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"anything I want / he can get for me / anything I want / he gets it / BUT NOT FOR FREE!"

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"They're locking him up today/And throwing away the key/I wonder who it will be tomorrow, you or me?"

Been in my head for weeks now.

― hstencil, Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and

WHY?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

'Cos I listened to London Calling on my way to town and the handclaps did something to my thingy thing thing in my brane.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Why:

1. I dig the song.
2. I saw Love a couple weeks ago, and they played it.
3. I burned Forever Changes for some friends.
4. I live in George W. Bush's Amerikkka.

― hstencil, Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads - because it's on a free 80s CD with Metro Life/ Evening Standard today.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"Make bones feel better...through human engineering"!

― matt riedl (veal), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

'I don't do too much talking these days/ These days/ la la la whatever can't remember words of next bit but am humming the tune.

'These Days' as sung by Nico on Chelsea Girls in case you were wondering.

Why? I dunno. In the lift up the office just now I was singing the Brigitte Fontaine song that goes 'Brigitte, toujours au fond les cafes' or however it is, and somehow - somehow - am not sure why, this got me thinking about These Days by Nico.

No reason. Guess it's just one of those moody European chanteuse days for Mr Binturong. Go with it, I say.

― Mr Binturong, Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"you don't know me.....but i know you" from Audio Bullys 'Snow', cos its on (again) right now and i love the effect and accent on the vocal and the way its just isolated from the other lyric on the track

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Beyond the Staples Center you can see America,
with it's tired poor avenging disgrace.
Peaceful loving youth against the brutality
of plastic existence.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

"In life be considerate / in art the devils advocate" Momus

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm stealin', stealin'/pretty mama don't ya tell on me/I'm stealin' back to my same-old-used-to-be"
Been listening to the Memphis Jug Band on the When the Sun Goes Down compilation series, and backsliding after not smoking for two months.

― Horace Mann, Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Tell me about this comp., Horace. Does it have any Louisville jug bands on it, too? Memphis and Louisville both kinda originated the style...

― hstencil, Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

i gotta get away/cos females don't get along with other females

― minna (minna), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"when I leave now don't you weep for me....i'll be back just save a seat for me...."

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

because Love rules.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"I don't know where but she sends me there" ("Good Vibrations", The Beach Boys). It's also what I was listening to at the time, so there.

― Orange, Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"Don't stop, isn't it funny how you shine"

Because I saw the Stone Roses thread before so I've been thinking about that record and how much I like it.

This thread does make remind me about a thought I had the other day about how much 'random' head song appearances could tell us about memory, associations and brain connections. I often get songs popping into my head while walking around and it sometimes takes a moment to work out exactly why that particular song has cropped up. And usually that tells me something about what associations my brain has stored with a particular object/place/person etc.

An example would be the other day when I saw someone across the road who I momentarily mistook for a friend I used to work with. At the same time 'The Mighty Quinn' started playing on the old cranial hi-fi. Then I worked out that I was associating him with his girlfriend, who I also work with, and her suurname is Quinn. Pretty basic, really, but it does imply that I now think of him as part of a couple more than as an individual. And that one of the first characteristics I think of with her is her surname (because I would sometimes give it to people over the phone at work).

If I was to deconstruct each of my musical head moments then I'm sure a lot of them would end up being pretty simple and/or banal but you do get the odd interesting connection which tells you something new about how your brain is linking stuff up.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"Like the lion tears the flesh off of a man/So can a woman who passes herself off as a male/They sang "Danny Boy" at his funeral and the Lord's Prayer"

'Cos I been rinsing the 'Infidels' sessions bootlegs I've just been given and that couplet with the next line is just so fucking bizarre.

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Now "The Mighty Quinn" is in my head.

― hstencil, Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

the entire "the seed" song (cody chenuTT version)

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"girl I refuse, you must have me confused, with some other guy"

for some reason I've decided this is the best pop song of the year already.

― simon 803 (simon 803), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

It's an RCA Victor/Bluebird Jazz (aka BMG) 4 disc series, co-produced by Colin Escott, subtitled (a bit sensationalistically) "The Secret History of Rock & Roll"
The liner notes are discouragingly thin, a paragraph for each track. There's no specific Louisville Jug Band listed, and I don't have the discs with me (I actually only have the first 3). It's about 90% blues with sort of token hillbilly acts thrown in to complete the equation (Carter Fam., Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmy Davis doing "Red Nightgown Blues" a far cry from "Your Are My Sunshine").
I've been quite taken with the jug band cuts, and if you can point me down any alleys worth exploring, it would be appreeciated. Thanks.

