song_in_my_head
nr "good feeling" by the violent femmes 220302
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tender_square "nothing's gonna stop us now" by starship 220303
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tender_square “ticket to rideby the beatles 220308
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raze "dancing in the moonlight" by king harvest 220401
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raze "she's like the wind" by patrick swayze.

(i know. believe me, i know. but the childhood nostalgia is real.)
220505
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epitome of incomprehensibility Our_song which I gave you:
Fields_of_Verdun

Your_song which you gave me, but I'd sworn I'd heard the riff at the beginning before: Fast_Car
220505
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raze "sacrifice" by elton john 220511
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raze the "goosebumps" theme song 220519
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kerry cate le bon: "no god" 220520
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tender_square joel plaskett emergency: "clueless wonder" 220521
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tender_square "straight from the heart" by bryan adams 220522
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nr "electioneering" by radiohead

happy 25th plus a day, ok_computer.
220522
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tender_square "closer to fine" by indigo girls 220527
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raze "lose my breath" by destiny's child. 220812
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raze "beauty queen" by roxy music. 220813
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nr mistakesby sharon_van_etten 220813
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tender_square "hold on" by alabama shakes 220815
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raze "trapeze" by mark isham has been urging me to sing its main melody a lot lately. 220901
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raze "santa claus is comin' to town."

a little early, i know.
221016
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raze "how_soon_is_now?" by the smiths. 221017
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raze "a matter of trust" by billy_joel. 221025
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raze "gold lion" by yeah yeah yeahs. 221026
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tender_square "if you don't know me by now" by simply red. 221107
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raze "darlene" by led zeppelin (which i've been singing as "double e" since i was thirteen). 221108
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Bizzar "the death of peace of mind" by bad omens 221108
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tender_square "better off alone" by alice deejay. 221108
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tender_square "i wish" by stevie wonder. 221109
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raze "dancing on the highway" by elliott_smith. 221110
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tender_square it’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterdayby boyz ii men. 221110
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nr "sober" by tool

maybe because of the weed and red_wine
221110
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tender_square "steal my kisses" by ben harper. 221116
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tender_square elwood's 2000 cover of gordon lightfoot's "sundown." 221117
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raze "darling be home soon" by joe cocker. 221118
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raze "transformer man" by neil young (the unplugged version). 221121
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tender_square "i don't want to miss a thing" by aerosmith and "i want to come over" by melissa etheridge. 221124
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raze "itchycoo park" by the small faces. 221126
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tender_square "bullfrog in love" by kevin and the zits. 221127
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raze "instant crush" by daft punk. 221128
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tender_square "missing" by everything but the girl. 221129
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tender_square "any man of mine" by shania twain. 221130
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raze "the long and winding road" by the_beatles. 221201
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raze something i heard once eleven years ago and never learned the name of. 221202
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raze "take_five" by the dave brubeck quartet. 221204
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tender_square "she's got you" by patsy cline. 221206
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tender_square "turn my head" by live. 221208
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kerry edison lighthouse: "love grows (where my rosemary goes)" 221209
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tender_square "fa ce-la" by the feelies. 221213
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tender_square "teenage dirtbag" by wheatus. 221214
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raze "she's right on time" by billy_joel. 221214
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kerry elvis costello: "beyond belief" 221214
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raze "you don't have to be a baby to cry" by the caravelles. 221215
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tender_square "sheets" by stephen malkmus and the jicks. 221216
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tender_square "barely friends" by hayden. 221217
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raze "when you're alone" by bruce springsteen. 221219
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raze "wishing well" by terence trent d'arby. 221221
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raze "i guess that's why they call it the blues" by elton john, and "doing it all for my baby" by huey lewis and the news. at the same time. my brain has somehow blurred them both into the same song. i can't say i'm too sad about that. 221224
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raze "mid twenties skateboarder" by pkew pkew pkew. 221228
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tender_square "sleeping_in" by postal_service.

