Musical Fits
 

Do you have them? I am referring to the total saturated infatuation with a single album, group, or even sometimes a single song which causes you to get caught up in a loop and be unable to stop playing it.

Examples: When Strange Little Girls came out, I listened to it almost continuously during every waking moment for a two week period. It caused my eyes to roll back in my head and spittle to form in the corners of my mouth. Painful as it was, I could only stop when I began to fear the ramifications of my future mental health.

A few weeks ago, Gaz innocently quoted the song One by U2, and I had some kind of seizure which caused me to feel a deep need to listen exclusively to U2 for about two weeks solid. I got a phone call at 3 AM one morning from a neighbor saying that if I played The Fly one more time, they were going to kill me with a shotgun without further ado.

I once listened to the song Our Father God Celestial, an 11 minute, 15th century Scottish song with two cellos and female vocals (the original setting of the Lord's Prayer) continuously on a loop for three days in total darkness with no sleep. Had a religious experience, but that's another thread...

A few days ago I put on Boys and Girls by Bryan Ferry, and no matter how hard I try, I am unable to remove it from my CD player. I'm on my sixth listen this morning.

Is anyone else this musically obsessive compulsive? Just wondering. Perhaps I need some kind of treatment...

You need treatment dear. Soon. :a:

hahaha!!!
it is so funny, ramona......i just finally took "The Silence" by Mike Koglin, off a playlist of it's own, on loop.

it was in a playlist of mine. it comes on today and i had this urge, u know the one, to hear it, fifty million times over.
unlike u, i put it on repeat, for about 3 or 4 days straight, about a year ago, all day and at night when i went to bed and slept like a baby.
i do wonder what effect the subliminal message to my rem-state sleep, it might have upon me, though.


:doh: :J: :W:

yea, happens to me all the time, last was...ummm, either Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. or Weather Report - Night Passages, dont remember. when you said musical fits, i thought you were talking about something more like this...


few years ago i saw The Pretenders, was a pretty good show except for when Crissy Hinde threw a fit after the first couple of songs. first? time she stopped singing after a few lines, the band stoped playing with puzzeled looks on their faces, and she said "hey security guards, let those people come up front and dance, now!!!!" the security guards at this place were nazis, and would not let anyone out of their seats. so now they did. then few minutes later she stops again, this time says "hey i see people looking at me with binoculars, stop it!! no binoculars!!" then she chucks her tamborene into the stage and it breaks, then she picks up a nice sharp piece and chucks it into the crowd.

she then paces back and forth for a bit, then the concert resumes without any more weird chit. and hey, the lead guitarist was doin this cool thing where he would be playing then would bend down one of his guitar stirngs with the pick, then let it fly out into the crowd. i caught one, blue, says pretenders on it.

oh yeah...especially when I'm mixing someone I've recorded :BL:

um.....more on that later

hmm scheck this out. 4? days ago i woke up with Warren Zevon - Rolland The Headless Thompson Gunner runnin thru my brain from the moment i was awake, and continued to for 3 days straight. odd thing is, i havent heard that song in many years. then yesterday it was Doobie Bros - Chinna Grove, again, something i havent heard in years. kinda like they came outta my dreams, and my oh my havent my dreams been interesting lately. sex, bank robbery, violence. perhaps ive been watching too much Farscape before bed. im currently listening to Flash In The Pan- debut album, and Hey St Peter is drowning out the Doobies. ahhh...

I get musical fits all the time. It's usually something rock-oriented, though not always.

As for me my fit started 26 years ago. I remember the day it started as if it was yesterday. Skippin school at a close friends house. I was utterly stunned and in awe of what I was hearing. I was listening to YES music. "AWAKEN" from Going for the One album. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I was to realize later that yes I HAD. My friend said that he could see it in my eyes. I haven't forsaken it since.

I'm always doing the "musical fits" thing :BL:

It all started with the Beatles....*introduce mystical "way back" music theme here*...

