Let’s lighten the mood…

So, I’ve got this online friend who was telling me about this weird thing her brain does of playing music. People sometimes get “earworms” of a song or something that sticks in the head. But what she was describing was of a different order. She can remember and “play” in her head individual cello or violin parts in orchestral pieces. She studied music for a while, I guess that helps.

My brain does something similar. I wake up every day with a different song playing in my head. It’s like every song I know well and listened to a few times is just stored on a disk in there, and every day my brain presses the “shuffle-play” button. It could be anything. Sometimes its respectable stuff like Beethoven and sometimes it’s TV ads for toys or cereal from Saturday Morning Cartoons in the 70s. Embarrassingly, there’s a LOT of the Beatles stored up in there. Quite a lot of what was playing on the radio in the ’70s, and a lot more of what I bought on cassette for my trail of Walkmans in the ’80s. The Eurythmics… the Police… David Bowie…

Very often it’s a song I don’t even know all the words too, which is really annoying.

Today’s musical selection is one you might remember…

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