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Earworms

Stig
Stig Posts: 29,018
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Doctor, am I mad or is this just a sign of old age? I keep getting these tunes in my head (not even good ones), and they don't leave me. It's not just Earworms I'm suffering from though, but Tourettes Earworms. As soon as it's in there it has to come out verbally. Here are the ones that are causing me trouble at the moment:
- Karl Howman's classic, 'Oi have you sussed new Windowlene Plus'.
- Ben Stiller's 'Mr Moose likes to say good words' from Meet the Fockers.
- Badger, Badger, Mushroom.

These will usually be preceded by a burst of Gilbert and Sullivan. 'I have a song to sing, you - sing me your song then'.

Can you help me, doc?
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  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    sing three lions to yourself.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,724
    image
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,840
    Hum the tune out loud and it will go from your head.

    Seriously, it works.
  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    'Hey Jealousy' by the Gin Blossoms - absolutely corking track, but the most adhesive long lived earworm imaginable. What's really bugging me is I barely recall any of the lyrics, save for something about the "...Cops chase us around..."
    3 weeks now muttering some unintelligible drivel to something like the tune, ad nauseam repeating "Hey, Jealousy... Hey jealousy"
    Try it, you'll like it.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,361
    Someone’s knocking at the door...
    Somebody’s ringing the bell.....
  • Jack_Charlton
    Jack_Charlton Posts: 338
    It's magic you know
    Never believe it's not so
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,612
    cafctom said:

    Someone’s knocking at the door...
    Somebody’s ringing the bell.....

    Are they wearing white coats ?

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    cafctom said:

    Someone’s knocking at the door...
    Somebody’s ringing the bell.....

    Along the same line we have, "I'm thinking about my doorbell, when you gonna ring it" in our house. I fact for a short while we had a programmable doorbell and that was the tune of choice.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    bobmunro said:

    Hum the tune out loud and it will go from your head.

    Seriously, it works.


    Well, I'll give it a go but I'm sceptical.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    cafctom said:

    Someone’s knocking at the door...
    Somebody’s ringing the bell.....

    My kids sing that every morning when the Postie comes and if I am home I can’t get it out of my head for hrs


    To the point where I sing it with them
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  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    Barbara Streisand?
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    This thread has come in the nick of time because for some reason I’ve been singing Aqua’s classic ‘Barbie Girl’ since about dinnertime. Nothing wrong with that I guess unless it happens to be on the landings of a High Security prison. No wonder the cons think I’m a bit odd.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    I’m going to throw “Hey Jude” into the mix. One that just won’t go away.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,121
    Earworms were invented by adults to encourage children to bathe/wash themselves.
    You can google it and everything
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,970
    Today, for some perculiar reason, I have 'Close every door to me' from Joseph's technicolour dreamcoat. I've never been to see it, my only link with it was doing it when in Junior school. I can remember the old hall we did it in. Parents came to watch etc. Hurst Junior school if anyone saw the production.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    edited October 2019
    saw an excerpt from her new book ..  Debbie Harry about Phil Spector .. cachinnggg ..of all the Spector produced songs, this one has become my latest earworm (and it's not even written by Spector) .. it's …. 'Frosty the Snowman' ..
  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,575
    I was in London for a few days and did quite a few trips on the Jubilee. They need to rename Waterloo. F*****g ABBA. 

    And Baker St while they are at it. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    Arrgghh, I'd forgotten about this, but just re-read my opening post.  They're coming back!
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,218
    Lucky lucky lucky me, I'm a lucky son of a gun....

  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,837
    I went to a conference down in Bristol a few years back and on one of the evenings the "entertainment" was a Wurzels tribute band (honest). For the next three days, which included a flight to the US, I had that bloody Combine Harvester song stuck in my head. What finally shifted it was on the stop over in New York, Elbow were playing, I went along and thankfully they flushed it out. I'll always be grateful to Guy Garvey and Co for that.
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  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Arsenetatters said:
    Today, for some perculiar reason, I have 'Close every door to me' from Joseph's technicolour dreamcoat. I've never been to see it, my only link with it was doing it when in Junior school. I can remember the old hall we did it in. Parents came to watch etc. Hurst Junior school if anyone saw the production.
    I went to my daughter's harvest festival last week, and I've got a song about conkers stuck in my head. It's wasn't even that catchy
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,205
    edited October 2019
    Shopping and seeing “Easy Peelers” - tangerines. 
    The rest of the time on the shop is Phil Collins  running around my brain. 

    Easy lover (She’s an easy peeler)
    She'll get a hold on you believe it 
    Like no other 
    Before you know it you'll be on your knees…
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,272
    edited October 2019
    I think we nicked it from German - ohrwurm. I have a particularly niche one at the moment, which I'll be amazed if anyone recognises
    I am the man who arranges the blocks
    that descend upon me from up above...
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,672
    Not exactly the correct lyrics but in my working life I'd often 

    Wake up, get outta bed
    drag the comb across my head
    Go downstairs and have a cup.

    Nowadays I just get stuck in the middle with you.  For some unknown reason I sometimes recite the words angrily whilst driving alone (yes I have to be alone :neutral: ).

    Clowns to the left of me,
    Jokers to the right, here I am,
    Stuck in the middle with you. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    Not sure why, but I always want to check that my ear is still there when I Stealers Wheel.
  • CatAddick
    CatAddick Posts: 2,385
    Been trying to get rid of 'Justified and Ancient' for days.  Finally got clear of it, then this morning the wife calls the the cat 'Moo Moo' and, bang! its back.  I wouldn't mind but the bloody cat's name is Florence
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,840

    I suggested the cure earlier on in this thread.

    It really does work.

  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Don't suffer from ear worms. I've got my own personal jesus.

  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    bobmunro said:

    I suggested the cure earlier on in this thread.

    It really does work.

    Thanks for that, now I've got Cata Cata Cata Cata Caterpillar in my head  ;)
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,890
    edited October 2019
    I get it quite a lot, usually when I’m stressed.

    The worst is when something is still in my head when I go to bed. I usually get absolute stinkers of songs or theme tunes going round my head and it stops me from getting to sleep.

    Had the Australian Masterchef theme tune in my head once, wanted to cry.

    When I get it now, I switch on a country music channel and it disappears.

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