Songs on our minds today

[songbird36]

Well at the risk of over-posting, and creating frivolous threads for no good reason, I'm going to set this one up.

What songs are buzzing around in our brains today, and why? I often find myself obsessed with a song for a whole morning, and just can't get it out of my head. It's not always 'cos I've even heard it on the radio or anything - it just pops into my head for no apparent reason and stays there.

Today's song for me is "You've got a friend" (James Taylor).

That song is often associated with melancholy for me, but strangely, I'm happy today.

I can't work it out.

[crule81]

"The more we get together, the happier we'll be."

We sang that damn Marxist song all the time in Kindergarten and I can never get it out of my mind.

[snarled]

Alright! Who has 'rockin' the casbah' in their sig.?

Two days ago I read a post of theirs. Consequently, that blasted song is still stuck in my head! :banghead:

I've even been walking differently due to the incessently infectious bassline.

[Sam172]

"Going Underground" by The Jam

Probably because I had it on loop a few nights ago :p

[songbird36]

I was talking to Utopmik on Yahoo the other day and started thinking about Alabama and then that damned awful song came into my head:

"Oh Susanna, oh don't you cry for me, I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee"

Couldn't get the damn drivel out of my head..lol

[jimkopelli]

"Jungle Love" by Steve Miller band...


I've been listening to stuff to keep me awake in arch class... and it's been stuck.

Things aren't necessarily better when wet.
Definitely not if it's an architecture project.

[Asmodiel]

Feuerräder, by Rammstein.

It's sort of haunting...the chorus. I like it. I'm not sure why it's on my mind, it just happens to keep playing there.

[Philo]

Michelle Post - Hootie & the Blowfish

Well, that's what's playing on the iPod, anyway.

[C.J.Woolf]

"Her Majesty", by the Beatles. Because my spouse sang it and it's so damn catchy.

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl but she doesn't have a lot to say.
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl but she changes from day to day.
I wanna tell her that I love her a lot, but I gotta get a belly full of wine.
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, someday I'm gonna make her mine,
Oh yeah,
Someday I'm gonna make her mine.

[Serotonin]

"Frankly Mr Shankly" by The Smiths. I like morrisseys lyrics because he's ballsy and will sing about what most others will refuse to.

[Niflheimian]

Today's song for me is "You've got a friend" (James Taylor).

I just had that song playing while I was reading your post...interesting. Coincidence?

This morning I had No Doubt's "Platinum Blonde Life" stuck in my head. Why? I don't know.

Two weeks ago Semper Fidelis (the Marine Corps song, I think) was playing in my dreams and when I woke up (for several consecutive days).

[Bugeater]

Massive Attack - Teardrop

Because I just watched House, M.D.
Damn, what a great show.

[L. Bartholomew]

Layla- the unplugged version by Eric Clapton solo.

[ApeTheDog]

Cabaret, from the musical.

Willkomen, bienvenue, welcome... argh. I cannot stand the song, yet it's been inside my head, popping up occasionally, probably for over ten years.

[jimkopelli]

Cabaret, from the musical.

Willkomen, bienvenue, welcome... argh. I cannot stand the song, yet it's been inside my head, popping up occasionally, probably for over ten years.
I'm the same way with things from marching band... haven't played them for at least four years... but there they are. They seem to come up any time I'm walking in step with someone... thank you, Pavlov.

[ApeTheDog]

Ah. Marching band. Nice.

I'm playing star wars II, the sith lords right now, and there are many dialogue options about the Force that describe it as 'a sound, at the edge of hearing'. That's what these damn songs are. sometimes I don't even know I'm singing them inside my head until I think about it.

[libertarianjim]

I watched Less Than Zero last night. I had the Bangles' cover of "Hazy Shade of Winter" stuck in my head, along with clogged sinuses all day.

[waxwing]

Massive Attack - Teardrop

Because I just watched House, M.D.
Damn, what a great show.

Beautiful song. May be my favorite Massive Attack song and one of my favorite trip hop songs....

Do you like Portishead?


Anyway, the song on my mind today was the Coldplay song ("We Live in a Beautiful World...") from the beginning of Garden State. Great movie. Great song. By the way, I believe it is mgbradsh (Zach Braff) who I currently have a crush on. Can I just say that I really liked him in that movie? Like I wanted to marry him? Okay, I'm getting out of hand now. (deep sigh). It's just that he played that part so well. The scene with him and his father near the end of the movie keeps coming to mind today too...

Sorry for the tangent. My mind's been doing loopdy-loops all day today.


(squeaks like a guinea pig)

[Bugeater]

Beautiful song. May be my favorite Massive Attack song and one of my favorite trip hop songs....

Do you like Portishead?

Yeah, though I like Hooverphonic more.

Song on my mind right now...
Wolfsheim - Underneath the Veil

[gypseymothlee]

Masochism Tango - Tom Lehrer

catchy and hilarious

[PonderBee]

Evil - Interpol

... keeps resurfacing.

[PonderBee]

Across the Universe - the Beatles

... close 2nd.

[songbird36]

I had the Monkees' "Daydream Believer" on my brain *all* day today.

Don't even like the song!

[Geoff]

I had the Monkees' "Daydream Believer" on my brain *all* day today.

Don't even like the song!

Sounds like the evil gnomes have been implanting false tunes in your brain.

I dont mind that song actually.

