What song is on your brain...right now?

[Bill]

A 'companion' thread to What song are you listening to...right now? Many of us don't listen to music much in the day, yet there is always music going on in our heads. I sometimes have three or four competing for attention, usually without knowing why. Sometimes there's the more logical explanation that I heard the song recently.

So this afternoon I've had David Gray's Babylon in my head (as a result of seeing a glimpse of him on This Morning). I like the song, but not him.

This took over from the folk song Blooming Heather which I saw performed on BBC4's show from The Cambridge Folk Festival the other day, and which had been with me for a couple of days.

I also have a repertoire of songs that regularly run around my head, and stick around for several days. I only have to think of the song, or a word in the song, let alone hear it, for it to hang around for ages as an unwelcome guest (even if I like the song). Someone recently dubbed these songs worms. I can think of two examples immediately: Oh Diane by Fleetwood Mac, and New Amsterdam by Elvis Costello. There are many more, but I try not to think of them.

[Hazel]

Usually the last song I hear on the radio or my iPod of a morning stays in my head for the rest of the day. Today it was Set This Day Apart by Hipsway.

[megustaleer]

the folk song Blloming Heather D*mn you Bill!Someone recently dubbed these songs worms I know them as Ear worms.

I used to find myself permanently possessed by ear worms when I was working with the old folks. For some reason nearly all of them had names that reminded me of songs from my childhood
Lily of Laguna
Rose of Tralee
Champagne Charlie
Burlington Bertie
etc.
:rolleyes:

[Bill]

I know them as Ear worms.

Oh yes, that's it.

Have I transferred Blooming (sic) Heather to you now, meg? There are worse songs...

[My Friend Jack]

Hey, Bill, what a great idea for a thread! I always have a song or two bobbing around in my mind, and whenever I have to change my password at work, I always use one of them as the basis - a combination of the artist and year. Last one I had was Drifters60.

When I get up in the morning, I nearly always have a football-related song lurking in my head - We Are The Champions (a record I don't particularly like, but it became an anthem about 18 months ago!), or a variation on Go West. Bob The Builder is often skulling around in my head as well!

Right now, I'm listening to some real music, which gets addressed elsewhere, but I will be back on this thread tomorrow!

[brightphoebus]

D*mn you Bill! I know them as Ear worms.

:rolleyes:Whenever I get one of these, and they always seem to be songs I don't particularly like, the only way I can get rid of them is to substitute my own favourite earworm - Billy Bragg's Between The Wars. I can call it up and get it to knock out the unwelcome earworm. There is sometimes a bit of a struggle but Billy always wins in the end :)

[Bill]

Whenever I get one of these, and they always seem to be songs I don't particularly like, the only way I can get rid of them is to substitute my own favourite earworm - Billy Bragg's Between The Wars. I can call it up and get it to knock out the unwelcome earworm. There is sometimes a bit of a struggle but Billy always wins in the end :)

One of my earworms is Billy Bragg's Sexuality - which has now taken over as the song on my brain...right now! I have to sing it doing a very exaggerrated BB impression: "I've relay-shuns with gurls of many nay-shuns / I've made par-sis at wimmin of all clar-sis".

[Minxminnie]

Set This Day Apart by Hipsway.

Hipsway!! One of the great Scottish bands of my era. I knew the drummer's mum.
I bought their album on CD a while back, and I still love to hear it.

[brightphoebus]

I have to sing it doing a very exaggerrated BB impression: "I've relay-shuns with gurls of many nay-shuns / I've made par-sis at wimmin of all clar-sis".:lmao: :lmao:

[Bill]

There's A River - Steve Winwood. Lord knows why.

[David]

'Jingle Bell Rock' has been running through my mind on and off for the past few days after Hazel mentioned it on the Christmas songs thread.

Ta Haze. :rolleyes:

[Miss Bee]

I have Big Girl by Mika spinning around in my head. It was on the radio this morning and it hasn't budged from my mind all day. I swear that I know the words of by heart now.

