Are you one of those people that hear and song and almost instantly know the lyrics?

[HarryNT]

Yesterday as I was listening to songs with my girlfriend I noticed how she had somehow learnt all the words to a song I had only shown her for the first time earlier that day, when I still didn't know them having listened for years!

How do people pick up lyrics so easily?!

 

[HarryNT]

Sorry about the typo in the thread title.

 

[philsussex]

Yes, but the lyrics I remeber never seem to match the song

 

[little al]

What Phil said, I am rubbish.

 

[Lewes' best seagull]

Sometimes to remember the song I have to sing along in my head, until I reach the chorus.

 

[Buzzer]

Yes, yes I am. Islands in the Stream, Fade to grey, lady in red, my perfect cousin, blockbuster..... I know the words to a lot of cheesy songs

 

[Buzzer]

Sorry. Double post

 

[sam86]

Yep, my colleague is often shocked at how many songs I know the lyrics too. Even if its a few years old. Clever these brain things, aren't they...

Sometimes I can even learn the lyrics before the end of the song. I don't know if thats down to me being clever, or the song being shit though.

 

[Wilko]

Females pick up music lyrics and language quickly. Males are more likely to remember the tune or the main riff. This just proves that Buzzer is a PROPER metrosexual.

 

[daveinprague]

I find myself singing along to tunes ive not heard in 30 years word for word..
Wish I could retain something that made more money...

 

[Buzzer]

Females pick up music lyrics and language quickly. Males are more likely to remember the tune or the main riff. This just proves that Buzzer is a PROPER metrosexual.

Ain't dat da truth my fellow metro.

 

[HarryNT]

Females pick up music lyrics and language quickly. Males are more likely to remember the tune or the main riff. This just proves that Buzzer is a PROPER metrosexual.

Nail on head id say. Certainly in general it seems that women pick up lyrics better but it isn't the rule. Some men can do it too

 

[Spanish Seagulls]

I find myself singing along to tunes ive not heard in 30 years word for word..
Wish I could retain something that made more money...

Same, can't remember peoples names but songs, even new ones I can finish the line before it's sung! ( That's probably because they're so predictable )

 

[Cian]

DJed for a very long time (compared to what age I am, obviously not Jimmy Saville definition of "long time") so I know a few thousand tracks by lyric snippets and probably know the full lyrics and exact timings of a thousand or so.

Can hear something twice and know all the words, five times and I'd be able to knock the tune out on a keyboard very accurately. I couldn't tell you where I left my car keys or the name of someone I met last week though!

 

[Return of the Rev]

Trash gritty sockers

Yesterday as I was listening to songs with my girlfriend I noticed how she had somehow learnt all the words to a song I had only shown her for the first time earlier that day, when I still didn't know them having listened for years!

How do people pick up lyrics so easily?!

BLEACHING SOCKS IN THE HOT SUN I FOUGHT THE INLAWS WHEN THE INLAWS COME, I LEFT MY GRAVY AND IT FEELS SO BAD,ITS THE BEST GRAVY THAT I EVER HAD!!!!!

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i learn lyrics WELL easily.......even to songs that i never listen to

i also get VERY frustrated with people who don't know lyrics

 

[Pretty N Pink]

i learn lyrics WELL easily.......even to songs that i never listen to

i also get VERY frustrated with people who don't know lyrics

Im exactly like that

 

[Emily's Mum]

We listen to Radio 2 in the office all day & me and my two Marine colleagues sing along to everything, especially anything over 30 years old.

 

[We're the Stripes]

I find myself singing along to tunes ive not heard in 30 years word for word..

Yup, me too - not quite on the same time scale, though. It's amazing how much easier it is to memorize words when they have a tune/rhythm behind them. Even a song I'll have heard perhaps a couple of times on the radio 5-10 years ago, listening again, I'll perhaps slightly recognise the opening tune then will somehow find myself reciting every single word along with it.

 

[Father Jack]

im quite good at remebering lyrics to be honest its the tune that i can never remember