It’s been over three years since I wrote one of this series.
When I last wrote one, I opened with these words:
Time to resurrect an old series.
Here, I post songs which provoke an involuntary response, where you hear a word or phrase and suddenly find yourself shouting the words to a song which have some vague link to the word or phrase you just heard.
I found myself displaying this mild form of Tourette’s Syndrome twice this week.
The first was whilst watching BBC tea-time quiz show Pointless. As host Alexander Armstrong said: And the first category is…’Words’, I found myself half-muttering, half singing: “Don’t come easy to me”, which is not only true of how I generally perform when playing along with the game at home, but is also a reference to this one-hit wonder from 1982:
The other one came from a much more traditional source: football. I watched the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Manchester City on Saturday, and even though I knew he was a Liverpool player and have heard his name spoken many times before, it was during this game that, for the first time, whenever the commentator mentioned central midfielder Naby Keïta, that I found I had this song whirling around inside my teensy brain:
You’re welcome.
More soon.
A History of Dubious Taste 