Entertainment For Lively Minds
Side effects may include drowsiness...
While I was at university I met a bloke called Heinz who introduced me to the music of Neil Young, JJ Cale and Bob Dylan. For this and other reasons he remains a good friend.
One afternoon he turned up at my hall of residence having made a startling discovery.
“Have you ever listened to that Bob Dylan song - I Want You - on your walkman?” he asked.
I replied that I hadn’t.
“It makes you walk in a really stupid way.”
He was right. If listened to while walking, I Want You forces you to adopt an arrhythmic prancing gait, like an outrageously camp pantomime dame with a limp. The more you try to resist, the worse it gets.
I Want You can’t be the only song to confer unfortunate physical side effects upon its listener. Let us make a list so that appropriate health warnings can be drawn up.
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Shaving while. . .
James Brown is going "HUPP-ah, get on upp-ah" is not for the faint of heart.
Ray of Light
Listening to Ray of Light by Madonna makes one walk like the Dick Emery character who says 'Hello Honky Tonk'
Running
as I may have written before, who knows, running/jogging while listening to Won't Get Fooled Again raises the running pace to a frankly dangerous level by the end. Which is a good workout perhaps, but to be used with care - i.e. not when you've still got a few miles to go before you can collapse back home.
Also - do not drive and listen to A Day in the Life.
'Brown Sugar'...
makes me flail around like a cross between Grover from Sesame Street and a chimpanzee.
Try walking properly
when the Laurel and Hardy theme tune is playing. Just impossible
Stayin' Alive
Try not to strut when that comes on your ipod! At least I have an understanding of why I react like that. Don't know why I have the same reaction when Little Green Bag comes on.
Nice legs, shame about the pace
If Word bloggers do ever meet up as a group and there's music playing, it'll end up being a Ministry of Silly Walks open day:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/rhythm-going-get-you
Walkmans were the devil....
I am a rather pudgy Glasweigan and have always been so. As a teenager, when NWA's F*ck Tha Police came onto the walkman distinctive gangsta rollin' was a definate side effect. Only through repeated exposure did this terrible affliction disappear.
However my Liam Gallagher-ish Manc swagger has been known to reappear whenever I hear Supersonic....
Running with a Badly Drawn Boy
There's a track on "Have You Fed The Fish?" by the badly drawn one, which always make me pogo up and down, if I am standing, or break into a run if I am out a-walking. The first instance is 1 min 30 seconds into the track...
Green Onions
By The MGs is guaranteed to bring on a curious shuffling gait akin to Jacko's moonwalk.
Crosby Stills & Nash
Marrakesh Express. You just HAVE to dance.