The song I woke up with Today
 

Pretty much every day, I wake up with a song in my head. It might be the same song as yesterday, or the day before.... sometimes it seems completely random. Something I caught a snatch of on the radio, or a tv commercial or it was on at work.... and sometimes it's a persistent earworm, which is what inspired this thread.



I'd like to try to make a point of recording which song it is on a daily basis. For Science.


I'll have to start tomorrow, because I can't remember what it was this morning. Feel free to join in the fun. Youtube for extra credit. Extra extra credit if it's a gay song and we can rip on you for it. I'm looking at You, Toad.


oh, and one more thing.....

I don't often wake up with a song in my head but today it was "Levon"...

... because Shabbey Road did it last night, and I didn't feel like we did the best job of it, and I'm trying to figure out how to make it better

Ironically a not-gay song... sung by a gay singer, how's that work

"Alvin Tostig has a son today"

In the isolation tank, my brain kept going back to the opening bars of "Never Gonna Give You Up," and it was a long time before I even realized what it was. Rickrolled my own damn self.

Hah!

Rickrolled my own damn self.

That is Too damn Funny !!!!

The Chain by Fleetwood Mac

Mexican Radio.

LOVE it!

this is a sticky one

Country music - you have been warned.
But also strikes the funny bone.

I liked that a lot. Til the vocals started.

I can tell that guitar riff is gonna be sticky, though.

I've forgotten it now, but whatever I had in my head this morning was some easy listening thing ...something about when the night comes, loneliness something something.....



glad it's gone now. Replaced with.....

Oh, there's worse things to have in ya haid.

I like me some Gentleman Rocker, I do!

This might not work. This morning I had a song I know... Def Leppard or Bon Jovi.... and I thought of this thread...but I was on my way out the door. Now it's completely gone. No idea.

In my head since wake up...

Back in the high life again.... Steve Winwood?

Or Warren Zevon. Fairly stripped down version.

I woke up to this at 9:30 this morning.

Took me a minute to find the volume button.

And then the walls started shaking.:cool:

me likey

Woke up with



in my head this morning. And I was ok with that.:rolleyes:

Then this happen.:yelsick:

Pillow of Winds.

http://youtu.be/wFt99jcazHs

Dis in m'haid dis mornin':



Golly.:joylove::love::heartpump

Today I woke up with



Stuck in my head

ARRE YOUUU REEAADDDYYYY :devil:

I hadn't heard Still In Saigon in a long, long time.

Not today, but yesterday . . .

I have no idea how this could possibly have occurred, but this lyric was stuck in my head:

"lookin' better than a body has a right to"

I finally figured out what it was, and I continue to be shocked, amazed, and a little freaked out. I never cared much for Dolly Parton, never listened intentionally to her music, and haven't thought about her or heard her name or music for years.

But there it was in my head.




My clearly psychologically unstable head. :eyebrow:

Have you watched Dumplin', on Netflix?

Momdigr watched it, and I couldn't help but notice that the entire soundtrack, I think, is Dolly Parton.

"Here You Come Again"

IIRC the song does a nice key change for the choruses

I always liked the line "here you come again, and here I go".

I want to listen to it now but I'm at work.

Songwriters are songwriting royalty: Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, contemporaries of Gerry Goffin/Carole King. They have like 150 hit songs.

Heh, don't get caught at the stoplight blasting that alone in the car.:lol2:

It's in a tv commercial right now, Glinda.

Don't ask which, but I heard it last night or the night before.

How can you be from Tenntucky. Dolly is a national treasure, and gets a full pass.

Anyway, I don't care. I recommend not caring because you get to enjoy so much more. I blasted the song away, rolling down the goddamn turnpike. And then I listened to it five more times at home to verify what I was hearing.

Here is the secret to the song. The key just keeps moving around.

