What tune is going around in your head?

[amanda]

Commonly called an earworm.

For me tonight it's the 'falling in love' by Presley after the teacher played it so nicely on his cello this afternoon at the school assembly. 

[jenny]

For no reason I can ascertain I've had an earworm of a song from Phantom of the Opera for a week or so now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfTgCPUJwRk&list=RDXfTgCPUJwRk&start_radio=1&ab_channel=ThePhantomoftheOpera

[Bondee]

youtu.be/twPSaCABakA

[crissdee]

This;

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAQSZhazYk8

For no reason I can think of....

[efros]

For the last 3 days,

[suze]

At least the songs which are inhabiting you guys' heads today are good.

How this came into my head for the first time for almost forty years I have no clue, but it doesn't seem to want to leave.

The singist was a one hot wonder, but I discover from Wikipedia that she married her agent and went to live in LA.  The couple had eight children, one of whom went on to play in the NFL and win three Super Bowls.

I'm not quite sure how I feel about discovering that the song was later covered by Blondie.  Debbie sings it in English rather than Patwa, but is there a dodgy mock Jamaican accent going on?  At least she doesn't say "Buccaneer, can you help me get my truck in gear", I suppose ...

[Bondee]

Sept 21, 2024 22:26:03 GMT suze said:

At least the songs which are inhabiting you guys' heads today are good.

You didn't click on the link in my post, did you.

[suze]

Oh I did, although I confess that I didn't listen to the piece all the way through.

But OK, it was more efros's selection that I was accusing of actually being good!

[pyriform]

Sept 21, 2024 22:26:03 GMT suze said:

How this came into my head for the first time for almost forty years I have no clue, but it doesn't seem to want to leave.

I had a similar experience when this intruded into my brain after never having thought about it since it charted. 
Fortunately, when I make a call on my mobile, it makes a little sound before it connects that sounds just like the flourish at the start of the Intermezzo of Kodaly's Háry János suite, and that pushes out anything else, and with  a nice use of the rare instrument, the cimbalom (a kind of dulcimer).

[crissdee]

This, since listening to it yesterday

www.youtube.com/watch?v=46gRoPQ8i9A

Someone commented that it was originally about Thatcher. I can see how it could be, but see no particular proof either way....

[efros]

"Speaking to the Evening Times in 1989, MacColl said of the song: "It's really about greed. But it's all part of the great divide between North and South. This Government has probably done more than any other to worsen it." She added in an interview with New Musical Express: "'Free World' is very direct and simple; hopefully it'll make people think a bit. The subject matter is Thatcherite Britain – you know, grab whatever you can and sod the little guy. That's a fashionable way of looking at things, and I don't agree with it."[4]"

From wiki

[crissdee]

Fair enough, it's like "Daniel" by Elton John. He says it is about a young boy whose brother is serving in Vietnam, but their mother has told him he is going to Spain to stop him worrying. If that's what he says, then fair enough, but I don't see it in the lyrics..

[tetsabb]

I have just come round from a migraine with my head full of a song that mentions getting caught in the rain, and making love at midnight on the dunes of the cape.
Sorry.
I have no idea where that came from.

[crissdee]

My earworm is now this;

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A9Y1Dq_cQ

Could be a lot worse....

[crissdee]

Thanks to my intent to learn the words and commit them to memory, the song mentioned above is firmly lodged in my brain, having sung it, either in my head or out loud in the privacy of my home* about a hundred times...


*I would not seek to inflict my "singing" voice on others unless we were all quite drunk...

[jenny]

My husband looking at something or other today said "What a picture!" and immediately I went into a rendition of "Flash bank wallop" from Half A Sixpence, which came out somewhere around 1962 I think. I'd forgotten large parts of the words, but I nailed the chorus.

[efros]

Yet another musical I was dragged kicking and screaming to by my Mum. I think my taste in films was seriously impacted by the dross I was forced to witness as a kid.

[RLDavies]

Woke up with the theme song of "Fun in Balloonland" going through my head. No idea why. I've been watching the Rifftrax version every few days, so I guess I'm saturated with it.

It's the very first offering in this compilation. Lasts about an hour, complete insanity.

[jenny]

I listened to a James Taylor CD in the car while driving back from my meeting an hour away from home on Saturday, and I've had this track earwormed ever since.

[emily]

Five for fighting 100 years

It's a good song, but if you listen to it like really listen... it's about the fact that no one really lives forever

Sad.... I wanna be emortal lol

(I don't, I just don't wanna die)

[crissdee]

I've seen several things on YT recently about being immortal, and every time I have commented that immortality seems like pure, unadulterated h*ll to me! Even if it was the kind of immortality where I got to about 30 and never got any older,and remained in perfect health with a similarly immortal SWSOIWLTB to keep me company for all eternity,with riches enough to keep us in luxury, I think I would very soon get bored of just....living. I think we discussed this in the previous forum, but after 120,000 meals (which is "only" 109 years) I'd just be fed up of eating.....anything really, and within 200 years, I would have seen everything in the world that might interest me, read enough books that no new ones were going to offer me anything I hadn't seen already, and generally turned into Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged without the same inclination to insult every living thing in the universe...

[suze]

While I have no wish to be immortal, I do appear to be developing that inclination of Mr Wowbagger's.

Perhaps I'm just becoming a Grumpy Old Woman ...

[jenny]

According to Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels, the immortality experienced by the Struldbruggs of Laputa was not a fate to be envied.

[Bondee]

youtu.be/Tj7-st1KOW4

[celebaelin]

The theme tune from Scooby Doo.

Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you?
We got some work to do now
Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you?
We need some help from you now
Come on Scooby Doo, I see you
Pretending you got a sliver
But you're not fooling me, 'cause I can see
The way you shake and shiver
You know we got a mystery to solve
So, Scooby Doo, be ready for your act
Don't hold back
And, Scooby Doo, if you come through
You're gonna have yourself a Scooby Snack
That's a fact
Scooby Dooby Doo, here are you
You're ready and you're willing
If we can count on you, Scooby Doo
I know we'll catch that villain

[tetsabb]

Tom Lehrer 's Alma
Someone has written an opera about her. 

[suze]

I don't think the Fun Lovin' Criminals can have graced my speakers for twenty or so years.  That they are doing so right now is largely Celebaelin's fault!

Quentin Tarantino gets part of the writer credit, doncha know.

[jenny]

I haven't heard this song for years so heaven only knows why it has been rambling round my head today. You could say it was on my mind.

[Bondee]

I love playing video games. They're a lot of fun, but the music really lends itself to getting stuck in your head!

Bloody Nintendo and their "wak-a-doo" Mario theme.

[celebaelin]

Oct 17, 2024 17:12:51 GMT suze said:

I don't think the Fun Lovin' Criminals can have graced my speakers for twenty or so years.  That they are doing so right now is largely Celebaelin's fault!

Quentin Tarantino gets part of the writer credit, doncha know.

I've been blamed for worse.