Do you ever get a song in your head that won’t go away?
Do you sing along with any tune or try to replace unfavorable melodies with another song?
Earworms can be motivating at times. A good song stuck in your head is enjoyable until it isn’t. Sometimes one line plays too long or it’s associated with a memory that isn’t welcomed. Songs are about as good as smells for jogging our memory. Though, I can’t at this moment, tell you of a smell that comes to mind from a regular daily routine the way that sounds come along.
Some songs are triggered by words or events throughout the day. While others only get air time when a hint of the tune is heard. Some songs are seasonal earworms. While others stay on regular daily rotation for years.
There are a few daily tracks that play in the soundtrack of my life. For example: Between tasks or conversations, in the pause before beginning some other work, I often begin to whistle the opening tune from Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I’m not sure why this transitional moment triggers Charles Gounod”s – The Funeral March of a Marionette, but it is a welcomed tune that often leads to a quick memory of watching television in the early 1980s. Oddly enough, this tune sometimes leads into a nursery rhyme. Can you guess what this encore might be? —– Three Blind Mice…….. They sound similar enough…
Places and events often bring songs to mind. Songs often bring up memories of people, places, events, & things in such detail that I wonder if there is some way to practice muscle memory with specific tunes for developing important skills. Is it possible that someone might perform with lower efficiency & timing without their regular music playing?
Anyway, I sketched these notes out back in September or early October. So, before moving on to another project, of which there are many planned in piles & folders, I decided to complete this one. The illustrations were drawn out this morning. All the digital editing and words were added. The cardstock paper was divided up & loaded into the printer.
Now, I have a small stack of short printed insight stories that only need to be placed into envelopes with their addresses & stamps.
Then, possibly before the first of 2020 these envelopes will be dropped off at the local branch of the U.S Postal Service.
Maybe you have a top 10 earworm playlist.
While making this mini-zine comic, I was listing to Joy Division, The Cure, Talking Heads, & Crowded House, with a few other random acts in the mix, such as INXS were pleasantly familiar, while completely unexpected. Of course New Order gets play time in that line up.
The song that was playing in my mind when the idea for this illustrated skit first came to mind, is the song: -Thinking About You- by: Radiohead.
So, What are some of your top Hit Songs in the soundtrack of your life?