Every so often a song invades my brain and stays there until another one drives it out. Recently it was "Ain't We Got Fun". That was ironic during this lockdown pandemic. But it has been replaced by "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby". I have come to the conclusion that song was written by a very ill pedophile. "You must have been a beautiful baby...You must have been a beautiful child...Because baby, look at you now." Who else could look at an attractive adult and wonder what that person looked like as an infant?
Why don't you share your earworms with us?
Quote from: CBStew on July 06, 2020, 12:04:43 PM
Every so often a song invades my brain and stays there until another one drives it out. Recently it was "Ain't We Got Fun". That was ironic during this lockdown pandemic. But it has been replaced by "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby". I have come to the conclusion that song was written by a very ill pedophile. "You must have been a beautiful baby...You must have been a beautiful child...Because baby, look at you now." Who else could look at an attractive adult and wonder what that person looked like as an infant?
Why don't you share your earworms with us?
I seem to remember some song about girls and the summer...
I'm not sure you want to open this can of worms, as I tend to wake with a different one on a daily basis, with no discernible subconscious logic underlying the choice.
Quote from: Wheezer on July 06, 2020, 04:31:14 PM
I'm not sure you want to open this can of worms, as I tend to wake with a different one on a daily basis, with no discernible subconscious logic underlying the choice.
I am older than you and thus have been exposed to many, many, more tunes that rattle around in my head.
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on July 06, 2020, 12:34:13 PM
Quote from: CBStew on July 06, 2020, 12:04:43 PM
Every so often a song invades my brain and stays there until another one drives it out. Recently it was "Ain't We Got Fun". That was ironic during this lockdown pandemic. But it has been replaced by "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby". I have come to the conclusion that song was written by a very ill pedophile. "You must have been a beautiful baby...You must have been a beautiful child...Because baby, look at you now." Who else could look at an attractive adult and wonder what that person looked like as an infant?
Why don't you share your earworms with us?
I seem to remember some song about girls and the summer...
Thanks. Now I've got the Beach Boys shouting "California Girls" at me.
Quote from: CBStew on July 07, 2020, 08:26:58 PM
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on July 06, 2020, 12:34:13 PM
Quote from: CBStew on July 06, 2020, 12:04:43 PM
Every so often a song invades my brain and stays there until another one drives it out. Recently it was "Ain't We Got Fun". That was ironic during this lockdown pandemic. But it has been replaced by "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby". I have come to the conclusion that song was written by a very ill pedophile. "You must have been a beautiful baby...You must have been a beautiful child...Because baby, look at you now." Who else could look at an attractive adult and wonder what that person looked like as an infant?
Why don't you share your earworms with us?
I seem to remember some song about girls and the summer...
Thanks. Now I've got the Beach Boys shouting "California Girls" at me.
Jesus, I've had "Kokomo" for days on end. I'm trying to fight it, but after four fucking hours trying to get the fucking Illinois Web site to work and giving up with a nastygram,*
this is the sort of shit that's going to start rattling around my head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDSRGnS7l3A
Unrelated to the foregoing:
(http://www.classic-tv.com/media/shows/goodtimes/good-times-cast.jpg)
Cthulhu is not the answer, Stew. Warren Harding is not the answer. Bryan & Dodge may be the answer.
*
QuoteThis amazingly broken site, which continually forgets my login, also WILL NOT ACCEPT A CHANGE IN PHONE NUMBER.
I have been at this six ways to Sunday, because my SNAP/Medicaid renewal letter (received well after the optimal date, 'natch) cheerfully suggested that I could complete most of the redetermination at "Manage My Case." It would be charitable to describe this as a clusterfuck.
"You have entered a Date of Change, but have not told us what changed. Please enter your changes before clicking the Next button"
Why, yes, I DID TELL YOU WHAT CHANGED, WHICH IS THE G-DDAMNED PHONE NUMBER. There appears to be no obvious way to just do the freaking renewal.
As G-d as my witness, if anybody has the temerity to tell me that I am technologically impaired, I'm going to rain holy hell on them with my meager two years of graduate school in computer science. I have literally wasted precious *hours* that could have been better spent, y'know, working on my Disability application or looking for some remote part-time work, but no, I have been dealing with this train wreck.
