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Title: Ear Worms
Post by: IanDG on 29 March, 2009, 11:23:27 am
How do I get Bonnie Tyler's 'Total eclipse of the heart' out of my brain (http://www.hotstocked.com/articles-img/small/Edward-Munch-The-Scream-8903.jpg)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 29 March, 2009, 11:28:20 am
There's nothing you can really do except... turn around every now and then.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: hellymedic on 29 March, 2009, 11:34:05 am
Earworms are highly infectious organisms. You are spreading a disease!
I'd not thought of that song for a decade and now it's going round many yacf heads.

Now I'm only falling apart.
Nothing I can do...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Ian H on 29 March, 2009, 11:38:25 am
Quote from: windy on 29 March, 2009, 11:23:27 am
How do I get Bonnie Tyler's 'Total eclipse of the heart' out of my brain (http://www.hotstocked.com/articles-img/small/Edward-Munch-The-Scream-8903.jpg)

I used to work with her uncle. He was very proud of her.

I'm lucky being immune to ear worms because I never notice the words to songs.

Except Dylan's.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: IanDG on 29 March, 2009, 11:43:18 am
Quote from: hellymedic on 29 March, 2009, 11:34:05 am
Earworms are highly infectious organisms. You are spreading a disease!
I'd not thought of that song for a decade and now it's going round many yacf heads.

Now I'm only falling apart.
Nothing I can do...

It's good to share
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 29 March, 2009, 11:48:17 am
I've had Lou Christie's 'Lightnin' Strikes' stuck in mine.

Lightning is striking again
Lightning is striking again
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Charlotte on 29 March, 2009, 12:27:11 pm
The only way to get a really annoying choon out of your head is to replace it with one even more annoying.

All together now...

Ahhhhhgaaaaaa... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POv-3yIPSWc)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Charlotte on 29 March, 2009, 12:32:34 pm
Problem is; it can only get worse...

Hold a chicken in the air (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtr1tik_JRU)  :D
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: geraldc on 29 March, 2009, 12:38:08 pm
I can heartily recommend Spotify (http://www.spotify.com/en/), I've been listening to songs that I haven't heard in ages, and the adverts aren't too intrusive.

Currently listening to Iron Maiden. I'd never pay for it, but at least I know they'll get their royalties for me listening to it. 
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 29 March, 2009, 01:37:46 pm
'teenage dirtbag'
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Gus on 29 March, 2009, 01:41:26 pm
Quote from: Charlotte on 29 March, 2009, 12:32:34 pm
Problem is; it can only get worse...

Hold a chicken in the air (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtr1tik_JRU)  :D

and worse...........

Badger song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxR7rTYuSI)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: woollypigs on 29 March, 2009, 01:51:31 pm
YouTube - The Firm - Star Trekkin' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE&NR=1)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: redshift on 29 March, 2009, 07:45:10 pm
Sometimes it's just... well, oh, you decide. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSLMKUXZ3hk)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: border-rider on 29 March, 2009, 07:57:07 pm
Quote from: Ian H on 29 March, 2009, 11:38:25 am
Quote from: windy on 29 March, 2009, 11:23:27 am
How do I get Bonnie Tyler's 'Total eclipse of the heart' out of my brain (http://www.hotstocked.com/articles-img/small/Edward-Munch-The-Scream-8903.jpg)

I used to work with her uncle. He was very proud of her.


She owned the field behind the former Volio Towers
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Ian H on 29 March, 2009, 08:00:24 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 29 March, 2009, 07:57:07 pm
Quote from: Ian H on 29 March, 2009, 11:38:25 am
Quote from: windy on 29 March, 2009, 11:23:27 am
How do I get Bonnie Tyler's 'Total eclipse of the heart' out of my brain (http://www.hotstocked.com/articles-img/small/Edward-Munch-The-Scream-8903.jpg)

I used to work with her uncle. He was very proud of her.


She owned the field behind the former Volio Towers

So, the question is: was she ever outstanding in her field?
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: rogerzilla on 29 March, 2009, 08:02:37 pm
WTF was the video about?  The "bright eyes" were a bit literal.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 March, 2009, 11:40:06 pm
I am pleased to say that I have read through this thread and not one of the song titles mentioned is known to me. I can therefore continue to enjoy imagining Mozart's clarinet concerto being played.

Deeeeeedum, dee diddididdy-dum, dee-dum dee-dum deeeediddydum... (cont. K. 94)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: hellymedic on 30 March, 2009, 02:41:17 pm
Quote from: Charlotte on 29 March, 2009, 12:27:11 pm
The only way to get a really annoying choon out of your head is to replace it with one even more annoying.

All together now...

Ahhhhhgaaaaaa... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POv-3yIPSWc)

It's being rereleased, y'know. (See also Rant Thread.) Are you some kind of prophet, Auntie C? A Witch perchance?  ;) ;D

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | 'Worst song' Agadoo re-released (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7971778.stm)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: inc on 30 March, 2009, 02:54:16 pm
I sometimes get this in my head. YouTube - Electric Six - "Danger! High Voltage" (Hi Res) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4gyJsY0mc) but it helps the miles roll by.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 March, 2009, 03:04:14 pm
For the entire first night of PBP, I had the first verse of Half Man Half Biscuit's "Our Tune" on permanent repeat:

You said you’d found me helpless on the A47
Shouting at the passers-by that Alan Brazil
Seems to be the singer in the Goombay Dance Band
And now you want to put me in the ambulance
But I don’t want to go in the ambulance

Now that's irony  ???
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Charlotte on 30 March, 2009, 03:21:20 pm
Quote from: hellymedic on 30 March, 2009, 02:41:17 pm
Are you some kind of prophet, Auntie C? A Witch perchance?

:demon:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 31 March, 2009, 01:37:26 pm
A new temp was quietly singing THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18LLfZzDYnQ&fmt=18) to herself.
Unfortunately I overheard it as I passed by.  >:(
Bitch!!!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 31 March, 2009, 04:35:02 pm
Quote from: mrcharly on 29 March, 2009, 01:37:46 pm
'teenage dirtbag'

Good Shout!

I regularly sing this song to myself, though the name of the dame is not Noelle in my world ;)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: rogerzilla on 31 March, 2009, 06:10:32 pm
I had C.W. McCall's "Convoy" in my head all through Friday night's ride  :-\
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: bomber on 01 April, 2009, 01:01:39 pm
Hmmmmmm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSh6SQd8UrI)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: MattH on 03 April, 2009, 12:08:05 am
This one goes through my brain whilst climbing big hills (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmCyRvvSwas)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: bomber on 03 April, 2009, 12:38:43 am
I keep getting this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQIsZbm8Y4E) stuck in my head today ???
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 April, 2009, 06:51:04 pm
I've been singing this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdPB1Ymq_1Q) all day, but I haven't been dancing like any of them. Groooooovy.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: simonp on 03 April, 2009, 08:50:19 pm
YouTube - The Damned - Happy Talk - Islington Academy 19/11/08 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUmXH7urCMQ)

IGMC
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: HTFB on 04 April, 2009, 07:24:18 pm
Quote from: wowbagger on 29 March, 2009, 11:40:06 pm
I am pleased to say that I have read through this thread and not one of the song titles mentioned is known to me. I can therefore continue to enjoy imagining Mozart's clarinet concerto being played.

Deeeeeedum, dee diddididdy-dum, dee-dum dee-dum deeeediddydum... (cont. K. 94)

It's the second theme that I get stuck with. Dodle diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle-deedum, Diddle-iddle-iddleiddleiddle-eedum, Dee-iddleeedum, Did-liddle-ey-dum, dideedum, dideedum, didum!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 06 April, 2009, 12:28:45 pm
O (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8vUTm64h0&fmt=18) <<< Press express elevator button to the Ninth Circle.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 15 April, 2009, 01:37:16 pm
Gah!

I had a terrible earworm today - the Impress an Impresario jingle from ruddy Radio Shuttleworth >:(

Couldn't even remember all the words, FFS! >:( >:(
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 15 April, 2009, 02:50:43 pm
Today's earworm that is going 'nom nom nom' is  Rainbow Valley.  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Og_uUjqKU8&fmt=18) But I like it, so I'll forgive their asses.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: microphonie on 15 April, 2009, 06:33:30 pm
The Specials - Gangsters: ever since I saw Later With Jools Holland last week
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 15 April, 2009, 09:32:07 pm
Quote from: microphonie on 15 April, 2009, 06:33:30 pm
The Specials - Gangsters: ever since I saw Later With Jools Holland last week

Yeah but, that ain't a bad one, now, is it? :)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 16 April, 2009, 10:26:35 am
Gurney Slade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGZe3j1oJqs&fmt=18)  has taken hold again.

(AKA: The cuckoo clock sequence from Vision On)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: microphonie on 16 April, 2009, 06:19:07 pm
Quote from: clarion on 15 April, 2009, 09:32:07 pm
Quote from: microphonie on 15 April, 2009, 06:33:30 pm
The Specials - Gangsters: ever since I saw Later With Jools Holland last week

Yeah but, that ain't a bad one, now, is it? :)

It is when you've been trying to get to sleep for 3hrs & it's still buzzing around your head  :(
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 16 April, 2009, 09:34:53 pm
Bernie Rhodes knows!  Don't argue! ;D
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Palinurus on 17 April, 2009, 06:22:14 pm
What started off as a Neil Young song somehow mutated into "It's my party". Christ.

Couldn't shake that one off for days.

At least there's been no resurgence of grocer jack.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 April, 2009, 10:45:30 pm
Someone on another forum said something about a bandwagon and now I have  this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btEpF334Rtc&feature=PlayList&p=90EFC1D1E69322F1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1) in my head.

Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Tiger on 20 April, 2009, 02:18:40 pm
Get this:

Happiness, Happiness, the greatest gift you can possess.
Thank the Lord I have more than my fair share of happiness.

Entered head last week. still there. I hated Ken Dodd too.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: mike on 20 April, 2009, 02:20:50 pm
lady bloody ga ga and her Poker Face. 


Kill me now.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 20 April, 2009, 02:31:03 pm
Halo halo halo halo bleedin halo.

Thanks, Bouncy Knoles, and thanks, crappy radio station playing it every ten minutes....
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 03 July, 2009, 11:38:18 am

Goggles for girls, Goggles for guys...
The greatest shades that ever happened for eyes are Goggles, the greatest shades ever made. Goggles!


Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Jezza on 03 July, 2009, 11:54:50 am
I won't post a link so as not to inflict this upon anyone else, but last night, flying up the deserted A12 at 2am on the motorbike, I had this chorus going round and round, as sung by my niece's nursery school:

Kookaburra Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: red marley on 03 July, 2009, 11:59:57 am
Does anyone else suffer from geoEarWorms?

Whenever I go anywhere near Waterloo bridge/station, a certain Kinks song lodges itself firmly in my brains.

Whenever I do the Rural South audax (Hampshire), I have to put up with several hours of Winchester Cathedral.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: border-rider on 03 July, 2009, 12:04:31 pm
I've been standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona

I've also been to Benson, Arizona, with the warm wind in my hair.

The last one works on the Anafractuous also.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 03 July, 2009, 12:08:44 pm
Quote from: jwo on 03 July, 2009, 11:59:57 am
Does anyone else suffer from geoEarWorms?


Whenever I cycle past the local 'cop shop' that's situated right next to the river, I always seem to
sing  "Rivers of Babylon".
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 July, 2009, 12:29:40 pm
Quote from: Mal Volio on 03 July, 2009, 12:04:31 pm
I've been standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona

I'v ebeen hanging around a tire dealer in Winslow, Arizona.  The P+nct+r+ Fairy followed me on holibobs ???
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: cometworm on 03 July, 2009, 01:43:50 pm
Myfriend Chris has made a website (and facebook app!) for getting earworms out - see brainvirusexchange.com. Very clever chap.

