Songs Stuck In Your Head!

[ncc1701]

Sept 1, 2008, 4:06pm, ernstinen wrote:OH NO ---- I turned on the UCLA football game vs. Tennessee, and the announcers reminded me of a song.When I was about to move to L.A., it was "Urban Cowboy" time, and I HAD to learn country music to make a buck.Well, my friend asked me if I'd ever heard "Rocky Top." I said "No." So he taught it to me. I played it over and over during solo gigs to make some $$.I TRIED to forget "Rocky Top," but tonight it seems that it is the Volunteers' THEME SONG! --- God, please help me! NOW it's "Rocky Top" that is stuck in my head!AAAAUURGHHH!Help! Ern 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)

[Casey H]

I'm confused... seriously.... What Stones song does "You May Be Right" sound like? Casey

[tedsingingfox]

Sept 1, 2008, 10:49am, sgs4u wrote:Sept 1, 2008, 10:45am, tedsingingfox wrote:"BALI HI"!?!?!?!?!?!?!?I guess I shouldn't complain about an old Cowsills tune, then... Size 4 or 5 would be fine, Ted.Sorry. I subscribe to Stick's philosophy from last year's Rally..."Go big, or go home." sorry you're friend is gone, but the "legend" of the Cowsills will live much longer than any one of us...and besides...I Love the Flower Girl!

[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

[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

[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

[drew]

Sept 8, 2008, 4:44pm, ernstinen wrote: I HATED disco back then, LOL! I had a T-shirt that said "Death Before Disco"I love the old Bee Gees, and The Four Seasons... just last week I told my 26 year old son (who also loves them), "How could these two groups know that people want to listen to a bunch of men singing in falsetto?" He said "But they did want to hear it"Sept 8, 2008, 7:43pm, che wrote: I am a 39 year old female that cannot say that I have kissed a girl. The only other choice is to kiss a man, yuck I've always told my sons to be thankful that women are dumb enough to waste their time (and kisses) on us.