[Seraphina]

i've had the sugababes song, I'm not sure what it's called but the one that goes 'but I know how I feel about you now' in my head for about 3 weeks....and I HATE it!! :mad:

[Hazel]

Hipsway!! One of the great Scottish bands of my era. I knew the drummer's mum.
I bought their album on CD a while back, and I still love to hear it.

I wish I had put money on you picking this up MM! How good were they? I also have the Love and Money album on my iPod.

[Hazel]

'Jingle Bell Rock' has been running through my mind on and off for the past few days after Hazel mentioned it on the Christmas songs thread.

Ta Haze. :rolleyes:

Welcome David. :D At least you'll be feeling all Christmassy now.

[Minxminnie]

I also have the Love and Money album on my iPod.

Oh, yes, I love them too. James Grant is still good - I saw him do a free gig at Glasgow Green a while back, and it was so good.

What I hjave ruinning through my head ... all the maddeningly catchy songs that you folk keep mentioning! It's weird how a song will pop back into my head during the day - often the one that woke me up on the radio alarm.

[Flingo]

I was playing in a concert tonight - and I can guarantee that my ear worms until the weekend will be most of the programme.

I won't be able to listen to my current audio book in the car until they have eased - otherwise I'll be driving along and suddenly burst out in full voice with "Swing March" (by Henry Mancini), and have to sing the entire thing through resulting in missing at least a chapter of the book!

[Flingo]

I was playing in a concert tonight - and I can guarantee that my ear worms until the weekend will be most of the programme.
I mentioned in the "What Are You Listening to" thread that "Lady Madonna" by the Beatles is on of the items, I've just realised how apt it is with the line:

Lady Madonna lying on the bed
Listen to the music playing in your head

I am, I tell you, I am! Now get out of it!!!

[FirelightSpirit]

I frequently wake up with a song playing in my head - I have no idea why. One that's been hanging around since watching SCD last Saturday is Lee Meade singing Paint it Black, but I don't mind because I like the way he sings it.

[Bill]

I've woken up with The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve on the brain - an ear worm if ever there was one.

This was on my brain last thing last night. I always find it odd when, as soon as I wake up, I have the same song on the brain as when I went to sleep. I think I read somewhere that that means it's been playing in my brain on a low level in the background while I've been asleep.

[megustaleer]

You're So Vain - Started off by thinking about Strictly Come Dancing, and Brendan Cole's pink shoes :rolleyes:

[lipstick_librarian]

Rock and Roll by the Velvet Underground - it's one of those that crops up as an earworm fairly regularly. Yesterday it was the riff from Black Dog by Led Zep. I tend to have a different one every day depending on what mood I'm in. Today, I'm evidently in a chilled-out sort of humour :hippy:

Hazel and MinxMinnie - I remember Hipsway too. I had their first (I think..) album but it's been lost in all my moves and clearouts :(

[Lady Lazarus]

My earworm at the moment is 'My Doorbell' by the White Stripes, I cant stop singing it!

[My Friend Jack]

In keeping with my comment yesterday about football related songs when I get up, I had "Give Us A Goal" in my head as I was getting the boys their Coco Shreddies this morning.

Right now, I've got a riff that I don't recognise, but as it's only got 13 notes, I'm getting a bit tired of it!

[Bill]

Last Train To London - ELO

The only possible reason I can think of us is that I have a friend coming to see us tonight, who'll be travelling from London Waterloo. If he stays till 10, he will indeed travel on the last train to London.

[My Friend Jack]

You know how, when you have a song in your head which reminds you of another song? Well, I currently have a medley of Eric Burdon & The Animals' San Franciscan Nights and the Nashville Teens' Tobacco Road.

[Revony]

Haha...I had a song called Chillin' at the Grotto stuck in ym head on the bus home today. The only reason I can think of is because of a Christmas Concert which is coming up at college.
I just find it slightly humerous when songs that I haven't heard in an age suddenly turn up in my head heehee
it's so strange but i love it!