Magical Mystery Tour/ Sgt Peppers Lonely hearts Club album (is that the title?...it was so long ago :BL: ) Later I even started a group called "Sgt Pepper " and worked the clubs here playing nothing but Beatles songs :er: :D

Alice Coopers - Welcome to my Nightmare. ..of which I must have bought 5 albums and played or scratched each one to death, at the time my friends and I even staged concerts at school and mimed/sang the whole thing every weekend on stage....(I got Vincent Price's lines down to an art too. :BL: )

Then in no particular order came the relentless musical fits of these albums...:BL:

Rodriguez- Coming from Reality.
Pyramid - The Alan Parsons Project.
Deep Purple - 24 Carat Purple.
Pink Floyd - The Wall (and everything else)
Neil Young - Comes a Time.
Foreigner.
Bread - Best of Bread
Chicago.
Boston.
Pink Floyd.
Dire Straits.
Eagles - Hotel California.
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
Ricky Lee Jones.(1st album)
Matchbook - Ian Moss (Aussie stuff v.good)
Cold Chisel (self titled- more Aussie stuff)
Matchbox20
Hootie and the Blowfish (both sets)
Love and Money (self titled bunch of session muso's..rare, and def worth a listen!)
U2 (sorry Shawn :BL: )
The Verve- Urban Hymns (which I am currently flogging to death as we speak :D )
...and yeah ...heaps of others.

"its a dangerous place, a dangerous place"

I've decided that I'm going to start using this thread to state my latest musical fit, sort of like Cornflakeboyee's thread, which seems to be the most popular thread in the Underground ever. However, instead of just saying "I'm listening to this at the moment," I'll only state things that I'm currently madly looping and can't get over. Feel free to join in.

And this week, it's HUNTERS & COLLECTORS, a very under-rated Australian band in my opinion. Most Australians I talk to haven't even heard of them, much less most Americans. They broke in the states with their one hit from their first (82) eponymous US CD: "Talking To A Stranger", which features the typically exasperated vocals of lead singer Mark Seymour and got played on MTV twice, or maybe three times. It was a very dark B&W video featuring Mark in the shower with goggles and nose-plugs, being a freak.

"Souvent pour j'amuser les hommes d'equipage
And it's like talking to a stranger
You tasted mustard when she painted your face
And it was like talking to a stranger
Remember the panic in its delectable face, when you touched it
It was like talking to a stranger
And Oh Miss Jesus tell me where are your black eyes?
Your baby was talking to a stranger"

Their one other brush with fame seems to have been Pearl Jam choosing to cover "Throw Your Arms Around Me" from 1986's Human Frailty. Back in the Napster boom days, one could find literally a hundred live versions of this song by both bands.

I fairly recently discovered Mark is a school teacher and the brother of another (perhaps more famous) lead singer, Nick from Crowded House. At any rate, his passionate, if not half-crazed, lyrics and vocals are one of the most important elements of this band for me. H&C, after producing quite a number of fine albums, has since dissolved and Mark, I understand, has made several solo albums, but I've not heard any.

John Archer, one of the hands-down ballsiest bass players ever, is another vital element, spurring the groups overall organic rock-and-fucking-roll-sound. Try "(Betty's Worry or) The Slab" or my own personal fave "Little Chalkie" (both from The Jaws Of Life, 1984) for some good examples of his raw pop-and-thump sound. He can make Flea sound a bit sophisticated.

("Little Chalkie", by the way, is apparently a ballad about the legendary urban figure in Australia who leaves chalk messages wherever he goes; there was some vague reference to this during the olympics, involving the word "freedom" being writ large on a bridge overlooking the Sydney harbor, I think, but I've never been able to find anything much about this--any of you natives know anything?)

The "Horns Of Contempt," Hunters' ever-present squelchy brass section, are another important element, especially when they're doing Ray Charles covers, like "I Believe." And Jack Howard, keyboardist, apparently has the world's only coal-fed and steam-driven synthesizer.