(last week i had the strangest dream
where everything was exactly how it seemed)
230101
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raze oneohtrix point never: "nobody_here" 230102
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raze "try again" by supertramp.

oh, all i need is somebody to hold.
230103
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raze "god" by john lennon. 230105
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raze the theme from "footloose", only now it's squirrel-themed, with a late-song breakdown of "everybody nut, everybody nut". 230113
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tender_square it comes into my brain at night and it's happened now for several consecutive evenings in a row:

"royals" by lorde.
230113
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kerry after only one verse:
chet baker: "let's get lost"
i don't even really like chet baker, but i've been humming it to myself ever since i got to the office.
230113
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tender_square "blurred lines" by robin thicke. 230115
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raze "academy fight song" by mission of burma. 230118
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raze "what_i_am" by edie brickell & new bohemians. 230119
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raze "sacrifice" by elton john. 230122
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tender_square "elektrobank" by the chemical brothers because essex_terminal_rail makes me hallucinate train horns at all hours. 230126
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e_o_i "Gucci Gucci" by Kreashawn, just the part that goes

Gucci Gucci, Fendi Fendi,
Louis Louis, Prada
Basic bitches own* that shit
so I don't even botha

*my memory; lyrics say "wear"

Yeah, that's my excuse for not buying luxury clothes. Basic_bitches.
230131
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e_o_i Also the names of the designers are mixed up. OH WELL. 230131
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kerry talking heads: "warning sign" 230201
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raze a wombat-themed rewrite of led zeppelin's "living loving maid (she's just a woman)", thanks to tender_square. 230203
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tender_square beyonce's "baby boy." 230204
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raze "money" by pink floyd. 230206
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raze for the last half hour or so, it's been "hit the road jack" by ray charles. 230210
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raze a slightly altered version of "heart and soul" by huey lewis and the news:

"she's heart and soul
she's guacamole
she's got it all"
230217
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tender_square wings: "let 'em in" 230217
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tender_square muse: "time is running out" 230227
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raze another supertramp song. (this time it's "give a little bit".) 230228
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tender_square seals and crofts: "get closer" 230307
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raze "from this moment on" by shania twain, only it's sung as a duet between kermit the frog and miss piggy.

i don't even know, man.
230308
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raze "supersexworld" by one ton.

don't google it. or do. but don't say i didn't warn you.
230318
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tender_square "you're so vain" by carly simon. in the middle of meditation. (was that a message, unconscious?) 230320
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tender_square "silly love songs" by paul mccartney. 230322
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raze "tubthumping" by chumbawamba.

because i'm pissing the night away. (literally.)
230413
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raze "love me tomorrow" by boz scaggs. 230418
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raze (hell, about half of "silk degrees" is on rotation in my brain right now. it's all boz at the moment.) 230419
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raze "aja" by steely dan. 230420
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raze "handle with care" by the traveling wilburys. 230421
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nr "are you serious" by andrew bird 230421
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raze "into the great wide open" by tom petty and the heartbreakers. 230424
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tender_square "into the fire" by sarah mclachlan. 230425
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tender_square ricky nelson's "travelin' man." 230427
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raze "you will be loved again" by mary_margaret o'hara. 230428
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raze "hold me" by fleetwood mac. 230507
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past "dig gravedigger dig" by corb lund. 230527
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raze "where's your head at" by basement jaxx (which you would have heard me singing_in_the_shower if you'd been here a little over an hour ago). 230603
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raze coiling through my mind like a serpent for the last few days, really:

"one night in bangkok" by murray head.
230605
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past the theme to super mario bros 2. 230606
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raze "karma police" by radiohead. 230609
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tender_square alabama's "i'm in a hurry (and don't know why)" 230610
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raze "baby it's you" by the shirelles. 230624
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past the cross country canada video game theme song. 230625
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raze "i'll follow the sun" by the_beatles. 230628
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tender_square "rock and roll all nite" by kiss. 230702
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raze "4th of july" by x. 230704
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raze "care-a-lot" by carole_king. 230721
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raze "james" by billy_joel. 230730
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raze "hold_on" by wilson phillips. 230804
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raze "the way you make me feel" by michael jackson, only i'm singing it as, "the way you bake me veal." 230806
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raze sinead o'connor's "no man's woman". 230807
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e_o_i "People You Know" by Selena Gomez

