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[apocalypsos]

If a song makes it extraordinarily difficult to sing the lyrics at any point -- see Blues Traveller's Hook or the entirety of It's The End of the World As We Know It -- I feel a compulsive need to learn them all.

Right now, I'm trying to learn Weird Al's Hardware Store. I may need to develop an extra set of lungs for this.

EDIT: Music isn't my only compulsion when it comes to memorizing stuff. Once, when we were studying Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven in English class, we were supposed to memorize the first stanza for homework, and any extra stanzas for extra credit. I promptly went home and memorized the whole bloody thing. (Which I believe was either twenty-one or twenty-two stanzas long.)

It probably would have been more impressive if I'd been the only one in the grade Hermione enough to try it, though (one other person did, too, in th other English class), but still, I think that's partly why I got the Poe's signature tattoo.

Comments

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

Hook is easy. Although I don't think I'd have learned Hardware Store without the lyrics inside the CD.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Hook wasn't so bad, although my dad was always impressed I could do it. But for Hardware Store, I was serious about that whole growing-extra-lungs thing. 'Cause, Jesus.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redpanda_/]

*BOUNCES* It's not just me! It's not just me! YAY! I do that too, with songs in other languages even. Look for Great Big Sea's version of "It's The End of the World As We Know It" -- it's much faster and catchier.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

*snerk* I'm so bad about it, too. I can remember staying home from a trip to the movies with my parents when I was a kid so I could stay home and memorize We Didn't Start The Fire. Which is sad, because I still remember all the words to that while I can't freaking remember The Raven anymore.

[polaris-starz.livejournal.com]

We Didn't Start the Fire! If you prompt me, I can sing just about all of that one.

*giggles*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

*singing* Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray ...

Re: *giggles*

[polaris-starz.livejournal.com]

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, televsion

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

My music teacher in Elementary school LOVED We Didn't Start The Fire, so we ALL learned it.

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

When I was in tenth grade, every student in my English class had to memorize and recite a poem of eight lines or longer. I did The Raven. It's bloody long when you're reciting it from memory.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. My teacher almost didn't believe I could do it, and you could see her jaw visibly dropping as I raced through it. (I also remember saying, "All right, don't anybody interrupt me" before I started and taking a noticeably deep breath at the halfway point. I imagine I sounded like that fast-talking guy from all those commercials, but damn it, I did it.)

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Eight lines? For tenth grade? 8? Hell, I had to do eight lines in FIFTH grade. If I was lucky

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

We didn't do poetry at all until high school, for whatever reason (well, I did, in the extra classes they sent the kids to that would later become the honors kids, but everyone else didn't). We did a lot of reading, analysis and writing-about, but very little recitation. ::shrugs::

[fairestcat]

See now, in my sophomore Honors English class we all had to memorize the entire "The Raven" and recite it to the teacher.

Seriously. Every single one of us.

Of course, we didn't call her Psycho Seipp for nothing. And we all loved her to death.

[kolys.livejournal.com]

"Mari-Mac", by either Carbon Leaf or Great Big Sea, should be another fun challenge, then.

[grissecon.livejournal.com]

Um, it's eighteen stanzas. ::facepalms::

I might have done the same thing. Maybe. Not saying.

[starmouse.livejournal.com]

I, too, have memorized The Raven in it's entirety. It takes me about six minutes to recite it. And I will, too. At the drop of a hat.

In awe...

[voodoogoddess.livejournal.com]

I've always been a big fan of The Raven, but I've never tried to memorize it. I'm in awe of those who do. Good on ya.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

OMGSQUEEEEEEE! "Hardware Store"!!! I've been trying to memorize that song off and on for a while. Anyone near me always looks at me funny when I chime in "Calculatorsgeneratorsmatchingsaltandpeppershakers" because that's basically all I know of that part. Dude, I thought I was the only one...

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I've realized I do better if I entirely skip saying "juice extractor". Not much better, mind you, but still.

[ktmobile.livejournal.com]

I've got a lot of it down, but there's one part in the middle that always throws me... There's a reason Al doesn't do it in concert. :)

[kinetikatrue]

In middle school, I had all of "The Highwayman" down cold, along with appropriate dramatic emphasis and such. I can't do that much anymore, though I can certainly sing along with Loreena McKennitt's version.

[gwen-louise.livejournal.com]

You have a tattoo of Edgar Allen Poe's signature? There are no words for how cool that makes you. And no, I'm not joking. I loved that poem too.