HTH. HAND. FOADIAF.
cc: Pritzy (Actually, I'm going to one way or the other, but I'm just waiting for the hilarity that is going to ensue on the odd chance that there is a sentient reply to this feedback.)
OK, this morning it was a combination of "Wild Horses (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNaqBBjrIZw)" and "My Friend the Witch Doctor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iA_TZ15ruA)," sometimes rapidly alternating, sometimes superposed. Lasted for a good five hours.
Oh, when it rains, it pours.* Superpose this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apv9Kgkf-z8) with The Streetbeater (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O20Sljxmy9M).
It was only one puff.
*I never knew the history of this phrase vis-?-vis Morton Salt until my shrink was ending a session. I don't know whether this routine is simple chitchat or cognitive testing.
Quote from: Wheezer on July 08, 2020, 09:28:42 PM
OK, this morning it was a combination of "Wild Horses (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNaqBBjrIZw)" and "My Friend the Witch Doctor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iA_TZ15ruA)," sometimes rapidly alternating, sometimes superposed. Lasted for a good five hours.
You win. I feel very sorry for you. Have you tried hypnosis?
Quote from: CBStew on July 09, 2020, 01:56:47 PM
Quote from: Wheezer on July 08, 2020, 09:28:42 PM
OK, this morning it was a combination of "Wild Horses (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNaqBBjrIZw)" and "My Friend the Witch Doctor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iA_TZ15ruA)," sometimes rapidly alternating, sometimes superposed. Lasted for a good five hours.
You win. I feel very sorry for you. Have you tried hypnosis?
The next was actually a merciful choice from my subconscious. It took me a couple of sleep cycles to find an REM drama that I could actually sort of retain, but I have to be careful here not to contaminate it with the other two recent Towel* of Babel standouts.
I was half-observer, half-participant in this one, which was long enough to sustain some wakefulness uintil a fade-out, when I as observer decided that the d?nouement of just looking at books while thinking I had preserved an earworm was enough.
I mean, the observer of the dreaming body thought it was really good -- semi-romantic holding a strong suit at the beginning but then fading into cameos toward the end. The dreamer went through several hundred Post-Its in its late moments and realized that running out of time was congruent with getting bored, thus planting stakes.
But I
really, really thought I had preserved one couplet. The effort was so focused that I have now recovered a second character (the German shepherd). It's perhaps too late, and I'm back to the Witch Doctor. There's no way I could really have preserved short of mind-melding with Dubbs's manipura chakra or something similar.
This is actually putting me off the avocado I'm trying to have for dessert.
*Seems appropriate.
Good to see new topics
The theme from "What's Happening!!" is going to be the death of me.
Now I am being plagued (no irony intended) by a modern classical piece. I cannot remember the name or the composer. It is the one with the gigantic choral group. I think it was the theme music in a movie about a guy who goes off to a South American jungle. Help!
Quote from: CBStew on August 20, 2020, 02:40:49 PM
Now I am being plagued (no irony intended) by a modern classical piece. I cannot remember the name or the composer. It is the one with the gigantic choral group. I think it was the theme music in a movie about a guy who goes off to a South American jungle. Help!
No. It is not the soundtrack of "The Mission" which starred De Niro and Jeremy Irons.
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Now I am being plagued (no irony intended) by a modern classical piece. I cannot remember the name or the composer. It is the one with the gigantic choral group. I think it was the theme music in a movie about a guy who goes off to a South American jungle. Help!
No. It is not the soundtrack of "The Mission" which starred De Niro and Jeremy Irons.
That's Baroque, anyway. I'm afraid this (https://www.naxos.com/musicinmovies.asp) is the best I can do at the moment. I'll check with my friend who's a classical music critic.
Quote from: Wheezer on August 21, 2020, 10:54:51 AM
Quote from: CBStew on August 20, 2020, 02:55:46 PM
Quote from: CBStew on August 20, 2020, 02:40:49 PM
Now I am being plagued (no irony intended) by a modern classical piece. I cannot remember the name or the composer. It is the one with the gigantic choral group. I think it was the theme music in a movie about a guy who goes off to a South American jungle. Help!
No. It is not the soundtrack of "The Mission" which starred De Niro and Jeremy Irons.
