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Ohrwurms td Sat Dec 23 19:16:39 2006
German has a clever term for music you can't get out of your head; Ohrwurm — literally ear worm. Most mornings when I wake up there's music playing in my head. This page logs my Ohrwurms. What am I thinking?!
Skin as Tender as Dimaggio's Glove. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:38 2006
Bloody Mary, from South Pacific. I think this was the first Broadway Musical I ever saw (maybe second, after Annie Get Your Gun), when I was about 10 years old. (At the O'Keefe Center in Toronto, not on Broadway.) The main thing I remember is sailors rowing across the stage on the turntable.
You can see how far? td Sat Dec 23 19:16:37 2006
The Who, I Can See For Miles, mashed up with Pink Floyd, Interstellar Overdrive.
I'm just roaming for the moment td Sat Dec 23 19:16:37 2006
Green Day, When I Come Arund, but it's a dub version (which I don't think exists outside my head). Definitely Sly & Robbie in the rhythm section.
The Sun went out just like a dying amber td Sat Dec 23 19:16:37 2006
September in the Rain, which is in a couple of Warner Bros cartoons, Swooner Crooner and Porky's Preview.
Lime and limpid green, the sound surrounds. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:36 2006
Pink Floyd, Astronomy Domine.
Throw away my bottle down the drain td Sat Dec 23 19:16:36 2006
Procol Harum, Whisky Train.
All night long td Sat Dec 23 19:16:36 2006
Howlin' Wolf, Wang Dang Doodle (in the Koko Taylor version.)
And usually it's too late when you realize what you had td Sat Dec 23 19:16:35 2006
38 Special, Hold On Loosely.
Neuro-surgeons scream for more at paranoia's poison door. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:35 2006
King Crimson, 21st Century Schizoid Man.
You've got to keep it small. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:35 2006
Peter Gabriel, D.I.Y.
Hot Diggity td Sat Dec 23 19:16:34 2006
Emmanuel Chabrier, España, which Tim played in a joint Oakland Youth Orchestra and Oakland East Bay Symphony performance last night. And which was the tune for the Pat Boone hit Hot Diggity!
You're not listnin' to all I say td Sat Dec 23 19:16:34 2006
Betty Everett, The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss). (But, according to Susan, It's In Something Else.)
But I think I've found that day td Sat Dec 23 19:16:34 2006
Malo, Suavecito. I know, it should be Danny Boy or something for St Patrick's Day, but you get what you get.
He's a complicated man td Sat Dec 23 19:16:33 2006
Isaac Hayes: Theme from Shaft. More people know Isaac Hayes for playing Chef on South Park than for playing B3 on Try A Little Tenderness -- what a world!
What good would a Stratocaster with a whammy bar do me? td Sat Dec 23 19:16:33 2006
Today it's a mashup of The Beach Boys' God Only Knows and Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage.
His heart was made of knotty pine. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:33 2006
Kawliga. I have two versions of this in my mp3 files, the Hank Williams original and a cover by The Residents.
California tumbles into the sea. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:32 2006
Steely Dan, My Old School.
I stood on this corner waiting for you to come along. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:32 2006
Don and Juan, What's your name.
They don't know what love is. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:32 2006
Randy Newman, You Can Leave Your Hat On.
Gonna take two weeks td Sat Dec 23 19:16:31 2006
Summertime Blues, for a second day.
He said, quote: td Sat Dec 23 19:16:31 2006
Eddie Cochrane, Summertime Blues, but covered many times, by Blue Cheer, The Who, Joan Jett and now Rush.
Don't look at me! I'm not your kind. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:30 2006
Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, after reading this item in Joe Zitt's weblog.
Like a whirlpool, it never ends. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:30 2006
Tommy Roe! Dizzy!
That road goes nowhere td Sat Dec 23 19:16:30 2006
Paul Revere and the Raiders, Kicks. (It was on the radio yesterday.)
I'm on a wavelength far from home td Sat Dec 23 19:16:29 2006
Wall of Voodoo, Mexican Radio.
Break my heart again. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:29 2006
The Beatles, I'll Be Back, again.
Even children get older td Sat Dec 23 19:16:29 2006
Fleetwood Mac, Landslide. (Susan heard a restaurant entertainer do this, and was telling me about it.)
I've been good, as good as I can be td Sat Dec 23 19:16:28 2006
The Beatles, again, this time Wait.
You could find better things to do. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:28 2006
The Beatles, I'll Be Back.
Try and imagine the window all covered in green td Sat Dec 23 19:16:27 2006
Frank Zappa, The Idiot Bastard son.
Nobody can do me no harm td Sat Dec 23 19:16:27 2006
The Beatles, Happiness is a warm gun.
What a Glorious Feelin' td Sat Dec 23 19:16:27 2006
Singin' In The Rain.
Let me take you down, 'cause You're happy when you're gray. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:26 2006
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Who Loves You, and concurrently, The Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever.
On the edge of oblivion, all the world is Babylon td Sat Dec 23 19:16:26 2006
Wang Chung: Everybody Have Fun Tonight.
Twenty pounds of headlines stapled to his chest. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:26 2006
Bob Dylan, Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again.
From you, I get the story. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:25 2006
The Who, We're Not Gonna Take It.
Ow! My Brain! td Sat Dec 23 19:16:25 2006
Today, it's a little quodlibet, comprised of
  • The March from Gustav Holst's First Suite in Eb for Military Band (heard at last nights Berkeley High School Spring Concert.)
  • Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Chile
  • Chris Isaak: Wicked Game
I went to the doctor guess what he told me td Sat Dec 23 19:16:24 2006
Prince/Sinead O'Conner: Nothing Compares 2 U
My brain hurt like a warehouse. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:24 2006
David Bowie, Five Years.
