Songs to Get Stuck in Your Head
Jul 22nd, 2008 by Micah Tillman | 5 Comments |
No. 1
Song: “I Am a Promise” (by Bill and Gloria Gaither? See also here)
From: Sunday School
“I am a promise / I am a possibility / I am a promise / With a capital P / I am a great big bundle of / potentiality . . . .”
Comment:
I found myself inexplicably singing this again, as I often do. It’s one of the ones that periodically gets stuck in my head.
So I went looking for who wrote it.
You can listen to the VeggieTales version here, since Tera Christianson evidently gets the song stuck in her head too (and wants to help you catch the same problem :-)
The song that I find myself randomly singing (and have for years) is Here We Come A-Wassailing.
Happily, I’ve graduated to a point of music geekdom where I (almost) never get songs stuck in my head - only sounds. A great guitar tone, the timbre of a favourite singer’s voice as they spit out a particularly satisfying syllable… that sort of thing.
This is actually incredibly useful for soothing headaches, I’ve found: clear my consciousness and focus on, say, Brian Eno or Tim Hecker - a nice, lukewarm, midrange-heavy mental ointment.
Joanna–
*grin* Christmas carols do it to me too. I’ll have to think about which ones in particular though. Hmmm . . . .
Seb–
Sounds? Really? That is entirely too cool.
I’m in the part (on Phantasy, Image Consciousness, Memory, by Edmund Husserl) of my dissertation where the topic of “imagined” sounds (I put “imagined” in quotes, because I’m not sure a word based on “image” is proper for describing the mental experience of sounds you aren’t receiving from your environment) is a topic of some concern, you see.
At the risk of consuming gobs of your time when you find that this whole series of hundreds of graphs are just as funny, there’s a song that sticks in my head:
These are a few of my favorite things. And while you’re at that site, check out the graph of the increasing popularity of M. C. Escher.
Here’s a catchy one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adc3MSS5Ydc