Okay, so this is a weird one. 

Yesterday Joy and I were talking about how my brain, I think to cope with ADD, almost always has a song running in one portion of it. To learn to study during college it was essential for me to feed that portion of my brain music, lest it draw my attention away from my studies. Music like Enya or Sigur Ros was perfect, because it was interesting enough to entertain without being noisy enough to distract.

Today I was listening to WeeGee Wayback Wonders with John Pratt, which is a marvelous show about the pop music history in the Twin Cities. Highly recommended, Pratt has deep, deep knowledge and often plays vinyl from his personal collection. 

He was talking about the fact that the British band 10cc started as session musicians backing Neil Sedaka. Sedaka told them they should form a band.

So I told Joy about this and she (being younger and with different interests) did not recognize the name 10cc, and said "What did they play?" And me, being old and having a feeble brain, could not assign a song to them, but assured her she'd recognize their songs.

Good enough, we were out for a walk, conversation turned to other things.

About ten minutes later I noticed that I had the song "The Things We Do for Love" running through the music portion of my brain

I mentioned to Joy that the song in my head at the moment was The Things We Do for Love, and then I said, "Wouldn't that be weird if that were a song by 10cc?" So I looked it up, and, of course, it IS.

Now I'm flummoxed. Was this a coincidence? Or is it possible that some portion of my brain was perfectly aware that this was a song by 10cc, and if so, why could the rest of my brain not know that? How could my brain know something that I don't know?

Very weird!