# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/101 "2007-03-01T12:23:41Z")
The good news is that I’m suggestible enough that right now I have every song mentioned in this thread (that I know) swirling together, with none anchored enough to be declared a worm yet. If my trip away from the keyboard to wake is any indication, Erasure is the frontrunner, though I’m rooting for Cyndi Lauper singing Walk on By, or Drove All Night - that’d be a good one I’d like that one. As if that would work. No, I’m sure to get stuck with the electronic Yellow Rose of Texas that all the toy posts in this thread recalled for me. It was a plastic pony. My son dropped it in the car and it got wedged under the seat with the button stuck down so it repeated the first 1.5 bars. Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee. until we could pull over. (Yes we stopped taking it in the car) For about a week my earworm has been Return To Me sung by Dean martin. Before that it was several weeks of Gwen Stefani’s Wind it Up - what is it with brothers-in-law and their TiVos? Mine saved Gwen S performing that song on SNL for months just to show me on a visit. Why? “It’s the weirdest thing I’ve seen on TV in a long time and it made me think of you.” Thanks, bro. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/102 "2007-04-12T02:16:41Z")
"Back in Nagasaki where the fellows chew tobacky and the women [wicky wacky woo!"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s9Mlv1WkEU) ---
**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:** [April 12, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/103 "2007-04-12T02:25:00Z")
Chumbawamba, [Tubthumping.](http://www.amazon.com/Tubthumper-Chumbawamba/dp/B000005B08/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-1926742-3163319?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1176344600&sr=8-1) But that’s good. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/104 "2007-04-12T02:52:23Z")
Jean Leloup’s [“I Lost My Baby”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByV2m8kdDA8). Running around in my head nearly constantly, for almost a year. Help! _J’ne peux vivre sans toi, Et je ne peux vivre avec toi, Mais tu peux tres bien vivre sans moi - Je suis foutu dans les deux cas._ …and around and around and around… The only thing that seems to drive it out is Arianne Moffat’s “Montreal.” Deliberately sunshiny-happy-not-at-all-angsty. ---
**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/105 "2007-04-12T03:00:26Z")
It seems like I’m hearing the intro to Deep Purple’s **Smoke on the Water** , mostly on the Dodge commercial. I find myself repeating it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/106 "2007-04-12T04:24:08Z")
“I put my hand upon your hip and I dip, you dip, we dip.” I dont’ know the original artist but I heard it on the radio the otherday and _cannot_ get it out of my head… “I put my hand upon your hip and I dip, you dip, we dip.” “I put my hand upon your hip and I dip, you dip, we dip.” “I put my hand upon your hip and I dip, you dip, we dip.” ARGH. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/107 "2007-04-12T04:28:02Z")
The phrase _nappy-headed hos_. Make it friggn stop. ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/108 "2007-04-12T04:31:12Z")
“Ease on Down the Road” It’s one of the songs we’ve been working on for our Picnic Day street show. And, being a show-tune, is incredibly susceptible to ear-worm-hood. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/109 "2007-04-12T04:41:39Z")
Lately it’s been [“One Night In Bangkok”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGTJsk7X53w) by Murray Head and the male half of ABBA…especially the part where the girls in towels (in the video) sing “Tea, girls, warm and so sweet…some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite”. ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/110 "2007-04-12T04:51:03Z")
“Turf Dancing” by DJ Shadow. Sounds nothing like what he’s done before, far far more mainstream but in a good way. High energy, almost volatile song, it makes me wish I could turf dance or dance at all for that matter… The [I Dream of Jeannie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNg-xClEnqM) theme has been stuck in my head for the past year or so. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/111 "2007-04-12T14:25:30Z")
I often myself whistling _The Colonel Bogey March_ for no reason when I’m bored, which seems to drive everyone mad because a lot of people recognise the tune, but can’t place where they’ve heard it before… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/112 "2007-04-12T15:55:46Z")
_Stop This Train_ by John Mayer. On a recent vacation, we had a last minute loaner instead of our vehicle and none of our cd collection. Just Continuum. It’s been lodged in my noggin for near a month now. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/113 "2007-04-12T16:41:49Z")
My current earworm is “I Wish” by Stevie Wonder, for obvious reasons. Oh, please, you were thinking of it too. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/114 "2007-04-12T17:12:01Z")
It’s still “Mah-na Mah-na” from the Muppet Show. Doo doo da-doo. . . ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/115 "2007-04-12T17:33:33Z")
“Sammy the Snake” from Sesame Street. Today was S day for our preschool group. ---
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/116 "2007-04-12T22:17:13Z")
**Candyman** , by Christina Aguilera. Fun song, fun video, but enough already! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/117 "2007-04-12T22:37:19Z")
Because of a Pit thread today about being groped on the “A” train, I’m saddled with Ellington and Strayhorn right now. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/118 "2007-04-12T22:46:04Z")
“[Don’t Move](http://butchwalker.buzznet.com/video/popup/30090/)” by Butch Walker. I liked it, but it won’t go away. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/119 "2007-05-31T06:28:21Z")
This time it’s Magnetic Fields’ “When my boy walks down the street.” Just a snippet: Butterflies turn into people when my boy walks down the street Maybe he should be illegal, he just makes life too complete… Amazing, he’s a whole new form of life Blue eyes blazing and he’s going to be my wife Now _that’s_ memorable. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396/120 "2007-05-31T06:45:02Z")
_That Thing You Do_ from the movie of the same name. I like the song, but good GRIEF, already! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/354396.md?page=7)