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Group Writing 20190604: Désirée
“…Then came the Fourth of June
On that sleepless night,
Well, I tossed and I turned
While the thought of her burned
Up and down my mind…”
I almost always have a soundtrack going in my head. Anything can trigger a new song. Even a pattern of syllables can pop something into my head that has a matching rhythm. Or, songs can morph from one into the next in ways that make perfect sense to me, but nobody else.
“How did you get from that song to this one?” my wife will ask incredulously.
“Can’t you feel how related they are?” I ask, knowing that she cannot. Maybe it’s a form of synesthesia on my part. Maybe it’s just the way my brain arranges things. It is certainly true that I have multiple types of song triggers. Almost anything can set one off.
I was thinking about this since two recent dates set off songs, and I know another is coming soon.
The first date was the 24th of May, Queen Victoria’s birthday. In Canada, it’s a holiday, although now it wanders as many of our holidays wander to Mondays. That date always triggers off Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers “The Pits” in my head.
Then there was the 3rd and 4th of June, which triggered an old Neil Diamond song, “Désirée.”
And then we have the Fourth of July coming up soon. You think that would trigger off all sorts of patriotic songs? No, this is what pops out:
Do you have a constant playlist running in your head? What are your song triggers? Do particular dates pull up song associations for any reason?
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Yes.
Can’t say. For instance one time I woke with “Radar Love” playing in my head, despite to the best of my knowledge not having known it before.
Sometimes, although I don’t have an example at the moment.
I’m rather fond of Canadian Bush Party :
Okay. It’s one thing to have certain songs play in your head. Can’t help that. But being fond of that one? 😲
Of the three Desiree’s I can think of off the top of my head; two are smoking hot. That is all…
Not sure if Internet Law should be invoked here.
Pics, or it ain’t so.
Maybe in the PIT…
That was the one.
Do you have a constant playlist running in your head? What are your song triggers? Do particular dates pull up song associations for any reason?
No, nothing at all. Why do you ask?
But then…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fAQhSRLQnM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnhXHvRoUd0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D2yqgQ1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo1OwRTRKRk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaxAZYQB44o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kijpcUv-b8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seZMOTGCDag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeMvMNpvB5M
Okay I’ll stop. But the playlist doesn’t.
I know about that. I really do.
Best Split Comment of the Week. Only. Of the Year. No, maybe Ever.
I would have thought it would trigger the Kinks’
Songs come to mind as rejoinders or comments on the moment, as I’ve shown over my time with Ricochet. Speaking of music, perhaps someone will write about hot jazz, or “Le Jazz Hot!”
This is an entry in June’s theme series: Hot Stuff!” We have a lot of open days as the summer season starts. Please stop by and sign up to share your own angle on the topic, however loosely construed.
Well, since you mentioned it, your profile pic triggered Janet Jackson’s Black Cat the other day which led to Black Velvet which led to one of my all time fave black rocker chicks…
Nutbush City Limits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Z0SsFHMwk
Better Be Good to Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyU7BbQSm98
Simply The Best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC5E8ie2pdM
61-year-old legs shakin’ and bakin’ it right here…wow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2T5_seDNZE
Made some otherwise boring tasks fun crankin’ it up and listening to lady rockers that day.
Baker Street I always recognize from the distinctive sax solo in the intro around the 0.25′ mark.
Can’t recall the guy’s name but I once saw a musical comedy routine based on the performer’s inability NOT to slide from one song to the next. And lots of songs wound up being We Three Kings. Very clever.
The term “rush hour” brings up a pop song of the 60’s by the Sole Survivors but if it’s ok I won’t mention which song it is because it just got triggered again, and so I am trying to forget it now, once again, before I absent-mindedly hum a bar or two and then my wife will be singing it for a few days, too.
One of my favorite songs.
This should help get that “Express Train to Your Heart” out of my mind. The Limited Liability Partnership both like this song quite a bit, even after one hearing. I’m the much less honky-tonk of the two of us. But a good tune and good lyrics cover many a twang, or however that saying goes. Take “I’ve Got Friends in Low Places”, for example. Heck, I think Brahms would have liked it.
Brahms was a bawdy house piano player. You bet he’d have liked it.
I have it on my list for Saturday Night Classics.
Here at Earworms R Us, the running playlist does not have to involve “liking.” I woke u this morning trying to get Billy Joel’s “Only the Good Die Young” to stop. No idea where that came from.
There are only two cures for an earworm:
One day I woke up with a Tom Petty song playing as an ear worm. About 20 minutes later, I realized that one Petty hit had been replaced by another. The whole day went on that way, with one of his songs following another. It was almost enjoyable, as no ear worm took me over for more than 20 minutes.
When I finally got around to plugging in the laptop, I found out that Tom Petty had died.
Who knows what Roger was thinking when he penned this spoof on two separate cultural entities:
Jimmy Page liked the guitar work on the above.
Probably something like this:
An interesting fact about the opening of Gilligan’s Island was that in the old black and white Hawai’i footage, you’ll see the flag at half-staff. It was filmed in late November in 1963.
Just came across this version of getting Rickrolled: