To remember word for word

[GingerWrath]

Lyrics from over 20 years ago?

Was cleaning the kitchen after tea when one of my old favourite songs came on. Cue me using a mixing spoon as a microphone. I knew EVERY word, including the 'geetarr'. DD (5yo) wandered in to me rocking round the kitchen, rolled her eyes and left, DH is questioning my sanity.

IABU?

Captain Beaky. I reckon I know just about every word to every song

I can still recite Appetite for Destruction from the first to final screeching caterwaul word.

YANBU

Public Enemy lyrics a speciality :)

thousandDenier Me too, but I am disgusted at how Axl has turned out! I am Team Slash!

Are we allowed to mention that Axl has a touch of middle age spread?

Sue it's more than MAS!

Just went downstairs to make a cuppa and have come back humming your song GingerWrath. Am now going to have to hide upstairs for fear of a cronic piss take from DH if he hears!

ctually I am not, I love Hair Rock!

Sorry, net probs, I apologised then rescinded it!

SuePurblybilt Oh My God! I now have Captain Beaky going through my mind.
I thought I was the only one who knew it as my OH just looks at me as though I'm mad whenever I mention it!
I used to have the record of it and played it none stop!

No, I had it too. I am saving up for the CD, for the car

It's on Youtube. I've just listened to it and got it word perfect!
How sad is that!

I think that weirdly Sheriff Fatman owed quite a lot to Captain Beaky

I remember lyrics to the extent that I will hear someone say something and burst into song. Its not a great trait when you're trying to manage people.

My fave mis-hear is 'my baby he stinks of pee', please don't ask me who sung it but I challenge you to tell me what film it was from! For years and years I could not work out the proper words, I was sure they were wrong but I didn't have a handy Smash Hits to advise me...

I'm glad I'm not the only one! I've always been a bit worried that I can remember the lyrics to hundreds of songs I've heard over the years but I've pretty much forgotten everything I learned at University twen years ago.

The other day White Lines (don't do it) came on the radio and I recalled the lyrics verbatim and that was released in 1983!! I forget peoples names, birthdays, loads of stuff at work but I have no problem remember the lyrics to a song.

If someone could make a machine that lets you remember information like you remember song lyrics they'd make an absolute fortune!

YANBU!
I drove home from Kent tonight, and happily for me, managed to get Magic FM on the radio, as I went up the M25.
I knew the complete words to about 7 or 8 tracks in a row, including Labbi Siffre, Starship, Elton John, Shania Twain, David Gates and Daniel Bedingfield!
I am starting to worry about myself! I often wake up with random music in my head, and think I may well be a bit deranged!
Im also concerned that my brain may be getting clogged with this stuff, like my laptop is, and that I cant defrag and clean up my brain! What happens when my mental hard drive is full?!!

I can recall the lyrics to songs from 40 years ago absolutely word for word. All in all I consider that to be A Good Thing.

If I'm still singing along to Bowie on Changes and Starman in another 20 years it will be nothing short of a bloody miracle!

Chris42, is it possible we are of the same age? I heard White Lines the other day and I remembered all the words! Didn't the lady who helped write it just die?

I also can recall all lyrics from Erasure/Deacon Blue/Beautiful South/Smiths/Billy Bragg

all lyrics.

New ones, No. Brain is clearly full of shite

Ha Ha I am glad I found this thread! I took DD to see Joseph and his amazing technicolour dreamcoat at the weekend, purely on the basis she had once sung a song from it in school. I on the other hand at the same age had performed the whole bleeding thing as our year 6 (or junior 4 as it was in my day) show. Had her shussing me throughout as I kept joining in and, well once they had the singalong at the end I was in my element! .

I remember watching a programme about dementia which explained very eloquently about the brain retaining facts from our younger years and losing recent stuff first - trouble is i can't remember the explanation . I did think though "god can you imagine all us old dears belting out "wake me up before ya go go" or similiar" but not remembering if we had breakfast

flowerblue, we possibly are the same age - depressing isn't it!
Yes, you're right Sylvia Robinson wrote it with Melle Mel and she just died in September. It is an excellent song.

At least we all know the lyrics to good songs though.

How sad would it be to remember how to say 'Umbrella' seventeen times to the beat!

Much rather remember 'God Bless Mother Nature, she's a single WOMAN too'...

YANBU - I do exactly the same. I can remember lyrics after only a couple of times of hearing them and then remember them for years. For example, I know all the words for Up the Junction by Squeeze which dates back to the 70's - dunno why I chose that one - I suppose because it tells a story and is quite fast. I even remember stuff from the 60's which was a hit before I was born because of hours spent being forced to listen to Radio 2 as a child back in the days of Terry Wogan the first time around.

DS2 who is 8 is showing signs of having inherited the same skills. I am very proud.

Just wish I could remember useful stuff just as easily.