Musical Tourettes

[NormanD]

I do have a sort of music of the spheres thing, a sort of aural dreaming if you like, or strictly speaking more noticeable just before falling asleep.

This morning's twilight hour offered me a rendition of a reggae version of Buddy Holly's True Love Ways. I didn't get to dream what it had been re-titled as.

[Jamie Renton]

This morning's twilight hour offered me a rendition of a reggae version of Buddy Holly's True Love Ways. I didn't get to dream what it had been re-titled as.[/quote]

True Dub Ways? Jah Love Ways?

Any televised political debate nowadays gets me singing Groucho at the screen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtMV44yoXZ0

[Jamie Renton]

If ever I do something and then have to start it all over again, I find myself humming Mendelssohn's Spring Song, because of its use in the film Sullivan's Travels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mz5Rtx-Eu0

[Paul S]

Courtesy of The Great Danny Baker Show:
Tuva Groove sounds just like Bruce Forsyth trying to start his car on a cold day.
Give it a go (from 15-30s)and you'll never be able to listen to it again. (If you ever did).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hOo3YyCnHw

[Jamie Renton]

Doing the weekly shop this morning, I came across something in the bakery section called Tiger Bread and thought "that's neat"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2sMuVPMkkk

[Adam Blake]

Jamie, that record totally rocks. It did then, it does now, it always shall.

OK, how's this for a brutal ear worm. Every time I see the word "taramasalata" in a supermarket I hear in my head: "If you taramasa-f*cking-lata" you will live to be old" to this tune. This kicks off the rest of it. "Back in 1780 when Bulgaria was a la-ad" with that infuriating chromatic dissonance at the end of the line. Mike Batt, I hate you. Mozart, I forgive you. This tune has tormented me for 38 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ropNrsrckc

[Jamie Renton]

Adam: I'm not sure what's more disturbing, the fact that that's your earworm, or the fact that, knowing what I'd find, I still felt the need to click on the link.

(In truth, I know it's the latter that's more disturbing)

[Adam Blake]

Mwa hahahahah!!!

[AndyM]

I would say that was one of the better Wombles hits but that would imply I had given the matter of ranking them some thought......

The same-sex dancing couples are pretty ahead-of-the-curve, mind you.

[Jamie Renton]

Andy: Please list your top 3 Wombles songs in order

(Gives deadpan look directly to camera and says "I should be sorting out what I plan to play at an Afrobeat gig I'm DJing at tonight and instead I'm discussing the Wombles")

[Adam Blake]

Well if I may interject my two nominations:
this one is probably the best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ2mJPSccvo
I like the cod-Beatles bass descent and the tune on the bridge is definitely McCartney worthy.
But this one is undeniably catchy too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxkqoNi8I4
I bet Mike Batt went to the Royal College of Music or somewhere similar. I smell classical training.

[NormanD]

The same-sex dancing couples are pretty ahead-of-the-curve, mind you.

Never been to an orthodox Jewish wedding / do?

Superwomble, anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhpZ4QUVKAM
Nice bit of Brit blues-pop. "He's so good looking, it really makes you sick...." isn't such a bad line either.

[Chris P]

But this one is undeniably catchy too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxkqoNi8I4

I'm impressed by my erstwhile heros' employment of Cretan lyra (or classical turkish kemence) and Greek bouzouki

[AndyM]

Never been to an orthodox Jewish wedding / do?

Afraid not. Never considered a Hassidic spin on the Wombles.

'Remember You're A Womble' must of course be thanked for giving birth to the football chant that greeted the player Forget-His-First-Name Djemba-Djemba: " Dejemba-jemba-jemba what a womble-womble-womble you are....". Excellent.

[NormanD]

..Never considered a Hassidic spin on the Wombles.

So where do you think Great Uncle Bulgaria came from? Or, as would be said, when did he come over on the boat?