Five Friday Favorites – Get Out of My Head Edition

January 11, 2013 Off By Lisa

Since it’s still Friday, I can just get this one in under the wire before I head off to bed – early. Again.

I think I may have the flu.

This week’s favorites are the Five Really Cool Songs I’ve Had Stuck in My Head at Various Points this Week for Various Reasons. Here we go…

1. Life is a Highway, the Tom Cochrane original, actually made its way into my brain by way of May’s post over at Achieving Clarity. The newer version by Rascal Flatts (yup, the one from the movie Cars) isn’t bad at all. In fact, it’s quite fun.  But the Cochrane is the real deal.

2. Sister Golden Hair by America got stuck in my head twice. First, on my way to my classroom first thing in the morning when I walked by a student strumming it in the hallway. Yes, for real. And no, I do not teach at the school from Fame. Hummed my own little version of that all day, including the “nearh nearh nearhhhhhh” guitar parts.

3. Doctor My Eyes by Jackson Browne was an interruption. Another classic, this baby jumped in by accident when I was in the middle of singing Sister Golden Hair in my head and somehow got distracted by something. When I came back to the song, I was singing this rather than the America song. Spent the rest of the day convinced this was the song the guitar kid was playing, even though I knew it wasn’t. That really made my brain hurt.

3.5. Sister Golden Hair reprise. Hehe – Sister Golden Hair surprise…reprise… Told you I was tired.

4. Don’t You Forget About Me by Simple Minds has been in the back of my brain since I wrote my Detention post earlier this week. It’s The Breakfast Club, people. It’s awesome. As soon as I hit publish, I am going to go hit the play button on the DVD player and watch it. Perhaps that will get it out of my head. Of course, the part where Bender sings “I wanna be an Air Force Ranger….” while he runs around the hallways will probably jump in.

5. Take on Me by A-HA is quite possibly one of the happiest sounding songs ever because of that cool instrumental hook – you know the one – and especially the extended part that starts at 2:13. Just a cool and happy song. Besides – the video? Where the girl jumps into the pencil-drawn comic and falls in love with the dude who has almost exactly the same haircut as she does? Come on.

What are your favorite songs? Or what are the songs that stick in your brain and torture you? Put them in the comments!

Happy weekend, Friends!