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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30254

    #46
    Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
    come on we all know that the word "song" now means ALL music
    Except that in the context of 6 Music ALL music is "songs" which is why "songs" have come to mean ALL music.
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • teamsaint
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      • Nov 2010
      • 25195

      #47
      Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
      come on we all know that the word "song" now means ALL music
      Don't you mean "Track"....(as used instead of "song").
      That really winds me up....

      (not as much as the liars who run the country wind me up, but it winds me up a lot !)
      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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      • MrGongGong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 18357

        #48
        "track" is fine by me
        I used to work in an 8 track studio

        but "song" means something with singing

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        • teamsaint
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          • Nov 2010
          • 25195

          #49
          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
          "track" is fine by me
          I used to work in an 8 track studio

          but "song" means something with singing
          not for me. You can't sing a track. You can sing a song.
          A track is a part of a recording, surely?
          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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          • gradus
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 5606

            #50
            Ear worm re-burrowing after almost 50 years - Sammy Davis jnr singing Someone Nice Like You, Anthony Newley song from the sixties. Its the coda.

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            • Joseph K
              Banned
              • Oct 2017
              • 7765

              #51
              The Earworm Thread

              One ear worm I've had the pleasure of having quite often recently is the fugue from BWV 997. I find it immensely exquisite, and will commence learning it on the guitar fairly soon, after (or probably before) I have BWV 1000 to a reasonable standard under my fingers (only the last page of which really needs much practice).

              For me, Bach's music as arranged for guitar is just on another level compared with the great majority of guitar music out there...

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              • Richard Tarleton

                #52
                Joseph, as there was an existing earworm thread I've merged the two threads, keeping your title, I hope that's OK. Apologies to Pabs for changing the title......

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                • Joseph K
                  Banned
                  • Oct 2017
                  • 7765

                  #53
                  Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                  Joseph, as there was an existing earworm thread I've merged the two threads, keeping your title, I hope that's OK. Apologies to Pabs for changing the title......
                  Yes, I did wonder whether there was already one! Thanks.

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                  • Richard Tarleton

                    #54
                    You're lucky to have such educated earworms, mine are usually extremely irritating jingles or pop songs which I've heard by accident. Why my brain hangs on to them.....as I think Pabs said originally, it needs research!

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                    • Richard Barrett
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                      • Jan 2016
                      • 6259

                      #55
                      Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                      You're lucky to have such educated earworms, mine are usually extremely irritating jingles or pop songs which I've heard by accident. Why my brain hangs on to them.....as I think Pabs said originally, it needs research!
                      There's a whole chapter about earworms in Oliver Sacks's excellent Musicophilia. Mind you I don't remember exactly what he says, I must reread that book some time soon. As I might have mentioned before, I have a technique for dealing with them when they get to be too annoying and can't be dislodged by other music, which is to tell myself that if the earworm doesn't go away I am going to incorporate it in whatever I happen to be writing at the moment. It almost always works. When it doesn't I am as good as my word.

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                      • MrGongGong
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 18357

                        #56
                        Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                        There's a whole chapter about earworms in Oliver Sacks's excellent Musicophilia. Mind you I don't remember exactly what he says, I must reread that book some time soon. As I might have mentioned before, I have a technique for dealing with them when they get to be too annoying and can't be dislodged by other music, which is to tell myself that if the earworm doesn't go away I am going to incorporate it in whatever I happen to be writing at the moment. It almost always works. When it doesn't I am as good as my word.
                        I think ALW had the same idea after listening to Meddle (allegedly, of course)

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                        • teamsaint
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 25195

                          #57
                          If I get an earworm, I tend to whistle it in my off guard moments. If it is a something I’m a bit , or a lot embarrassed about ( Breakfast in America for example, ) I just have to hope that folks nearby, if there are any, wont recognise it, ( which they probably won’t with my whistling),or are Supertramp ( as per the example) fans.

                          Works really well, on its own terms.

                          Currently, and understandably, “ Three Lions “........

                          #bringingithome
                          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                          • ahinton
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 16122

                            #58
                            Elliott Carter once told the story of how, having sat down one evening with his wife to watch a video of a production of Der Rosenkavalier, he couldn't get it out of his head for days and it began to interfere with his compositional thought processes...

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                            • Joseph K
                              Banned
                              • Oct 2017
                              • 7765

                              #59
                              Currently (and recently) got various phrases from In a Silent Way spinning in my head. Since I consider this album the absolute epitome of exquisiteness, I quite like having it in my head.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
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                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37615

                                #60
                                Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
                                Currently (and recently) got various phrases from In a Silent Way spinning in my head. Since I consider this album the absolute epitome of exquisiteness, I quite like having it in my head.
                                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GTetral5LI

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