# What's your current earworm? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026 "2009-01-13T02:59:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/1 "2009-01-13T02:59:44Z")
Mine is _Jukebox Hero_, for like three days now, and if I can’t get it out of my head soon I’m going to give myself a lobotomy with a spork. Too young to recall this harbinger of my own personal hell? Here you go: [Juke. Box. Hero!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbeQpeX8QtY) What’s remarkable is the complete randomness of it. I can’t even recall the last time I heard this song before my insane mental jukebox (_hero!_) queued it up. Anyone else been troubled by an earworm? Do tell; maybe it will distract me. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/2 "2009-01-13T03:06:52Z")
The A\*Teens version of [Voulez-Vous](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adq1w1rpI-A). It was going through my head before I even saw the thread title. It was also doing that weird thing where the song is going through your head, but you can’t remember the title. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/3 "2009-01-13T03:07:07Z")
Here you go, courtesy of one of my Facebook friends: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8) ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Buttons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Mr\_Buttons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Buttons)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/4 "2009-01-13T03:17:22Z")
First 3 hours of work, I had Beyonce’s “Single ladies (put a ring on it)”. Since our radio at work died the other day, there was nothing to drive that song out of my head. Until for some reason Pink’s new song “Funhouse”, a song my GF enjoys immensely, snuck in and replaced the first annoying song. So then I went from a 3 hour loop of Beyonce to a 4 hour loop of Pink. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/5 "2009-01-13T03:40:37Z")
I loaded up my ipod shuffle with 10 hours of jazz and bossa nova music and listened to it at night on vacation while I slept, to drown out the noise of the others in the hotel room. I must have heard every song dozens of times in my sleep. As a result, [This silly little tune is stuck in my head now…](http://letras.terra.com.br/vinicius-de-moraes/49255/) It sounds like a child’s song and the Portuguese lyrics go something like: "It was a very funny house It didn’t have a ceiling, it didn’t have anything Nobody could go inside Because it didn’t have a floor Nobody could sleep in a hammock Because it didn’t have any walls Nobody could go “pee pee” Because there wasn’t a chamber pot there But it was made with much care On bozo street, number zero." The tune is catchy and it keeps playing on and on in my head. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2009, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/6 "2009-01-13T03:48:32Z")
A song from the first Dengue Fever album. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/7 "2009-01-13T03:49:56Z")
Mine lately has been one of the city songs for the city I used to live in. “Yakitori Ondo,” roughly “Grilled Chicken Marching Dance,” (An ondo isn’t really a march, but they like to translate it as such) is actually a song about grilled pork, but that’s just one of the quirks that made that town so lovable. MP3 [here](http://www.higashimatsuyama.or.jp/chiiki/food/music/yktr24kbps.mp3). I’ve been humming and singing this song for the past couple days. Maybe I’m not eating enough… ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/8 "2009-01-13T03:55:36Z")
Goddamn “Hamster on a Piano”. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/9 "2009-01-13T04:00:36Z")
So you gotta let me know Should I cool it or should I go. Just those two lines, not the rest. That’s how it always is. Never the whole song. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/10 "2009-01-13T04:34:13Z")
“Spongebob & Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy” by the Flaming Lips. It’s on the soundtrack to the Spongebob Movie. My son loves to hear it ad naseum, and afterwards I can’t get the damn thing out of my head. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/11 "2009-01-13T04:39:36Z")
The flower duet from Lakmé : [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8Qx2lMaMsl8/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGHIgXihFMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDXJ-9m-ZPo-9Q73o_z7B66JLUt7g "The Flower Duet (Lakmé)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qx2lMaMsl8) I think I might have heard a snippet of it in passing on NPR a few days ago, and my brain keeps wanting to finish it. …and at the mere mention of earworms, this: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QTXyXuqfBLA/hqdefault.jpg "Mahna Mahna The Muppet Show 1977 Original mana mana Snowths") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXyXuqfBLA) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/12 "2009-01-13T04:46:58Z")
Space - Female of the Species [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/N-wIvsZBFhQ/hqdefault.jpg "Space - Female Of The Species") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wIvsZBFhQ) ---
**Author:** ![jormundgondir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jormundgondir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jormundgondir)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/13 "2009-01-13T04:54:40Z")
The theme song from Entertainment Tonight. =-( ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/14 "2009-01-13T04:59:40Z")
“Road Kill Christmas” from the Jeff Dunham (Durham? ) Christmas special. My friends Tivo’d the darn thing and I saw it again on Saturday. ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/15 "2009-01-13T05:04:29Z")
(BTO) And then she looked at me with those big brown eyes and said, You ain’t seen nothin yet, B-b-b-baby, you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet, Here’s something, here’s something, You ain’t never gonna forget, B-b-b-baby, you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet, (repeat ad infinitum) I don’t know why this happened. I even remembered to get a flu shot this year. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/16 "2009-01-13T05:11:32Z")
> [@](#): > > First 3 hours of work, I had Beyonce’s “Single ladies (put a ring on it)”. Since our radio at work died the other day, there was nothing to drive that song out of my head. Same song, except that in my case, it’s been stuck in my head for about three days. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/17 "2009-01-13T05:26:10Z")
“MacArthur Park”, the Richard Harris version. Which is good because I’m apparently the only person in the universe who likes this song. I was digging in the rarely played area of my vinyl crates, found it, and put it on the record player two days ago. I have other earworms (mostly old country, 'cause that’s what I grew up on) but I always return to this. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/18 "2009-01-13T05:36:23Z")
Marillion, Bitter Suite, the slow bit… “The sky was Bible black in Lyon When I met the Magdelene She was paralyzed in her streetlight, She refused to give her name And a ring of violet bruises They were pinned upon her arm…” etc. (not that anybody knows this song but me, I think.) I really like this song. I really am sick of it stuck in my head. ARGH! ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/19 "2009-01-13T06:17:22Z")
“Breathe” from Pink Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![Momofgirls](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/momofgirls/32/21798_2.png) [@Momofgirls](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Momofgirls)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/20 "2009-01-13T06:35:05Z")
“Rio” from Duran Duran (since reading Andy Taylor’s autobiography). Not the whole song, though - just “Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand” and then segues into the “do do do dos” at the end. Once in a while “Wild Boys! Wild Boys!” will find its way in there as well. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026.md?page=2)