# What's your current "earworm"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396 "2006-04-27T01:40:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/1 "2006-04-27T01:40:44Z")
Riffing off [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=369033) thread on hearing music in your head: What song that you can’t get rid of is playing in your head right now? I’ve got three, two of which I’ve had for days: **Theme from Blackadder:** Argh, this one’s the worst. We just sent season 1 back to Netflix. I hope the subsequent ones have a different theme song! _The sound of hoofbeats 'cross the GLAAAAADE . . ._ **Forty-Seven Ginger-Headed Sailors** (Featured in the “Jeeves & Wooster” TV show): I downloaded the sheet music for this the other day and have been trying to teach it to Mr. S. Serves me right. _Forty-seven ginger-headed sailors, Coming home across the briny sea . . ._ And the new one: **Killing Me Softly** : Watched _About a Boy_ again this afternoon. One of my favorite movies. This song is preferable to the others, but I want them all GONE!! And I’m sitting here quietly proofreading, which doesn’t help. I tried putting in some classical piano, playing softly, but oddly enough it’s even more distracting than the earworms. Your turn. What song is driving you nuts? Maybe we can trade. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/2 "2006-04-27T02:14:14Z")
Lately I’ve noticed that Meatloaf’s “Paradise By The Dashboard Light” has been running through my head while I shower in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/3 "2006-04-27T02:38:23Z")
[The Log Driver’s Waltz](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zAUbe_7fNA&search=nfb), for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/4 "2006-04-27T02:51:01Z")
I’m still stuck on “The Girl From Ipanema”, as I mentioned in the other thread. Gawd, that’s a great song. But it won’t go away! **RealityChuck** , that’s a great animated short. I taped it off Cartoon Network when they used to show “O Canada” with all those National Film Board features. My wife loves it, too. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/5 "2006-04-27T03:39:30Z")
The hymn \*Be Thou my Vision \* which I sang at an Anzac Day requiem on Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/6 "2006-04-27T04:15:49Z")
Evita. The whole show because the songs kind of run together and I always listen to them in sequence, so it’s like one ong song. And the stupid thing’s been in my head for two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/7 "2006-04-27T04:40:03Z")
A song from my daughter’s Fisher Price Aquarium crib toy - I don’t even know what it’s called which makes it even MORE annoying … grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/8 "2006-04-27T05:33:09Z")
The comedy club played Beck’s “Loser” after open mic night tonight, and that’s still coming back to me. I have no complaints aobut it so far. It’s a very good song with an excellent groove, and I’ve got all the words down. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/9 "2006-04-27T05:39:06Z")
All day it has been alternating between “Lovely Day” by **Bill Withers** , and the godawful **Blur** b-side “People In Europe”. However, right now it is “The Last of the Famous International Playboys” by **Morrissey**. Hee! “_Ohhhh don’t say you don’t, please say you do, oruhohoruhohhh_!” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bernard\_Marx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Bernard\_Marx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bernard_Marx)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/10 "2006-04-27T09:52:12Z")
“Put Your Records On” by [Corinne Bailey Rae](http://corinnebaileyrae.net) (who, by the way, has the sexiest name in the history of the universe) And now, of course, a significant percentage of the songs mentioned above are burrowing into my brain… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/11 "2006-04-27T10:32:48Z")
Oddly, I woke up with one of Mozart’s piano concertos running through my head (No. 17, I think). This is a welcome respite from the usual ad jingles and teenie-bopper pop songs. ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/12 "2006-04-27T11:05:23Z")
I have no idea why, but “Lady of Spain” has been running through my head. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/13 "2006-04-27T11:31:46Z")
The Dixieland-ish theme from This Old House reruns that’s on at 6:00 am in Chicago. Jayzus, but they totally need to pick something better to emulate the music played when those old houses were built. There it goes again. (cue the clarinets) I’m stuck with this until Carol Duvall’s show starts. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/14 "2006-04-27T11:32:30Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/15 "2006-04-27T12:55:28Z")
“Lord, Have Mercy” (Kyrie Eleison)–the version we(the choir) sang on Palm Sunday. I have had it off and on since Palm Sunday. I thought it was finally gone, then I read something about the Garden of Gethsemene and suddenly I was hearing mood music. It’s especially annoying, because I can almost see them raising up the cross with Christ on it as I hear the music. (The choir presented a Passion Play on Palm Sunday–it was neat, but the music was all very “earworm-y” and a little depressing. The Kyrie is 16 pages long, repetetive, and the part I keep hearing starts midway through and keeps building to the end. ) ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/16 "2006-04-27T13:43:35Z")
Whenever I go to Hobby Lobby during my lunch break, I spend the rest of the afternoon humming whatever hymn or Amy Grant muzak they had playing over the speakers. Today, however, I can’t get rid of this song that I was singing with my kids last night: Reuben, Reuben, I’ve been thinking What a fine world this would be, If the boys were all transported Far beyond the northern sea. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/17 "2006-04-27T14:25:39Z")
“Crazy” by [Gnarls Barkley](http://www.gnarlsbarkley.com/) (Click on the site and you too will be invaded with this earworm). Which actually isn’t unpleasant at all. Waaaay better than the random Halls and Oates song that is usually stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/18 "2006-04-27T14:28:25Z")
A friend of mine just mentioned _Fraggle Rock_, so now I’m haunted by the theme song … ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/19 "2006-04-27T14:31:39Z")
Finally, Astrud Gilberto is gone, and it’s now _Mellow Yellow_. _E…lec…trical banana…_ ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/20 "2006-04-27T14:39:05Z")
Carly Simon - You’re So Vain. At 4:00 AM, I couldn’t get to sleep because that stupid apricot scarf just kept running through my head. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396.md?page=2)