Song In My Head .002

Susan Byron
songinmyhead
Published in
8 min readAug 4, 2020

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Weapon Of Choice} Fatboy Slim

(2001)

actor Christopher Walken: born to dance

Anyone who’s ever lived in a hotel can relate to this video.

Weapon of Choice” like most Fatboy Slim songs, isn’t the most navel-gazey of songs, really…its most introspective line is “come and get your teeth smoked worrrd…” after all. Its the kind of song that if you were a kid or a club kid anywhere in the vicinity of the 1990s (which are now much more culturally relevant, it seems, than they were at the time), you will get in your head from time to time the way one gets these tinnily distant TV and radio jingles of yore (*Opera voice*: When you have an ann-ui-ty but you need cash now…call J. G Wentworth!!!…8887 cash *soprano* NOWWW…” and the like).

Praise You, off his You’ve Come A Long Way Baby (1999) another memorable radio trancer, always gets confused in the bandwith in my head with Bif Naked’s alarmingly similar sounding “Lucky” which came…

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Susan Byron
songinmyhead

author of Cruft Head: Stories from Sry, CARCINOGEN, and Night of the Long Dr0nes IG: @susiebyronicheroine Twitter @SusanBByron