I wake up every morning with a song stuck in my head. And now it's stuck in yours.
Friday, September 28, 2012
I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song
I've been experiencing a significant amount of internal resistance to speaking my truths lately. I'm in a battle over what I need to defend versus what I need to surrender. At the end of the day, usually the communication should just be distilled down to this: I love you.
Artist: Jim Croce
Year: 1973
Rating: Warm
Tags:
'70s,
earworms,
Jim Croce,
mellow gold,
personal history,
singer-songwriters,
warm
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Fame, Redux
Last in my head on March 23, 2010. This time, I can't say that confidence is pouring from my pores in synch with this exuberant anthem. The song feels incongruous with my recent moods, indeed. Maybe my unconscious mind is trying to snap me out of these self-flagellating doldrums. Will it work?
Artist: Irene Cara
Year: 1980
Rating: Luke Hot
Artist: Irene Cara
Year: 1980
Rating: Luke Hot
Tags:
'80s,
Bmix,
dance,
earworms,
film,
Irene Cara,
luke hot,
multiple entries,
personal history,
pop,
soundtrack,
women artists
Monday, September 17, 2012
Who's Johnny
My housemate Scott just came into my room, incredulous that I could even know this song, given the unbelievable truth I just told him: I've never seen the movie Short Circuit. But I was alive and cognizant in 1986, my first year of high school, when this feel-good ditty dominated the pop charts for its split second.
Artist: El DeBarge
Year: 1986
Rating: Warm
Tags:
'80s,
dance,
earworms,
El DeBarge,
film,
personal history,
pop,
soundtrack,
warm
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
More Than This
It's no small feat when such a simple song lyric captures not only the grief and disappointment, but the absolute beauty and transcendence, of the sentiment that this is all there is. It's one of the most elegant, evocative pop songs, ever. Today, it's bringing tears to my eyes.
Thanks, Mr. Ferry.
Artist: Roxy Music
Year: 1982
Rating: Hot!
Tags:
'80s,
art-rock,
Bryan Ferry,
earworms,
hot,
new wave,
Roxy Music,
singer-songwriters
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Every Morning
The power of suggestion produced this earworm. Two nights ago, at trivia, I cluelessly suggested that the photo of Jason Mraz might've been Mark McGrath, but then remembered that Mark McGrath was the Sugar Ray dude who looks kinda like Ethan Hawke.
Now, I'm stuck with a four-post bed.
Artist: Sugar Ray
Year: 1998
Rating: Cold
Tags:
'90s,
alternative,
cold,
earworms,
personal history,
pop,
Sugar Ray
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