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Name a song that got stuck in your head for 3 years and drove you criminally insane. n/t (Original Post) LuckyCharms Jan 2018 OP
La Vie En Rose Pope George Ringo II Jan 2018 #1
Santa got run over by a reindeer rusty quoin Jan 2018 #2
I believe it was Grandma who was the victim... regnaD kciN Jan 2018 #61
Well, now you're just making up games that you know you'll win. n/t sl8 Jan 2018 #3
Only three weeks....and Im not criminal yet, lol Docreed2003 Jan 2018 #4
My nightmare and welcome to it... flotsam Jan 2018 #5
Vonnegut had an essay about that song. He proposed that it should replace the national anthem FSogol Jan 2018 #18
You put da lime in da coconut and drink 'em bode up... RainCaster Jan 2018 #6
Common sense and propriety dictate that I shouldn't do this... Adsos Letter Jan 2018 #7
Dammit trc Jan 2018 #10
I'm just here to be a blessing. Adsos Letter Jan 2018 #13
The Julie London version.... n/t rzemanfl Jan 2018 #28
This one was finally gone... until last night, when that damned Crimson tide won. dawg day Jan 2018 #8
. Squinch Jan 2018 #27
but but but.....Steely Dan.... yellowdogintexas Jan 2018 #40
They're just running ads for a big Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers tour this summer... regnaD kciN Jan 2018 #62
Only today, and I have absolutely no idea why, but... 3catwoman3 Jan 2018 #9
OMG!!! Liberal Jesus Freak Jan 2018 #36
Whos version? Captain and Tenille, or pnwest Jan 2018 #60
I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas MFM008 Jan 2018 #11
OMG!! My sister kept singing that all through the Christmas holiday and I haven't smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #46
I know MFM008 Jan 2018 #65
Boz Skaggs - Lowdown jberryhill Jan 2018 #12
WPLJ by The Four Deuces. OilemFirchen Jan 2018 #14
Sugar, Sugar by the Archies NBachers Jan 2018 #15
That was the Song of the Year in 1969, the year... 3catwoman3 Jan 2018 #49
I loved that song in 8th grade kimbutgar Jan 2018 #51
The Polar Express theme song ExciteBike66 Jan 2018 #16
My niece musta played "Let it Go" from Frozen at least a billion times. When the cold dark hand of FSogol Jan 2018 #17
Simply having a wonderful Christmas time. Simply having a wonderful Christmas time. Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2018 #19
That damn Macarena song Va Lefty Jan 2018 #20
Has it been stuck in your had since 1996? csziggy Jan 2018 #48
"I'm out the door!!!" Iggo Jan 2018 #21
Two songs have tortured me intermittently for the better part of a decade. blogslut Jan 2018 #22
I've never had a song stuck in my head for that long, however, red dog 1 Jan 2018 #23
Frere Jacques 🤪🔪 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 #24
I still have songs in my head that I only need the title to listen to them sakabatou Jan 2018 #25
yep and a lot of mine are classical pieces yellowdogintexas Jan 2018 #41
All of mine are from Cowboy Bebop sakabatou Jan 2018 #44
I could probably write out the lyrics AND sing close to 500 songs w about 80% accuracy off the top.. mr_lebowski Jan 2018 #54
Tony Basil-"Hey Mickey" DO NOT LOOK THIS UP! rzemanfl Jan 2018 #26
Hey Mickey your so fine your so fine you blow my mind hey mickey tymorial Jan 2018 #35
This is the song that never ends, 4139 Jan 2018 #29
Three years wow that's a lot. Corvo Bianco Jan 2018 #30
Arthur Godfrey "The Too-Fat Polka" Chipper Chat Jan 2018 #31
... PoliticAverse Jan 2018 #32
You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone Submariner Jan 2018 #33
Louie Louie FuzzyRabbit Jan 2018 #34
I never get tired or driven crazy by Louie Louie yellowdogintexas Jan 2018 #42
OK, you can go ahead and kill me now... SeattleVet Jan 2018 #37
"Chanson d'Enfance" sung by Sarah Brightman (1997) NCjack Jan 2018 #38
El Paso by Marty RObbins. It was my wake up song when yellowdogintexas Jan 2018 #39
For the past 2 months Bidi Bidi Bom Bom ...... I never knew what a talent Salena was .. great song Botany Jan 2018 #43
For decades the opening march to this symphony DeltaLitProf Jan 2018 #45
"Somebody that I used to know" by Gotye smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #47
a current earworm, wildly overplayed. kwassa Jan 2018 #66
Sometimes I will get a melody stuck in my head that is familiar... 3catwoman3 Jan 2018 #50
I hate to even type it... Cracklin Charlie Jan 2018 #52
I still give this out as my own phone number... True Dough Jan 2018 #53
Walking on Sunshine Bayard Jan 2018 #55
From the Boogie Nights Soundtrack my neighbor Sally used to play over and over again.... bettyellen Jan 2018 #56
Love Me Tender Elvis Lint Head Jan 2018 #57
Not three years but every now and then argyl Jan 2018 #58
Earth, Wind & Fire - Got To Get You... pnwest Jan 2018 #59
John Cage's 4'33"... regnaD kciN Jan 2018 #63
Try this one......... Historic NY Jan 2018 #64
My Sharona kwassa Jan 2018 #67

