tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post3778751600741815472..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRĂNMARK BLOG: I've had "La Danse de Mardi Gras" as an Ohrwurm for the past fortnight - please make it stop!Scott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-9897053358184547412016-03-08T17:48:22.496+00:002016-03-08T17:48:22.496+00:00These deplorable comments remind me of the comedia...These deplorable comments remind me of the comedian Lee Hurst's recent tweet regarding BBC coverage of Europe's migrant crisis:<br /><br />"The BBC appears to have cameras that can find a child in a crowd of thousands of young men, but not on BBC premises."Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-88934533639644671642016-03-06T11:24:36.740+00:002016-03-06T11:24:36.740+00:00It's odd isn't it. You don't tend to h...It's odd isn't it. You don't tend to hear those two on the radio these days, a point I made to the BBC when I asked them if they had any plans to bring back It's a Knockout.Radio Timesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-12270965836335345652016-03-06T09:32:28.048+00:002016-03-06T09:32:28.048+00:00Try "Everyone has gone to the Moon" by J...Try "Everyone has gone to the Moon" by Jonathan King or "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris. SDGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-935896813697169402016-03-03T18:36:58.410+00:002016-03-03T18:36:58.410+00:00Absolutely gorgeous, mahlerman - I probably enjoy ...Absolutely gorgeous, mahlerman - I probably enjoy Tchaikovsky's music more instantly and completely than any other composer's. But this is too subtle to ever be one of my earworms, which are usually uptempo and musically more obvious (for instance, I've been living with various snatches of Janacek's parping brass from the Sinfonietta on and off for many years - especially the bit that acted as the theme music for "Crown Court"!) My earworms tend to be relatively short - usually two bars at most - and it's just as likely to be something I hate as something I love. And they don't have to be musical - I'm particularly susceptible to lines from films and punchlines from jokes, even though I'm not a great lover of jokes. I'd gladly put up with all that mental clutter if I could just stop my decades-long habit of imagining myself falling from high places just as I'm about to "drop off" to sleep. A spell on the therapist's couch beckons! Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-52670508670181917822016-03-03T14:17:58.066+00:002016-03-03T14:17:58.066+00:00I've always tried to replace one worm with ano...I've always tried to replace one worm with another - and none better than perhaps one of Tchaikovky's most wonderful creations, the middle movement of his hardly-known second piano concerto - which is almost a triple concerto. Listen and weep.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf_UqwzMQEomahlermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469854614938507153noreply@blogger.com