Sometimes You Just Can't Get A Song Out Of Your Mind
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
July 25, 2008 2:48am CST
Lots of times while I'm sitting here MyLotting I have my radio on low in the background....sometimes I have jazz on, sometimes classical..and of course, sometimes rock. Well even though I mind have the radio on real low, I have sensitive hearing...and even low can pick out a song that jumps at me...and crank up the volume...and just sit back and listen.
I never was much for being a Sheryl Crow fan, but I just can't get this one song out of my mind...and even downloaded it into my iTunes...It's the song "Shine Over Babylon" and is actually a very powerful song...a commentary about the times we're living in..here are the lyrics
Shine Over Babylon
I walked the heat of seven hills
Endless talk of losing wills
Great highways in a constant melt
Men and women and children all have overbuilt
Buying bread and paying for none
Creatures of a waning sun
Teacher's hands are overrun
Clowns and gypsies have all but gone
You make me wanna
Shine over Babylon
You make me wanna
Shine over Babylon
Freedoms etched on Sacred pillars
Hollow stones of mindless filler
Can lead to madman oil drillers
Won't be long before we all are killers
Little boy lost way up the mountains
Cities drowning under boiling fountains
I dreamed of chilly, sunlit days
I was trembling in a golden haze
You make me wanna
Shine over Babylon
You make me wanna
Shine over Babylon
Celebrate the golden cow
Praise the bloated bank account
If there's a god where is he now
The precipice is slipping further out
Sanskrit message from the mounts
Leave your possession, hope abounds
There's nothing here for you to cry about
We're all just followers from here on out
I take the stage, I walk the planks
I sing these songs with little thanks
I wait for shouts from crazy cranks
I stand amidst the brown shirt ranks
I found my way to alexandria
Where gurus bubble up on gangea
Scavengers, they run up and hand ya
All the junk that should have damned ya
You make me wanna
Shine over Babylon
You make me wanna
Shine over Babylon
If everything in life was free
You'd float in your own reverie
The things that you could never see
seal the gap between you and me
You make me wanna
Shine over Babylon
You make me wanna
Shine over Babylon
The lyrics were found here
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sherylcrow/shineoverbabylon.html
If you're not familiar with the song you can hear it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Gbphh4U1Y
Give a listen...it's really powerful
Anyway...did you ever come across a song that you just can't get out of your mind...especially one that is very obviously a commentary of our times?
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21 responses
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
29 Jul 08
I still sing songs of the 70's because that was my time I grew up and got married in the 70's, so there are songs from that area I am always humming to myself, do they have any social meaning not really, I just like the tunes.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
1 Aug 08
I don't know what songs you might be thinking of, of the 70s...I grew up in that era as well...real Woodstock child here..still am to an extent..one song from that time that keeps going through my mind as they seem to be playing it a lot on the rock station lately is The Who's Love Reign O'er Me
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
2 Aug 08
I wasn't talking about the songs with meaning although it was the era for that I was talking about stuff like sugar sugar by the archies even though it was 1969,
dancing queen - abba
all the disco stuff, just dance music not heavy lyrics like a lot of the songs of that era
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
3 Aug 08
Disco type music was actually more popular in the 1980s...remember Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta?...The "lighter" music you're thinking of in the 1960s and 1970s used to be called "bubble gum pop" type...such as Herman's Hermits, Freddy and the Dreamers, Monkees...even for awhile there the Beatles were rather "light"...versus the heavy metal or rock type, such as The Who, Ten Years After, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane--at that time I kind of listened to it all..LOL
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@cinderella2007 (2662)
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25 Jul 08
Its amazing how addictive songs can be!! Not only the other day a customer where I work was whistling a Christmas song (hello, its July!!) anyway all day i could not get that tune out of my head!!
About 4 maybe 5 hours later I think I managed to forget it and was soon humming another tune!!
Its strange how out of nowhere you start humming or singing the words to a song especially if its one that you havent heard for a while!!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
26 Jul 08
OMG--that happened to me not too long ago. Some kid out in the street was singing a Christmas song the other day...the whole rest of the day and night all I'm thinking of in my mind were Christmas songs..LOL
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
27 Jul 08
Well the way this year seems to be zipping by, before you know it, it WILL be Christmas..LOL
@cinderella2007 (2662)
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26 Jul 08
It took me a while to realise what the tune was. Its annoying when you recognise a tune and cant remember where from - never expecting someone to be humming Christmas songs in July!!
