[extropy-chat] infinite fun but finite tunes?

[Gary Miller]

 I find portions of some rock songs very viral.

Godsmack's Voodoo...

"I'm not the one who's so far away when I feel the snakebite enter my brain.
Never did I want to be here again, and I don't remember why I came."

If I hear this on a car radio it will keep popping back into my head at
least three or four more times that day for no apparent reason.

Also some recent viral stuff from System of a Down

"Why don't presidents fight the war?  Why do they only send the poor?
Where the fuck were you?"

This pops into my every head every time I see Bush on TV and sometimes plays
in my head for quite a while.

More amazing still is when I latch on to an CD that I don't know why I like
it and keep listening to it over and over like
Lesiem - Mystic Spirit Voices.  

Much of this CD is in Latin or vocalized in such haunting ways that much of
the lyrics are a complete mystery to me.

Their subsequent CDs did not affect me this way at all.  I would categorize
the whole CD is viral.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Damien Sullivan
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Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] infinite fun but finite tunes?

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 05:43:30PM -0700, spike wrote:

> Here is the disturbing part: Stevie called to say he loves us 
> somewhere around 1984-ish.  But I cannot think of a single viral tune 
> that was written

Personal earworms include Cat Faber's "The Word of God", 2001; Leslie Fish's
"The Horse-Tamer's Daughter", 1984 on the dot; "The World Inside the
Crystal"
which has to be later than 1984.  And some I've made myself.

-xx- Damien X-)
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