All My Loving
In my head 'cause Amber's going away this weekend (pouts!) Also fits right into the cultural zeitgeist, since, as you all well know by now, the Beatles Rock Band and the Beatles stereo/mono box sets are out this week. All my money I will send to you...
Artist: The Beatles
Year: 1963
Rating: Warm
You Are
How weird! Can't find audio or video for this song anywhere online. Makes my life this foolish game...
Edit: Found it! I was looking under the wrong song title. Thanks Barry!
Artist: Lionel Richie
Year: 1983
Rating: Warm
Edit: Found it! I was looking under the wrong song title. Thanks Barry!
Artist: Lionel Richie
Year: 1983
Rating: Warm
Solitaire
Starting the day with a lonely ache, I guess.
Artist: Carpenters
Year: 1975
Rating: Luke Hot
Note: Written by Sedaka/Cody
Dragostea din tei (the Numa Numa Song)
This true earworm song is almost impossible to get out of your head after just one listen, and you don't even have to know Romanian. Thanks to Amber (ahem), for introducing it to me after she discovered this massive international dance hit on her trip to Europe in 2004.
Artist: O-Zone
Year: 2004
Rating: Lukewarm
Oh Comely
Amazing song, full of wonderful, terrible imaginal imagery blending everyday vulgarities with the legacy of Anne Frank and the Holocaust. See the Pitchfork album review. The part that was in my head specifically starts at about 6 minutes in.
Artist: Neutral Milk Hotel
Year: 1998
Rating: Luke Hot
Welcome to the Boomtown
One of the chapters used this as their song for my very first BBG convention when I was a freshman in high school (modifying the lyrics to, I think, "Welcome to the Region"). No one else from my chapter came, so I was sitting alone on a bench crying and feeling left out. Hildy grabbed me and made me sing with them, even though I'd never heard the song before. It's stuck in my head warmly for 23 years now.
Shouts out to the El Al girls!
Artist: David & David
Year: 1986
Rating: Warm
Alive
This one's in my head 'cause it was referred to in a Beth Lisick/Tara Jepsen sketch I saw last week in which our ladies of irony played douchey beer-drinking dudes who sang Pearl Jam's Jeremy and then bled unknowingly into Alive as if it were the same song. It was a pitch-perfect example of my historical like/meh relationship with Pearl Jam, which Sloan encapsulates in a line about Consolidated: "It's not the band I hate, it's their fans," though admittedly, we are probably talking about two very divergent fanbases, indeed.Artist: Pearl Jam
Year: 1991
Rating: Lukewarm
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