It's very much in beta - early stage at that- but good fun.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: HTFB on 03 July, 2009, 05:05:37 pm
Quote from: jwo on 03 July, 2009, 11:59:57 am
Does anyone else suffer from geoEarWorms?

Whenever I go anywhere near Waterloo bridge/station, a certain Kinks song lodges itself firmly in my brains.

Whenever I do the Rural South audax (Hampshire), I have to put up with several hours of Winchester Cathedral.

...and I find that those two are together a terrible earworm, if you put One Song To The Tune Of Another.

Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 06 July, 2009, 10:17:10 am


Born To Be Alive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVgM7qeAlko). Patrick Hernandez you should never have been set loose in front of a TV camera.  ;D :sick:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 06 July, 2009, 10:19:47 am
As pretty as Billy Joel.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 15 October, 2009, 10:46:34 am
Not so much an ear worm, but I was plagued this morning by ISIRTA's 'I've Got A Ferret Living Up My Nose'
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: nicknack on 15 October, 2009, 10:48:45 am
Bugger!

"How it got there I can't tell..."
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: HTFB on 15 October, 2009, 07:42:07 pm
At least it's not like last week when I had a crocodile.

This one has been haunting me on and off all year.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: alan on 15 October, 2009, 08:17:20 pm
Last night I went to bed early,10-ish & therefore woke up approx 0400 hrs this morning(6 hrs sleep is enough) with Puff the Magic Dragon playing in my head where it has remained for the entire day,on & off.
It's years since I heard it .
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 15 October, 2009, 10:51:12 pm
Quote from: nicknack on 15 October, 2009, 10:48:45 am
Bugger!

"How it got there I can't tell..."

Would you like a link? ;) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_fCLKamfo)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: simonp on 15 November, 2009, 11:20:01 pm
Right now it's this YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&#/watch?v=HfP8lVfbg5w&client=mv-google)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Legs on 17 November, 2009, 01:34:49 pm
Apparently Solitaire's the only game in town.  And every road that takes him, takes him down.

I'm not yet 30 and I've got Neil Sedaka on the brain.  Lawks a-mercy.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Legs on 17 November, 2009, 01:39:10 pm
Now I've started thinking about earworms, I've got 'Gaviscon' (sic) by Glen Campbell on the brain...  >:(
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 17 November, 2009, 03:11:55 pm
Gertcha by Chas & Dave :( (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOiuDAPHxCE)

Link added to infect other ears...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 18 November, 2009, 10:42:49 am
Last night I bizarrely had the Ventures breaking into Hawaii Five-O (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSAYrRJrbAI) every time I pulled out to overtake a line of traffic.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: L CC on 18 November, 2009, 12:58:04 pm
My sister sent me this, a global infection from the antipodes.

(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/photo.jpg)

Bitch. This is a kind of term of affection in my family
As now it wont go away. How come after 30 years I can still remember the words to every verse?
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Gus on 18 November, 2009, 07:49:29 pm


 :'( :'( I have Napoleon XIV  with They're coming to take me away  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4) stuck in my head now.

..
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: mattc on 18 November, 2009, 07:51:32 pm
Quote from: clarion on 18 November, 2009, 10:42:49 am
Last night I bizarrely had the Venturas breaking into Hawaii Five-O every time I pulled out to overtake a line of traffic.
This may well help me through future grim commutes :)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 November, 2009, 07:52:49 pm
"Zorba The Greek", the Herb Alpert version.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 18 November, 2009, 08:01:47 pm
Quote from: mattc on 18 November, 2009, 07:51:32 pm
Quote from: clarion on 18 November, 2009, 10:42:49 am
Last night I bizarrely had the Venturas breaking into Hawaii Five-O every time I pulled out to overtake a line of traffic.
This may well help me through future grim commutes :)

I added the link up there ^^^
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 19 November, 2009, 09:26:55 am
Oh crikey, I really suffer from this, don't I? :-\

This morning, I was struck by how lucky I was with a tailwind and th changes of the traffic lights favouring my progress in most cases, so Kylie started off with 'I Should Be So Lucky'.  In contrast to fboab's earworm, the fact that I know very few of the words made this particularly unpleasant.  Fortunately, that morphed into 'Dreaming' by Blondie, which was better.

Then I hit the traffic, and a recurrent song reappeared: Little Boxes by Pete Seeger.  It's actually about urban sprawl, but it applies to the heap of cars on the road too.

Quote
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky...there's a red one and a green one and a blue one and a yellow one.  And they're all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 20 November, 2009, 10:12:25 pm
This morning I suffered, and suffered badly.

See, I saw a Yellow Ribble, and I couldn't help thinking of Tony Orlando & Dawn. 

And now you can't help it, either :demon:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 November, 2009, 10:16:01 pm
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 20 November, 2009, 10:40:29 pm
Just for the public good, I thought it might need a link as well :demon: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzK_xznptXA)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: red marley on 20 November, 2009, 11:18:33 pm
Quote from: clarion on 20 November, 2009, 10:40:29 pm
Just for the public good, I thought it might need a link as well :demon: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzK_xznptXA)

Extra points when you segue seamlessly between that one and this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szavq0lrFtg), and then back again and so on.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 21 November, 2009, 10:48:23 pm
It occurred to me belatedly that the Yellow Ribble also sparked off a bit of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=did2PTV3UTE) in with Dawn.  An unholy mashup :o
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: rogerzilla on 29 November, 2009, 09:53:27 pm
If you click this link you are doomed, doomed I tell you.


      YouTube
            - The Chipmunks- Ragtime Cowboy Joe
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV0H5dV8ku0&feature=related)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 01 December, 2009, 12:27:44 pm
Weird that, whenever I see motor vehicles manoeuvring in unusual ways (and it's often), I hear Bowie singing, 'John, I'm only dancing...'
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Butterfly on 01 December, 2009, 01:29:46 pm
Quote from: fboab on 18 November, 2009, 12:58:04 pm
My sister sent me this, a global infection from the antipodes.

(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/photo.jpg)

Bitch. This is a kind of term of affection in my family
As now it wont go away. How come after 30 years I can still remember the words to every verse?
You MOO. I didn't know that I hadn't forgotten that. >:(
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 01 December, 2009, 01:54:46 pm
Fortunately, I have never heard the song in question.  Now I have to be really really nice to Butterfly, lest she sing it to me and infect me with what sounds like a chronic case of earworm...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 01 December, 2009, 02:26:07 pm
Quote from: clarion on 01 December, 2009, 01:54:46 pm
Fortunately, I have never heard the song in question.  Now I have to be really really nice to Butterfly, lest she sing it to me and infect me with what sounds like a chronic case of earworm...

You can hear it HERE (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Super-Supper-March/dp/B001I1TE70) on Amazon. It's all part of life's shitty tapestry.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 01 December, 2009, 02:27:08 pm
Thank you for that link.  I shall treasure it always (but never click) ;)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 08 December, 2009, 11:06:06 am
Jimmy Cliff: Sufferin' in the Land.

No idea where that came from.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 08 December, 2009, 11:27:05 am
Earworm lyrics help needed!

It's driving me crazy.

ISIRTA Bill Oddie song (as performed by John Cleese with the company):

'I've got a ferret sticking up my nose...
How it got there I can't tell
But now it's there it hurts like hell
And what is more it radically affects my sense of smell...'

OK with that so far, but there's another verse that goes summat like;

'I've got a ferret sticking up my nose...
How it got there I can't say
It wasn't there the other day...'

And that's where i get stuck, and it goes round & round in circles in my head.  And I know Butterfly knows the words... :-\
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: HTFB on 08 December, 2009, 11:53:47 am
Quote from: clarion on 08 December, 2009, 11:27:05 am
Earworm lyrics help needed!

It's driving me crazy.

ISIRTA Bill Oddie song (as performed by John Cleese with the company):

'I've got a ferret sticking up my nose...
How it got there I can't tell
But now it's there it hurts like hell
And what is more it radically affects my sense of smell...'

OK with that so far, but there's another verse that goes summat like;

'I've got a ferret sticking up my nose...
How it got there I can't say
It wasn't there the other day...'

And that's where i get stuck, and it goes round & round in circles in my head.  And I know Butterfly knows the words... :-\

Just for you, transcribed from You Tube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_fCLKamfo).  You have the first verse right.

I've got a ferret sticking up my nose.
It pokes its head out every time he blows
I can stand it for a while
Although it's absolutely vile
It's not as bad as last week when I had a crocodile

I can see a bare-bottomed mandrill
Slyly eyeing his other nostril.
I really don't know what to do
But if it jumps inside there too
I shall be the proud possessor of a kind of nasal Zoo

I've got a ferret sticking up my nose
It starts singing when he wears his formal clothes
I can almost stand the noise
But at parties it destroys
My hard-earned and carefully cultivated social poise

I've got a ferret sticking up my nose
Worst of all it constantly explodes
Ferrets don't explode you'll say
But it happened nine times yesterday
And I should know for each time I was standing in the way

I've got a ferret sticking up my nose
He's got a ferret sticking up his nose
How it got there I can't tell
But now it's there it hurts like hell
And what is more it radically affects
My sense of smell!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 08 December, 2009, 11:55:16 am
Thank you.  Now I can irritate myself by singing it in its entirety :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: RJ on 08 December, 2009, 12:55:03 pm
<message to FirstBorn>

Depeche Mode.  Contrary to the words, I can just get enough, thank you. 

<Ends>
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 09 December, 2009, 01:16:39 pm
Horrid one last night.  I'm just fortunate it was a curtailed ride, and I put it down to delirium induced by fever:

Silver Bells - Terry Wogan & Aled Jones :sick:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: HTFB on 14 December, 2009, 02:07:48 pm
Quote from: clarion on 08 December, 2009, 11:27:05 am
'I've got a ferret sticking up my nose...

And again. In anatomical and veterinary improbability: how can a nose-ferret be an ear-worm?
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 14 December, 2009, 02:11:47 pm
I'm stuck with...

X-Ray Spex

Cleanliness is his obsession
Cleans his bikes ten-times a day, scrub-away, scrub-away, scrub-away the Rogerzilla way. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGROSJbCPV8)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 16 December, 2009, 10:38:12 pm
Age of Aquarius (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9oq_IskRIg) this morning...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 17 December, 2009, 07:48:02 am
No1. Son has discovered Spitting Image and spent last night repeating "Hold a chicken in the air, shove a deckchair up your nose.......".

Guess what I was singing on the ride to work this morning ::-)

How do you disown children?
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 December, 2009, 11:50:21 am
Quote from: fuzzy on 17 December, 2009, 07:48:02 am
No1. Son has discovered Spitting Image and spent last night repeating "Hold a chicken in the air, shove a deckchair up your nose.......".

Guess what I was singing on the ride to work this morning ::-)

How do you disown children?

Two bags of Portland cement and a reservoir is the favoured method.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 17 December, 2009, 11:52:25 am
No shovels involved? ???
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 17 December, 2009, 11:55:04 am
‘Jailbreak’ by Thin Lizzy is currently stuck in my head.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 17 December, 2009, 12:01:27 pm
Quote from: clarion on 17 December, 2009, 11:52:25 am
No shovels involved? ???

A shovel is the favoured weapon of choice for splitting open a new bag of Portland and then mixing it.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 17 December, 2009, 12:13:23 pm
Quote from: Dicky Mo on 17 December, 2009, 12:01:27 pm
Quote from: clarion on 17 December, 2009, 11:52:25 am
No shovels involved? ???

A shovel is the favoured weapon of choice for splitting open a new bag of Portland and then mixing it.

I'm not sure M. le Maire's old friend Mr Shovel would be happy to be relegated to such a mundane task.  You don't want chips on the shoulder of your shovel...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 17 December, 2009, 12:19:23 pm
I've got Good Morning Starshine stuck on auto repeat, 'cuz of you.