Today I am mostly humming zoolookology by Jean Michel Jarre, but mainly because I am listening to his Aero release in my car! It's most interesting (never really been in to the Jarre stuff before, but the surround sound remix for DVD is amazing.. sound across all 5 or 6 speakers in a creative manner)

-Geoff

[noirum]

On the Loose - Saga

So let the problems start
And let the tension grow
We'll be keeping it to ourselves
And while they're busy reaching their conclusions
We'll be reaching for something else

[YardGnome]

Bill Frisell - White Fang (Unspeakable)

Stuck in my head since the ride into work

[Bluehaze]

Jon Secada - Just Another Day (Otro Dia Mas Sin Verte)

[Philo]

Couch Potato - Weird Al Yankovic

[Helios]

Jon Secada - Just Another Day (Otro Dia Mas Sin Verte)


That song is weird, everytime I hear it takes me back to this moment in the early 90, on a sunday, sitting in my first car, going to work, stopped at a traffic light ,in the rain..............and I ahve no idea why?! Somehow that moment got burnt into my head and is tied to that song.

Otherwise for the instant I am hung up on "Y control" -the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

[songbird36]

Today I am mostly humming zoolookology by Jean Michel Jarre, but mainly because I am listening to his Aero release in my car! It's most interesting (never really been in to the Jarre stuff before, but the surround sound remix for DVD is amazing.. sound across all 5 or 6 speakers in a creative manner)

-Geoff

I used to have his "Equinox" on vinyl years back and my brother had a double album of his which I can't remember the name of. JMJ was very "in" in the '80's when we were young G (remember). The beginnings of techno, I suppose..

:lol:

[indie]

Today that song would be "Sucks to be You" by Prozzak . . . that song is a little too jazzy for its own good. Also, it has a very nice guitar solo in the middle.

A more recent "stuck in head" song was better. . "Prophecy" by Remy Zero:

Consider this a sign
This is a train in the night
And now it's time for you to go
You know you had a healthy life boy.
You walk this world like you're a ghost.
Your hands are coming though the needles --
Sick of your tragic and the evils
I am the keeper of the songs of everyone.
Look into the sun and see
Your soul is dying
Used to feel the faith
But now you're tired of trying
Should have left alone
What you have stolen from everyone
How are you feeling?
Seem a little sick to me now

(Listen to this song, it's great)

[kuranes]

An old Connery era James Bond atmosphere piece has been stuck on a loop in my brain for weeks. I think it's because the train I ride as a commuter uses something very similar to the first two notes as a way of signaling the door is about to close.

K :huh:

[Bugeater]

Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Misirlou (aka, Pulp Fiction theme)

Why? Because I just found out Quentin Tarantino is directing the season finale of CSI! And he's helping write it too. Hell yeah!

[songbird36]

Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Misirlou (aka, Pulp Fiction theme)

Why? Because I just found out Quentin Tarantino is directing the season finale of CSI! And he's helping write it too. Hell yeah!

Yeah CSI is going to rock big time now...

[Niflheimian]

Yeah CSI is going to rock big time now...

The original CSI? As if it didn't rock already; the writing is quite good.
While the cases are usually interesting, the characters are the best part; especially Grissom.
Maybe I should start a typology thread on the crime scene investigators? 8O

[Bugeater]

The original CSI? As if it didn't rock already; the writing is quite good.
While the cases are usually interesting, the characters are the best part; especially Grissom.
Maybe I should start a typology thread on the crime scene investigators? 8O
Yeah, I don't like the spin-offs...but the original continues to be great. If you like Grissom, check out Hugh Laurie in House, M.D. He's equally intriguing.

Song on my mind right now...
Cinephile - What Becomes Of Us?
You can listen to it here (http://www.overplay.co.uk/band.asp?band_id=1000584).

[songbird36]

"If" by Bread is on my mind today.

[Bugeater]

Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind
Because the Oscars are tonight and I keep seeing/hearing Jamie Foxx singing that song in my head.

[INTerloPer]

The last coupla days I've been on a huge placebo kick. I've always been pulled towards dischordant music - really just to anything that isn't radio friendly. Music is something that is selfishly personal (or should be), and it shouldn't be easily accessible. You must work to like a song. Also check out Poe's 'Hey Pretty' (the remix is even better) and 'Lover I Dont Have To Love' by Bright Eyes.

[songbird36]

Today it was "Two out of Three" (Meatloaf).

Urghhh...

[Helios]

Push (up stairs)- Underword

[PonderBee]

An example of a fond memory tied to bad music:

Several years ago my young daughter and I were on a road trip and heard this one song over and again on several different radio stations. It is a horrible, repetitive piece of (? dance/club) "music" but it served to entertain us because we misheard one of the words in the one line that was repeated ad nauseum -we'd laugh as we sang along to it. When this song surfaces in my mind that one line just darts in for a moment or two throughout the day - like a friggin' mosquito in my ear. The title escapes me - the line is "Pizza going round my miiiiiiiiiiiiiind" (Pizza is supposed to be Beats are .... ). Has been with me since the drive home from work yesterday.

[INTerloPer]

Today I'm listening to Beautiful by Social Code and some Queens of the Stone Age, and wondering when radio will be customizable to the point where I wont have to get to know every word and subtle nuance of sound in songs I hate. Not soon enough.

[Helios]

songs and memories are funny things, I was never big fan, but I link Pearl Jams "Black" and girl I know, and wish I had, flipping thru the channels today just bit ago, I hit that song as he sings:

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine


All the sudden all the hair on my arms stood on end, as goose bumps covered me, my mood plunged and I quickly turned the channel.





:rant: :rant: stupid damn song! :rant: :rant:

[LuridLemur]

Mainly the intro to "The New" by Interpol. It's been stuck in my head all day which is a good thing because it's one of my favorite songs.

