Any one else got this stuck in their head?

[floppyboo]

[baldguy]

1. Well, now I do. Thanks for nothin'.

[floppyboo]

2. sorry! Weird song - 1972, the year that gave us Hendrix in the West

Bill Withers, Aretha Frankin, Cat Stevens, and ... the Osmonds.
I was 11. It was goofy then and goofy now.
Go listen to some Hendrix - it will fix everything!

[chapdrum]

7. Another 70's bad one.

Truth in naming: A song by Bad Company, that'd be "Good Lovin' Gone Bad."

As to Hendrix: The great "Rainbow Bridge" came out in '71, iirc. The live version of "Hear My Train..." just over the top great, not to mention the brilliant "Pali Gap."

[3catwoman3]

3. Just curious.

How did it come to be stuck in yours?

[floppyboo]

4. the mind is something I don't pretend to understand. If I had to hazard a guess

I'd say random associations are like day-dream weaving.

Oh, so ya - a random association with a current event

[3catwoman3]

5. Given Trump's legendary sensitivity about being called...

...a "short-fingered vulgarian," there surely must be some double entendre' potential here to come up with some alternative lyrics that would irk the hell out of him.

Calling all DU creative geniuses (genii?)

[floppyboo]

8. Maybe easiest to start rhyming vulgarian with Aryian - but I'm not googling that! ;)

[OKNancy]

6. No, but last week I had a "Istanbul, not Constantinople" earworm

[Zen Democrat]

9. People forget that in any year there are 11 and 12 year olds buying music.

In 1969, a halcyon year for "the music that we are still in awe of today," the No. 1 song on the charts was Sugar, Sugar by The Archies.

[floppyboo]

10. true true! And the avenues for 'discovering' the latest and greatest were narrow indeed

so why now, when the avenues are levelled into open fields, is popular music so generic?
When labels are dead, and live venues are replaced with DJ's (an art form itself - but sampling is somewhat vampiric - gotta have that live blood but maybe eons til all the configurations are used up?)

Did garage band kill or rebrand 'popular' music?
There's always jazz, so we're ok.

[3catwoman3]

12. A while back, there was a thread on just this topic.

I finished high school in 1969, and was shocked when I looked this up in order to post my reply. Best song in 1968 was Hey, Jude and in 1970, Bridge Over Troubled Water. 2 truly timeless classics.

What the hell were we thinking in 1969?

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Hey!

This is a timeless classic!

So is this!

And this -

And don't forget anything Sly and the Family Stone!

That summer before going to 3rd grade, I just remember all this great music on the AM-only Ford station wagon car radio that my parents had.

[MasonDreams]

18. i got Sugar Sugar by the Archies

The first recording I "owned" out of a box of Cheerios! it was square and so thin it was bendable (like a floppy disc) but it had the 45rpm grooves cut. I was 6 or 8yrs old. I loved it., now I think of it as evil marketing of Diabeties.

[reACTIONary]

19. And it came with....

...an awesome music video. Well, maybe not awsome.... but maybe ahead for its time.

Believe or not, David Byrne's once in a lifetime always reminds me of it.

http://entertainment.time.com/2011/07/28/the-30-all-time-best-music-videos/

[NBachers]

11. Ah yes, the same The Sweet that gave us Ballroom Blitz 1n 1974

[Tikki]

13. Not to forget...

and

Tikki

[BumRushDaShow]

14. LOL

You dug that out on purpose didn't you?

[jpqjpq]

16. good doc on youtube about sweet

sweet always fought management over the bubble gum crap. a very solid rock band. sweet fa and love is like oxygen my favorites. singer had a terrible drinking problem. saw them open for journey around 78. very very good.

[floppyboo]

17. Part of the great UK glam rock - same year as Ziggy Stardust.