Damn you, Bob.
 
Here's a tale of a fateful trip...
 
On a road trip, I once confided to my business partner about a personal affliction - not uncommon among musicians - of always mentally replaying the last melody I've heard in a continuous loop that won't stop until it's replaced by another tune. It doesn't matter if it's a commercial jingle, a Christmas carol, a TV-show theme song, a novelty tune or a favorite classic. It keeps looping in my head until I replace it.
 
So what does he do, he puts on a tape of "Eng-a-land swings like a pendulum do, Bobbies on bicycles, two by two..." and halts it halfway through the chorus. We drive all the way from Portland to Seattle and he refuses to put on anything else, so that awful song is stuck in my brain the whole time. He thought it was funny.
 
On subsequent road trips, he discovered that it wasn't even necessary to play the song. All it took was him singing "Eng-a-land swings like a pendulum do" to set the loop in motion. It got to be his favorite joke. We don't do road trips anymore.
 
So guys, any time I comment on your song in the Songs forum, rest assured that it's been in constant rotation in my head and will continue to play there for hours. The greatest compliment you can get from me is when I comment on only one song and stop there for the day. Danny Danzi once posted a song that stayed with me for days...ah, that's better, it just replaced the Gilligan's Island theme on my one-song playlist. Whew.

There are a number of songs I was subjected to in my youth that I have chosen not to hear in the last few decades. Since I don't have to listen to them in order to foist them off on you, I'll list a few for your listening displeasure. I'm not saying that they're (all) terrible songs. I'm just saying that they were either overplayed so much that I grew to hate them, they didn't contain any music (subjective opinion), or they were so syrupy and fake that I just couldn't stand them. You're welcome.

• Too Fat Polka (Actually, anything with the word, "Polka" in it immediately falls into this list.)
• Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me (I wasn't so fortunate. I had to hear it 30 times a day whenever my Dad was around. In addition, I'll have to include anything he played on a regular basis.)
• Yummy Yummy Yummy (Sorry. I know it's a favorite. There were other insanely stupid songs that I could tolerate, but this one tweaked a nerve.)
• Sometimes when we touch (It's not the honesty that's too much, it's the incredibly lame "soft rock" concept. Going a little further forward in time, I'd also include anything by Air Supply. I'm all out of tolerance.)
• Have you never been mellow? (No. No, I haven't. Didn't you see my comment on the previous item?)
• Stayin' Alive (Ok, I'm going out on a limb here and including all disco music in this list. Yes, all of it. I know that makes me a bad person, but that's the way it is. I know that hundreds of millions of people disagree with me, but that doesn't change my opinion. I don't mean that I hate it the way people hate long traffic lights. I mean that I hate it the way you would hate being dismembered slowly with a rusty dull spoon while rats ate your entrails. I don't like it at all.)
• Cherish (No, that's not the word I'd use to describe it.)

Oddly enough, I haven't listened to any of these since then. There's a good reason for that. Life is too short to waste it on lame music.
 
There are plenty of other things to waste it on instead.

sharke
This is why I love Spotify....
 
I just listened to David Lee Roth's "Eat 'Em And Smile" all the way through. I loved that album when I was 13 or 14 but have not listened to it since. What great songwriting....great playing by Steve Vai...and of course fantastic vocals. Love that 80's rock sound too. Just took me all the way back to the summer of '87 and all of a sudden I'm remembering things that happened that have not passed through my mind for over 25 years....
 
 

One of my favs and regulars. Also checkout this album from Diamond Dave which I only recently found out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd4DO7jJayQ

 
I've started listening to Iron Maiden's first few albums (with Paul Di'anno).....I just like the guitar tones/songs of those albums a bit better than the later sound.
 
Also, Paradise Theatre by Styx.......another good one.

I'll have to get back to you once I stop being a kid.

John Mayall's Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton.
 

paulo

I had an album of kid's TV themes when I was a tot and that was my absolute favorite. God knows why it was on there because it wasn't the actual theme of the show. Anyway I can still whistle the fiddle solo note for note.

The movie soundtrack album for Thunderball with Sean Connery as 007.


PS: with Tom Jones singing the title track. I still love ol Tom. He's just the best.

 
This was my first records. Like most boys my age in Quebec, I was totally addicted to that Japanese mecha robot series - its French adaptation, obviously.
 
When the record  came out, with songs and stories recorded using the same cast, with all the sounds and special effects, I had to have it.
 
I haven't heard it decades but I still remember huge chunks of it - every little detail, pause, inflection and background noise.
 
The guy who wrote the music drew a lot his inspiration from Morricone, which I guess influenced me. The sound effects were also a big part of the attraction - a lot of synth sounds in there, some stuff which reminds me of EMS VCS and the obvious Moog... My fascination for synth was largely influenced by this - and a few other similar - anime.

A recent trip to Vegas with a side-trip to Silverton Casino (off-strip), and walking in from the parking garage, and they were playing "Things I Could Be" from The James Gang 'Thirds' LP. Haven't heard that in years. I was a little surprised they were playing that one. I was a big James Gang fan back when. Got home from the trip and ordered 'Thirds' and 'Yer Album' from Amazon. What a treat. I kind of forgot all about these early albums.
 
NOTE: On the strip, the casinos play really crappy pop-music. I think my prime has passed. Now they are going after the 20-30 year olds. I have nothing against pop-music, when it is good, but so much of this new stuff is just formula songs. Oh well. Vent over.