# 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:** 46
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/901 "2020-01-13T16:19:40Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I did something incredibly foolish. > > And you’re about to find out. > > A week ago I posted the following atrocity in the “Artists who’re best/worst in their field” thread… Gawd, **Id** , I’m sorry - I started that thread so I feel at least partly responsible for your suffering. Just to make it worse, I currently have one of those earworms you’re perfectly content to have: Skinny white sailor, the chances were slender, the beauties were brief Shall I mourn you decline with some Thunderbird wine and a black handkerchief? I miss your sad Virginia whisper, I miss the voice that called my heart Sweet Gene Vincent Young and old and gone [Sweet Gene Vincent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOHuNsd3fhU) j ---
**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:** [January 13, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/902 "2020-01-13T22:56:31Z")
Monkey’s Gone to Heaven - Pixies ---
**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:** [January 14, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/903 "2020-01-14T17:13:28Z")
\*[96 Tears](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uC5m-IRns)\*by ? and the Mysterians. Came up right away on the car stereo’s mSD card when I went out this morning. Listened to it three times thru. Solid gold. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/904 "2020-01-14T17:24:23Z")
Tunes I’m digging these days: Pink, “What About Us”: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKOEJs602uk) Taylor Swift, “You Need to Calm Down”: [Taylor Swift - You Need To Calm Down (Lyric Video) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWtfOHBF1_w) Goo Goo Dolls, “Miracle Pill”: [Goo Goo Dolls - Miracle Pill [Official Audio] - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpJu-OAYBYs) George Winston, “February Sea”: [George Winston - February Sea - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eI6-L38EPo) Ingrid Andress, “More Hearts Than Mine”: [More Hearts Than Mine - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYc7DXSBmg) ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/905 "2020-01-15T17:41:36Z")
Frosty The F\*\*\*ing Snowman. For like the last week. Damn you, catchy seasonal children’s song! The original source was the parody version in the new Dog Man book, but now I hear the real lyrics and those interchangeably. It’s very annoying. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/906 "2020-01-15T20:41:44Z")
Currently, _[So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn3cHUtNZKo)_ by Caroline Polachek (ex-Chairlift) ---
**Author:** ![ntcrawler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@ntcrawler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ntcrawler)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/907 "2020-01-15T22:04:38Z")
For the last 2 weeks I have been suffering from this Slavic hard bass number: Il-76 by “Uamee” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Y_-QonjPdUo/maxresdefault.jpg "uamee - IL-76") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_-QonjPdUo) ---
**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:** [January 16, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/908 "2020-01-16T15:11:55Z")
[Soul #5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzIfmtKSLTE) sorry. I’ve woken up the past three days with that damn thing in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/909 "2020-01-16T16:20:50Z")
For the last three days I’ve had [“Fuwa Fuwa Time”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqkLjGS1IXE), from the anime _K-On!_, stuck on repeat in my head. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/910 "2020-01-16T16:26:20Z")
Moody Blues “The Story in Your Eyes”. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/911 "2020-01-16T17:01:16Z")
Right now, “[broken](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr1-WpWOUk8)” by lovelytheband. _Life is not a love song, we can try To fix our broken pieces one at a time_ Earlier today, for no apparent reason, I had The Killers’ “Somebody Told Me” going through my head, and I don’t even like the song that much. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/912 "2020-01-16T23:26:25Z")
I can’t help it. I play it on mandolin or mandola, 'ukulele or something larger, harmonica or tinwhistle: Blue Skies. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/913 "2020-01-17T00:25:38Z")
“Fourteen joys and a will to be merry”. Just kill me now. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/914 "2020-01-19T04:37:10Z")
Shonen Knife - [Tomato Head](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyum3OfpLC4)…Final Fantasy XII’s Alraune enemies always cause it. (The Wild Onion variants split between that and a rewritten Glass Onion…) ---
**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:** [January 20, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/915 "2020-01-20T14:01:30Z")
Had a bad one last night. A fragment (not more than a couple lines) of the [Kenny the Gardener](https://youtu.be/P9AAJkDy-BA?list=RDP9AAJkDy-BA) theme song from Letterman. Over and over and over. Which raises the Important Question: why did Kenny get a theme but not Lyle the intern? And at best Flunky the clown only got generic circus music. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/916 "2020-01-21T03:02:16Z")
“One Thing” by Finger Eleven (a big hit from c. 2004) ---
**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:** [January 21, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/917 "2020-01-21T22:34:24Z")
Okay, this one is so obscure it’ll take some explaining. I was listening to _Good Vibrations_ on the car stereo yesterday. I’ve been realizing lately that I have been misunderstanding the lyrics of many classic songs here and there so I paid attention. Um, it wasn’t a question of misunderstanding them, I didn’t have a clue about several lines. Had to look up the lyrics. Gobsmacking ensued. Really weird part: this was the first 45 I ever bought. I still have it. So I went looking for it today. Found my stash of four 45s I bought in my younger days. (We weren’t exactly the Rockefellers.) _GV_, _Instant Karma_, _Celebrate_ and … a 45 by a group called Fantasy from 1970. Um, what? One side was _Understand_ and the other _Stoned Cowboy_. Here’s _[Understand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Ju8fJbO1Q)_. Note the singer is remarkably like Janis Joplin. So that’s the reason I bought it, right? Nope. Here’s the [other track](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgerdSYyStI&list=RDVgerdSYyStI&start_radio=1). It’s an instrumental! No great vocals. The group was a house band in Miami. After their lead singer disappeared (and died) they hired a 16 year old girl Lydia Janene Miller with an operatically trained voice. They did one self-title album. Had one single from that, _Spaced Cowboy_, that charted at #77. If you have the album in good condition it’s worth money. So I now have this 50 year old obscure instrumental song going thru my head. My brain keeps trying to insert lyrics. But at least I’m not getting them wrong. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/918 "2020-01-21T23:10:49Z")
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/919 "2020-01-22T00:32:50Z")
I have musical ear syndrome and can literally hear a voice singing. The voice likes to sing Mademoiselle from Armentieres and Oh Little Town of Bethlehem. It also sings Jingle Bells in French, a language I don’t speak. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/920 "2020-01-23T02:11:29Z")
The theme from Monty Python’s Flying Circus has been bouncing between my ears since the announcement of Terry Jones’ passing this morning. I think it will be with me for a couple of days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433.md?page=47)