Songs that "Stick like Glue"

[MikeT49]

Most of us humans like music. Quite a few of us are driven bug frog by a song that rattles around in our heads and you just can't shake that puppy. Bad part, it drives you bugflock. Good part is you don't have to turn on the radio or put in a CD while you are reloading, etc. For some of our senior members you won't have to fire up the Victrola with the waxed cylinders . My worst is Steely Dan's "Dirty Work" SIA Mike

 

[ShootDots]

Except for "Reeling in the Years", anything from Steely Dan to me is an irritant! LOL!! Then comes "Space Cowboy / The Joker" by the Steve Miller Band is next on my "worst" list! However, almost anything by the "original" Jefferson Airplane, Simon and Garfunkle, Peter, Paul and Mary, Eric Johnson, Boston, Pink Floyd and Journey and other groups like that are in my vault as "The Best of the Best"! They can rumble around in my mind all they want!

 

[Texas10]

I think you're talking about ear worms. Songs, or more precisely a certain passage from a song that reverberates over and over until it just about drives you bat shit crazy. Only way to get rid of it is to listen to another song, preferably from a different artist....LOL

Speaking of Journey, Neal Shoen was in my HS band class. He played Oboe, but in his off time, was picking with Carlos Santana. Carlos's manager eventually got Neal his own label, Journey. His level of talent as a 16 y/o was quite amazing. When he played his guitar and you closed your eyes, you would swear it was Carlos you were listening to.

 

[MikeT49]

I think Floyd's best hits album was properly titled "Echoes".

 

[R.Morehouse]

On the way to the zoo with the Grandkids..........B-I-N-G-O.........B-I-N-G-O...........B-I-N-G-O............BINGO WAS HIS NAME-OOOOOOO. That is its own form of hell...

Regards
Rick

 

[dolek]

Loved it back in the 60s when Buffalo Springfield did it . This rendition really grabs my attention .

 

[ppaul]

Loved it back in the 60s when Buffalo Springfield did it . This rendition really grabs my attention .

Thanks daleboy. Most excellent!

 

[joshb]

Happens to me, all the time! An old working bud used to say: “You need an eraser song”. Gimmee some old Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young!
One day, I got Alice Cooper’s “I’m Eighteen” stuck in my head. That was trouble!

 

[dolek]

Happens to me, all the time! An old working bud used to say: “You need an eraser song”. Gimmee some old Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young!
One day, I got Alice Cooper’s “I’m Eighteen” stuck in my head. That was trouble!

CSN & Y are still one of my favorites...some of those lyrics and harmonies will make a grown man cry . The song I posted was before CSNY,but I guess because Stephen Stills wrote it I still think of as one of theirs.Alice Cooper as an ear worm works too,I don't know about "I'm Eighteen"...it is fun to think back on those glory days.

 

[dolek]

Thanks daleboy. Most excellent!

Glad you like it . Del and the gang do a heck of a job on it . Two of the guys there are the Gibson Brothers,local small town musicians that have made it big. They play local a few times a year now,what a treat.

 

[Ringostar]

I get songs stuck in my head all the time. Like Steely Dan’s My Old School. However when I realize it, I think back to Cheech and Chong’s movie Still Smokin. Cheech did a skit as a country singer named Redneck. He sang a little song. I think of that and start laughing inside. The other song goes away then.

 

[JMayo]

A slower version of this !

 

[ShootDots]

When I got my first "Real" job out of high school at Republic Steel Corp, I thought I was R-I-C-H! I bought a stereo component set that was awesome at the time. It started out with a Pioneer SX-70 (70 watts R.M.S.) receiver, JVC Turntable with a "Shur" needle / cartridge, 4 Criterion speakers. I can't remember the model but the front ones were about 3 ft. high and 20" wide the rear about 1/2 that. Then I had a "JVC Reel-to-Reel" tape recorder with a 120 minute capacity for the reels. I spent hours making certain each reel I recorded was always "The Best"! LOL!! I am not kidding>>>friends and their friends would come over my house just to listen to the stereo! I was in hog heaven! Of course very near the stereo were some "guns"! A Remington 700BDL in 22-250, a Weatherby .300 WM, and one of my favs, a Remington Model 1100 12Ga. 3" with a 30" full choke barrel were in a rack! Can you imagine a better bedroom for an 18-19 year old kid?! LOL!!

 

[dave@aDave]

Back in the Seventies, the wife and I took our daughter to Disney World in Orlando, Fl.
After listening to "It's A Small World" all day my eyes were crossed and I had developed a serious facial tic.
Still cannot stand that song.

