The two songs were recorded 43 years
apart, yet for some reason I can't get either one out of my head.
I think it was just last week or so
that I wrote about how my pea brain, once it gets a song stuck in it,
won't let go. Well, over the weekend it happened with two different
songs, both of which seem to be running on repeat in my head.
The first is Loraine's fault. When we
went grocery shopping Saturday, the one time of the week we're
actually in her car, we popped in a Gordon Lightfoot CD. One of the
songs that played was one of his two U.S. number one songs,
“Sundown”. I haven't heard it in forever, and it's a song I've
kinda liked since I was a kid, so I started humming along with it.
Big mistake, because I've now been
humming along with the song for four straight days.
Because I've known about the song since
it came out, it's not a surprise that once I was reintroduced to it
it lodged itself in my brain. After all, we had some catching up to
do. The other song that's been on repeat in my head is a song that's
nothing like “Sundown”, yet I am also not surprised that it's
lodged in my brain.
Why? Because it is nothing but one
giant musical hook. World, let me introduce you to Computer Games'
“Every Single Night”.
Computer Games is actually “Glee”
actor Darren Criss and his brother _______, who've released a 3-song
EP with 80's influenced tunes. I saw the video for this on MTVu,
bought the single, and listened to it (at last count) 23 times in a
row. At first listen I thought it was the greatest Haircut 100 song
Haircut 100 (an obscure English group from the early 80s) never
recorded. Then, after listening to it those 23 times in a row, I
realized it was much more than that. It was like if Chicago and
Miami Sound Machine had a musical love child, and then had that
musical love child by one or all of the Hanson brothers (the musical
brothers who gave us “Hmm Bop”, not the hockey brothers who gave
us “Let's put on the foil”. That probably would've produced an
entirely different kind of song).
Why that song started to mash-up in my
mind with “Sundown” I'm not quite sure, seeing as how they are
nothing alike. One's a 70's folk-pop song with interesting lyrical
content, the other is a new throwback that (ear)worms its way into
your brain. Yet for some reason they're both there, and both
fighting with everything else in my head for whatever limited brain
power I have. So if you see me walking down the street the next few
days and I happen to be humming (or even outright singing) a song,
you'll know it's one of two.
One you may know, and one you don't
know yet. Although, now that I think about it, I'll start playing it
on the air. Maybe it'll get stuck in YOUR brain, too!
No, that's okay. You can thank me
later...
8-)
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