Sunday, April 29, 2007

OVERHEARD? NEVER!

'Ello 'ello 'ello, presenting for my infotainment, a sample of song snippets that continuously play in moy 'ead ...
perhaps you will recognise a few...
usually it's like flippin' around the radio dial and only my fave part of the song is audible...
(but every now and then I get to hear the whole song)....
try this.. hear the line and then switch..switch...
all at various volume levels of course...
I'll help you with the less familiar songs..OK...go...


"dabadadipdip ohhh, I use to be a lunatic"
Annie Lennox (No More I Love You)..

"Wherrrre are WE...
whaaaat the hellll"
Imogen Heap (Hide and Seek)...

"Wish I knew what you were looking for"
the Church (Under the Milky Way)...

"Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe"
Bowie (Moonage Daydream)...

"Don't sleep in the subway darlin'"
Petula Clark (guess?)...

"Texas chain saw massacreee, took my baby away from me"
Ramones...

"So I go, In-sane, like I al-ways do"
Lindsey Buckingham...

"Wouldn't it be good to be in your shoes,even if it was for just one day"
Nik Kershaw...

"I'm afraid of americans, I'm afraid of the world"
Bowie...

"Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time"
Sir Macca..

"little red corvette, baby you're much too fast"
his Purpleness...

"ooh what are these chains that are binding my arms, part of you dies each brick I lay"
Alan Parsons (Cask of Amantillado)...

"The leading horse is white,
the second horse is red,
the third one is a black,
the last one is a green"
Aphrodites Child (Four Horsemen)....

"Because a-something, a-some-a-how, a-some-a-where,
HAS GONE WRONG!"
Audience (You're not Smiling)..

"C'mon baby we ain't gonna live forever,
let me show you all the things that we could do"
Veronicas (Forever)...

"I'm highest bidder"
Weird Al (E-Bay it's a Backstreet Boys sendup)...

"yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you touch my inner smile" Texas...

"what would you doooo, what would you do if I followed you"
Stone Temple Pilots (Sour Girl)....

"I'm gonna get myself, gonna get myself connected"
Stereo MCs....

"Regrets, I've 'ad a few,
but then agin',
too few to mention"
Sid Viscious (My Way)....

"I can't get to sleep, I think about the implications"
Men At Work (Overkill)....

and always, alldays
"Show me show me show me how you do that trick,
the one that makes me scream seasick"
the Cure.
I have to do my SNOOPY DANCE when I hear Just Like Heaven!

There it 'tis...a sample of the soundtrack of my life. There are certainly lots of oldies but thanks to my kids and my continuing curiousity, a few new ones are added from time to time, like the Fray, Bloc Party, Band Of Horses, Asher Lane, and Take That.

Some songs remind me of people, some just take me back, some simply take me away, and some just have such catchy frickin' hooks that I cannot delete them no matter how hard I try! I suppose that a few of them are like file folders that envelope emotional items and memories like FUN/SAD/WOO HOO etc..

I love having all of this music in my head and I don't have to destroy my ears with an MP3 player or my oldschool walkman.
because I can play these tunes really, really loud! ...

Name a few songs on your Soundtrack
that you can't erase...

27 comments:

  1. Wow, so many great choons in UR Walnut!!!! Several of these can be found in my bloggy. U have inspired me, keep UR eyes my way gotta use some of these in my next post!!!

    Big musical tune smooch,
    The Tart
    ; )

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  2. Hmmm....this inspires me to break my silence of lo these many months. Tunes, tunes, all day long. I have this one theme that keeps running in my head..."I've got a song that ain't got no melody. I'm gonna sing it to my friends..." which comes unbidden, and the only way I can get it to shut up is to play my oboe very very loudly...

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  3. Anonymous5:10 am

    The Sex PIstols Version of MY way is definately up there... Such an Awesome list though, all the greats, The ramones, bowie, Weird al, The Cure

    CUrrent three

    "If my eyes could never see your face again, return me to the earth, return me to the Earth" - Jeff Martin- Lament (played at our Wedding signing) - saw live 6 months ago as JM, Saw as part of the Tea Party 2 years ago.

    "Hey God, why are you doing this to me? Am I not living up to what I'm supposed to be? Why am I seething with this animosity?Hey God, I think you owe me a great big apology"
    Terrible Lie - Nine Inch Nails- seeing live in 2 weeks:)

    "If I get drunk well
    I'll pass out on the floor now baby,
    You won't bother me no more,
    And if you're drinkin' well
    You know that you're my friend
    And I say I think I'll have myself a beer." Reel Big Fish- Beer- Saw live 2 weeks ago.