Welcome to the Dynasty's Lounge,
In this Lab we be creating new sounds,
People gather round
*bu-dum-dum-tshhhh
We're Chillin' at the Grotto!

haha I love it! ;)

[MarkC]

Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry has been going round in my head for the last few days, since I caught it on a repeat of TOTP2 on a satellite channel. I can't listen to it as I don't own a copy - I suspect my parents must though as I found I know most of the lyrics!

[Jeremy DEagle]

It aint me babe by Johnny Cash. I love Johnny Cash.

[My Friend Jack]

First thing this morning, it was, "You're Not Fit To Wear The Shirt." Can't think why...

[atom-girl]

Gomez - Get Myself Arrested :cool:

[Bill]

The Battle Of Evermore - Led Zeppelin

I listened to Remasters Vol 1 a couple of days ago. Am I right in assuming this new compilation by Jimmy Page is a remaster of the remasters?

[My Friend Jack]

Probably, Bill! At the risk of (briefly) wandering off-topic, Led Zep have 2 entries in this week's UK singles charts - Stairway To Heaven is at 37, and Whole Lotta Love is somewhere in the 60s.

[lipstick_librarian]

I'll Never Fall In Love Again. Not sure from whence that one sprang!

[Bill]

I'll Never Fall In Love Again. Not sure from whence that one sprang!

Could it be from this:

Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry

since Bobbie Gentry sang both?

You know how, when you have a song in your head which reminds you of another song? Well, I currently have a medley of Eric Burdon & The Animals' San Franciscan Nights and the Nashville Teens' Tobacco Road.

Yes, I have a few of those. I've been watching a few episodes of Seinfeld in the early hours while feeding Dylan, and the theme tune has a riff that always puts Bobby Brown's My Prerogative. So I often go around with that on my brain as a result.

[Miriam]

Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones.

Probably as a result of the Please Introduce Yourself thread further up.

[Bill]

I wrote the post above, then turned on the radio, only to hear Oliver Sacks talking about earworms with Simon Mayo. Spooky!

[lipstick_librarian]

since Bobbie Gentry sang both?


Well, I didn't know that - not consciously anyway...

[My Friend Jack]

Days by the Kinks. Just had an email from someone whose surname is Dayes.

[Bill]

No More I Love Yous - Annie Lennox. She's on The South Bank Show, I'm given to understand.

[Radders]

When The Saints Go Marching In :eek:

(Who knows why or where it came from but it's been in my head since I woke up this morning :confused:)

[My Friend Jack]

Crazy - Aerosmith

[David]

Oompah-Pah from Oliver!

No, I don't know either.

[megustaleer]

Escape Me Never from the musical Robert And Elizabeth, put into my head when I read the Poetry Chain, and saw mac's contribution of yesterday afternoon.

[Hazel]

I woke up this morning singing Elton John's Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word...and now I can't get the damn thing out of my head. I bloomin' hate that song...and Elton John.

[Momo]

Just was in another thread: Everything I do (I do it for you) - Bryan Adams

[lipstick_librarian]

The theme tune from Family Guy has been going round and round in my head all morning. We have a year 7 pupil who looks, sounds and behaves like Stewie and he sets me off every time. :D

[David]

Keep getting 'Mr Bojangles' running through my head this morning. Don't know where that came from...

[Hazel]

Keep getting 'Mr Bojangles' running through my head this morning. Don't know where that came from...

I hope it's the Sinatra version and NOT Robbie Williams...

[David]

I hope it's the Sinatra version and NOT Robbie Williams...
Sammy Davis Jr actually...

[Grammath]

"The Heinrich Maneuver" by Interpol, after having seen them turn in a magnificent performance at Alexandra Palace last night.

[Hazel]

"The Heinrich Maneuver" by Interpol, after having seen them turn in a magnificent performance at Alexandra Palace last night.