But it's a good hurt.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 17 December, 2009, 12:20:41 pm
Sing sing sing sing sing sing sing sing song ;)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 17 December, 2009, 12:26:53 pm
gliddy glub gloopy nibby nabby noopy
la la la - lo lo
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 17 December, 2009, 12:31:10 pm
I was going to say that, but I couldn't spell it :P
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 17 December, 2009, 12:35:34 pm
I'm bilingual.  :smug:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 17 December, 2009, 12:36:09 pm
That must make you popular with the ladies.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 17 December, 2009, 12:38:41 pm
Quote from: clarion on 17 December, 2009, 12:36:09 pm
That must make you popular with the ladies.

Do you mean speaking in tongues and stuff?
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 17 December, 2009, 12:49:30 pm
Well, that would be Charismatic, I suppose... ::-)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Cunobelin on 21 December, 2009, 08:40:05 pm
Quote from: windy on 29 March, 2009, 11:23:27 am
How do I get Bonnie Tyler's 'Total eclipse of the heart' out of my brain (http://www.hotstocked.com/articles-img/small/Edward-Munch-The-Scream-8903.jpg)

Watch this......  The literal version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GlJbyMrytA&feature=PlayList&p=E42D120A5B8BF088&index=6&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 18 February, 2010, 09:23:59 am
The other night, when I was riding to work, I had Rush Hour (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DFlc_x0tvk&feature=related) in my head, which was odd, because, for once, it wasn't.  (7-8pm & 1-2am, as it happens)

Fortunately, for no apparent reason, it transformed into this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFEfmbAeEDY&feature=fvst), though it did get distracting.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: microphonie on 18 February, 2010, 06:11:34 pm
Quote from: Dicky Mo on 21 December, 2009, 08:09:48 pm
"Go Compare! Go Compare!"  Argghhhhh! Feck off!

Nooooo! Get outta my head you operatic bastard!

Have a git-token for that DM!

 >:(
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Bluebottle on 18 February, 2010, 08:18:10 pm
Probably been mentioned already but it is so irritating I need to purge.

Lady Bloody Gaga.  All of it.

pppppppppppoker face.  Sung like Vic Reeves pub singer.

Bad Romance.  Ditto.

Ra ra. Rarara. La La lalala. Ga Ga gagaga.

Quality.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: tonycollinet on 19 February, 2010, 08:38:56 am
Why in the name of anything musical, have I woken up this morning singing mouldy old dough (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy32skBSHs0)

I was 10 when this was in the charts - where did it come from !???
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Moloko on 19 February, 2010, 10:16:26 am
Coventry.  ;)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 19 February, 2010, 10:30:43 am
Quote from: Dicky Mo on 19 February, 2010, 10:16:26 am
Coventry.  ;)

Send it there.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: simonp on 24 March, 2010, 01:51:15 pm
Lady GaGa, Love Games,

Let's have some fun, this beat is sick,
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick

Usually when I'm cycling.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 24 March, 2010, 01:58:59 pm
I had Rockefeller Skank the other day :(

Thankfully I am immune to infection from a GaGa earworm, because I am not familiar with her oeuvre.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Legs on 09 April, 2010, 10:03:21 am
Today's earworm is brought to you by Dundonian 2-or-3-hit-wonders Danny Wilson: Second Summer of Love.  A great song, but more than anything it's the clapping going through my brain that's annoying me!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 09 April, 2010, 10:12:00 am
Wild West Hero by The Electric Light Orchestra.

Could be a lot worse I suppose :)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Legs on 09 April, 2010, 10:52:48 am
Quote from: fuzzy on 09 April, 2010, 10:12:00 am
Wild West Hero by The Electric Light Orchestra.

Could be a lot worse I suppose :)

Even by ELO standards, that wins the prize for 'Most OTT Instrumentation' hands-down.  But I love it.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Aidan on 09 April, 2010, 11:53:26 am
The guitar riffs from Kashir  by Led Zep.  Could be worse :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: simonp on 13 April, 2010, 06:01:13 pm
Bang bang!


      YouTube
            - Lady Gaga - Beautiful Dirty Rich
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UlYcQeI9c)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Redlight on 13 April, 2010, 07:28:29 pm
The Daily mail song (Dan and Dan)   :thumbsup:

Not complaining actually  :)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Palinurus on 16 June, 2010, 06:38:16 pm
I've had Pharoah Sanders' Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum Allah thing stuck in there for about a month.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: red marley on 16 June, 2010, 07:32:20 pm
I currently either have a 10,000 vuvuzelas ear worm or tinnitus.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: PaulF on 16 June, 2010, 07:45:54 pm
On the commute the other day I had the theme from "Clifford the Big Red Dog" :sick:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Jaded on 16 June, 2010, 07:49:08 pm
vuvuzelas are a welcome relief from "Go Compare"
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 16 June, 2010, 11:57:05 pm
Is it cycle heresy or just pure redneck to say that I often have the theme tune to 'Smokey and the Bandit' stuck in my head on long rides?

Redneck update:  I mostly got round the inaugral Etape Caledonia with the song "I Really Like Girls" by George Thorogood and the Destroyers stuck in my head.  I still haven't beaten that time.

I also sometimes sing "The Ace of Spades" on descents.  I find it strangely calming (along with much of the second Fields of the Nephilim album.  I get that in my head and I don't mind crashing out and dying so much I reckon).

Next Marmotte I'm going to film the Galibier descent with me 'singing' Motorhead songs.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 29 June, 2010, 04:36:37 pm
Thank goodness.

I have recently shaken off Julio Iglesias after several rides.  Terrifying.

Now I've got a bit of a rock medley going on, including AC/DC, Motorhead and Saxon.  It works.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 29 June, 2010, 05:02:18 pm
Quote from: clarion on 29 June, 2010, 04:36:37 pm
Thank goodness.

I have recently shaken off Julio Iglesias after several rides.  Terrifying.

Now I've got a bit of a rock medley going on, including AC/DC, Motorhead and Saxon.  It works.

Talking of Rock etc. My wife was watching a documentary about and including Donovan. The musicians on his recording of Hurdy Gurdy Man were Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones :o
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: RichForrest on 29 June, 2010, 05:13:40 pm
The Fraggle rock theme tune, thanks to a Facebook thread  ::-)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 30 June, 2010, 07:21:31 am
If you think earworms are bad try listening to French pop music for a while :o
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 01 July, 2010, 09:04:13 am
My current earworm is Kites by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound (hence my pop quiz question yesterday).  It seems a bit ballad-y and slow, but it has a soaring chorus which is just right when you're accelerating from the lights...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: HTFB on 06 July, 2010, 01:49:54 pm
Programme on a mediaeval earworm (L'homme Armé) on Radio 4 now.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 06 July, 2010, 02:38:03 pm
Thanks to Ken Bruce & PopMaster yesterday, I'm having trouble getting rid of the Dixie Chicks 'There's Your Trouble' :-\
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 05 August, 2010, 09:11:30 am
This morning was a bizarre mashup of Cass Elliott's It's Getting Better with TRB's It's Getting Tighter.  Worked unusually well, as it happens ;D
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: simonp on 17 August, 2010, 05:01:18 pm
The Cardigans: My Favourite Game

Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 17 August, 2010, 05:05:52 pm
I had Fame the other day.  And not the chorus, either :(
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: microphonie on 17 August, 2010, 06:36:30 pm
Snooker Loopy - played at a bbq on Saturday night  :(
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 18 August, 2010, 10:56:29 am
99 Red Balloons / 99 Luftballons by Nena

This is what we've waited for
This is it boys- this is war

Anyone else out there going to own up to fanatsising about the Teutonic Rock Chick in leather trousers?

 :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 18 August, 2010, 02:09:54 pm
She didn't shave her armpits, which was certainly an attraction to a teenage boy... ;)

But last night & this morning's persistent earworm is from Rumer:

Quote from: Rumer
Slow
Slow this right down
Don’t burn it out
Don’t let it show
Slow
Oh but my heart is racing...

Not high in the list of motivational songs for cycling ;D
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 16 September, 2010, 09:39:25 pm
My fault, I suppose.  I made a lame joke to Butterfly about 'The Final Countdown' just before leaving the house...

Fortunately, by the time I got to work, I'd been through the chorus of England 2 Colombia 0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7vsoVR5NX4) several times by the time I got to work. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 16 September, 2010, 09:47:44 pm
I don't know about anyone else, but for the last week or so I've been getting Every Sperm Is Sacred stuck in my head whenever I come into contact with the news media.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 16 September, 2010, 09:48:35 pm
;D  That scene has been quoted on here in the last few days.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 08 November, 2010, 08:32:58 pm
Last week I had 'Geno' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnoUlZnwYy4&ob=av2e) in my head, resurfacing when least expected.

But Friday & today were both this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2S9rwyQkJE), especially coming down past Clapham Common
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: BrianI on 08 November, 2010, 09:14:28 pm
Mahna Mahna DO DO DO DO DO!


    YouTube
        - Muppet Show - Mahna Mahna Original
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA90IlymdZ4 )  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: jogler on 19 November, 2010, 12:41:03 pm
"I'm a secret lemonade drinker
R.Whites
R.Whites
R.Whites lemonaaaaade"
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: L CC on 19 November, 2010, 01:18:30 pm
No2daughter has Katy Perry (ft Snoop Dogg) as her alarm. This is a bad enough ditty to ruin your day with, without the added burden of not knowing the words and so having this:
California girls they're unforgettable,
Daisy Dukes, bikinis on top,
Something else that I,
Cannot remember
ooo oo o o

Is driving me nuts.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 19 November, 2010, 02:01:30 pm
Something about a popsicle, I believe.

Mind you, I can't criticise.  My earworm this morning was Butterflies by Tone Damli.  It's really quite catchy and has an exuberant chorus.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 November, 2010, 04:40:22 pm
Quote from: clarion on 16 September, 2010, 09:39:25 pm
My fault, I suppose.  I made a lame joke to Butterfly about 'The Final Countdown' just before leaving the house...

Fortunately, by the time I got to work, I'd been through the chorus of England 2 Colombia 0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7vsoVR5NX4) several times by the time I got to work. :thumbsup:

You'll be relieved to know that of those it was the latter that accompanied me from one site to another in the fog at lunchtime.  Otherwise someone at my second site might have experienced pain.   
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 19 November, 2010, 04:44:36 pm
It's a lovely, cheery tune.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 19 November, 2010, 09:00:36 pm
Today I have been mostly earwormed by this:

Clean The Fan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpCJzdWxEbQ)

(At risk of going a bit ctrl-alt-del for a second, anyone who's ever replaced the hard drive on a nicotine-encrusted iBook knows that getting a Mac is no solution.)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Palinurus on 20 November, 2010, 01:03:27 pm
Quote from: Kim on 19 November, 2010, 09:00:36 pm
Today I have been mostly earwormed by this:

Clean The Fan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpCJzdWxEbQ)

(At risk of going a bit ctrl-alt-del for a second, anyone who's ever replaced the hard drive on a nicotine-encrusted iBook knows that getting a Mac is no solution.)

Really very good.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 20 November, 2010, 10:07:47 pm
That is brilliant.

Edu-tainment...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 November, 2010, 12:18:33 pm
Season Of The Witch ~ Donovan.  No idea why...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: LindaG on 22 November, 2010, 12:28:39 pm
Funny Valentine, as sung by Kim Novak in Pal Joey.

Don't change a hair for me
not if you care for me
stay little Valentine stay
Each day is Valentine's day
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 24 November, 2010, 10:13:10 am
Good grief!

Hoots Mon! by Lord Rockingham's XI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wioh5qUj7fM) :o :o :o

Actually, I think I know where it came from - it was a bonus question on PopMaster the other day.  Which means I was lucky - yesterday Ken Bruce played a brief blast of The Birdie Song by The Tweets (I'm not cruel enough to post a link to that).

