Internal radio

[triskellian]

A colleague wandered into the room singing 'Hotel California' to himself. No big deal, I quite like the song, and don't much object to the fact that it's now stuck in my head. What weirded me out about half an hour later was to realise that the version playing in my head wasn't the Eagles at all, but the Gipsy Kings' cover version from the soundtrack of The Big Lebowski.

A few months back, inspired by a BBC story (which I've just failed to track down for linkage) about a journalist trying to record every thought that crossed his mind over the course of a day (his conclusion: it's a bit of a waste of time really), and by several_bees' attempt to do something similar (her conclusion: it's a bit of a waste of time really), I decided to record all the songs my internal radio played at me, and try to work out where they came from.

I got distracted, and never actually did it, but I do have, sitting in various email folders, messages to and from myself listing songs, some followed by things like 'heard playing in shop' or 'subject line of a post on so-and-so's LJ', and some followed by things like 'wtf?' or 'strange, haven't heard this for years'. I continue to be frequently perplexed by the songs it presents me with.

Does anyone else have a song stuck in their head right now? What is it, and can you track down where it came from?

[Edit: having chosen the icon to use for this post, the new user interface shows me the icon, and from the tiny bit of lyric visible, I remember the song, and that's now replaced 'Hotel California' in my head. It's 'Happy Phantom' by Tori Amos]

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I do. It's "Virgin State of Mind" by K's Choice. And I know exactly where it's from and why it's in my head: Buffy Soundtrack and because the long lost CD is now found. (Clearly the entire purpose of the CD is to contain this track !)

[triskellian]

Yeah, that's one of my favourites from that album, too. And I wandered if the sekrit message in your LJ was to do with you finding that CD ;-)

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Oh, that song is always getting stuck in my head. It's got a special quality of stickiness about it, I wish I could isolate what it is (and then sell it).