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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.
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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. |
Hello BadNick.
You are right about the name of the piece. " 4'33" was inspired by Cage's visit to Harvard's anechoic chamber, designed to eliminate all sound; but instead of promised silence Cage was amazed and delighted to hear the pulsing of his blood and the whistling of his nerves. " |
the man who sold the world.
all the time. the opening riff. i dont understand it. and when i am riding, for some reason, i get this depeche mode loop going in my skull. over and over. what drives me nuts about this assemblage is that the songs are in the same fucking key. so it must have to do with some frequencies generated by chicagospace. maybe the sound of bike wheels on chicago-pavement. maybe traffic and the way the sound echoes. maybe the el. i dont know, but once these loops start--and particlarly once they start blurring into each other--ugh....earworms. hate them. you cant swat them, you cant crush them on your arm and watch the blood that was being sucked spread. you cant get rid of them. ======================= on cage's 4'33" i like that there exists a string of recordings of this piece. i particularly like the london symphony's version. they dont play like any other group that doesnt play for that duration. excellent stuff. the piece is interesting, though, in that its about ambient sound--that's the way in which it comes out of the anechoic chamber story--which cage told and told and told and told and told. its about the situational definition of music as over against sound. music is a subset of sound. what distinguishes music is compositional intent----compositional intent results in structure---and structure is duration. so what matters really about 4'33" is its duration. that's also why anything you record----anything at all----is music. |
roachboy,
you post is music to my ears When you say "...anything you record...is music" I wonder how the fluctuating/evolving definition of "...record..." might effect someone's opinion whether it's music, or not. |
badnick:
i dont think it would, really...any recording fixes a duration (assigns it a beginning and an end) so any recording generates structure. so its music regardless of what folk might think of the contents. it's a bit perverse. there's more to say about this, but i have an appointment... |
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in what way do you not understand it? |
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http://leekspin.com/
Who can last the longest? I spent 3 days there. Nonstop... When I was sleeping... *shudders at memory* Anyway, it's a Finnish folklore song. I can't remember what it means. The clip is from the first episode of the anime Bleach where that girl is discussing what she is going to be putting in her breakfast. It's not a leek though. It's something related to it. *Smart in the anime and useless information ways.* |
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This not only fits the theme here, but makes fun of anime at least in my perspective. |
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the opening riff comes from a song i kinda like, so its not like other earworms adduced here. and the fact that this is a chicago=specific earworm (for me anyway) baffles me even more. that's why i was wondering about the ambient sounds, dominant pitches (even those which you cant hear--ask people in a city to hum a pitch long enough and they'll find a tone that you can link to electrical current...) flat5: Quote:
sound features that are strung together within a fixed duration (in a recording) are compositional features. you can learn them by repeating the recording. as you learn them, you impose or infer (its hard to say which) patterns. these patterns are musical. a piece of recording equipment is simply one device that allows you to fix durations. audio recordings of my refrigerator are lovely music--very complex juxtapositions of sine waves. if i played such a recording between others of, say,. tape music, you wouldnt know that it was just my refrigerator running. whether something is music at the level of structure and whether you like it are different. you might not like my refrigerator sound. but 4'33" of it is just as much music as a chamber piece, or a pop tune, or anything else. the distinctions are about mapping your aesthetic preferences: what you dont like, you might call noise. but that's only about what you do or dont like--it says nothing about the question of whether 4'33" of refrigerator sounds--which contain considerable complexity--is music or not. |
i HATE that i found this song. i cannot exorcize it. help.
This weekend, i've had these stuck... and the only version i could find without children in it... someone save me from myself. |
who the hell cares if I am showing my age. How would you like
Gypsies Tramps and Thieves, by Cher overidden by Seasons in the Sun, by Terry Jacks? Karma must be kickin. Fast forward to 'Ant Music' |
Man... I haven't heard Cranberries' Zombie in the longest time, thanks for the refresher...
Man, that song was on the '94 album... I remember using the song in a video project in high school in 96 or 97... scary as hell to think that was 10 years ago. |
MANAMANA!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!!
-Will |
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I woke up singing Reba McEntire's "The Stairs" (The Last One to Know), but now that I read this thread I have even more, esp. "Manamana" and "White and Nerdy".
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Excellent. Now I know how to spell it. Cake's version is up there with the Muppet Show... |
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Cyn - thanks for showing me that embedding trick, I'll use it in the future. I haven't seen the VW ad, so I couldn't comment on that. I just like how much they make the song their own, and how many variations they use. Feel free to dislike it. :D
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I thought VW made DaDaDa their song (you know, by Trio). oops, now that's stuck in my head.
