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You know you are a music junkie...

Posted over 5 years ago
..when you are constantly thinking in song lyrics. I was reading Lemontwist's post about her job search and a line from the M Doughty song 'American Car' came to me instantly...my mind ties every situatino to a song or a lryic...it may be a sickness. But I like it.'My circus train pulls through the nightfull of lions and trapeze artistsi am done with elephants and clownsi want to run away and join the office"
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  1. Spencer Owen
    Spencer Owen says I think I'm the one with a sickness - lyrics are the farthest thing from second nature to me ... I rarely think of lyrics, almost always music. How sick is that? Music isn't even a real thought!
    Permalink posted 10/17/2006
  2. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says An audio-phile huh? Is that the correct usage of that term? Anyway...we are probably both clinical
    Permalink posted 10/17/2006
  3. amelia
    amelia says I go through stages like that myself -- and people do react to it as though it's a sickness. Though eventually friends start joking about it -- I'm the person who quotes song lyrics ad infinitum... there are worse things to be known for, I suppose.... though I bet they're a lot more fun...
    Permalink posted 10/17/2006
  4. amelia
    amelia says Whoa... didn't mean to have that all stricken out. Gotta get used to not using en dashes here! :)
    Permalink posted 10/17/2006
  5. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says Ha! I do that all the time...i HTML illiterate!
    Permalink posted 10/17/2006
  6. lemontwist
    lemontwist says I get lyrics stuck in my head at times too. The worst is when I have a song stuck in my head and I don't really know the lyrics, or I only know one or two lines. So I keep repeating the one or two lines over and over again, or make up words to go along with the rest of the song. :) (Side note: It's not the HTML, it's Texttile. HTML is a lot nicer, and doesn't let you screw up if you put dashes or underscores or asterisks in your text.)
    Permalink posted 10/17/2006
  7. LostSouthernHeat
    LostSouthernHeat says Seems that as I go thru time and stages of life, a moment happens that will fit a lyric and shoots thrus you and opens your eyes and ears and realize for that breif second, "wow this is what the artist meant" like passing by a painting, or photograph in a store, and one day you look at it and say "that's me"
    Permalink posted 10/17/2006
  8. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says Lost....exactly! its like musical deja-vu!
    Permalink posted 10/17/2006
  9. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says It's a hand me down, the thoughts are broken, perhaps they're better left unsung, i don't know, don't really care, let there be songs to fill the air. GARCIA/ HUNTER
    Permalink posted 10/17/2006
  10. extraordinarypoems
    extraordinarypoems says Oh, I have lyrics on the brain all the time too. I think it's good for keeping your mind sharp. Don't worry. :>)
    Permalink posted 10/18/2006
  11. eshep
    eshep says i'm with spencer. it's the music first and foremost with me. lyrics are secondary. and to be honest, the lyrics don't even have to be good, as long as the melody and rhythm of what is sung works with the music. so when i do recall lyrics, it means that they're really especially great. only a few bands/artists these days pull me in with their lyrics: wilco, beck, dylan, to name a few. i do have this sickness, however, when it comes to film scripts and quotes.
    Permalink posted 10/18/2006
  12. ROCKNROLLPIMP1
    ROCKNROLLPIMP1 says DUDE i was so thinking about posting something similiar today about how i ALWAYS tie situations and events to songs in my life. and how all day long songs and lyrics are stuck in my head at work till i get home and can listen to some tunes many kudos and ps killer dbt song i am listening again
    Permalink posted 10/18/2006
  13. Kent Lambert
    Kent Lambert says For someone who spends as long as five years tweaking lyrics before calling a song "complete", it means a LOT to know that there are people out there who appreciate lyrics enough to think in song lyrics! Lyrics are definitely not secondary for me--they're on the same level as the music. If you're going to sing, take some care with the words you're singing, or go the Cocteau Twins route and use your voice as a vessel of heavenly non-verbal sounds, or maybe just make instrumental music. So I guess I have my own lyric-related sickness and it's a far cry from Spencer's & Eshep's... In my world, trite, cliched, or otherwise unappealing lyrics can ruin even the loveliest, most powerful music. I could never really get down with Radiohead's Kid A because one line ("Vultures circling the dead") jumped out at me like something out of a high-school existentialist poetry assignment (it probably reminded me of something I wrote for such an assignment, come to think of it). No matter how brilliant the music, I couldn't get past the bland dystopia of that line. Irrational, I know. On the other hand, a great lyric can elevate a song to some other plane. Talking Heads' "The Big Country" comes to mind. Without the lyrics it would be a compelling, melodic pop song, but with that chorus line of "I wouldn't live there if you paid me to" it becomes some kind of brilliant, subtle, ironic, angry statement. Nice topic!
    Permalink posted 10/18/2006
  14. ROCKNROLLPIMP1
    ROCKNROLLPIMP1 says hear hear amen as someone whom writes lyrics/songs THEY COULD NEVER BE SECONDARY
    Permalink posted 10/18/2006
  15. ever4ali14
    ever4ali14 says Um I do that thing with the lyrics too. It annoys the crap out of my friends, but I think it makes me cool (but probably not). When it comes to Doughty though, it's always "aimless days, uncool ways of discathecting..."
    Permalink posted 04/19/2007

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