FSogol

(45,586 posts)
18. Vonnegut had an essay about that song. He proposed that it should replace the national anthem
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 11:11 AM
Jan 2018

since it is about loneliness, which he felt was more American than anything in the Star Spangled Banner.

My Mom was a big Staler Brothers fan and even today, I know every lyric to their songs.

Adsos Letter

(19,459 posts)
7. Common sense and propriety dictate that I shouldn't do this...
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 12:58 AM
Jan 2018

...but here you go:

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And now, I have a large bottle of 151 proof rum that I'm going to have to attend to.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
8. This one was finally gone... until last night, when that damned Crimson tide won.
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 01:15 AM
Jan 2018

"They call Alabama the Crimson Tide... call me Deacon Blue."

It's not even the whole song, just that line, over and over and over.

regnaD kciN

(26,045 posts)
62. They're just running ads for a big Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers tour this summer...
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 03:43 AM
Jan 2018

When I first saw it, I was thinking that "this is the oddest pairing of '70s bands I could imagine." It didn't hit me until now that HOW THE F*CK ARE THEY GOING TO HAVE "STEELY DAN" WHEN HALF OF THE DUO ISN'T AROUND ANYMORE???


 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
46. OMG!! My sister kept singing that all through the Christmas holiday and I haven't
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 11:08 PM
Jan 2018

been able to get it out of my head yet! Why is that song so catchy! I can't get it out of my head!

OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)
14. WPLJ by The Four Deuces.
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 03:27 AM
Jan 2018

It's really always been there. It went away for a moment, then Zappa brought it back.

It'll likely never go away.

3catwoman3

(24,121 posts)
49. That was the Song of the Year in 1969, the year...
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 12:54 AM
Jan 2018

...I finished high school. The songs the year before and the year after were Hey Jude and Bridge Over Troubled Water.

What the hell was wrong with us in 1969?

kimbutgar

(21,278 posts)
51. I loved that song in 8th grade
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 01:17 AM
Jan 2018

The first 45 rpm I brought myself at the record store. Played it down to white grooves.

FSogol

(45,586 posts)
17. My niece musta played "Let it Go" from Frozen at least a billion times. When the cold dark hand of
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 11:08 AM
Jan 2018

death puts me in its embrace, I'm sure that song will be playing in my head.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,229 posts)
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Wed Jan 10, 2018, 11:17 AM
Jan 2018

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Iggo

(47,597 posts)
21. "I'm out the door!!!"
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 01:33 PM
Jan 2018


Mostly the breakdown and the mmm-BOP. But that's the parts that made me insane, so...

blogslut

(38,022 posts)
22. Two songs have tortured me intermittently for the better part of a decade.
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 03:32 PM
Jan 2018

The theme music to "Wheel of Fortune" and "Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears.

I wake up to one of them chiming in my head quite frequently. Once my mind plays the song it stays with me all day. The "Wheel of Fortune" song wiggles in as an earworm the most for me.

I have no idea why these two songs have taken up permanent residence in my subconscious. I was never a Britney listener and I haven't watched a full episode of "Wheel of Fortune" since the 1980s.

red dog 1

(27,918 posts)
23. I've never had a song stuck in my head for that long, however,
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 06:10 PM
Jan 2018

I do get songs stuck in my head all the time.

