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Ariel
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quote: Originally posted by Ariel: The Sherlock theme tune.
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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Adeodatus
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quote: Originally posted by Ariel: quote: Originally posted by Ariel: The Sherlock theme tune.
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.
It's not the theme tune so much for me, as that bit of incidental music. You know the one. Usually accompanies Sherlock running through the streets of London and being fabulously clever at the same time. Sometimes stays in my head for days on end.
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!
And ... have you noticed how if you're reading about other people's earworms, suddenly they're your earworms?
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Ariel
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quote: Originally posted by Adeodatus: And ... have you noticed how if you're reading about other people's earworms, suddenly they're your earworms?
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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Drifting Star
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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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St. Gwladys
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quote: 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!
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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swllwmzn
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Watching The Story of Musicals on catch up so it'll be whatever I hear last..
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Darllenwr
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quote: Originally posted by St. Gwladys: quote: 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!
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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East Price Road
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I have just bought Kate Rusby's "While Mortals Sleep", and have had "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" to the tune Diadem in my head for the past few days.
Strangely, the CD notes say that "the words were written in 1779 and the tune came nearly 200 years later". However, reliable sources on the net say that James Ellor composed Diadem in 1838. So Kate is only 140 years out!
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churchgeek
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We just had a funeral at the church I work at for a local labor leader. There was a wreath with "Solidarity forever" written across it, so now Solidarity Forever is running through my head. (I'm ashamed to say I don't know the lyrics...)
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Pure Sunshine
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quote: 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
Apparently now there's an app for that ...
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Chorister
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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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Stejjie
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Thanks to the title of this thread, I have "It's All about you" by McFly lodged in my head.
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St Everild
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"Take me to a Quiet Place" by Karen Money.
I like it...I may not by the end of today!
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Trisagion
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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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Boogie
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'Rhinestone Cowboy'
Come back 'Zippedy Doo Dah' - all is forgiven!
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South Coast Kevin
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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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Dormouse
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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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Chorister
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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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Japes
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"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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Marvin the Martian
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Jeff Buckley: Hallelujah
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LeRoc
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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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Drifting Star
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quote: Originally posted by Marvin the Martian: Jeff Buckley: Hallelujah
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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Boogie
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quote: Originally posted by Marvin the Martian: Jeff Buckley: Hallelujah
Marvellous song.
Is there a way to cause earworms?
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Sir Kevin
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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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Kelly Alves
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And freaking thank you for passing it on.
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Welease Woderwick
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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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Marvin the Martian
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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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Nicolemr
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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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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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Yam-pk
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"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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Miffy
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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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The5thMary
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"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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Ariston
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The eminently un-singable in public (but extremely catchy) "Hasa Diga Eebowai," from Stone & Parker's The Book of Mormon.
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Welease Woderwick
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Paul McCartney's awful Silly Love Songs - AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
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PD
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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...
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angelica37
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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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Drifting Star
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Think yourself lucky - I have 'Boom Bang-a-Bang', thanks to the supermarket.
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Kelly Alves
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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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Zappa
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quote: 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
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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Lothlorien
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quote: One of the few earworms that is worse than Ravel's fecking Bolero...
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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Lothlorien
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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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lilBuddha
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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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Kelly Alves
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quote: Originally posted by lilBuddha: While I love both songs, the combination, not so much.
Heh. Yeah, they kind of go together like mustard and ice cream, don't they?
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Stejjie
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"I Want to Break Free" by Queen. Except not all of it, in the right order, just the instruental bit in the midde ("wah-wah-wah-wah-waaaaah") on repeat. Sing something, Freddie!
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