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Thread: What is your earworm today?
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Chorister
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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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Piglet
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Jenny Ann and Chorister - I'm not sure which one of you I feel sorrier for ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Kelly Alves
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Any preschool teachers out there come home with a Raffi hangover?
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Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Meg the Red
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Any preschool teachers out there come home with a Raffi hangover?
I lived briefly in a house above a beach in Nunavut within smelling distance of the carcass of a butchered whale*. Even though my mucous membrances recovered, I've never heard "Baby Beluga" quite the same way again.
*I collected a few of its teeth, which have fascinated children all over the local school system. You want a couple? (Serious offer - they're a great teaching tool).
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Any preschool teachers out there come home with a Raffi hangover?
Thankfully, when I taught preschool last month there were no Raffi songs that I remember in the curricula.
When I have had earworms lately, they have been bits of the Mass...
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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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. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
I keep flashing on his concert scene from "The Brady Movie."
(Meg--PM me ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) )
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I cannot expect people to believe “
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Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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The5thMary
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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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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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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}!
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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Lyda*Rose
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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. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif) Disney was poised to take over the world!
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Piglet
Islander
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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).
![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Gill H
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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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passer
Indigo
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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?'
Indeed it does. You know a song has become all-pervading when it gets its own Wiki page.
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Originally posted by Gill H:
2)The verse reminds me of the verse of XTC's 'Senses Working Overtime'
Yep - know just what you mean there too.
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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.
With you there also! The Australian-esque ambience of the song reminds me of a cross between Kate Bush's "The Dreaming" and Men At Work's "Land Down Under".
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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!
Just to screw with your head a little more, watch this and marvel, if you haven't already!
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Meg the Red
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Passer, I was just about to post that link! This is the first version I heard of the song, just because I'm a huge fan of a cappella music. Love the harmonies, and their beatboxer is amazing, though this isn't his showiest performance.
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Freelance Monotheist
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"Give a Little Love" from Bugsy Malone, namely the bit that goes "You give a little love & it all comes back to you... La la lalalala...
*something something* everything you say & do... La la la lalala".
Not the worst song that could get stuck there but it's getting boring now!
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Oh dear God. Dear, dear, God.
RuPaul's "Glamazon."
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Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Zappa
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Frustratingly I have two lines of a Dylan song floating around as an ethereal mantra:
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In death you face life with a child and a wife
Who sleep-walks through your dreams into walls
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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Beethoven
Ship's deaf genius
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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! ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
[ 07. March 2012, 13:17: Message edited by: Beethoven ]
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toujours gai!
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Gill H
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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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pererin
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quote:
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
Thank you. You have finally dislodged Boney M's Rasputin, which had been plaguing me since Saturday. Now the cycle of earwormage can recommence!
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Hugal
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Continuing the Disney Park theme here is an earworm that is not the Shermans.
Animagique
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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It's fatal to cook spaghetti and meatballs in my house.
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Mockingale
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Here I am. Rock you like a Hurricane.
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Welease Woderwick
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Suddenly this morning this!
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Suddenly this morning this!
Wodders, I am so, so sorry.
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Sparrow
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All day yesterday I had "O come, O come Emmanuel" floating through my head.
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Enigma
Enigma
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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
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This - is - what - we - call - the - Mu - ppet - Shoooooow!
Sing along everyone! ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
[Edit: potential copyright issues]
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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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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Enigma
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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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Piglet
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quote:
Originally posted by Enigma:
... Give me another tune....please.....someone.
Oh all right then.
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The5thMary
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"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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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.
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"Cotton-Eyed Joe" by the Rednex. FML.
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passer
Indigo
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Brimful of Asha, by Cornershop.
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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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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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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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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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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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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
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Enigma
Enigma
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Sorry Zappa - got carried away - will try to be a good girl from now on. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Enigma
Enigma
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quote:
Originally posted by piglet:
quote:
Originally posted by Enigma:
... Give me another tune....please.....someone.
Oh all right then.
Thank you - love it!! I can sleep now (perhaps). ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Piglet
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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. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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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.
I, however, am an asshole.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Boogie
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My earworm today is not a song but 3 words from the Perfidious Albion thread.
'Herman the German'
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Eleanor Jane
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"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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ecumaniac
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To the tune of Frčre 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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