Stones as Ear Worms in the Water for TTT
Most of us music lovers know the pain - or the joy - of an ear worm, the repetitive phrase, lyrics or song that can stick with you, on repeat, for days.
Mine appears surfing related.
Though I will get ear worms at other times, particularly waking up with a song in my head that won't go until I play the song, it does seem to be the moment of paddling out that induces this wierd phenonema, and more often than not, it's the Rolling Stones.
I have an inkling why, but it's still not clear. I don't even listen to the Stones much anymore. I think it's because of childhood - Dad was a surfer and often played the Stones on the way to the beach. I can't think of a single other reason why Sympathy for the Devil or She's Like a Rainbow would just magically appear in my head.
Lately, it's 'All Down The Line'. Perhaps because that's the aim - to go 'down the line' of the wave. In my head I'm singing 'yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh all down the line' with the stoke of a grommet. That's the enthusiasm of a young surfer, in layman's terms.
Let me get this straight. I don't really like later Rolling Stones. I was chatting to it with Dad the other day after a surf over coffee. The best albums were the earlier ones - not super early, though they were fun, but Let It Bleed and Exile on Main Street. 1968 to 1974, when Mick Taylor was in the band, Dad says, as many other Stones fans will say.
Funny, I was listening to that album the other day doing the painting for the first time in a few years. It is still a great album. The following day I popped over my son's and he was playing it too - wierd coincidence.
I still think Midnight Rambler is one of the sexiest songs ever, and a masterpiece to boot. I can still hear it loud on Dad's stereo on a Saturday morning, or at their parties on Saturday nights. Jagger's doing his best to be a sex god in this clip, complete with glitter vest. Must have been something to see live - as my parents did at Kooyong back then. Must have been amazing and certainly is the stuff of legend for old Australians who managed to catch it.
Anyway, I have to say, it's about time I paddled out to a different band. It'll come - these things come and go. Once it was The Who's 'Let it Rain' for a whole month, and earlier in the year I couldn't get rid of 'Heroes' by David Bowie and then Dire Straits 'Sultans of Swing'. Hey I might even move to the current decade at some point. I can manage that on land, but on the water, it's usually the '70's.
Bloody brain.
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Ah... the earworm :D Yep!
I could think of worse than the Stones. But innit weird how things get stuck in a brain that aren't even our things?
Currently have a Bruno Mars, of all artists, song echoing around my mind! Came via the young person. Seems I'm stuck with it for a while.
Enjoy the waves. Epic! Surfers are so damned cool 😎
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He he, I on't know Brune Mars, you have me curious now! Yeah, there's definitely worse things to have stuck in your head, like Elton John - that would kill me.
Oh dear... I love Elton John! 😬 I'll sing under my breath if we're ever in the same vicinity then 😆
If you don't enjoy Elton John you're going to hate me for sharing Bruno Mars with you. Don't do it. It's pop to the core and catchy as f*ck!
Stay in the water, would be my suggestion
OH, and i just noticed your very cool header. I had just discovered The Dream not so long ago.
Ah... artists, huh?
They've figured it all out and said it all so well already... ❤️
Maybe you should make one on MJ. I'd been keen to see what emerges from that great mind of yours :)
The Stones as earworms!
Now I have heard it all.
I was never really into them, my Dad wasn't unlike yours, so maybe that is why.
But when you do like a band, an earworm from them is ok, like you say it means you have to play that tune!
Enjoy the surfing, the coffee and the chat with your Dad!
Thanks mate, yeah, I think if you didn't grow up with them you wouldn't have that connection, and I don't like their later stuff either!
Jagger's lips put some people off too I think haha
That's a sharp looking clear vinyl! Is it a special edition collectible? 🎸🎧 🎶
I'm a huge fan of The Rolling Stones👅 ever since I was a teenager decades ago. How about you?
Excellent song choices! @riverflows❤
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Ah yes, I sure was - I got it from my Dad!
Dad has good taste and gives tasteful gifts!🎤💿🎵
So there's actually a term for that phenomenon, lol. It happened to me all the time whenever I can hear some good music on facebook, I will immediately download it and play it repeatedly and because of that, some line in it will repeatedly play also on my head, like it is pushing me to listen to it over and over again, i only learned about that today, thanks to you hehe.