I even tried listening to the radio to get another song in my head! It got me thinking if Christmas was nearer than I thought!!??
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@1grnthmb (2055)
• United States
30 Jul 08
Ah! A fellow Jazz and Classical Lover. I also really like New Age but that is really a form of jazz. I never have the problems of getting the songs stuck in my head. But I will often listen to the same music over and over when reading and find that latter on when I her that music I remember the book I was reading when I first got the album. My wife and daughters on the other hand always complain about songs getting stuck in their head. Steph came home from school yesterday and said that the her chemistry teacher mentioned lithium and the song Lithium popped into her head and was stuck there the rest of the day. Lori currently has the catch tune for the Hunt's Manwich sauce stuck in her head.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
2 Aug 08
Yup--fellow Jazz and Classical Lover..hehee..and yes, most New Age can be considered as a type of jazz as well. Oh , yeah, I get commercial "jingles" going in my mind a lot too.
Music can trigger a lot of things...you hear a song or piece of music you haven't heard in awhile and it takes you back sometimes to when you first heard it
@katbalu102 (377)
• Philippines
25 Jul 08
i know what you mean... i love listening to music all the time as well. and if im not listening to it on the radio i just recall a song or just hum or sing it out loud. if a friend would sing a song that i like and just cant get it off of my head we call it 'last song syndrome or lss'... and i get it all the time too. hahaha.. i like sheryl crow. shes great. i havent heard this new song yet but im downloading it on youtube now. thanks for posting it.
@pinks17 (2192)
• Philippines
27 Jul 08
Hi pyewacket.;p
It's what we call "last song syndrome" or LSS.;p
Even if you are asleep and left your radio on..your mind subconsciously remembers it.And you'll be surprised that when you wake up you are seeing this song.Or there cases that you hear the song you hated so much..you'll be surprised that you are actually singing it...I don't know why..that's how our mind works with regard to hearing music.;p
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
1 Aug 08
That sounds similar to other ideas I've heard...like whatever thing you watch on TV before going to bed or if you're reading a book, that last thing will stick in your subconscious as you sleep as well....one of the reasons I always try to watch or read something positive.
@rogue13xmen13 (14403)
• United States
25 Jul 08
I cannot get "Canned Heat" by Jamiroquai out of my head. If you all saw "Center Stage" or "Napolean Dynamite" then you all know which song it is.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
28 Jul 08
I'll have to see if there is a Youtube video of that song...not familiar with it
@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
25 Jul 08
Yes... that does happen quite often with me.
When I got the DVD "Confession Tour" by Madonna
I was hook on the song "Hung up" for more than a week. lol
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
28 Jul 08
Think I'll have to check to see if there are any Youtube videos of that song to check out what it sounds like
@AmbiePam (92788)
• United States
25 Jul 08
Well, compared to the serious lyrics written above, the little ditty in my head is quite trivial. Last night for some reason I had a jingle in my head. I kept hearing in my head, Midol will help you get your ZZZZZSSS! Except Midol is a OTC medication for women on their period. So finally I remembered it was Nightol (spelling?) will help you get your ZZZZZZSSS! So when I had that go through my head I started thinking about What would you doooouuu for a Klondike bar...
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
26 Jul 08
I get rather dumb commercial jingles stuck in my head too.sometimes ones from way back ...Like "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is..."
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
26 Jul 08
There is a technical name for that. It is called an ear worm or in technical terms involuntary musical imagery. I know about them because I get them all of the time. They drive me crazy. Sometimes they make it difficult to think about other things.
When I have that problem, I try to plant in a different song. One that is quieter and I don't like as much. the past few weeks is Mama Mia, I always liked ABBA and every time it quiets down, I hear the commercial on TV and it just kicks in again.
We went to see Beauty and The beast a few weeks ago and I came out of the theatre and in my head was Mama Mia!
