# 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:** 3
**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:** [June 3, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/41 "2015-06-03T00:51:22Z")
Now playing: **The theme from the Andy Griffith Show**. I have a feeling this one’s going to have its mail forwarded to my head. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/42 "2015-06-03T01:34:35Z")
_Kandi_ - One Eskimo flip flopping with _Hit 'em Up Style_ - Blu Cantrell ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/43 "2015-06-03T01:47:08Z")
Right now it’s alternating between Blind Guardian’s _Lord of the Rings_\* and this [unusual version of a Disney song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtkGluLhnGU).\*\* \*At work we use “MOR” as shorthand and whenever I see that I think of the “Mordor” part of that song. \*\*When I’m at work and I’m angry thinking of this song helps calm me down. > [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](#): > > Thanks to someone who posted it on here, I’m stuck with [this earworm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cirhQ8iLdbw)- and I have to look up the translation just to understand it. I considered going to see Baby Metal live… then I saw that the tickets cost over $60, which is too damn expensive for a novelty act. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/44 "2015-06-03T01:47:39Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “This Magic Moment” by The Drifters. > > I have no idea why. Been there. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/45 "2015-06-03T11:07:25Z")
What I woke up with this morning: [Let’s go to the mall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg)(yes, Robin Sparkles) ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/46 "2015-06-03T11:23:32Z")
Billy Joel’s Keeping the Faith. Only for some reason, in my brain, I keep singing, “Pieces of Eighhhhhhhhht - Yeah, yeah, yeah - Pieces of Eighhht”. Ridiculous 80’s music video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/ph7oZnBH05s?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDph7oZnBH05s ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/47 "2015-06-03T11:40:28Z")
I have Van Morrison’s [Moondance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFxGBB4UGU) stuck in my head. I hope it never gets out. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/48 "2015-06-03T13:18:34Z")
I have a mash-up of Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ and Outkast’s ‘Hey Ya!’ going. Shake shake shake, shake shake shake. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/49 "2015-06-03T13:27:54Z")
Jimmy Fallon and Will Farrell’s [Tight Pants](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv7Ts4v5_Bs)is always coming and going in and out of my head on account of all the young dude’s here with there skinny cut trousers. It’s all I can do to stop myself from doing the actual dance some times. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/50 "2015-06-03T13:42:24Z")
Besides a certain [obscure television theme song](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=758481), my latest earworm is [Suspicion Bells](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-Ok1a17wE) by Effigy. Don’t know why it popped into my head suddenly yesterday. Maybe relationship issues. Anyway, when I went to YouTube to listen to it for the first time in more than a decade, I was kinda disappointed. I remembered it as being a bit grittier that it really is. Still like it OK. (My constantly recurring earworm is a song that probably no one knows and that I will probably never find again. Don’t even know its name or the name of the band.) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/51 "2015-06-03T14:43:17Z")
**Mrs. FtG** has been playing Rolling Stones while she cooks lately. So I’ve been getting _Not Fade Away_ stuck in my head every time I hear it. But not the Stones version, or even the Buddy Holly version, but the live Grateful Dead one that I’m more familiar with. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/52 "2015-06-03T17:02:01Z")
A friend posted [this](http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/harry-potter/images/38000774/title/im-potter-girl-potter-world-photo) the other day. Ugh. (Safe for work, but contains highly contagious earworm) So yes, Barbie girl, by Aqua. I am truly sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/53 "2015-06-04T22:57:56Z")
By The Mark performed by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. A friend’s wife of 30+ years died a couple days ago. That’s what I posted on FB to help him find peace (he’s a minister but a cool one—old Freak [hippie] and still quick to jump in discussions about the drug-laced Summer of Love that lasted a few years.) I love it and can’t get it out of my head. I’ve watched it on YouTube several times since. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/54 "2015-06-04T23:14:01Z")
It’s all about the bass, 'bout the bass, no treble… Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/55 "2015-06-04T23:57:32Z")
Unfortunately, I’m only working on Spanish spoken shows from South America, so the theme to El Cartel 2 is in my head. I’m walking around wailing, “Mama, siempre me decia…” [Ooooh! Here it is online!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbSpEZIPhWE) Will be blaring Steely Dan in car, Slayer at the bar. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CalBak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@CalBak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalBak)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/56 "2015-06-04T23:57:36Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > It’s all about the bass, 'bout the bass, no treble… > > Ugh. I am really sorry to hear about that. Right now it’s “Do You”, by Spoon, and before that it was a song by Ratatat that NPR keeps playing between the host segments of “Here and Now” (I can’t remember the name of it) that was stuck there for a few days. Oh, and before that it was a new one by Ratatat called “Cream on Chrome” that’s both funky and delicious and I was kind of happy it was there, but then again they all start out like that. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/57 "2015-06-05T00:22:06Z")
A while back, we had dinner at a restaurant where I wanted a slice of seasonal pie, but they were out. On the way out, the waitress let me have a taste of her pie. It was lemon pie. Remembering that put _Space Dog_ into my head. Not much of a hook to that song, but I do sure like it. ---
**Author:** ![maisoui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@maisoui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maisoui)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/58 "2015-06-05T17:02:00Z")
I’m been grooving to Soul Bossa Nova by Quincy Jones ever since someone mentioned the old game show “Definition” a few days ago. It’s a catchy tune, so it’s not a bad earworm to have. Mike Myers chose Soul Bossa Nova for the theme for “Austin Powers,” so we call it an age test - which do you think of when you hear the song? ---
**Author:** ![4thdentist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/a8b319/32.png) [@4thdentist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4thdentist)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/59 "2015-06-05T17:12:17Z")
Madeline Kahn’s “I’m Tired” from Blazing Saddles. I think I was mowing the lawn when it came to me. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/60 "2015-06-05T20:50:21Z")
Hardly any time passed since I posted my previous earworm and I’ve got a different one, really, really bad. _Better Man_ by Pearl Jam/Eddie Vedder. I was at the dentist. The song came one. I remembered Vedder recently played it on one of Letterman’s last shows. So I went online and re-watched it. Big mistake. Horribly stuck in my brain. It’s not a worm, it’s a snake. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433.md?page=4)