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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
I keep replaying a couple of lines from 'Puppet on a String' by Sandy Shaw in my head. I have no idea why - I haven't heard it in years. maybe it's because she was on Mastermind last night.



What is your earworm today?
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, baby give it up, give it up, baby give it up.
 

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Posted by Earwig (# 12057) on :
 
I got "50 words for snow" by Kate Bush for Christmas, and have had bits from the song "Wild Man" stuck in my head for days.

Only Kate Bush could make these lines an earworm:
"While crossing the Lhakpa-La something jumped down from the rock
In the remote Garo Hills by Dipu Marak we found footprints in the snow."

I want to be Kate Bush when I grow up.
 

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Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :
 
A facebook copycat thing at the moment is googling the number 1 from the week you were born. My current earworm is the result of clicking on the wrong link... and now I'm stuck with the first line of "needles and pins". I can't even remember how it goes on from there, so it's even more irritating than your standard earworm.
 

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Posted by Clarence (# 9491) on :
 
''Plane Crash" by Liam Finn (if only because he managed to include a reference to a pohutakawa)
 

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Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :
 
The Marriage of Figaro, I watched Trading Places last night for a bit of 80s nostalgia (and some JLC boobage of course).
 

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Posted by Balaam (# 4543) on :
 
Lou Reed and Metallica - Iced Honey.

The end bit with James Hetfield singing, "See if the ice will melt for you," whilst Reed sings, "Iced honey" has been stuck for the last two days.
 

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Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :
 
Got along without you babe before I met you,
Gonna get along without you now...
Doesn't help that I wrote my own third and fourth lines to the song, where 'cow' rhymes with 'now.'
The original simply repeats the first two lines endlessly, kinda like a praise song.
 

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Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 
The Merry Widow.

Its actually rather nice
 

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Posted by Sparrow (# 2458) on :
 
Super Trouper - probably because of watching (or rather, being in the same room with) Mamma Mia on the TV the other day.
 

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Posted by infinite_monkey (# 11333) on :
 
I've had Dar Williams' Iowa stuck in my head all week, thanks to the ceaseless coverage of the Iowa caucuses.

Fortunately, it's a brilliant song.
 

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Posted by snowgoose (# 4394) on :
 
Tom Lehrer's So Long, Mom, I'm Off To Drop the Bomb.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Mr. Hurricane by Beast.
 

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Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
I've had 'Set fire to the Third Bar' by Snow Patrol going round in my head all week, following my Son & his fiancee working on their wedding play list.

Fortunately, I love this song.
 

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Posted by Graven Image (# 8755) on :
 
"I want to walk as a child of the light, I want to follow Jesus."

It has been there for about a week now. No idea what started it. Nice song, but I am getting a bit tired of it.
 

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Posted by South Coast Kevin (# 16130) on :
 

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Originally posted by Kitten:
I've had 'Set fire to the Third Bar' by Snow Patrol going round in my head all week...

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Originally posted by Silver Faux:
Got along without you babe before I met you,
Gonna get along without you now...

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Dude, my mom goes around humming this one all the time!

[ 06. January 2012, 18:32: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 

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Posted by Meg the Red (# 11838) on :
 
This club can't even handle me right now . . .

From this version, specifically the crescendo at 1:39, which is beyond awesome, even when it turns into an earworm.
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
I've been listening (and listening and listening) to Alan Pote's "Here I Am, Lord" in my poor head for days. It's not even the current choir singing, but one from about eighteen years ago.
 

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Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
Christmas songs. This morning on the way to work it was Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree.
 

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Posted by Alex Cockell (# 7487) on :
 
Lots of earworms tonight from BBC4, starting at 9pm... with TOTP 1977 starting up...
 

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Posted by nickel (# 8363) on :
 
The Slackers "You Must Be Good" ... for that you can sleep at night; You must be good, for that your momma can hold you tight; And you can't be bad (be bad), or the devil will git ya! So you must be good, you must be good, don't let'em trick ya"

I have no idea why it popped into my head -- I haven't done anything wrong lately!
 

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Posted by Mili (# 3254) on :
 
I've got about one line and a bit of instrumental (possible on a glockenspiel) from Gotye's "Somebody that I used to Know" stuck in my head. And yes the line is "somebody that I used to know". I think it's because a top 100 countdown of Australian 2012 hits was on TV at the party I attended NYE and this was number one. I hadn't even heard it before that.
 

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Posted by LucyP (# 10476) on :
 
At work I regularly encounter people with the Chinese surname "Lai" -most recently yesterday.

Every time, I get the chorus from Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer" playing in my head for the next couple of days.

I pronounce the surname "Ly" the same way as "Lai", but so far the 2 letter spelling never seems to have set off the earworm!
 

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Posted by PD (# 12436) on :
 
I had Ravel's fecking 'Bolero' on the loop in my head this morning and then folks were stupid enough to ask me why I am in a fecking lousy mood. Three hours of that would distroy anyone's attempts at optimism.

I finally got rid of Ravel about noon and got the Geogeghan Sisters 'The Siege of Wexford' instead, which was an improvement but did nothing to lift my mood. The Chieftain's 'Nelson's Pillar' or 'Johnson's Motor Car' might have, but I got a song about a massacre instead. Oh well!

PD

[ 07. January 2012, 03:21: Message edited by: PD ]
 

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Posted by Darkwing (# 16207) on :
 
Tristan, by Failotron - a celebratory chiptune anthem.
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
'In the Lord I'll be ever thankful' - a Taize chant which we are singing on Sunday and therefore rehearsed on Friday evening. It's one of those tunes which goes roundandroundandroundandround. But in my version, it's the repetitive alto line as that's the one I had to learn.

If something has to go round and round in my head, though, that is one of the better ones.
 

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Posted by georgiaboy (# 11294) on :
 
Almost any Taizé song is likely to become an earworm.
Thankfully, mine (today) is a cut from Berlioz' L'Enfance du Christ. I was listening to it last night (a performance posted on YouTube; can't remember who it was), and the instrumental trio for harp and flutes was what I found in my brain when I awoke this morning. Nice!
 

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Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
I have "Des Colores" running through my poor wee brain this afternoon. And since I can never remember all the words, its more like the first line, some la la la's and then the fourth line. Grrrrr
 

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Posted by Tea gnome (# 9424) on :
 
"Birdseye potato wa-ffles, they're waffley versatile."
It's a tune from an advert. A very old advert. And it will not go. Am envious of some of your ear-worms.
TG
 

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Posted by Aravis (# 13824) on :
 
A short Grieg piano piece.

It's nice to have something I like that doesn't get annoying too quickly.

Does anyone else get word earworms as well as music earworms? Short passages from books or things like that? I pretty much always have a tune but sometimes I have an unrelated chunk of text as well; when I reach a word I'm not sure of, it kind of sets off a warning which makes me realise the passage is there in my head, and then the ambiguous word bothers me till I can check what it is. (this often takes a long time as I don't have an iphone or Kindle or anything)
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 
"It's your thing. Do what you wanna do. I can't tell you who to sock it to!" by ? a black woman singer...
 

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Posted by nickel (# 8363) on :
 

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Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:
"It's your thing. Do what you wanna do. I can't tell you who to sock it to!" by ? a black woman singer...

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Originally posted by Smudgie:
A facebook copycat thing at the moment is googling the number 1 from the week you were born ...

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For that reason I've got The Young Ones by Cliff Richard and the Shadows ...
 

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Posted by Pancho (# 13533) on :
 

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Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:
"It's your thing. Do what you wanna do. I can't tell you who to sock it to!" by ? a black woman singer...

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or the Isley Brothers maybe or did someone else cover it?
it's your thing

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Salt-n-Pepa borrowed the chorus for one of their tracks. The evidence:"Shake Your Thang".

I got The Beatles' "Paperback Writer" on my mind because of that "Is Tolkien a Hack Writer?" thread.
 

