# 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:** 41
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/801 "2019-08-27T00:06:27Z")
All or Nothing, by The Small Faces ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/802 "2019-08-28T17:32:57Z")
[That’s Not My Name](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1c2OfAzDTI) by the Ting Tings. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/803 "2019-08-28T19:34:01Z")
Thanks to _Russian Doll_, [“Gotta Get Up” by Nilsson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRh2PRa1tU). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/804 "2019-09-05T15:12:39Z")
2 o’clock this morning, I woke up with Loudon Wainwright III’s Uptown going through my head. Took me an hour to get back to sleep. This morning I had three thoughts in my head: Who else wakes up at 2 o’clock in the morning with Loudon Wainwright III’s Uptown in their head? Who else knows the words to Wainright’s Uptown? Who has ever even heard Loudon’s Uptown? ---
**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:** [September 5, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/805 "2019-09-05T16:28:12Z")
The local PBS station aired an old two-part [version](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1238834/) of _Wuthering Heights_ a week or so ago. Watched the first part last night. Sarah Lancashire as Nelly! So I have Kate Bush’s _Wuthering Heights_ running thru my head. Yep. Earworm hell again. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/806 "2019-09-05T18:56:23Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > 2 o’clock this morning, I woke up with Loudon Wainwright III’s Uptown going through my head. Took me an hour to get back to sleep. > > This morning I had three thoughts in my head: > > Who else wakes up at 2 o’clock in the morning with Loudon Wainwright III’s Uptown in their head? > > Who else knows the words to Wainright’s Uptown? > > Who has ever even heard Loudon’s Uptown? Only you, I’m far more likely to wake up at 1:30 or 4:45. 😉 Me, me, me. I seem to have a Wainwright affinity for the whole family’s music. Far more people than realize it. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/807 "2019-09-05T19:16:28Z")
Celebration by Kool and the Gang. It’s the first song I heard this morning and I can’t get rid of it. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/808 "2019-09-05T19:23:30Z")
“Don’t Save Me” - Haim Popped into my head during my shower this morning and has been playing intermittently all day. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/809 "2019-09-05T19:49:54Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > Celebration by Kool and the Gang. It’s the first song I heard this morning and I can’t get rid of it. Do yourself a little favor: [https://youtu.be/OewLpY6gVd4](https://youtu.be/OewLpY6gVd4) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/810 "2019-09-05T20:08:24Z")
God. If Merle Haggard don’t get outta my head I may jump in the river. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/811 "2019-09-06T02:05:18Z")
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight I heard a song “Golden Blunders” last night by a group called The Posies I think. That led to it. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/812 "2019-09-06T12:44:12Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > If Merle Haggard don’t get outta my head I may jump in the river. I think I know that song. One of his best. Anyway … Gotta fix something about my _Wuthering Heights_ post. I was puzzled by why I should remember that Kate Bush song so well. Hardly ever heard it back then and then not in decades. But I finally remembered: Pat Benatar covered it and that’s on one of the albums on the SD card in my car stereo. So it’s Pat’s version, not Kate’s that was running thru my head. Better, bu still not a plus. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/813 "2019-09-06T13:52:54Z")
I was looking at some MTV award show clips and that made me curious to hear some more Lizzo. Truth Hurts is fun to listen to. Until the only two lines you know get stuck in your head! I think I’ll go read the lyrics. Maybe being able to get past those two lines will finally get it out of my head. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/814 "2019-09-06T14:14:04Z")
“[You’ll Be Back](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21wgwkzdrkI)” from _Hamilton_\*. So many good songs in that show, but that one crushes all the others with its earworminess. Why couldn’t it have at least been “Room Where it Happens”? \*For context: sung by King George to the revolting American colonists ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/815 "2019-09-07T12:28:52Z")
Now that I’ve been at SDMB this morning,\* The Pina Colada Song (Escape)\*. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/816 "2019-09-07T19:40:15Z")
I’ve been in an immature mood all day, and the only song in my head is [Enormous Penis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWMPVn1kgIQ). ---
**Author:** ![Harrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac8455/32.png) [@Harrington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harrington)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/817 "2019-10-07T08:04:20Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bw9CALKOvAI/maxresdefault.jpg "HYUNA - 'Bubble Pop!' (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9CALKOvAI) ---
**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:** [October 7, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/818 "2019-10-07T13:08:37Z")
We were watching the _Country Music_ documentary an hour a night. So a ton of earworms out of that. But there’s some “buts”: I’d get the “wrong” song stuck in my head. After the Cline part got _Sweet Dreams_ instead of _Crazy_. Somehow got Hank Williams’ _Jambalaya_ in there at one point. Etc. But then got to the last episode … nada. Like I’m going to have a Garth Brooks or The Judds song stuck in my head. Says a lot about what happened with country music in that era. Now that’s all over and one, time for The Cars to re-enter my brain. _My Best Friend’s Girl_. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/819 "2019-10-25T19:33:08Z")
It was a soft, sweet song from 1982 and I hadn’t heard it in many years. It came on the radio last week and I enjoyed it. I surprised myself with how much of the lyrics I still remembered. I sang along, and it was nice. But as an earworm it’s driving me batshit crazy. The song is _What’s Forever For?_, by Michael Martin Murphey. YouTube — [MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY - WHAT'S FOREVER FOR 1982 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIUjgy4hfA) I dare you to listen. Yeah, I double-dog dare you. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/820 "2019-10-25T21:08:08Z")
I’ve been stuck on (It’s All Down To) Goodnight Vienna for nearly a week now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433.md?page=40) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433.md?page=42)