EDIT: Ken Bruce has just played Hoots Mon! in full :facepalm:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: HTFB on 25 November, 2010, 05:35:19 pm
Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds.

It started the moment the migraine stopped, and hasn't gone away.  ???
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: LindaG on 25 November, 2010, 05:36:44 pm
It's cliched
To be cynical
At Christmas.

 ::-)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 25 November, 2010, 10:13:48 pm
This.  It's better than Hoots Mon.  In fact, I rather like it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qswKeWhjaUc)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: microphonie on 26 November, 2010, 06:04:00 pm
This has been my earworm over the last few weeks:  Push  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdJVj2x9wNk&feature=related)

Quite a charming ditty really...

Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 09 January, 2011, 07:45:47 pm
Boten Anna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boten_Anna), in the original Swedish.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 January, 2011, 09:42:36 pm
Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 12 January, 2011, 09:57:39 pm
Yesterday I had this, so you can bloody well have it too >:(

The Bump - Kenny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPZYxVXSOFc)

WARNING: introduced by Jimmy Saville - those of a nervous disposition shouldn't be so damn stupid as to click on the link in the first place ::-)

But this evening, I had a slight contrast: Sweet Transvestite (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDKyj35ew0E)



This morning, though, I had a curious mash up of It's Getting Better (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqOMuR5Z530) by Mama Cass, and Getting Tighter by TRB.  Sadly, for those of you not familiar with the oeuvre of Tom Robinson, suffice to say it is similar in tempo & theme to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR40vZQCXh0&playnext=1&list=PL7C53AD7DE1CD2498&index=51).  Confusing, to be sure... ???
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: BrianI on 12 January, 2011, 10:06:09 pm
Glen Michael’s Cartoon Cavalcade theme tune! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arI42_bLlHo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arI42_bLlHo)   :thumbsup:


Nothing like getting high on Cremola Foam and watching Glen Michael’s Cartoon Cavalcade on STV  on a sunday afternoon!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Dibdib on 12 January, 2011, 10:48:43 pm
Have been totally plagued by this over the last couple of days...

Katy B - Katy On A Mission (youtube) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNhPYj-5rIY)

(disclaimer for those who know they don't like modern music, I think the yoof call this "dubstep")
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 13 January, 2011, 09:24:05 am
Quote from: clarion on 12 January, 2011, 09:57:39 pm
Yesterday I had this, so you can bloody well have it too >:(

The Bump - Kenny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPZYxVXSOFc)

WARNING: introduced by Jimmy Saville - those of a nervous disposition shouldn't be so damn stupid as to click on the link in the first place ::-)


That there Ear Worm has a significant part to play in the forming of the Mr and Mrs Fuzzy partnership.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 January, 2011, 11:22:42 am
Quote from: clarion on 12 January, 2011, 09:57:39 pm
Yesterday I had this, so you can bloody well have it too >:(

The Bump - Kenny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPZYxVXSOFc)

WARNING: introduced by Jimmy Saville - those of a nervous disposition shouldn't be so damn stupid as to click on the link in the first place ::-)

He has no idea that the band are Kenny and the song is The Bump, does he?
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 13 January, 2011, 11:28:45 am
Quote from: Kirst on 13 January, 2011, 11:22:42 am
Quote from: clarion on 12 January, 2011, 09:57:39 pm
Yesterday I had this, so you can bloody well have it too >:(

The Bump - Kenny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPZYxVXSOFc)

WARNING: introduced by Jimmy Saville - those of a nervous disposition shouldn't be so damn stupid as to click on the link in the first place ::-)

He has no idea that the band are Kenny and the song is The Bump, does he?
I don't know the answer to that.

SWMBO knows all the answers about Kenny though :-\
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 January, 2011, 01:29:30 pm
Quote from: fuzzy on 13 January, 2011, 11:28:45 am
Quote from: Kirst on 13 January, 2011, 11:22:42 am
Quote from: clarion on 12 January, 2011, 09:57:39 pm
Yesterday I had this, so you can bloody well have it too >:(

The Bump - Kenny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPZYxVXSOFc)

WARNING: introduced by Jimmy Saville - those of a nervous disposition shouldn't be so damn stupid as to click on the link in the first place ::-)

He has no idea that the band are Kenny and the song is The Bump, does he?
I don't know the answer to that.

SWMBO knows all the answers about Kenny though :-\

Fmpmfpmmmfmp mfffmm mmmpfmpfmmmmpmfpmfmffpppmfm.  Mff pffmppmmfppfppmppmmpppppmpm ppmppffpmmffpppmfm fmpppf pfffmfpffmmmpmf Pppmpppfmfmpfmfpppmpp.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: CAMRAMan on 13 January, 2011, 04:19:25 pm
Jimmy Saville is a very scary man... (http://www.b3ta.com/links/Jimmy_Jangle) NSFW
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 13 January, 2011, 08:44:23 pm
He is. 
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 14 September, 2011, 09:44:00 pm
Bizarrely, this morning, I had the odd experience of having this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su3JdzUUuH4

segueing into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQ0vDAbF7s&ob=av3e

at the sudden end of the orchestral bit about 2:50.  I can see why now.  About 2:50 in Macarthur Park there's a bit that resembles the theme from SHP. 

Good use of pedal power by REM, too ;)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 05 October, 2011, 08:50:08 pm
I don't know why these things happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jSDVPaTPIY&feature=related
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 12 October, 2011, 10:52:02 am
It's Ken Bruce's fault!  As the price of hearing the exclusive preview of Kate Bush's new song, we had to drag our way through bloody Kiss's pathetic 'I Was Made For Lovin' You'.

Now that's two mornings commutes spoiled by Gene Simmons untalentedly spouting repetitive crap into my brainstreams. >:(
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 13 October, 2011, 12:29:21 am
Okay, this is technically a comedy routine, but it got stuck in my head while cycling, so counts as an earworm (and a particularly earwormy one, at that):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Jaded on 02 November, 2011, 09:47:38 am
#All the ducks are swimming in the water
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 03 November, 2011, 03:43:03 pm
Odd combination:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1OV5B_JDw

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SFT8k5chO8

This latter I heard a while ago attached to a bit of video, but I only recently found out its provenance.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: IanDG on 04 November, 2011, 12:38:08 pm
'This is a heavy, heavy monster sound..........................................One sep beyond!'
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Biggsy on 04 November, 2011, 12:46:49 pm
Check out Noisettes' older and other stuff as well.  A much under-rated band.  (I haven't bought their records, but I recognise talent when I hear it!).
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: citoyen on 04 November, 2011, 01:02:13 pm
@charltonbrooker Charlie Brooker
For no reason at all I have the phrase 'Elgin Marbles' stuck in my head, set to the tune of 'Eton Rifles'.

http://twitter.com/#!/charltonbrooker/status/132391084218269696
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 07 November, 2011, 06:23:27 pm
A few hills yesterday and today.  This earworm offered itself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHVBN3ukp-Y&feature=related
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Carradice bag lady on 08 November, 2011, 08:25:20 pm
Tunes that do your head in? Try this
doing the carradice jig on youtube  ;D
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 08 November, 2011, 08:28:02 pm
Oh.  Well, at least it's short ;D
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: jogler on 15 November, 2011, 11:36:00 am
Today's ear worm is

Hall of the Mountain King.

don't know where that came from:I've not actually heard it for a long time.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: red marley on 15 November, 2011, 11:02:20 pm
Quote from: jogler on 15 November, 2011, 11:36:00 am
Hall of the Mountain King. Don't know where that came from:I've not actually heard it for a long time.

Did you waste many hours playing Manic Miner as a young Jogler?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhxxZUYfMm8
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: jogler on 16 November, 2011, 11:21:25 am
As best I can remember the last time I heard it was on an E.L.O. album.
Remember them?
No?

It's an age thing ::-)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: IanDG on 16 November, 2011, 12:47:08 pm
'There aint 'alf been some clever bastards' by Ian Dury
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 16 November, 2011, 09:43:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QAf5aE-YMw

Possibly because I've been reading HG Wells, and someone suggested a ride based on the trail of destruction...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Biggsy on 16 November, 2011, 09:56:03 pm
Kate Bush - Wild Man.  Didn't impress me very much at first; there's not a lot to it, but what there is is stuck on repeat in my mind.

Album is out on the 21st.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: simonp on 17 November, 2011, 11:51:01 am
Theme from monty python. :(

Aka the liberty bell.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Chris S on 17 November, 2011, 12:00:43 pm
This:

http://youtu.be/OE-r-Tbg9g0

Arrrrgghhh... GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 17 November, 2011, 09:05:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSkaAwKMD4
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 18 November, 2011, 10:16:29 am
Elbows One Day Like This.

A pleasant result of last nights Children in Need concert.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 21 November, 2011, 09:22:07 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NONo10bU67M
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: PaulF on 22 November, 2011, 06:28:49 am
Lana del Rey ~ Video Games

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1OV5B_JDw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 22 November, 2011, 10:23:25 am
Mmm.  That's quite invasive, isn't it?  Haunting.

By contrast, this morning, I had Buzzcocks.  Mainly 'What Do I Get?'  But also 'Ever Fallen In Love...' (which is, at least, my favourite).  My fault, really, because I'd been listening to them on Youtube last night, but I also listened to War of the Worlds, Squeeze, Blondie, Skids, Undertones, Magazine...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: tiermat on 22 November, 2011, 11:55:19 am
Quote from: clarion on 22 November, 2011, 10:23:25 am
Mmm.  That's quite invasive, isn't it?  Haunting.

By contrast, this morning, I had Buzzcocks.  Mainly 'What Do I Get?'  But also 'Ever Fallen In Love...' (which is, at least, my favourite).  My fault, really, because I'd been listening to them on Youtube last night, but I also listened to War of the Worlds, Squeeze, Blondie, Skids, Undertones, Magazine...

Surely "Fast Cars" might have been more appropriate on your commute? Or maybe not :)

Anyways I have BBC's Frozen Planet on iPlayer on in the background, and due to it I have this going around my head....

http://youtu.be/rQgIOUwVZ1w
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Adam on 28 November, 2011, 08:37:05 pm
Thanks to Kim's comment here (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=9917.msg1103907#msg1103907), I've now got the Ghostbusters theme running through my head (again, as if 118 118 weren't enough).

Still, at least I got to waste a bit of time looking for an update on Ghostbusters 3 (http://screenrant.com/ghostbusters-3-details-aykroyd-murray-kofi-129266/).
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 29 November, 2011, 04:08:55 pm
ELO's Wild West Hero (again) for no apparent reason.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 08 December, 2011, 09:32:33 pm
Inexplicably, but not unpleasantly, as I turned onto the Wandle trail in Wandsworth, I got this, which persisted all the way home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NANKaS_86xU
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: jogler on 08 December, 2011, 10:34:48 pm
^^^^
I had that several times on my E2E  when I thought about the naysayers & doom merchants when I was having a good day & particularly when it was a dead cert that I was indeed going to succeeed.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 09 December, 2011, 03:53:35 pm
'After All' by The Frank & Walters.

Quite welcome really.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 16 December, 2011, 02:33:42 pm
Jethro Tull- Ring Out Solstice Bells.

Not heard for yonks until a 1976 TOTP last night.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: L CC on 20 December, 2011, 08:43:48 am
http://youtu.be/wqCpjFMvz-k

could be much worse
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Adam on 21 December, 2011, 08:12:13 pm
A couple of times a week, as I cycle through the next village, I see a van go past, from the local baker, Prudens.

