The Song Stuck in Your Brain

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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby Mongrel » Fri Mar 09, 2018 3:23 pm

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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby Mongrel » Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:38 pm



Is it so wrong that I just find this so superior to any of the songs in their original forms?
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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby Grath » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:23 pm

Mongrel wrote:Is it so wrong that I just find this so superior to any of the songs in their original forms?

We need to do an experiment, have them perform the entire play at Polka pace with accordion. I think that might be the difference.

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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby Mongrel » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:29 pm

This is one of the tunes I end up whistling pretty often. These catchy early-20th century tunes are good for that, especially the horrible jingoistic* WWI songs (or, alternately, their far more amusing parodies).



*and/or horribly racist if they're American rather than British. Oh Billy Murray...
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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby Mongrel » Sun Mar 18, 2018 2:17 am

This is a new one (to me). I wouldn't have thought the butchery of the meter would work, but... somehow it does.



(1:47 if you just want to skip the black humour and jump straight to the song)
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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby Mongrel » Tue Apr 03, 2018 5:17 pm

Digging around the apartment for metal bits (old brackets, keys for locks which are long-gone, etc.) to add to the pile of stuff the grade 1 kids are using to make windchimes.

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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby Silversong » Wed Apr 11, 2018 4:18 pm

Mongrel wrote:Digging around the apartment for metal bits (old brackets, keys for locks which are long-gone, etc.) to add to the pile of stuff the grade 1 kids are using to make windchimes.


Huh, I heard this song in a Muppet Show episode and was all "wtf is this song." Now I know, it is an old, old song.

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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby Mongrel » Wed Apr 11, 2018 4:28 pm

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Mongrel wrote:Digging around the apartment for metal bits (old brackets, keys for locks which are long-gone, etc.) to add to the pile of stuff the grade 1 kids are using to make windchimes.


Huh, I heard this song in a Muppet Show episode and was all "wtf is this song." Now I know, it is an old, old song.

It's funny how many songs go back a lot further than a lot of people realize. I was talking the other day with some friends who didn't know that Black Betty was originally a chain gang work song that's over a hundred years old, before becoming a prewar blues standard (in the Leadbelly version below, the leg slaps are meant to emulate the hammer strikes which would have been part of the tune as a work song).

The cool thing is that thanks to INTERNEEEETT it's easy for anyone to learn about this sort of thing and even listen to all the changing interpretations as time passes:









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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby beatbandito » Fri Apr 13, 2018 3:06 pm

Started rewatching Cowboy Bebop this week, and I have not had a single song on loop like I have today since like middle school. It was probably also something from this OST.

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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby Mongrel » Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:09 pm



Listening to the initial instrumental sequence while watching the image in Friday's signature is kind of mesmerizing.
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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby Mongrel » Thu May 03, 2018 4:54 pm

Tunak tunak tun
Tunak tunak tun
Tunak tunak tun
Dah dah dah!
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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby Mongrel » Thu May 03, 2018 7:56 pm

Ha! Oh dear.

Well, good to know, though that crime would be far from the worst committed by many of among the thousands of artists in my song catalogue.
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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

Postby Mongrel » Mon May 07, 2018 4:34 pm

In the Navy!
You can sail the seven seas!
In the Navy!
You can catch a strange disease!

...

What am I gonna do in a submarine?
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Re: The Song Stuck in Your Brain

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