Arrunnnhhh-aaa...

American Thighs (Veruca Salt): This is a one-off tune, not an album, purchased from iTunes. The song itself is Seether. I don't do this (cherry pick, or purchase from iTunes at all) very often. The companion to this song is The Breeders' Cannonball, another one off. Why is it a companion? Funny story. After I switched to Mac, I got a new scanner. While at my previous employer, I scanned receipts most Fridays to submit with expense reports. My scanner makes a little arrrunnnhhh-aaa sound like in Cannonball, but in the jukebox of my mind, that sound flips over to the Seether chorus at some point. I bought Seether one Friday because I felt I had to play the song while scanning receipts. To my dismay, the chorus was there, but not the arrunnnhhh-aaa sound that inspired the purchase. I phoned up the musically reliable Mr. Pearce, sang him arrunnnhhh-aaa (I first heard Seether (which I was confusing with Cannonball back then, I guess) while riding in his car, on S. Havana in Aurora, CO) and he correctly identified it as Cannonball. So, I bought that one too. I always think of these songs as companions, like Queen's We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions and ZZ Top's Waitin' For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago, but they're my own personal little companions that no one else knows about. Sadly, my previous employer is no more, and while I no longer have to scan receipts (Yay?) on Fridays, I also don't listen to my little scanner-noise-inspired song companions on Fridays. All this from one (or is it two?) song(s).

Footnote: I will try to point out places I have invented new song titles/lyrics in a funny way - in this case, I thought it was Jesus Done Left Chicago (and he's bound for New Orleans)...