That's Baroque, anyway. I'm afraid this (https://www.naxos.com/musicinmovies.asp) is the best I can do at the moment. I'll check with my friend who's a classical music critic.
That is an amazing list, even if it only covers movies starting with the letter "A". You took me too literally when I said it was "classical" music. I used the adjective "modern" to qualify it. I meant that the quality was "classical" in nature. In fact I heard a symphony orchestra and chorus perform it on stage years ago.
Quote from: CBStew on August 21, 2020, 01:43:15 PM
Quote from: Wheezer on August 21, 2020, 10:54:51 AM
Quote from: CBStew on August 20, 2020, 02:55:46 PM
Quote from: CBStew on August 20, 2020, 02:40:49 PM
Now I am being plagued (no irony intended) by a modern classical piece. I cannot remember the name or the composer. It is the one with the gigantic choral group. I think it was the theme music in a movie about a guy who goes off to a South American jungle. Help!
No. It is not the soundtrack of "The Mission" which starred De Niro and Jeremy Irons.
That's Baroque, anyway. I'm afraid this (https://www.naxos.com/musicinmovies.asp) is the best I can do at the moment. I'll check with my friend who's a classical music critic.
That is an amazing list, even if it only covers movies starting with the letter "A". You took me too literally when I said it was "classical" music. I used the adjective "modern" to qualify it. I meant that the quality was "classical" in nature. In fact I heard a symphony orchestra and chorus perform it on stage years ago.
I FOUND IT! It is "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff. I am so relieved. Check it out. It is very invigorating.
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Quote from: CBStew on August 21, 2020, 01:43:15 PM
Quote from: Wheezer on August 21, 2020, 10:54:51 AM
Quote from: CBStew on August 20, 2020, 02:55:46 PM
Quote from: CBStew on August 20, 2020, 02:40:49 PM
Now I am being plagued (no irony intended) by a modern classical piece. I cannot remember the name or the composer. It is the one with the gigantic choral group. I think it was the theme music in a movie about a guy who goes off to a South American jungle. Help!
No. It is not the soundtrack of "The Mission" which starred De Niro and Jeremy Irons.
That's Baroque, anyway. I'm afraid this (https://www.naxos.com/musicinmovies.asp) is the best I can do at the moment. I'll check with my friend who's a classical music critic.
That is an amazing list, even if it only covers movies starting with the letter "A". You took me too literally when I said it was "classical" music. I used the adjective "modern" to qualify it. I meant that the quality was "classical" in nature. In fact I heard a symphony orchestra and chorus perform it on stage years ago.
I FOUND IT! It is "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff. I am so relieved. Check it out. It is very invigorating.
It's the official opera of the OKNeoAC, as I recall, if the
Boo Hoo Bible is still reasonably canon. Not sure whose version I have.
So you were watching
Die Hard 2?
Now I am being tormented by "A Gal in Calico". I first heard this tune as a pre-teen when I was in elementary school. The first line is "Met a gal in Calico, many years ago..." I had no idea what calico was. One of my teachers in art class assigned us the project of drawing a calico cat. I like all of my classmates merely gave her a blank stare. For all I knew calico was a city in New Mexico. It isn't, is it? One of my braver classmates asked her what a calico cat was. She graciously responded that it was a patchwork patterned cat. That merely compounded the confusion.
Suffice it to say that what I drew hardly even represented a cat, let alone a calico cat.
Time to memoriaze this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIy6X4VTWpk), I suppose.
Edelweiss. I'm just trying to scrub out dog carriers (for moving multiple cats), I am sneezing from all the bleach that has already ruined a new pair of Wranglers, and fucking Ira Glass's long-stale paycheck puts this shit in my head.
It might not be so aggravating were I not down to my last Hamm's.
Sing a Song. By the Carpenters, not Earth Wind & Fire. I hypothesize this to be punishment for drinking a PBR while having 11 minutes to wait for the bus.
Pick a Bale of Cotton (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pd5ViH_5598).
I often find myself walking around with this song stuck in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7pXk9Q8TTU
Quote from: Wheezer on October 14, 2020, 01:55:35 PM
Pick a Bale of Cotton (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pd5ViH_5598).
