Paul Huff ([info]phuff) wrote,
@ 2007-09-30 10:50:00
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Music (the postlude.)
While I was up in the middle of the night for a couple of hours for no apparent reason, a piece of music started playing on repeat through my mind. This happens to me a lot, not just at 3:00 a.m., and I'm not entirely sure why, but I'll have a couple of bars of a nice piece of music, or jazz recording, or some other pop song go through my head repeatedly. The game always becomes, "What is this two bar (or, sometimes, as little as two chord) phrase from?" Sometimes it takes me a day or two to figure it out, sometimes a lot less. Totally random.

The nice part was that at 3:00 a.m. last night my brain started playing a nice little phrase that I couldn't place for a little bit. I thought about it, and thought about it and suddenly it dawned on me: it was a phrase of music that I'd heard for the first time on Friday night, as I played it with Jeremy and Chris Hough who it turns out is a really nice (as a person) and good (as a musician) guitarist in Salt Lake. It was a song that I'd never played before (which seems to be my musical performance theme of the summer), and it was nice.

It was a pleasant 3:00 a.m. surprise.

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You're not alone
[info]bbqhuff
2007-09-30 05:27 pm UTC (link)
Isn't that some kind of Mormon Pop song? Oh no! Now "that" will be stuck in your head! Seriously, this same thing happens to me all the time. What I hate is when it's a song I don't really like. That is miserable. But if it's a song I like I enjoy it and try to do variations on it or embellish it just for fun.

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Re: You're not alone
[info]phuff
2007-10-01 03:13 pm UTC (link)
I hate it when I get bad songs stuck in my head. It's no fun at all.

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When the angel's fall....
[info]ehuff
2007-09-30 08:07 pm UTC (link)
I can't remember the last time I DIDN'T have a song, (usually just one phrase of a song or something), in my head. At this very moment, it's the very end of Sting's "When the angels fall", right when the bass starts playing that little vamp towards the end. And it's one of my favorite songs EVER, so it's quite pleasant. :) I'm sad I missed you and Jeremy play, I really liked listening to you both play.

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Re: When the angel's fall....
[info]phuff
2007-10-01 03:14 pm UTC (link)
The part of that song that gets stuck in my head is when he says: "These are my feet... These are my hands... These are my children..."

That guitar riff is pretty sweet after all that time being a kinda weepy song.

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[info]jsweed
2007-09-30 10:52 pm UTC (link)
I have the same thing happen. Sometimes it's really nice, but in the occoasional event that I never can place it, it's really troubling. Sometimes I'll have a few bars playing that from a piece that I've played in some symphony orchestra of yesteryear and I can't, for the life of me, place it. I can remember all the parts, exactly how it sounds simultaneously, and sometimes large chunks if I let my mind keep going, but in the occasional event that I never can place it, it really bugs.

It's also really weird when it's just a certain short chord progression--like you say, maybe two unique-sounding chords--gets stuck, and you replay it and replay it... that feeling of "oh, I almost got it!" and you try again and again. And then you finally do get it, and it's a cool feeling.

Also, sometimes, the music in my head is SO LOUD. I don't know if loud's the right word. But it's just... very prominent and almost throbbing. Repeating and repeating behind whatever I'm doing. Not just a tune, but but entire pages of concertos and stuff. Do you get that?

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stuck music
[info]bbqhuff
2007-10-01 12:47 am UTC (link)
Yes! And I have to finish it in my head or I go crazy thinking about it.

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[info]phuff
2007-10-01 03:43 pm UTC (link)
You know, sometimes I get band songs stuck in my head, but never orchestra stuff. (As I type this comment, Caleb just saw your picture next to yours and said, "Josh.")

I've never paid attention to the volume level of the music in my head. But prominent and throbbing seem to describe it pretty accurately sometimes. Most of the music that gets stuck in my head is jazz songs, and occasionally I supposed I get a whole chorus of the song (like, one time through the whole song...) but usually it's just bits and pieces.

Another raving compulsion I have once I figure out what it is is that it'll stick in my head and keep playing itself until I actually listen to the song sometimes.

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[info]mhuff
2007-10-02 09:14 pm UTC (link)
I always hate it when I get a song stuck in my head. Always.

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