Tag: Earworms

  • Earworm Wednesday: Friends Make You Funky

    So, the part of this song that gets stuck in my head is the refrain of “Most of All” at 1:22. Don’t know what it is, but it just plays in a loop in my head. Not a complaint because I love this song.

    “Flash Light” is the song I think of when someone says Parliament or George Clinton, or Bootsy Collins (even though Bootys doesn’t play in this song,) or funk music in general.

    See, I made a friend, a best friend, in 9th grade and as all best friends do, he introduced me to the wonderful world of funk. I think I had seen Parliament an SNL rerun, but I knew nothing about them. That’s when my friend stepped in and filled that gap I didn’t know I had. He helped me understand what the “Great Rock n’ Roll Swindle” was, how funk influenced hip hop and rap, and the importance of “on the one.”

  • Earworm Thursday: I Love The Cars

    I love The Cars, and love the hell outta this song. Also, I put the live version of this song up, as there is something so cool about The Cars as a band performing live.

  • Earworms

    (I’m talking about music earworms. This is your warning. What follows may get stuck in your head.)

    When you say “earworm” to my wife, she immediately thinks of the ear bugs from Star Trek 2. The one that Khan put in Chekhov’s ear. Which is awful and gross, and not what I am talking about.

    NO, I am talking about the earworm of a song that gets stuck in your head, and for the past two days, I have had “The Real Slim Shady” playing, ahh, pretty much non-stop. Now, what I am hearing isn’t the album track. No, I keep hearing this:

    Which is kind’a weird, right? A piano version of the song, no lyrics or anything else; just piano.

    Then, from time to time, I’ll get John Tesh’s NBA theme bouncing around.

    Sometimes when I’m walking around the City, this will play in my head:

    Does anyone remember “Riptide?”

    I guess I’m just talking about tv theme songs now. I always liked “Taxi.”

    Back to the point… “Summer Breeze.”