Comments on: Earworm, earworm, earworm.

By: glitrbug

glitrbug — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:02:25 +0000

Ode to Joy. I seem to recall hearing that’s the most common earworm, just my luck to be common. Layla & Bell Bottom Blues seem to bubble up less as time goes by. Earworms seem to attack at work when the jobs so boring the rest of your brain decides to amuse itself.

By: mick of leeds

mick of leeds — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:55:27 +0000

And now you’ve mentioned Thomas Dolby, i’ve got “windpower” to contend with. ta very much snej…

By: mick of leeds

mick of leeds — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:34:05 +0000

I think Earworms are nesting in my brain. I spend half the day listening to snatches of songs that i just can’t shift. As i type this message, i’m stuck on The Capricorns “The First Broken Promise”. Not one for relaxing to…..

By: snej

snej — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:48:16 +0000

Now I must here this amazing riff, before it’s banned under the Geneva Convention and/or used to soften-up prisoners at Guantanamo. But eMusic doesn’t seem to carry any sludge-metal band called Om.

I get little temporary earworms, especially while semi-awake in the morning, but they usually dissipate before they drive me insane. Some of the common ones are “Substitute” by the Who, and “Airwaves” by Thomas Dolby, which are fortunately both songs I like. But for a while in summer 2002, “Fixed Income” and “Giving Up The Ghost” by DJ Shadow were getting pretty obsessive in a scary way.

By: Matos W.K.

Matos W.K. — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:42:25 +0000

“Michael Row the Boat Ashore,” which I know primarily from a Casio keyboard preset. Acres of early-’80s soft rock and adult contemporary that my mom used to listen to on the radio; I can access the complete hits of Air Supply with very little trouble. I think this is why I became a rock critic: to banish those goddamned songs from my head. I hasn’t worked as well as I’d have liked, though.

By: porieux

porieux — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:28:17 +0000

Perfect solution is to listen to ‘Girl from Ipanema’ it will obliterate whatever is stuck in your head. Can’t guarantee you won’t end up with Ipanema stuck there instead though, but at least it’s good LOL.

By: Mondegreen

Mondegreen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:59:07 +0000

I had a real problem with “Tom Sawyer” from Rush for a while. Haunted my brain every time I heard it. Also, I consider it to be the worst song ever recorded.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:19:32 +0000

Though not Jewish, I have spent the entire last month with my brain playing an endless repetition of The Dreidel Song, but with lyrics rewritten for whatever I’m doing at the time (usually related to my baby daughter.)
Oh, I have a little diaper. I wear it all around.
And if I did not wear it, my butt would hit the ground!
Oh Diaper Diaper Diaper!
My diaper covers me!
Diaper Diaper Diaper!
In diaper I do pee!

Please . . . let it stop!