Another thing that really sold me on this band is that they worked with Producer Connie (or Conrad) Plank, a very inventive German engineer from Kraftwerk, Can and Cluster & Eno fame. Connie appears on the albums Jaws of Life and, my overall favorite, The Fireman's Curse. Before I'd even heard the band, I read an interview with Eno about some of the strange rituals he (Connie) was putting this innocent but ballsy Aussie rock band through: things like facing guitar amps into the corners of enormous warehouses and micing them from the opposite corner, or recording vocals from 150 yards away, or micing them, sending them to another amp, micing that amp and sending it to another amp etc ad infinitum. The result is ethereal and satisfyingly strange, if subtle.

The Fireman's Curse is a spectacular album. (my current musical fit) It always sounds to me a bit like what the ghosts of Auschwitz (can you say "post-apocalyptic?") might play with a typical rock band's instrumentation. For instance, "Blind Snake Sundae," is, apparently, an anthem for the cannibalistic survivors of a scorched planet. "Sway," "Judas Sheep," "Eggheart," and "Drinking Bomb" would be my other recommendations. See if you can find them.

Anyway enough raving. Now iz zee time on Schprockets venn vee donce.



I says mother I have lost my arms, lost my arms
She says, use your charms son, use your charms
And I says smell that fear mother, smell that fear
She says off your knees son, off your knees

Well, our friend the Judas sheep
He's dressed up like a compost heap
Our friend the Judas sheep
To the top, top, top of the heap

We are tentacle wrapped in memories, memories
Down in the dark we stumble happy, happy
We are wet to the skin, wet to the skin
Free from sin, free from sin
Oh father forgive this state we're in, state we're in

Because our friend the Judas sheep
He's dressed up like a compost heap
Our friend the Judas sheep
To the top, top, top of the heap
And I said our friend the Judas sheep
Today's companion tomorrow's fresh meat

Quote:

Originally posted by Ramona_A_Stone I once listened to the song Our Father God Celestial, an 11 minute, 15th century Scottish song with two cellos and female vocals (the original setting of the Lord's Prayer) continuously on a loop for three days in total darkness with no sleep.

...well, that's it ...you're definately not well ...lol:p I do hope that when you listened to U2, you also listened to the early stuff. For someone who's loved them the way I have in the past, I've not been too crazy about thier later stuff. However, "Boy" and "October" hit some kind of special place within me when they first came out ...which remains to this day. Especially about the time "Twilight" & "An Cat Dubh" (what the hell does that mean anyway?) start to play ...I'm gone ...then chimes in "Stories For Boys" on side two. Love it. Don't care if it's considered "not thier best" work or whatever ...to me it is. A lot of it's probably nostalgia at this point ...but I knew it was great when it was new. Back then, I listened to it a great deal, and had a "musical fit" such as being described in this thread!

Being the early '80s, a lot of bands (especially the one hit wonders on MTV ...which I very much enjoyed mind you) looked silly by comparison. U2 could be so serious and spiritual ya know ...and Bono's singing most of the time? Now that's angst!...lol ...I even very much liked and enjoyed a new performer on the scene when one night I saw this unknown gal by the name of Madonna singing "Burning Up" ...I said to myself "My God ...this girl is going to be big!" ...but I always knew U2 was "The Band". When a concert was schedueled to take place in Washington DC soon after the October album came out ...I knew I had to be there! This turned out to be an incredibly lucky affair as for some reason or another the concert was held in a "revamped" movie theater ...so it was very up close and intimate. I also managed to be allowed in with my camera with a huge lens on it. Here's a photograph I made from that night:

Dave "the Edge" Evans of U2 (click pic)

That was some night! The "War" album could be a little "cheesy" sometimes, but mostly I enjoyed the hell out of it. "The Unforgettable Fire" album is amazing and "Joshua Tree" is outstanding ...refreshingly less "theme" oriented than some of the others.