(Its style and frequent repetition of notes seem like the exact thing that would annoy me, but for some reason I'm drawn to any 4-3-1-2 sequence in a major tetrachord: people you know, tune-blips you own. Or pretend to. No one owns the major tetrachords!)
230808
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raze "stubborn kind of fellow" by marvin gaye. 230813
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tender_square "ho hey" by the lumineers. 230817
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raze "old woodstock" by van morrison. 230905
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raze this morning it was "baby lemonade" by syd barrett. 230909
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raze "don't dream it's over" by crowded house. 230919
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raze "straight to my heart" by sting. 230922
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tender_square tori_amos: "me and a gun" 230923
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raze "i just want to celebrate" by rare earth. 230924
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raze inexplicably, "jessie's girl" by rick springfield. 231001
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raze "bad is bad" by huey lewis and the news. 231027
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raze a brilliantly silly police homage called "rum ham". 231118
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raze "if you don't love me" by pete droge. 231121
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raze something i can't quite put my finger on. 231122
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raze "fragile thing" by big country. 231126
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raze billy_joel again. this time it's "movin' out (anthony's song)". 231129
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raze the "darkwing_duck" theme song.

let's get dangerous.
231204
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raze "dare" by gorillaz. 231209
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raze "phenomenon" by ll cool j. just the chorus. that's all i remember anyway. 231210
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raze "thesaurus" by richard_laviolette has been flitting in and out for the last few days. 231214
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raze "picture in a frame" by tom_waits, only the radio in my brain keeps getting the words wrong, and they come out sounding like this:

"sun come up
it was blue_and_red"

i guess it's the blather-inspired version.
231220
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raze "round midnight" by thelonious monk. 231221
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raze "diy" by peter_gabriel. 231223
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Soma Bee Gees "More Than A Woman" only with the wrong lyrics 231223
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raze "gloria's step" by bill_evans, as it sounded when it was played at the village vanguard with scott lafaro and paul motian rounding out the trio. 231228
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raze "where i end and you begin" by radiohead. 231230
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raze "breaking glass" by david_bowie. 240103
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raze "don't dream it's over" (again). 240106
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raze "julia" by the_beatles. 240207
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raze "fly_me_to_the_moon", but the words have changed:

"fly me to the moon
let me sing_among_the_stars
fill my ass with broken glass
and laugh about the scars"
240214
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raze for reasons that are a mystery to me, "frontier psychiatrist" by the avalanches. 240226
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raze "get love" by the wanderlust club.

(i'm blaming pony for this one.)
240306
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raze "i looked away" by derek and the dominos. 240317
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raze "cemetery polka" by tom_waits. 240318
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raze "better get used to it" by big sugar. 240402
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raze for most of the day it's been "the boy is mine" by brandy and monica. 240405
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raze "half a mile away" by billy_joel. 240414
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raze "style it takes" by john_cale and lou_reed. 240415
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raze "hang on to your love" by sade. 240418
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raze "whatever gets you through the night" by john lennon (the less ornate "anthology" version). 240509
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raze "jenni" by big thief. 240525
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raze "me against the music" by britney spears and madonna.

i have no idea why.
240527
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e_o_i I thought there was a blathe called something like "song_in_my_head_as_I_woke_up." Maybe I dreamed it.

Anyway, it was "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen.

