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Ohiogal

(32,210 posts)
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 09:56 AM Jan 2018

The (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&quot

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?

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The (sometimes) dreaded earworm (Original Post) Ohiogal Jan 2018 OP
chariots of fire theme AllaN01Bear Jan 2018 #1
Ugh, that would be very annoying, indeed! Ohiogal Jan 2018 #2
This is a dangerous thread. If I tell you I am afraid it will start. n/t rzemanfl Jan 2018 #3
OK, I have some more Ohiogal Jan 2018 #6
Toni Basil. That's as close to the edge as I am going to get. n/t rzemanfl Jan 2018 #8
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying. Pope George Ringo II Jan 2018 #4
Numa Numa - Preferable Alina's cover. ha OhZone Jan 2018 #5
All the time and it seems to be totally random. smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #7
Mark Twain cyclonefence Jan 2018 #9
"Punch Brothers, Punch" can be found at the following: Glorfindel Jan 2018 #11
Thanks--I found that cyclonefence Jan 2018 #15
All the time Bayard Jan 2018 #10
You should probably apologize to the non-fans Kali Jan 2018 #12
me, me Skittles Jan 2018 #13
I'm very fortunate to get earworms of music that I like. This is my current earworm: Aristus Jan 2018 #14

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)
4. Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 10:34 AM
Jan 2018

My worst was either "Star Trekkin'", "La Vie En Rose", or "They're coming to take me away".

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
7. All the time and it seems to be totally random.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 10:58 AM
Jan 2018

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)
9. Mark Twain
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 11:25 AM
Jan 2018

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)
11. "Punch Brothers, Punch" can be found at the following:
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 05:32 PM
Jan 2018

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)
15. Thanks--I found that
Mon Jan 29, 2018, 11:33 AM
Jan 2018

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)
10. All the time
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 11:59 AM
Jan 2018

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.

Skittles

(153,318 posts)
13. me, me
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 05:56 PM
Jan 2018

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)
14. I'm very fortunate to get earworms of music that I like. This is my current earworm:
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 06:38 PM
Jan 2018

With the stunning (in every way...) Anna Netrebko.

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