# 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:** 56
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1102 "2021-11-21T19:40:10Z")
Friday I had ELO’s “Can’t Get it Out Of My Head” stuck in my head. I thought that was funny. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1103 "2021-11-22T09:21:10Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I decided to post here rather than in the Pit like I really feel like. > > [Darn you to heck Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-womens-medical-fund-has-renamed-itself/954388/176) > > I’ve been in Rafaella Gabriela Sarsaparilla hell non stop for the past two days non stop and it shows no signs of abating. If go all Schumann and end up dying in a institution plagued by visions of aardvarks a kangaroos and a rhinoceroses I’m sending you the bill. Heh. Perhaps you could replace it with [Verb](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrfZCvTe-Ko), which remains my favorite of the bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1104 "2021-11-22T10:01:58Z")
In the 1990s, a good friend sent me a mixtape that included this track. Margo Timmins’s voice is pretty irresistible. “…He’s got a plan to steal my little sister…” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TsS_W5jN-vU/maxresdefault.jpg "Cowboy Junkies - A Common Disaster") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS_W5jN-vU) ---
**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:** [November 22, 2021, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1105 "2021-11-22T10:43:52Z")
“The End of the World” by Skeeter Davis. I think I heard it a few days ago as part of a movie or TV soundtrack and since then it has left my brain for only brief periods. _Why does the sun go on shining?_ _Why does the sea rush to shore?_ _Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?_ _'cause you don’t love me anymore…_ mmm ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1106 "2021-11-22T16:06:59Z")
We watched Disney’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in class (the kid found the book slow going and I agree) so the Headless Horseman’s song by Bing Crosby is still floating around. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/x5KR7TayjAk/maxresdefault.jpg "Ichabod Crane-Headless Horseman Song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5KR7TayjAk) ---
**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:** [November 23, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1107 "2021-11-23T14:39:29Z")
This love song by Yasmine Hamdan, sung in a Tangier nightclub, is an unexpected but oddly engaging interlude in the Jim Jarmusch vampire movie _Only Lovers Left Alive_ - I really like it: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XDepIDGKC2U/maxresdefault.jpg "Yasmine Hamdan - Hal (official music video) #JimJarmusch Edit") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDepIDGKC2U) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1108 "2021-11-23T14:54:44Z")
Lately, I’ve been waking up with a song in my head. Today it was Runaway by Del Shannon. I don’t know why; perhaps it was on TV before I went to bed, or maybe a neighbor played it overnight and I heard it in my sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1109 "2021-11-23T15:05:37Z")
Mysteriously, there is a 1914 Irving Berlin antiwar song that has hijacked my brain, as sung by Tiny Tim. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/txpwTG7KP3k/hqdefault.jpg "Tiny Tim - Stay Down Here Where You Belong") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txpwTG7KP3k) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1110 "2021-11-23T22:39:57Z")
Because of the “I ate a cricket” thread, “I Kissed a Girl.” ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1111 "2021-11-24T03:39:35Z")
This [version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n57WBtvtC4) of “You’ll never Leave Harlan Alive”, especially: _Where the sun comes up about ten in the mornin’_ _And the sun goes down about three in the day_ _And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you’re drinkin’_ _And you spend your life diggin’ coal from the bottom of your grave_ It also makes me want to binge watch **Justified**. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1112 "2021-11-24T03:46:11Z")
“Sincerely.” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u791lVpjmHQ/hqdefault.jpg "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean [1982] Part 6") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u791lVpjmHQ) ---
**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:** [November 24, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1113 "2021-11-24T10:37:33Z")
“Erev Shel Shoshanim” (An Evening of Roses), an Israeli folk song that has been performed by many, many people, including [Harry Belafonte](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykEeAKbLu-g). This is probably the earliest recording, by the Duda’im: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mXFRmCxYSIY/hqdefault.jpg "הדודאים ערב של שושנים") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXFRmCxYSIY) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1114 "2021-11-24T23:20:44Z")
Don’t ask me how… [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S3ZqjvfirtU/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHQA4AC4AOKAgwIABABGHIgQSgtMA8=&rs=AOn4CLBOj79C_NwY1cgHmSiVleYonqzT1g "Bobby Russell ~ Saturday Morning Confusion") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ZqjvfirtU) ---
**Author:** ![Yogeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yogeekgirl/32/4129_2.png) [@Yogeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yogeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1115 "2021-11-24T23:44:37Z")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/0DPonVSfrEk?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=OLAK5uy_lxIdTJweJBbZkm2YsWuLPBfeZ1sag0E7A Precipitated by “Man, Woman, Person, Camera, tv…” or however that goes. I guess I failed the test. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1116 "2021-11-25T00:21:17Z")
I recently watched the series “The Americans.” As has become my custom lately, I follow up watching a series at night with listening to a podcast discussing it the next day at work. One of the podcasts had an interview with the actor that played Stan, the FBI agent, who had directed the episode where the lead characters abduct a South African assassin in a sequence using “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac as background music. The director mentioned that his first choice for the sequence music was “Slave” by the Rolling Stones. I had not heard or thought about the Stones song in years but when they played a snippet of the song I thought "Damn right, that would have been perfect! Oddly, they used the Stones song in a later episode where it didn’t work as well. Slave by the Rolling Stones. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/K64MvxlKZy8/maxresdefault.jpg "Slave (Remastered)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K64MvxlKZy8) It’s been my earworm for weeks now. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1117 "2021-11-25T00:37:05Z")
“I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me?” Also: “Ba-ba-baba-baba-ba-ba, I wanna be sedated!” ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1118 "2021-11-25T01:28:29Z")
“One Toke Over the Line” showed up in my YouTube feed, and now I can’t get it out of my head. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1119 "2021-11-25T03:17:55Z")
El Paso by Marty Robbins. Burned a mixtape for my nephew the other day, and that’s the one song that stuck. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1120 "2021-11-29T19:32:17Z")
My brain cued it up and away it did go Playing that tune loud and clear Maybe tomorrow a new song may find me Tonight nothing’s worse than this pain in my ear… ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1121 "2021-11-29T22:40:34Z")
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