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gurdonarkDid you ever have a song entrap you? During the summer between my high school graduation and my entry into college, my mind was held prisoner by a song. I wish I could report that it was something fitting and cool. But, as is often the way with venomous voodoo entrapment songs, it was a song I despised. It was the ditty about how "the angel in your arms this morning/is gonna be the devil in someone else's arms tonight", with its odd lyrical story of the wronged woman who realized that revenge is its own sweet nectar.
I spent the summer between high school and college taking a couple of courses at South Arkansas University, in Magnolia, roughly thirty miles from where my parents lived. I'd drive the commute each day, tormented inside with the sound of this song. I am not much good at psycho-analytic theory of Motown cast-offs. I just know I had to listen to that song inside my head for weeks. Fortunately, the malady passed, and has not recurred, if we omit the "Torn Between Two Lovers" episode.
What songs have imprisoned you?
I spent the summer between high school and college taking a couple of courses at South Arkansas University, in Magnolia, roughly thirty miles from where my parents lived. I'd drive the commute each day, tormented inside with the sound of this song. I am not much good at psycho-analytic theory of Motown cast-offs. I just know I had to listen to that song inside my head for weeks. Fortunately, the malady passed, and has not recurred, if we omit the "Torn Between Two Lovers" episode.
What songs have imprisoned you?
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Date: 2002-10-16 10:29 am (UTC)"You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morrisette.
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Date: 2002-10-16 10:47 am (UTC)Behind Bars?
I admire her honesty, her human-ness, and her ability.
Re: Behind Bars?
Date: 2002-10-16 05:09 pm (UTC)I like those old videos of Alanis in her Canadian Tiffany days.
i hate to bug you in the middle of dinner
Date: 2002-10-16 06:53 pm (UTC)Re: i hate to bug you in the middle of dinner
Date: 2002-10-17 03:37 am (UTC)Re: i hate to bug you in the middle of dinner
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Date: 2002-10-16 10:55 am (UTC)Go figure.
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Date: 2002-10-16 12:37 pm (UTC)Thanks for commenting!
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Date: 2002-10-16 11:09 am (UTC)Sometime in the early 70's it was Summer Breeze by Seals and Croft
In late summer 1978 (I think) it was Hall and Oates Do What you Want, Be Who You Are
more recently it was Walking on the Sun by Smashmouth.
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Date: 2002-10-16 12:39 pm (UTC)"Walking on the Sun", while not a bad song, has definite "The Prisoner" potential--I can imagine being stuck with that one :)
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Date: 2002-10-16 12:39 pm (UTC)a mosquito
Date: 2002-10-16 02:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-16 11:23 am (UTC)I don't know if I'm among the minority, but I always have music in my head, even when I'm reading or working. I usually can tune it out (excuse the pun) as I do with most "noise" but sometimes it just comes to the fore, and I have to deal with it.
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Date: 2002-10-16 12:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-16 11:54 am (UTC)Always Something There to Remind Me- Naked Eyes
Too Shy- Kajagoogoo
Mother's Talk- Tears for Fears
That Voice Again- Peter G
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Date: 2002-10-16 12:42 pm (UTC)For that matter, "Can't Get it Out of My Head", the old ELO song, also qualifies :). Ah, "Golden Slumbers"....
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Date: 2002-10-16 12:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-16 01:09 pm (UTC)T for F, but then Q
Date: 2002-10-16 01:16 pm (UTC)Re: T for F, but then Q
Date: 2002-10-16 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-16 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-16 04:07 pm (UTC)Re: I can hear music!
Date: 2002-10-16 03:29 pm (UTC)I can hear music!
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Date: 2002-10-16 05:38 pm (UTC)iiiii'm comin' up!
I tend to make up my own songs to imprison others. For instance, there's something that ice hockey announcers say all the time--"dancin' with the biscuit"--which refers to intricate puck handling (I think). I have this little song I sing that drives D. crazy. It goes something like..."Dancin'/dancin'/dancin' with the biscuit..." Over and over and over. I also sing songs about/to the cats.
After reading these comments, "Too Shy" is firmly embedded in my brain. Thanks...
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Date: 2002-10-16 05:04 pm (UTC)I make up songs sometimes, too, but usually I don't get in trouble for mine unless I go into a kazoo-like voice, when I suddenly get into lots of trouble.
"Too Shy" was such a great song. Kajagoogoo was one of the few one hit wonders I know in which it was completely accepted by everyone, even Kajagoogoo, that it was a band destined to have only one hit.
Their contemporaries Sigue Sigue Sputnik, by contrast, thought they were the next big thing!
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Date: 2002-10-16 06:41 pm (UTC)During the summer, it was "Alpha and Omega" by Boards of Canada.
Earlier this week, it was "Fantasie Sign" by Seatbelts.
Now, it's "The Real Folk Blues" by Mai Yamane
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Date: 2002-10-17 03:42 am (UTC)A few of them are...
Date: 2002-10-16 09:57 pm (UTC)Nina Simone - You Can Have Him
Sophie B. Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
Concrete Blonde - Caroline
Tori Amos - Silent All These Years
Ani DiFranco - Living in Clip (the whole album on repeat for months--I totally associate it with a rough period of my life)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (I spent like a year with that album)
The Samples - Who Am I
Re: A few of them are...
Date: 2002-10-17 03:41 am (UTC)Two of your selections highlight the different ways the problem
can affect one. On the one hand, "Damn, I Wish I were Your Lover" is a real prison-song, but it's so enjoyable that one isn't afraid to be locked in its verses. On the other hand, while "The Wall" is a great song off a great album, being imprisoned by the song "The Wall" would be taxing. For my money, I think I spend my life wishing I could be imprisoned by songs like "Comfortably Numb" or "Julie With...." and instead I'm consistently imprisoned by songs like "Torn Between Two Lovers" or "Sometimes when We Touch"
Thanks for sharing your songs!
Ha!
Date: 2002-10-17 07:16 am (UTC)Re: Ha!
Date: 2002-10-17 07:30 am (UTC)Oh, and your recent journal entries have been great reading--very well written. Sorry if that's a comment to "no comment" entries, but thought you should know.
Re: Ha!
Date: 2002-10-17 07:56 am (UTC)Thanks for the compliment. <g> I suspect Write Club is going to be good for my livejournal.
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Date: 2002-10-17 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-18 12:13 am (UTC)I had Wyclef Jean's 'Gone Till November' in my head for at least 2 months once.
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Date: 2002-10-18 04:32 am (UTC)I suddenly am reminded, though, of 6 weeks I spent trapped by the Residents' Constantinople.
I actually considered seriously whether I was being hypnotized by backwards masking.