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  4. Anonymous6:16 am

    Loving this! I'd have to say my soundtrack at the moment is a complex mix of:

    "It was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
    and I thought of ma and I wanted to get back there
    Your face, your race, the way that you talk
    I kiss you you're beautiful, I want you to walk"

    "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive..."

    "Just then the whole kitchen exploded
    From boilin' fat
    Food was flying everywhere
    And I left without my hat"

    "Ooooooliver Crrromwell, Lord Protector of England
    AND HIS WARTS"

    ...don't know how that got in there...

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  5. At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana (Copacabana)
    The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
    At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana
    Music and passion were always the fashion
    At the Copa....don't fall in love

    Please make it stop playing.

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  6. Wow -- I also swoon at "Just Like Heaven."
    Sound track right now:

    "Was that it? Was that the Jupiter show? Kinda wasn't quite what I'd hoped for, ya know."
    The Cure, "Jupiter Crash"

    "She says 'I hear ya knockin but ya can't come in.' And I say, 'Little sister, don't you do what your big sister does."
    Soul Coughing, "Mr Bitterness"

    "Do you remember anyone here? No I don't remember anything at all."
    The Talking Heads, "Memeories"

    "Buena Buena Buena Buena Good Good Good!"
    Morphine, "Buena"

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  7. It changes day to day.
    But here's what's running through my head today:


    "Roll me over and turn me around
    Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground
    Roll me over and let me go
    Running free with the buffalo"
    ~ Thin Lizzy, "Cowboy Song"

    "All your life you've been waiting for your chance
    Where you'll fit into the plan
    But you're the master of your own destiny
    So give and take the best that you can"
    ~ Triumph, "Fight the Good Fight"

    "When I'm out walking I strut my stuff yeah I'm so strung out"
    ~ Violent Femmes, "Blister in the Sun"

    "And even though you fool your souls
    Your conscience will be mine
    All mine"
    ~ Adam & The Ants, "Prince Charming"

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  8. I'm going to be honest. I only know one of the artists you listed. Stone Temple Pilots.

    The one song I've had stuck in my head for a while is "Through Glass" by Stone Sour. I think you might like that one.

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  9. BRILLIANT post!

    I'll probably post some songs later in response, but let's face it, you're my life's DJ.

    You know what songs I like better than I do myself. There's too many and I just don't have the brain power (or OCD abilities) you have, so feel free to list some of my faves.

    To list songs would be one thing. But you're asking for lyrics too, it seems.

    I'll try.

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  10. "...You're old enough for killin' but you're too young for votin'..."
    Barry Maquire 'On the Eve of Destruction.'
    Still seems (sadly) appropriate after 40 odd years.
    And always the Habanera from Carmen. Many others in the woof...

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  11. I am not gonna sit here and tpye out every Deep Purple, Whitesnake, and Rainbow song, Nor am I going to type out every other Cold Chisel, Rammstein, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Blackmore's Night, AC/DC song in my collection that I can't erase!

    "Put me on your hit list of a common cunning liguist a master of many tongue!" Deep Purple Knocking on ya back door.

    Ha!
    "Would I lie to you? Just ta get in ya pants....Ha! Ha!, I think so." Whitesnake Would i lie to you.


    " She gave me the Jack!" ACDC She's got the jack.

    "When a blindman cries, You know there ain't a sadder tale" Deep Purple When a blindman cries.


    " I bin Mistreated......I Bin abused." Deep Purple mistreated.

    "If I can make ya smile I will raise my glass, If you don't like it, Baby you can kiss my ass." Whitesnake Wine women and song.

    "Sick of my job, sick of my wife, sick of my future, sick of my life."
    Glenn Frey Party Town


    'I don't love you baby, just cos you got tits, I'm in love with ya baby cos ya got a brain."
    Barflys.......... Tits

    "Looking like a choir girl, crying like a refugee".....Cold Chisel..Choir Girl

    "Sit on my face and tell me that you love me, I'll sit on ya face and say that I love You" Monty Python.......Sit on my face.

    Oh bloody hell HE........now ya got me started I canna stop........
    Then theres................

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  12. All depends on everything! I get songs stuck in my head based on what I've been listening to, a chance word somebody says, something I see in the street, a news article - anything with a word or phrase even vaguely similar to a song I know, and BAM that song is stuck in the head for days, or until the next random event dislodges it. My head is like living in a jukebox.

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  13. I spent my work day jotting down the tunes that came into my head. Here's a partial list...

    Copa-fucking-Cabana again by Barry Manilow.