― Horace Mann, Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

The line that is stuck in my head right now: "what line is stuck in my head right now?"

― Mattias Lovkvist (mattias), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"...as we drove straight into the centre of the sun."
from "Good Morning" by Eggstone. Goddamn beautiful song.

― Michael White, Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been quite taken with the jug band cuts, and if you can point me down any alleys worth exploring, it would be appreeciated. Thanks.

There are a couple tracks (including one by the Memphis Jug Band) on the Vol. 4 of the Anthology of American Folk Music that Revenant issued. I'm assuming there's some stuff on the regular Anthology, too (but I don't have it yet, dammit).

I don't think there was a "Louisville Jug Band" per se, but I know that at the same time it was going on in Memphis, it was going on there, too. From what I've read, the style may have originated in Louisville, but I've never seen anything definitive. I'm also not sure if any of the L'ville bands recorded anything.

Sorry for hijacking the thread.

― hstencil, Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i bought a monkey for sally/as wicked is the day is long

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"Adrift again 2000 man. You lost your maps, you lost your plans." He's Simple, He's Stupid, He's The Pilot - Grandaddy

Been taxed in the brain by this all week, it will not leave my waking thought. Help me, I need to be free of Beach Boys/Neil Young tinged psychedelia. If only for one night.

― Macattack (Macattack), Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"Oh, Danny Boy" (The Chumbawumba one)

..don't know why ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

.. and that was before I read Roger Fascist's post ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I GOTTA GET THRU THIS!!!

cuz i gotta

― gi66y, Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

"...kõik sada aastat üksindust on korraga siin koos..." (Vlad.Korzhets)

translates as:
'the hundred years of loneliness arrived have all at once'

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I will choose the path that's clear, I will choose free will!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

If you ain't chicken baby, come here, if you're good I'll even let you steer, as a matter of fact, you can jack me off.

― Paula G., Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Travels with a Donkey - Milky (Momus & Shazna) - I can't get the title track (a v. catchy Jane Birkin-esque song) out of me head.

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Llora! Llora!
Llora! Llora!

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Jez,

Who is Jane Birkin? The inventor of that German sandal?

― Paula G., Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Wendel was the man with a stick in his hands
Cause he learned to play in Kelvington S A S K HEY
You'll wish that you had died
When Wendel has your hide
Because its the Canadian Way (I Am Canadian)

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Jane Birken once held a big hippie music festival in Germany.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 9 January 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

from sesame st.

"he's a hero. he's a guy. he's a hero. he's a guy. he's a hero, he's bum-da-ta-dum hero guy!"

and here's what's about to be in my head...

http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman/

― msp, Thursday, 9 January 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

she's the girl all the bad guys want

Because the video came on television whislt I was eating, oh guess, soup. (Smoked haddock chowder to be exact)

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 9 January 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

But Bowling For Smoked Haddock Chowder pushes stupid band names just a bit too far.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 9 January 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"blame canada,
blame canada!"

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 9 January 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

"playin' with the queen of hearts"

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 9 January 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"what about all of the things that you said"

― robin (robin), Thursday, 9 January 2003 18:36 (twenty-three years ago)

"Those evil natured robots... oh Yoshiiiiiiimi [insert bad Anna warble here]"

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 9 January 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

"I ain't got, no Thanksgiving/I ain't got, no Thanksgiving/ain't got no food stamps, ain't got no food stamps..."

(Treme Brass Band)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 January 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

"shake your groove thing, shake your groove thing, yeah yeah..."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 9 January 2003 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

mehhh meeehh nananyahnyah wellanadukoff wellanadunkoff

(it's something on the Cocteau Twins' "The Pink Opaque"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 January 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

all the things she said all the things she said all the things she said

― dan (dan), Thursday, 9 January 2003 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

A white line.

― , Thursday, 9 January 2003 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

ONE MORRRRE TIMMMME. YEAH. I WANNNA CELEBRAAAAAAATE. ONE TIME. OOH.

― gi**y, Thursday, 9 January 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours / but I think that God's got a sick sense of humour."

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 9 January 2003 20:35 (twenty-three years ago)

"Do you wanna live forever, baby? -- FUCK YEAH!" That's such a cool line, isn't it? And the song is called "Kiss of the Octopus", ferchrissakes! Octopi are so fuckin' sweet, dude!

