Songs stuck in your head..

[MetalPants]

I have been suffering through having a Ke$ha song stuck in my mind the past couple of days.

 

[iguana_tonante]

It's been this for a me since a few days. My brain hurtz.

(Steve Miller Band -- "The Joker")

So . . . did you ever figure out what a pompatus is?

Actually, yes.

I first I thought it was "I speak from the pulpits of love" (kinda ok), but then I saw the lyrics and they made no sense. So I made a search and I found this piece on the Straight Dope.

"Pompatus" mystified millions when Steve Miller used it in his 1973 hit "The Joker": "Some people call me the space cowboy. / Yeah! Some call me the gangster of love. / Some people call me Maurice, / Cause I speak of the Pompatus of love."

(...) Maurice was from Miller's 1972 tune "Enter Maurice," which appeared on the album Recall the Beginning ... A Journey From Eden. "Enter Maurice" had this lyric: "My dearest darling, come closer to Maurice so I can whisper sweet words of epismetology in your ear and speak to you of the pompitous of love."

(...) Some sharp-eared music fan noticed the "Enter Maurice" lyric above bore a marked resemblance to some lines in a rhythm and blues tune called "The Letter" by the Medallions. (...) "Oh my darling, let me whisper sweet words of [something like epismetology] and discuss the [something like pompatus] of love." (...) the song had been written and sung by a member of the Medallions named Vernon Green.

(...) The mystery words (...) were "puppetutes" and "pizmotality." (...) "Pizmotality described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved," (...) And puppetutes? "A term I coined to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure [thus puppet], who would be my everything and bear my children."

I'm here to serve.

 

[Eyes]

I've had Cee-Lo Green's new song 'It's Ok' stuck in my head for the past few days. Radio 1 have been playing it every chance they get, and I'm always around when they do.

Over the past few days, I've also had DJ Earworm 2010 getting into my brain (That is a good mashup), Oasis 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' and Hurts 'Wonderful Life'.
Those are all good ones though, so I don't mind too much.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

Rammlied by Rammstein. It's been driving me crazy because I can't remember the lyrics, and whenever I try to sing it under my breath I mix and mash pieces of verses that I know don't go together.

 

[Mary Ann]

The worst earworm I've ever had was The Pretender's Brass in Pocket when it first came out in about 1980. I had it in my head for over a week, and I didn't even like the song that much.

I like that song, actually. Of course, like a lot of rock-era music, it helps to have the printed lyrics. "Great song, Chrissie, but what the hell are you singing? Gonna use my sexy? Gonna use my sensei?"

So true! I was 11 or so when the song came out and I got the arms, legs, fingers and imagination (only just) but had the same confusion as you regarding the rest of the lyrics. I also had no idea what "brass in pocket" meant, so even the freaking title confused me. I didn't dislike the song, but it was such a stubborn earworm that I've been wary of the song ever since.

 

[Count Zero]

I've had this song stuck in my head for days: Auf, auf, zum Kampf, an old song of the workers movement dedicated to Karl_Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, two Communist leaders murdered in 1919. It took me quite a while to find a video on YouTube for it that was somewhat neutral.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Over the past few days, I've also had DJ Earworm 2010 getting into my brain (That is a good mashup)

Another Earworm fan! I loved the 2010 mashup too.

 

[Deckerd]

I've had that IKEA advert song - Jonah Louie's Always find me in the kitchen at parties. It's been playing in my bloody head for days now.

Just to drive all of you crazy

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I've had that IKEA advert song - Jonah Louie's Always find me in the kitchen at parties. It's been playing in my bloody head for days now.

Just to drive all of you crazy

He just wished he could be home for Christmas....

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Una Paloma Blanca

Wow, poor you.

I've had the Woodland Critter Christmas song stuck in my head for about two weeks. It nearly drove me insane...nearly.

..... it's once a year, it's Christmas time, and it happens once a year...it's once a year, it's Christmas time, when we hear how Christmas only comes once a year...

*sigh*