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Evening Earworms Open Thread

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A few ear worms to carry us towards the overnight.

First up is a song made for the Warner Brothers catalog by BER intended to sound like a generic 80s pop song. After a snippet of it was featured in the spoof cartoon Teen Titans Go it became popular enough to become the basis for a dedicated extended episode of the show, as well as a cover by Fall Out Boy. This video is that cover with clips from the episode. The mecha is Fall Out Boy as the magical music robot Fall OutBot. The cyborg polar bear is CeeLo Green as CeeLo Bear.

Next up is Sia’s Move Your Body. Which was originally offered by Sia to Shakira, who turned it down. It is also the ear worm music featured in one of the Lexus ads.

 

Finally a cover of Sweet’s Fox on the Run by the all female group The Regrettes:

Post your favorite and/or most insidious ear worms in the comments.

Open thread!

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  4. 4.

    A Ghost to Most

    I used to think that this was my town
    What a stupid thing to think
    I hear you’re fighting off a breakdown
    I myself am on the brink
    I used to want to be a real man
    I don’t know what that even means
    Now I just want you in my arms again
    And we can search each other’s dreams

    [Chorus]
    I know you’re tired
    And you ain’t sleeping well
    Uninspired
    And likely mad as hell
    But wherever you are
    I hope the high road leads you home again

    [Verse 2]
    I’ve heard enough of the white man’s blues
    I’ve sang enough about myself
    So if you’re looking for some bad news
    You can find it somewhere else
    Last year was a son of a bitch
    For nearly everyone we know
    But I ain’t fighting with you down in a ditch
    I’ll meet you up here on the road

    [Chorus]
    I know you’re tired
    And you ain’t sleeping well
    Uninspired
    And likely mad as hell
    But wherever you are
    I hope the high road leads you home again
    To a world you want to live in

    [Bridge]
    We’ll ride the ship down
    Dumping buckets overboard
    There can’t be more of them than us
    There can’t be more

    [Chorus]
    I know you’re tired
    And you ain’t sleeping well
    Uninspired
    And likely mad as hell
    But wherever you are
    I hope the high road leads you home again
    To a world you want to live in
    To a world you want to live in

    “Hope The High Road” – Jason Isbell

  8. 8.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @A Ghost to Most: I like Isbell more the more I hear him. Back in my day, I would’ve gone out and purchased his “album” by now.

    also, too, this appears to be real

    Josh Rogin‏Verified account @ joshrogin
    The Trump campaign is actually asking supporters to contribute money to build The Wall. Irony is dead.

    I guess population growth since PT Barnum’s time means that suckers are born at a faster rate now?

  10. 10.

    Major Major Major Major

    Curiously, I have no songs stuck in my head at the moment. Possibly because the men at the table next to me both sound exactly like Jimmy Jr. from Bob’s Burgers and try as I might I can’t stop hearing them talk.

  11. 11.

    mai naem mobile

    I’m a Bahbby Girl in a Bahby World.So electric. So plastic. You can fix my hair.Any way you want. It’s so exciting
    Now, that’s a freaking earworm

    Also too:
    Everything is Awesome! Everything is lalalalalalalalalala. Everything is Aweome.

  18. 18.

    debbie

    Probably not an ear worm, but yesterday the local NPR station played this set of three songs in celebration of Dead and Company coming to town later this year:

    Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Ripple
    Gregg Allman, Black Muddy River
    Wilco, St. Stephen (live)

    Can’t link youtubes because three is too many, but boy, it was the best 15 minutes of music I’d heard in a while!

  20. 20.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    @mai naem mobile: dickfisted duckfucker. Just for that:
    Sippin’ on some
    Sippin’ on some
    Sippin’ on some
    Sippin’ on some…
    Sippin’ on some
    Sippin’ on some
    Sippin’ on some
    Sippin’ on some…(ad infinitum)
    …
    …sizzurp, sip, sippin’ on some
    Sip, sippin on some sizzurp, sip, sippin’ on some
    Sip, sippin on some sizzurp, sip, sippin’ on some
    Sip, sippin on some sizzurp, sip, sippin’ on some
    Sip, sippin on some sizzurp, sip, sippin’ on some…

  27. 27.

    Lyrebird

    Hm.. these don’t stick for me as much as the “Shelter” (Lone Justice I think?) song Omnes posted last week, but maybe it’s because I already knew that one. Awesome song.

    Glad I watched the Sia vid, though, because that little girl’s dancing rocks. The particulars of the wig and so forth kinda passed me by, but the ending is awesome. Same for watching photos of the Juggalo protest.

    Peace all.

  28. 28.

    Major Major Major Major

    One of my really annoying lefty friends went all the way from SF to the juggalo protest to recruit for the Democratic Soshulists of America and is now posting pictures, so, good for him, I guess.

    He still opposes all market-rate housing construction in the Bay Area though so screw him.

  30. 30.

    AliceBlue

    Ever since Walter Becker’s death, I’ve had various Steely Dan tunes running through my head, especially Kid Charlemagne, Dr. Wu and Bodhisattva.