― Adam A. (Keiko), Thursday, 9 January 2003 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it was something from Spandau Ballet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 January 2003 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"The new york ki-ids" jingjingjingjingjingjingjing

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"I like to move it, move it. I like to move it, move it. I like to move it, move it. I like to - move it."

Enough already.

― jot eff pe, Friday, 10 January 2003 01:49 (twenty-three years ago)

road to nowhere should be stuck in your head, even if it wasn't on a free 80's comp.

reminds me of that fucked up david b quote, "some people say the highway is the modern cathedral....WASNT ME"

― mallory bourgeois (painter man), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

The first day I ever met you,
I was looking at the sky,
When the sun came all a blur,
And the thunder clouds drew by.
The sea began to shiver,
and the wind began to moan.
It must have been a sign for me
to leave you well alone.

(Black Sabbath, lyrics Ozzy)

― WilliamR (WilliamR), Friday, 10 January 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"There are women and children in boats on the sea, crying and dying like Jews / Do you like Tennis?"

― chris de burgh (chrissy), Friday, 10 January 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

this morning it was "Complicated", because I remembered I hadn't done any Focus Group write-ins and I meant to.

last night it was "Warning Sign" by Talking Heads, no idea why

― Jeff W, Friday, 10 January 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Funny stuff falls out of David Byrne's word-hole, fo' sho'!

Line stuck in head: "Because the shit they smell."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 January 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Cos all I got is a single bed / There ain't no room for your sweet head

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 10 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

"I was the boss of you and I loved you, you know I loved you / It's all over now."

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

'and indications that there's something wrong with our new house/drip down the wire twice daily'

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"i don't fuck gal if dey pum pum large", unfortunately

― Bloodclaart Gangsta Youth Club (don), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got the entire Azita LP (her second one I think) stuck in my head now.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the salty sea air brings a fine mist that we feel upon our skin - ed kuepper

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"..a statistical reminder of a world that doesn't care". UB40

― cream with that, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

now stop
OOOOHHHH
then wiggle with it
YEEAAHHH

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

WHEN YOU'RE TAKING EVERY KIND OF PILL
NOTHING EVER SEEMS TO CURE YOUR ILL

― Fook Lee (Matt P), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:05 (fourteen years ago)

yesterday: "live fast, die young bad girls do it well"
Today: "what's the matter with your life? Is the poverty bringing you down?"

― Moka, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

Quiet Storm blowing through my life....

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:32 (fourteen years ago)

Never half step cause I'm not a half stepper
Drink a lot of soda so they call me Dr. Pepper

― beachville, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:05 (fourteen years ago)

WOP'N FOR FREEDIA / WOP'N FOR FREEDIA...

― Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:19 (fourteen years ago)

YUH hmmm WOAH HAmmm
YUH HAmmm WOAH HAmmm

― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:23 (fourteen years ago)

which is weird, cuz i don't think i've heard the song in 25 years

― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:23 (fourteen years ago)

35 dollars and a six pack to my name!

― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:43 (fourteen years ago)

What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 19:41 (fourteen years ago)

i see the world old / i see the world dead

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 19:49 (fourteen years ago)

very glad this got revived.

"Everything is broken or stolen / carry my name as a token / call me baby / call me baby" from "Everything Is Broken Or Stolen" by Pinkunoizu

― caulk the wagon and float it, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:13 (fourteen years ago)

"Saw a man with eyes like saucers, caught up in a web of lies"

― Oxnard Cohen (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 05:09 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

ain't goin out like that
ain't goin out like that

― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Saturday, 22 February 2014 15:11 (twelve years ago)

"I got magazines and GIN!"

― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Saturday, 22 February 2014 15:17 (twelve years ago)

following the herd down to greece on holiday

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 22 February 2014 17:20 (twelve years ago)

"everything is awesome"

― mark e, Saturday, 22 February 2014 17:53 (twelve years ago)

nine years pass...

for the last hour I swear I've just had brian molko's nasal voice in my head chanting 'what a gas, what a beautiful a-ass'

― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 09:21 (two years ago)

"My hands / Your waist / My heart / Away / Una ni kuna kuna / Ni kuna kuna"

― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 09:55 (two years ago)

It's just another manic Monday

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 19:47 (two years ago)

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