many years ago, she sang a song from the Shari Lewis show-- it was a round, called “this is the song that never ends…” That (%)#%##+%@)@$^ song was in my head for eons!! Same thing for “Little Rabbit Foo Foo” that my campers loved to sing when I was a camp counselor a million years ago. I would be fine with enjoyable, contemporary songs runhing, butr these drove me buggy!! And of course, typing about it is bringing them back. AAAGGHHH!!!</p>
<p>Okay, I didn’t mean this as an annoying ear worm thread. More like a, “really good song I can’t stop thinking about” thread.</p>
<p>Let’s not go there again!</p>
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<li><p>Agreed re Shari Lewis. That song was worse than crack.</p></li>
<li><p>Little Rabbit Froo Froo: A while ago, my family and I saw some terrible new musical whose signature song’s tune was copied note-for-note from Little Rabbit Froo Froo, just slowed down to a tempo just above glacial, and given horrible, sappy, trite lyrics. By the first (of several) reprise, the kids and I were doing all of the hand motions along to it.</p></li>
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<p>LOL JHS. What musical was that?? Want to add it to a list of ones NEVER to see!</p>