Sleigh Ride.
Even worse, because I don’t even know most of the words. My brain keeps mixing them in with just sounds and repeating the words I do know over and over. Argghhh.
My brain is currently stuck on “Light On” by David Cook, from his shiny new album.
The worst one I ever had, by far, was “Heart And Soul” by T’pau way back in the 80s. That stuck with me for a couple months.
I’ve had both When Doves Cry by Prince and Fernando by Abba stuck in my head for more than 6 months each. A buddy of mine in college had the melody from Miss You by the Rolling Stones stuck in his head for so long that he became a pariah because he was always unconciously humming it when he wasn’t thinking about anything else and it got stuck in everyone else’s head too. It was well over a year that he was doing it too.
“Jingle Bell Rock.” This happens to me every December. I hate that stupid fucking song and I don’t even know the words and it’s so virulently infectious.
I was out shopping with my daughter yesterday and the store was playing that song where they sing “How far is heaven?” over and over. It got well stuck in my head. As we were driving off my daughter piped up and said, “Mom, I’ve got that song stuck in my head.”
We still needed a few more things, so we drove to another store. After about two minutes of shopping, guess what song came on?
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”.
#1 My son LOVES the song and plays it or sings it a lot.
#2 It is the song to call in on for my local radio station. You can win a $2000 diamond.
So I have been singing or humming it quite a bit for about a week already!
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I’d be jabbing my stupid brain with a pointy stick long before it got to six months on the same song. Damn, that sounds like a special kind of Hell, even if I totally dig “When Doves Cry.”
As did I. And it was just the lead keyboard riff, over and over and over. Da-da-da-da…da-da-da-da (clap sound).
For the past three days I’ve had the Sting version of “Spread a Little Happiness” from Brimstone & Treacle stuck in my brain.
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One of the local dinner theaters is doing Footloose and they keep playing that damn song in their adverts. It is really starting to get on my nerves.
I had a holiday song stuck in my head last night too, but for me it was Sara Silverman’s “Give the Jew Girl Toys”.
It could be worse–for years, one of my coworkers has occasionally whistled the Elmo’s World theme song. His son is about ten now, so it can’t be getting in there fresh each time…
Gypsy Woman! In heavy rotation on Radio Cosmic Relief Earworms.
This is also the most inadvertently gay video since Culture Club.
Here’s my problem. The main earworms change out occasionally: but everything ends with Julianne Hough’s That Song In My Head.
Example:
“I wanna love you, but I’d better not touch:
I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop:
And I’ve had that song in my head all day.”
It doesn’t matter what song, genre or artist: it all ends with that dadblasted song.
The all time worst earworm I ever had was after I saw “Walk The Line” or whatever that Johnny Cash biopic was called. There’s a song that I first heard back in the eighties by George Thorogood that is performed in the movie and I had it stuck in my head for weeks after seeing it. The song’s called “Cocaine Blues” and it goes;
*Early one mornin’ while makin’ the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
I went right home and I went to bed
I stuck that lovin’ 44 beneath my head
Got up next mornin’ and I grabbed that gun
took a shot of cocaine and away I run
Made a good run but I run too slow
they overtook me down in Juarez Mexico*
The weird thing was that I was hearing the Thorogood version, not the version I had just seen.