[Bugeater]

That crazy song, "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer. You know, the one where he lists the elements from the periodic table...set to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan's "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General" from The Pirates Of Penzance.

[Serotonin]

"These are the only elements that we know here at Harvard.....
and there may be many others but they haven't been discovered!"

[C.J.Woolf]

Tom Lehrer was truly W.S. Gilbert's heir when it came to writing groan-inducing rhymes. Such as:

And you might think it tragic,
Not to mention other adjec-
-tives...

Smut!
Oh give me smut and nothing but!
I am a market they can't glut
If it's uncut
And it's unsubt-
-tle!

Turn on the spigot,
Pour the beer and swig it,
And gaudeamus igit-
-atur!

[INTrPosr]

I have been hearing "Ebony & Ivory" in my head since yesterday evening Yuk....

[Helios]

Four to the Floor (Thin White Duke Remix) - Starsailor

[songbird36]

"The Eyes of Lucy Jordan" (Marianne Faithfull) is on my mind today..

[Helios]

Crush with Eyeliner-R.E.M.

[Network Alchemy]

still ballin by tupac shakur ~in the 6 1 chevy still heavy in this game~

[Bluehaze]

Kraftwerk - The Robots

[2hype]

John Hiatt- Have a Little Faith in Me

[Niflheimian]

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

[Bluehaze]

Vangelis - Come to Me

[Kommienezuspadt]

Belle and Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby

[Merkaba]

Tom Waits - Martha

[ohnoaninfp]

These Foolish games ___________Jewel

[YardGnome]

Granny's Little Yard Gnome - Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerels...

[songbird36]

"Fire and Rain" - James Taylor

[booyalab]

ooh I like that one.

I've had "feeling good" by muse stuck in my head for more than a week.

[songbird36]

I had "I'm a believer" stuck in my head for 5 whole days.

I was quite ready to be committed after that!

[booyalab]

Oh god *shudders at the thought*

[songbird36]

My boys sing it at school assembly. The school principal is a diehard ex-hippie baby boomer with an acoustic guitar..

[Helios]

You must hurry and download this asap!!


"Honest Mistake" the Bravery


very cool retro sounding New York electro-rock.

[melancholeric]

The Blank Theory - Middle of Nowhere

Katatonia - Inside a city of glass.

[YardGnome]

The Gnome - Pink Floyd...

[songbird36]

"House of the Rising Sun" The Animals

["InsertNameHere"]

She put the lime in the coconut, and drank them both up
She put the lime in the coconut, and drank them both up... sorry! It was in a commercial
ARTIST: Harry Nilsson
TITLE: Coconut

[Crazy]

Momma's don't let your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" - Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings

[melancholeric]

Status Quo - In The Army Now.

Memories....

[songbird36]

"Lawyers, Guns and Money", Warren Zevon, popped into my mind this morning.

Ah..the poor late Warren...

[Bluehaze]

A-ha - I Dream Myself Alive

[songbird36]

"You are Wonderful Tonight" - Eric Clapton

[Elro]

"Fly Like an Eagle" - Steve Miller Band

[C.J.Woolf]

"Rosalita" - Bruce Springsteen

Especially the line, "Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny."

Ha fucking ha, I'd say if someone said that to me. :mad:

[Helios]

God damn! I a still listening to the Bravery!

[songbird36]

A new study got people to listen to familiar music such as the Rollig Stones' "Satisfaction" and the theme from "Pink Panther" and then scanned the people's brains using MRI, which detects activity in different areas.

The researchers then interrupted the tunes with a couple of seconds of silence. They found that people couldn't stop the well-known songs continuing in their heads during the quiet gaps, and the brain activity recorded this (as if the song had continued to be played). The researchers concluded that the brain was perceptually hearing the song even at times when the ear wasn't.

They also concluded that this study provides the "neural basis" for the spontaneous and sometimes vexing experience of "hearing a familiar melody in one's head" -

Nature

[Heather Harrison]

Not long ago, there was a story on public radio about earworms, or songs which get in ones head. I couldn't find a link to the radio program, but I found a good concise article:

http://www.wordspy.com/words/earworm.asp

I think the radio program talked about the study that songbird34 mentions.

Anyway, the first earworm that popped into my head today was "Duke of Earl" by Gene Chandler, 1962.

But as I read through this thread, "Daydream Believer" temporarily drove out "Duke of Earl", followed by a variety of Tom Lehrer songs (he is great!).

Now, as I write this, the theme songs to "Gilligan's Island" and "The Dukes of Hazzard" are alternating in my head and driving me crazier. I need to drive them out before I start pulling on my tongue and braying like a donkey!

I find it interesting that, although I have 5000+ records and 2000+ CDs, very few of the songs people mention here are familiar to me. My interest in Western pop/rock declines after c. 1969, so that music isn't well-represented in my collection. However, I do have numerous recent recordings of pop music from different countries all over the world. Sometimes these get in my head too.

Oh no! As I wrote the last sentence, "Nobre Vagabundo" by Daniela Mercury just popped into my head, driving out the TV themes. At least they are gone (for now).

This sort of parade of earworms is the story of my life. It is a wonder that I hold onto a minimum of sanity.

Heather Harrison

[songbird36]

Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett

[Dman]

"Free Will" - Rush.

I posted some of the lyrics in a response on some thread a couple weeks ago; it's still rolling around in my head. An excellent song however, fine with me.

Also - "What You Are" by Audioslave, just because I've been playing that CD to death.