 

[Texas10]

When I got my first "Real" job out of high school at Republic Steel Corp, I thought I was R-I-C-H! I bought a stereo component set that was awesome at the time. It started out with a Pioneer SX-70 (70 watts R.M.S.) receiver, JVC Turntable with a "Shur" needle / cartridge, 4 Criterion speakers. I can't remember the model but the front ones were about 3 ft. high and 20" wide the rear about 1/2 that. Then I had a "JVC Reel-to-Reel" tape recorder with a 120 minute capacity for the reels. I spent hours making certain each reel I recorded was always "The Best"! LOL!! I am not kidding>>>friends and their friends would come over my house just to listen to the stereo! I was in hog heaven! Of course very near the stereo were some "guns"! A Remington 700BDL in 22-250, a Weatherby .300 WM, and one of my favs, a Remington Model 1100 12Ga. 3" with a 30" full choke barrel were in a rack! Can you imagine a better bedroom for an 18-19 year old kid?! LOL!!

I pretty much did the same, only Klipsch clone speakers with 15 in horns and woofers that I built from a kit into 9 cu ft cabinets for the lowest bass response. That was 1975 and I still have those, and they're probably the reason why I'm wearing hearing aids in both ears today. Those speakers did real justice to music produced by Genesis and Boston and other like groups. Akai 10" R to R, Kenwood 95 amp, Rotel DD turntable with the ever so popular Shure M95ED cartridge. Music (and a prescription for subsequent deafness) to my ears.

All now vanquished to my loading room in the garage where I can crank it up 'till it shakes the paint off the walls. I guess I'll never learn.

Er, what? Sorry honey, what did you say?

 

[Twicepop]

Loved it back in the 60s when Buffalo Springfield did it . This rendition really grabs my attention .

I'm not tech savvy enough to post it, but check out "THUNDERSTRUCK" by Steve N Seagulls.

 

[ShootDots]

I pretty much did the same, only Klipsch clone speakers with 15 in horns and woofers that I built from a kit into 9 cu ft cabinets for the lowest bass response. That was 1975 and I still have those, and they're probably the reason why I'm wearing hearing aids in both ears today. Those speakers did real justice to music produced by Genesis and Boston and other like groups. Akai 10" R to R, Kenwood 95 amp, Rotel DD turntable with the ever so popular Shure M95ED cartridge. Music (and a prescription for subsequent deafness) to my ears.

All now vanquished to my loading room in the garage where I can crank it up 'till it shakes the paint off the walls. I guess I'll never learn.

Er, what? Sorry honey, what did you say?

When I moved to Arizona 3 years ago, I gave my Kenwood amp to my son. I don't remember the model but it was 100 amps R.M.S. and with the INfinity "tower" speakers it would blow your ears off! I am quite sure I am near deaf because of the stereos and guns when I was a kid. I always L-O-V-E-D the Klipsh speakers>>>I believe they are the BEST for home stereo! If I had a BIG enough home, I would have the JBL "Voice of the Theater" speakers IF you can even get them anymore! You had an enviable stereo set up my friend! I bet you have some excellent memories surrounding that equipment!

 

[hogpatrol]

Marantz amp and Bose 901s, cost me a bundle but "had to have 'em". I'm from the Dick Clark era so a lot of songs over the dam. One jingle I can't shake is "Strangers in the Night" by Sinatra. As far as the grandkids in the back seat, I just tell them to say "One smart fellow felt smart" as fast as the can. Usually keeps them occupied for fifty miles.

 

[ShootDots]

Marantz amp and Bose 901s, cost me a bundle but "had to have 'em". I'm from the Dick Clark era so a lot of songs over the dam. One jingle I can't shake is "Strangers in the Night" by Sinatra. As far as the grandkids in the back seat, I just tell them to say "One smart fellow felt smart" as fast as the can. Usually keeps them occupied for fifty miles.

I like Sinatra's "I did it my way" as his best song! I still love it to this day!

 

[D-4297]

Joplin , Hendricks , Bonnie - Delany & Friends , Joe South , Roy Orbison , Tom Jones , Merle , Willie . I could keep listing them all day . Anything and everything by The Eagles , Temptations , Four Tops ,Etta James , Sam Cook , Jackie Wilson , David Ruffin , Smokey . Having a good memory at my age is somewhat of a curse when you can still remember all the words to the songs that were "Top 40" when you were in H.S.