Which I haven't heard or thought about for a while. Though I did flip through a book about Cohen last week in the gift shop of a Toronto art gallery (thinking sort of nostalgically, "Aha! Someone from Montreal").
240605
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raze (i think the blathe you were seeking might be songs_in_my_head_as_i_woke_up. i've searched for it in singular form myself more than a few times.) 240605
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e_o_i Ah, thanks! 240606
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raze right now it's "shake_it_up" by the cars. 240607
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raze "tarantulove" by hawksley_workman. 240609
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nr nouvelle vague's cover of "human fly" by the cramps.

there's a non-human fly buzz-buzz-buzzing around here that's driving me nuts.
240614
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raze now that i've mentioned it, "hummingbird" by seals & crofts. 240615
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raze fragments of some half-remembered thing from an ancient cd that came with uncut or magnet magazine. i can't recall the name of the band 240621
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raze "i wanna dance with somebody" by whitney houston. 240626
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raze "in-a-gadda-da-vida" by iron butterfly. 240629
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raze "tell it to my heart" by taylor dayne. 240712
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nr "strangers" by the kinks 240714
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raze "a night like this" by the cure. 240721
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raze "tempted" by squeeze, to the point that i've been walking in rhythm to the music in my mind. 240723
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raze "maybe i'm amazed" by paul mccartney. 240731
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raze "two_become_one" by the spice girls. 240808
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raze "you wear it well" by rod_stewart.

a lesser cousin to "maggie may", sure. but it's still an earworm.
240809
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raze "hots on for nowhere" by led zeppelin. 240923
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raze pink floyd's "fearless". 241002
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raze a stones_song_of_the_day: "tumbling_dice". 241013
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raze "miss sarajevo" and "every breaking wave" by U2, with one song growing out of the other like a vestigial head. 241104
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kerry richard swift: "lady luck" 241104
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raze "said i loved you ... but i lied" by michael bolton.

i know. believe me, i know. but hey, i didn't put it there. it floated into my brain all on its own, and now it won't leave.
241107
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raze "mississippi half-step uptown toodeloo" by the grateful dead. 241112
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raze "all the nasties" by elton john. 241117
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raze "water me" by fka twigs. 241124
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raze "everything you want" by vertical horizon. 241126
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raze "when we was fab" by george harrison. 241127
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raze "we can talk" by the band. 241130
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nr the future hangs” by cuff the duke 241130
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raze "god must be a boogie man" by joni mitchell. 241205
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raze tom_waits again, but this time it was "kommienezuspadt". i found myself dancing to its ghost while freezing my ass off outside. 241223
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raze "hey santa!" by carnie and wendy wilson. 241225
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e_o_i "Jingle Bell Rock." I blame the jingly bracelet I found in a jewelry box that fell down. I have it on now, ready to remove if it's too annoying. 241227
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e_o_i (I mean I have the bracelet on, not the song.) 241227
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raze for the last few days, it's been laura nyro's "luckie". 250109
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raze "just another onionhead" by todd rundgren. 250111
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raze "crushed" by rosette. 250118
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raze peter_gabriel again. "lay your hands on me" has been flitting in and out of my brainspace for the last few days. 250121
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nr "just the way you are" by billy joel. it was this week that i'd first heard this song played by a big_band (and played it myself). 250125
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raze "long hot summer night" by jimi hendrix.

maybe my brain is trying to keep me warm. because we're pretty far from summer right now.
250202
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raze another stones_song_of_the_day: "my obsession". 250204
...
Photophobe There's a light
In your head.
You - will - have - to - use
Telepathy instead, yeah...
250205
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raze "all i need is a miracle" by mike + the mechanics. 250210
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e_o_i Trying to rid myself of the melancholy occasioned by sad Phantom of the Opera songs (we're doing a medley in choir), I managed to cram in upbeat pop.

But "APT" gets tiresome wayyyy more quickly than "Pink Pony Club" (although score one for "what I thought was a French word is actually Korean" because this doesn't happen that often).
250211
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raze "25 or 6 to 4" by chicago. 250212
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raze "miles from our home" by cowboy junkies. 250219
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