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Posted by PD (# 12436) on :
 
Today had a better start as I had 'Ye who own the faith of Jesus' going round and round my turnip. It is rather a jolly tune, though the way I felt this morning after midnight capers from the dogs, the Dead March from Saul would have been more fitting

PD
 

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Posted by ChaliceGirl (# 13656) on :
 
"Situation no win...rush for a change in atmospheeeerre.."- Big Audio Dynamite

Heard it on a station that plays retro 80's/90's stuff and I've been stuck on it! Love that song!
 

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Posted by ChaliceGirl (# 13656) on :
 

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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, baby give it up, give it up, baby give it up.

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KC and The Sunshine Band! The King of catchy songs!
 

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Posted by mark_in_manchester (# 15978) on :
 
Glen Campbell, 'Wichita Lineman'

This since a game of YouTube Jukebox played with relies in Ireland on Boxing (or, indeed, Steven's) day. House full of 9 kids - age 4-16 - and 8 adults - 40-50. Everyone gets to choose a song, and by the wonders of youtube, everyone else has to listen to it and watch the video.

Great fun and a voyage of mutual discovery for all - even the teenagers stayed engaged. But who on earth dug out the piles and piles of old music videos / live footage of obscure tracks, which must have been rotting on VHS in a million cupboards-under-the-stairs the world over, and bothered to digitise and upload it all?

(Yes, I know, it's late to be wondering why anyone buys records (CDs) anymore...)
 

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Posted by Aelred of Rievaulx (# 16860) on :
 
Lo, star-led chiefs by
Dr Crotch

Well, it is Epiphany!

And in our cathedral we do tend to overdose on "How brighly shines" this Sunday (Chorale as introit, Cornelius Three Kings, and then the chorale as congregational hymn) so no doubt I shall be thinking of that all week as well. Grrrr.
 

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Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 

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Originally posted by Aravis:
Does anyone else get word earworms as well as music earworms? Short passages from books or things like that?

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Yes, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I frequently get a couple of stanzas of John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet stuck in my head. If you think folks look at you oddly when you wander around singing to yourself, you should see the looks you get when you wander around reciting poetry to yourself.
 

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Posted by Nenya (# 16427) on :
 
"Wise men say only fools rush in..." It's been on my mind, on and off, for weeks. I thought Harry and Aliona dancing the American Smooth to it was one of the loveliest things I've seen in a while.
 

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Posted by St Everild (# 3626) on :
 
"Myrrh is mine,
it's bitter perfume
breathes a life
of gathering gloom..." from the carol "We three Kings of Orient are"

No idea why, its not my favourite carol and I'm fed up with it...it'll hang around all week, I expect.
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
My earworm now is very similar - it's the interlude between verses of 'We three kings' (Common Praise version).
 

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Posted by seasick (# 48) on :
 
Eat this bread and never hunger... - a communion hymn we sang this morning. I really like it but it does have a habit of getting stuck in your head.
 

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Posted by Balaam (# 4543) on :
 
After being used on Dancing On Ice I can't seem to get Walk this way by Run DMC and Aerosmith out of my head.
 

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Posted by Deputy Verger (# 15876) on :
 
I can see I am not the only one singing:

Star of wonder, star of night, star of royal beauty bright, westward leading, still proceeding... guide us to thy perfect light

over and over and over...
 

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Posted by Pax Romana (# 4653) on :
 
When I went to see Mozart's Don Giovanni earlier this year, I had snippets of that opera running through my brain for weeks. I've sung this opera in the past, so it's easy for the music to get stuck in my head.

I recently went to see Puccini's Madama Butterfly, which I also sang in the past, so snatches of that have been singing in my brain.

In between operatic earworms, I have had other musical intrusions on my consciousness, also.

Pax Romana
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
OK, now that I've been to church and done a bit of Proper Singing™, I've got rid of Cliff Richard (no offence) and now I've got Where riches is everlastingly by Peter Warlock and the Nunc Dimittis from Sumsion in G.

That's better.
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
Clearly a Warlock theme here...

I can't get Bethlehem Down out of my head. (I actually really like it, just not when it stops me sleeping!)
 

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Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
For some reason I simply cannot fathom, I've had With joyous shout from Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado sloshing around in my head all day. I'm currently listening to some loud Chopin to try and dislodge it.
 

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Posted by passer (# 13329) on :
 
Like earwig I got Kate Bush's 50 Words for Snow for Christmas, plus her Director's Cut album. The reworked Song of Solomon is currently stuck in my head (as was the original when it first came out, I confess).
 

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Posted by St Everild (# 3626) on :
 
Twinkle twinke Little Star. No idea why.
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
"Fat Bottomed Girls" by Queen.

This is not a bad thing.
 

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Posted by Darllenwr (# 14520) on :
 
This

I make no apologies for being an unashamed admirer of a self-taught guitarist. OK, so he is using some pretty nifty gadgets, but the whole thing is totally unforgiving - one mistake and the piece collapses in disarray.

Wish I could play that well [there is no jealous emoticon]
 

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Posted by PD (# 12436) on :
 
Fecking 'Bolero' again!

PD
 

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Posted by Trisagion (# 5235) on :
 
Happy Feet
 

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Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 

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Originally posted by kingsfold:

...I can't get Bethlehem Down out of my head. .....

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Now, nor can I! Round, and round my poor brain it's been going since I read that on this thread last night.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
The Sherlock theme tune.
 

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Posted by Galloping Granny (# 13814) on :
 
A few bars from Schumann's Scenes from Childhood Charming, but likely to get boring if repeated for long enough.
GG
 

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Posted by Jemima the 9th (# 15106) on :
 
The Blackbeard pirate song from Horrible Histories. Gilbert & Sullivan parody. Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sUaJZX9ZkM
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 

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Originally posted by ChaliceGirl:
"Situation no win...rush for a change in atmospheeeerre.."- Big Audio Dynamite

Heard it on a station that plays retro 80's/90's stuff and I've been stuck on it! Love that song!

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The stuff B.A.D. did BEFORE that song is/are? great as well. One song I remember someone saying, all stuttery: "The horses, the h-h-h-h-h-horses are on the track". So many great memories of coming of age to those songs.
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 
What's funny is that I'm a big fan of genuine (not the lame obviously made up) misheard lyrics. So, I tend to sing the misheard version of songs to get a laugh from my friends and then these songs become ear-worms all in their own right. Lately, I've had "I've got shoes, they're made of plywood. And I'm losing controllll..." instead of "I've got chills, they're multiplying" from "Grease". Also, I'll get "Smoke On the Water" stuck in my head but I'll sing it as, "Slow-motion Walter, fire engine guy". Yeah, I AM weird!
 

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Posted by Yam-uk (# 12791) on :
 
'Waltzing Matilda' and 'The Archer's' theme tune *sigh*
 

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Posted by Trisagion (# 5235) on :
 
The Land of Mountain and Flood (aka The Theme from Sutherland's Law) by Hamish MacCunn kindly distiller into my ear by BBC Radio 3 at 8:45 this morning, since when it has driven my co-workers mad as I have whistled and hummed it constantly
 

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Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 

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The Land of Mountain and Flood ...

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Originally posted by Trisagion:
The Land of Mountain and Flood ...

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Da-da dee dah da dah da dah...

(I heard it too)

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I heard it on ClassicFM - first time I heard it as a "piece" (as opposed to a TV theme) was on one of my dad's brass band records - possibly Pride of the Rhondda?
 

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Posted by Latchkey Kid (# 12444) on :
 
The music used in the BBC TV series The Singing Detective not the dismal film (credit to Lothiriel). I've had the CD for years.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Zippedy doo dah - arrrrggggghhhhhh!

Thanks Chris Evans
 

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Posted by Arch Anglo Catholic (# 15181) on :
 
I am taunted by the theme from Happy Days

Monday, Tuesday Happy Days etc

This is therefore NOT a Happy Day.

Oh that tune makes me MAD.

Slight consolation, however, it is now annoying you.

Every blessing!
 