Hubby and I went to see U2's Elevation tour a while back and Interpol were the support act. He actually enjoyed them more than U2 and has been an avid fan ever since.

[Grammath]

Quite right too. One of the best bands around. I'd also like to know who their tailor is. They are the most sharply dressed band in rock.

[Phoebus]

The Birdie Song !!

[Flingo]

The chorus from "Let's Start a Band" - Amy MacDonald. I'm really glad it's not one of the cringe-worthy tracks (well in my opinion, anyway!)

[Hazel]

Everybody's Got To Love Today - Mika (the last song on my iPod on this morning's run - it'll probably stay in my head for the forseeable future!).

[Radders]

Mirror in the Bathroom - The Beat

This is due to watching the Bond film "Live and Let Die" where Roger Moore just sad to someone, "There's a mirror in the bathroom" :cool:

[My Friend Jack]

Step Into Christmas - Elton John

[Radders]

Time of Your Life by Green Day having just read the latest posts in the Song Chain thread

[Bill]

When I listen to an album I know very well, I find that in the days afterwards various tracks are on my brain in rotation. I listened to the highly underrated Catatonia's album International Velvet in the car the other day, and have had Road Rage, Johnny Come Lately, Why I Can't Stand One Night Stands, I Am The Mob, My Selfish Gene, Goldfish and Paracetamol and Strange Glue going round on a loop ever since.

[vald]

You're the Best Thing by Paul Weller. Just listened to his greatest hits album after listening to him on Desert Island Discs.

[My Friend Jack]

Shanghai'd in Shanghai - Nazareth

[Krey20]

A bit random but....

Escape Artists Never Die - Funeral for a Friend.

[MarkC]

Dreams by the Cranberries. Probably because the OU adverts on the Beeb are using it at the moment as are DFS on ITV to sell sofas.

Another "I bought the album for one song" purchase, I have several of those :o .

[megustaleer]

Ever since I got up yesterday morning - The Foggy Foggy Dew :rolleyes:

[Bill]

Dreams by the Cranberries.

I never tire of hearing that song.

You're The Top by Cole Porter, because the phrase came up in conversation.

[Jen]

"Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"

Except it's not snowing, is it? Just a bit damp and mild.

[My Friend Jack]

Hello Goodbye - The Beatles. I played the original and the Anthology versions at the same time yesterday and was quite surprised that they kept perfect time with each other. I assume both were based on the same rhythm track. As I started them about a quarter of a second apart, the effect on the drums and vocals was quite pleasing!

[Slowreader]

I've had most of the songs from The Wedding Present's 'Take Fountain' album bashing away in my bonce for a few weeks now. Right now my brain's playing 'It's For You'.

[Flingo]

Fascinating Rhythm as mentioned by someone, Grammath?, in the Song Chain...

[jfp]

Dr Hook, A Little Bit More - surely one of the simplest and sexiest love-songs ever.
You can take your choice between this camp Brokeback Mountain-y version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGndjgIgc0

or else something more soulful and Sylvia's Mother-y...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AoN0uJvw_8&feature=related

Can anyone tell me which recording is the original? They both sound so very familiar...

EDIT I now reckon the camp version features the original recording.

At any rate it's certainly not this Double Dutch one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0euJ51_3-3o&feature=related

('en you tink I love you...)

[jfp]

Herb Alpert, Rise

And this cool video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ennMD1fPtXA)

[megustaleer]

The Star Spangled Banner :yikes:

[Colin Phillips]

Paul Young.............."Wherever I lay my hat"

[My Friend Jack]

I Know A Place - Petula Clark

[Hazel]

Sugbabe - Everything Changes...it was on the radio in nursery.

[Boris the Cat]

Can I Play With Madness - Iron Maiden

(tagesmann got me banging my head...)

Thanks Hazel, that was stuck in my head all day yesterday after reading your comment!

[Red Fox]

Rose - A Perfect Circle.

[vald]

The Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute...my sister has just been telling me about going to see a performance from a South African group in London yesterday.

