I'll take: shit thats never left my brain for 100 Alex.

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Realistic-Gap-3657@reddit

Holy shit this is such a throwback!! I loved this as a kid

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worksnake@reddit

The older I get, the trippier this becomes. I mean, what kind of insane mind comes up with a song like this in a civilization with a base 10 number system?

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iknowiknowwhereiam@reddit

They made lots of different songs about various numbers. This one was about 12 but I remember one about the number 8.

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Zerkcie@reddit

I had never watched this stoned before tonight, was a lot tripper than I remember.

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WineAndDogs2020@reddit

My guess would be because kids would see more face clocks at home and in school, which go to 12.

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TransportationOk657@reddit

That'd be my guess as well. We all had to learn how to read and rely on analog clocks back then.

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foxontherox@reddit

I always preferred them- I could check how much time was left in class without having to do math in my head.

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I disliked the clocks that didn't have the second hand in it, primarily those times while sitting in class waiting for the final minutes for it to end. The second hand made it feel like time was actually moving as opposed to the clocks with just the hour and minute hands.

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Gonzostewie@reddit

It's not too tough in a 4-count song.

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PoopyMcpants@reddit (OP)

Likely a hippie mind thats burned out on lsd.

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wuh613@reddit

Which coincidentally makes great children’s programming!

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Willing-Heart-8156@reddit

I still sing this song to myself today!🥹

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crow96358@reddit

This music theory guy broke this song down and was amazed at how complex it is. His other videos are pretty cool, too, even if you're not a huge music dork.

https://youtu.be/TMtGImlEmu0?si=6_yQfQU-VUQevSP9

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noonesaidityet@reddit

I came here to post this if no one else had. Such a great video.

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throwawayfromPA1701@reddit

This is a great video about this

https://youtu.be/TMtGImlEmu0?si=eWlgNGnclyC2qEsy

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Economy_Field9111@reddit

I occasionally chuckle to myself at the idea of starting a band that only plays Sesame Street Funk - which is a genre I invented which is primarily based around this specific song.

Stuck in your head? I get it. :D

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Gonzostewie@reddit

Need a bass player?

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Economy_Field9111@reddit

Well, I happen to play bass myself, but I see no reason we couldn't Spinal Tap this thing.

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SlavaSobov@reddit

Same here. 😂

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Seven22am@reddit

The Pointer Sisters btw.

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PoopyMcpants@reddit (OP)

Auuuutoooooomatiiiic!

Still a banger.

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CobraChickenNuggets@reddit

The album Break Out as a whole, was a banger.

I bought a mixed box of classic rock and pop vinyls at a garage sale for $10 back in the summer of 1995, and Break Out was tucked in at the very back, behind all the stuff I originally bought the box for.

Me and my friend were listening through the albums, and came across it. We both knew the song Jump and Neutron Dance, but weren't so sure about if we had heard Automatic. We decided to give it a listen, and it basically became the album of the rest of that summer.

We both made tapes of it, and would play it everywhere we'd go, eventually getting our other friends into it as well.

Those were the days.

I could go out to garage sales on the weekends as a teenaged music collector, buy up entire collections of vinyl off 30-60 somethings for next to nothing, because they wanted to get rid of it all after swapping over to CD's, then spent the rest of my week discovering musical gems.

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Nipplasia2@reddit

I always thought automatic was a guy, and then I played Vice City and looked it up! I was always a pointer sisters fan an could not believe that was Ruth this whole time.

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