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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Drifting Star
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Today I have 'It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas' seguing into a strange mixture of 'The Impossible Dream' and the Thunderbirds theme tune.
I'm not sure I can survive this with (what's left of) my sanity intact.
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Burgess Shale
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Kids with Guns, by Gorillaz.
This is my first post in about seven years, by the way. No, really.
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Burgess Shale
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Ta muchly!
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote: Originally posted by Burgess Shale: Kids with Guns, by Gorillaz.
This is my first post in about seven years, by the way. No, really.
Great name, and kickass song.
Argh. Now I got it.
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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An addict is born.
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Piglet
Islander
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Courtesy of A Certain Host in All Saints, I've got the theme from Dr. Finlay's Casebook running through my head.
Thank you very much Wodders ...
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art dunce
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Connie Evingson "Si Tu Savais".
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Meg the Red
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I grew up singing "Little Boxes" and was delighted when I ran across this version a couple of days ago.
Was pleased.
Make. It. Stop.
. . . theresagreenoneannapinkoneannablueoneannayellowone.... [ 07. April 2012, 00:51: Message edited by: Meg the Red ]
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Hey! did you know that song was inspired by my home town?
And they really do look like little boxes. I hate Doelger homes.
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Meg the Red
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Kelly, that's really cool - I had always thought it referred to Levittown.
I wonder, though, how the lyrics need to be updated for the McMansion era: Great big boxes? Hulking boxes? Or as a once I heard an aging hippie call them, "mausoleums"?
At any rate, it would need to include a new verse about play groups, granite countertops and "man caves".
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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It's always good when a song of quality come around as an earworm. Today it's Up on the roof by the Drifters.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Where on Earth did I get the theme music from 633 Squadron? I haven't seen the movie for over 40 years!
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cattyish
Wuss in Boots
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Such a judge of blue and white and other kinds of pottery from early oriental down to modern terracotary...
G&S have a lot to answer for, especially the first act finale of Patience. Sixteen minutes of almost constant clashing words and varying time signatures. This earworm is affecting my brain!
Cattyish, chorus girl.
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The5thMary
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Ugh. Today's earworm is "Sweet Child of Mine" by Guns 'n' Roses. I actually like the music, especially Slash's guitar parts but the lyrics are dreadful. Who finds comfort in some girl's HAIR??!!
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The5thMary
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quote: Originally posted by Drifting Star: Today I have 'It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas' seguing into a strange mixture of 'The Impossible Dream' and the Thunderbirds theme tune.
I'm not sure I can survive this with (what's left of) my sanity intact.
Dear sweet Jesus! That DOES sound bad! My sympathies, sir, or madam!
-------------------- God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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art dunce
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Paddy your post reminded me of this: Sweet
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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"Give My Regards to Broadway". As sung by Ethel Merman. Erp.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote: Originally posted by art dunce: Paddy your post reminded me of this: Sweet
Oh My God!
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Memories of a song we used to sing in Primary School came flooding back today:
'At Easter time the lilies fair, And lovely flowers bloom everywhere, At Easter time, At Easter time, How glad the world at Easter time.'
I did look on Google to see if I could find the tune, so I could share this wonderful earworm with you all, but the only one they had was the wrong tune.
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The5thMary
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Gotyes: "Somebody That I Used To Know". Great, great, great song but it's been stuck in my head for TWO days!!!!
-------------------- God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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Mary LA
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Songs I sing in the shower and go on mindlessly humming all bloody Monday
Joan Osborne singing One of Us
What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us Just a stranger on the bus Tryin' to make his way home?
-------------------- “I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.” ― Muriel Spark
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote: Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture: Gotyes: "Somebody That I Used To Know". Great, great, great song but it's been stuck in my head for TWO days!!!!
(Sigh)
Gotyes looks like Truffaut.
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Today - with an inch of rain forecast, howling winds and skies that make you feel you're living under a Tupperware container - I can't dislodge Morecambe and Wise's 'Bring me sunshine'
Mrs. S, wondering if it's too late to take up hibernation?
-------------------- Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny. Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort 'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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"Ai Se Eu Te Pego"
For those unfamiliar.
I listen to a lot of Latino radio to keep up with my Spanish. This has been all over the airwaves for the past few months. I'd wondered what weird dialect it was. [ 25. April 2012, 21:46: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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infinite_monkey
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Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture: Gotyes: "Somebody That I Used To Know". Great, great, great song but it's been stuck in my head for TWO days!!!!