[C.J.Woolf]

Heather,

You can also sing "Amazing Grace" to the tune of the "Gilligan's Island" theme.

Enjoy! :devil:

[Heather Harrison]

"Amazing Grace" to "Gilligan's Island" - you are absolutely right! After I stopped laughing I went over this in my head and it really does work! That is downright frightening.

Thanks a lot! Now I will never be able to listen to "Amazing Grace" with a straight face anymore. (I already cannot listen to the "Gilligan's Island" theme with a straight face.) Oh well, I can just add it to the long list of things I think are funny which shouldn't be.

Heather Harrison

[booyalab]

"The Noose" -APC

[YardGnome]

Over The Falls - Primus

[jimkopelli]

Heather,

You can also sing "Amazing Grace" to the tune of the "Gilligan's Island" theme.

Enjoy! :devil:

You can sing Amazing Grace to the tune of just about anything.

But speaking of Gilligans Island... Almost any of the songs in the Tolkien books can be sung to the same tune, too...


Currently in head...
Worst Day Since Yesterday - Flogging Molly

[songbird36]

Lying Eyes - the Eagles

[PonderBee]

Dumb
-Nirvana

[Star]

La La La Oo-hoo-hoo (http://www.rathergood.com/lalala/)

I can't turn it off. Help me. :laser:

[Helios]

Dumb
-Nirvana




that is my fav Nirvana song of ALL time




all this talk of beauty (and I just found the album under my TV) lead me to listen to Madonna's "American Life",an interesting examination of our issues with image and pretty pretend shit

[C.J.Woolf]

La La La Oo-hoo-hoo (http://www.rathergood.com/lalala/)

I can't turn it off. Help me. :laser:
I'm afraid you're beyond help. rathergood.com is the host of some particularly virulent earworms. Mrs. Woolf introduced me to it, for which I damn -- er, thank her.

My own favorite rathergood tune is "Mango Biscuit". Catchy as hell, and not as earwormy as "La La La Oo-hoo-hoo". "We Like the Moooooooon" is exquisitely indescribable.

[Star]

My own favorite rathergood tune is "Mango Biscuit". Catchy as hell, and not as earwormy as "La La La Oo-hoo-hoo". "We Like the Moooooooon" is exquisitely indescribable.

Thank you, and thank Mrs. Woolf too, for that 5 minutes of respite. I watched those two (they were great) but now I'm right back in the La La La Oo-hoo-hoo loop. :wacko:

[melancholeric]

Dumb
-Nirvana
I love this song. When I was 14, a friend of mine said 'this song could about you' or something along those lines to me. Back then, I took it as an insult. When I was ~17, I finally realized how flattering it actually was.

[PonderBee]

that is my fav Nirvana song of ALL time


I love this song. When I was 14, a friend of mine said 'this song could about you' or something along those lines to me. Back then, I took it as an insult. When I was ~17, I finally realized how flattering it actually was.
... gone too soon

[Serotonin]

Cross-town Traffic by Hendrix.

That swirling da-dun da-dun da-dun da-dun at the beginning is putting me off balance as I sit on my chair.

[Star]

Rah rah Rasputin lover of the Russian queen..

[Crazy]

The Gambler - Kenny Rogers

Well, until just now, it changed to Bring Me To Life - Evanescence

[INTerloPer]

Alien Sex Fiend by Garbage

[songbird36]

"April Sun in Cuba" - Dragon

[Crazy]

"Margaritaville" - Jimmy Buffett

[Geoff]

Klf - Build a Fire (from the White Room, 1989 or so).

Mellow and a bit funky. Yay.

-Geoff

[CreativeChaos]

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star


This is on my mind, because I just googled for it to see if any of my posts came up, since I reference this song a lot. And nope, nothing of mine. Whew! My favrorite song, of course. Very INFP, 4x3.

[Lee]

Jupiter - Holst

I have not stopped humming it for about 4 day's.

[Mariel]

"Monkey Gone to Heaven"- the Pixies
Again.

[Star]

Jeff Buckley, Yard of Blonde Girls

["InsertNameHere"]

KASABIAN- club foot ...i saw the video on fuse this morning and now it won't leave! Not that i mind too much, it's a amazingly good song

[Clara]

"Dancing Queen" by ABBA ( Thanks, deepsky and Division56 :) )

[Clara]

( No one else is listening to music -- or humming, at least ? )

Michael Buble "Home"

[Merkaba]

Pain of Salvation - Winning A War

[songbird36]

"I see Red" - Split Enz

[Clara]

songbird - I don't know if you knew, when you started this thread... that it's also a reminder... to pay attention to... music playing :hug: )

Garou's "Passe ta route"



edit : for footnote purposes ( I've been thinking about cultural assumptions )
... ellipsed was : songbird listened between the lines, & understood, one evening when I was rocking a sick child, as I exchanged messages with her; it seems INTJs are as uncomfortable with people appreciating such gestures as are INTPs. *laugh - oh well !*

[songbird36]

Crunchy Granola Flakes - Neil Diamond

[meshou]

The Patient-- Tool.

Mercy, Severity-- Mudvayne.

[C.J.Woolf]

"Secret Asian Man" - Johnny Rivers

That's what it sounds like, anyway.

[ed_dunn84]

She Said She Said by the beatles I heard it on the radio several days ago.

[file cabinet]

I've been prefering silence(or near as I can get) lately

[Edmond Zedo]

In my mind and in my ears: Glory by KMFDM. Extra Crunchy.

[Star]

Delerium: In Four Dimensons. Serenity now.

