# Please help me. I've had a song stuck in my head all day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023 "2003-07-12T19:27:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/21 "2003-07-13T03:48:54Z")
You can dance, you can dance, having the time of your life… I can see Agnetha and Friedja in their sprayed on outfits as I type… Yabba-ABBA-doo! ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/22 "2003-07-13T04:22:40Z")
Lean out the window and serenade your neighbors with the song. Within a few seconds it will have left your head but will be stuck in your neighbors’ heads. 9 out of 10 doctors recommend this, but don’t be surprised if soon the neighbors threaten you or throw stuff at you. Hey, I just finished my nightly free concert for the neighborhood… ---
**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/23 "2003-07-13T05:11:23Z")
I once had Dancing Queen so firmly entrenched in my head that I could actually hear it, as if it was playing faintly in the next room. It was one of the few times in my life that I seriously considered the possibility that I was going clinically insane. DIG IT, the Dancing Queen!!! ---
**Author:** ![acrossthesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/24 "2003-07-13T05:14:01Z")
“Seven Nation Army” by the White Stripes repeated endlessly in my head last night to the point where I could not sleep the entire night. Now I have Dancing Queen too but for the time being that’s a pleasant change. For the time being. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/25 "2003-07-13T05:47:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by presidebt \* > Though some joker did manage to inject my **fagile** gray matter with some freaking Lionel Ritchie this afternoon in the Pit. Luckily, I can’t recall the poster’s name. I hope you don’t mean to say that you brain’s so far gone that it’s gone gay;) > [@](#): > > I once had Dancing Queen so firmly entrenched in my head that I could actually hear it, as if it was playing faintly in the next room. It was one of the few times in my life that I seriously considered the possibility that I was going clinically insane. That very thing, for me, was one of the driving forces behind going on Risperdal. It’s an antipsychotic drug. I can still play music in my head at will, though, as long as I’ve heard it enough to remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/26 "2003-07-13T06:40:11Z")
[Hypothermia](http://www.threebrain.com/songs/hypo.html) gets randomly stuck in my head at odd hours. And sometimes for hours at a time. Especially at work where the plant is so loud and for my job I have to wear ear plugs and I pretty much have a job where I work independently from the rest of my line so not much social contact even if we could hear each other. I think the earplugs are keeping the song in my head! It’s a conspiracy I tell you! That and if you take a look at random lines in the plant you can see people in their own little worlds dancing to the tunes in their heads. We do pass them along to each other off and on if it’s something the other person knows. Hypothermia isn’t on the list to pass off to them so I offer it up to my fellow dopers. And it doesn’t help that my heathens run around singing this from time to time either. jr8, the Musk Ox one was very entertaining. Is it a series or the same bit all the time? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/27 "2003-07-13T07:23:27Z")
I’ve not been able to get Kumbaya out of my head. And at times it’s that evil sing that the Flanders kids have sung: “Rise and shine, and give up your glory glory.” It’s all I can do to crank up Bitch singing “Leatherbound” to 11 to pry it out of my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/28 "2003-07-13T10:00:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kricket \* > \*\*jr8, the Musk Ox one was very entertaining. Is it a series or the same bit all the time? \*\* There are six different Tales of the Blode installments on the rathergood.com website, all of which are similarly insane. The videos with the singing kittens are more entertaining, especially this one. Of course, if you need shock therapy, [this one](http://www.rathergood.com/vines/) is probably more useful. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/29 "2003-07-13T10:25:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eats\_Crayons \* > **How many tmes do I have to tell you people???** > > The sure-fire way of getting a song out of your head is to sing _Amazing Grace_ to the tune of _Gilligan’s Island_! Or, even more deadly, the other way around. JFTR, the lyrics to “Amazing Grace”, “House of the Rising Sun”, and the _Gilligan’s Island_ theme can all be sung to each other’s tunes. And the lyrics to all three of those songs can be sung to the tune of “Stairway to Heaven”, but the reverse isn’t true. You don’t like the tune in your head right now? That oughta drive it out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/30 "2003-07-13T10:46:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\* > > JFTR, the lyrics to “Amazing Grace”, “House of the Rising Sun”, and the _Gilligan’s Island_ theme can all be sung to each other’s tunes. > > And the lyrics to all three of those songs can be sung to the tune of “Stairway to Heaven”, but the reverse isn’t true. > > \*\* Geez…thanks for that info **RTFirefly**. My nocturnal meanderings are now contaminated by your helpful input. Arggghhhhhh. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/31 "2003-07-13T10:48:19Z")
_And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed_ _Singin’ and jinglin’ the jango_ _Floatin’ like the heavens above_ _It looks like muskrat love…_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/32 "2003-07-13T10:55:50Z")
Argh! I wouldn’t have complained about my Robbie Williams tune (Something beautiful, btw) to everybody yesterday, if I had known how annoying it was to have it replaced by Dancing Queen. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/33 "2003-07-13T11:49:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KRC \* > \*\*Lean out the window and serenade your neighbors with the song. Within a few seconds it will have left your head but will be stuck in your neighbors’ heads. 9 out of 10 doctors recommend this \*\* I’m thinkin that the 10th doctor is one of your neighbors… ---
**Author:** ![acrossthesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023/34 "2003-07-13T13:56:16Z")
For reasons unknown to me, I now have the theme to Fresh Prince of Bel Air stuck in my head. “In west philadelphia born and raised, on a playground is where I spent most of my days…” Strangely, I haven’t seen that show in years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-ive-had-a-song-stuck-in-my-head-all-day/188023.md?page=1)