Make it stop..
A little gift from me to you. Today's annoying song playing on a loop in my head (and in the head of the poor girl sitting opposite me since I mentioned it to her) is "Uptown Top Rankin" by Althea and Donna. There. Now you too can sit there sort of tunelessly humming it for the rest of the day.
Apparently these things are known as earworms. So now you know.
Enjoy.
Apparently these things are known as earworms. So now you know.
Enjoy.
posted by surly girl at 11:23 am
17 Comments:
for me, today, it's 'jolene' by dolly parton )but that was self-imposed)
ok, sorry, won't visit now for another three hours so as to benefit your site meter
*twiddles thumbs and wonders what to do now*
yatuhe = japanese term of abuse meaning 'you suck at yahtzee'
Ah, but I don't know this "Uptown Top Rankin" song you speak of, so no earworm for me - hah!
yblbjl: Jewish jelly
Argh. Now I'll be saying "ting" instead of "thing" all afternoon. I'll try thinking of a "deflection" song: Desmond Decker - The Israelite. Oh yes! Wake up in the morning, slaving for bread...
exit humming
apdgk: Bugs Bunny's favourite refrain, two days after being hit in the mouth with a cricket bat.
and this from my white middle-class sis who knows every word of "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel. Shame on you. innit.
Oh dear. Far too much free time at work!
Wonderful example of Jamaican patois it is too.
Apparently.
(helbg: Outer level of the Inferno reserved for those who spend more on Chanel accessories than their children)
Uptown Top Ranking [Gibbs,Thompson,Forest,Reid]
See me in me heels and ting
Dem check sey we hip and ting
True them no know and ting
We have them going and ting
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
See me pon the road I hear you call out to me
True you see mi inna pants and ting
See mi in a 'alter back (i.e in 70's backless top)
Sey mi gi' you heart attack
Gimme likkle bass, make me wine up me waist
Uptown Top Ranking
See mi in mi Benz and ting ( i.e. Mercedes)
Drivin' through Constant Spring
Them check sey me come from cosmo spring
But a true dem no know and ting
Dem no know sey we top ranking
Uptown Top Ranking
Shoulda see me and the ranking dread
Check how we jamming and ting
Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Watch how we chuck it and ting
Inna we khaki suit and ting
Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
(Intermezzo)
Love inna you heart dis a bawl out fe me
When you see me inna pants and ting
See me inna 'alter back
Sey me gi' you heart attack
Gimme likkle bass, make me wine up me waist
Uptown Top Ranking
See mi pon the road and hear you call out to me
True you see me in me pants and ting
See me inna 'alter back
Sey me gi' you heart attack
Gimme likkle bass, make me wine up me waist
Gimme likkle bass, make me wine up me waist
Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
You shoulda see me and the ranking dread,
check how we jamming and ting
Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
Nah pop no style, a strictly roots
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transcribed by -Richie, Nicci Talbot, Filthy Rich - a news:rec.music.reggae
goes on a bit, doesn't it?
oiydkavh: cry that goes up when the crowd at the barmitzvah discovers that the youngest cousin has made off with the yblbjl
You 2 girls are so 'street' aren't you. Bet your crew is down with the bangin' chunes !!!!!!
i think you'll find that last comment is on the list of banned vernacular.
yoiyg: the noise shaggy makes when the ghost pirate appears in the rigging
oh gawd, now i have a 'white lines' earworm ('and all the while i think of you...')
not being terribly rocknroll, it was only last month that i discovered it was about cocaine...
doh
rtxjmo = i swear to god i've heard this word in a gangsta rap song, definitely the 'j'mo' bit
OR i heard it on a south london pirate radio station when trying to find heart 106.2
one or the other...
I'm with Stef the Engineer on the Israelite.
This is great. It's always comforting to have a name to attach to your secret, shameful affliction. And it's like a virus--all you have to do is mention it to a fellow sufferer, and you can both be in agony for hours, even days. Governments could probably overthrow entire regimes with this tool.
I loved that article link. That's so true for ad jinglesl too. Sometimes I don't even know or care what they're advertising, but the stupid little tune gets stuck in there. Ad people must make zillions figuring out new ones.
washing machines live longer with calgon....
sljpaou: the noise made when doing finger-rayguns
'My life is brilliant'.
No matter how many times I repeat it it won't go away. Just that line.
It's been in there for the past 3 months.
And it won't go away.
Have you read what Stef the Engineer has written about us?
It's OK if I mention other people's bogs, isn't it? Just not my own.
So it wouldn't be right for me to say that I mention both Stef and you in today's entry. So I won't.
geoff - is that from a song or are you doing life-affirming positivity exercises?
1st line of James Bloody Blunt.
I bet he's just reached no.1 in Spain.
curse the blunt. rhymes rather fortuituously tho....
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