[April]

"Monkey Gone to Heaven"- the Pixies
Again.

Haaaa! Then GOOODDDD IS SEVEN!

Hmm... "Obstacle 1" by Interpol for me today.

[Edmond Zedo]

Delerium: In Four Dimensons. Serenity now.
Is Delerium one of the side projects of the Front Line Assembly folks?

[Star]

Is Delerium one of the side projects of the Front Line Assembly folks?

Y.

o.O Tactical Neural Implant playing now. Heh.

[LuridLemur]

The main song from Cannibal the Musical. If you haven't seen it, watch it... now.

[Pedro_The_Lion]

"Wave Motion Gun" by Marcy Playground a result of a previous post.

[Helios]

World on Fire- Sarah McLachlan (Junkie XL Remix)

The remix is awesome, sultry and sexual, I was really bummed when I heard to album version, it was sorta happy and hopeful.............who needs that crap!

[Avengardh]

"Extra Pale" - Robby Takac.

[TPol]

"Don't" by Shania Twain. I don't know why, since I'm not fond of the song. I need to wash my brain with a better one! :D

[n0mad]

"Weird Divide" by The Shins. Melancholy and nostalgy, and similar stuff. It's all there. Try it. :)

[YardGnome]

"Cassandra Gemini" by The Mars Volta - Epic 30 minute long song, completely uncategorizable (Heavy Metal / Jazz / Progressive Rock / Heavy Latin influence)... I am at a complete loss in describing what type of music this is...

Anyone else heard this song?

[Mariel]

"Coyote"- Joni Mitchell

[coffeezombie]

"Tears of a Clown"- Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

"Singing in the Rain"- Gene Kelly

[songbird36]

"Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Birds fly high by the light of the moon
Oh..oh..oh..oh
Jokerman"

- Bob Dylan

[Geoff]

1989 Pure Trance Original of Last Train to Transcentral by the KLF.

mMm. Nothing better on a sunny morning for a drive to work.

-Geoff

[Bugeater]

Eisbrecher - Angst

[Crazy]

"Whiskey Lullaby" - Allison Kraus

[PonderBee]

Roadhouse Blues
- The Doors

[songbird36]

Roadhouse Blues
- The Doors

Oh oh oh - one of my all time favourite songs is that!

[PonderBee]

Oh oh oh - one of my all time favourite songs is that!
... and what a gorgeous, wild man.
http://www.kdmdr.demon.co.uk/morrison.jpg

[nihilist]

Bob Dylan- Things have changed

[nobarcode]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>- THE CLASH

[Sir Isaac Lime]

Pink Floyd - One of my turns
Depeche Mode - Home

[Helios]

Franz Ferdinand- Michael

Dorky and homo-erotic at once, in a drunken fratboy sorta way.


best line "stubble on my sticky lips" , God only knows what that is about :shock:

[MjrMarshmellows]

for real - okkerville river

I think its about murder (commiting one)

[Crazy]

I will survive - Cake

[TPol]

Bless the Broken Road by Rascal Flatts

[Geoff]

Dont call me baby

Madison Avenue.

Good dance track!

-Geoff

[kruT]

Kompressor - Skyline

[C.J.Woolf]

Time to Start - Blue Man Group

[C.J.Woolf]

Galaxy of Emptiness - Beth Orton

[TPol]

Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport by Rolf Harris

[Serotonin]

Interpol - Evil.

Only cos looking at your name TPol reminded me of it.

[Witticism]

Interpol - C'mere.

Interpol obviously have control over our minds.

[Chrysalii]

"Golden Country" -REO Speedwagon

[Iothiania]

"This Corrosion" by the Sisters of Mercy

[n0mad]

"Dead Man's Will", by Iron & Wine

[Pedro_The_Lion]

Volvo Driving Soccer Mom by Everclear

[sbw]

heartless bastards--stairs & elevators

(that's an album, but every song is good)

Scott

[Clara]

It's not a song that's in my mind right now, it's a hum. That ineffable vibration that echoes off INTPish mischievousness, imaginatively expressed. ( It makes my face hurt, from laughing -- even though I do, rather often, smile easily. ) :)

[Helios]

Volvo Driving Soccer Mom by Everclear


I swear to God I grew up with that girl!


Love the song regardless!

[Sally]

I love Everclear.

I never think of them unless someone mentions them, but then I get the warm fuzzies.

[Helios]

Don't stand so close to me- the Police


best line(s):

"Her friends are so jealous
You know how bad girls get"

and

"Strong words in the staffroom
The accusations fly
It's no use
He sees her
He starts to shake he starts to cough
Just like the old man in
That famous book by Nabakov"

[Star]

All week I've been finding excuses to drive around in my car, which has a tape deck, which has a recently re-discovered cassette of Jeff Buckley songs in it, so that I can play "Lover, you should have come over" over and over again, and sing along.

poor dead jeff.

deepsky :blush:

[Chukamuk]

Today, AC/DC's Touch Too Much

best lines:

"She had the face of angel smiling with sin,
the body of Venus with arms."