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Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
Cerys Mathews Arglwydd Dyma Fi (Lord here I am) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Axw_i0WxMk - for which I can indirectly blame Lord Pontivilian who put another Cerys Mathews track onto facebook
 

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Posted by Yam-uk (# 12791) on :
 
Rivers of Babylon - Boney M
 

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Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
Finale of Pirates of Penzance - no pirate band will take its stand at the Central Criminal Court - which location was a clue in the Guardian quick crossword today.

Penny
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Pimp by Shivaree
Ambrosia Parsley's laconic vocals are hypnotic.

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He's going to play you a dream
Dress you up in chocolate
And finish you with cream
Squeeze you till you're warm and woozy
And then pop you on the saddle
Of a silver moto guzzi

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Originally posted by Jemima the 9th:
The Blackbeard pirate song from Horrible Histories. Gilbert & Sullivan parody. Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sUaJZX9ZkM

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Posted by Siegfried (# 29) on :
 
The riff from "Bye Bye Blues"--did an arrangement of it for my LOTRO band this past week.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Aja
when all my dime dancing is through
I run to you....

(Steely Dan)
 

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Posted by LutheranChik (# 9826) on :
 
We did our turn at the antique mall today. The owner insists on broadcasting the local "oldies" station throughout the store...thanks to that, I came home with Barry Manilow's "Ready to Take a Chance Again" stuck in my head. Argh.
 

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Posted by Pure Sunshine (# 11904) on :
 
I've been told that humming 'God save the Queen' acts as a kind of aurivermicide, if that's a word.
 

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Posted by Balaam (# 4543) on :
 
Everyday I love you less and less by the Kaiser Chiefs is today's earworm, picked up from the in store tannoy of, of all places, Harvey Nicks.

They should know better.
 

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Posted by Aelred of Rievaulx (# 16860) on :
 
John Bull's Starre Anthem - a setting of the Epiphany Collect from the BCP. Amazing last two pages of rising suspensions....
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Having just read an article in the Telegraph celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Ford Zephyr, I've got the theme from Z Cars running through my head.

My apologies to fellow-Brits over a certain age who have now got it too.

[ 15. January 2012, 04:01: Message edited by: piglet ]
 

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Posted by PD (# 12436) on :
 
After two earworm free days...

ABBA - 'The day before your came.'

An improvement on Bolero as I actually like the song.

PD
 

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Posted by Galloping Granny (# 13814) on :
 
A few bars of something I'm not able to identify for sure – could be a duet from Verdi's Don Carlos. I've only seen it once but that duet was familiar probably from a collection of 100 best opera songs.

GG
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
SO tempted to provide a link, but I'll just encourage you to google "Kristi Martel-- Silver" and enjoy. A happy-making earworm.
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
A song I wrote myself, composing it on the piano. I want to properly orchestrate it someday and maybe even add words...
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
Thanks to a comment by a facebook friend (should that be facebook fiend?), the cheesy pouffs song.
 

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Posted by Earwig (# 12057) on :
 

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Originally posted by Trisagion:
Happy Feet

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I'll never forget - the smell of the sweat - from under your armpits

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Thanks Lynn.
 

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Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
Most of yesterday, and all of this morning, I've had more of a genre, rather than a particular tune, stuck in my head. Oddly enough, I keep wanting to burst out singing Pirate songs. (Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! and all that). And the visuals in my mind are even worse. A bunch of Disney-esque pirates quaffing grog and singing sea shanties...

I need therapy, NOW!

eta: last night, my co-worker kindly tried to give me a differnt earworm, but thankfully, I don't know any Hannah Montana songs and was spared that particular agony. Although, come to think of it, the pirates in my head might have enjoyed sharing space with a tween phenom

[ 19. January 2012, 15:09: Message edited by: BessHiggs ]
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

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Originally posted by LutheranChik:
My newest earworm, thanks to YouTube, is comic Jimmy Fallon's imaginary hybrid of David Bowie and Tim Tebow, the very overtly, nay, aggressively conservative- Christian young Denver Broncos football phenom: Tebowie.

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The Sherlock theme tune.

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Originally posted by Ariel:
The Sherlock theme tune.

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Same again. On the advice posted upthread, I tried thinking "God Save The Queen" to myself quite loudly, if in complete silence (as I was at work at the time) but it hasn't helped.

Could be worse: I suffered quite badly from Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto (the famous one) for nearly two whole weeks once. I haven't been able to watch Brief Encounter since.

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Originally posted by Adeodatus:
And ... have you noticed how if you're reading about other people's earworms, suddenly they're your earworms?

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Only if you know the tune

There are verbal earworms as well - those snatches of poetry, or quotes that won't go away, as much as oddly rhythmic names or phrases.
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
You should never, ever click on a link in a thread about earworms. Unless you're trying to evict one, and you really think that any alternative is better...
 

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Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 

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Originally posted by Ariel:
And have you ever had the slow movement of the Rachmaninov in your head at the same time as "All by myself"? Worse than a hangover!

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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:

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Originally posted by Ariel:
And have you ever had the slow movement of the Rachmaninov in your head at the same time as "All by myself"? Worse than a hangover!

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I always want to sing that when the Rachmaninov is on the radio, which wouldn't amuse Darllenwr as he likes it. There's another classical piece which always reminds me of "I'm forever blowing bubbles" and he likes that too.

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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
A few bars of something I'm not able to identify for sure – could be a duet from Verdi's Don Carlos. I've only seen it once but that duet was familiar probably from a collection of 100 best opera songs.

GG

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Apparently now there's an app for that ...
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
Whichever tune I've just been humming to lull my granddaughter off to sleep (they have to be repetitive in order to mesmerise her and make her eyes close). This weekend, the uppermost earworm was 'Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross'.
 

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Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
Thanks to the title of this thread, I have "It's All about you" by McFly lodged in my head.


 

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Posted by St Everild (# 3626) on :
 
"Take me to a Quiet Place" by Karen Money.

I like it...I may not by the end of today!
 

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Posted by Trisagion (# 5235) on :
 
Thanks to the bloody awful choir in one of the parishes I serve, the earworm of yesterday and today appears to be 'I watch the sunrise', a hymn I heartily dislike.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
'Rhinestone Cowboy'

Come back 'Zippedy Doo Dah' - all is forgiven!
 

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Posted by South Coast Kevin (# 16130) on :
 
For all of you with unwanted earworms, I've had a lush song in my head for the last few days:

A Sail by Lisa Hannigan
 

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Posted by Alex Cockell (# 7487) on :
 
Plenty of earworm potential on the 1980 chart being played out on Pick of the Pops today -

http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?week=19800126

Dig it out on iPlayer or get to BBC Radio 2 NOW...
 

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Posted by Dormouse (# 5954) on :
 
Mr D has "Indie Disco" by the Divine Comedy as a wake-up alarm on his phone. So - if I'm still in bed when his alarm goes off - I end up with that as the day's earworm...or sometimes it morphs into another Divine Comedy/Neil Hannon song. Yesterday it was the last verse of Frog Princess And I suspect that having searched for the YouTube version it'll be there again today!

And I don't really mind, as I am a great fan of Neil Hannon and his very clever music. If you don't know it, you might enjoy it!
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
Last night it was Bruckner's 'Locus Iste' (heard at a concert) and today Stanford's 'Beati Quoram Via', which we sang as the anthem this morning. Both wonderful, so I didn't mind a bit.
 

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Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 
"If you want to know the time, ask a policeman"

Deeply irritating. Nothing seems to be dislodging it.

[ 29. January 2012, 16:32: Message edited by: Japes ]
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
Jeff Buckley: Hallelujah
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
This Dutch song. (Listen to the melody at your own peril.) I won't bother to translate the lyrics, it is something along the line of "Will you still love me in 40 years time?"

Aagh, get it out of my head!!
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Jeff Buckley: Hallelujah

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I'd pay good money to have that as an earworm. Sadly, and for reasons I cannot begin to understand, I have the refrain from a very old advert for Economy Seven (cheaper electricity, heaven! ).
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Jeff Buckley: Hallelujah

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Marvellous song.