[Royal Rother]

Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

[Miriam]

I'd Do Anything

And it's not going to be going away soon (www.bbc.co.uk/oliver)

[Boris the Cat]

Let's Dance to Joy Division by The Wombats has been on the collective brain of most of this household for a couple of days, you can't go anywhere in the house without hearing one or another of us singing a snatch of it!

[megustaleer]

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh kookaburra, laugh kookaburra
Gay your life must be.

Thanks a bundle, nonsuch :rolleyes:

[Bill]

My Brother Jake by Free.

I heard it on the radio a couple of days ago, and it's been lodged in my brain ever since.

[Boris the Cat]

Instant Karma by John Lennon. Mainly these lines for some reason: "Well we all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun".

[Ian]

"Leaving on a jet plane" - whatever it's really called

[Radders]

Having just posted in the "Song Chain" thread I now have "In The Morning" by Razorlight in my head.

[lucyb]

"Leaving on a jet plane" - whatever it's really called

Well, it was 'Forever Autumn' as I'd just been listening to Jeff Wayne's musical version of War of the Worlds but now its 'Leaving on a Jet Plane'. And I only know two lines of it. They're taking it in turns going through my head again and again...

[Revony]

Damn! haha!

I've got it stuck in my head too now!

(I blame Armageddon ;) )

[Hazel]

Don't Stop Me Now by Queen - the boys are listening to their new CD, and this one has got stuck in my head. Helping me though, as I decided to gut out their bedrooms today and this song is pushing me through it!

[deeds99]

panic at the disco - nine in the afternoon

[megustaleer]

Miss Lucy Had A Baby (http://www.songsforteaching.com/folk/misslucyhadababy.htm) - which ear worm starts wriggling every time I read a post by Alligator Purse.

Thanks a bunch AP ;)

[Royal Rother]

It Covers the Hillsides - Midlake

[nospacesallowed]

Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves.

A sub teacher at my school left K&TW 2 weeks before that song was released. hehe, gutted.

[Ian]

We Are Family - Sister Sledge

No idea why

[lucyb]

Irish Heartbeat - I think it's by Van Morrison but in my head Billy Connolly is singing it.

[Cootisms]

The frigging annoying "Bop to the Top" song from High School Musical that I had the misfortune/stupidity to watch the other day! Gaaah, but I only have myself to blame, right?

[Hazel]

The frigging annoying "Bop to the Top" song from High School Musical that I had the misfortune/stupidity to watch the other day! Gaaah, but I only have myself to blame, right?:D Yup. That is one kids' film that has completely passed me by, maybe if I had girls then I would have seen it by now. It's their Grease, isn't it?

[Ian]

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Police (is that what it's called)

[tonya1uk]

David Cook's version of Billie Jean.

Love his voice.

[megustaleer]

I Am A Mole And I Live In A Hole (http://tinyurl.com/66gafd) - long story :rolleyes:

[Hazel]

I Am A Mole And I Live In A Hole (http://tinyurl.com/66gafd) - long story :rolleyes::D Family visiting?

I have Donna Lewis's I Love You Always Forever in my head, it's been there since I woke up, so I have just downloaded it.

[nospacesallowed]

Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins

[Stewart]

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow :confused:

I seem to have sung myself into a Christmas Corner.

[Hazel]

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow :confused:

I seem to have sung myself into a Christmas Corner.Awww, come round to my door come Xmas, and I'll put some money in your stocking.

[Stewart]

Awww, come round to my door come Xmas, and I'll put some money in your stocking.I'll be singing Viva Espana! by then.

[My Friend Jack]

All day long - "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock

[Momo]

Still love that song!

[megustaleer]

I's The B'y (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_the_By)

[webmagnate]

At the Beginning (theme song from the Disney movie Anastasia) :D

[My Friend Jack]

Christmas Time - The Darkness

[My Friend Jack]

Betty Grable by Neil Sedaka.

