# The living Hell of being OCD -- Songs you can't get out of your head \[Edited Title\]
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-living-hell-of-being-ocd-songs-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head-edited-title/597168
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 22, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-living-hell-of-being-ocd-songs-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head-edited-title/597168 "2011-09-22T05:49:38Z")
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-living-hell-of-being-ocd-songs-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head-edited-title/597168/1 "2011-09-22T05:49:38Z")
Neil Diamond’s “Shiloh.” I know only a couple lines of it but it has dominated my brain when I tried to sleep for weeks. For hours on end.
Finally I tuned in a classical music station, played at barely-perceptible volume, that I play all night. The almost-random (when played that quietly) rhythms seem to cancel out the Lite Rock rhythms of the original.
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### Author:  [@No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_umlaut_for_U)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-living-hell-of-being-ocd-songs-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head-edited-title/597168/2 "2011-09-23T03:43:28Z")
“Seasons in the Sun” will kill your earworm dead. Then listen to “Time Has Come Today.” That has been stuck in my head for a couple of weeks, and it will not flush.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-living-hell-of-being-ocd-songs-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head-edited-title/597168/3 "2011-09-23T03:47:50Z")
“Wild Thing” If I win the lottery, I will hlre a crack team of mercenary ninja to track down The Trogs and deliver them to my secret laboratory, where I will experiment upon them.
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### Author:  [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-living-hell-of-being-ocd-songs-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head-edited-title/597168/4 "2011-09-23T14:39:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> “Wild Thing” If I win the lottery, I will hlre a crack team of mercenary ninja to track down The Trogs and deliver them to my secret laboratory, where I will experiment upon them.
I don’t completely blame them. They weren’t evil, just careless.
The song was meant to be filler, a B side recording on a 45 rpm record which had different A songs depending on which country it was released.
So they didn’t purposefully inflict it on the world. It was a mistake.
And I’ve been waking up every morning for a month with Clapton’s **Anyday** playing in my head. I don’t mind though as there are a few Clapton and Trucks variations of the song and my subconscious seems to be rotating them. So one day it’s Duane Allman on lead with Clapton singing and the next it’s Derek Trucks with a Mike Mattison and Susan Tedeschi duet.
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-living-hell-of-being-ocd-songs-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head-edited-title/597168/5 "2011-09-23T14:46:43Z")
> [@dropzone](#):
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> Neil Diamond’s “Shiloh.” I know only a couple lines of it but it has dominated my brain when I tried to sleep for weeks.
_Counting the years…_ 😛
Nitpick: it’s Shil **o** , without a concluding h. No relation to the site of the Civil War battle.
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### Author:  [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-living-hell-of-being-ocd-songs-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head-edited-title/597168/6 "2011-09-24T04:23:17Z")
Moved from the Pit to Cafe Society.