Verse 1: G flat
Verse 2: G flat
Chorus 1: A
Verse 3: G
Bridge: G
Chorus 2: B flat
Verse 4: A flat

Bumping up the key is an old songwriter trick. Usually they bump it a full step, so it sounds like the song is moving to another "gear". My favorite cheesy example of a song doing this is "My Baby Takes The Morning Train" :eyeroll: which does it in such a cheesy way that you can't miss it. The first chorus is in G, the second in A, and the last in B. So you can really tell that they are ramping it up in that way, and that's part of what makes it 100% cheese.

For "Here You Come Again", Mann/Weil figured out a way to do that in the choruses as well as the verses!, and they jump up a half step instead of a full step. It's very subtle, and it fools you.

Oh, I hope this is true! If not, there's definitely something wrong with my brains. :D

Different does not equal wrong/defective/diminished.

Well, I'm certainly different; I won't argue that. ;)

Illegal Smile: John Prine

By way of explanation, I saw him on Austin City Limits recently. John is a must see before he shows up on one of our celebrity lists.
My favorite cut would be Paradise.

Wow, I never really heard that song before. Sad.

I've hunted on the site of the coal field that lay underneath Paradise. It's a weird dangerous place now. Canals from and to the Green River, narrow and deep. Cuts in the ground from ten to 100 feet deep, 30 to over 100 feet long, some filled with water, just anywhere and/or everywhere.

The roads there are a hundred feet wide in some places, to allow those ginormous dump trucks to pass each other, and you got to navigate around/amongst those behemoths, because they have the right-of-way.

One of the cooler things about the place is the abandoned equipment. There used to (I assume it's still there) be an enormous shovel out in this huuuuge open field, with a sign saying walking on the field is expressly forbidden. Lots of places with stay out signs. One of the world's largest shovels is buried there on the Peabody Wildlife Manage Area.

I once hunted turkey from underneath a dump truck bed out in the most BFE of woods. On my way out I walked past a sign, from the wrong side, warning to stay out of this area due to the ground might give way at any old time. They (Peabody WMA) used to charge $10 for a year land use permit, IDK what is now. Ya had to sign a liability waiver also, iirc.

There's hardly anything left to say that the community of Paradise was ever there. Indeed, Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

Thanks for the on the ground report. Is the cover growing back?

Yeah, Prine plays a lot of humorous music but he tapped into the saddest vein here.

"Paradise"

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.

[Chorus:]
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

[Chorus]

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

[Chorus]

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.

[Chorus]

There are still ugly places and pockmarks on the land, but, it's recovering nicely. Still active mining in places, y'know. Land will recover given the chance.

People have put fish in some of the exploratory strip cuts. When ya get poor/hungry ya 'hit the strip' for a guaranteed fish dinner.

Ah-HAH! I was watching TV tonight and an Applebee's commercial came on with that song in the background.

I'm not crazy, after all!











Well, at least not on this topic. :p:

Thanks for clarifying, I was confused. ;)

Jackson Browne - The Load-Out/Stay

♪ ♫But when that last guitar's been packed away♪ ♫
♪ ♫You know that I still want to play♪ ♫
♪ ♫So just make sure you got it all set to go♪ ♫
♪ ♫Before you come for my piano♪ ♫

:devil:

That. Is. An. Awesome. Fucking. Song.

Damn, the song is 42 yrs old.

That hit me square in the feels for some reason this soggy morning.

Funny how circumstances change things/feelings/outlooks.

One of my huge pet peeves is that streaming services always break it into two songs and they don't play the second one. How fucking criminal is that?

Felonious.

It's a fugacious abstraction of justice

Bought Jackson Browne tickets yesterday. July 3.

:jig

Those guys are from right around here. I like some of their stuff. That's one of them, right thar.:jig:

Thanks griff , thats was a nice way to start my day

It was a nice way to wake up and count my blessings.

LIKE! "No rest for the wicked" is one of my favorite sayings. :cool:

I remember all the times I tried so hard
But you laughed in my face because you held the cards

I don't care anymore

ahh some Phill to start the day , interesting