These are all good songs I actually love the beat of it. Another things is their hot faces, 🤩🎶🎶🎶
Oh haha yes the famous ear worm! It's a funny expression!
I'm not into the Stones, I must admit, but maybe I should give them another listen. I just have played the Midnight Rambler there, and yes, it's quite cool!
Anyway, that record there, WOW, what a beauty!! 😍
We all have those moments of songs creeping into our heads or long forgotten smells coming back.
I keep getting the smell of salt sticks (they're like prezels) roasting on my Nan's oven grid.. All the pictures come back when I do.
Have a lovely day!
They are linked to emotional memories I think, smells, sounds in particular! 💚🌱
Funny how some things get stuck in your head. Its almost like familiarity wins out over favor. There are pop songs I know instantly and can sing along with all the lyrics but don't like at all. Or sometimes pop into my head uninvited. I think I was a victim of radio. Remember radio? lol You actually just listened to what was on. Especially if you lived in the sticks like me and could only get a couple of stations.
Oh yeah there's songs I still know all the words too coz they were on the radio! Even if I hadn't heard them for twenty years! I rarely listen to radio now but I kinda miss it. I guess the older I get the more I like the sound of wind and birds, or podcasts 🤣
Oh yeah, definitely, I agree with you that their best work was with Mick Taylor. I have a really bizarre affinity for Emotional Rescue, though; I think it was because it was the first record I was ever given as a gift.
The two Stone's songs that usually get suck in my head are Tumbling Dice and Brown Sugar. Catchy riffs.
I love Emotional Rescue too - I can recall Dad putting on a falsetto and singing 'You could be mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, all mine
You could be mine, could be mine, could be mine, all mine' and spinning me round theroom like an idiot. I can hear him now.
Yeahhhhh I hear Tumbling Dice a lot as well!!! And now you mention Emotional REscue I'm having a bit of a listen again - She's So Cold! Funny thing I would have been singing my heart out to this as a kid with no idea of what the lyrics meant lol!
When my Dad was super ill and we thought he was going to die I remember my sister saying irrationally, in tears 'I'll never be able to listen to the Rolling sTones ever again' and us both laughing in a kinda black way. But whenever I listen to them they kinda cheer me up so I reckon even when he does pop his clogs I'll just smile and remember him. Besides, it's been a while since he's listened to them, as he said the other day!
Funny, I never would have thought of the Stones as being equated with surf music, but why not, if it’s music that you like and it gets you stoked, it makes sense.
For me, music is amazing.
I consider it my single greatest accomplishment as a parent that both my girls love music. They know the songs and lyrics to everything from Beach Boys, Beatles, 60's, 70's and 80's hits to today's pop hits. I know one of my strongest memories of my mom: before she passed... She couldn't do much, barely could utter a sentence and even then, words didn't make much sense, but I remember taking her out of the nursing home, for drives. I'd turn on the classic rock stations, and more often than not, she would be able to sing the lyrics!
Ironic you mention the Stones. I am not much of guitar guy. I prefer Beatles, Beach Boys, Elton, The Who, Billy Joel, and almost everything form the 80's. I know you said, not a fan of Stones newer stuff. I worked on the Steel Wheels Video. We shot the video over half a dozen nights, in between the concerts. Before Jagger would come onstage, the rest of the band would play Jazz, Beatles, other music for an hour or two! We'd be sitting there, on road cases, just listening to them ROCK it!
Oh wow, I have a degree of sepration with the stones now! That's pretty cool.
I love the Who. I never really got them but my husband's English so he made me totally 'get' the Who, as well as Pink Floyd, which I liked but never really understood as much as listening to it there.
My son's a huge music fan too, thing is, he can play and produce it as well so he took it a bit further as though Dad could play guitar kinda, I never could.
The Big 70's era was Fantastic!
The Who, Pink Floyd, too. Awesome that your son plays and creates... Awesome
Well inside your head sounds like a fun place to be while paddling out for some delicious waves. Those are all great bands that come into your mind, and hardly surprising given the good influence your Dad had on your musical taste and it sounds like you've passes it onto the next generation too, which is cool and I bet it makes your Dad really proud. I'm going to give those records a whirl soon on Spotify as I'm mostly only familiar with their best known songs tbh.