Is there a way to cause earworms?
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
A song by Coldplay: I cannot remember what it's called, nor can I remember all of the words though the melody is crystal clear. The CD is in the changer in the car out in the carpark, but I played it a lot when I worked at the fairgrounds on a show last week, because I could park right next to the jobsite within eyeshot of the car so as long as I didn't walk away without removing the key, it was safe.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
Sadly, "Bumping up and down in the little red wagon", because I had to google it to find a photo title
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 



And freaking thank you for passing it on.
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Today I have this MP classic - in a previous life when I talked about sex for a living I recommended it to be played in the local GUM clinic. My colleague in charge of the place thought it might be a tad inappropriate!
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
My mental CD player has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. I'm now beset by Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport.
 

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Posted by Nicolemrw (# 28) on :
 
I have a car commercial stuck in my head. I don't remember for what car, and I don't know any of the words aside from "Come along, come along". It's very, very annoying.
 

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Posted by birdie (# 2173) on :
 
Having watched Muppet Treasure Island for the first time in ages on Sunday, I have the Professional Pirate song stuck in my head.

I maintain that if I was Jim Hawkins, that song would have taken me over to the dark side in about two verses. "Look at us Jim! We're a festival of conviviality!"
 

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Posted by Yam-uk (# 12791) on :
 
"Maria" by Blondie

One of our team leaders is called Maria, and that stupid song comes into my head every time her name is mentioned
 

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Posted by Miffy (# 1438) on :
 
Does it only count as an earworm if it's annoying you?

If so Mr M's current aural non-arthropod invertebrates are The Real Thing's "You to Me Are Everything" and Bob Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love" - insert artiste of your choice - which I'm learning in community singing. Ah! Those Seventies disco nights....memories, memories...

I have no problems whatsoever with them. But then, I don't have to listen to myself singing.
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 
"I Want To F*ck You Like An Animal" by Nine Inch Nails. Richard Cheese does a hilarious Sinatra-like rendition of this song with a hep-cat swingin' beat.
 

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Posted by 205 (# 206) on :
 
You like to think you're inured to the stuff

oh yeah

His timing is remarkable (or the editing is very good).
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Miffy:
Bob Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love"

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*happy sigh*
 

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Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :
 
The eminently un-singable in public (but extremely catchy) "Hasa Diga Eebowai," from Stone & Parker's The Book of Mormon.
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Paul McCartney's awful Silly Love Songs - AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
 

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Posted by PD (# 12436) on :
 
Six days without earworms, after a dodgy couple of days with 'Jesus Calls Us O'er the Tumult', and then I get a a 24-carat 'this is gonna drive me nuts' one. One of the few earworms that is worse than Ravel's fecking Bolero...

What was commonly referred to when I was a teenager as

The Birdie Song!

You know the one I mean...

PD

[ 03. February 2012, 05:00: Message edited by: PD ]
 

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Posted by ProgenitorDope (# 16648) on :
 
The choir parts of "Sons of Skyrim."

(For my people, the Nerds, it's an earworm the size of something in "Dune".)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53b8v3vw2AQ
 

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Posted by angelica37 (# 8478) on :
 
today I can't escape from this earworm

'and he painted matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs...'

Thank you radio 2
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
Think yourself lucky - I have 'Boom Bang-a-Bang', thanks to the supermarket.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
OK, bunch of things. I am working on a story. I have just purchased a Vince Guaraldi double album. Because this is the way my mind works, I decided to assign Guaraldi songs to each of the main characters in the story.

I definitely have a favorite character, and his theme has been bouncing around in my head for the last three days. (Nothing to do with Christmas; the structure of the song fits his personality.)

Not unpleasant at all, actually.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by angelica37:
today I can't escape from this earworm

'and he painted matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs...'

Thank you radio 2

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OMG I have not heard that for 30+ years. IT was my favourite song in maybe '78.

ETA - have just youtubed it ... the memories! Thankyou so much

[ 04. February 2012, 06:10: Message edited by: Zappa ]
 

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Posted by Lothlorien (# 4927) on :
 

quote:

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One of the few earworms that is worse than Ravel's fecking Bolero...

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There's something wore than that?

I have horrible memories of being on team at a high school conference back in my evangelical days. Long ago. One group wanted to demonstrate unity.

Video, I said it was old, of an orchestra rehearing Bolero. At first with just a few instruments and then adding in numbers and types of instruments till the whole orchestra was swept up in playing it over and over. And over. Earworm nightmare stuff.

A group of us, all since passed on from those days, only has to mention Bolero and we all groan It still affects us.
 

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Posted by Lothlorien (# 4927) on :
 
Apologies for all the typos and lack of punctuation. Am dealing with last of a migraine and couldn't see properly.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
"Try Not to get Worried" from Superstar. Kuruman was singing "Sing of the Lord's Goodness" and it segued ... as most things do when I sing them
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Fly me to the moon by Sinatra thank to an image posted on another site. But, having had a look upthread, it is now vying with Linus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi. While I love both songs, the combination, not so much.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
While I love both songs, the combination, not so much.

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quote:

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Originally posted by PD:
Six days without earworms, after a dodgy couple of days with 'Jesus Calls Us O'er the Tumult', and then I get a a 24-carat 'this is gonna drive me nuts' one. One of the few earworms that is worse than Ravel's fecking Bolero...

What was commonly referred to when I was a teenager as

The Birdie Song!

You know the one I mean...

Or as they sing it in France -


PD

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La Danse des Canards The Duck Dance.
 

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Posted by Pure Sunshine (# 11904) on :
 
Thanks to Chorister, I now have 'We are climbing Jesus's ladder, ladder' stuck in my head ...
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
The Radio 4extra theme music...
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
It is February and I live in the northern hemisphere so why have I got We plough the fields and scatter... on my brain this morning?
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
After watching the first half of the Spurs match I recorded Saturday (which was already 4-0 Spurs over Newcastle United!), my earworm is When the Spurs (saints) go marching in. It was frequently sung by the home side supporters at White Hart Lane.
 

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Posted by Egeria (# 4517) on :
 
Strangely enough, I had "For all the Saints" running through my head today while I was cleaning the house. I haven't heard it since last November and haven't recently heard anything that sounds similar (as far as I can remember). The sound in my imagination cracked on the high notes just as my voice does when I attempt to sing it.

Because I frequently play the finale of Haydn's Symphony # 82 when I need a mental boost at work, I sometimes get bits of that running through my head. It usually helps, too--so maybe it's not technically an earworm. I also play it when I'm anticipating an upcoming basketball game...and when I get over my team's heartbreaking overtime loss tonight, I'll be ready to hear it again. Not only does it actually remind me of basketball, it has that wonderful nickname: The Bear!
 

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Posted by Roseofsharon (# 9657) on :
 
Theme song from High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling), since I heard a snatch of it on Something Understood (BBC Radio4) this morning.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
I had a nice one yesterday when my little country congregation of 3 + me sang George Herbert's "Seven Whole Days". Well the keyboardist and I did.
 

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Posted by Lymasa (# 11397) on :
 
Calvin Hampton's Repeating Alleluia. The title says it all. Better than some things it could be, I suppose. (Had Mr. Cow stuck in my head for days on end, once!)
 

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Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Zappa:
I had a nice one yesterday when my little country congregation of 3 + me sang George Herbert's "Seven Whole Days". Well the keyboardist and I did.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Lymasa:
Had Mr. Cow stuck in my head for days on end...

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Mr. Cow?
 

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Posted by Trisagion (# 5235) on :
 
There is an advert currently running on ITV3 with Matt Monroe singing Born Free: had it running in my head for five days solid now.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
Have you purchased the advertised product, though?
 

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Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 
Today's earworm, thanks to the wonderful new Muppets film, is "Life's A Happy Song".

Hey, it could be worse. It could be Manuh Manuh...
 

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Posted by CJ (# 2166) on :
 
The Big Bang Theory theme tune - ALL NIGHT.

Kept waking up and it was still going round in my head. Not that I don't like it, it's a funny song, but not a lullaby!

[tired and grumpy]


 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
Thanks to a conversation in the office, I now have the Grange Hill theme tune lodged in my brain. This sucks.
 