["InsertNameHere"]

Pissing in a River by Patti Smith
It's soooo depressingly sad! Love it.
"Should I pursue a path so twisted ?
Should I crawl defeated and gifted ?
Should I go the length of a river,
[The royal, the throne, the cry me a river]
What about it, what about it, what about it ?
Oh, I'm pissing in a river." <--- love that part

[jurassic-zilla]

I've been thinking about Swanheart by Nightwish for a couple of days now. Someone posted a thread somewhere asking what song reminds you of yourself and I was still considering this one, but I never posted a reply, haha...
"All those beautiful people
I want to have them all
All those porcelain models
If only I could make them fall

Be my heart a well of love
Flowing free so far above

In my world
Love is for poets
Never the famous balcony scene
Just a dying faith
On the heaven's gate"

[Mariel]

All week I've been finding excuses to drive around in my car, which has a tape deck, which has a recently re-discovered cassette of Jeff Buckley songs in it, so that I can play "Lover, you should have come over" over and over again, and sing along.

poor dead jeff.

deepsky :blush:
man, that song just sends me. i wish i could find that cd.

[Helios]

OMG!!! (<< for Shai) I woke up from my nap with "Obstacle 1" in my head,so now I have listened to it a zilllion times hopeing it would leave my head. I d/l the video, it won't go away! WTF? I never really paid two shits to the song before!?

[sandwich]

"I am the very model of a modern Major-General" from the Pirates of Penzance(?).

It's probably one of the worst songs to ever get stuck in your head. Especially if you, like me, know hardly any of the words.

[Ka.avik]

has anybody mentioned Indy (http://www.indy.tv/) yet? Through it I've come across Viking's demo called 'freyja's cat (http://www.songlyrics.com/song-lyrics/Viking/Miscellaneous/FREYJA_S_CAT/105852.html)'
"Freyja's cat now lives on other worlds, but
when he was here, he played like an Earthly cat"
...
and he listened to me when I played the flute..."

(cue flute sequence)


Absolutely mesmerizing.

At the opposite end of the musical spectrum is Otep. Thots is my favorite. But their collaboration with Slipknot to produce Waterside is definately good too.

Too, anytime you're feeling existentially depressed, you can mellow more to Pearl Jam's "indifference". A hidden track from whatever came out right after vs. (I think)

[Crazy]

Accidentally in love - Goo Goo Dolls

Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

I Disappear - Metallica

[Crazy]

oh, and Light Up My Room - Barenaked Ladies

[iponjs]

"My Baby" by LeAnn Rimes has been stuck in my head... Of course, I XXX up the lyrics a bit w/ a verse about backdoor action... My ISTJ wife does not approve :devil:

[s]

"Bitter Sweet" by Big Head Todd and the Monsters.

[indie]

My new favorite song: "I am the Highway" by Audioslave.

Here's the lyrics. Oh, I mean the AWESOME lyrics:

* * *

Pearls of swine bereft of me
Long and weary my road has been
I was lost in the cities
Alone in the hills
No sorrow or pity for the leaving I feel

(chorus)
I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky

Friends and liars don't wait for me
I'll get on all by myself
I put millions of miles
Under my heels
And still too close to you
I feel

(chorus)
I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
I am not your blowing wind
I am the lightening
I am not your autumn moon
I am the night

* * *

Awesome guitar this song has.

[Chukamuk]

My new favorite song: "I am the Highway" by Audioslave....I love that song!!! Doh! I thought it was SoundGarden. No wonder I couldn't find the cd it was on. I used to hear it on the radio quite a bit but, now nada mas. I'm gonna have to snag that from iTunes!

[Clara]

Les Cowboys Fringants "Étoile filante"

( yes, it's also playing pretty often, on the radio )

[MaroonBells]

Yummy, yummy, yummy - I got love in my tummy!

[iponjs]

I Hate Everything - George Strait

[Helios]

U2-Salome (Zooromancer Remix)


best lines


Baby, please
Baby, please don't go
I got lies to feed
They want skin and seed
Now don't make me crawl

Baby, please
Baby don't bite your lip
Give you half what I got
If you untie the knot
It's a promise


NOTHING is hotter than a women biting her lip !

[DevNull]

Sneaker Pimps - Underground

Bloodhound Gang - Ralphie

[iponjs]

Boomin' Granny - Beastie Boys (it just is)

[Helios]

With recent events in mind, I am listening to "Do You Realize ??" It is the Flameing Lips, but Postal Service did a good cover.


"Do you realize
That you have the most beautiful face?
Do you realize
We're floating in space?
Do you realize
That happiness makes you cry?

Do you realize
That everyone you know someday will die?
And instead of saying all of your good-byes
Let them know you realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do you realize?

Do you realize
That everyone you know someday will die?
And instead of saying all of your good-byes
Let them know you realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do you realize
That you have the most beautiful face?

Do you realize?

[C.J.Woolf]

To Hell With Poverty -- Gang of Four

[iponjs]

Eat Steak - Rev. Horton Heat

[waxwing]

This is Tindersticks, from the album Curtains

Another Night In

Greed’s all gone now, there’s no question
And I can see you push your hair behind your ear
Regain your balance
Doesn’t matter where she is tonight
Or with whoever she spends her time
If these arms were meant to hold her
They were never meant to hold her so tight
For the love of that girl.
Greed’s all gone now, panic subsides
When I could run, pulling arms to love her
Try to put myself on the inside
Of the love of that girl
Tears swell, you don’t know why
For the love of that girl
They never fall, they can never run dry
They never fall, they can never run dry
For the love of that girl
For the love of that girl

Promise is never over, never questions that needed reply
But she could breathe deep into my neck
Let me know I’m just on the outside
Of the love of that girl
Tears swell, you don’t know why
For the love of that girl
They never fall, they can never run dry
For the love of that girl
Greed’s all gone now, there’s no question
And I can see you push your hair behind your ears
Regain your balance
Doesn’t matter where she is tonight
Or with whoever she spends her time
If these arms were meant to hold her
They were never meant to hold her so tight
For the love of that girl
Tears swell, you don’t know why
For the love of that girl

[MasterMerk]

Moonlight Sonata. So sexy.

