Stuck in Our Heads - Vol. 1 - April 2007

I have decided, with the possible exceptions of breakfast drinking or microwaving Hostess cherry pies for 20 seconds to make them even more delicious, this project is perhaps the best idea I have ever had.

The compiled list of April's Stuck in Our Heads entries rambles across genres and history. It reflects the multitude of days my friends had last week - some of those days defined by weather, some defined by the sluice of monumental life changes, some defined by an unfortunate radio channel selection on the morning commute.

I have picked up almost all of these tracks in the past couple of days, and I am in the process of slowly wading in to the list. I am a little surprised at the level of satisfaction I am taking from the collection of songs stuck in our heads. (To illustrate, it inspired me to end a years-old internal conflict this weekend by ordering my very first portable MP3 player.) I am fairly confident there will be some more reflection on the personal impact of this project, but I don't want to hold up the list.

In case you have forgotten, the two-part question I posed was "What was the last song that got stuck in your head because:
1 - it was so good you just never wanted it to end so you mentally played it over and over and over and over...?
2 - no matter what you did, you could not exorcise the wretched melody by any means? (Or, even if it isn't a wretched melody, it certainly stayed well beyond its welcome.)"

You will notice that I have not separated the list in to #1s and #2s. In addition to the interesting phenomenon of some songs coming from numerous sources (Pink's and JT's people are apparently doing a good job these days; I want to tell you that Sound Master T came up more than once, too, but he didn't. More's the pity.), there were also a few instances of someone's #1 being someone else's #2. As such, I figure I'll just treat it as a single playlist and let the chips fall where they may. After all, we have an old saying in the Stuck in Our Heads biz: one man's torture is another man's treasure.

So, without further ado:

Title - Artist
Candyman - Christina Aguilera
Smack That - Akon (feat. Eminem)
Intervention - Arcade Fire
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me - Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
Duke's Place - Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
All Possibilities - Badly Drawn Boy
The Funeral - Band of Horses
Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Skimmer-a-rinky-dinky-dink - Barney the Big Purple Dinosaur
Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles
Irreplaceable - Beyonce
My Humps - Black Eyed Peas
Amanda - Boston
Thinking About John Hartford - Jim Brunberg
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
Sad Songs and Waltzes - Cake
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
Bullet and a Target - Citizen Cope
Feelin' Alright - Joe Cocker
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
Joe Louis Was a Fighting Man - The Dixieaires
Take It Off - The Donnas
Evening Gown - Alejandro Escovedo
What's Luv - Fat Joe
Glamorous - Fergie
Cold as Ice - Foreigner
Gin 'n' Juice - The Gourds
Cupid's Chokehold - Gym Class Heroes
Basement Apt. - Sarah Harmer
Stuck Between Stations - The Hold Steady
Apple, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & the Techniques
She's Always a Woman - Billy Joel
I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues - Elton John
Mudfootball - Jack Johnson
Mercerdes Benz - Janis Joplin
Stay - Jude
Shannon Rhodes - Damien Jurado
Lola - The Kinks
Naïve - The Kooks
9 to 5 - Lady Sovereign
Your Fucking Sunny Day - Lambchop
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Shout Out Loud - Amos Lee
Area Codes - Ludacris & Nate Dogg
Daughters - John Mayer
Roscoe - Midlake
This is Why I'm Hot - Mims
Orange Sky - Alexi Murdoch
At Dawn - My Morning Jacket
Where to Begin - My Morning Jacket
Udadewetha - Shiyani Ngcobo
New Shoes - Paolo Nutini
That Was a Crazy Game of Poker - O.A.R.
U + Ur Hand - Pink
Temperature - Sean Paul
Polyester Bride - Liz Phair
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
Housequake - Prince
There's a Touch - The Proclaimers
Catarina - Joe Purdy
Wonderful People - Q and Not U
Metal Health - Quiet Riot
Trouble Sleeping - Corrine Bailey Rae
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
El Pico - Ratatat
Snow - Red Hot Chili Peppers
(Sittin' On the) Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
Girl in the War - Josh Ritter
Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Be Mine (slow version) - Robyn
La Rhumba - The RZA
Night Moves - Bob Seger
Turn On Me - The Shins
Lazy Eye - Silversun Pickups
Pieces of Me - Ashlee Simpson
Our Anniversary - Smog
SmurfBerry Crunch Jingle - The Smurfs
Too Much Booty in the Pants - Sound Master T
Up Close & Personal - South
Fade In To You - Mazzy Star
I'll Never Let You Go - Steelheart
Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani
My Coco - Stellastar
Tell Me What We're Going to Do Now - Joss Stone
Romantic Death - The Sun
Indiana Wants Me - Dean Taylor
My Girl - The Temptations
FutureSex/LoveSounds - Justin Timberlake
Sexyback - Justin Timberlake
What Goes Around - Justin Timberlake
Rosanna - Toto
Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin') - T-Pain feat. Yung Joc
Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
Happy Together - The Turtles
Grand March from Aida - Verdi
B.M.F.A. - Martha Wainwright
Come on Meow - The Weather's Perfect
Nobody Knows Me At All - The Weepies
Are You Alright - Lucinda Williams
Rehab - Amy Winehouse
Tears Dry on Their Own - Amy Winehouse
Rump Shaker - Wreckx-n-Effect
Sugarcube - Yo La Tengo
Three's Company Theme Song
The Band-Aid Song