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Topic: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

I'm talking about stuff that goes way back, however old you are - you know how sometimes you hear something, usually on the radio, that you haven't heard in literally ages, decades even, yet you find yourself immediately singing along and becoming gobsmacked at the realization that you actually remember these lyrics from so long ago?

I'm sure we've all got songs like that.

This came on the radio in the car this evening - http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=JzjLX7BjJJM - I hadn't heard this in decades, really, yet I sang along out loud with the whole thing and enjoyed myself like a kid. big_smile

I'm sure y'all have songs like that (practically the entire Beatles catalog for us older ones) so let's hear some of them.

Finding the above led me to this bizarre clip with Red Skelton!

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=f5HNk5adESE&NR=1

I'd also love to hear from the experts what those guitars are.

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Re: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

Well you've really started something here. I can imagine a thousand answers coming back.

Obvious ones like "Stairway to Heaven" of course,but I think you need a bit more. I'm gonna be honest, despite the acute personal embarrassment this will cause me (OMG - on a forum read by, well, thousands).

There's pretty much not a Barry Manilow song I don't know the words too............there it is. I said it, christ, wrote it, in fact. Worked with a guy for a number of years and we just found it necessary to ham it up a bit for a laugh in the office doing Manilow duets.

How could I know they would stay with me....forever? Even as write this, its all coming back....."Weekend in bloody New England".

As a fellow Hammer. How could you do this too me? Now I will have to throw AC/DC on the turntable just to get the melody out of my head. It's not all bad then....oh but the shame of it....

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Sometimes playing my iPod on shuffle I'll get a song I haven't listened to in ages and be instantly locked into the lyrics - and the older the song the better the recall!  How's that happen?  Even a 40 minute song like "Thick As A Brick" by Jethro Tull and I'm right there singing along.  Can't remember if I closed the garage door or turned off the coffee maker as I'm leaving my neighborhood though.  On a more serious note, I remember my Mother near the end  in a nursing home repeat verbatim and sing on key the Big Band songs of her youth.  Someone told me once that music memory is one of the last things retained in our brain.

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Thanks for that Curby. I can see this is going to be a most damaging thread. So in my last moments instead of one of Joe's soaring solo's sending me on my way I'm going to be humming 'Mandy'.

Better start living life like there's no tomorrow. Pass me that sloe gin. But as you mentioned Tull, for some unknown reason I can still recall the lyrics to "Up the 'Pool" which was a 'B' side to "Life's a long song". Maybe there is some hope then.

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Much to my chagrin, I heard that old one-hit-wonder tune "Brandy" by Looking Glass the other day and found myself singing along and knowing all the words!!!! You know, I enjoyed the tune and thought in retrospect that that dude had a heckuva good voice....

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7-dleViv2nc

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Re: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

Oh Mike, mate! lol

Barry Manilow? That took guts 'coming out' about that. I don't think I know a single BM lyric.

Anyone who was old enough when this came out chanted it in the halls in school between classes to see how low they could go. big_smile

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=u2gvaDTpKMk

(to go briefly off topic in my own topic, and just for Mike - we've signed a Czech international midfielder on loan, and we're loaning our biggest misfit, Faubert, to Real Madrid!!) lol

(And tomorrow we've got a decent chance of a result against the Arse considering how we've been playing!)

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Re: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

Santana playing "Jingo"....my mom loved the dude, would sing all the latin words off his records, but this song had momma jumpin...she would crank it up loud and sing and dance to it...I remember her and my Aunt going to see the band in the 70s...ahh memories....nice topic Gdawg smile

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Re: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

Boys Will Be Boys
Bad Boys Bad Boys
BAD BAD BAD BAD BOYS
You Make Me Feel So Good

HaHa...in a recent news report about all the ponzy schemes coming to light besides Madoff, they had this song playing in the background while they counted down about 5 gents besides Madoff and all the $$$$ they ripped off from investors.  I was a big Gloria Estefan fan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH0dxl6y … re=related

And it also reminded me of another song about men...which takes me back to a fun time in Bermuda on the dance floor with my boss...all of us girlzs surrounded him when this song came on. wink It's Raining Men Alleluia!  He was a good sport and actually loved every minute of it. Yep, so now I'm a singin' both songs and George, it all started very innocently by listening to the news and then those Bad Boys... lol

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Re: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

You've started something here George!
I remember when I started listening to Planet Rock a couple or so years ago and this song came on. Immediately it sparked a memory  and I found myself singing along almost word for word and all the time I was thinking 'What is this song?!'
I couldn't for the life of me recall what it was. All was revealed at the end..it was 'The Bells of Berlin' by Lonestar - The 70s Led Zepesque Lonestar not the country pop band of more recent times!
It was so freaky ...hadn't heard it for about twenty something years!