(Right now, Dead Man's Curve is playing)



K&R, thanks for posting

yellowdogintexas

(22,292 posts)
41. yep and a lot of mine are classical pieces
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 09:23 PM
Jan 2018

I can hear in my head Rhapsody in Blue, Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Rach 2, and a bunch of others. I do listen almost exclusively to WRR classical 101 in Dallas (it has an app you should try it) Today it is Royal Fireworks Music

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
54. I could probably write out the lyrics AND sing close to 500 songs w about 80% accuracy off the top..
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 01:41 AM
Jan 2018

Of my head ... about 1/2 of those, I bet I could do pretty damn perfectly.

I mean not necessarily pitch perfect at all times or anything but the right words in the right order and do a damn reasonable facsimile of how it's sung.

Pretty much every Led Zeppelin and post-1971 Pink Floyd song, and a TON of the catalogs of The Eagles, The Beatles, The Stones, The Cure, INXS, The Smiths, U2, REM (well I can mumble just like Michael lol), The Alarm, The Replacements, Talking Heads, Oasis, Steve Earle, The Rocky Horror Soundtrack ...

There's probably another 500 songs I could do that with if I just re-heard them 1 or 2 times beforehand ...

4139

(1,893 posts)
29. This is the song that never ends,
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 07:24 PM
Jan 2018

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Chipper Chat

(9,704 posts)
31. Arthur Godfrey "The Too-Fat Polka"
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 07:32 PM
Jan 2018

I don't want her you can have her she's too fat for me..
My parents had a 78 of it. And one night it played over and over because it was the top record on the stack and kept playing. IIt stock with me for 20 years.

Submariner

(12,515 posts)
33. You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 07:39 PM
Jan 2018

About 1970 a Karaoke wedding party favorite almost drove me into a bloody wrist slashing incident until I snapped out of my fog.

The horror....the horror....

yellowdogintexas

(22,292 posts)
42. I never get tired or driven crazy by Louie Louie
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 09:24 PM
Jan 2018

I love that it is still played at wedding receptions and other parties. Best dance song ever

yellowdogintexas

(22,292 posts)
39. El Paso by Marty RObbins. It was my wake up song when
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 09:20 PM
Jan 2018

I was in elementary school. It played at the same time every day and when I heard it on my mom's radio I knew I had to get up so I wouldn't miss the bus.

I did not appreciate that song until I saw Marty sing it in person at the Opry

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
47. "Somebody that I used to know" by Gotye
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 11:11 PM
Jan 2018

I like the song, but I just couldn't get it to stop playing in my head.

3catwoman3

(24,121 posts)
50. Sometimes I will get a melody stuck in my head that is familiar...
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 01:04 AM
Jan 2018

...but I can't remember what it is. Sometimes a song, but I can't remember the words, and sometimes a classical piece that I wish I knew the name of.

Really frustrating.

Overall, this thread has been a hoot. And why is it that an earworm is usually a song we hate, rather than one we love.

When I am trying to turn off an earworm, singing "Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog," really loud, often works. Only when I am alone, of course.

Bayard

(22,231 posts)
55. Walking on Sunshine
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 01:52 AM
Jan 2018

God, I hate that song! I've hated it since it came out. It had finally stopped tromping thru my brain, and now, SOMEONE thinks its aok to use it in a TV commercial.

The only way to stop brain farts is to play some really good music, and sing along. That sticks with me. My current specimen of choice is The Eagles, "Seven Bridges Road".

argyl

(3,064 posts)
58. Not three years but every now and then
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 02:36 AM
Jan 2018

“Don’t Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll”by Long John Baldry. Not the talking blues beginning, just the rockin’ second half.
It’s actually a great tune, but all ear worms get tiresome after a while.

pnwest

(3,266 posts)
59. Earth, Wind & Fire - Got To Get You...
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 03:06 AM
Jan 2018

Into My Life” from the Sgt Pepper movie. I was in middle school, that was one of the first albums I bought, almost wore a hole in it from playing it incessantly, and for whatever reason, THAT was the song that got stuck in my head. And I couldn’t get rid of it for a looooooong time. Maybe for all of 7th grade, LOL! It was terrible.

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