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Brady Bunch theme song. Gilligan's Island theme song. Raider's of the Lost Ark theme song. Alot of old theme songs popping into my head this week and get stuck. Raider's I don't mind. Gilligan's makes me smile. Brady Bunch drives me nuts.
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sorry, I don't dislike it. I just don't put it up to par with the muppets.
dammit, it almost got stuck in my head. and because I used that seeqpod service, I got another one... stuck in my head now... Bumblebee Tuna by Mephiskapheles |
After reading the Robert Goulet thread, I now have "If Ever I Would Leave You" stuck in my head. Think I'm going to have to listen to it...
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Heh, I LOVE the Mephiskapheles song. It's been in my collection for at least 10 years now.
And the Raider's theme was always our 'data processing' theme: if a query was running slowly, the Raider's theme will speed it up. |
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look it up yerselves, for I am too lazy, yeah, you tube has it.
I don't like mondays, boomtown rats, My old mates took a good hashing. Brenda Spencer,pre-cursor to dylan and klebold. The piano stays in my head forever, my sister went to that school. |
The Friggin Mickey Mouse Club House theme OMG...if you have a kid between 2 and 5 you know what i mean
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Cyn, which one do you not dislike, but doesn't rate up with the muppets? Geez, got the muppet song in my head now, and I'm on my way to Dad's birthday party. |
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and now I'm hearing the end of the Muppet Show theme song. 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. I'm too easily suggestible. |
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London Calling gets stuck in mine...but I dont mind, coz it's a killer tune. |
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Cyn, that was an interesting take on the Bumblebee Tuna song. I like it. The ones stuck in my head this morning are Sesame Street, and Elmo's World. (can ya guess what we're watching on my day off?) |
... TO BE REAL! |
Oh, man, I remember when that song was new. So long ago.
Theme song to Super Mario Brothers gets stuck in my head sometimes, and i haven't played it in years. |
Extremely useful fact I have discovered: Where It's At, by Beck, is the perfect song, to permanenty erase anything annoying that is stuck in your head. It is more catchy than almost anything, so easily trumps whatever tune is bothering you, but doesn't loop, so transitions easily into an ending.
http://musicglob.com/wp-content/uplo...ere-its-at.mp3 Seriously, I am not even slightly joking. I've used (and told other people to use) this technique almost without failure for years. Start singing the opening keyboard parts (do, da-do do da DAH...) to yourself, and let the whole song play out, and tada! Whatever was stuck in your head is now gone. If you're not yet familiar enough with it to sing it through, come to this thread and play it, and hum along. |
Does Beck trump Beck?
Will it get rid of 'Loser' also? |
I've had Dropkick Murphys "Kiss Me, I'm &$*#! Faced" in my head all day.
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I think that Gorillaz, Clint Eastwood will get rid of Beck's Loser..... It did for me. |
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It handles all pop music with ease. |
Indian lake 'The Cowsills'
Henry the 8th 'Hermans hermits' Why do they seem to come in twos? No wonder I can't sleep. |
last night i had carry on my wayward son by kansas stuck in my head all night
damn you, southpark |
dammit. |
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I've kind of had the ending song from portal stuck in my head for the last week.
See here. It's a fucking computer, |
OMG somebody kill me!
Rupert Holmes "Him" Ren and Stimpy "Happy Happy Joy Joy" |
All Jimmy Eat World Songs...and an awesome band called Ra Ra Riot from Syracuse!!!
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"In The Army Now" by Status Quo and "Billy Don't Be a Hero" by Paper Lace God, I hate those ridiculous songs! They irritate the hell out of me. :grumpy: Actually, the last song I hear any evening is the one that gets stuck in my head all the next day. It's true! By mid afternoon I end up hating each and every one of them. :mad: |
Yesterday I was singing "Gimme More" by Britney, all day long. I made the mistake of listening to it on the way to work and it just never went away.
The cure? Humming "Last Christmas" by Wham!. :| |
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Just for that... |
This morning I am cleaning, and 'Cabaret' just won't get out.
I like that song, but not for hours. At least the rifle is clean. |
Dear God please make it go away!!!!:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :shakehead: |
I am not complaining.
1983..Whiskey A Go-Go..LA, USA. Black Flag, I am not sure if it was China White, Or Circle Jerks who opened that summer night, some songs can stay in my head forever and no bitchin........... |
It's a small world after all.
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Yesterday, Jello Biafra's-' Holiday in Cambodia',
Today it is Andrea Boccelli's ' Con te Partiro' Viva Ecletic..ism? |
right now: ELO's Hold On.
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REO- one lonely night.
wheres the antidote... I must have Beck resistance built up. |
For about the last 7 days: Muse - Knights of Cydonia
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