OH NO. YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO GO THERE.
Quote from: Canadouche on October 18, 2020, 08:42:59 AM
I often find myself walking around with this song stuck in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7pXk9Q8TTU
See, it really helps to
describe what it is rather than posting blind links. Viz., SUPYAD.
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Quote from: Wheezer on October 14, 2020, 01:55:35 PM
Pick a Bale of Cotton (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pd5ViH_5598).
OH NO. YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO GO THERE.
It came to me, not the other way around. I'm limiting myself to things that persist for at least 24 hours and trying to censor the fantastically repetitive Trader Joe's soundtrack.
... And makes the world taste good.
My dog has heartworms.
Quote from: Wheezer on October 18, 2020, 05:52:05 PM
Quote from: Canadouche on October 18, 2020, 08:42:59 AM
I often find myself walking around with this song stuck in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7pXk9Q8TTU
See, it really helps to describe what it is rather than posting blind links. Viz., SUPYAD.
Are you saying, you didn't know if I was going to rickroll you? That was the point - take a leap of faith and click the link, if you haven't.
Moonlight becomes you, it goes with your hair. You certainly know the right things to wear.
These are really baffling lyrics. "Moonlight becomes you" can have at least two meanings. One of which is that moonlight magically turns into the person being sung to. I don't think that is possible. It goes with your hair. I don't have a clue what that means. When your hair comes moonlight leaves? It would be unflattering to say that your hair looks good in the dark.
I frequently have a particular live version of the Avett Brothers song "Laundry Room" bouncing around in my head. Considering that anytime I've heard them play it live, I get chills down my spine, I'm ok with this.
Quote from: Canadouche on November 08, 2020, 03:02:53 PM
I frequently have a particular live version of the Avett Brothers song "Laundry Room" bouncing around in my head. Considering that anytime I've heard them play it live, I get chills down my spine, I'm ok with this.
Tonight I'll burn the lyrics
'Cause every chorus was your name
Quote from: Yeti on November 18, 2020, 06:06:53 PM
Quote from: Canadouche on November 08, 2020, 03:02:53 PM
I frequently have a particular live version of the Avett Brothers song "Laundry Room" bouncing around in my head. Considering that anytime I've heard them play it live, I get chills down my spine, I'm ok with this.
Tonight I'll burn the lyrics
'Cause every chorus was your name
Funny thing is -- that tends to be the verse that floats around in my head. You too?
For two days ... "I can't believe that you're in love with me".
I woke up this morning with "set an open course for the Virgin Sea" (fucking Slackbox). I checked, and that is actually the line. But it doesn't seem to have any meaning in the context of seafaring.
Quote from: Wheezer on February 27, 2021, 01:22:33 PM
I woke up this morning with "set an open course for the Virgin Sea" (fucking Slackbox). I checked, and that is actually the line. But it doesn't seem to have any meaning in the context of seafaring.
It might not have a meaning in seafaring, but it is damn poetic. It evokes the image of the Enterprise at the introduction of "Star Trek".
I don't care whether Harry Chapin was a nice guy, I just want fucking "Cat's in the Cradle" to get out the fuck of my head in the morning. Two days running.
Three.
Oh, great, today it's "Rock On" by David Essex. There's a time and place for this one, but 7am and bed are not it.
Three days: The theme to "One Day at a Time." I've nearly become inured to it, but then the visuals come. I need more benzodiazepines.
Day 2.5 of Little Red Hen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpryQv8k_S8).
The "One Day at a Time" is really vicious, though -- it frankly attacks other earworms to try to break through.
Oh, G-d, not "One Tin Soldier." Where does this stuff come from?
Mairsiedosandoesiedosanliddelelamsiedievie,akiddledeedivietoo.
This popped up in my head this morning.
I am betting that no one else on this board remembers this.
Quote from: CBStew on July 09, 2021, 09:39:24 AM
Mairsiedosandoesiedosanliddelelamsiedievie,akiddledeedivietoo.
This popped up in my head this morning.
I am betting that no one else on this board remembers this.
This is the second song from a "Road" movie to show up here in the last 10 posts.
Now I hear "Manana, manana, manana is good enough for me..." Road movie? I think so.