Category: Music

  • Earworm Wednesday: After the Midterms Edition

  • Earworm Wednesday: Thanks A Lot Trader Joe’s

    I was shopping in my local Trader Joe’s on Friday when I heard this weeks earworm song. On the whole, the Trader Joe’s near me actually has great taste in music, and it’s kind’a cool to hear songs that I’ve totally forgotten about.

    Not that Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?“is a bad song. No, it’s catchy as hell, and just a classic example of what an earworm is. At least for me, because I keep hearing that baseline and that baby cooing.

    You have been warned!

  • Earworm Wednesday: Can’t Go Wrong with Queen

    I have no idea how “Don’t Stop Me Now” got stuck in my head. Somewhere over the weekend, it just popped into my head. Maybe I heard it on a commercial or a tv show, or maybe the wife had it on a playlist as we drove out of the City. I’m not complaining about the song, I think Brian May’s solo is pretty awesome, just don’t know how it got in my head.

    Anyway, it’s Queen, so enjoy!

  • Earworm Wednesday: I Just Never Liked the Song

    I would like to believe that I am not a contrarian. That if I don’t like or enjoy something, it’s because I have a good reason for it.

    In that vein, I have never been a fan of “Waterfalls” by TLC. I have nothing against TLC, I think they’re a solid group. And I fully admit that “Waterfalls” is a good pop-music song, and deserves all the recognition and alcolades it has earned.

    But I just never liked the song. Sorry.

    Yet, “Waterfalls” does have have a hell of a hook in its chorus. When I hear it, like yesterday at Trader Joe’s, it just lodges in my head. Which means I am on day two of humming that song.

  • My Mind Wandered

    So, I was about to sit down and start writing todays blog…

    But then “Harvest Moon” by Neil Young came on my Spotify, which made me wonder about the song and for some reason I thought the song was off the album Harvest. It’s not, it’s off of Harvest Moon, which made me feel silly because I had gone all this time thinking those two albums were one in the same. So I had to start reading up on those albums…

    Then this other crazy thing happened to me, which was after I got done doing all my Neil Young research, and I again sat down to start work on today’s blog, I had this thought that I don’t know enough about Robert Gould Shaw. If you don’t know who he is, he was the commanding officer of the 54th Massachusetts, which was the first African American regiment that fought in the Civil War.

    So, instead of writing a blog about what I was going to write about, I thought I would just tell you what I have been thinking about.