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Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 
American Pie
 

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Posted by Balaam (# 4543) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Gill H:
Today's earworm, thanks to the wonderful new Muppets film, is "Life's A Happy Song".

Hey, it could be worse. It could be Manuh Manuh...

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quote:

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Originally posted by Zappa:
Have you purchased the advertised product, though?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Japes:
American Pie

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quote:

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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:

quote:

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Originally posted by Lymasa:
Had Mr. Cow stuck in my head for days on end...

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Mr. Cow?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
(Walking down evangelical memory lane )

Anybody remember the Butterfly Song?

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Do you mean the one that starts, "If I were a butterfly, I'd thank You, Lord, for giving me wings"?
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
♪ ♫ ...If I were a wiggly worm, I'd thank you Lord that I could squirm.
If I were a fuzzy wuzzy bear, I'd thank you Lord for my fuzzy, wuzzy hair... ♫ ♪

Since Kelly has so generously shared her ear worm with me, I wanted to make sure that nobody else who knows it escapes.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
That song also has the Cartman factor, in that if someone sings the first line aloud, one finds one's self compulsively singing the rest through to the chorus.
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 
Okay... I am being driven slowly (or more quickly than I was previously) mad over a repeating song in my head since yesterday afternoon: "Candy Perfume Girl" by Madonna. Specifically the lyrics she draws out: "Diiiiid I liiiie to youuuu... my candy perfume girllllll..."

I went to bed singing that song and I woke up singing that song and I'm typing this singing that song and I... yeah, you know what I mean!
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
I had part of the Mass, one of the bits that is sung in modern English, stuck in my head yesterday. Failed to post at the time, but in six hours when I return home from the cathedral I'll let you lot know if it's back.
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
I had part of the Mass, one of the bits that is sung in modern English, stuck in my head yesterday. Failed to post at the time, but in six hours when I return home from the cathedral I'll let you lot know if it's back.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
♪ ♫ ...If I were a wiggly worm, I'd thank you Lord that I could squirm.
If I were a fuzzy wuzzy bear, I'd thank you Lord for my fuzzy, wuzzy hair... ♫ ♪

Since Kelly has so generously shared her ear worm with me, I wanted to make sure that nobody else who knows it escapes.

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I was a convert to Christianity. I came to faith on a Saturday. The next day I went to church, as you do. The congregation of big mature grown-ups sung that as what I would later come to know as the offertory, with gusto.

I very nearly never darkened the door of a church again.
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
I was lucky enough to be a child at the time. I do seem to remember the adults creasing up when they sang it though. I think we had extra verses too, but time has kindly expunged them.*

♪ ♫ ... wiggle my tail and I’d giggle with glee ... ♫ ♪

*They'll be back. Probably in the middle of the night.
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
I had the misfortune of having to sing that one recently (although it was Education Sunday, with a church full of several hundred children as well as a few brave adults, so I guess that makes it different). What was really unfair, though, was the alto who sits next to me telling me she knew the rude version, but then refusing to tell me what the words were. I mean, how unkind is that?

And if you must have such a song as an earworm, how much better to have the alternate version....
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
I suspect 1 Cor. 12.12-24 could lend itself to a few "if I were" compositions. "If I were a ...'

Whatever.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Zappa:
The next day I went to church, as you do. The congregation of big mature grown-ups sung that as what I would later come to know as the offertory, with gusto.

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Oh God. Bless. Them.

 

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Posted by Balaam (# 4543) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:

quote:

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Originally posted by Zappa:
The next day I went to church, as you do. The congregation of big mature grown-ups sung that as what I would later come to know as the offertory, with gusto.

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Oh God. Bless. Them.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Balaam:
With actions?

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Yup. Maybe Kelly was there
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
I've had an earworm buzzing around for a couple of weeks, and I'm very happy today because I've finally figured out what it IS. A little snatch of the 1st movement of Beethoven's cello sonata no.3.
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 
I listened to a lovely Youtube video tonight... some college choral group singing a version of "O Vos Omnes". Now THERE'S an ear worm I don't mind having. Beautiful music! I sang this in a choral group in Seattle and have loved it ever since.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Paddy, that's a very classy earworm!

Mine is Cwm Rhondda with the descant, which we sang at a funeral this morning.
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 
Nessun Dorma.

This is not a problem.
 

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Posted by Jenny Ann (# 3131) on :
 
Shine Jesus Shine.

This is a problem.
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
A whole medley of earworms today: 'Jelly wobble, jelly wobble, jelly on a plate...., Round and round the swimming pool...., This is the way we kick our legs....., Do do do do going to the moon...., Rock rock rock your boat gently down the stream, if you see a crocodile, don't forget to SCREAM!!!'

Can you tell I decided to go swimming today at exactly the same time as the under-5s Aqua Splash?
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Jenny Ann and Chorister - I'm not sure which one of you I feel sorrier for ...
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Any preschool teachers out there come home with a Raffi hangover?
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
Thanks to poor davy Jones I have had a huge dose of "Daytime Believer" for several days now.
 

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Posted by Meg the Red (# 11838) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Any preschool teachers out there come home with a Raffi hangover?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Any preschool teachers out there come home with a Raffi hangover?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Zappa:
Thanks to poor davy Jones I have had a huge dose of "Daytime Believer" for several days now.

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I keep flashing on his concert scene from "The Brady Movie."

(Meg--PM me )
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 
I have that vile, dreadful, dumber than dirt song, "The Safety Dance" stuck in my head. Please, for the love of God, kill me now.
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Winnow:
"I'm 'enery the eighth I am, 'enery the eight I am I am. I got married to the widow next door; she's been married seven times before, and every one was an 'enery, wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam, I'm her eighth old man I'm 'enery, 'enery the eighth I am ... {and it continues forever}!

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That song was part of the two-record set,
Best of Herman's Hermits that I got for my twelfth birthday, lo these many years ago!

Today's earworm is likely Iron Man, which I heard in the car on the heavy-metal station and I used to be able to play in four loud octaves on a Korg Trinitron more than a dozen years ago when my wife taught grammar-school vocal music in a bad neighbourhood: a relative of one of her students, presumably a known gangster, broke in an stole it during her tenure there. I miss that huge electronic organ!
 

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Posted by Lothlorien (# 4927) on :
 
1950's advertising jingle "we're happy little vegemites as bright as bright can be" Took photo of vegemite display yesterday.
 

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
Somebody linked "Feed the Birds" from Mary Poppins on another thread. Very sweet but definitely my earworm for today.

Frankly any Mary Poppins song can turn into an earworm. I swear the Imagineers were honing the craft of auditory control on that film. Disney was poised to take over the world!
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Thanks to Adeodatus' Gilbert & Sullivan thread, I've got lots of lovely earworms floating in and out (especially the Judge's song from Trial by Jury).


 

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Posted by passer (# 13329) on :
 
Ah well, someone was bound to analyse it eventually.

My present earworm is, of course, the current number one single. It's just about to break through 100 million views on youtube. Both I and Mrs passer are currently obsessed with it.
 

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Posted by Roseofsharon (# 9657) on :
 
Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More has been popping into my head recently, and seems to have taken up residence since the weekend.
 

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Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 
Passer - re 'Somebody I Used To Know', yes, it is prime earworm material, but I also have a series of thoughts in my head whenever it comes on the radio:

1)The intro sounds like a spooky reworking of 'Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?'

2)The verse reminds me of the verse of XTC's 'Senses Working Overtime'

3)In the chorus, the singer sounds like Peter Gabriel - in fact I thought that's who it was, the first time I heard it.

One day perhaps I will be able to switch all these off and just listen to the flippin' song!
 

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Posted by passer (# 13329) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Gill H:
Passer - re 'Somebody I Used To Know', yes, it is prime earworm material, but I also have a series of thoughts in my head whenever it comes on the radio:

1)The intro sounds like a spooky reworking of 'Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?'

