This week's ear-worm

[DiamondEcho]

Damned :Melody Lee [Belgium 2004]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNVG-HOAZIg

This one has been going around in my head this week, no idea why it re-appeared from the distant past all of a sudden. I looked on Youtube, and from the first page of hits picked a live version with some age to it; albeit 2004.
It appears to be a low-budget or almost home video, and ends with either a band member or person in the crowd perhaps trying to grab the camera.

This an early audio recording of them doing a Peel Session, studio-live from 1978 when the album the song featured on was released. Reminds me that much 'punk' wasn't as crap/faked as some might suggest these days; The Damned were pretty accomplished musicians. Sure it's not a wildly complicated track but it is fast and for a live performance it's slick/tight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTHYmBMu_k

[kiloran]

I HATE earworms
Mine are usually songs I like but it does get a bit wearing having them going round and round in my brain for days. Very occasionally it's something I totally dislike and can't get rid of, like Jake the Peg by Rolf Harris. Absolutely no idea how things like that get into my brain.

My current earworm is Hurricane by Bob Dylan. I love the way he took a real-life miscarriage of justice and put it to words and music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVk9OIBrXXA

--kiloran

[PinkDalek]

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My current earworm is Hurricane by Bob Dylan. I love the way he took a real-life miscarriage of justice and put it to words and music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVk9OIBrXXA

Turns out it may not have been a miscarriage after all. However, it features in this recent musical, which we enjoyed:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/ ... -programme

No longer on at the Old Vic but a snippet is at the end of the trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... lnEdPS6ulk

[didds]

My earworms are anything by Queen this week - I'm in a performance/concert in ten days time of Queen sings (37 piece orchestra/band), 15 or so singers) and various songs take it in turns to go round and round my head!

didds

[JMN2]

None for some time but I do remember latest was Croydon by Captain Sensible.

[bungeejumper]

It's the idiotic bubble gum tunes of the 1960s that drive me nuts. As often as not, I can even remember the bands' names, a thought which drives me truly to despair. Those bloody Monkees (or whoever) have been squatting in my brain cells for half a century. Just think what else I might have achieved with them? A cure for cancer? A couple of million quid in the bank? A Nobel prize? C'mon, even a winning lottery number would have been nice.

Current earworm is the opening riff from Fleetwood Mac's Oh Well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSPB15MLHD0. Closely followed by the closing riff from Zeppelin's Bring it On Home(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAO0ib8a0dU).

Gonna feel good all day.

BJ

[DiamondEcho]

Are ear-worms contagious? I'm worried I'll now have The Monkees going around my head all day!

[BrummieDave]

I saw The Damned a few months ago and am off to see Theatre of Hate twice in the next few weeks, and Graham Parker not long after that. The striking thing is how much I still enjoy these gigs and how much the bands seem to (can't believe they'd do it otherwise, even for money, re Stan Stammers coming over from NY to play). And just like back when I first saw them, they're playing small venues which, along with the fact that only real fans would bother to go see them now, all makes for a cracking atmosphere. Compare that with a more contemporary mainstream gig, and you'd be in a stadium or indoor shed with a very high roof, shuffling along with the masses, and next to zero atmosphere.

All that said, if someone had told me when I was 15 and watching these bands for the first time that I'd still be watching the same people well into their 60s and beyond, I'd have laughed at the thought. So pleased I was wrong!

[JMN2]

Born Free.