    Star of the County Down by Van Morrision.

    Filthy Gorgeous by the Scissor Sisters.

    My Buddy (a World War 1 song)

    Tomorrow Never Knows by the Beatles.

    My Sharona by The Knack.

    Happy Together by The Turtles.

    Hitchhike by Marvin Gaye.

    In Spite of the Danger by Handsome Ned.

    Be My Baby by The Ronettes.

    Boom Boom by John Lee Hooker.

    Lookin' for the Heart of Saturday Night by Tom Waits.

    Born to Run by Emmylou Harris.

    Toreador Song from the opera Carmen.

    Runaway by The Bodeans.

    Wond'ring Aloud by Jethro Tull.

    Fool That I Am by Etta James.

    Freddie Freeloader by Miles Davis.

    Superfly by Curtis Mayfield.

    And the day's not over.

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  14. Copperhead Road
    Khe Sahn
    You've Reall Got a Hold On Me
    Honky Tonk Woman
    Whiter Shade of Pale
    You Don't Own Me

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH54uidCOOA

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  15. Wonderful -- Adam Ant
    Time is the Answer -- Frozen Ghost
    Hold on Loosely -- .38 Special
    1,000 Beautiful Things -- Annie Lennox
    Why -- Annie Lennox
    Am I the Only One? Barenaked Ladies
    Crazy -- Barenaked Ladies
    Photograph -- Nickelback
    Leather and Lace -- Stevie Nicks
    Lovers in a Dangerous Time -- Bruce Cockburn
    I Cry -- Bass is Base
    I've Got a Feeling -- Beatles
    Two of Us -- Beatles
    Try -- Blue Rodeo
    Hasn't Hit Me Yet -- Blue Rodeo
    Pacing the Cage -- Bruce Cockburn
    Wicked Game -- Chris Isaak
    Square One -- Coldplay
    Learn to Fly -- Foo Fighters
    Promises -- Frozen Ghost

    And that only brings me up to "F"!

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  16. So that was just today. Tomorrow a whole new set of tunes will pop in and out of my head all day long. I never know what to expect as a soundtrack from day to day. Except Copa-fucking-Cabana. I am cursed.

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  17. Superb post HE!

    U metioned alot of great numbers. Love Overkill by Men At Work, and exactly those words!

    I have too many songs to list. Here r just a few of em:


    ***Skin the sun
    Fall asleep
    Wish away
    soul is cheap...

    - Dumb by Nirvana


    ***So never mind the darkness
    We still can find a way
    'Cause nothin' lasts forever
    Even cold November rain...

    - Nov rain by GNR



    ***Mama oooo,
    Didnt mean to make you cry
    If Im not back again this time tomorrow
    Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters...

    - Bohemian rhapsody by Queen



    ***I linger in the doorway
    our alarm clock screaming monsters calling widening
    let me stay
    where the wind will whisper to me
    where the raindrops as there falling
    tell there story...

    - Imaginary by Evanescence




    Keshi.

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  18. Ooooh Annie Lennox -- good one you! I like that particular song right after I saw the music video for it. The one with the male ballerinas haha! That was ace! You got some Belinda Carlisle in there somewhere? Or is that one too corny? ;)

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  19. "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...'

    Down in the meadow in the iddy biddy poo, wit da free widdo fissies and da momma fissie too..'

    When the tide rushes in, plants a kiss on the shore, and roooooooolls back out to seeeeeeeeea, and the seeeeeeeeea is very still once more...'

    'I wanna hear some funky Dixieland pretty momma come and take me by the hand! By the hand HAND take me by the hand pretty momma come and dance with your daddy all night long! I wanna hear some funky...'

    it's exhausting!

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  20. stuck in the middle with you

    (oh come and read my piece on "songs the band won't sing", please, and put me out of my misery. . .)

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  21. i like the view,
    done and done.

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  22. a very funky list dude! i'm gonna spend the next few days armed with pen and pencil coz i can't think of one of mine now!
    (its late, k!)

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  23. i meant pen and paper of course... or pencil and paper...
    like i said- its late!

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  24. I must admit I did not read the rest of the post when I saw Annie Lennox. I love Annie Lennox especially when she sang "Don't Ask Me Why"

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  25. angel,
    Take your time..once you start they'll just pour out anyway.'Get some rest.

    ces,
    WHAT!? Ok I'll let it slide but some of those other songs are really excellent...actually I have too many songs in my library because I keep burning the same 22 tracks in different order DUH!

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  26. Well, we finally have something in common about song appreciation. I also listen to the same songs in different order.

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