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quote:

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Originally posted by Gill H:
2)The verse reminds me of the verse of XTC's 'Senses Working Overtime'

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quote:

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Originally posted by Gill H:
3)In the chorus, the singer sounds like Peter Gabriel - in fact I thought that's who it was, the first time I heard it.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Gill H:

One day perhaps I will be able to switch all these off and just listen to the flippin' song!

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quote:

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In death you face life with a child and a wife
Who sleep-walks through your dreams into walls

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It is one of my absolute favourite Dylan songs ("No Time to Think") but as a two-liner it's a wee tad frustrating

[ 07. March 2012, 12:24: Message edited by: Zappa ]
 

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Posted by Beethoven (# 114) on :
 
I have been accompanied all day so far by Adele's Rolling in the Deep. And it's not as though I liked the song that much in the first place.

I blanme Op 1 - she plays it so much at home that I've obviously internalised it as the current soundtrack to my life!

[ 07. March 2012, 13:17: Message edited by: Beethoven ]
 

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Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 
This thread is perhaps the best place to note the passing of the songwriter Robert Sherman on 5 March. He and his brother Richard must surely count as patron saints of the earworm.

Not just for their memorable songs for Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bedknobs and Broomsticks etc ...

... but for this:

It's A Small World
 

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Posted by pererin (# 16956) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Gill H:
This thread is perhaps the best place to note the passing of the songwriter Robert Sherman on 5 March. He and his brother Richard must surely count as patron saints of the earworm.

Not just for their memorable songs for Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bedknobs and Broomsticks etc ...

... but for this:

It's A Small World

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quote:

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Suddenly this morning this!

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Wodders, I am so, so sorry.
 

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Posted by Sparrow (# 2458) on :
 
All day yesterday I had "O come, O come Emmanuel" floating through my head.
 

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Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on :
 
Dunno why but the Muppets have sprung to ear:

It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight

...

This - is - what - we - call - the - Mu - ppet - Shoooooow!

Sing along everyone!

[Edit: potential copyright issues]

[ 11. March 2012, 06:00: Message edited by: Zappa ]
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
Early this morning, I had to look up a place near Northlew, on Google maps. Ever since then, I've been singing this song.
 

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Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on :
 
Oops - just looking at TOTP2 - Heathcliff it's me Kathie - Kate Bush - I won't sleep now!! Help!! Give me another tune....please.....someone.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Enigma:
... Give me another tune....please.....someone.

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Oh all right then.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
Hosting

Please note even ear worms may be subject to copyright

/Hosting

[ 11. March 2012, 05:55: Message edited by: Zappa ]
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 
"America" by Killing Joke. Or is it, "Amerika"? Can't remember. Great video on youtube and I just love the song.

"How I love... America!" Sneer, sarcastic smile.
 

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Posted by PD (# 12436) on :
 
The UK tune to "Faith of our Fathers" - mainly because I watched a couple of episodes of "Bless Me Father" on DVD the other night.

PD
 

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Posted by Leaf (# 14169) on :
 
"Cotton-Eyed Joe" by the Rednex. FML.
 

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Posted by passer (# 13329) on :
 
Brimful of Asha, by Cornershop.
 

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Posted by WhateverTheySay (# 16598) on :
 
One that I actually remember - this morning I could not get rid of 'Down Under' (or whatever it is actually called) by Men At Work.
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
Bruckner's 'Locus Iste' has been going around in my head because Mr. C. sang it in a concert last night. I don't really mind as it is one of my favourite anthems.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
OK, I'm taking a bath this morning (it's pertinent, I promise.) I am soaping upmy hair, knees up, and lean over, propping my elbows on my knees and holding my head.

The following lyric pops in my head "With my head in my hands I sit and cry..."

Presto. Earworm.
 

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Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on :
 
Sorry Zappa - got carried away - will try to be a good girl from now on.
 

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Posted by Enigma (# 16158) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by piglet:

quote:

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Originally posted by Enigma:
... Give me another tune....please.....someone.

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Oh all right then.

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Thank you - love it!! I can sleep now (perhaps).
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Enigma - I was tempted to give you something awful but I won't even name some of the songs that entered my head because I'm a Nice Piglet.

At the moment I've got the stuff we sang for Commonwealth Sunday - including I vow to thee, my country, Cwm Rhondda and Zadok the Priest.


 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by piglet:
Enigma - I was tempted to give you something awful but I won't even name some of the songs that entered my head because I'm a Nice Piglet.

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I, however, am an asshole.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
My earworm today is not a song but 3 words from the Perfidious Albion thread.

'Herman the German'


 

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Posted by Eleanor Jane (# 13102) on :
 
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by The Beatles. I skipped it while playing Abbey Road this morning as I find it a bit creepy, but it has its' revenge!
 

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Posted by kankucho (# 14318) on :
 
Without back-reading, I can't recall if I've posted in this thread before.

If I haven't, the answer is the QI theme tune.

If I have, the answer is the QI theme tune again.
 

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Posted by ecumaniac (# 376) on :
 
To the tune of Frère Jacques, a ditty for the kids to remember these stats definitions:

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Mean is average, mean is average.
Mode is most, mode is most.
Median's in the middle, median's in the middle.
Range high - low, range high - low

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Originally posted by Boogie:
My earworm today is not a song but 3 words from the Perfidious Albion thread.

'Herman the German'

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I heard the train / In the Tulsa night / Calling out my name / da de dah de dah

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Posted by duchess (# 2764) on :
 
Julia Child - "Don't want to fall in love"
HERE WE GO

[eta: was up last night and this song WOULD NOT STOP playing in MY HEAD IN MY HEAD ARGGGGH]

[ 13. March 2012, 02:43: Message edited by: duchess ]
 

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Posted by duchess (# 2764) on :
 
arggggh. Perhaps it will stop playing now. Okay, I'm done.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

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Originally posted by duchess:
Julia Child - "Don't want to fall in love"
HERE WE GO

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Jane Child.

But for real fun, click the link, and picture Julia Child in that hair and nose ring jamming out that song.


(Thanks, duch, I forgot all about that song.)

 

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Posted by EtymologicalEvangelical (# 15091) on :
 
This by Voces8.

The caption's wrong on the video, BTW. It should read: "Thomas Tallis, If ye love me, performed by Voces8".

Actually, I have to say that this is a rather pleasant earworm, although I suppose it's still possible to have too much of a good thing.
 

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Posted by Mama Thomas (# 10170) on :
 
Mine is horrible! It's"Danny Boy" ugh..
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Every one of the 10 songs on the Heart Radio playlist. And a few of the local council jingles.

I listen to it morning and evening because it does excellent local traffic news. And some of the music I like - Emeli Sande I have discovered - but there is so much crap. Like Bruno Mars - pretty much every morning and evening.
 

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Posted by WhateverTheySay (# 16598) on :
 
I had 'Money' by Pink Floyd earlier. If only all earworms could be that good.

 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
Manamana
Doo doo doo doo doo.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 

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Originally posted by Chorister:
Manamana
Doo doo doo doo doo.

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Originally posted by Calvin Beedle:
I'm not telling you what it is. Just click here if you dare. I don't see why I should suffer alone!

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When some students watched that musical interlude at a St. Patrick's Day party, Calvin Beedle, this was the result.
 

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Posted by Galloping Granny (# 13814) on :
 
Woke up with the end of Along the little road to Bethlehem in my head. Why? I haven't heard it or even thought about it for decades.
I had to find it on YouTube to remember how the rest of it went.

GG
 

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Posted by PD (# 12436) on :
 
My mental tape-loop celebrated St Patrick's Day by getting stuck on 'The Sash.'

PD
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
'Now thank we all our God, with hearts and hands and voices' (not to the more usual 'Nun Danket' but the tune by Beaumont, from the 'Come and Praise' song book). We learnt it this week and sang it on Sunday as a processional (you have to do a little skip during the rest in the last line ). The congregation didn't know it, so I'm not quite sure why we were asked to sing it (perhaps it was the Bishop's favourite?), and now I can't get it out of my head.
 

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Posted by Nicolemrw (# 28) on :
 
Ton Leher's "The Masochism Tango". I sang a bunch of Tom Leher over the weekend; why this one is the one that's gotten in my head is a mystery.
 

