# ID this ear worm. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687 "2014-04-22T15:11:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/1 "2014-04-22T15:11:20Z")
Some douche rolled up next to me at a light in his slammed pick up with the 20" chrome wheels. Then proceeded to annoy everyone within a 50 yard radius with his fucking hooptie stereo. The song has to be the most irritating song I’ve ever heard in my life. It actually made me angry. The beat is slow but the singing is uniquely distinct. I think it’s a dude and he is whaling in a shrill faux crying effect all in the key of screaming fish wife. The lyrics are indiscernible to me but the verses pause long enough for him to take another breath before he resumes the shrill crying. I woke up with it in my head last night and it’s plagued my brain ever since. Anybody care to take a guess at the weapon of auditory assault? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/2 "2014-04-22T15:21:37Z")
Was it Biz Markie’s _Just A Friend_? ETA: the phrase “the key of screaming fish wife” made me Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there and got me yelled at on headset (because we were in the middle of a rehearsal)! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/3 "2014-04-22T15:24:08Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Was it Biz Markie’s _Just A Friend_? Wow, that’s what popped in to my head as I clicked on the title. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/4 "2014-04-22T15:24:22Z")
Nope. Much too lyrical. Think more along the lines of ululation. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/5 "2014-04-22T15:25:45Z")
Just a Friend is a good guess, but I find the lyrics easy to understand. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/6 "2014-04-22T15:52:04Z")
It’s not an exaggeration when I say the “singing” is really more of a sustained and repeated shrill crying - catch in the voice and all. Music is minimal. Just a simple beat. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/7 "2014-04-22T16:02:39Z")
Could it be “[Wordless Chorus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OMpaFvTOFk)” by My Morning Jacket? (go to three minutes in where the real crying starts). Not really the sort of thing you’d blast out to the general public though, I quite like it, I have it on my grooveshark playlist somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/8 "2014-04-22T16:03:33Z")
Theme song to _Farscape?_ ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/9 "2014-04-22T16:05:13Z")
A song by Aerosmith comes to mind but it was one of their hits so you’d probably already know it. Don’t know the title but the refrain is “I miss you baby and I don’t want to miss a thing”. Blew several radios to smithereens with a shotgun when I heard it come on. Scared the hell out of the kids but it was worth it. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/10 "2014-04-22T16:07:05Z")
Not “Wordless Chorus”. I recognize that as music and actual singing. Definitely not Aerosmith. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/11 "2014-04-22T16:09:10Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Some douche rolled up next to me at a light in his slammed pick up with the 20" chrome wheels. Then proceeded to annoy everyone within a 50 yard radius with his fucking hooptie stereo. The song has to be the most irritating song I’ve ever heard in my life. It actually made me angry. The beat is slow but the singing is uniquely distinct. I think it’s a dude and he is whaling in a shrill faux crying effect all in the key of screaming fish wife. The lyrics are indiscernible to me but the verses pause long enough for him to take another breath before he resumes the shrill crying. > > I woke up with it in my head last night and it’s plagued my brain ever since. > > Anybody care to take a guess at the weapon of auditory assault? I’d love to help you. But it just seems close to impossible that anyone would be able to identify the song based on the info you wrote. I may be mistaken. I may have missed something. But I just don’t see how it would be possible to identify the song. Can you give us a genre? Was it Country & Western or Rock 'n Roll or Heavy Metal? Or anything close to any of those? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/12 "2014-04-22T16:16:51Z")
From WAAAAY out in left field: “The Host of Seraphim,” by Dead Can Dance. From “The Mist” soundtrack. Your use of “ululation” made me think of it. Not much of a beat, though. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-ear-worm/686687/13 "2014-04-22T16:21:22Z")
Rap would be the closest fit. I wish I could provide more details than that. Like I said, the lyrics were incomprehensible but unique in the crying hysterics. At the risk of profiling, the guy in the pickup was white, late 20’s, full sleeve tats, pierced ears. Busy looking around to see who was noticing him being a dick.