  34. 34.

    joel hanes

    Last month, aboard the boat in Skagway, my excellent BIL and I sat up late in the second deck midships lounge. Red wine, an astonishing tiny Bose stereo, and excerpts from his music collection from his phone. Anyway, one result was that this was my earworm during hurricanes and an unusual Silicon Valley September thunderstorm.
    Raitt, Rainy Day Man
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIG04SlxvA

  41. 41.

    Gravenstone

    In honor of Adam kicking off the weirdness from the East

    Gimme Chocolate! – BabyMetal (was gonna link the Colbert appearance, but the sound is better here.

    Not an earworm per se, but another one for Adam since I suspect he fancies the lass – Tina Guo and Joe Bonamassa – Woke Up Dreaming

  49. 49.

    Steeplejack

    @Mike J:

    Documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me coming up on the Indieplex channel at 2:32 a.m. EDT. Thought you might be interested.

  52. 52.

    Viva BrisVegas

    That Regrettes video made me feel so old and untalented because they all look like they are 12.

    Then I saw the O’Keefe Music Foundation Kids, and they actually are 12.

    Damn kids, in my day nobody was allowed to get that talented.

    In the meantime, here is a happy/sad story about a koala.

  53. 53.

    Mike J

    @Steeplejack: Thanks! I saw it during it’s roadshow theatrical release. Theater even had a band in beforehand playing Big Star songs. Didn’t find out they were from Memphis until I go t home and googled them.

    oooh 24 Hour Party People is on now too. Coogan is so good in this.

  61. 61.

    Bruuuuce

    For the last two weeks, it’s been just a snippet, on repeat, of Dire Straits’ “One World”:

    They say it’s mostly vanity
    That writes the plays we act
    They tell me that’s what everybody knows
    There’s no such thing as sanity
    And that’s the sanest fact
    That’s the way the story goes

    Awesome live version

  65. 65.

    frosty

    Lately most insidious after a brief hiatus: ABBA via Mamma Mia. Just watched it again last weekend. Infectious movie, infectious tunes, sung by the actors. Meryl Streep is great, Pierce Brosnan gives it his best, and says in the extras it’s the most terrifying thing he’s done.

  75. 75.

    Juju

    @Amir Khalid: I think the English version was “99 red balloons”. If I’m going earworm with that song, I hear it in the original German. The German pop song that pairs with “99 luft balloons” for another earworm is “Major Tom”.

  77. 77.

    Mnemosyne

    @Amir Khalid:
    @Juju:

    When I was a teenybopper, our local radio stations played both the English and the German versions interchangeably. Since I sometimes have trouble understanding lyrics in English, it confused the hell out of me for quite a while. Especially when I felt confident that it was the German version, and then she blurted out “Captain Kirk” and I was confused again about which language it was since there was an English phrase in it.

  83. 83.

    magurakurin

    Talim made landfall on Kyshu a few hours ago as a tropical storm. Swept across the island pretty quickly and is now making landfall on my island, Shikoku. We’re on the far east side of the island so the storm is about 140 miles away now. Wind has picked up in the last half hour as we’ve entered the outer wind field. Moving at the speed it is, things probably won’t get too, too bad for too long. Looks like the winds are about 50 to 60 knots. My father-in-law is watching the baseball game…Yomiuri Giants in the Tokyo Dome…I just finished cooking brownies for desert. The wife just watched The Professional on tv. A fairly typical Sunday…but for the high winds and rain. Just another September Sunday, really. Typhoons are a regular occurrence.

  86. 86.

    Major Major Major Major

    I think some sort of party on my block got busted by the police because there’s suddenly a lot of loud drunk people crowding the sidewalk, like eighty of them. I’m on the ground floor. It’s got me on edge!

  89. 89.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Amir Khalid: I think you missed the joke. Molly Ivins said after listening to Uncle Pat’s speech “It sounded better in the original German”. IOW, it sounded like a speech that could have been given in Germany in the mid-1930’s.

  90. 90.

    gogiggs

    OK, first off, that drummer was male, so., not all female and second, what did that add or change that improved on the original?
    They were charming.
    Their version was… fine. But I can’t think of one thing about it that recommends it above the Sweet original.
    If you want to hear Sweet, just fucking listen to Sweet! They were amazing like salted chocolate. I’d stab a bitch in the neck to hear Teenage Rampage! ( I would not, in fact, stab anyone, anywhere, for any reason other than self defense)

    Please enjoy Alvvays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAn3JdtSrnY

  91. 91.

    gogiggs

    @gogiggs: Actually, although I stand by all I said, thanks for that.
    I went and checked out the Regrettes elsewhere and I really like them.

  99. 99.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    This one’s a little catchy
    Chris Robinson Brotherhood High is not the top

    And this one is beautiful, sad, and catchy as hell
    The Lumineers Cleopatra

    The first one is new, and I’m digging it. The second one’s been stuck in my head all year, it feels like…

  100. 100.

    No One of Consequence

    I know this is late, but the jason isbell curious should check out the tiny desk concert recently of him and 400 unit.

    Wow.

    Ymmv of course. But a very fine example of singer songwriter Americana. best i have seen recently.

    – NOoC

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