The Jams

Our power went out for a bit last night. A little annoying but it didn't end up being too bad. I have a couple of anecdotes from last night as well that will be way more involved to explain typed out than the payoff that comes from reading it will be worth, but here you go anyway. And they both happen to center around Mary Beth having a song in her head. First, it was some 80s blaring saxophone thing. She hummed it to me and I knew the song but couldn't think of what it was so I did a little search and eventually found it: "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty (which funny enough, is actually from the late 70s...and the parts with singing (which also funny enough I didn't even remember, Mary Beth was also sure it was an instrumental in her head) sound very 70s but then the instrumental part, especially with the sax, sounds extremely 80s...I guess all of the big sax songs in the 80s took their inspiration from this). Okay, anyway I saw that his earlier band also had a well-known hit. And I was telling Mary Beth about the fruits of my wiki k-hole "research" and couldn't remember the name of that band, but said, it's not this but something that kind of sounds like "Jeffrey Steamroller" and she lost it over how funny she thought Jeffrey Steamroller was (she also imagined a cat named Jeffrey Steamroller...a pale orange cat, to be specific). (The actual name of that band is Stealers Wheel which is less funny and more awkward.) Then a little later she also had randomly out of nowhere that "Shake That Body" song (which I now know is actually called "Move This"). And then I was getting down a little Technotronic k-hole. She was thinking of a certain kind of lazy rap that a lot of those songs have and mentioned "Another Night" by Real McCoy. I couldn't think of how it goes so I listened to it and then when the weird rap part came on I apparently made a face of such shock that she also found to be exceedingly funny. Then a little bit into another k-hole of whatever Real McCoy is and I discovered that their first single was actually a "cover" of "Pump Up the Jam" (to keep the Technotronic thread running...also, it's more of a remix with its own ORIGINAL rapping over the top...it was also SOMETHING...I didn't make that face again though as this rap didn't incorporate that low, gravelly, pitch-shifting vocal thing from the other song). Okay, now you've read all of that. I guess I should have to apologize.