I instantly switch to thinking of Dear Prudence - Souxsie Sioux (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh_x8uBUbkc).
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 22 December, 2011, 09:33:49 pm
Today's randomness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8xpURXB720
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 11 January, 2012, 05:29:48 pm
A remarkably contrasting couple of days of earworms, gradually getting worse:
On the way up to Crystal Palace:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jSDVPaTPIY

On the way home:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYihDAhVPko&feature=related



And today: :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_402152&src_vid=_J66WMYOABA&feature=iv&v=j3-Zg20yf1E
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Biggsy on 12 January, 2012, 09:22:13 am
Just seen and heard Big Country on BBC1.  Oh dear...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: MattH on 13 January, 2012, 10:10:55 am
For some reason this has been going round in my head for the last couple of days. Not heard it for years!

http://youtu.be/CIMNXogXnvE

Not heard it for years. Why don't you get back into bed?
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 17 January, 2012, 07:29:27 pm
Oh my goodness, I need treatment :o :o :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMiy_UsrPDs

But I did get rid of it eventually in favour of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIMNXogXnvE

btw, can anyone identify the guy who introduces them at the start?  Seems familiar.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 19 January, 2012, 09:18:41 pm
Today, for no apparent reason:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugTMKdD8qFY
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: red marley on 27 January, 2012, 02:01:38 pm
Quote from: clarion on 17 January, 2012, 07:29:27 pm
[...]
btw, can anyone identify the guy who introduces them at the start?  Seems familiar.

I think it's the actor who was in many of the "Comic Strip Presents...". Here he is in a dickie bow with Dick and co (which contains its own delightful ear worm from 1:04 onwards).

Five go mad in Dorset (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb6zje_the-comic-strip-presents-five-go-ma_shortfilms)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: LindaG on 31 January, 2012, 08:51:12 am
Another rock and roll christmas
Another christmas rock and roll
We'd better hold each other tight
You never know it might snow tonight.

Someone help!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 31 January, 2012, 10:30:17 am
Oh, you don't want that one! :o
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Chris S on 31 January, 2012, 11:44:59 am
I was reading threads in the Audax room, and was suddenly smitten with this Ear Worm. Great skipping thobut...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt6Co7EMNCU
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 06 February, 2012, 09:05:45 pm
Strange day. 

This morning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQtlrBziyzI

This evening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DegGwZnySmk
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Palinurus on 01 May, 2012, 06:31:17 pm
The theme from "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

Really lodged in there too.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 26 October, 2012, 11:21:33 pm
The other day, I had an earworm so awful I wouldn't even tell Butterfly what it was, in case she got infected.

This afternoon, I got 'American Girl', by Tom Petty (i think).  No idea why.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 19 December, 2012, 03:19:21 pm
This morning, I was cursed with 'Walking In A Winter Wonderland'.  Where did that come from? ???
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: tiermat on 19 December, 2012, 03:23:03 pm
Whilst pottering around in the kitchen on Sunday I was afflicted by "Millenium" by Robbie Williams.

Took me ages to work out it was because we had watched a James Bond film the night before, from which title song the strings bit of that song was ripped off lifted.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 19 December, 2012, 04:16:45 pm
I had Maroon 5's Payphone (Parental Advisory Mix) doing the loop on the way to work this morning.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Valiant on 19 December, 2012, 08:06:31 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcSuM_G1AZw
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 19 December, 2012, 09:40:42 pm
What is it with schmaltzy music today?  On the way home, approaching Croydon, I got Sammy Davis Jr with Candy Man. :o

Worse, my mind started to play tune association, but not enough.  So now I had Sammy duetting with Christina Aguillera, mixing her song Candy Man with his.  Weird mash up.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Peter on 19 December, 2012, 09:52:17 pm
For the real "Candy Man", you need either Rev. Gary Davis or Mississippi John Hurt.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 18 January, 2013, 09:10:35 pm
Earlier this week, I had a mash up in my head of Night Games by Graham Bonnet (which I've not heard for ages, then twice in a week), and Wanted by The Dooleys.  Try it - it works, but it's like having a drunk angry hornet in your head.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: JennyB on 18 January, 2013, 10:35:35 pm
Doesn't anyone do what I do with annoying earworms?

Sing the first line, then a different second line. Repeat it a couple of times and the next time the earworm comes round, it doesn't know which way to go!  ;D
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Toady on 18 January, 2013, 11:44:01 pm
Is the term "earworm" a recent arrival?

I was chatting to a German girl earlier this year and she used the term.  I was puzzled, and she explained it.  I assumed it was a literal translation of a German idiom.  But then I started noticing it in use.   So ... has the term been around for ages and I just managed to ignore it.  Or did my German friend infect the national consciousness with it when she visited?
Title: Ear Worms
Post by: Biggsy on 19 January, 2013, 12:42:57 am
I first heard the term five or six years ago (on British radio).

My latest earworm is Feed the Tree by Belly.  I'm actually enjoying it.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 19 January, 2013, 08:48:02 am
I heard that song on the radio last week. It's a good 'un.

AIUI 'Earworm' is originally a German expression.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: red marley on 19 January, 2013, 04:49:24 pm
It's been around at least for a decade or so in German:

Ohrwürmer, 2001 (http://www.discogs.com/Various-100-Ohrwürmer/release/900294)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Toady on 19 January, 2013, 11:04:07 pm
Thanks for the etymology.  I've just managed to ignore it for the past few years.

Mine today was the Shangri La's song "walking in the sand ... remember" oddly it came to me in a dream while dozing in front of the telly.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 January, 2013, 09:19:50 am
Quote from: Toady on 18 January, 2013, 11:44:01 pm
Is the term "earworm" a recent arrival?

I first encountered it in a Desmond Bagley novel in 1979, though he did say it was a German phrase.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 January, 2013, 01:09:58 pm
Let's get ready to rhumble, let's get ready to rhumble, let's get ready to rhumble, everybody rhumble. Watch us rec the mic, watch us rec the mic, watch us rec the mic - psych!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 21 January, 2013, 02:01:51 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 January, 2013, 01:09:58 pm
Let's get ready to rhumble, let's get ready to rhumble, let's get ready to rhumble, everybody rhumble. Watch us rec the mic, watch us rec the mic, watch us rec the mic - psych!

Poor you! Here's wishing you a speedy recovery ;D
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Biggsy on 21 January, 2013, 02:25:50 pm
Earworms last up to three weeks.  And take your hat off, boy, when you're talking to me.  :)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 21 January, 2013, 02:36:53 pm
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 January, 2013, 01:09:58 pm
Let's get ready to rhumble, let's get ready to rhumble, let's get ready to rhumble, everybody rhumble. Watch us rec the mic, watch us rec the mic, watch us rec the mic - psych!

Oh that's horrible! :o

I had a nice one this morning - Mama Cass' It's Getting Better
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Guy on 23 January, 2013, 01:06:44 pm
The bloke in the post room was listening to classic fm when I went over earlier.

Now I've got a few bars of Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp going round and round and round and round.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 23 January, 2013, 01:35:16 pm
My ride to work this morning was accomplished with the aid of various repeated snippets of Stereophonics 'Dakota'
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Guy on 24 January, 2013, 01:09:36 pm
In the morning I awake
My arms, my legs, my body aches
The sky outside is wet and grey
So begins another weary daa-aa-ay
(So)So begins another weary day

It's certainly appropriate for how I feel. :(
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Guy on 28 February, 2013, 10:27:13 am
For some reason known only to my subconscious, my head has suddenly filled with the dulcet tones of Ian Anderson singing Cup of Wonder.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 March, 2013, 02:18:31 pm
In the bleak midwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinter frosty wiiiiiiiiiiiind made moaaaaaaaaaan
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 11 March, 2013, 03:20:26 pm
Last night had Gary Glitter's 'I Love You Love' rattling round my head.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 16 March, 2013, 10:45:45 am
Quote from: Biggsy on 21 January, 2013, 02:25:50 pm
Earworms last up to three weeks.  And take your hat off, boy, when you're talking to me.  :)

Ooh, good one, had forgotten that song.

I currently have Grendel as an earworm, fortunately not all 17 odd minutes of it.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Biggsy on 23 March, 2013, 01:30:11 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpoOjoiYcWY
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 23 March, 2013, 01:43:26 pm
This morning was Cold Day In Hell by Gary Moore.  Probably because it was a cold day.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 05 June, 2013, 09:55:22 am
This week has been mostly Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne.

But this morning, perhaps due to the slight change of pace and effort, it was, embarrassingly, ROCK in the USA by John Cougar Mellencamp. :-[

They do catch you by surprise, these things.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: microphonie on 05 June, 2013, 06:46:20 pm
Can't shift the most excellent GMF by John Grant from worming around my brain - it's been there for over a week now & I don't mind one bit...particularly as the chorus is a bit sweary and can be internally 'sung' with much vehemence!

(click to show/hide)

Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: SteveC on 05 June, 2013, 06:53:23 pm
Bl**dy Dam Busters March all day today.  >:(
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 05 June, 2013, 10:05:24 pm
Bad Romance by Lady Gaga.  The ballroom dancing karaoke muzak version.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 07 June, 2013, 09:34:38 pm
War Pigs then God Is Dead? - both by Black Sabbath.  Not great ones for the cadence, but the ride was ok.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 25 July, 2013, 01:49:10 pm
An odd combination this morning.

Senza Una Donna*, until I met darkpoint, then a blast through the back streets of Elephant & castle with Whole Lotta Love.




* Where the hell did that come from?
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 July, 2013, 01:15:24 pm
The new Rod Stewart single is stuck in my head. Help me!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 26 July, 2013, 01:37:21 pm
There's a new Rod Stewart single and it has powerful earworming ability? :o  Run!  Flee for your lives!!!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Biggsy on 26 July, 2013, 02:17:37 pm
Earworms of new records aren't bad because you like to repeatedly enjoy new great things.  The worst earworms for me are old things that I've heard quite enough of already.  I'm not going to name any right now because just thinking of any will set them off again.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 September, 2013, 09:27:42 am
Inside my head this morning Hiawatha didn't bother too much about Minnie Ha Ha and her tender touch so she took him to the silver stream and told him all about what he couldn't live without and made him all weak inside she said wig wam bam gonna make you my man wham bam bam gonna get you if I can wig wam bam ...

Help me!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 05 September, 2013, 11:44:53 am
Sweet!

I can't help you, but does anyone know the way?  There's got to be a way...

;)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 05 September, 2013, 01:20:28 pm
Came home yesterday to find barakta dismantling a friend's laptop (which, thankfully, has a simple panel so you can get to the fan without a fuss).  Have been earwormed with Clean The Fan since.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 28 January, 2014, 08:25:54 am
Aaaarrggghh!!!  A piece on research into ear worms and their commercial application on Today.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: T42 on 28 January, 2014, 08:32:21 am
In 1986 or thereabouts I got earwormed by a Peugeot radio commercial for the 205 Junior.  The beat fitted exactly to my pedalling cadence on a particular hill. The damned thing still comes back occasionally.  I can quote it word for word.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: anotherdeadhero on 28 January, 2014, 10:26:23 am
Depeche Mode - New Life.

plink plink plonk, plinkety ponk! plink plink plonk, plinkety ponk! plink plink plonk, plinkety ponk!

I'm in the office, so I can't vogue. Actually I can't dance after the last court order came through anyway.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Biggsy on 31 January, 2014, 11:01:02 am
Had this earworm since hearing it on a radio documentary the other night (about drugs in music).  Can't get rid of it, so might as well listen to it properly:

http://youtu.be/Q3L4spg8vyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3L4spg8vyo
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: JennyB on 31 January, 2014, 11:29:37 am
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 September, 2013, 09:27:42 am
Inside my head this morning Hiawatha didn't bother too much about Minnie Ha Ha and her tender touch so she took him to the silver stream and told him all about what he couldn't live without and made him all weak inside she said wig wam bam gonna make you my man wham bam bam gonna get you if I can wig wam bam ...

Help me!

Make up a few lines to follow the opening and take the tune and words in a different direction. Sing that a couple of times. Earworm cured!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: L CC on 06 February, 2014, 09:30:59 am
My favourite current band from Billingham (well, Paul Smith is, and you can tell) have a new album (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Too-Much-Information-Max%C3%AFmo-Park/dp/B00GUEPTNS) out so I've been listening to almost nothing else this week.
I've got Leave this Island (http://youtu.be/AJK82x8wkxA) on loop in my head. It's grand.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: tiermat on 06 February, 2014, 11:30:13 am
Quote from: fboab on 06 February, 2014, 09:30:59 am
My favourite current band from Billingham (well, Paul Smith is, and you can tell) have a new album (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Too-Much-Information-Max%C3%AFmo-Park/dp/B00GUEPTNS) out so I've been listening to almost nothing else this week.
I've got Leave this Island (http://youtu.be/AJK82x8wkxA) on loop in my head. It's grand.

Apart from Catharsis (and Maximo Park) have there been any other bands from Billingham? :)

My current earworm is "Demons" and "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons.

Demons:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWRsgZuwf_8

Radioactive I love the video as much as the song!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvTqknDobU
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 06 February, 2014, 12:30:59 pm
Some idiot (well, actually a lovely bloke and a friend) on another forum quoted Rupert Holmes' Escape (The Pina Colada Song).  >:(

Useless trivia: Rupert Holmes isn't a one hit wonder.  But you couldn't do a PopMaster three in ten on him, either.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: L CC on 06 February, 2014, 12:38:19 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 06 February, 2014, 11:30:13 am
Apart from Catharsis (and Maximo Park) have there been any other bands from Billingham? :)
Maxïmo Park don't describe themselves as being from Billingham- I wouldn't admit it, either.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: T42 on 06 February, 2014, 01:28:23 pm
Quote from: fboab on 06 February, 2014, 12:38:19 pm
Quote from: tiermat on 06 February, 2014, 11:30:13 am
Apart from Catharsis (and Maximo Park) have there been any other bands from Billingham? :)
Maxïmo Park don't describe themselves as being from Billingham- I wouldn't admit it, either.

Nice bags, though.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: tiermat on 07 February, 2014, 03:09:58 pm
Due to events and conversations had today, my earworm has turned into "Turn The Page"...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 07 February, 2014, 11:02:02 pm
Have we had Gay Mountain yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6RID82Ru-k
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 03 March, 2014, 09:55:37 am
Talk of the Town, Pretenders stylee this morning.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 March, 2014, 10:40:00 am
A couple of weeks ago I rode past some allotments and noticed how each little plot had its own tool shed which looked just like an outdoor toilet. For some reason thinking about tool sheds caused the word 'rucksack' to pop into my mind and then I was earwormed with The rucksack is a little old place where we can get together
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: T42 on 03 March, 2014, 01:28:23 pm
Since writing a short post re PBP 5 minutes ago, "We do like to be beside the seaside" has been playing inside my head.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 17 March, 2014, 11:24:43 am
I have no idea why, as I haven't listened to the album for a several of years but, this mornings commute was accompanied by a couple of tracks from 'In Search of The Lost Chord' by the Moody Blues-

'Ride my see saw' and 'Legend of a mind'

Twas fab :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 March, 2014, 12:46:35 pm
Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away. This year, to save me from tears, I'll give it to someone special.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Dibdib on 18 March, 2014, 08:14:40 am
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque.



(sorry.)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: woollypigs on 18 March, 2014, 08:43:21 am
Quote from: Dibdib on 18 March, 2014, 08:14:40 am
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque.



(sorry.)
Why you little ....... :)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 18 March, 2014, 08:58:08 am
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: woollypigs on 18 March, 2014, 09:12:34 am
Quote from: fuzzy on 18 March, 2014, 08:58:08 am
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Much better, I can live with this one :)

On a side note: our local radio station plays that song at least three-five times a week, where before I only heard it when I put it on.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 23 October, 2014, 01:01:48 pm
Monday, down the Wandle Trail:

http://youtu.be/A6xl5Cx0c2Y
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 23 October, 2014, 01:04:06 pm
Today:

http://youtu.be/gY-aTOxkRf0
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 02 March, 2015, 07:29:59 pm
Since yesterday...

Two gibbons are better than one
They're twice the fun
Ask anyone
A second gibbon can be second-to-none
Two gibbons are better than one
Two gibbons are better than one
Da da da da da da da da da da da
Two gibbons are better than one
My gutsy gibbon...

(with apologies to Robin Sparkles)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Nuncio on 02 March, 2015, 07:45:08 pm
I still have my own '23 Hebron 187' song in my head. I composed it yesterday to help me remember the info controls on the Carmarthenshire Stopper audax because I couldn't be bothered to write them down - a decision I now regret.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 March, 2015, 01:37:42 pm
Ooops upside your head I said ooops upside your head
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Pedaldog. on 03 March, 2015, 11:21:08 pm
A born again Batman, here comes sheriff Fat man.



Even worse is the fact that I find myself grinning insanely when I "Hear" it. ::-)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Vince on 06 March, 2015, 01:36:54 am
Stairway to Marsh Gibbon Heaven

Ningishzidda, you have a lot to answer for sir.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: matthew on 06 March, 2015, 08:41:20 am
After Tuesday night's rehearsal I have the theme to Jurassic Park going round my head. I blame RPhillips for giving it such a blast in my left ear.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 06 March, 2015, 01:17:32 pm
Where do you come from, where do you go, where do you come from Cotton Eye Joe?

I don't bloody care, but begone earworm!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Dibdib on 06 March, 2015, 02:31:42 pm
The Rains of Castamere, from Game of Thrones.

Odd.

(Also the main Game of Thrones theme tune, because in my head the lyrics are "Peter Dinklage, Peter Dinklage, Peter Dinklage, Peter Dinklage, Peeeeeterrrrrrr Diiiiinklaaaaage, Peter Dinklage, Peter Dinklage, Peter.....")
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 13 March, 2015, 08:44:16 am
As a result of a rerun peter Powell TOTP last night, this-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRBTRGM4lnE

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 13 March, 2015, 09:19:28 am
I do love the Tourists.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 June, 2015, 09:53:09 pm
The Allegro's got vrooom, miles and miles of vroooom.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: billplumtree on 01 July, 2015, 03:18:50 pm
Heat Treatment, Graham Parker & the Rumour
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 July, 2015, 03:42:58 pm
It's all cooking in my kitchen
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Guy on 19 August, 2015, 03:01:50 pm
For some reason I have got the "dance music" from the end of Chigley going round and round and round and round in my head. I wouldn't mind but it's been months since I watched that dvd.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Nuncio on 19 August, 2015, 09:47:04 pm
John Cage's 4'33". Could be worse.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Peter on 20 August, 2015, 01:06:20 am
Trouble with Cage is he never knew when to stop, or should I say start?
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: IanDG on 21 August, 2015, 10:03:03 pm
Paper Lace - Billy don't be a hero
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 30 September, 2015, 12:09:10 pm
Blink 182- All The Small Things

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ht5RZpzPqw

I have had far worse stuck in my head ;D
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Pedaldog. on 30 September, 2015, 11:49:14 pm
Engelbert Humper-goddam-dink! - Pleeeeeeeeaaasssee releeease me leeet me go.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 October, 2015, 12:36:18 pm
For IIIIIIIIIIII don't love you anymooooooooooooooooore
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: T42 on 01 October, 2015, 03:20:06 pm
Damn.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Legs on 01 October, 2015, 04:31:03 pm
Hootie and the Blowfish - Let Her Cry
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Pedaldog. on 01 October, 2015, 11:13:30 pm
Sheeee may be thefaceIcant foget..... 
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 October, 2015, 12:08:20 am
I've had Sabbath's "Loner" on intermittent for about a month now :-\
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Torslanda on 02 October, 2015, 08:55:05 am
The trombone break from The Specials 'A Message To You Rudy' . . .

GAH! F. O. A. D.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 02 October, 2015, 10:10:38 am
If I Was- Ultravox
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 November, 2015, 05:46:59 pm
My son said he had Maps by Maroon 5 earwormed. I didn't know it, looked it up, then introduced him to the Jam and the Specials. I think we are both educated but not enrichened. He misheard A Message to You Rudy (the video for which features a man looking back then remarkably like my dad looks now :o) as A Message to Putin.  :D
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 November, 2015, 05:57:07 pm
Having finally evicted Bill Brad, Ozzy, Tony & Geezer I've now got Lou Reed's Endless Cycle on, er, endless cycle.  A more depressing ear worm is hard to imagine.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 25 November, 2015, 09:17:18 pm
On the way to work this morning, Marlene On The Wall by Suzanne Vega.  Quite difficult to evenly ride fixed to. :\
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 December, 2015, 04:28:48 pm
Aye aye aye aye moosey!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Guy on 11 December, 2015, 09:42:51 am
It's a long way to A-ankh Morpork
It's a long way to go
It's a long way to A-ankh Morpork
Anfd the strangest smell I know
Goddbye Treacle Mine Road
Farewell Sator Square
It's a long long way to A-ankh Morpork
I'm glad I'm not there

Since quarter past six this morning
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 December, 2015, 09:46:57 am
Bob Dylan's Series Of Dreams, specifically the version from "The Bootleg Series Vol. 8" on which the drummer is having to work hard for his BEER.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 28 January, 2016, 10:43:34 am
Having learned that Adam Ant is in the Rewind lineup for this year, this mornings commute (and working day so far) has been wormed by a medley of 'Kings Of The Wild Frontier'

Blackfoot Pawnee Cheyenne CROW, Apache Arapaho
Blackfoot Pawnee Cheyenne CROW, Apache Arapaho
Goklayeh, Ho!
Goklayeh, Ho!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: T42 on 28 January, 2016, 11:17:14 am
Currently got a bit of operetta whose name I can't remember and whose lyrics I've never known, but it goes

Paddle-up pum pum
Paddle-up pum pum
Dah dah dah rrrrrah-dah, da daaaaaaaaaaaaaa

The parrot's got it now as well.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Morat on 30 January, 2016, 02:33:39 pm
My current earworm...
https://open.spotify.com/track/5jhfa76FhqtD3Boij6MAKS
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Dibdib on 30 January, 2016, 10:08:24 pm
David Bowie - Modern Love. All day.

As ear worms go, though, I really don't mind this one too much.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: T42 on 31 January, 2016, 11:33:07 am
When I was getting the dogs' breakfast this morning I realised I was softly singing Andy Pandy come out to play.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: citoyen on 29 February, 2016, 11:11:47 am
This has been getting a lot of airplay on 6music lately. Totally earwormtastic...

Floridada by Animal Collective - https://youtu.be/cuoIvNFUY7I

I can't decide if I actually like it or not but I can't get it out of my head and it's driving me nuts.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 March, 2016, 02:28:31 am
Perhaps I shouldn't have encouraged him by putting it in iTunes in the first place but DJ Random played "Rain" by Teh QUO yesterday and now I've got this relentless slab of heads-down no-nonsense mindless boogie going round and round and round and round and round and duh-duh-duh-duh-duh and

(Tucks thumbs into belt loops, waves hair around like Jennifer Aniston on Yippie Pills, hits head on bookcase)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Torslanda on 01 March, 2016, 09:14:35 am
Not my idea of fun but hey, your life's your own . . .
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: MagnusOpus on 02 March, 2016, 11:40:04 am
Work colleague mentioned Wang Chung at around 9.30 this morning

I've had Dance Hall Days running circles inside my brain ever since

If it doesn't switch off soon I may well go on a killing spree
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: madcow on 02 March, 2016, 12:16:10 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 01 March, 2016, 02:28:31 am
Perhaps I shouldn't have encouraged him by putting it in iTunes in the first place but DJ Random played "Rain" by Teh QUO yesterday and now I've got this relentless slab of heads-down no-nonsense mindless boogie going round and round and round and round and round and duh-duh-duh-duh-duh and

(Tucks thumbs into belt loops, waves hair around like Jennifer Aniston on Yippie Pills, hits head on bookcase)

Subtle reference to  Albertos Y lost trios paranoias surely?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_7vg8IWNDM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_7vg8IWNDM)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 March, 2016, 12:26:26 pm
Quote from: madcow on 02 March, 2016, 12:16:10 pm
Subtle reference to  Albertos Y lost trios paranoias surely?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_7vg8IWNDM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_7vg8IWNDM)

Indeed.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: hellymedic on 04 March, 2016, 01:17:22 pm
I don't usually visit this thread but my partner and his aspie friend have been practising piano duets.

How much can anyone tolerate Pachelbel's Canon?

Does an hour constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment'?

HELP!!!!

Friend will be back here next Friday for more practise, prior to Event on Sunday 13th...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Dibdib on 04 March, 2016, 02:50:01 pm
Don't say you weren't warned...

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: tiermat on 13 May, 2016, 09:28:29 am
Today's is "... 6 foot 6 and a hundred tonnes, the undisputed King of the slums..." brought on by reading a Jack Reacher novel...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Jakob W on 13 May, 2016, 10:37:36 am
Brought on by someone sharing a clip from _Amadeus_: the Requiem's _Confutatis_.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: L CC on 13 May, 2016, 04:26:04 pm
Careful now. Pivot tables is catching.

https://youtu.be/SPLzV0-X0lI
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Guy on 22 July, 2016, 10:43:40 am
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day

Please! Make it stop!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Pedaldog. on 23 July, 2016, 12:11:57 am
Joe's Garage segue to Titties and Beer!
2 of Zappa's slightly more silly output styles.T+B is from the Live in New York album and, I must admit, I'd love to have been there but after the first dozen or so plays sans vision it gets cold pretty quick.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: hellymedic on 23 July, 2016, 10:59:38 am
'Fried fish and johnny cakes'...

Weeks of earworm after the 'What did you have for supper?' thread!

Too hot for a coat today!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: caerau on 06 December, 2016, 09:26:22 am
Woke up to the most bizarre ear worm today.


The inspiration came at a meeting at work a couple of weeks ago when my boss was talking about someone he knew in Chicago.  The rogue in me decided to quip that "I used to work in Chicago.... I don't work there any more"


Twas amusing to see who clocked it and who didn't.


Move to this morning where I was clearly amusedly thinking about this as I woke up and now I find myself all morning singing it to myself (silently!) and - making up new verses!  Oddly, I find I am far more inspired than when the pressure was on during an actual renditions in post-rugby piss ups when I was a student.  :-D
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: ElyDave on 06 December, 2016, 09:39:46 am
bizarrest ever ear worm for me.

SOTS on radio two a couple of weeks ago, me and my daughter cracking up to http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/the+serendipity+singers/ (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/the+serendipity+singers/)

Never put beans in your ears
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: andrewc on 06 December, 2016, 10:49:53 am
The ERA version of O Fortuna !
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Torslanda on 06 December, 2016, 05:09:56 pm
Quote from: andrewc on 06 December, 2016, 10:49:53 am
The ERA version of O Fortuna !

Once tried to order Carmina Burana in a restaurant.







It was Orff . . .     fx <footsteps. door shuts>
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Torslanda on 06 December, 2016, 05:11:49 pm
Quote from: caerau on 06 December, 2016, 09:26:22 am

The inspiration came at a meeting at work a couple of weeks ago when my boss was talking about someone he knew in Chicago.  The rogue in me decided to quip that "I used to work in Chicago.... I don't work there any more"


I had to Google that. Happily I'm still none the wiser . . .
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: tiermat on 06 December, 2016, 06:16:46 pm
Quote from: Guy on 22 July, 2016, 10:43:40 am
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day

Please! Make it stop!

True story :one Christmas I flew 10000 miles to escape that song (and the God awful Slade one), only to be assaulted by it the first shop we walked into!

My ear worm, for the last two days has been "Dissident" by Pearl Jam, brought on by Deshutes brewery posting a picture of their Christmas ale called, you guessed it, Dissident!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 06 December, 2016, 06:33:20 pm
For the past couple of days I've had "After all that we've been through, You know I'll make it up to you" stuck in my earbrain. Just those two lines of some American slush-rock ballad. I've just looked it up and it's Chicago and it's actually called Hard to Say I'm Sorry. Well, I really didn't need to know that and I don't need to know any more lines.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Redlight on 06 December, 2016, 10:51:53 pm
It's even worse when you have a few bars of a piece of music in your head and can't remember what it is.

I have one of those at the moment. Worryingly, I'm pretty sure it's from a 70s prog-rock track.  That's a lot of my collection to work through to find it  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Torslanda on 07 December, 2016, 04:23:11 pm
Sing it for us. Someone may be able to help...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 January, 2017, 01:03:47 pm
Two weekends ago, as I was slogging along an unexpectedly muddy (always used to be gravel!) section of the Fosse Way, my internal ears were wormed with Yazoo's old classic Didn't I Bring Your Love Down (All Night). Curious, but enjoyable and the repeated lines make for a good riding rhythm.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 31 January, 2017, 02:40:40 pm
Radio Ga Ga, courtesy of a WVM in a traffic light queue yesterday.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: L CC on 01 February, 2017, 01:37:15 pm
Despacito (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG3a9ThSWrA). I had this most of the weekend thanks to a poor selection for turbo time. And now it's back. IT'S NOT EVEN IN ENGLISH SO I CAN'T SING ALONG!!!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 February, 2017, 12:46:25 pm
Fookin' 'ell it's Fred Titmuss!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Feanor on 08 February, 2017, 09:08:00 pm
A couple of days ago, at work, we were discussing Oil Well Image Logs, where instruments lowered into the borehole record photo-realistic images of the borehole wall.
We were comparing these with core photos, which are photographic images of retrieved core samples.

One difference is that the Image Logs are from the inside, looking out.
The core photos are from the outside, looking in.

Ever since that discussion, I've had Pink Floyd's "Wot's... Uh the Deal?" from 'Obscured by Clouds' going around in my head.
For about 2 days now.

Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 08 February, 2017, 10:31:37 pm
Budapest by George Ezra.

Could have been worse.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Deano on 08 February, 2017, 10:34:05 pm
There's somebody working in my office called Peter Gunn...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: fuzzy on 08 February, 2017, 10:49:19 pm
Are they on a mission from god?
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Torslanda on 09 February, 2017, 09:05:44 am
Glod, more like...  8)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Torslanda on 03 March, 2017, 02:24:08 pm
Today's ear worm. 'Nitromors' by Enrique Iglesias.

You're absolutely welcome...!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 03 March, 2017, 04:23:48 pm
I thought it was Wichita Lineman, courtesy of road.cc and some plungers (http://road.cc/content/news/218361-toilet-plungers-are-being-used-create-guerrilla-bike-lanes-and-highlight-crap)...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 09 March, 2017, 09:55:41 am
This morning, I had an unusual soft-rock mash up of Barracuda, Magic Man and The Power of Love (Lewis, H, et al). 

It's the pause.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: red marley on 10 March, 2017, 12:18:54 pm
I am happy to have I am the Resurrection by the Stone Roses nestled in my ear, but it keeps morphing into I am the One And Only by Chesney Hawkes. This Is Not A Good Thing.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: IanDG on 12 March, 2017, 11:10:30 am
On today's ride:

Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
Looking forward to a little afternoon delight......

...........Skyrockets in flight!
Afternoon Delight!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 13 March, 2017, 11:59:37 am
Hmm...this morning I started off with a medley of ZZ Top guitar solos :)

Which somehow, and I wish I knew how, in order that I can prevent it recurring, became Big When I Was Little by Eliza Doolittle. :'(
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: andrewc on 13 March, 2017, 05:51:33 pm
I'm on holiday in Venice, so it's Mahler.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 13 March, 2017, 05:54:47 pm
I've just cycled about 30km with "Cheap Shitty Pink USB Charger From China" in my head.  This is suboptimal.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 14 March, 2017, 10:57:10 am
I have taken the precaution against that of not knowing the tune in question.

OTOH, I can recommend listening to a programme about Siouxsie & The Banshees before leaving home in the morning.  Hong Kong Garden!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 14 March, 2017, 01:54:00 pm
Quote from: clarion on 14 March, 2017, 10:57:10 am
I have taken the precaution against that of not knowing the tune in question.

It's one of Big Clive[1]'s creations, notable for not involving anything actually exploding or catching fire.  As well as functioning as a public safety announcement, it also answers the important question of what Kraftwerk would sound like if they were Glaswegian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioAq7PI1Uwg
https://youtu.be/ioAq7PI1Uwg


[1] Of Davie Dimmers fame.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 11 April, 2017, 04:32:47 pm
Do you wanna be in my gang?

Well, if it's all the same to you, Gary, I'd actually much rather not, now you come to mention it...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 April, 2017, 07:42:30 pm
Quote from: clarion on 11 April, 2017, 04:32:47 pm
Do you wanna be in my gang?

Well, if it's all the same to you, Gary, I'd actually much rather not, now you come to mention it...
Would you rather touch him? Where? There?

A new Korean food place has opened over the road called On Bap and now I have a constant Hanson earworm.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 July, 2017, 02:13:39 pm
Lords of the Backstage by Marillion. Send help.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: PhilO on 31 August, 2017, 09:36:37 am
Ooops! I spent part of breakfast explaining ear worms to the offspring (7 & 9) using the example of how I can still remember entire verses of Agadoo and the Spitting Image Chicken Song after 30- odd years....

Big mistake.  One might even say schoolboy error. Just kill me now.   :facepalm:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Aunt Maud on 13 September, 2017, 09:56:34 am
Todays ear worm is my abusive brothers' foghorn voice.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 October, 2017, 07:11:15 am
DJ Random served up TEH QUO's "Gerdundula" the other day and I am starting to wish he hadn't.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 27 October, 2017, 02:07:33 pm
I've got the Marble Machine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q) tune in a loop in my head.  As earworms go it's not a bad one, but it was giving me dangerous ideas about the Orrery.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: clarion on 30 October, 2017, 03:34:49 pm
The other day, I set off on the bike just as Teletubbies started on the idiotlantern.  So I got that for much of my ride, but by Kidderminster, it had somehow morphed into Yeh Yeh by Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames*.  Then, by way of Yeye (of which I don't know many words, I had got to Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus before I had reached the hill to the station... :o
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Basil on 01 January, 2018, 04:33:17 pm
'Paint it Black' today.
I've no idea why.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 01 January, 2018, 09:38:14 pm
♫ ...so long, so long, so long, so long, so long, so long, so long, so long, so long, so long, so long, so long and thanks for all the fish... ♫
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Tigerrr on 02 January, 2018, 08:15:38 am
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose.

two weeks in and I can't get rid of it. I fear it may be permanent.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Guy on 23 March, 2018, 09:32:41 am
Curse that Tune Association thread. I've got the B&R's version of Strawberry Fair going round and round & round and round et round &c &c in my head

Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 April, 2018, 03:08:01 pm
Everybody's doing the Len Ganley stance
Everybody's doing the Len Ganley stance
no no no no no more locomotion
no no no more dancing in the streets
no no no no no more mashed potato
no no no more shuffling of the feet
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: nicknack on 11 April, 2018, 09:11:26 am
I woke up to "Things", the Bobby Darin one, this morn. Gawd knows why.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Ham on 11 April, 2018, 10:01:29 am
Ever since Cuba (now > two weeks ago) I can't shake Chan Chan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXwLBS3yUkA). Actually, I don't mind.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: woollypigs on 15 June, 2018, 09:24:55 am
While driving in Scotland the music player played a track at random. I got tonnes of tracks on random best off and mixes, that I often never listen too and/or remember I got. This track tickled my grey cells and today I found the track that I have spent a good 20 years to find. Now and again a bit of the song popped up as an earworm and I knew nothing about other than the word Scot. Back in the mid 80's I remember we were on a school trip and we sang that a bit from it as we went to the candy store, as it gave a good echo in the valley.

I just found it and it is not anything near what I remember, I was sure it was a bit like Status Quo/ELO. But it is Italian disco/pop instead - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oorzwn4E5xc

It is just the first bit (the lalala bit) that used to go around my head for a day or two to only then bugger off and I couldn't recall again.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Pedaldog. on 16 June, 2018, 12:13:40 am
https://youtu.be/8EtPSn3qdEI

Stuck in my head for the last few days.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Torslanda on 16 June, 2018, 08:57:54 am
Quote from: Pedaldog on 16 June, 2018, 12:13:40 am
https://youtu.be/8EtPSn3qdEI

Stuck in my head for the last few days.

Can I offer a couple of sticks of gelignite...?
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: andyoxon on 16 June, 2018, 09:38:36 am
The Marcels' lunar tune...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP8O_UwVjFs
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Pedaldog. on 16 June, 2018, 12:58:50 pm
Quote from: Torslanda on 16 June, 2018, 08:57:54 am
Quote from: Pedaldog on 16 June, 2018, 12:13:40 am
https://youtu.be/8EtPSn3qdEI

Stuck in my head for the last few days.

Can I offer a couple of sticks of gelignite...?

Make it a straight dozen as, by Association of Memory, I have Drupi doing Vado Via in between Mocedocedazed!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Ham on 23 August, 2018, 09:35:17 am
Blame it on the news today, but I've got that One R Toe Level stuck.

Here, you can, too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmkMEoVb6rA
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Torslanda on 23 August, 2018, 10:22:59 am
LA LA LA LA LA...

Not listening!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: andrewc on 24 August, 2018, 11:07:04 am
I’m on a slow train from Liverpool to Ely. Now I can’t get Flanders & Swann out of my head.(or rather Joe Stilgoe’s cover).
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: rr on 24 August, 2018, 12:55:35 pm
The entire Runrig back catalogue after the last dance.

Sent from my moto x4 using Tapatalk

Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: woollypigs on 24 August, 2018, 01:07:01 pm
Quote from: rr on 24 August, 2018, 12:55:35 pm
The entire Runrig back catalogue after the last dance.

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The entire discography in Peli's family's ears for the last 3 weeks. It started months ago but peaked about two weeks before Run Rig's last concert, The Final Mile. That the whole lot went to in Stirling last week, I think they enjoyed it as they are still singing/humming their tunes. It has been so bad that I got the tunes as ear worms too now, heck I can sing along to the Celtic hits too ...
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: rr on 24 August, 2018, 04:53:23 pm
Final Mile = last tour
Last Dance =Stirling concerts
You not a fan? They were bigger in Germany and Denmark than in England.
We went on Friday, mini was wearing one of my t-shirts that was older than her.

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Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: woollypigs on 24 August, 2018, 05:04:09 pm
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fmkGmqX8HZFibI2Y8Ve6R4OxbfMgiRobbbN0OX_9pRQ1uG-W7OQHr1-SufJarm2EBgBV_Ea7Rz-ufT081Q2OQkrsRDWnnJzUaKYzqr6M4Ny9it_hSfpkr7H2ybdnvMToc1xoNiikQFE=w2400)
Photo from Friday.

I had heard some of their tunes in DK but I didn't know their name until I meet Peli, then learned how massive they were in DK. I saw them in in Manchester about 2'ish years ago, which I enjoyed. But when the option was laid in front of me - put the mutt in a kennel/house sitter and see the band OR go camping with said mutt while others went and sang - I did pick the latter :)

Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: spesh on 24 August, 2018, 06:00:54 pm
Courtesy of Leftpondian developments, I've had either Cypress Hill's Insane In The Membrane or Fun Lovin' Criminals' King Of New York playing on my mental radio recently.  ;D
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: rr on 24 August, 2018, 07:41:51 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 24 August, 2018, 05:04:09 pm
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fmkGmqX8HZFibI2Y8Ve6R4OxbfMgiRobbbN0OX_9pRQ1uG-W7OQHr1-SufJarm2EBgBV_Ea7Rz-ufT081Q2OQkrsRDWnnJzUaKYzqr6M4Ny9it_hSfpkr7H2ybdnvMToc1xoNiikQFE=w2400)
Photo from Friday.

I had heard some of their tunes in DK but I didn't know their name until I meet Peli, then learned how massive they were in DK. I saw them in in Manchester about 2'ish years ago, which I enjoyed. But when the option was laid in front of me - put the mutt in a kennel/house sitter and see the band OR go camping with said mutt while others went and sang - I did pick the latter :)
One of mine from Friday
(https://photos.app.goo.gl/df2Le2BYstZguNXU9)


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Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: rr on 24 August, 2018, 10:43:55 pm
Quote from: rr on 24 August, 2018, 07:41:51 pm
Quote from: woollypigs on 24 August, 2018, 05:04:09 pm
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fmkGmqX8HZFibI2Y8Ve6R4OxbfMgiRobbbN0OX_9pRQ1uG-W7OQHr1-SufJarm2EBgBV_Ea7Rz-ufT081Q2OQkrsRDWnnJzUaKYzqr6M4Ny9it_hSfpkr7H2ybdnvMToc1xoNiikQFE=w2400)
Photo from Friday.

I had heard some of their tunes in DK but I didn't know their name until I meet Peli, then learned how massive they were in DK. I saw them in in Manchester about 2'ish years ago, which I enjoyed. But when the option was laid in front of me - put the mutt in a kennel/house sitter and see the band OR go camping with said mutt while others went and sang - I did pick the latter :)
One of mine from Friday
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p8mLO3bAS5SM1CaPQmXZSQgJJmI8TKXJlIYwqyLtkRVQ4Oi41b_iBRRFFrZQElsELZQlAk6obfa5pjKKywqfm9d2HZv5340n4Fm7DRURVI5lNkngdGKdcwF3RCSrVKY2dPjBGRIduDx-Uhmg2NTjjy_UujYPE0GTyUHLNjYx-UG-dPSr4Ag6Iq2BxNAMYK3Asa64Ud0ae36BluxpN0BXbPXhUiS13UmssaCCRDy5mu_LWuiR_uJySbfV0aStng9RtpLDs0iGrmngI0zF5K11xdKACA_1DzgPrv3zC6zJY7SDRlFarwVuK8F8fOxIq6Fug9oFzwbA9lpQvYwDcJVINoLxTthG7KPSLTI-m1UGYp1HeiwomJBEr3YaWuUDcrhq4Bz_SBYGUyo8u7aop6QCQ9dYauot5oeUo3cS_b4ig6xuOQlZN869atgECOSYlTHyuAqs1H7TCEUdBVLCA7DSWvxpd6SVKovjwEuIjPEN5M2hHOT9yNceWhPZPC76VSVworolZ97JyFKJr2U6lo6QCPec2kQGE-RxFh6a9i0uEKcPW00K9mutCdjkf3fGSXsy6DxLCAQyjJuxdFWpLEi_CC7sruVzUsNtZhoNYY2BeTcND9P0tXgHN7U-8YNFMTyg=w1340-h1005-no)


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Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: rogerzilla on 05 January, 2019, 06:28:45 pm
Baby shark do do dodododo
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: T42 on 03 February, 2019, 09:36:07 am
On yesterday's ride, part 2, just the refrain from this:

https://youtu.be/gXlfXirQF3A

It came back in the middle of the night, too.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: caerau on 13 May, 2019, 08:30:55 pm
Aargh, for two days now...


wait for it...


THE grand-daddy of all earworms  :facepalm:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFkYhBs5eNc


(mna mna)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Legs on 13 May, 2019, 08:41:19 pm
Three little maids from school are we
Pert as a school-girl well can be
Filled to the brim with girlish glee
Three little maids from school!

Doing my head in!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 13 May, 2019, 11:18:29 pm
Pink panther, on account of drying out my tent after the weekend's ants' nest incident.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: andrewc on 19 September, 2019, 04:35:04 pm
With current legal events ongoing & much mention of Lord Pannick I can’t get that Smiths song out of my head, and I’m not a fan  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: IanDG on 09 December, 2019, 11:16:07 am
Blighty wants his country back
Fifty-inch screen in his cul-de-sac
Wombic charm of the Union Jack
As he cries at the price of a bacon bap

Islam didn’t eat your hamster
Change isn’t a crime
So won't you take my hand sir
And sing with me in time

G R E A T
G R E A T

Blighty wants her blue passport
Not quite sure what the union’s for
Burning bridges and closing doors
Not sure what she sees on the seashore

Islam didn’t eat your hamster
Change isn’t a crime
So won't you take my hand sister
And sing with me in time

G R E A T
G R E A T

You can have it all, I don’t mind
Just get ready to work overtime

‘Cause we’re all in this together
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: FifeingEejit on 09 December, 2019, 03:47:47 pm
For a moment there i thought the Proclaimers had got a bit edgier with their political offerings.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Basil on 12 March, 2020, 01:59:05 pm
Bloke last night singing 'My Corona' to the tune of 'My Sharona' by the Knack.
Currently permanently stuck in my head.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 March, 2020, 01:49:52 pm
Someone actually played the original over the PA before Samantha Fish's set last week  :sick:  But the followed it with The Stranglers "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)" so they're at least partly forgiven.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: spesh on 13 March, 2020, 02:13:02 pm
With apologies to Rammstein:

Flu,
Flu hast,
Flu hast mich...

One or two lines from Beavis & Butthead Do America keep popping up, unbidden - not least when I am in a supermarket.  :demon:  ;)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 October, 2020, 12:54:54 am
Powderfinger ~ Neil Young.  Except it keeps morphing into “The Sound Of Silence”.

Aaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhh!
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Kim on 23 July, 2021, 07:05:15 pm
ALESTORM - Fucked With An Anchor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th4Czv1j3F8)

This earworm dedicated to Bloody Stupid Johnson and his Westminster compatriots.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 July, 2021, 10:13:49 pm
This Unit hereby endorses this ^^^^ product, service or sentiment.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Guy on 28 July, 2021, 09:57:35 am
Thanks to a couple of posts in the Grumble thread I now have the theme tune to Mr Benn stuck in my head.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: citoyen on 29 July, 2021, 11:43:57 am
This is getting a lot of airplay on 6music at the moment, and it is quite likely the most insanely catchy/irritating song you will hear all year - has a touch of the Flying Lizards about it:

Chaise Longue by Wet Leg
https://youtu.be/Zd9jeJk2UHQ

Won't be everyone's cup of tea but I love it - has some great lines, eg "Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?"

And the video is fantastic too.
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Pingu on 31 August, 2021, 10:54:25 pm
California Uber Alles  :thumbsup: One of my better earworms, at least I know most of the lyrics  :)
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: andyoxon on 15 March, 2024, 09:19:56 am
Turns out the opening 'motif' as in Lisan al Gaib (Dune 2 sound track), is an unexpected ear worm, with connections to actual, if fictional, worms...
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=HnES5cg-5Rc
Title: Re: Ear Worms
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 March, 2024, 02:05:03 pm
Quote from: citoyen on 29 July, 2021, 11:43:57 am
This is getting a lot of airplay on 6music at the moment, and it is quite likely the most insanely catchy/irritating song you will hear all year - has a touch of the Flying Lizards about it:

Chaise Longue by Wet Leg
https://youtu.be/Zd9jeJk2UHQ

Won't be everyone's cup of tea but I love it - has some great lines, eg "Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?"

And the video is fantastic too.
It does make the second sister out to be a female Andrew Ridgeley though!