I can dispel the tune of Constantinople from my brain. I can even overcome the lyrics of Particle Man.
It’s I Palindrome I that drives me batty!
…and I am a snake head eating the head on the opposite side…
- aaargh! *
I would recommend Flood. In general, it’s their most well-regarded albums. And it contains the aforementioned “Particle Man” and “Birdhouse in your Soul.”
(I’m a huge TMBG fan. I’ve seen them 12 or 13 times.)
I get Don’t Let’s Start stuck in my head. And every time it starts to happen, all I can think is “Don’t dont don’t let’s start…this is the worst part…” And off it goes. AAAARGHHH.
Now that’s just evil. My high school basically used “Duke of Earl” as its theme song (the school is called Earl Marriott) so it’s been burned into my brain. I’ve been away from there for nearly a decade, and it still just takes one little mention of that song to get it in my head.
I’ve also spent the last few days with the Scissor Sisters’ version of “Comfortably Numb” stuck in my head.
::Peanuthead marches through thread singing::
Oh, I’d love to be and Oscar Mayer weiner! 
Well, not to put too fine a point on it…
And ChoosyChips, the OP mentions that my wife was annoyed that I planted this song in her head for eternity, hence “ruining” her.
My husband is a bass player and ruins me all the time. You know that Cream song, Badge? When I hear it, what I actually hear is a very faint version of it and a loud, loud bass-line. “Boom boom boom a-boomboomboom aboomboomboom.”
Anybody know of a link to the video of that? I found one online from work last summer and stupidly didn’t save the link.
My wife didn’t know of the Allman Brothers (original) version of Jessica until I pointed out that TMBJ covered it in theor own special way.
She’s not too pop-culture savvy.
The only thing I have ever found that can pre-empt TMBG even temporarily is Violent Femmes. Pretty much anything from their eponymous album, but Blister In The Sun, Add It Up, and Prove My Love work best for me.
Of course, then you’re stuck with Violent Femmes in your head. Like this:
…they have a fight, triangle wins…
No, dammit! I refuse!
…Just last night I was reminded of just how bad it had gotten and just how sick I had become…
:smack:
Ice Ice Baby (dum dum dum duh duh dum dum)
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
covers ears with hands, tries to cover eyes with hands, too
TOO
DAMN
LATE!!!
Starts singing Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner”
Do-do-doo-do, do-do-doo-do do-do-doo-do-do-do-do-doo…
They’ve got a two CD 20 year best-of album that’s worth EVERY Buck.
(Make a hole with a gun per-pen-dic-u-lar
To the name of this town in a desk top globe
Exit wound in a for-en-na-shun
mumble mumble town
for the one this was written for.)
My loving daughter just left a message on my audix at work
I’m picking up a baby bumble bee… won’t my momee be so proud of me…oh I’m picking up a baby bumble bee…
I usually use TMBG songs to get rid of other earworms.
“Maaa-mmal, Maaa-mmal, their names are called, they raise a paw…”