hehe ...I didn't mean to turn this into a U2 post but got carried away. Actually, I did have a bit of a fit one day not too long ago and found myself playing... The B-52's - "Planet Claire" & "Song For A Future Generation" ...over and over again ...like the whole afternoon! The video for that last song is especially fun to watch to see Cindy (the blonde) lip sync the words and at one point (though it's almost imperceptible) she's just overcome with the music and feeling good ...so happy ...she can hardly wipe the smile off her face. There's a lot of joy in that song.:)

Nickelback fit right now
 

Well I was watching Behind the music and they had on Hall and Oates. Well I've been listening to Hall and Oates for the whole week. I never noticed how many good songs they had. And that Hall has quite a voice :cool:

I totally misunderstood the meaning of this thread. I was sure it invloved Irish guys having seizures whilst listening to music...I remember this guy Paddy Fitzsimmons...:uu:

Johnny Cash's version of Solitary Man...downloaded it the other night and it has grown in my consciousness like some obscene tumor...

There was a time (not too long ago) where all I listened to Sleepy Maggie by Ashleigh McIssac

I still love that song...

Then after I saw "Haunted Mansion" Little Things of Venom - Arid never left the playlist

Name

And even though the moment passed me by
I still can't turn away
'Cause all the dreams you never thought you'd lose
Got tossed along the way
And letters that you never meant to send
Get lost or thrown away


And now we're grown up orphans
That never knew their names
We don't belong to no one
That's a shame

But if you could hide beside me
Maybe for a while
And I won't tell no one your name
And I won't tell em' your name


And scars are souvenirs you never lose
The past is never far
Did you lose yourself somewhere out there
Did you get to be a star
And don't it make you sad to know that life
Is more than who we are


We grew up way too fast
And now there's nothing to believe
Reruns all become our history
A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio
And I won't tell no one your name
And I won't tell em' your name
I won't tell em' your name


I won't tell em' your name…


I think about you all the time
But I don't need the same
It's lonely where you are come back down,
And I won't tell em your name

Now how did I not see this thread afore?

I must admit to being prone to 'fits' of the musical variety quite regularly.....
One of my major/repeat addictions is Sinead O'Connors- Faith and Courage each of the tracks seems to hit home with a vengance for me.......

others in the category of 'fits' are:

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing

Cranberries - No Need To Argue

Sinead O'Connor - So Far.....The Best Of

Hi all,

my musical fits come in waves. I currently am listening to more Depeche Mode than ever before in the last 5 years. But unlike before, I'm concetrating on a lot of live bootlegs, trying to recapture memories of past concerts.

But there are times when I can last for months without lsitening to my fav band. It's times like these that I need so not to oversaturate myself and lose interest in the long run. Or as others have stated, not to lose my sanity and grasp of reality. :)

Other musical fits I had in my life:

Queen - Greatest Hits 1
Beatles - Red and Blue album

and a few others I'm too embarassed to mention ;)


@Nanook:
Don't settle for the imitation, if you can get the real thing. Try the following replacement in your playlist:

Mike Koglin - The Silence <-> Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence


Stoepsel

When I was 15 I would have tended to listen to an album intensely and non-stop for a week. Mainly cos I didnt have many records and music just makes a deeper impression when yer that age.

The Smiths-"Hatful of hollow"
Nirvana-"Nevermind" (tape is literally worn away)
Sonic youth-"Dirty" (ditto)

1988

Especially The Host of the Seraphim, Severance, The Writing on My Father's Hand and Chant of the Paladin. This CD hasn't left my player for about a week.

P.S. I'm fifteen. :)

JackUzi,
I can totally relate to that. That were the years that were to determine my musical taste for the next 20 years, amybe even the rest of my life.
I also had my favourite music recorded on tape, because I didn't have enough money to buy LPs. Everywhere I went, my Walkman went with me.

One more musical fit from the past: When I was 12 I was sick for a few weeks. During that time I constantly listened to Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms. It sure helped me through that tough time and still gets me all emotional when I listen to it now.