[glassmoon]

Moonlight Sonata. So sexy.
It's the millenium #1 hit. It was in the movie Elephant, I liked that scene...

[philonightmare]

"Touched" by Vast. Beautiful, powerful song. Evokes images of suffering and pleasure at the same time. I can't get enough of it today for some reason...

[Sally]

Songs about werewolves.

[Sally]

"Touched" by Vast. Beautiful, powerful song. Evokes images of suffering and pleasure at the same time. I can't get enough of it today for some reason...


That song makes me think of John the Baptist and Jesus. Don't ask me why...

[TPol]

"Every Time You Go Away" by Paul Young

[philonightmare]

That song makes me think of John the Baptist and Jesus. Don't ask me why...

*resists the desire to satisfy curiosity by asking you "why?"*

[Sally]

*resists the desire to satisfy curiosity by asking you "why?"*

Well, actually, thinking back to a couple years ago... I think it's because I discovered the song while I was very into Botticelli. His John the Baptist in particular. The lyrics fit; the tone fit; the association stuck.

Edit: This one. (http://www.oceansbridge.com/paintings/artists/b/Botticelli_Sandro/oil-big/san_barnaba_altarpiece_(detail_head_of_st_john)_1490_XX_galleria_degli_uffizi_florence.jpg) Something very rock star tragic about him.

[Spartan26]

"She ran calling Wildfire. She ran calling Wildfire. She ran calling Wiiiilllddfiiirreee." Some lady I work with put up picture of her riding a horse and I've been stuck with that 70's folk song all day

[philonightmare]

Well, actually, thinking back to a couple years ago... I think it's because I discovered the song while I was very into Botticelli. His John the Baptist in particular. The lyrics fit; the tone fit; the association stuck.

Edit: This one. (http://www.oceansbridge.com/paintings/artists/b/Botticelli_Sandro/oil-big/san_barnaba_altarpiece_(detail_head_of_st_john)_1490_XX_galleria_degli_uffizi_florence.jpg) Something very rock star tragic about him.

I see what you mean. I can imagine the lead singer looking like that while singing this song... all desperation and pathos aglore. Either that, or that painting captured those feelings from the song quite well.

[nonsequitur]

"The Hollows" - Matt Pond PA. i love matt pond pa. :)

[C.J.Woolf]

All That Money Wants -- Psychedelic Furs

I picked up a Rhino boxed set of 80s alternative music last weekend. It's pretty much a playlist of my favorite radio station in the 80s, WHFS in Washington, DC.

[Crazy]

Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

Fade Away - Seether

[Sally]

The Klezmorim doing "Minnie the Moocher"

[philonightmare]

Morning Glory- Oasis

[Helios]

A fun song about Jesus et al is "Untill the end ofthe World", by U2. I don't really think that happened, but it is a interesting idea.

best (most blantant) verse:

Surrounding me, going down on me
Spilling over the brim
Waves of regret and waves of joy
I reached out for the one I tried to destroy
You...you said you'd wait
'til the end of the world

[Wilde Mutton]

Procol Harum - In the wee small hours of sixpence

[Star]

Slowdive - Alison

[jimkopelli]

Drunkship Of Lanterns - The Mars Volta

[Winterpark]

Nelly (f.Tim McGraw) - Over and over

...its all in my head, I think about it over and over again...

[MaroonBells]

"cookie jar" by Jack Johnson - love that guy's stuff!

[trendal]

I've got "The Decline", by NOFX in my head. Possibly (probably) because it was the last song I heard before leaving for work this morning.

I wish I had a schilling
For every senseless killing
I'd buy a government
America's for sale
And you can get a good deal on it
And make a healthy profit
Or maybe, tear it apart
Start with assumption
That a million people are smart
Smarter than one!

[Partial Observer]

"Another Number" - The Cribs

[In...TP]

"Good Thing" - Paul Revere and the Raiders

[Sally]

"Sympathy for the Devil" thanks to Partial Observer

[Partial Observer]

Austin Powers, Mick Jagger, there's definitely some duplicated territory. Still, no sympathy for this devil, buy the ticket, take the ride.

[Sally]

I love the fishes 'coz they're so delicious.

[philonightmare]

"Tin Tin Deo" --David Sanborn and "Blue 7" --Sonny Rollins

[Partial Observer]

"Let's Save Tony Orlando's House" - Yo La Tengo.

[Crazy]

Goo Goo Dolls - "Iris"

and

"Afternoon Delight"

[Snowflake]

Hollaback Girl - Gwen Steffani (sp?)

[MaroonBells]

I against I - Massive Attack & Mos Def

[CENTIPEDE HEAD]

"Mississippi" by Bob Dylan

"Walking through the leaves, falling from the trees
Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees"
...
"So many things that we never will undo..
I know you're sorry, I'm sorry too"

[Imen de Naars]

Malfunk - Tre Scimmie

[CENTIPEDE HEAD]

Bob Dylan- Things have changed

Things Have Changed..Great song:

"Gonna get low down Gonna fly high
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I'm in love with a woman that don't even appeal to me"

[Winterpark]

Will Downing - Stella by Starlight

[Sally]

Will Downing - Stella by Starlight

Do you know that song from The Uninvited????

[Winterpark]

Do you know that song from The Uninvited????

No. Are they a band?

[Sally]

No. Are they a band?

No it's this ghost story movie from the 30s. Ray Milland plays it for (and names it after) the beautiful, haunted chick.