[Radders]

The State of Things - Reverend and the Makers

[Momo]

Just heard it on the radio "Hallelujah" by Alexandra Burke

[Royal Rother]

Crane Wife Part 2 - The Decemberists

At the Beginning (theme song from the Disney movie Anastasia) :D
Not a Disney one.

[My Friend Jack]

Senses Working Overtime - XTC (having seen a reference to it on another thread)

[lucyb]

Metallica - Fade to Black.

[Radders]

Think - Aretha Franklin (and I've no idea why :rolleyes:)

[My Friend Jack]

Hold Me Tight - The Beatles

[Squirls]

Hunk of Burning Love - Elvis Presley

[blithe_spirit]

I Believe - Art Garfunkel

[transparency]

Defeater - Forgiver, Forgetter (http://www.myspace.com/defeater)

Boston Hardcore band, their debut album is a Civil War Concept album of a guy who's family is torn apart by the war. Great band if you are into heavier music.

[Momo]

Michael Bublé - Home

[Squirls]

Pump It - Black Eyed Peas

[jfp]

Manhattan Transfer, A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNHDKxjZBiQ)

Magical.

[Hilary]

The song in my head right now is Truly Scrumptious as I've just been watching the Grand Prix! ;)

[Hilary]

My middle son was talking today about his friend Jamie who had lent him a torch. People of my sort of age might know what song I have been singing ever since...

'Jamie, Jamie, Jamie and his magic torch!'


:rolleyes:

[snickers]

118-24-7 give em a call its directory heaven.i have to listen to banal radio day in and day out in my place of work.if you want a curry thats there in a hurry etc....i need help!!! :(

[jfp]

I'm listening to When The Pawn by Fiona Apple. Nobody else I know has ever heard of her, except the friend who introduced me to her. She's phenomenal.

[Star]

I have just got into 'Kasabian' and 'The Enemy' and currently I'm listening to their songs all the time - particularly 'Cutt Off' and 'Away From Here' respectively.

(...but in my head, I'm thinking "We're the right side, We're the right side, We're the right side of the stand...").

[Hazel]

I'm listening to When The Pawn by Fiona Apple. Nobody else I know has ever heard of her, except the friend who introduced me to her. She's phenomenal.I quite liked her song What If God Were One Of Us...but then I never really heard much from her after that.

[Grammath]

Thanks to the new series of Family Guy that started airing on Sunday on BBC3, I have had "Surfin' Bird" by The Trashmen rattling around in my head for large parts of this week.

"Bird, bird, bird, bird is the word...!"

[lipstick_librarian]

Goodness knows why, but I can't stop humming Hot in the City by (I think) Billy Idol. Where on earth did that come from?

[Squirls]

"Bird, bird, bird, bird is the word...!"
My son keeps singing this one. It's the latest craze song at school.

[solace91z]

I quite liked her song What If God Were One Of Us...but then I never really heard much from her after that.

Wasn't that by Joan Osborne?? I have the first two Fiona Apple albums, great stuff.

[donnae]

I quite liked her song What If God Were One Of Us...but then I never really heard much from her after that.

I am picturing Mike Myers singing this in an Austin Powers film.....


Currently in my head - Firestarter by the Prodigy.

[My Friend Jack]

Hypnosis by Mud.

[Bree]

She's Electric- Oasis.

[Squirls]

Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance - went to a belated St. George's Day concert yesterday evening.

[Elfstar]

T-shirt Shontelle

[Royal Rother]

Them Heavy People - Kate Bush

[cobboldblue]

Maybe Tomorrow by The Stereophonics. Given the state of the world at the moment i always find that this is always swimming around in my brain somewhere at the moment. Listen to the lyrics and you'll see why probably. I also love playing this on my Stratocaster as it just sounds wicked!! :cool:

[cobboldblue]

Them Heavy People - Kate Bush
Great song Royal Rother. I used to have a bit of crush on Kate Bush when i was growing up in the 80's (not sure why). She was and probably still is a great musician.