brain block
You know that song? The one that starts with the heavy guitar riff at the beginning? I think it was in a movie, you know the one? The one with the pivotal moment where the actors look at each other with shocked knowledge on their faces and start running frantically to prevent some apocalyptic event from happening? And then the music kicks in, DUNDUN DUN DUNDUNDUNDUNND? You know it?
Well, it’s been in my head for DAYS. And I don’t know what it is. I was in a noisy restaurant when I heard it a few weeks ago, and the song was ending and I didn’t catch any lyrics to do a Google search and it’s been driving me NUTS.
Now days later, I’ll be at work or outside watering flowers or in some other similarly quiet spot and that damn guitar riff will come skidding into my empty head, shoving aside all other rational thought and dreams of bacon, and I’ll think, “What is that song?”
I feel like it’s on the tip of my tongue, the edge of my brain canyon, the cusp of my bicuspids. It’s RIGHT THERE, but instead of pulling on the door to mental freedom and recognition, it’s pushing.
What IS it?
(Besides maddening, obviously.)
EDITED TO ADD: I don’t expect anyone to answer me, as 1) I can give you NO help at all about the song other than the fact that a man was singing, and 2) I cannot sing, hum, whistle or ANYTHING in tune. So instead, just tell me about a time you had a song stuck in your head that drove you nuts until you finally figured out what it was.
Um… no idea. Could we have an audio clip of you singing the song? Please?
I had a song in my head that I wanted as my processional at my wedding. Didn’t know what it was called, assumed it was classical. I hummed it to whoever would listen. Finally, someone recognized it as the opening notes to “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procul Harum.
Comment by LoriD — July 30, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
Gah, I hate times like this. It renders me incapable of thinking on all fronts until I figure it out. Here’s hoping you get your answer soon.
Comment by Shelly — July 30, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
For YEARS as I young girl I just knew I used to listen to a song when I was itty bitty that said something like: “IIIII Loooooooooove Youuuuuuuuu” do do do do do. It was all disco-y and goofy and fun.
FINALLY, at the age of 14 or so while shopping in the grocery store with my dad, the song came on the sound system in the store. I nearly died. I started hopping around, tugging on my dad’s arm, all the while shrieking, “THIS IS IT! THIS IS IT! THIS IS THE SONG!!!”
Silly Love Songs by Wings (Paul McCartney). Turns out it was on my Disco Duck Album in my closet the whole time. DISCO DUCK.
To this day it is in my top five favorite songs of ALL TIME.
Comment by Artemisia — July 30, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
Oh, I hate that so much. I hope you figure it out soon.
Comment by seven — July 30, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
WHHAAAT? How you can you DO this to me? WHAT IS IT OMG OMG OMG.
Also: TWITTER IS PERFECT FOR THIS KIND OF THING I’M JUST SAYING
Comment by Tessie — July 30, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
I don’t think I have ever gotten an unknown song stuck in my head, but I have gotten plenty of stuff I DO know trapped in there over the years. Like The Hustle. Which, OH GOD, now that I type that there it is! GREAT.
It could be worse, I suppose. My husband says that he constantly has the theme song from that old game show the $100,000 Pyramid running through his head.
Good luck figuring out your mystery song!!
Comment by nonsoccermom — July 30, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
I bet it’s better than preschool songs. Currently, “I’m bringing home a baby bumblebee” is making its 1 zillionth debut in my head. Aerrrrrgghhh.
Comment by Penny — July 30, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
Recently, we were listening to Hall and Oates’ Greatest Hits and I remembered like one phrase from a Hall and Oates song. So I waited and waited and waited for it to play, cause I thought surely it would be on the Greatest Hits album. But it wasn’t. So I turned to my husband and was like, “Hey. What’s the song that goes, ‘Smokin’ guns, hot to the touch – they’d cool down if we wouldn’t use them so much.’?” He didn’t know, so I asked a co-worker the next day. Turns out it’s “Out of Touch”, which is on one Greatest Hits, but not the other.
Comment by Shelly — July 30, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
http://www.baconsalt.com/?gclid=CL2uie7J6JQCFR4vagodoQoQQw
If you can’t remember your song, at least you can have bacon salt.
Comment by Shannon — July 30, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
I hate that. But then I love it when I am sitting in traffic three weeks later, staring at the red light in front of me, when suddenly… I remember the rest of the song.
Comment by My Buddy Mimi — July 30, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
I am PLAGUED by this. And I cannot tell you a single damn song because I never figure it out or remember the titles. DAMMIT.
Comment by Erin — July 30, 2008 @ 6:29 pm
the iphone has a program you can download where when this happens, you hum the part you know into the iphone, then it FIGURES OUT THE SONG FOR YOU. no shit. i watched the dude i’m dating do it. UNREAL.
Comment by Alice — July 31, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
Alice, that is SWEET.
1) I have to find an iPhone.
2) I have to learn how to hum in tune.
3) You’re dating someone – AWESOME!
Comment by Shauna — July 31, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
Totally late on the draw here, but I was just thinking about this phenomenon yesterday while driving and it occured to me that the answer is obvious: You must play more Guitar Hero and/or Rock Band. If the heavy guitar riff isn’t there somewhere, I don’t know where it could be.
Comment by Me Today — August 1, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
Of course I have no idea what is actually in your head, but from your description what came to my mind was Barracuda by Heart.
Comment by Anna — August 2, 2008 @ 10:26 pm