From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #72 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, March 15 2003 Volume 09 : Number 072 Today's Subjects: ----------------- maria mckee samples and tour dates [Paul2k@aol.com] new CARDIGANS. new ANI [iflin@speakeasy.net] Songs in head [karen hester ] Re: Songs in head [Jason Gordon ] Re: Songs in head [Andrew Fries ] Mnah Mnah [Paul Blair ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:52:33 -0500 From: Paul2k@aol.com Subject: maria mckee samples and tour dates If you go to www.mariamckee.com you can check out some minute-long samples of 5 songs from her forthcoming album. She also has preliminary west coast dates that will lead into a European tour. It looks like she'll only be able to hit major spots in the U.S. after she gest back from Europe. *psst* the website isn't the easiest to navigate, with much use of your browser's BACK button required. Paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:08:48 -0800 From: iflin@speakeasy.net Subject: new CARDIGANS. new ANI [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] Hey has anyone heard the new CARDIGANS CD? i got ahold of a promo copy of it (along with a copy of EVOLVE by ANI DIFRANCO) and was wondering what others thought of both. i slowly have been losing interest in ANI. pretty much everything post LIVING IN CLIP has been not my cup of tea, and after one listen to EVOLVE i can't say much other than i'll probably be shelving this one too. it's a shame because i have fond memories of pre-LIVING IN CLIP albums. i don't COMPLETELY chalk it up to ANI's music. i haven't really listened to her earlier stuff that much either, and i find that when i do, i can only listen to one or two CD's or even half of one of her CD's. perhaps my own tastes have EVOLVEd away from what she is doing. on the other hand i really like the direction THE CARDIGANS are going in. i don't know if there is an US release date for the new album, entitled LONG GONE BEFORE DAYLIGHT, but it is worth tracking down. especially if you liked NINA PERSSON's solo album (released under the name A CAMP). it has the same organic songwriting feel to it. gone are the electronic beeps from their previous GRAN TURISMO album. the songwriting is stronger and the album is warmer in sound. I'd recommend tracking it down if you liked A CAMP. don't expect a slick pop album (like LIFE or EMMERDALE) or a electropop album like GRAN TURISMO. but if you like organic songwriting and warm musicianship along with NINA PERSSON's great voice, check it out. irvin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:30:03 -0800 (PST) From: karen hester Subject: Songs in head Kia Ora I've been having problems with the Muppet's 'mnah mnah, do do do do do' song for a couple months now. Don't know why it popped into my head after years of absence, but here it is (do do do do do). Sometimes it's quite jazzy and slow, sometimes a choral piece. do do do do. Singing it out loud or trying to replace it with another song haven't yet worked. But I know it'll eventually disappear and a different song will get stuck. Sometime else with a catchy simple childlike tune and lyrics, probably. What's stuck in your head? Any ecto songs which are likely to replace an annoying ditty? I remember having a couple tunes off Kate's Lionheart stuck in my head during my 5th form exams, that was dreadful (maybe songs arrive when you're nervous and desperately trying to concentrate). Here's an edit of something that was in our newsletter at work: > Feb. 27, 2003 -- They bore into your head and won't let go. There's no > known cure. Earworms can attack almost anyone at almost any time. > > No, it's not an invasion of jungle insects. It's worse. Earworms are > those songs, jingles, and tunes that get stuck inside your head. You're > almost certain to know the feeling, according to marketing professor > James J. Kellaris, PhD, of the University of Cincinnati. Nearly 98% of > people have had songs stuck in their head, Kellaris reported at the > recent meeting of the Society for Consumer Psychology. The 559 students > -- at an average age of 23 -- had lots of trouble with the Chili's "Baby > Back Ribs" Jingle and with the Baha Men song "Who Let the Dogs Out." But > Kellaris found that most often, each person tends to be haunted by their > own demon tunes. > > "Songs with lyrics are reported as most frequently stuck (74%), followed > by commercial jingles (15%) and instrumental tunes without words (11%)," > Kellaris writes in his study abstract. "On average, the episodes last > over a few hours and occur 'frequently' or 'very frequently' among 61.5% > of the sample." > > Here's the students' top-10 earworm list: > > 1. Other. Everyone has his or her own worst earworm. > 2. Chili's "Baby Back Ribs" jingle. > 3. "Who Let the Dogs Out" > 4. "We Will Rock You" > 5. Kit-Kat candy-bar jingle ("Gimme a Break ...") > 6. "Mission Impossible" theme > 7. "YMCA" > 8. "Whoomp, There It Is" > 9. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" > 10. "It's a Small World After All" > > Stuck song syndrome annoyed, frustrated, and irritated women > significantly more than men. And earworm attacks were more frequent -- > and lasted longer -- for musicians and music lovers. Slightly neurotic > people also seemed to suffer more. > > Kellaris hasn't yet found a cure. Women are more likely to try to get > rid of the offending ditties. Men are just as likely to do nothing as to > fight their earworms. > > What helps? Kellaris doesn't know. But he found that when people battle > their earworms, nearly two-thirds of the time they try to use another > tune to dislodge the one that's stuck. About half the time people simply > try to distract themselves from hearing the stuck song. More than a > third of the time people with songs stuck in their heads try talking > with someone about it. And 14% of the time, people try to complete the > song in their heads in an effort to get it to end. Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:09:16 -0500 From: Jason Gordon Subject: Re: Songs in head Veda's 26 years, Lamb's Sweet, and Fiona Apple's Fast As You Can is always pretty good at lodging themselves in my head... Right now I have a random lyric, something about "moonlight whispers" that is also stuck and unidentafiable which makes it frustrating :) n.p. throwing muses s/t (the first one from the 80's not the new s/t) - what a fantastic album! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "karen hester" To: Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 6:30 PM Subject: Songs in head > Kia Ora > I've been having problems with the Muppet's 'mnah mnah, do do do do do' > song for a couple months now. Don't know why it popped into my head after > years of absence, but here it is (do do do do do). Sometimes it's quite > jazzy and slow, sometimes a choral piece. do do do do. Singing it out > loud or trying to replace it with another song haven't yet worked. But I > know it'll eventually disappear and a different song will get stuck. > Sometime else with a catchy simple childlike tune and lyrics, probably. > > What's stuck in your head? Any ecto songs which are likely to replace an > annoying ditty? > > I remember having a couple tunes off Kate's Lionheart stuck in my head > during my 5th form exams, that was dreadful (maybe songs arrive when > you're nervous and desperately trying to concentrate). > > Here's an edit of something that was in our newsletter at work: > > > Feb. 27, 2003 -- They bore into your head and won't let go. There's no > > known cure. Earworms can attack almost anyone at almost any time. > > > > No, it's not an invasion of jungle insects. It's worse. Earworms are > > those songs, jingles, and tunes that get stuck inside your head. You're > > almost certain to know the feeling, according to marketing professor > > James J. Kellaris, PhD, of the University of Cincinnati. Nearly 98% of > > people have had songs stuck in their head, Kellaris reported at the > > recent meeting of the Society for Consumer Psychology. The 559 students > > -- at an average age of 23 -- had lots of trouble with the Chili's "Baby > > Back Ribs" Jingle and with the Baha Men song "Who Let the Dogs Out." But > > Kellaris found that most often, each person tends to be haunted by their > > own demon tunes. > > > > "Songs with lyrics are reported as most frequently stuck (74%), followed > > by commercial jingles (15%) and instrumental tunes without words (11%)," > > Kellaris writes in his study abstract. "On average, the episodes last > > over a few hours and occur 'frequently' or 'very frequently' among 61.5% > > of the sample." > > > > Here's the students' top-10 earworm list: > > > > 1. Other. Everyone has his or her own worst earworm. > > 2. Chili's "Baby Back Ribs" jingle. > > 3. "Who Let the Dogs Out" > > 4. "We Will Rock You" > > 5. Kit-Kat candy-bar jingle ("Gimme a Break ...") > > 6. "Mission Impossible" theme > > 7. "YMCA" > > 8. "Whoomp, There It Is" > > 9. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" > > 10. "It's a Small World After All" > > > > Stuck song syndrome annoyed, frustrated, and irritated women > > significantly more than men. And earworm attacks were more frequent -- > > and lasted longer -- for musicians and music lovers. Slightly neurotic > > people also seemed to suffer more. > > > > Kellaris hasn't yet found a cure. Women are more likely to try to get > > rid of the offending ditties. Men are just as likely to do nothing as to > > fight their earworms. > > > > What helps? Kellaris doesn't know. But he found that when people battle > > their earworms, nearly two-thirds of the time they try to use another > > tune to dislodge the one that's stuck. About half the time people simply > > try to distract themselves from hearing the stuck song. More than a > > third of the time people with songs stuck in their heads try talking > > with someone about it. And 14% of the time, people try to complete the > > song in their heads in an effort to get it to end. > Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online > http://webhosting.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: 15 Mar 2003 11:44:55 +1100 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Songs in head On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 10:30, karen hester wrote: > What's stuck in your head? Any ecto songs which are likely to replace an > annoying ditty? Yes, I certainly know the feeling. It happens to me often enough, but I couldn't pick any tune most likely to get stuck this way - they seem to come more or less at random. I'm pretty lucky though. They are usually songs from my collection, ones I know and like. Sometimes it's just a snippet I know that I know, but I can't remember the artist and title... those can get annoying. But usually, once I manage to identify them they go away satisfied.. So they are earworms, are they? Nice to know there is a name for everything. "Buffy, we've got important work here.A lot of filing, giving things names... " - Riley Indeed. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it." -- Gustave Flaubert - -- 11:33:10 up 4 days, 1:21, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:51:34 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: Mnah Mnah I can't believe someone brought this up. Just recently my sister was the instigator of a thread on Muppet Central called "Mah Na Mah Na contraversy" which got people taking sides: http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5670&highlight=mah%2A+mah%2A The issue is: >We always sang "Mah na mah na, PAH - TEE PAHTEEPEE!" so I tried it >one night - my husband looked at me like I'd sprouted a new head, >and corrected "Do doo dedoodoo!" How can the world go on without the answer to such a fundamental question? (And, if Karen's got the wrong words, will her earworm go away?) Karen Hester wrote: >I've been having problems with the Muppet's 'mnah mnah, do do do do do' >song for a couple months now. Don't know why it popped into my head after >years of absence, but here it is (do do do do do). Sometimes it's quite >jazzy and slow, sometimes a choral piece. do do do do. Singing it out >loud or trying to replace it with another song haven't yet worked. But I >know it'll eventually disappear and a different song will get stuck. >Sometime else with a catchy simple childlike tune and lyrics, probably. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #72 *************************