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@gemini_rose (16264)
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25 Jul 08
I know what you mean, when a song sticks in your head it can drive you mad. I am going to be a bit different here because the last song that stuck in my head is not really a song but the music from an advert. It was an advert for a chocolate bar called a milky bar and the music from the advert stuck in my head for ages after.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
26 Jul 08
I went a step further and put that Youtube video of Shine Over Babylon on my profile page...LOL. Yes, it can drive you batty when a song sticks in your mind....I'm like that too, with movie soundtracks at times as well..some particular part with stick with me for ages on end.
@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
25 Jul 08
I do that too, I'll hear a song once, and it ends up being in my head all day. Sometimes I'll even wake up in the mornings and a song will be in my head, I don't know where I heard it, but I'll end up singing it all day..lol. I'm not a big fan of Sheryl Crow either, I do like some of her older songs. I've never heard this one, it isn't bad....Have a good day
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
28 Jul 08
I'm often that way with movie soundtracks too. I collect a lot of CDs of soundtracks as I love them..so quite often I can't get them out of my mind either.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
26 Jul 08
oh i love that. thanks. im going to have to look it up on my playlist. do you ever go to playlist? you can download tons of music there for free to put on your profiles. myspace, yuwie, etc.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
28 Jul 08
Yup--I have a playlist on my MyLot profile page..mainly music from movie soundtracks..like Gladiator, Lord of the Rings, Mists of Avalon....LOL
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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25 Jul 08
Hi pye,
Yes it very true those words, my husband got her CD but I have never listen but I will now, no I cannot remember what song sticks out in my mind latley.
Bright Blessings
Tamara
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
27 Jul 08
Like I said I never really paid attention to her songs before but for some reason this song really sticks in my mind
@KrazyKlingon (5005)
• United States
26 Jul 08
It happens to me all the time ... Some songs are so catchy that all you need to do is hear a part of it, & it would most likely annoyingly play continuously play continuously for a week. I have also been known to actually stick songs into people's heads.
I actually ended up sticking Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harem into the cashglow site owner's head when we were trying out a new page that kept hanging. In the Mod Pod room of the chatroom area, I said to him, "All I get is a blank whiter shade of pale." After he replied laughing, he complained that he could not get that song out of his head.
Here on MyLot, I did this one three times. I ended a response with:
"... sunshine on a cloudy day.
(Oopsie - did I start a song annoyingly playing in your head?)"
@lossforredwords (3620)
• Philippines
23 Aug 08
well yeah, lots of time other called it the "last song syndrome". But most of the time I have this song in mind that I always love to listen to and unconsciously I will just listen to it over and over again.. and never remember when will it be gone to my mind. sometimes I find it tiring cause even though I got all over it.. I will sing it again.
@Trace86 (5030)
• United States
26 Jul 08
Regrettably, the girls at work and I were discussing children's songs today. I totally have this song stuck in my head! I keep hearing "Baby Beluga" by Raffi in my mind. I only remember a small bit of it and it is stuck in a loop in my head. It is about a little whale.
Other times I get just a portion of a song that I can't identify stuck in my head too. I go nuts until I figure out how to get rid of it, usually by replacing it with another song.
@bluerubymoon53 (3286)
• United States
26 Jul 08
Hi, Pye.
I know what you mean about can't get a song out of my mind. For the past 3 weeks, there have been at least 3 songs I've not been able to get out of my head and it's driving me bonkers.
Since this year's American Idol, David Cook's voice has been following me with Billie Jean, The Music of the Night, and Best of My Life(I think that's what it is).
One night at work, I had Music of the Night running through my mind over and over and over again.
I really do enjoy listening to David Cook. He has such a versatile way to his music and voice. I was listening to a few other versions of Music of the Night along with David Cook's version and I have to say that I do like David's best.
@bournecaindelta (2477)
• India
26 Jul 08
I love this song by Sheryl Crow, from the movie Cars, called " Real Gone". I listen to it, while I'm driving. Another song that I cannot get outta my head always is the song from Cars, called " Behind The Clouds." by Brad Paisly. There are many songs which I cannot get out of my head, but They usually stike my head when I'm exposed to some situations.
Link to Brad Paisly : Behind The Clouds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uYe9V3_yiE
bourne