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Posted by Galloping Granny (# 13814) on :
 
The Little Road... came back again today. Why??? I've tried replacing it but then as soon as I think of it back it comes.

GG
 

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Posted by Edith (# 16978) on :
 
That extremely irritating 'Oh sacrament most holy, oh sacrament divine, all praise and all thanksgiving, be every moment thine.

It's driving me mad.
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
Yesterday it was When Irish Eyes are Smiling...
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Courtesy of the Trans-Tasman thread in AS this morning I had All things bright and beautiful so I gave them this instead.
 

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Posted by WhateverTheySay (# 16598) on :
 
'Lost' by Coldplay.
 

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Posted by geroff (# 3882) on :
 
"Benny and the Jets'
I have just bought Yellow Brick Road CD and played it in the car.
 

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Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 
Cailln mo ruinsa, a bit of Hebridean proto-pop from the 1950s
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Courtesy of the Trans-Tasman thread in AS this morning I had All things bright and beautiful so I gave them this instead.

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Yeah. Thanks. A. Lot.

But now I have The Maundy Thursday hymn "Lay Down Your Head" (John Bell?) which is much better.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
oh dear, I've just made the mistake of listening to kate Bush singing her "Wuthering Heights".

Zappa waltz-wafts off, singing

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♪♫ Out on the wiley, windy moors
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How could you leave me?♪♫

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Posted by Aggie (# 4385) on :
 
I usually get something I can't stand as an earworm, especially if I have heard it on a commercial, cheesy pop radio station early in the morning, such as today: my earworm is a Lady Gaga song I heard on the way to work - the name of which I don't know, but has a very irritating refrain that goes something like: "ra ra ra ga ga ga bad romance"
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 
For about twelve hours straight I've had "Pumped Up Kicks" by the band, Foster the People stuck in my head. What's funny is that the music is so upbeat and makes you want to tap your feet but the lyrics... good god... "All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you better run, better run faster than my gun. All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, better run, better run, faster than my bullet.." are about a teenage boy who finds a gun in his father's closet and goes on a killing spree. I feel sort of guilty for liking the music so much when the lyrics are that grim but what can I do?
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 

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Originally posted by Zappa:
oh dear, I've just made the mistake of listening to kate Bush singing her "Wuthering Heights".

Zappa waltz-wafts off, singing

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♪♫ Out on the wiley, windy moors
...
How could you leave me?♪♫

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Originally posted by Zappa:
oh dear, I've just made the mistake of listening to kate Bush singing her "Wuthering Heights".

Zappa waltz-wafts off, singing

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♪♫ Out on the wiley, windy moors
...
How could you leave me?♪♫

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Originally posted by comet:
'til the sweat pours down my balls

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Originally posted by comet:
and I dont know much of the words, so my head keeps cycling through: "to the windoooooows, to the walls! All you bitches (something), 'til the sweat pours down my balls... all you (something) muthafuckas...."

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Wasn't that an old Bing Crosby number?
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
(snerk)
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
Today I have 'It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas' seguing into a strange mixture of 'The Impossible Dream' and the Thunderbirds theme tune.

I'm not sure I can survive this with (what's left of) my sanity intact.
 

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Posted by Burgess Shale (# 4452) on :
 
Kids with Guns, by Gorillaz.

This is my first post in about seven years, by the way. No, really.


 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Welcome back sir!


 

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Posted by Burgess Shale (# 4452) on :
 
Ta muchly!
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

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Originally posted by Burgess Shale:
Kids with Guns, by Gorillaz.

This is my first post in about seven years, by the way. No, really.

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Originally posted by Burgess Shale:
Ta muchly!

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That's twice
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
An addict is born.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Courtesy of A Certain Host in All Saints, I've got the theme from Dr. Finlay's Casebook running through my head.

Thank you very much Wodders ...
 

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Posted by art dunce (# 9258) on :
 
Connie Evingson "Si Tu Savais".
 

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Posted by Meg the Red (# 11838) on :
 
I grew up singing "Little Boxes" and was delighted when I ran across this version a couple of days ago.

Was pleased.

Make. It. Stop.

. . . theresagreenoneannapinkoneannablueoneannayellowone....

[ 07. April 2012, 00:51: Message edited by: Meg the Red ]
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Hey! did you know that song was inspired by my home town?

And they really do look like little boxes. I hate Doelger homes.
 

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Posted by Meg the Red (# 11838) on :
 
Kelly, that's really cool - I had always thought it referred to Levittown.

I wonder, though, how the lyrics need to be updated for the McMansion era: Great big boxes? Hulking boxes? Or as a once I heard an aging hippie call them, "mausoleums"?

At any rate, it would need to include a new verse about play groups, granite countertops and "man caves".
 

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Posted by Balaam (# 4543) on :
 
It's always good when a song of quality come around as an earworm. Today it's Up on the roof by the Drifters.
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
Where on Earth did I get the theme music from 633 Squadron? I haven't seen the movie for over 40 years!
 

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Posted by cattyish (# 7829) on :
 
Such a judge of blue and white and other kinds of pottery from early oriental down to modern terracotary...

G&S have a lot to answer for, especially the first act finale of Patience. Sixteen minutes of almost constant clashing words and varying time signatures. This earworm is affecting my brain!

Cattyish, chorus girl.
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 
Ugh. Today's earworm is "Sweet Child of Mine" by Guns 'n' Roses. I actually like the music, especially Slash's guitar parts but the lyrics are dreadful. Who finds comfort in some girl's HAIR??!!
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 

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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
Today I have 'It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas' seguing into a strange mixture of 'The Impossible Dream' and the Thunderbirds theme tune.

I'm not sure I can survive this with (what's left of) my sanity intact.

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Originally posted by art dunce:
Paddy your post reminded me of this: Sweet

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Oh My God!

 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
Memories of a song we used to sing in Primary School came flooding back today:

'At Easter time the lilies fair,
And lovely flowers bloom everywhere,
At Easter time, At Easter time,
How glad the world at Easter time.'

I did look on Google to see if I could find the tune, so I could share this wonderful earworm with you all, but the only one they had was the wrong tune.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
I had this incredibly frustrating hour this arvo when my ear worm went

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I closed my eyes
drew back the curtain
then I knew for certain
da de dah dah dee

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Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:
Gotyes: "Somebody That I Used To Know". Great, great, great song but it's been stuck in my head for TWO days!!!!

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(Sigh)

Gotyes looks like Truffaut.
 

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Posted by The Intrepid Mrs S (# 17002) on :
 
Today - with an inch of rain forecast, howling winds and skies that make you feel you're living under a Tupperware container - I can't dislodge Morecambe and Wise's 'Bring me sunshine'

Mrs. S, wondering if it's too late to take up hibernation?
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
"Ai Se Eu Te Pego"


For those unfamiliar.

I listen to a lot of Latino radio to keep up with my Spanish. This has been all over the airwaves for the past few months. I'd wondered what weird dialect it was.

[ 25. April 2012, 21:46: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 

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Posted by infinite_monkey (# 11333) on :
 

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Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:
Gotyes: "Somebody That I Used To Know". Great, great, great song but it's been stuck in my head for TWO days!!!!

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His stuff is infectious. I saw him in concert last Wednesday, and that little tinkling xylophone is still pattering itself out in my brain tonight. Dee dee, duh duh, duhduhdeeduhduh....

[ 26. April 2012, 04:44: Message edited by: infinite_monkey ]
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Yeah, his stuff is simple and produced with a light hand-- refreshing to hear nowadays.

And he looks like Truffaut, which makes him dreamy.
 

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Posted by Grits (# 4169) on :
 

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Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:
Gotyes: "Somebody That I Used To Know". Great, great, great song but it's been stuck in my head for TWO days!!!!

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Just watched the video last night, and I want it on my MP3 next. It is a great song. Just added "We Found Love" by Rianna -- very catchy song, but I don't like the video.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Oh , I gotta thing about Rhianna, too. (And I love that song.) Which is weird because I am becoming more and more "done" with club music, but Rhianna keeps sliding under the wire for me.