Stoepsel - Feeling 15 all over again...

Actually, come to think of it, I wouldn't and couldnt listen to anything but Radiohead's "Amnesiac" album around September 11th and the weeks after. A lot of the lyrics were pretty chilling to hear at the time....

You and Whose Army comes to mind...

I went through a mean Radiohead fit, getting all their bsides and then moving on to post Pablo Honey Albums. It was a good fit. Right now my Britpop fit drags on, as I dig around in Oasis.

:fm:

if the shoe fits........
 

Having a major 'old aussie bands/songs' fit at the moment....also commonly known in the wild as the 'revisting my long lost (misspent?) youth' fit ;)



Cold Chisel - Khe Sanh
Do Re Mi - Man Overboard (killer song!)
Eric Bogle - And tThe Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Hush - Glad All Over (am I really this old??!!)
John Farnham - Burn For You
Paul Kelly - Dumb Things
Paul Kelly - To Her Door
Redgum - Fabulon
Redgum - Poor Ned
Redgum - Where Ya Gonna Run To
Redgum - Ive Been To Bali Too


throw in some Yothu Yindi....Wendy Matthews ..... John Williamson and whatever else I manage to remember(keyword!) and find !:BHS:

Same here....and I have to wonder if that gave me a deeper appreciation for the songs. There are tons of obscure tracks that I know and love to this day, only because I played the LP or the cassette over and over again and found that other tracks grew on me, besides the ones that had orginally inspired to go buy it in the first place. Now, I download a song, give it a quick listen and make an immediate decision whether to keep it or delete it...I often wonder if I am giving the music I d/l enough of a chance to plant the seeds of appreciation in my brain:RE:

I'm currently having an Enigma musical fit. I'm gonna take all of their cds, make the tracks into mp3s and put it on my mp3 player. Then I can listen to soothing music anytime me wants :ND:

I've been having a Tori Amos fit for a while now..

on rotation lately.. here in my head and her version of whole lotta love, siren (acoustic), way down, Amber waves off the new album..

Waiting for Tori's new album, sure to be my next fit.

:ND:

Currently: Frou Frou (Imogen Heap & Guy Sigsworth) - Details.

Bought it a couple of days ago just because Jon Hassell plays a few trumpet solos on it and Brian Eno co-wrote a song on it, and I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO THE DAMNED THING OVER AND OVER.

:help:

It's sort of like Garbage grew up, moved to France and smoked some opium... only better.

:ND:

ramona, I have 6 tracks off Scarlet's Walk.. if you want I can up them for you. (if you havent already heard them)

you know this is all your fault.. I was downloading your top 10 "Life Without the Possibility of Parole in an All-Male Facility" list :p

here's some of my musical fits:

Third Eye Blind
Ben Folds (and Ben Folds Five)
Sugar Ray
Radiohead
At the Drive In
Once Again
Rage Against the Machine
Stone Temple Pilots
System of a Down
Creed
Everlast
Everclear

and the most irritating fit i'm currently on is always listening to Cake - I Will Survive. It seems like my hand just wants to automatically double click this file and get it playing out over my speakers :MAD:

Thanks for the kind offer Shani, but Ima wait 'till the bleery eyed truckers bring hard copies to my local record sto'. I've been trolling said establishment every day waiting for it to show up--and also for Peter Gabriel's UP to appear. Yesterday as I wandered around I heard an unknown-to-me Gabriel song and asked the clerk the origin of the song. He didn't know, went to check and returned with an advance promo copy of UP and flashed it at me. I barely restrained the urge to wrestle him to the ground for it.
:cr:
Anyway, I'm still way hooked on the above mentioned Frou Frou - Details and strongly urge everyone to try to find it. (Especially Ms. Wenchie, who I feel certain will be as crazy about it as I am judging from some of her previously mentioned musical crushes.) Let me know if you can't find it out there in share-land and I'll get on KaAzA and set it free.

