# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/81 "2009-01-15T06:13:58Z")
Today at work we discussed a guy who had lived on Christmas Island and may have had radiation exposure. Since then my brain keeps asking me how I’d like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island. ``` http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv9LVqKhmYE ``` I didn’t even know I knew that song. ---
**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 15, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/82 "2009-01-15T17:30:10Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > Space - Female of the Species > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wIvsZBFhQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wIvsZBFhQ) I noticed this morning that my previous earworm was replaced recently by: Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss a Beat ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wz40P1hFvWs/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/wz40P1hFvWs?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Speaking of earworms, I always have one. Is this true for everyone? Of course, I’m someone who automatically sings or whistles any song that I like. I think this is why songs get stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/83 "2009-01-15T17:39:07Z")
Shriekback’s [Cradle Song](http://www.last.fm/music/Shriekback/Big+Night+Music/Cradle+Song) got into my head at some point last night. Not sure why, haven’t listened to that album for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/84 "2009-01-15T20:08:30Z")
> [@Gleena](#): > > 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! One of my favorite albums ever. No exaggeration. I bought it sound-unheard when it came out back in '85 or so based on the fervent recommendation of a record store clerk I’d never met, and have loved it ever since. I’m listening to it right now, thanks to your mention, so maybe it will replace my current earworm, which is [Miles Davis & The Cool](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oxvlz4nSTo) by the Gaslight Anthem. I like the song a lot, but it needs to move out of my head for a bit. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/85 "2009-01-15T20:52:08Z")
Rock me mama like a [Wagon Wheel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2vJUadjdmo) - Old Crow Medicine Show ---
**Author:** ![misling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@misling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misling)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/86 "2009-01-15T21:52:59Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > Speaking of earworms, I always have one. Is this true for everyone? Of course, I’m someone who automatically sings or whistles any song that I like. I think this is why songs get stuck in my head. Yeah, I always have a song running. Always. Right now, it’s “Dreaming my Dreams with you” - Alison Krauss This morning it was “Windmills” - Toad the Wet Sprocket (one of the live versions with Nickel Creek playing fiddle and singing harmony). ---
**Author:** ![Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_A_Tame_Lion)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/87 "2009-01-15T22:13:48Z")
> [@Gleena](#): > > 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! > [@I'm Not Dennis Bergkamp](#): > > One of my favorite albums ever. No exaggeration. I bought it sound-unheard when it came out back in '85 or so based on the fervent recommendation of a record store clerk I’d never met, and have loved it ever since. Chalk up another Marillion fan. _Misplaced Childhood_ has long been a favorite of mine, and the verse quoted above is one of the highlights of a great album. If you’ve got “Bitter Suite” in your head, you’re ahead of the game. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/88 "2009-01-15T22:17:06Z")
> [@MinniePurl](#): > > Well, first it was that damn tearjerking song from Toy Story 2. > > Then, it was “Bad Things” by Jace Everett (a.k.a. the True Blood Theme.) > > Now, it’s “Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing” by Chris Isaak. I think your subconscious might be trying to tell you that you’ve done something … well, bad. Mine is a re-occurance of a song I thought I had gotten rid of. [Day Man, Fighter of the Night Man.](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/37ca1177d7/day-manits-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-from-herb-oobs) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026/89 "2009-01-16T03:54:41Z")
I don’t even know which song it is, but I have some riffs running 'round my head from the Led Zeppelin bootleg _“Live on Blueberry Hill”_. Jimmy hits a couple of chords and they sort of echo back, and then he hits them again, and again, and he speeds up, and then Jones and Bonzo join in, and the whole band takes off… Unfortunately, the only version I have is on vinyl, and my turntable isn’t working… eta: there’s a version on **How the West Was Won** : _“Dazed and Confused”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-earworm/481026.md?page=4)