←
→
eftychia: Lego-ish figure in blue dress, with beard and breasts, holding sword and electric guitar (lego-blue)
Add MemoryShare This Entry

Earworm

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 03:12pm on 2007-07-19 under

I've got the song "Signs" (at least I think that's the title) stuck in my head and I've no idea what put it there today.

The sign said, longhairfreakypeople need not apply
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask them why ...
←
→
There are 23 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] skreidle.livejournal.com at 07:18pm on 2007-07-19
First time I heard "Signs" was a cover by Tesla on their album "Five Man Acoustical Jam", but it may be originally by Five Man Electrical Band.
[link] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:48am on 2007-07-20
I'm not sure I've heard the Tesla version. I'm curious.
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] skreidle.livejournal.com at 12:16pm on 2007-07-20
Were it on CD and not tape, I'd have you a digital copy in a day or two. Alas!
[link] [parent] [reply]
ext_46621: (Default)

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] much-ado.livejournal.com at 07:24pm on 2007-07-19
it wouldn't by any chance be at all related to the truly amazing number of longhairfreakypeople you know, would it? :)
[link] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:47am on 2007-07-20
Well, yeah, but that doesn't explain why now in particular.

Though there is that gathering I'll be on my way to in a few hours where several of said folks will all be in one place ...


Mmmmmmm. Longhairfreakypeople. Mmmmmmm.
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] griffen.livejournal.com at 07:33pm on 2007-07-19
He said "You look like a fine, upstanding young man; I think you'll do."
So I took off my hat and said, "Imagine that! Me, working for you!"
[link] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:45am on 2007-07-20
I always get a strong visual impression of that line, more so than the rest of the song.
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by (anonymous) at 07:45pm on 2007-07-19
Anyone here should see Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs; think this one and "American Woman" vie therein for the "self-righteous hippie smugness" title.
(I get better results when I'm anonymous.)
[link] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] scooterbird.livejournal.com at 06:48am on 2007-07-20
Yeah, but what about:

C'mon, people now, smile on your brother
Ev'rybody get together
Try to love one another right now
Right now
Right now!
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:34am on 2007-07-20
I guess I like 'smug' hippie songs ... but it does help not to overthink 'em.
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:39am on 2007-07-20
I can't see "Signs" as smug; more like ... venting of frustration. Though I guess somebody put off by simplistic idealism might be rubbed the wrong way by the final verse and the "what gives you the right / to keep other people out / or keep Mother Nature in" verse.

"American Woman" comes off more bitter than smug, to me (and it seems powerful musical ideas wind up attached to bitter songs -- "American Woman" is cool to listen to even if you ignore the words, and "How Do You Sleep" has some fascinating instrumentation, as I recall.)
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] peaceofpie.livejournal.com at 07:53pm on 2007-07-19
I want to hear this song!
[link] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:31am on 2007-07-20
When I could still find classic-rock stations of any quality, it used to get played on those. I don't know whether you'd love it, but I do think you'd like it...

http://www.fivemanelectricalband.ca/signslyrics.html

I could try singing it over the phone, but I'm not good enough to do it justice a capella.
[link] [parent] [reply]
coraline: (Default)

(no subject)

posted by [personal profile] coraline at 08:32pm on 2007-07-19
oddly, i'm most familiar with the "don't let the man get you down" remix by fatboy slim...
[link] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:22am on 2007-07-20
I don't know that one. I'm curious.
[link] [parent] [reply]
coraline: (Default)

(no subject)

posted by [personal profile] coraline at 11:48am on 2007-07-20
i don't own it or i'd loan you the MP3... but if you're itunes-store enabled you can get a 30second taste there...
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:58am on 2007-07-20
Nope, but at some point I'll be on somebody's computer that is, and I'll try to remember to look for it then. (Or maybe somebody will just randomly happen to bring a copy to Baitcon or something, though it's probably too late for a general ping to be fruitful.)
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 12:22am on 2007-07-20
It's "long-haired, freaky-lookin' people need not apply."
[link] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:20am on 2007-07-20
I haven't been able to get your version to scan to the melody of the version I'm used to hearing.
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] mon462.livejournal.com at 03:07am on 2007-07-20
I had that song running through my head for the past 3 days or so. Please make it stop!
[link] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:21am on 2007-07-20
So maybe it's your fault -- I caught it from you!
[link] [parent] [reply]
ext_6171: Nightwing pressing the back of a hand melodramatically to his brow (actually unconscious; cropped comic panel) (Default)

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] buggery.livejournal.com at 02:17pm on 2007-07-20
Could it have been a premonition of LJ's latest attack on its fanfiction-loving "freaks"? (Not that all of them are longhaired.) The timing's right on...
[link] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 04:57pm on 2007-07-25
Oy. And timed when I've not got enough spare cycles to write a broadside.
[link] [parent] [reply]

Links

January

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1
1
 2
1
 3
1
 4
1
 5
1
 6
1
 7
1
8
1
 9
1
 10
1
 11
1
 12
1
 13
1
 14
1
15
1
 16
1
 17
1
 18
1
 19
1
 20
1
 21
1
22
1
 23
1
 24
 
 25
 
 26
 
 27
 
 28
 
29
 
 30
 
 31