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I heard this song in the grocery store several days ago, and it has been banging around my cavernous head ever since:

I don’t particularly hate the song, but 48 hours of anything IS TOO MUCH. I’m hoping if I share this earworm, one of you will get it and it will leave me.

You are welcome.

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  5. 5.

    barath

    Looks like an explosion in some of Saudi Arabia’s oil pipelines is going to add to the oil price / gasoline price hell we’re already in…

  6. 6.

    BGinCHI

    The grocery store. Sure. I demand a screenshot of your iTunes, Cole. I want to see if your Cutting Crew records are on there, too.

  11. 11.

    Lev

    I’m not completely against covers. Some artists are great at taking someone else’s song and turning it into their own, The Feelies did about one per album and they never erred. But when we’re talking about a less distinctive band (that more than borders on generic) and a song that’s worn out to begin with (I mean, Amy Grant of all people covered it!), no. Just no.

    Then again, I tend to think Bowie’s cover of this song is better than the original (sacrilege I know):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4R58NA92xY

  12. 12.

    donnah

    I, on the other hand, have been reliving my musical youth with a few Monkees songs. Sweet, charming Davy Jones, I wish you peace!

  13. 13.

    harlana

    @khead: glorious! just glorious! she is indeed the “femme” version of Tunch, she even, almost, has the same expression, except her disdain for the hairless monkies is a tad more muted, at least for the camera. you know how girls are.

  15. 15.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    Why we suck at messaging:

    Liberal: The Republicans (and 3 Democracts, but they don’t really count) voted NO on a motion to table the Blunt amendment to another bill in the Senate, which is sort of the same as if they had voted YES to it (the amendment, not the main bill) which would mean that then private employers (all of them, not just the Catholic churches which are already exempted under the PPACA) would have the right to vote NO on health insurance which gives women the right to say YES to contraception which means NO to having children that they (the women, not the employers, nor the Senators) do not want, at least not at the present time.

    Audience: What? Did anybody follow that?

    Conservative: ZOMG! OBUMMER HATES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM! HELP! HELP! I’M BEING REPRESSED!

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    I hope you’ve been following the song-a-day streaming of the Boss’ new album. It’s at quite a few places, including Backstreets.com, the Guardian, and NPR. The album’s tone is very much of a piece with the shrill interview he gave to the Guardian, which you posted about a few weeks back. Today’s song reworks the live staple Land Of Hope And Dreams, and features the last sax solo Clarence Clemons recorded for Bruce. The series concludes on Friday with We Are Alive, an invocation of those who fought and died over the years for Americans’ rights.

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    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    Sure cure to earworms: HUM the tune of “Girl from Ipanema.” It will whack whatever was in there, and can usually be evicted shortly thereafter itself.

    But whatever you do, DO NOT sing the words, or you will NEVER get it out of your head.

    You’re welcome.

  20. 20.

    James Hulsey

    @zzyzx: Agreed

    By the way, the cure for earworms is to hum the melody to “The Girl from Ipanema” for about 15-20 seconds. That usually erases the earworm without replacing it.

    However, under no circumstances should you sing the words. That will produce a new earworm that takes *weeks* to recover from.

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    Bizono

    I’ve had Wire’s Pink Flag and Chairs Missing on repeat for a few days now. Hard to go wrong with that buzzing around your head.

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    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    I’d like to put Counting Crows in a catapult at one end of a football field and Barenaked Ladies in a catapult at the other end and fling them at each other, repeatedly. I could watch that shit all day long.

  29. 29.

    Watusie

    Cure for earworm: sing the song outloud, but in the style of Bob Dylan. Exaggeratedly.

    Works every time.

  32. 32.

    R-Jud

    @Comrade Mary: I sent that to my husband, and heard him start watching it, and then he started yelling at me from the next room: “WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? YOU’RE MAKING ME… I AM WITNESSING SOMETHING THAT IS… WHAT? SLEEP DOWNSTAIRS!”

    :-)

  33. 33.

    General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)

    Some earworms are worth having. This tune is one of those, whether sung by CC or its creator, the eternal musical goddess Joni Mitchell.

  36. 36.

    4jkb4ia

    @Mark S.:

    Thank you, wonderful person. In the Joni Mitchell version it’s not bad, but Adam Duritz should have been firmly dissuaded from doing it. This may be the worst thing Counting Crows ever recorded and I cringe whenever I hear it.

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