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Songs that get stuck in your head
Do you have any songs that get stuck in your head?
I have two both are stuck in my head now. The first one, well that one is from Electric Company, Billy lick a lolly Billy Lick A Lolly click to show and I was trying to get rid of it by using this song Smokey and the Bandit theme song Eastbound and Down click to show It is a little surreal to skip from one to the other, but they are BOTH bouncing around in my head now. |
I am convinced that the "Billy lick a lolly" song is dirty. Call me jaded, but it has to be.
Songs that get stuck in my head are usually the really fast ones, Blues Traveler for example, or Busta Rhymes... I "have to" listen to the song until I can can sing it... ("have to" in an OCD kind of way) Pretty cool for karaoke, but it's actually really taxing on my mind, because 99% of the day I have one of those songs on repeat. |
I usually find that one of the more recent songs I hear bounces around in my head for a long time and I end up whistling it or humming it all day ...until I'm distracted by the next one. So I haven't thought of it for a long time but I just got back from lunch and besides enjoying the Sam Adams aftertastes, I still have the original "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" bouncing around in my head since the bar was playing that in the background.
Last few days, and often when I have an otherwise unencumbered mental moment, my brain is bopping with Toots and the Maytals wailing on "Pressure Drop" ...man, I love that tune and it just makes me want to sell all my worldly possessions and plant my butt on a Jamaican beach and fall in love with the babes who happen to walk by. |
God damn it... I can't get the "Days Go By Song" by Dirty Vegas out of my head.
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The technical term for this experience is earworm. In my college glee club, we had a cure for this: just sing "Goin' to the Chapel". Of course, the cure is worse than the disease.
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"Everything She Wants" by Wham! always gets stuck in my head. That and "Lover, You Should Have Come Over" by Jeff Buckley. They've been trading places for a number of weeks now.
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"Sheena is a Punk Rocker" - Ramones:thumbsup:
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Dagnabbit Cyn, I thought I had put this song out of my head forever, but your topic brought it right back to the forefront...:no:
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No great secret, every time I see Mandy's name I think of that Barry Manillow song.....I hate that!!! Not Mandy of course, just that song in my head! :crazy:
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there is nothing wrong with getting a barry manilow song stuck in your head :p
for me.....the llama song....def gets stuck there for days at a time.....seems I even sing it in my sleep |
God, I hate this.... |
Byrnison an easier way to find that song is simply going to leekspin.com - I've heard it soo often I actually know the words which worries me.
I have the candy mountain song from the end of this in my head .... it's been there for DAYS! <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q5im0Ssyyus"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q5im0Ssyyus" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> |
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How does one come across such a convoluted song, let alone sync an even more deranged video to it? |
Barbie Girl by Aqua.
I swear, that song is evil. |
The Mom Song that was posted in Found On the Net...
Funny as hell, but 5 days of "And...if all your friends...jumped off a cliff....would you jump to?" is sending me over the edge... |
Repetition seems to be the instigator of the earworm - I think the brain becomes wrongly convinced that it's receiving some kind of instruction, then gets obssessed with trying to decode the message. Hence, the simplest songs are often the most addictive.
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Great.... now I have Jerry Reed in my head.
It replaced, The Con by Tegan and Sarah |
Let's see this one lately:
I don't get many songs stuck in my head. Though the theme songs from 007, Indian Jones and Mission Impossible often find their way in my head on a weekly basis. Oh.. and that whistle from Kill Bill; you know the one I'm talking about: |
About 5 years ago, I figured out that the opening riff to Bush, "Machinehead" is a perfectly efficacious mental disinfectant and prophylactic against earworms.
I regularly get "Mi cielito lindo" which you probably know better as "Waltz me around by my Willie" stuck in my head, and thinking the opening riff from "Machinehead" clears it right out (sometimes taking several applications). The lovely think is that the riff doesn't hang around (much) after use. Lately I have had Johnny Clegg & Juluka's "Impi" stuck in my head. The problem is that I don't know all the words so I can't just play it through and dispel it that way, and yet it is poignant and entertaining enough that I have not resorted to the scorched earth policy with Bush. As I occasionally find slight entertainment in inconsequential cruelty, I prefer to give people earworms. I find that Weird Al's "White & Nerdy" to be dreadfully persistent in the unprepared ear. (He chuckled sinisterly.) |
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It'd didn't initially hit me, but "Can't get you out of my head" by Kylie.
I didn't notice this song initially (guess I listen to the wrong stations) - but then I heard a toddler singing part of it. I think it must have been on a funny home videos show or something. After that, I keep getting flashbacks to the the little girl singing 'la la la, la la la la la la...". |
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Rick Astley looks like David Caruso... or what you might imagine a son of Caruso's would look like.
Also: dammit, I love 80s music. |
Bad songs that get stuck in my head, "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow or "You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone.
Good songs that get stuck in my head "A Beautiful Morning" by the Rascals, "A Summer Song" by Chad and Jeremy or "Crystal Blue Persuasion" by Tommy James. Usually while riding my bike on crisp sunny morning. "Riders On the Storm" by the Doors, when I get caught riding in the rain. |
"Silence" by John Cage
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I know I like to hum along to 4'33" ;) ...but I thought "Silence" is his book. |
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i second kylie minogue. it's horrid. and i'll add the chorus from
and of course. |
"I Kissed A Girl" always gets stuck in my head.
"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" .. uugh. that song that says "Hey now you're an allstar.." hate hate hate it. There's really too many that get stuck in my head. |
Cynthetiq I just thought you would like to know I was caught humming Billy lick a lolly in the shower this morning.
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I have "Under the Sea" from the little mermaid stuck in my head
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I'm about to ruin your day...
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And I'll cap your coffin with the worst pants ever:
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Lollipop by Mika. To those who have not yet experienced this abomination, I apologize in advance.
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3 that tend to get stuck in my head if I hear them are Ziggy Stardust, and I'm Afraid of Americans, both by Bowie of course, and Karma Police by Radiohead.
Since I like Bowie and Radiohead and tend to listen to them alot one of those is usually what is stuck in my head at any given moment. |
Ladies and gentleman, we understand that you, have come tonight, to bare witness to the sound, of Drum, and Bass. We regret to announce that this is not the case as instead, we come tonight to bring you, the sonic recreation of the end of the world. Ladies and gentleman, prepare to hold your colour.
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my heart will go on
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dabadeedabadie.... <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_kh0BMeFVJA&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_kh0BMeFVJA&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> all I can hear is kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllllllllll theeeeee prrrrrrrrreeeeeesssssiiiiideeehhhhhhhhhhhnt..... Oh yes, and World's King? There is a special place in hell for you. Lambchop and Sheri Lewis live there with Barney. They're waiting. And Lambchop is salivating. :) |
This little riff (-raff, ha) has been something stuck in the head of myself and a few friends of mine for many years- since high school, really (so, about 8 - 10 years).
I don't know how it happens, but something will set someone off... and then suddenly, someone is singing- yes, singing... "Riff-raff"... "street rat"... I don't buy that... if only they'd look closer... would they see a poor boy? No, siree! They'd find out, there's so much more... to... me.......... Usually once someone starts it, it will be finished, no matter where we are. We have no shame to randomly burst into song in public. Like, one time we were in a mall... once it happened in a Walmart. |
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