I've since bought the cd ...just for old times sake:)

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Re: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

I think I have a strange illness concerning lyrics: I can´t forget them. Play some absolutely stupid songs from the time when I was about 13 years old and I still remember all the lyrics from beginning to end, even though I might not even like or ever have liked the song!! I´m glad to hear that this particular illness seems to be shared by some other people too ... lol

Actually it happened to me today when I pulled out an old Beatles record and even sang along all the guitar solo parts, haha.. but o.k., Beatles is not too difficult to remember, especially if you have listened to hardly anything else for 4 years. wink

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I found this buried in my memory bank today! big_smile

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-g7Q7hXn … re=related

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Re: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

As a kid growing up these were some of the first lyrics locked in to my sub-conscious mind
Never Ever Forget ... They're Too Damn Catchy     Superb Just Superb

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cO9GB_KUAQI

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3rd ...... Mountain Time / Rockpalast       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h01xa6NMsJo
2nd ...... Sloe Gin       /  Vienna            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRASS8O8ZnE           
1st ....... Blues Deluxe / The Borderline    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnl3E_KLxYg

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Re: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

I don't know what you people are talking about!.......

"Driving' all night my hands wet on the wheel."

I can't believe you let song phrases occupy so much of your time....

"Yeah I'm, Free falling."

Just shows that we need more in our lives to concentrate on.....

"West on 80, it won't take too long."

I wonder what Michael is up to?.......

"And as we wind on down the road, Our shadows taller than our soul."

Actually, I'm getting a little tired posting here, maybe I should go to bed?.......

"Woke up dreaming I was gonna die."


Strange, I can't fall asleep because this tune keeps playing in my head. wink

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Re: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

Amsterhammer wrote:

I found this buried in my memory bank today! big_smile

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-g7Q7hXn … re=related

"Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me". Must be on the same wavelength or something G Dawg, this one popped into my head just a couple of days ago. I'm just trying to picture Janis sittin' around the house in the afternoon, bottle of Comfort on the coffee table, watchin' the tube and comin' up with that lyric.

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Re: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

Damn, I finally thought I had all this crap buried deep in my sub-conscience, but after reading this thread, it's resurfaced.
Here's two, one from Wet Willie and one from Brownsville station. Can you remember the songs?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0BNTebcbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxBbmoUdEac

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Re: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

If anyone if really interested in this topic on a cerebral level, check out this article from Discover's March 2009 issue entitled Brain Trust.  Music, memory, and mistakes: Top neuroscientists explain how the mind copes in a chaotic world.  The second question in is actually about this topic.   And the answer is, musical memories are encoded into the memory better than even visual ones and the article goes into hearing a song on the radio and how it takes you back...neurochemical tags associated with high emotions  enables you to remember every word...

Anyway, anyone remember this song.  I have his first 4 albums on vinyl, just got a catalog in the mail that has his collection on CD.  This was his only big hit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eETej8p1DH8

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Re: Old lyrics buried in your sub-conscious

That made me laugh out loud Mike big_smilelol




hansamike wrote:

Thanks for that Curby. I can see this is going to be a most damaging thread. So in my last moments instead of one of Joe's soaring solo's sending me on my way I'm going to be humming 'Mandy'.

Better start living life like there's no tomorrow. Pass me that sloe gin. But as you mentioned Tull, for some unknown reason I can still recall the lyrics to "Up the 'Pool" which was a 'B' side to "Life's a long song". Maybe there is some hope then.

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Bill S wrote:

Damn, I finally thought I had all this crap buried deep in my sub-conscience, but after reading this thread, it's resurfaced.
Here's two, one from Wet Willie and one from Brownsville station. Can you remember the songs?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0BNTebcbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxBbmoUdEac

I certainly remember the Brownsville Staion songs...I had the single smile

But Wet Willie?   never heard of them.

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