I'm not even if it's the same song. In the movie, it doesn't have lyrics.

[Winterpark]

I haven't seen that movie. I don't know. Maybe that's the original.
Stella by Starlight is a Jazz classic and I think it's written by Victor Young. It does have lyrics, but they are probably written later. Most of the versions I know are instrumental. I didn't know there 's lyrics on it untill I heard Will's interpretation, which blew my mind away.

[philonightmare]

Tool -- "H"

[Partial Observer]

"The Coast Is Always Changing" - Maximo Park

[Sally]

Eno-era Roxy Music. It makes everything better. <3

[Dman]

"Civil War" - G'N'R

[In...TP]

gettin' by(e) - jerry jeff

[Fingers]

Lalo Schifrin - Bullitt

[Snowflake]

Conjure One - Center of the Sun (Solarstone's Chilled Out Remix)

[snarled]

Dire Straights - Brothers in Arms

[TPol]

Happy Happy Joy Joy. ACK!! Special thanks to YardGnome for bringing it up over in the happiest song thread and causing this to go over and over and over in my mind. Makes you want to go around tossing Ooompa Loompas after a while!

[Spartan26]

"Who's skipping down the streets of the city?"
I'll spare you the rest, Wendy - The Association
There, that's three

[waxwing]

My Love Is A Fever - by Over the Rhine
words: Linford Detweiler
music: Detweiler and Hordinski
recordings: Amateur Shortwave Radio, Besides, Eve

my love is a fever
my love is a fable
my love is jazz licks
improvised by toddlers
bold Ulysses by nursery rhyme
and firelight

my love is a metamorphosis
reason cold logic
intuitively speaking
my love is syncopated
spoon-fed ignorant
well-read

my love is singular
my love is commonplace
as a gravedigger's own birthplace
my love is a medicine
feeds the sick heals the poor
turns up the volume on the blind

my word it's a trip
like a migraine
on a moving train
it parachutes aeroplanes
watch it fly

eyes soar hands clap
ears ring it's a sand trap
hair raising amazing
grey city transformations
as lips sink stomachs ache
monkeys shine fire flies
foxes trot hobs knob
porches swing brains storm
hearts attack and air supplies
heads light tails spin
steeples chase you along your chin
rock slides

out of the woods now
a virgin in buckskin
moccasins tall thin
she plays your mandolin
so maudlin you begin to spin
out of the woods now

[nonsequitur]

Easily Amused - Predictable

[holarchon]

The Caesar's - Jerk it Out

Wind me up
put me down
start me off and watch me go
I'll be running circles around you sooner than you know
A little off center
and i'm out of tune
just kickin this can along the avenue
But i'm alright

coz it's easy once you know how it's done
you can't stop now
it's already begun
you feel it
running through your bones

and you jerk it out
jerk it out

shut up
hush your mouth
can't you hear you talk to loud?
No I can't hear nothing 'cause I got my head up in the clouds
I bite off anything that I can chew
I'm chasing cars up and down the avenue
But that's ok

coz it's easy once you know how it's done
you can't stop now
it's already begun
you feel it
running through your bones

so you jerk it out
jerk it out

[Sackanaka]

Coffee & TV - Blur

"So give me coffee and tv
easily
I've seen so much, I'm goin blind
and I'm braindead virtually-

Sociability
is hard enough for me,
take me away from this big bad world
and agree to marry me
so we can start all over again."

[T.J.]

Gin - Drew Bunting

I wasn't there,
But my mother swore she saw the angel Gabriel
The day that I was born.

I never dreamed
Anything like that,
But I remember giving my new brother
Half my toys.

That's how we lived,
And to mouth and spirit, never fearing
We'd grow up like the jesters that we were.


And when we'd weathered their storm,
They brought us wine,
But we turned our glasses over,
Didn't shake our heads or notice
When they said, 'Excuse me, sir?'
They did not realise
We would carve them into time.

Time brought us well,
Well beyond the reach of anyone
We both had won together in the rain.

Still, it must come.
As you stopped to light our cigarette,
I walked ahead.
We never were the same.

And he bled dirty red wine,
And I drank gin.

As the miles grew thick between us
And I read my Shakespeare, dug my grave
And he swam the horizon, his new friend.

And I woke up
On the sidewalk,
Just another night of soft decline.
I wonder where my shoes went
As I'm walking into traffic signs.

I meet him
Half-delivered,
But he calls me brother, joy and lover.
No more.
This is too much
All at once.

And at last we stand eye to eye,
But he looks so tall,
And I don't know how it happened,
But the days have gone; we were so young,
But we both turn,
And we both say,
"Yes I know.
I would turn you into stone."

[Bluehaze]

Robert Miles - Fable (Message Version)

[T.J.]

Adam (http://adam-ant.net/pictures/pc2s.jpg). Ant (http://www.adam-ant.net/pictures/aajun21.gif).

[polyethylene]

Low - Missouri

This band is just so haunting. I love 'em.

[Spartan26]

Not sure who sings it but I think it's from the 70's if not before, maybe George Jones or Charlie Rich "..about old dogs and children...an watermelon wine."

[Spartan26]

It's Tom T Hall, if anyone cares. "Old Dogs and Children and Watermelon Wine" It came up at work when dandelion wine came up.

[Bluehaze]

Chunk - Ain't No Love

[polyethylene]

King Crimson - In the Court of Crimson King

[SwirlingSugarSparkles]

"It's Coming Up" by Paul McCartney because I heard it on the radio yesterday. Now it's stuck in my head. :banghead:

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