I Am the Ultimate Music Geek™

[jon_chaisson]

Some days the most bizarre songs get stuck in my head. Some are along the glaringly obvious (i.e. so stupid it's catchy) to the bizarrely obscure (i.e. only me and perhaps lynxreign would know it). The only good that comes of this is if I sing any of them out loud and get it stuck in someone else's head for three days straight.

To wit:

"Baby Elephant Walk"--Henry Mancini
Bolero comp. Ravel
"Saturday Night"--Bay City Rollers
"Thunder Island"--Jay Ferguson (I think)
"Anitra's Dance" from Peer Gynt, comp. um...er...???
"The Girl from Ipanema"--Stan Getz
"King of the Road"--Roger Miller
"Kansas City"--The Beatles

On the other hand, I found out that Clear Channel is proving that payback's a bitch. I've been hearing that damn "Piano Man" by Billy Joel each and every day for the last two months. GAAAAAHHHH!!!!

Anyone else have musical ghosts that haunt them?

Comments

[head58.livejournal.com]

Okay, you've got me beat. I've only had "Pleasure Thine Annoy" running through my head for the past week. Sure, only 2 people on the planet really know that one, but there's a good reason for it at least.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Not really, I have so much music running through my head that little plays for long. On the other hand, every time I see your post I picture the episode where Homer becomes a baseball mascot.

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

That's okay...the other day Bruce and I were talking Jeb stuff and I had "Sanguine" stuck in my head for the next half hour...

I should instigate a jam between TFB and Jeb...would make for an interesting twist... Like Sebadoh with J. Mascis as guest vocalist...oh, wait a minute, that actually happened!! (I kid you not...and the two are doing a Northampton show w/Sonic YOuth sometime in May...)

[emmalyon.livejournal.com]

I pretty much ALWAYS have something or other running through my head at all times; yes where other people have a brain I have a jukebox stuck on endless loop(current selection: J12, Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo by Harvey Danger), and I tend to sing along whenever possible. And of course the most imappropriate ones are always tormenting me at work, when a rousing chorus of "Dirty Mind" by Ima Robot is just NOT THE DONE THING. Pity the gal in the next cubicle.
And I know it irritates some people when a song that is actually playing triggers me to start singing a completely different song in counterpoint to the original, for reasons know only to my subconscious--I wonder why....
My current tunes in heavy rotation:
Sad Sweetheart...(see above) and Old Hat--Harvey Danger
Alcohol--BNL
Ocean Avenue--Yellowcard
A Praise Chorus--Jimmy Eat World
Voi Che Chapete--from The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart
Dirty Mind--Ima Robot
Girl All the Bad Guys Want--Bowling for Soup
Ghost--Indigo Girls
Come to My Window--Melissa Etheridge
Sister Goldenhair--America
Ana Ng--TMBG
When you Come--Crowded House
Overture to Die Zauberflote--Mozart
Least Complicated--Indigo Girls
Why Should I Cry For You--Sting
Riot Girl--Good Charlotte
Coal--Michel Penn
Various little Chopin piano pieces(wrote a lot about this in college, and it got stuck)
Punk Rock 101--BFS
Julie and Red Dragon Tatoo--Fountains of Wayne
Jenna Bush Army--Nerf Herder (I need to try to convince them to play this outside the GOP convention...)
Taffy--Lisa Loeb
Liebestraum--Wagner(and FYI, I HATE Wagner, so this one is TORTUROUS)
Island in the Sun--Weezer
Sunshine of Your Love--Cream
Jill Can Drive--Trip Shakespeare
Who's That Girl--Eurythmics
....and I could go on like this all day, so I'll stop.

Oh, and BTW, Peer Gynt=Edvard Grieg. Love that piece, ah them crazy Norwegians...

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

Heh...Eurythmics. I'm dead certain that someone out there has done a ska version of "Here Comes the Rain Again" and I just haven't found it yet. Otherwise, it's just another cover I'll have to do at some future point...

[emmalyon.livejournal.com]

2 different people have done covers of "Photograph" by Def Leppard for crying out loud, someone MUST have done HCTRA at some point...
if not, I hereby offer to sing lead. :-)

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

Cool! :D I can just hear the horns now, doing the harp bit... I picture it as sort of early-era Mighty Mighty Bosstones....

Chris, are you interested? BTW, I already passed this idea to Bruce, and he refuses. Apparently he hates ska, the weirdo. ;)