# My earworm cured! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-earworm-cured/487438 "2009-02-25T23:27:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-earworm-cured/487438/1 "2009-02-25T23:27:17Z")
There’s the one kind of earworm that’s (for me, at least) just annoying. The tune that gets stuck in your head and your brain keeps in on repeat for a day or two. Then there’s the one that’s pure torture of Sisyphusian magnitude – the one you can’t quite place. I’ve had a few bars of one particular song pop up in my head every couple of months – this has gone on for YEARS, mind you – and I’ve never been able to name the song or figure out where I’d heard it. I just cracked it, entirely by accident. This afternoon I downloaded a collection of James Bond theme songs from i-Tunes. Turns out the mystery music was the theme from _You Only Live Twice_, a movie I haven’t seen since, oh, 1982. I guess I can fire my shrink now. ---
**Author:** ![timbicile59](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@timbicile59](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timbicile59)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-earworm-cured/487438/2 "2009-02-26T00:25:25Z")
Not so much an earworm but a song that knew existed. I didn’t know the title or the band. The other day I plugged Blue Oyster Cult into imeem and I heard this. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DiF8uSulVc0/hqdefault.jpg "Dominance and Submission-Blue Oyster Cult") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiF8uSulVc0) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-earworm-cured/487438/3 "2009-02-26T04:09:22Z")
I got the theme to Dr. Mario stuck in my head right around the end of the NES era (199 . . . 1ish?) and didn’t figure out what it was until George W. was president. I think it just came to me one day, out of the blue. I hummed it for my brother to get confirmation and it turns out he could’ve told me at any time :smack:. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-earworm-cured/487438/4 "2009-02-26T04:19:18Z")
**My _earthworm_ cured!** How could you tell it was sick? ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-earworm-cured/487438/5 "2009-02-26T17:11:09Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > **My _earthworm_ cured!** > > How could you tell it was sick? It just needed a bit of tequila. (rim shot) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-earworm-cured/487438/6 "2009-02-26T18:50:28Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > It just needed a bit of tequila. (rim shot) Is that rim salted, or not? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-earworm-cured/487438/7 "2009-02-26T19:38:07Z")
I recently discovered that some people have earworms at a severe level. Not only do they have a song running through their heads, they **actually hear it**. It usually happens when they’re in complete silence (such as trying to go to sleep), and it’s at a very uncomfortable volume. And as if that doesn’t suck enough, it’s never cool tunes. It’s usually something horrible, like marching bands or Ethyl Merman or something. Just be glad you don’t have that! ---
**Author:** ![timbicile59](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@timbicile59](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timbicile59)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-earworm-cured/487438/8 "2009-02-26T22:39:18Z")
Unless I’m actually listening to music, I always have a song in my head. Sometimes annoying crap that i have to work at overriding.