"Hopeless Place" is so aggressively clubby it winds up being impeccable.
 

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Posted by Grits (# 4169) on :
 
It must be that hint of electronica that sucks us in, Kelly.
 

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Posted by PD (# 12436) on :
 
For some reason I was fighting a loosing battle with Wotan's monologue from Act II of Die Walkure this afternoon. This is interesting on two counts.

1. I have not heard it in a couple of years

2. It isn't usual earworm Wagner - the overtures to Rienzi, Tannhauser or Die Meistersinger are far more likely to get in my mental tape,

The oddest earworm I had recently was the finale of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 - but that's kind of heavenly, so I did not mind.

PD

P.S. No fecking Bolero since the last time I grumbled about it

[ 26. April 2012, 06:56: Message edited by: PD ]
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
The convention centre was playing something with nonsense lyrics by Lady Gaga over the PA system: it was almost tolerable until an idiot male colleague did his own reprise! Please, city and production companies - play vintage and good rock and roll or be silent!
 

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Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :
 
I listened to Brahms's Haydn Variations yesterday.

Yep. Still in my head. Going round and round and round and ...
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 

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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
...I can't dislodge Morecambe and Wise's 'Bring me sunshine'

Mrs. S, wondering if it's too late to take up hibernation?

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Originally posted by Chorister:
Due completely to the fault of our head chorister: Leap up and down wave your knickers in the air, and the spitting image chicken song. Trouble is I've now got them intertwined in my brain. One minute it's 'Leap up and down wave a chicken in the air' and the next minute it's 'Hold your knickers in the air, stick a deckchair up your nose', neither of which are conducive to serious thought.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
The convention centre was playing something with nonsense lyrics by Lady Gaga over the PA system: it was almost tolerable until an idiot male colleague did his own reprise! Please, city and production companies - play vintage and good rock and roll or be silent!

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Hmmm - probably Bad Romance.
And that one's been overdone by bad X Factor contestants - as evidenced here.
 

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Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :
 
I've got TWO ear worms alternating through my brain. One is "Zooropa" by U2 which is quite a cool tune and I don't mind it so much. The other, however... "Kung Fu Fighting" by ? Stupid song and it needs to be replaced with something better. "Everybody was kung fu fighting!"
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
"Them kids was fast as lighting..." Carl Douglas, hun, and I'm sorry but it's a COOL song. I always picture Sandra Oh singing it while she mops the floor in "Double Happiness." Nice voice, she has.


But here's something to purge it with.
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
It is, as far as I am aware, the end of April - this impression is confirmed by both Ship-time and my mobile phone network.

Why then do I have The First Nowell... going round my brain?

...and am I early or late?
 

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Posted by Noteven (# 17073) on :
 
My brain is stuck on a lovely ode to the foot-pound.
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 
weirdly I've had Harry Chapin's "songs without words" on my ear for several days - weird, because of Harry Chapin songs it's probably the one I know least.
 

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Posted by Alex Cockell (# 7487) on :
 
Of course, with Top Of The Pops 1977 repeats running and Pick of the Pops (Radio 2, hosted by Tony Blackburn) bisecting on 1977 - 2 weeks ahead of the TOTP rerun, this one come up again.

Well, Good Morning Judge, how are you today...
 

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Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
Trailor Choir's "Rockin' the Beer Gut".

 

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Posted by Horseman Bree (# 5290) on :
 
Apocalyptica "Nothing Else Matters"

(with a nod to Kseniya Simonova)
 

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Posted by Steve H (# 17102) on :
 
I haven't got one today, thankfully, but yesterday it was, of all things,'The Ferret Song' by John Cleese and the Loving Pruneful, from 'I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again'.
 

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Posted by Aravis (# 13824) on :
 
A very loud and complex four-part "Amen", and I can't think what it's from or who it's by! It seems to be in F minor, which should narrow down the options as it's not a very common key for choral works.
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 

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Originally posted by Aravis:
A very loud and complex four-part "Amen", and I can't think what it's from or who it's by! It seems to be in F minor, which should narrow down the options as it's not a very common key for choral works.

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Except at Christmastime!

I've had 'This Little Light of Mine' going round and round the brain for the last few days.
 

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Posted by Steve H (# 17102) on :
 
After making my previous post, the inevitable happened: 'The Ferret Song' ferretted its way back into my brain. D'oh!
 

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Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :
 

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Originally posted by Aravis:
A very loud and complex four-part "Amen", and I can't think what it's from or who it's by! It seems to be in F minor, which should narrow down the options as it's not a very common key for choral works.

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It's an omen
 

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Posted by Aravis (# 13824) on :
 
I found it! It's the end of Mendelssohn's "O Heiland Reich".
I'm trying really hard to reattach the Mendelssohn earworm, as earlier this evening my daughter sneakily implanted "Go, go, go on Artaban" from an interminable musical version from the legend of the Fourth Wise Man. I have no idea who it's by and I don't know most of the words. It is seriously annoying!
 

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Posted by Alex Cockell (# 7487) on :
 

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Originally posted by Zappa:
I had this incredibly frustrating hour this arvo when my ear worm went

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I closed my eyes
drew back the curtain
then I knew for certain
da de dah dah dee

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It was like one falling boot.

Eventually Kuruman rescued me.

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Was that as in "ZAPZAPZAPZAPZAPZAPZAPZAPZAP" THEN FALLING BOOT?
 

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Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
"Mad Rush" from Philip Glass' complete organ works. The story of why is too complex to go into right now.
 

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Posted by Jack the Lass (# 3415) on :
 
I'm so jealous of your earworms, which mostly sound lovely. Today all day, for no discernible reason AT ALL, my earworm has been Cliff Richard's 'Mistletoe and Wine'. Just shoot me now, make it stop!
 

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Posted by PD (# 12436) on :
 
I am currently on day four of an attack of Bach's 'Passacaglia in C minor.' A piece I am very fond of but has a depressing tendancy to earworm on me. I thought I was over it briefly yesterday as I had a dose of "The Wedge" instead, but it was back this morning.

PD
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
And that little post just kicked in a round of Joe Jackson's "Passacaglia / A Bud and a Slice" from the underrated album, "Heaven and Hell."

Jackie-- Yours inspired both pity and hilarity, I'm afraid. That is so fucked up.

[ 23. May 2012, 22:16: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 

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Posted by Trisagion (# 5235) on :
 
Beethoven's Cavatina, since hearing it for the first time in years on BBC Radio 3 yesterday.
 

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Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :
 
ELO's Mr Blue Sky.

I'm learning it for Rock Choir - it's going round and round.
 

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Posted by Steve H (# 17102) on :
 
I can sometimes get rid of earworms by singing Abba's 'Dancing Queen' to myself. It usually gets rid of it, without becoming an earworm in its turn. In the 70s and 80s, I used the Beatles' 'Hey Jude' for the same purpose.

[ 25. May 2012, 06:59: Message edited by: Steve H ]
 

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Posted by The Intrepid Mrs S (# 17002) on :
 
Bear Necessities is my way of dislodging ear-worms - and if it lodges in their place, at least it cheers you up!

I horrified friends by being able to sing nearly all of it from memory (my little brothers had the LP, Back In The Day when flat black things were the music delivery method of choice - and before we get sidetracked into another thread, no, I don't wish they would make a comeback!)

Is it possible to conflate three threads - this one, Peter God, and the music-making thread? I wondered whether people who actively <practise> music are more prone to getting earworms lodged, for that exact reason. The band (including me) had to do Thanks Peter God on Sunday morning, and it has been stuck ever since despite my best efforts.

Mrs. S, pricking her paws on the prickly pear
 

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Posted by PD (# 12436) on :
 


No earworm this morning! The Passacaglia attack lasted six days!

PD
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 

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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
Bear Necessities is my way of dislodging ear-worms - and if it lodges in their place, at least it cheers you up!

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What a good idea - I will try it next time an earworm strikes!


 

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