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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe (sometimes) dreaded earworm
I seem to be one of those people who ALWAYS has an earworm (that is, a song that repeats inside my head that I can't get rid of)
It's okay when it's a song I like .... (Right now my ear worm in "Comfortably Numb"
But sometimes "I can't stands it" when it's an obnoxious song like Celine Dion's Titanic Theme! (and I apologize if there are any Celine Dion fans out there).
Do any other of you DUers have this problem? What's your worst ear worm song?
AllaN01Bear
(18,872 posts)Ohiogal
(32,210 posts)rzemanfl
(29,588 posts)Ohiogal
(32,210 posts)"Billy, Don't Be a Hero"
"Kung Fu Fighting"
"Angel in the Centerfold"
rzemanfl
(29,588 posts)Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)My worst was either "Star Trekkin'", "La Vie En Rose", or "They're coming to take me away".
OhZone
(3,212 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I usually wake up with one. I hate it when I have a depressing song in my head like "I'd love to change the world" (Ten Years After) or "Zombie" (The Cranberries) , two very frequent earworms of mine.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)complained of an earworm--"punch, brother, punch with care; punch in the presence of the passenjare" (about a railroad conductor punching a passenger's ticket) somewhere. I read this at my grandparents' house when I was a little girl and it occasionally infests my head. I can't find the source of this quote, though--does anybody know what Twain work it appears in? My grandfather, the town atheist, owned everything Twain ever wrote, and I read it all.
Glorfindel
(9,750 posts)http://www.online-literature.com/twain/3268/
My grandfather, a retired school teacher, used to read it to me when I was a little boy. We'd both be overwhelmed with laughter.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)but I can't find the actual book it's from. I suspect--because it concerns travel--that it's from Innocents Abroad. My grandfather loved Mark Twain, too--he'd run away from home at age 12 to work as a lumberjack, and he discovered literature a little late in life.
I'm really happy somebody else knew about this!
Bayard
(22,247 posts)Usually a song I like though, and since I work from home, I just go with it. Walk around singing it. Usually changes every couple days.
Right now its U2's, "When the lights go out", because I've been listening to that album.
Kali
(55,032 posts)for planting that. (thank dog I have no clue)
Skittles
(153,318 posts)I often cannot sleep because a song stays in my head
sometimes I avoid listening to music because of it
worst earworm song "The Carnival is Over"
Aristus
(66,530 posts)With the stunning (in every way...) Anna Netrebko.