earworms

[entitled]

List em. Let's hear it.

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle on your snout

 

[entitled]

Adam Lay Ibounden

 

[Guest]

List em. Let's hear it.

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle on your snout

You mean those damn songs that get stuck in your head and won't go away? O heavens above, nooooo!

*snort* I work in a company that has an art department, all housed in a single large office. One day I walked in there to hear every one whistling the theme song to the old Andy Griffith. What was funny was only one person had noticed and he was grinning too much to give it away. It had been passed from person to person without anyone noticing as they stared at their computers.

For weeks afterwards, just whistling the first three notes would get things thrown at you -- and would start everyone humming the damn song.

 

[entitled]

You mean those damn songs that get stuck in your head and won't go away? O heavens above, nooooo!

*snort* I work in a company that has an art department, all housed in a single large office. One day I walked in there to hear every one whistling the theme song to the old Andy Griffith. What was funny was only one person had noticed and he was grinning too much to give it away. It had been passed from person to person without anyone noticing as they stared at their computers.

For weeks afterwards, just whistling the first three notes would get things thrown at you -- and would start everyone humming the damn song.

Yep, those ones! And that's one of them.

How about the chorus from Blue? Or from alice's Restaurant?

 

[Guest]

Yep, those ones! And that's one of them.

How about the chorus from Blue? Or from alice's Restaurant?

Oh hell, there are millions of 'em. I'm especially prey to them because I have a sort of "musical memory" -- I remember tunes or remember things by associating them with music (as a kid, I never actually memorized phone numbers, but I could sing them after we got a touch tone phone. I remember my first phone number -- and can still sing it!)

Dozens of old TV show theme songs are catchy like that. I love Lucy, The Partridge Family, I Dream of Jeannie...EEK! they are taking over my brain!

 

[entitled]

Oh hell, there are millions of 'em. I'm especially prey to them because I have a sort of "musical memory" -- I remember tunes or remember things by associating them with music (as a kid, I never actually memorized phone numbers, but I could sing them after we got a touch tone phone. I remember my first phone number -- and can still sing it!)

Dozens of old TV show theme songs are catchy like that. I love Lucy, The Partridge Family, I Dream of Jeannie...EEK! they are taking over my brain!

You forgot the Flintstones and Jetsons!

 

[Guest]

You forgot the Flintstones and Jetsons!

No, but I was TRYING!

I get the old Jonny Quest theme in my head...and Star Trek (the damn thing had words, and the chorus I'm in actually SANG them as part of a medley. And they are STINKER lyrics. Which means I can't get them completley out of my head.)

 

[entitled]

No, but I was TRYING!

I get the old Jonny Quest theme in my head...and Star Trek (the damn thing had words, and the chorus I'm in actually SANG them as part of a medley. And they are STINKER lyrics. Which means I can't get them completley out of my head.)

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

What about Rawhide?

 

[Guest]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

What about Rawhide?

I'm safe there. The Blues Brothers version is all I hear and it has an ending.

Leseee...The Ghostbuster's theme. A local car dealership uses it in all their commercials. It sticks like Velcro

 

[entitled]

I'm safe there. The Blues Brothers version is all I hear and it has an ending.

Leseee...The Ghostbuster's theme. A local car dealership uses it in all their commercials. It sticks like Velcro

Then there's cheezy 80's music...

You spin me right round baby right round

 

[SeaCat]

Swinging, It's a Barbie World, or worst of all, Squirrels.

Cat

 

[Stella_Omega]

Oh hell, there are millions of 'em. I'm especially prey to them because I have a sort of "musical memory" -- I remember tunes or remember things by associating them with music (as a kid, I never actually memorized phone numbers, but I could sing them after we got a touch tone phone. I remember my first phone number -- and can still sing it!)...

My parent's phone number sings out "Camptown ladies sing this song" with a wrong note at the end.

I find myself singing "In the TOWN where I was born..." when I'm exasperated. Why that particular phrase, I have no idea....

 

[Guest]

My parent's phone number sings out "Camptown ladies sing this song" with a wrong note at the end.

I find myself singing "In the TOWN where I was born..." when I'm exasperated. Why that particular phrase, I have no idea....

It's better than the refrain, which does go on and on and on and on....

 

[cheerful_deviant]

It's better than the refrain, which does go on and on and on and on....

Talk about a song that goes on and on:

I've had Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers in my head all week,

And I know, I know, I know, I know....

 

[Guest]

Talk about a song that goes on and on:

I've had Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers in my head all week,

And I know, I know, I know, I know....

I love that song! One day I want to find a base guitarist who sings tenor and do a hot, sultry version of that song with him/her as backup (yes, I know women who sing tenor. Hell, I know a woman who sings baritone. It's scary.) I've got the whole arrangement in my head.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Talk about a song that goes on and on:

I've had Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers in my head all week,

And I know, I know, I know, I know....

Beautiful song.
Bill Withers is the uncle of the Neville Brothers, you know...

 

[cloudy]

"this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on, my friends..."

 

[MissBri]

 

[MissBri]

 

[togitc]

Today:
Who can take the sunshine, sprinkle it with dew? The candy man can.

What is worse is I don't know if those are the right lyrics or the next line.

Once More With Feeling, goes through my head more than I would like to admit as well as the classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Strangers in the night, what were we thinking, we were stangers in the night.

Got a crush on a pretty pistol, should I tell her I feel this way? Mother says we should look away. Got crush on pretty pistol, says I'll be a big star some day. Got love songs in my head killing us away

Yes, I only remember bits of songs here and there, but that is how it stays with me. The most likely song stuck in my head:

She makes me want to die, want to die, she says to change my stride, then I'll fly, she makes me want to die

 

[Stella_Omega]

togitc, I feel for you, i really do.
The chaos in your head matches mine... Everything from Rachmaninoff to Sinatra to the Beastie Boys.

I used to love hearing my kids, humming to themselves- Strauss walzes.

 

[togitc]

togitc, I feel for you, i really do.
The chaos in your head matches mine... Everything from Rachmaninoff to Sinatra to the Beastie Boys.

I used to love hearing my kids, humming to themselves- Strauss walzes.

Cup of coffee and a scone on me if you are ever in New Mexico.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Cup of coffee and a scone on me if you are ever in New Mexico.

 

[john-the-author]

"H.M.S. Pinafore"

As a former (and still occasional) performing musician of novelty and eclectic tunes, there are all sorts of things the burble up at odd moments, George-Burns-like, such as "Her Name Was Lil and She Was a Beauty," "She Was Only a Pawnbroker's Daughter, but Oh! How She Could Hock," and a parody to the old Tom Mix "Hot Ralston's" commercial jingle ("Hot Ralston's for your breakfast, Hot Ralston's for your lunch") entitled "Hot Vagina" ("....take a tip from Tom, go and eat your mom, hot vagina can't be beat!").

HOWEVER, more than anything, I tend to whistle a piece of H.M.S. Pinafore--the first few lines of "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore"--for no particular reason at odd moments.

And yes, I do suffer from male pattern weirdness.

John-the-Author

Go read Kim and Me for hot, squishy fun!

 

[Huckleman2000]

"We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun...."

"Oh Mickey, you're so fine! You're so fine you blow my mind! HEY MICKEY!"

Sorry, everyone.