Song Report

[salsabike]

I was totally amused to see in one of the other threads that some of you, like me, forever have songs going around in your heads. I always have them--always, always. And some of them are SO random, and some of them I really hate--like, sometimes, I get the Dead's Casey Jones song. Ugh. So I have two to offer up:

On the bike these days, the rhythm of the wheels turning invariably calls up Green Day's Holiday.

And off the bike over the last couple of days, I have not been able to get Blues Traveller's Runaround out of my head--driving me crazy. It even made me go online to find the lyrics so I could at least hear a little variety instead of just that chorus!

So...what's the song going around in YOUR head?

[pooks]

Kid Kills Rock's PARALYZED.

[Kitsune06]

I sometimes bike with headphones, but only when I'm somewhere where it's pretty safe to do so (generous bike lanes, low traffic, non-technical, etc)

So... ones that revolve around my head are
Nirvana's "Teen Spirit" and "About a Girl"
Blind Melon- "No Rain" and "Paper Scratcher"
Smashing Pumpkins "Zero" and "1979" and "Today"

then some off-the-wall ones, like Snow Patrol "Hands Open"
and assorted Beatles, Grateful Dead "Stuck in the Middle", Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, and I'll randomly start humming 'innagaddadavida' only because it's the only song I know of that lasts about 15 minutes... or an hour if I keep forgetting where I am in it.

[mimitabby]

My music is so obscure...
Italian folksongs...
Sousa marches...
stuff like that..
now back to the more normal people again!

[Kitsune06]

well, MT, you make me feel better for really getting into Canon, the Moonlight Sonata and Lacrymosa on my night rides...

[crazycanuck]

Kitsune-I love Nirvana's "about a girl"-esp the unplugged version


At the moment I have "tenement funster"by queen/roger taylor going through my head...

Anything roger sings I listen to....

c-

[Geonz]

I make 'em up... I heard these two trees one time singing a duet... "Honey, you make my sap rise, come and make sugar with me... Honey, you make my sap rise, come and make sugar with me... you got my xylem and my phloem shootin' straight up to the top of the tree!" (Which is a phenomenon still not completely explained scientifically...)
"Darling you are my sunshine... and my carbon dioxide too...<repeat>
YOu give my chloroplasts a blast, I want to photosynthesize with you!"
"My vacuoles are empty and my cell walls are about to collapse...
But you can make me turgid, send the waters of your love to me fast!"
"I'm pinin' for you darlin', please don't say I'm barkin' up the wrong tree!
We're maple for each other 'cause you always cedar best in me!"

I don't use headphones 'cause then I wouldn't hear these things...
(I have been unsuccessful attempting to use this in courtship myself. It must only work for plants.)

Then there was the one about "I'm stalled out at the traffic light of love..." and the carbon fiber frame song ("I can't wait to straddle that carbon fiber saddle and ride that baby all day long!") - next will be a parody of the bluegrass clasic "Bringing Mary Home" called "Drafting Mary HOme," about a rider who gets dropped and is fighting a headwind at dusk and Mary appears to pull him as far as the Casey's just outside his town... where he stops for Gatorade and they tell him about that rider who disappeared... but every once in a while, when the wind is from the North...

Or it'll be Grateful Dead or STan or Garnet Rogers or any assorted hymns, Utah PHillips, Bruce Cockburn, just depends...

[RoadRaven]

LOL... I actually was caught about two weeks ago... singing "I really like you baby" by Melissa Etheridge, two guys from the local club whizzed up beside me and paused for a moment to chat - I felt a tad embarrased... but they gave me a tow for about 6km before they turned off my road, so maybe my singing wasn't too terrible.

I tried to phase this guy in my grade a couple of races back - he had annoyed me the week before by sucking my wheel the whole race and then trying to sprint me for the finish - but I outsprinted him .... ha!
So I tried to phase him in the next race by leading him up a hill, and singing another Melissa song - "Come to my window" - as I neared the top, then powering away once i reached the top (powering away being a relative term - remembering I am in the slowest grade in the club).

Singing out loud or in my head is a great way to keep a rythym - I often do it.

[Nanci]

I don't ever get songs stuck in my head when I'm riding my bike, but when I run, it's that South Park song, "You can do it, it's all up to you mmkay. You can do it, you can change your life today!" I love that song.

[Tater]

Yesterday's afternoon commute, I happened to pass an ice cream truck making the rounds in a neighborhood. It was playing "Camptown Ladies" on continuous loop. For the rest of my doo-dah ride and most of the doo-dah evening, I had that darn song in my head! Grr!

Typically my mental radio will play whatever I happen to be listening to before I went out to ride.

[leighko]

You guys crack me up! I too, get "song worms" in my head. Lately it's been Nivana's Lithium.....

[Kitsune06]

ahhh Lithium's one of my fav's, too. =)

[Denise223]

Getting songs stuck in my head ---- it happens all the time..

I'm hooked on the show "Rockstar: Supernova" & really admire Dilana a lot! She performed the song, "Zombie", (by the Cranberries) --that song is stuck in my brain ....

Also going through my head is Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box"! EXCELLENT SONG !!

And "Mustang Sally"...

I love all types of music !!

Have a great night all!

Denise

[Lise]

"Nazareth your famous son/should have stayed a great unknown/he'd have caused nobody harm/no one alarm..."

and

"What's the buzz, tell me what's a happenin'/When do we ride into Jerusalem..."

From Jesus Christ Superstar. I listened to the sound track this afternoon, and I'll be hearing these songs in my head for days, if not weeks!

[maillotpois]

Lately?

Long Tall Texan
Lyle Lovett - something about the rythym while climbing.....

Well I'm a long tall Texan
I wear a ten-gallon hat
(He rides from Texas wearing a ten-gallon hat)
Yes I'm a long tall Texan
I wear a ten-gallon hat
(He rides from Texas wearing a ten-gallon hat)
Well people look at me and they say
Is that your hat
(He rides from Texas wearing a ten-gallon hat)

Well I'm a long tall Texan
I ride a big white horse
(He rides from Texas on a big white horse)
Yes I'm a long tall Texan
I ride a big white horse
(He rides from Texas on a big white horse)
Well people look at me and they say
Is that your horse
(He rides from Texas on a big white horse)

Well I was walking down the street
With my shiny badge
My spurs jingling there at my feet
I seen a man a'coming
Coming with a gun and
I just can't be beat

Yes I'm a long tall Texan
I enforce justice for the law
(He rides from Texas to enforce the law)
Well I'm a long tall Texan
I enforce justice for the law
(He rides from Texas to enforce the law)
Well people look at me and they say
Is you the law
(He rides from Texas to enforce the law)

Well I'm a long tall Texan
Yes I'm a long tall Texan