His stuff is infectious. I saw him in concert last Wednesday, and that little tinkling xylophone is still pattering itself out in my brain tonight. Dee dee, duh duh, duhduhdeeduhduh.... [ 26. April 2012, 04:44: Message edited by: infinite_monkey ]
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Yeah, his stuff is simple and produced with a light hand-- refreshing to hear nowadays.
And he looks like Truffaut, which makes him dreamy.
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Grits
Compassionate fundamentalist
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quote: Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture: Gotyes: "Somebody That I Used To Know". Great, great, great song but it's been stuck in my head for TWO days!!!!
Just watched the video last night, and I want it on my MP3 next. It is a great song. Just added "We Found Love" by Rianna -- very catchy song, but I don't like the video.
-------------------- Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and shut it when I've said enough. Amen.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Oh , I gotta thing about Rhianna, too. (And I love that song.) Which is weird because I am becoming more and more "done" with club music, but Rhianna keeps sliding under the wire for me.
"Hopeless Place" is so aggressively clubby it winds up being impeccable.
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Grits
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It must be that hint of electronica that sucks us in, Kelly.
-------------------- Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and shut it when I've said enough. Amen.
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PD
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For some reason I was fighting a loosing battle with Wotan's monologue from Act II of Die Walkure this afternoon. This is interesting on two counts.
1. I have not heard it in a couple of years
2. It isn't usual earworm Wagner - the overtures to Rienzi, Tannhauser or Die Meistersinger are far more likely to get in my mental tape,
The oddest earworm I had recently was the finale of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 - but that's kind of heavenly, so I did not mind.
PD
P.S. No fecking Bolero since the last time I grumbled about it [ 26. April 2012, 06:56: Message edited by: PD ]
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Sir Kevin
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The convention centre was playing something with nonsense lyrics by Lady Gaga over the PA system: it was almost tolerable until an idiot male colleague did his own reprise! Please, city and production companies - play vintage and good rock and roll or be silent!
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Adeodatus
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I listened to Brahms's Haydn Variations yesterday.
Yep. Still in my head. Going round and round and round and ...
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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quote: Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S: ...I can't dislodge Morecambe and Wise's 'Bring me sunshine'
Mrs. S, wondering if it's too late to take up hibernation?
Oddly enough, they are coming up on the radio just when I originally wrote this!
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welsh dragon
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Which coloured house are we going to - for much of today.
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welsh dragon
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Can you see all the different coloured houses/ sitting by the sea
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art dunce
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Sisters of Mercy Leonard Cohen
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Due completely to the fault of our head chorister: Leap up and down wave your knickers in the air, and the spitting image chicken song. Trouble is I've now got them intertwined in my brain. One minute it's 'Leap up and down wave a chicken in the air' and the next minute it's 'Hold your knickers in the air, stick a deckchair up your nose', neither of which are conducive to serious thought.
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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quote: Originally posted by Chorister: Due completely to the fault of our head chorister: Leap up and down wave your knickers in the air, and the spitting image chicken song. Trouble is I've now got them intertwined in my brain. One minute it's 'Leap up and down wave a chicken in the air' and the next minute it's 'Hold your knickers in the air, stick a deckchair up your nose', neither of which are conducive to serious thought.
OK, now we know what you're doing - but what's your earworm?
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Alex Cockell
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quote: Originally posted by Sir Kevin: The convention centre was playing something with nonsense lyrics by Lady Gaga over the PA system: it was almost tolerable until an idiot male colleague did his own reprise! Please, city and production companies - play vintage and good rock and roll or be silent!
Hmmm - probably Bad Romance. And that one's been overdone by bad X Factor contestants - as evidenced here.
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The5thMary
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I've got TWO ear worms alternating through my brain. One is "Zooropa" by U2 which is quite a cool tune and I don't mind it so much. The other, however... "Kung Fu Fighting" by ? Stupid song and it needs to be replaced with something better. "Everybody was kung fu fighting!"
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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"Them kids was fast as lighting..." Carl Douglas, hun, and I'm sorry but it's a COOL song. I always picture Sandra Oh singing it while she mops the floor in "Double Happiness." Nice voice, she has.
But here's something to purge it with.
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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It is, as far as I am aware, the end of April - this impression is confirmed by both Ship-time and my mobile phone network.
Why then do I have The First Nowell... going round my brain?
...and am I early or late?
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Noteven
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My brain is stuck on a lovely ode to the foot-pound.
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BessLane
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Trailor Choir's "Rockin' the Beer Gut".
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