"Fish Heads Fish Heads...

[john-the-author]

Normally, an ear worm lasts maybe a day. As a matter of fact, I've found that I get an ear worm badly at the height of a fever from a cold; the ear worm's departure marks the fever breaking. Go figure.

But a few weeks ago, in pretty good health, I couldn't get rid of a song by Cake: "Sad Songs and Waltzes." It kept running through my head over and over. I tried singing it with my wife (I married her for her great set o' pipes) and that was fun... but I was still stuck with the ear worm.

It lasted a few more days. Looking at the lyrics now is a risky thing, but I ~will~ be strong.

(And if you're not familiar with the group Cake, I recommend them strongly.)

Lyrics for "Sad Songs and Waltzes"

I'm writing a song all about you.
A true song as real as my tears.
But you've no need to fear it
Cause no one will hear it.
Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year.


I'll tell all about how you cheated.
I'd like for the whole world to hear.
I'd like to get even
With you cause you're leavin'.
But sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year.


It's a good thing that I'm not a star.
You don't know how lucky you are.
Though my record may say it,
No one will play it.
Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year.


It's a good thing that I'm not a star.
You don't know how lucky you are.
Though my record may say it,
No one will play it.
Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year.

 

[Elianna]

ba do do do doom

Good night sweetheart(s)
well it's time to go

ba do do do doom

Good night sweetheart(s)
well it's time to go

ba doom ba doom

I hate to leave ya
but I really must say

good night sweatheart(s)
Good night!

 

[rgraham666]

ARG! Matey!

Here's another one I got stuck today....

"I can't live... if livin' is without you...

I cant li i i i ve... can't live any...mooooorrrrre!"

(I think it's the Toni Braxton version, but not quite sure. Whatever it is, it was BAD!)

Original version was by Harry Nillson. R.I.P.

He also did another favorite ear worm.

"You're breaking my heart.
You're tearin' it apart.
So fuck you!"



He also was responsible for a nice little animated movie, The Point.

 

[Elianna]

Original version was by Harry Nillson. R.I.P.

He also did another favorite ear worm.

"You're breaking my heart.
You're tearin' it apart.
So fuck you!"



He also was responsible for a nice little animated movie, The Point.

I had "The Point" on record (along with so many favorites). I totally remember the cartoon, too. Good stuff.

 

[rgraham666]

Well, as I found out his morning while looking for that vid I posted, the whole of The Point can be found on YouTube.

I shall be taking time to watch it today.

 

[jomar]

Too funny Elianna, I was going to start an ear-worm thread over the weekend, but I've pushed it so firmly out that I can't remember what the the cheesy song was right now.

The Point was great...especially if you're in a certain state of mind.

 

[Saucy_Sage]

The ad jingle for "Mattress Discounters." The bastards.

 

[Corylea]

My unconscious shouts sometimes (or sings loudly, anyway)

My mind often gives me background music to whatever I'm doing, and the lyrics of this music are frequently commentary on whatever's going on at the moment. When I was in psych classes, we were told that the unconscious wasn't good with words, so it used pictures. I think mine's figured out how to use words, by taking other people's words (since music is something the unconscious would be good at). The poor thing must have had to learn how to do this because I'm so word-oriented.

When I had a kidney infection, I had a high fever and was sweating so much that I was losing a LOT of water, enough to make serious dehydration a concern. Yet I was so zonked that I would sleep for 14 hours at a time. Sweating a lot plus not awake enough to drink water for 14 hours equals getting way too behind on water.

The second night I was sick, after we'd realized that this was a problem, I was suddenly awakened out of a sound sleep by Melissa Etheridge singing loudly in my head. The lyrics? "Somebody bring me some water! Can't you see I'm burning alive?"

Um, yeah. Time to drink some water. Thanks, unconscious.

My mind does stuff like this all the time. Sometimes it will give me the only line I know of a song or a song that I haven't heard for 20 years -- it seems to be able to dig fairly deeply into memory to come up with the needed words.

There was a week when I was too sick to take a shower, and I felt disgusting. Towards the end of that week, my mind started playing the theme from "Grease" in my head. I don't even LIKE the theme from "Grease," but it was certainly a rather pointed reminder that I should take a shower as soon as I was up to it.

My unconscious is a smart girl, and I'm very happy to have her. Though there are some issues I wish she would speak on.

Of course, since I'm a psychologist, I'm calling these messages from my unconscious. If I were more pagan than I am (my heart is a pagan, but my brain is an atheist), perhaps I'd think these were messages from the gods or something. Since they happen nearly daily, what I AM certain of is that they're not coincidences.

Er, does anybody else's mind do this? Speak to them frequently in song lyrics?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

When I got home from my jaw surgery about twelve years ago, I was sleeping every other hour, and up every other hour (technically awake, but just barely). Every time I got up from bed the chorus to the Blues Cowboy song Runaround popped into my head.

"Well, why you wanna give me the runaround?
Yeah, a sure fire way to speed things up, well all it does is slow me down."

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Ghost Riders in the Sky, for the most part, plays in my mind almost all the time now. It used to be, December 1963 (Oh What a Night).

Several other earwigs...

Some Like it Hot
Paradise City
Simply Irresistible
Layla
Wonderful Tonight
Kokomo

 

[Just-Legal]

Actually by Robert Haimer and Bill Mumy -- yes, Will Robinson from Lost in Space.

And Lennier! Do not forget Lennier!

Sorry. Force of habit...

And right now I have a version of Dredl Dredl Dredl going through my head, except its Table Table Table... to much WoW