# Quick, what's your current earworm? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 2, 2015, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433 "2015-06-02T10:22:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![maxjohnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@maxjohnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maxjohnson)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/361 "2016-03-07T18:30:29Z")
A week ago it was Bowie - Starman. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/362 "2016-03-10T23:43:30Z")
[“Badstreet U.S.A.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhjDX13bK8I), arguably the greatest theme in professional wrestling history. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/363 "2016-03-10T23:56:06Z")
For some reason, [Ian Dury - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick](https://youtu.be/0WGVgfjnLqc). ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/364 "2016-03-11T01:07:46Z")
Exes and Ohs by Elle King. Crazy catchy. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/365 "2016-03-11T15:43:42Z")
Nothing But Thieves - [Trip Switch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8NCwteej8Q) The song has so many hooks, it’s on an endless repeat loop in my head. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/366 "2016-03-11T15:57:28Z")
[Crush Story from Too Much Joy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzjGHMSj6Kk) Evidently my head thinks its 1992. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/367 "2016-03-11T17:05:56Z")
Lucius, [“Almost Makes Me Wish for Rain”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBiyWLpwqp0) From their new one. Very poppy for them, but that chorus will not leave my head. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/368 "2016-03-13T01:06:03Z")
Dillinger Escape Plan - “Unretrofied” Normally not an earworm type of band, the vocals in the chorus here definitely burrow into the ole noggin. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Qlj3hr0GoxM/maxresdefault.jpg "THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - Unretrofied") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlj3hr0GoxM) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/369 "2016-03-13T13:15:03Z")
\*“There was green alligators and long-necked geese, some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees…” \* mmm ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/370 "2016-03-13T17:01:35Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > \*“There was green alligators and long-necked geese, some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees…” > \* > > mmm \*Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you’re born, the loveliest of all was the unicorn. \* Dammit! _shakes fist at **Mean Mr. Mustard** _ At least that’s replaced the “I’d like to buy the world a Coke” song that had been inexplicably rattling around in my head for the last day or so. It’s an improvement, I think… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/371 "2016-03-13T18:27:34Z")
Duran Duran’s “What are the Chances,” featuring John Frusciante. Such a beautiful song. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/372 "2016-03-14T00:27:03Z")
Chad and Jeremy’s “[A Summer Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvL2oLeBYs).” ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/373 "2016-03-14T13:18:20Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Chad and Jeremy’s “[A Summer Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvL2oLeBYs).” I love that song. My current one is “[Reminiscing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQWlL-jj5Q),” by the Little River Band. I keep screwing up the lyrics, too, which makes it even stickier for me. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/374 "2016-03-14T16:59:20Z")
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - “Casino Royale” ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/375 "2016-03-14T17:06:09Z")
That new Iggy Pop song. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/376 "2016-03-15T00:12:44Z")
I don’t know why it’s usually the most butt-bothersome tunes that’re my earworms (“Musicbox Dancer”, “Popcorn”, anything by Leonard Cohen, “Ring My Bell” by Anita Ward), but luckily today at work this cool number (“Eleanor” - the Turtles) almost made the lawnmower go all in its own, and in particular the layers of minor key harmonizing in the chorus…gets me all sappy about thwarted courtships in the past…If I could somehow put this song in my will, I would. (something the Most Interesting Man in the World could’ve done, probably) Cruddy video quality, unfortunately, but nice little style-cramping stare-down @1:27. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8O4TqdhtDJQ/hqdefault.jpg "The Turtles - Elenore (The Kraft Music Hall - Sept. 1968)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O4TqdhtDJQ) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/377 "2016-03-15T10:40:19Z")
Donovan - “Atlantis”. I heard it on the radio last week, and the song’s one sung line has been resurfacing intermittently in my mind ever since. _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ _Way dooooooooooown below the ocean, wheeeeeeeeeere I wanna be - she may be_ Drown, me, please. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/378 "2016-03-15T16:52:15Z")
The Vitamin String Quartet’s cover of U2’s “With or without you” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sGhWRMGHHe8/hqdefault.jpg "Vitamin String Quartet Tribute to U2(With or Without You)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGhWRMGHHe8) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/379 "2016-03-15T18:02:49Z")
“Foil” by Weird Al. ---
**Author:** ![SUZ\_MAC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@SUZ\_MAC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUZ_MAC)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/380 "2016-03-15T20:35:37Z")
Steelers Wheel “Stuck in the middle with You”. Day 3 and counting. Gah !!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433.md?page=20)