I want to be there. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:24 2006
God help me, it's Journey's Lights (which I know mainly from a KFRC promo from the early 1980's.)
I ain't no doctor with degree td Sat Dec 23 19:16:23 2006
Aretha Franklin, Think.
What's this? td Sat Dec 23 19:16:23 2006
Today we have a little two-bar phrase that decomposes (un-hockets?) into multiple voices in a bunch of ways. I think I was thinking about Steve Reich when this popped into my head. 
        3/4 ||: FR LS xF | SR FS MR :||
1 12 123 1234 12345 1234 123 12 1 td Sat Dec 23 19:16:23 2006
The choral section of Einstein On The Beach whose whose words (and melody) are 
     la do la do la do
     si re si re si re
     so si so si so si
     so do so do so do
Check out Guitar George he knows all the chords td Sat Dec 23 19:16:22 2006
Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing
Porque cantando se alegran td Sat Dec 23 19:16:21 2006
Last week's gap in this log reflects a trip to Guadalajara to visit Keelan, who is teaching English in Mexico for a year. We heard lot's of Mariachis while we were gone, but none that played Cielito Lindo, although several asked us if we wanted to hear it. In revenge, it's running through my head today.
A Birthday Song td Sat Dec 23 19:16:21 2006
It's Tim's birthday today, and appropriately (?), Leslie Gore's It's My Party is in my head. The link points at the Brian Ferry version, which I didn't know existed.
He'll always stand by you td Sat Dec 23 19:16:21 2006
Jesus Loves The Little Children, again.
Red and yellow, black and white,/All are precious in His sight td Sat Dec 23 19:16:20 2006
Jesus Loves The Little Children, a bible camp favorite. Really!
Zircon-encrusted td Sat Dec 23 19:16:20 2006
Frank Zappa, Montana.
With A Drum Solo td Sat Dec 23 19:16:20 2006
Caravan, by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Juan Tizol.
Original? td Sat Dec 23 19:16:19 2006
I have a little 8-bar phrase, in 3/4 time, looping (with variations.) I think it's my own invention. (Tempo about 1/4=180 or a little faster.) 
  3/4 ||: S..... | ..F.M. | R.M.D. | R.l.D. | t..... | ...... | ls.... | ...... :||
Could We Have Kippers For Breakfast? td Sat Dec 23 19:16:19 2006
Supertramp's Breakfast In America.
Two To One td Sat Dec 23 19:16:19 2006
Jan Berry (of Jan and Dean) died on Friday, so his tunes were on my mind. So this morning I was running a medley of Surf City and Little Old Lady From Pasadena (and Surf's Up, which isn't one of his) in my head.
Through The Storm we Reach The Beer td Sat Dec 23 19:16:18 2006
A looping fragment of U2's With or Without You. Or maybe it's the Coors Light Wing Man jingle.
She Looked At Me With Big Brown Eyes td Sat Dec 23 19:16:18 2006
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Heard on The Bone on the way home yesterday, and still reverberating in my head this morning.
You Can't Stay Here td Sat Dec 23 19:16:18 2006
It's wretched Closing Time, again. Two days in a row.
I Know Who I Want To Take Me Home td Sat Dec 23 19:16:17 2006
Closing Time, by Semisonic, God help me.
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:17 2006
Pennies From Heaven, by Arthur Johnson and John Burke. A #1 hit for Bing Crosby in 1936!
Flotation Is Groovy td Sat Dec 23 19:16:17 2006
Jimi Hendrix, Power of Soul.
Mother life, hold firmly on to me. td Sat Dec 23 19:16:16 2006
Yes, Starship Trooper.
I Want To Get Lost td Sat Dec 23 19:16:16 2006
Dobie Gray, Drift Away.
The Evil One Crept Up td Sat Dec 23 19:16:16 2006
Led Zeppelin, Ramble On.
Hey Now, Hey Now td Sat Dec 23 19:16:15 2006
Don't Dream It's Over by Neil Finn of Crowded House.
Fly Trans-love Airways, Gets You There on Time td Sat Dec 23 19:16:14 2006
Heaven knows why I'm thinking of Donovan's Fat Angel, which was apparently on a Jefferson Airplane live album.
What Ever Happened to Fae Wray? td Sat Dec 23 19:16:14 2006
I woke up in the middle of the night with the bass riff from When The Music's Over in my head, but this morning it's Rose Tint My World from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Nature's Way td Sat Dec 23 19:16:14 2006
Today it's Nature's Way by Randy California, from Spirit's Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus.
I Dig A Pony td Sat Dec 23 19:16:14 2006
One of my favorite Beatles tunes. I mentioned to Gino Robair last night that I liked a cover of this that I heard him do (with Jonathan Segel's Edgy not Antsy band), and lo and behold, here it is in my head this morning.
Two At One Blow td Sat Dec 23 19:16:13 2006
OK, so today was a weird one. I read a little of Steve Reich's Writings on Music before getting up, and then noticed that I had bits of Reich's Music for 18 Musicians and Donna Summer and Giorgio Morodor's I Feel Love running simultaneously.

They're roughly contemporaneous — Music for 18 Musicians is from 1976, I Feel Love from 1977, so I guess the fusion makes some sort of weird sense.
Mystery Minuet td Sat Dec 23 19:16:13 2006
Hmph. I expected this list to be an exercise in enumerating the vapid pop tunes that I wake up with, but today, on day two, I have a classical melody that I can't identify. It's a sort of Mozarty minuet. Here it is in a sort of proportional solfege notation: 

	3/4 ||: D... s... ..D. | t..D R... ..D. | t..D R.s. l.t. | D..M D... ..xx :||
She's Gone td Sat Dec 23 19:16:15 2006
For two days running, it's been Darryl Hall and John Oates She's Gone, their first hit.