EarWorms..

[crazycanuck]

Do you ever get songs or sayings stuck in your head that never seem to go away? Not just during rides but ya know during normal times too

I can't get "Great Southern Land" by Icehouse out of my head. I can't get enough of the lyric Ayone will tell you its a prisoner island hidden in the summer for a million years

Another one that's driving me nuts is from the new Batman film. (It was a fundraiser for Make a Wish foundation & a friend is v involved..) Why So Serious?

Argh..

[boy in a kilt]

This happens to me all the time.

Why is it never a song I know ALL the words to? For that matter, why can't it only be songs I like?

Some highlights:
Kylie Minogue- Can't Get You Out of My Head (for about 60 miles of an 80 mile ride)

Fatboy Slim- Rockafella Skank- I actually like this song. Good tempo for hammering or climbing but it'll drive you insane

John Denver- Calypso- This one pops up from time to time. Usually when I'm out doing something long and slow, like climbing mountains.

The Theme From iCarly- My daughter loves this show. That's a double whammy because it gets stuck in my head and it's a kid's show

Anything by Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Fortunately, I'm one of three people in the entire world that actually bought any of their CD's so it's not that common.

Scotland the Brave. We had a song that we had to sing regularly in Officer Candidate School set to Scotland the Brave. Now it's there forever. And I sing it to myself all the time.

One of the things that helps is once an earworm starts cropping up regularly, it goes on my MP3 player. That way, when it starts, I can listen to the song and make it go away.

[crazycanuck]

BIK..I remember Sigue Sigue Sputnik...One of those 80's bands that one wants to forget but can't... The Hair!!!! Oh dear..

Another one is Cold Chisel-Khe Sanh...I can't get away from Jimmy Barnes' voice..

[Kano]

and then I wonder where the hec did THAT come from --

yesterday, in the shower, the Casper the Ghost song: please remember me my name is Casper,,,

Karen in Boise

[redranger]

Abba's "Dancing Queen", and oddly enough, "Edelweiss" from The Sound Of Music. I am sure there are others, but these are the two that come to mind right now.

[kelownagirl]

Ear Worms - never heard that term before!

I am notorious for bursting into inane songs while sitting at my computer so when I first read this thread, I started write down what songs I sing over and over again. Here at my top ten, in no particular order.

1. If I only had a brain (Wizard of Oz)
2. Loving You (old 70's song)
3. Oh Canada
4. In the Hall of the Mountain King
5. Winter Wonderland, (year round)
6. A piece by Mozart that I can't remember the name.
7. Goin to the Chapel
8. The Flintstone's Theme Song
9. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
10. Yes, he have no bananas.

They just come popping out of my mouth with no warning. I have no idea why.


Edit to add: None of them irritate me as much as the stuff I sang when I was a primary musis teacher for 10 years...

[Tri Girl]

I almost didn't open this thread because I was afraid of what the topic would be... something like heartworms, but much more disgusting.

I had one the other day, and it drove me crazy all day long:
Rolling Stones: "I know it's only rock and roll but I like it..." Well, I didn't like it. That's the only part that was stuck in my head- not the rest of the song. Grrrrrrr....

[Aggie_Ama]

Yesterday I was at work and one just climbed in:

I need a Hero, I'm holding on for hero til the morning light.....

I can't remember the last time I heard that song.

Lately I have had this Waylon Jennings song in my head "Ain't no good in an evil hearted woman, I ain't cut out to be no Jesse James, You don't go writing hot checks down in Mississippi and there ain't no good chain gang".

Also his son's (Shooter Jennings) Tangled Up Roses and Matter of Time. Plus Flowbots' Handlebars, that one comes in when I am riding. Usually though it is some random 80's pop song out of nowhere.

[crazycanuck]

Hey Amanda,

Thanks for the package How far are you from Austin?

I didn't know his son's nickname was shooter! The thingies you learn!

[TsPoet]

The only one I get repeatedly is "The Burn" by Matchbox 20, and it's cycling specific
"I wonder how I never got the burn
and if I'm ever going to learn"

- the whole way up any hill I ever ride I'd love to make it go away. At least it has an OK beat.

[tc1]

Some songs that get stuck are the ones that I am trying to figure out on guitar. So lately its been 'Bales of cocaine' by the Reverend Horton Heat. I tend to hear guitar riffs over and over, today it was the opening guitar from Hillbilly Love by the Hillbilly Hellcats, and Crimson and Clover (the original, not the one with Joan Jett's sultry voice.)

I also hear the Underture from Tommy, the part that has John on french horn. But Tommy is one of my all time faves, I can hear any of it at will so don't consider it an earworm.

[Aggie_Ama]

Hey Amanda,

Thanks for the package How far are you from Austin?

I didn't know his son's nickname was shooter! The thingies you learn!

Glad it made it's way to you! I didn't know how long it would take to get there. I am about 35 miles north of downtown, I work in Austin though as well.

Hope those things add to your collection, weren't much but just interesting to find. My Pawpaw was quite the packrat but I didn't know he was a Democrat. He became a Republican in his final years.

[OakLeaf]

William Gibson wrote a series of novels back in the '80s (maybe into the early '90s) where one of the characters' favorite hangouts was a bar called "The Gentleman Loser."

EVERY time I'd read one of those books I'd get "Midnite Cruiser" stuck in my head. I finally had to buy the CD of "Can't Buy a Thrill," because our amp was out of sockets, and I'd have to disconnect something else to plug in the turntable every time the earworm got so bad that I had to put the album on.