Pop music is something I have been thinking about lately, which is maybe why this track ended up in my head. I've always enjoyed Manson's skewering of the current formula.

When I look back to the music of my teens, the one thing I notice is how much social commentary there used to be in the top-40. You can still find it from time to time, but somewhere along the way the studios realized the money was at the lowest common denominator. Keep it dumb.

https://song.link/i/1443837898

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What's wrong with me? I picked my daughter up from the airport last night at 1:30am to find her feeling feverish. "Ugh, it came on while I was in the air" she says.

My brain:
I get night fever, night fever
We know how to do it

https://song.link/i/1445669644

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Dookie was the first I heard from Green Day. But are they even a Real Punk Band? Campus punks seemed concerned by that when the album came out. "Billie Joe's Oakland pretending he's all East Bay" said the middle-class kid studying philosophy at a Canadian university.

I heard a great album from a young band that was witty and poignant.

And Dookie led me to their earlier recordings which has me now waking up 30 years later with a tune stuck in my head.

https://song.link/i/210332799

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I'm cheating a little bit. This isn't today's brain worm. I woke up in the middle of the night and needed to pee. This was playing out in my head until I feel back to sleep. When I got up in the morning it had gone back to Add It Up by The Violent Femmes that I posted last time. Man, that track has become a solid brain worm.

https://song.link/i/1440827440

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Living in the age of nazi incel trash humans, today's brain worm has taken on a whole new meaning for me.

Why can't I get just one fuck?
Why can't I get just one fuck?
I guess it's got something to do with luck
But I waited my whole life for just one

https://song.link/i/1576789694

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Them: "So Monday, 10am works for you?"
Me: "Yes, I'll be there."
My brain worms: "🎵 IIIIII'llll be there and IIIIIII will care....🎵"
Me: "What the heck? What even is that?"
My brain worms: "I'm just you dude. If you don't know, I don't either."
Me: <sings to his phone>
Phone: "I'll Be There - The Grapes of Wrath"

Bingo.

But apparently song.link never heard of The Grapes of Wrath either so all I have is a Spotify link.

https://open.spotify.com/track/7JgfV7ERxL6pVHjT6qqfuf?si=eb16597deee0484b

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Sitting there, minding my own business - WHAM! Jimied.

It's unusual for me to get a brain worm mid-day. Usually I wake up with them.

https://song.link/i/344790018

Guess song.link doesn't do Spotify anymore?

https://open.spotify.com/track/0OQcEcs36ckWOB1nywhmBV?si=1bcbca7366de4e90

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Can't get this out of my head since this morning. I haven't thought of Midnight Oil for a long, long time.

Really, 1987? I always consider them a 90s band. Time flies.

https://song.link/i/288955173

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I believe the one to blame for this is @Robotron from a comment he made a couple days ago.

But you know, putting aside the fact that it's a dippy 80s pop song, "Rise Up" was the unofficial theme song of the NDP during the golden era of Layton, so it does bring back fond memories of things I wish we could get back to now that Mulcair is long gone.

"Rise and show your power"

https://song.link/i/381737460

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I'll probably need a billion now, just to adjust for inflation. Maybe The Barenaked Ladies will issue an updated version at some point?

https://song.link/i/638556

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"It's Saturday and it's lovely outside. You look like you could use a brain worm. How about something political and highly relevant to current social realities despite being quite old?" my brain asks, one eyebrow slightly raised.

Yes my brain has eyebrows, I don't get it either.

"Isn't that what you usually do?" I pause, rubbing my chin. "Okay, bring it."

"Here, share this with all your little computer friends."

https://song.link/i/1443477382

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Damn, time got away from me at work this morning leaving me scrambling to get across town for a scheduled meeting. Because I'm weird, this of course triggered a brain worm.

https://song.link/i/117618650

I haven't listened to this album in a long time and went through the whole thing during my commute. My War is the star track but the whole album is gold.

I don't know if Black Flag was ever cited as an influence for Nirvana, but In Utero pairs as nicely as a fine chianti.

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Jock didn't do requests. If you made one and were lucky, he'd crank the volume on 'Bad' while glaring at you. If you weren't lucky you get a visit at lunch.

Meanwhile, we didn't care if he controlled the music. We just wanted him to be more fun, less authoritarian. We wanted him to stop using music as an expression of his dominance.

Today's Brain Worm was a track my buddy used to play on those bus rides. You know, while the party lasted.

https://song.link/i/580708286

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It wasn't that we had anything against Michael Jackson but the fun was gone.

See, my friend would take requests from anybody, even the front-seat kids. If you handed him a tape, he'd smile and queue it up. He made it about everybody. He'd play the Dead Kennedys and then follow that with Skidamarink by Sharon, Lois and Bram and we'd all sing along laughing, the driver's face chuckling in the big bus mirror and shaking her head.

When the jock got on it was about him.

3/4 #Music #BrainWorm

The hierarchy wasn't just about seating, it was also about music. Large portable cassette players were a big thing in the 80s. The jock had one and so did my middle-seat buddy.

My friend would perform as DJ for most of the bus ride, cranking out tunes at 100dB. He had a suitcase filled with an eclectic assortment of tapes. Mostly rock, metal and punk.

Then the jock got on he'd take over and play Michael Jackson. And we'd sit there and listen to Michael Jackson.

2/4 #Music #BrainWorm

In the 80s when I was living in the country I spent two hours a day going to and from school on a yellow bus. If you ever wanted proof that humans are a hierarchical species, all you had to know is: Everybody wanted the back seat and despite being the first on and last off the bus, I never took a back seat The back was reserved for the jock bully and his friends.

With the front reserved for kids were awkward or outcast, I was a middle-seat kid.

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I'm not sure if I genuinely love Velvet Acid Christ as a band or if it's just their name - or if it's the fact that their lyrics make me laugh out loud sometimes.

Either way, this one gets stuck in my head a lot since it's got it all - the band, tacky lyrics and a great beat that makes me envision a dark smoke-filled techno club in Berlin.

https://song.link/i/413463489

(Quick edit: yes, I know they're from Colorado)

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I'm not sure if I genuinely love Velvet Acid Christ as a band or if it's just their name - or if it's the fact that their lyrics make me laugh out loud sometimes.

Either way, this one gets stuck in my head a lot since it's got it all - the band, tacky lyrics and a great beat that makes me envision a dark smoke-filled techno club in Berlin.

https://song.link/i/413463489

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I have no connection to this song at all. Not the song, not the band. Took me forever to even figure out who it was. Yet it was in my head when I woke up this morning.

https://song.link/i/288314069

That's how brain worms work.

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Hey kids! It's Monday and you look like you had a rough weekend. So here's a fun fact:

Did you you know that Ministry's Al Jourgensen and Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra had a baby and it's a perfect blend of Al's skull-shattering hardcore-ness and Jello's face-biting social commentary?

"Nice place you got here darling
sure wish the hot water worked
gotta rinse my jizz off before morning
or I'll itch for a week"

I'm talking about Lard.

https://song.link/i/275668260

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