Songs Stuck In Your Head!

[tedsingingfox]

Sept 3, 2008, 4:31pm, kelysian wrote:how about being in the USC Trojan band and having to play that godawful "Victory" ditty 185 times a game? We made up our own words to it:Thiiiiiis ... is the only song we knoooowSo we play it aaall the tiiiime(repeat)Kathleen!!!! My QUEEN of the high-woodwinds...You were in the Trojans Marching Band?!? That's great.My old diving coach was the coach from USC (even though I was only 12 twelve at the time). I even got to attend the NCAA Swimming and Diving National Championships a couple of times, as his guest...but I wound up passing on the scholarship.I still consider USC to be my alma mater (that I never attended).

[byllsong]

Just heard it a few minutes on my way home.CSNY....Carry On.I don't mind hearing it in my mind for a bit, especially the latter part."Carry on, love is coming...." Billy

[ernstinen]

Sept 3, 2008, 5:13pm, hurowitz wrote:I'm confused... seriously.... What Stones song does "You May Be Right" sound like? CaseyHey Casey!Well, I had to think about that for awhile. Some of it is the vocal inflections where Billy Joel sings like Jagger, but there are a few songs off the top of my head that are REAL similar:1.) 19th Nervous Breakdown. Billy takes the verse melody, starts on the 3rd rather than the 5th, and it's almost identical.2.) Jumpin' Jack Flash. Same pentatonic mode, basically.3.) Get Off Of My Cloud. See above.Listen, I'm not saying he's "consciously" stealing. But George Harrison said he wasn't either, and lost a huge settlement to the writers of "He's So Fine!" Ern

[Casey H]

Sept 4, 2008, 3:04pm, ernstinen wrote:Sept 3, 2008, 5:13pm, hurowitz wrote:I'm confused... seriously.... What Stones song does "You May Be Right" sound like? CaseyHey Casey!Well, I had to think about that for awhile. Some of it is the vocal inflections where Billy Joel sings like Jagger, but there are a few songs off the top of my head that are REAL similar:1.) 19th Nervous Breakdown. Billy takes the verse melody, starts on the 3rd rather than the 5th, and it's almost identical.2.) Jumpin' Jack Flash. Same pentatonic mode, basically.3.) Get Off Of My Cloud. See above.Listen, I'm not saying he's "consciously" stealing. But George Harrison said he wasn't either, and lost a huge settlement to the writers of "He's So Fine!" Ern Thanks Ern!I think of the tunes you mentioned, 19th Nervous Breakdown is the closest.George Harrison lost the law suit because all the chords (except that one diminished chord) and melody were pretty much identical. Often a song has a verse very similar to another song but when it gets to the "change" it is different. In Harrison's song, in the "change" it continued just like "He's So Fine".Jewel had a song a few years ago that had a verse melody that to me sounded just like Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time". I think it was called "Standing Still". To me, it was a rip-off-- way too similar. But once again, the chorus was at least different.Just found this:http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/i ... ike-songs/ Casey

[horacejesse]

Quote:George Harrison lost the law suit because all the chords (except that one diminished chord) and melody were pretty much identical. Often a song has a verse very similar to another song but when it gets to the "change" it is different. In Harrison's song, in the "change" it continued just like "He's So Fine".Jewel had a song a few years ago that had a verse melody that to me sounded just like Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time". I think it was called "Standing Still". To me, it was a rip-off-- way too similar. But once again, the chorus was at least different.A lot of that sure does go on. I just cannot approve either. I figure somewhere along the chain of command Someone in Harrison's orbit had to have noticed the melodies were well nigh identical, since "He's So Fine," was hitting in England at the time George admitted he wrote "My Sweet Lord." Not one sycophant spoke up. Scary, isn't it? He should have had a Taxi forum.

[grandmatarkin]

Strange, I thought "He's So Fine" was from years before George's tune. It really is strange that no one spoke up. For sure, it wouldn't have happened under George Martin's watch.To George's credit though, that song did have some very nice sections that weren't copied from anything. (as far as we know !)

