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Strange images that haunt your mind while listening to specific songs

Posted: 8/20/09 at 5:36pm

Gypsy- Rose's Turn:
Tyra Banks snapping and saying "Oh, no she di'nt!"
Tommy- Acid Queen
My Grandma wearing an Esmerelda dress playing the tamborine with a lemon.

Come on, you KNOW you get similarly strange images. Do tell

re: Strange images that haunt your mind while listening to specific songs

Posted: 8/20/09 at 5:38pm

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re: Strange images that haunt your mind while listening to specific songs

Posted: 8/20/09 at 5:45pm

I don't understand the Tyra Banks connection to Rose's Turn.

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re: Strange images that haunt your mind while listening to specific songs

Posted: 8/20/09 at 5:49pm

Neither do I- that's what makes it strange!

re: Strange images that haunt your mind while listening to specific songs

Posted: 8/20/09 at 6:44pm

That Acid Queen thing made me laugh out loud.

The thing is... I do get strange images that come with certain songs, but now that I'm put on the spot to think of them, I can't. The only one that comes to mind is that when I hear the song "Gethsemane" from Jesus Christ Superstar, I always imagine him singing it while on a Ferris Wheel.

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Updated On: 8/20/09 at 06:44 PM

re: Strange images that haunt your mind while listening to specific songs

Posted: 8/20/09 at 6:59pm

I'm not even kidding, whenever I listen to "On My Own"...I imagine David Bryant and Frances Ruffelle having sex with each other.

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Updated On: 8/20/09 at 06:59 PM

re: Strange images that haunt your mind while listening to specific songs

Posted: 8/20/09 at 7:00pm

Well, that is a tad odd :P

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re: Strange images that haunt your mind while listening to specific songs

Posted: 8/20/09 at 7:02pm

This isn't so much a strange image, but sometimes when I listen to songs, I think I hear my mom calling me. So I take out my headphones ready to listen to her, then find out she is not even around. This has happened to me with multiple songs, but I don't remember which ones. I think one was from Phantom of the Opera. It might have been the part where the Phantom sings, "You have come here..." or something but I don't remember.

I know, it is weird and totally random.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

Updated On: 8/20/09 at 07:02 PM

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 7:05pm

There's a bit in The Fix (must be 'Two Guys at Harvard') where the characters are described as going to the movies and looking for amore. Say it out loud and you should understand why I always visualise the characters as hunting for an eel within the darkened mezzanine.

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 7:07pm

Hahaha, when I listen to "Astonishing" from Little Women, I think about Sutton Foster beating the crap out of Laura Bell Bundy.

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-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 7:14pm

The Barber's Song from Man Of La Mancha- Every time I hear this song, I think about Len Cariou singing it and slitting everybody's throat as he sings.

Sweet Child from The Little Mermaid-Disgusting, but I can always imagine Taylor and Derrick and Sierra have a rather interesting threesome.

Mama Who Bore Me from Spring Awakening-Samara from The Ring coming out of the TV and dancing to the song. I suppose this is because I saw the Drama Desk performance.

Pirate King from Pirates Of Penzance-Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates Of The Caribbean with his crew, doing a chorus line and singing this song.

Creation Of Man from The Scarlet Pimpernel- Adam from the book of Genesis, wearing one of the many foppish outfits in the show.

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 7:15pm

The Barber's Song from Man Of La Mancha- Every time I hear this song, I think about Len Cariou singing it and slitting everybody's throat as he sings.
haha, I love that!

Whenever I listen to "Oh What a Circus" from Evita, I imagine Che riding a bike through Buenos Aires while everyone grieves.

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 7:22pm

Whenever I her the song THE JOKER, I see dried white paint on a radiator with dead roaches stuck to it, I smell a closed really heated apartment. Not sure why.

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 7:40pm

Schmerg, if you met my grandma you would have laughed even harder.

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re: Strange images that haunt your mind while listening to specific songs

Posted: 8/20/09 at 7:56pm

These are not strange images by any means but I do picture certain scenes from the show during certain songs.

Example:

"Everything's Coming up Roses" - the line "That lucky star I've talked about is due" I always picture Patti's performance from the Tony's when her fists are clenched and her eyes are closed during this line

"So Much Better" - the line "..not begun to fight" I always picture LBB kicking outward.

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 8:05pm

I'm laughing out loud reading some these. Strange and hilarious!

millie_dillmount, I do the exact same thing! Especially when I'm listening to Chess (In Concert) or Thoroughly Modern Millie.

"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 8:52pm

When I'm driving and listening to "Morning Person" I always think I hear someone one honking at me during the saxophone solo. I'm pretty sure it is the Pipe Piper's flute thing though.

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 9:10pm

I'm not even kidding, whenever I listen to "On My Own"...I imagine David Bryant and Frances Ruffelle having sex with each other.
The Broadway David Bryant, or the other one?

So, I thought of another one. Whenever I hear "Sirens" from Jane Eyre, I always imagine some crazy looking dude with long grey hair and a beard dancing around and playing a violin with a very serious, dramatic expression on the part that goes 'I cannot stand another knock, my body dashed upon the rocky shore.' And in the part of "Journey On" from Ragtime where the music goes, "On the seeeeea," I sometimes imagine a bunch of people wearing sparkly orange shirts and tap shoes doing jumping jacks.

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 9:14pm

Select a Member Name, it might've happened to me with Millie as well.

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 10:26pm

So, I thought of another one. Whenever I hear "Sirens" from Jane Eyre, I always imagine some crazy looking dude with long grey hair and a beard dancing around and playing a violin with a very serious, dramatic expression on the part that goes 'I cannot stand another knock, my body dashed upon the rocky shore.'

I'm always haunted by the image of a bloody body beat to a pulp and strung out along the shore.

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 10:41pm

Strange images always haunt my mind when I hear clips of Lestat, but that's mostly because that's what I was seeing on stage at the time.

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Posted: 8/21/09 at 12:49am

I always see Chula the Spider from American Tail: Fievel Goes West when I hear 'Master of the House' from Les Mis. I guess I just had a messed up, mixed up childhood, especially since me my parents used to listen and sing along to the Les Mis TAC recording when I was like, four. Seriously. 'Lovely Ladies' used to be my favorite song when I was six.

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Posted: 8/21/09 at 10:08pm

"The Broadway David Bryant, or the other one?"
BAHAHAHAHAHA! Schmerg, of COURSE the Broadway one. Have you actually seen a good picture of the other one...if so, your brain would naturally repel itself from having any thoughts about him engaging himself in sexual activities. Honestly though, I'm surprised 'the other one' is even my friend. I mean, all he's interested in is explosives and big jugs (none of which I posses).

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-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

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Posted: 8/21/09 at 11:38pm

During the title song from "Oklahoma!", when they play the little vamp before the "OOOOOOKLAHOMA" bit, for some reason I always envision all these farmers way out in the middle of a field running forward to the fourth wall with their arms up and waving. It's much goofier in my head than it is in print.

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Posted: 8/22/09 at 12:01am

During the German version of Mamma Mia's "Lay All Your Love On Me"
I see a man who was ran over by a car with pink intestines all over the road. His head looks like mush.

I suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, I can listen to the rest of the songs from the German cast recording without a problem though

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