:kiss: thanks ramona dear......... I will 'check it out'

latest musical fits:

hendrix's If 6 was 9 and elvis' heartbreak hotel.. well since my baby left me <boom boom>

My last musical fit lasted about 2 years

Over Van morrison's Melancolia


I had been told that it was tom waits who had done it.....so i looked and looked and looked......eventually i hit upon the idea that it was someone else, and did a google search on the lyrics.

ah ramona......... Im finally getting that frou frou....... the memory fails me terribly these days......... ( early onset alzheimers I fear!)

so........ the latest fits of the musical persuasion are a couple of songs that are always haunting the playlist :

live - run to the water
hawksley workman - striptease


totally addicted! :tu:

update
 

frou frou - let go :AP: :love: :V: :tu: :kiss:

good call ramona!!:beer:

Thanks for suggesting Frou Frou Stoner! I LOVE the music, and am currently in a download frenzy, getting as many songs I can find. :AP:

Graham Parker

i have no idea where this particular fit came from:eek:

:cool:

Überetrocrushology: Flashback: 1978, Thai sticks and "pumping lovely," doc martins for the girls and eye-liner for the boys, spray painting "Normality is Confusing" and "God Was Never Even Alive" on the smoke hole walls between fourth and fifth period, lots of sex in the parking lot, a good deal of it at no charge. Flashforward: Me, every day for the last two weeks while driving to work, singing at the top of my lungs and dancing like a cross between Christopher Lowell and John Travolta, not being exactly sure who is gayer, much to the confusion of many passing fellow drivers who, judging by their expressions, are equally unsure.


LOVE IS INFECTIOUS

She keeps her patience for the bedroom
Should satisfy her for a week
Her domination is executed cheaply
With a studio technique
WHAT'S NEW??
She carries love in a carrier bag
WHAT'S NEW??
She don't keep her body clean OH! OH! OH!
OOO!
Illegitimate contributions
WHAT'S NEW??
And neurotic fantasies conceived

Love is infectious
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT!
Love is infectious
Errrr I DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT!
Love is infectious
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT!
Love is infectious
Well I DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT!
OOO!
WHAT'S NEW??

She keeps appointments by the hour glass, huh!
Guerilla warfare in her bed
And constant love is oh oh oh so negative!
We're simulating sex instead
She carries love in a carrier bag
She don't keep her body clean OH! OH! OH!
Illegitimate contributions
And neurotic fantasies conceived

oh well

Love is infectious
UH, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT!
Love is infectious
Well I DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT!
Love is infectious
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT!
Love is infectious
I JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT!
OOO!
WHAT'S NEW??

No personality's essential
Nobody strictly in command
She's not direct, elusive or inadequate
Love's incompatible commands
WHAT'S NEW??
She carries love in a carrier bag
She don't keep her body clean OH! OH! OH!
Illegitimate contributions
And neurotic heartaches are conceived

Love is infectious
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT!
Love is infectious
Errrr I DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT!
Love is infectious
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT!
Love is infectious
Well I DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT!
OOO!
WHAT'S NEW??


I can neither confirm nor deny the rumor that this song was written for TankGirl, I do know, however, she dated nearly every member of the band at one time or another during the mid 70s.

:f: :SP: :BL:

:love: :a:

i got all the references except pumping lovely. google was no help, unless you're even more wicked than you say. :D

- js.

*bump*
 

currently, The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers


it only gets better from start to finish, and is an album that grows on you each time you listen to it. i don't know how to describe it to do it justice, but picture george harrison backed by the munchkin symphony and chorus, throw in some pedal steel guitar every once in a while, add great melody, thoughtful lyrics, with hooks galore......pure magic. and if you make it all the way to track #7 then you're in for a treat, cause the best is yet to come.

so if you've some time to kill, do yourself a favor and d/l it and give it a listen in it's entirety

Current fit :


Latin dance music :AP: