In fiction, one of the most common methods of keeping telepaths from reading your mind is to have something else running through your head—like nursery rhymes, math problems, limericks…or loud, catchy, or annoying music.
It’s that last method I’m interested in, today. So, does anyone here have any song recommendations?
It can be a song you like, a song you hate, a song that easily gets stuck in your head (an “earworm”), or one that could be played over headphones at high volume.
So far, I’ve got:
-Jisas Yu Holem Hand Blong Me—From The Thin Red Line, notably used in the trailer.
-When I Was a Young Girl—Rasputina.
-Respighi’s Pines of the Appian Way (First part’s a bit quiet, but the rest is like a friggin virus.)
-The “bonus” couple of minutes of Beck’s Blackhole. (Not really music, just electronic noise.)
-Ferry 'Cross the Mersey by Marshall & Alexander
-The Happy Tree Friends theme
And, of course, the granddaddy of them all…It’s a Small World After All.
So…any other suggestions for how to how to burn out my cortex through song?
Anything that can not be understood by someone hearing it the first time, like most death metal. AC/DC works well, too.
Anything of earworm quality, especially with a repetitive beat that will make people bob their head. That song from the SNL skit about the Roxbury with Will Ferrel works well.
Anything painful. Small World, Macarena, Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Anything complex. If you’re really trying to orchestrate Beethoven’s 5th in your head, there’s no room for anything else.
Not only will it never leave your (or your telepath’s) head, it’ll drive him mad, and scare off other telepaths. (Isn’t your OWN madness a small price to pay?)
