I've had a Todd Rundgren song stuck in my head since 8 this morning.

Send help.

Send help.

How about a nice song that you might hear, oh, say, on a ride at Disney World?

How about a nice song that you might hear, oh, say, on a ride at Disney World?

Yeah, but who knows the words to Michael Jackson's Captain EO song anyway?

Weren't they something like "EO! Woooooo! A-ow!"

('Cause that's what I now have stuck in my head. Which is, indeed, a fate worse than a stubbed toe.)

I just listened to a really fun segment on "The Next Big Thing":

Texas-based band Brave Combo plays an eclectic blend that’s part polka, part punk, part habanera and much more. Here, cooking show meets performance chat when Brave Combo band leader Carl Finch shows host Dean Olsher how the band mixes all these ingredients together.

Do you know these guys, hayden? "Know of them," I mean. Not that I expect you to know every band, but you are our man on the ground. (Note: the stream was pretty bad when I listened, but the music was a blast.)

I love Skynyrd. Ronnie VanZant was a huge loss. Gold and Platinum, a retrospective compiled by Gary Rossington and Allen Collins (two of the three guitars going at it on "Free Bird") after the plane crash that killed VanZant, guitarist Steve Gaines & his sister, backing vocalist Cassie, seems to be out of print, but this is a good intro if you aren't familiar with them. Cheap, good selection, not comprehensive but a good place to see if you like them. For some reason I find myself singing "Gimme Three Steps" just about every time I go running. Wonderful song.

Pink Floyd was about as hard to miss where/when I grew up as Skynyrd, Zep IV & Who's Next. But I was still surprised, stunned even, the first time I saw Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's Through the Olive Trees, and after thinking "what IS that?" for most of the credits, realizing that it was "Time" from Dark Side of the Moon. (Click on the second link to get some sense of how out of place -- not wrong, just surprising -- that it seemed.)

I've had a Todd Rundgren song stuck in my head since 8 this morning.

We gotta get you a woman
It's like nothin' else to make you feel sure you're alii-iiive...

Okay, maybe that's not the one. Good song, though.

Do you know these guys, hayden? "Know of them," I mean.

Sure. They're not my cup o' tea, but I know some people who love the hell out of them.

When I was a kid, there was a Green Bay TV program called The Bart Starr Show (they reviewed the previous Packers game). The opening theme music was PF's "Time" - basicly the part after all the clock noise but before the vocals.

The same show had also used "Thus Spake Zarathustra", a.k.a. the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Brave Combo have been around forever. Also not my cup-o-tea, but I remember seeing their records in the mid-80's.

I've got Brave Combo on LP. Carl Finch has been a big evangelizer for accordion dance music from around the world. I think their novelty polksas are okay, but appreciate him more for backing Tiny Tim on one record (with the swing band version of "Stairway to Heaven") and for championing Esteben Jordan (#1 cool musician with an Eyepatch! Take that Slick Rick! Okay, maybe James Booker is just as cool. Eyepatch Rock - has Rocktober covered this yet?)

It's been 8 hours, and the Todd Rundgren song (FTR, "Hello It's Me") is STILL STUCK IN MY HEAD!!!