[ncc1701]

Sept 3, 2008, 5:35pm, tedsingingfox wrote:Sept 3, 2008, 4:31pm, kelysian wrote:how about being in the USC Trojan band and having to play that godawful "Victory" ditty 185 times a game? We made up our own words to it:Thiiiiiis ... is the only song we knoooowSo we play it aaall the tiiiime(repeat)Kathleen!!!! My QUEEN of the high-woodwinds...You were in the Trojans Marching Band?!? That's great.My old diving coach was the coach from USC (even though I was only 12 twelve at the time). I even got to attend the NCAA Swimming and Diving National Championships a couple of times, as his guest...but I wound up passing on the scholarship.I still consider USC to be my alma mater (that I never attended). OH MY, no no no no no no no!!! I can see how that came across wrong. I was referring to the poor souls who actually WERE in the Trojan Marching Band, and how WE - The Mighty Oregon Fighting Duck Marching Band - would make up the words to their one and only stands tune.By the way - just came back from watching the Ducks walk all over the Utah State Aggies yesterday 66-24 (and boy, do those players look silly waddling down the field ) but Utah put up a good game. Being ranked #119 out of 119 ranked teams, what have you got to lose?Kathleen

[drew]

A summer when I was in high school I got a call from a friend in New Orleans who told me the Allman Brothers were going to play at the free concert in City Park on Sunday. So Saturday me and 2 of my buddies hitchhiked to the city, a bank sign we passed was showing 102 deg., it was deadly hot. The last ride we caught was with 3 girls (mid 20s) who were ugly and scary... but I won't get into that right now.. and the last song I heard on the radio was the new [play it twice every hour hit] "Brandy" by Looking Glass. When they dropped us off we walked about an hour to Bourbon Street. I was singing Brandy in my head the whole time.We bought beers at a window and sat on a bench to cool off when we looked up and saw a cop standing in front of us glaring, he said "MOVE", the street was for tourists, not hippies. We got up and walked around the corner, went down a half block and sat down again. Brandy, you're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be (such a fine girl) ... argh, it was still thereI glanced toward Bourbon and saw the same cop come to the corner, when he looked our way he pulled out his baton and started running at us. I shouted "RUN" and that crazy cop chased us for 2 blocks. We decided to walk on to city park (without our beers which we had to drop during the get-away).Brandy used to watch his eyes as he told his sailor storiesThe sun was down when we got there and there were hippies milling about everywhere, then the cops drove through the park telling everyone it closed at dark and "GET OUT". We had nowhere to go so we decided to hang around, along with many others, that was a bad idea especially with Brandy still running through my head. The cops got vicious about 20 minutes later, and it was obvious you didn't want them to catch you a second time (you only get one chance from a New Orleans cop, just ask anyone who goes to Mardi Gras). Finally we saw a cop car coming and knew we were caught and in trouble. I saw one of the old Oak trees nearby, the kind with their large limbs laying on the ground, and said "Follow me". We literally ran up the limb into the tree and were not spotted, the cop drove right under us... we had it made-in-the-shade. The tree was huge and we each found a comfortable place to recline and were able to sleep a little and watch cops chasing and catching hippies all night.Brandy, you're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be (such a fine girl)This song got more miserable all night long, each hour worse than the last, it wouldn't go away. By sunup I was considering a self-lobotomy with my pocket knife. I think I was even whimpering judging by the looks my buddies were giving me. Finally the concert started and needless to say the Allman Brothers were worth all the pain and effort. I don't remember thinking about the song again.The last ride home was fairly comfortable and I was dozing off, suddenly "Brandy" came on the radio. What I assumed at the time to be a tumor was probably just a new Brandy-lobe which grew on my brain that weekend. It is still traumatic when I think about it.

[ernstinen]

Drew,HaHaHaHa! Yup, "Brandy" is one of those "It's so bad it's good" songs! But NOW --- God help me --- It's "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees! I HATED disco back then, but I heard it the other day, and it, uh, ALMOST sounded good! Maurice Gibb's bass parts are really cool, though. R.I.P. Maurice. --- But earlier on, when Robin Gibb sang "I Started A Joke," now THAT was a tearjerking recording. What a great, if strange, vocal!Ern

[che]

At least you all aren't walking around singing "I kissed a Girl and I liked it" Especially seeing as I am a 39 year old female that cannot say that I have kissed a girl. That dag on song is so catchy. I try to just hum it when it pops in my head. I wish it would go away.