Aaarrrghhhh!<\/p>\n
I have a tune – an earworm – stuck in my head and…<\/p>\n
It.
\nWon’t.
\nGet.
\nOut!<\/p>\n
Aaaarggghhhh!<\/p>\n
‘Rocket in My Pocket’ by Little Feat.<\/p>\n
A couple of hundred years ago when I\u00c2\u00a0worked in a British military establishment on the Dutch\/German border I used to listen to a lot of Dutch radio.<\/p>\n
There was a radio station called VPRO that had a late-night show called ‘De Amigos de Musica Show’. And they used drop-ins and bumpers from artists.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I used to tape (in a C30, C60, C90, Go! kind of way because this was in the days before digital, kids) each show so I could play them back, repeatedly, at my leisure and usually in my car.<\/p>\n
I had one particular tape in my collection that had\u00c2\u00a0a classic show compiliation on it.<\/p>\n
Right after a Dutch band called ‘The Inside Nipples’ performed their seminal work ‘We’re So Glad Elvis Is Dead (He’s Such A Drag)’ was a drop in: ‘This is Lol George of Little Feat and you’re listening to VPRO, De Amigos de Musica Show’ and it went straight in to Rocket in My Pocket.<\/p>\n
Rocket in My Pocket was the worst song on the whole tape. So how good was the rest of the tape!!<\/p>\n
Blindingly good, that’s how good. It gave me:<\/p>\n
* The Werewolves of London by the brilliant (and sadly late) Warren Zevon
\n* Game Number Nine by the brilliant (and equally sadly, late) Ray Charles
\n* something I can’t name but it was hauntingly delivered\u00c2\u00a0and contained the lyric (which has stayed with me ever since) ‘The more things change the more they stay the same. Goodbye baby Jane’
\n* Sechsundsechzig Jahren (a real toe-tapper from Deutschland)<\/p>\n
And the weakest of the bunch was the song that was prefixed by ‘This is Lol George of Little Feat and you’re listening to VPRO…’?<\/p>\n
Absolutely.<\/p>\n
Because it’s a lame, lame, lame song.<\/p>\n
So there.<\/p>\n
Said it.<\/p>\n
And to any Little Feat fans who might happen this way on the strength of a speculative google (just as members of The Hoosiers Fan Club website have done – and herein found unflattering words about them<\/em>!)…<\/p>\n I. Right, I’m away to plug in my iPod to try and drown this earworm in something better. I have some Iron Maiden warmed up on standby. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n B<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aaarrrghhhh! I have a tune – an earworm – stuck in my head and… It. Won’t. Get. Out! Aaaarggghhhh! ‘Rocket in My Pocket’ by Little<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDon’t.
\nCare.<\/p>\n