Comments on: Some people started singing it… http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/ Question As Conversation Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:15:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: maxwelton http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/#comment-8423 maxwelton Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:15:56 +0000 http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/#comment-8423 The default songs that occupy my mind when I'm doing things that are fairly mindless: * Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me, TISM * The Wanderer, U2/Johnny Cash * And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Eric Bogle * The Gambler, Kenny Rogers * Hurt, NIN/SadKermit/Cash * Downbound Train, Springsteen * And I Love Her, Beatles * Almost, Bowling for Soup * Ball and Chain, Social Distortion Mind, I don't actually <i>like</i> all of those... None is really an earworm, though. I did once get the cover of "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany stuck in a really dreadful way. I find youtube is awesome at curing earworms. Watch the video for a song you can't get out of your head 35 times over two days pretty much puts it to bed, I find. The default songs that occupy my mind when I’m doing things that are fairly mindless:

* Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me, TISM
* The Wanderer, U2/Johnny Cash
* And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Eric Bogle
* The Gambler, Kenny Rogers
* Hurt, NIN/SadKermit/Cash
* Downbound Train, Springsteen
* And I Love Her, Beatles
* Almost, Bowling for Soup
* Ball and Chain, Social Distortion

Mind, I don’t actually like all of those…

None is really an earworm, though. I did once get the cover of “I Think We’re Alone Now” by Tiffany stuck in a really dreadful way.

I find youtube is awesome at curing earworms. Watch the video for a song you can’t get out of your head 35 times over two days pretty much puts it to bed, I find.

]]> By: Ambrosia Voyeur http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/#comment-3082 Ambrosia Voyeur Sat, 31 May 2008 20:19:51 +0000 http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/#comment-3082 Sweet Caroline is a bad one for me, and reeeeally got me on our cruise recently, which is really a slam on Margaritaville. But hey, we frequented the piano bar, where <a href="http://www.bob-style.com/" rel="nofollow">this guy</a> sang a special Bob Bob Bob version. Sweet Caroline is a bad one for me, and reeeeally got me on our cruise recently, which is really a slam on Margaritaville. But hey, we frequented the piano bar, where this guy sang a special Bob Bob Bob version.

]]> By: Meatbomb http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/#comment-3058 Meatbomb Fri, 30 May 2008 02:11:53 +0000 http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/#comment-3058 There was a very cool "earworm replacement tool" a few years back, is that site still alive? There was a very cool “earworm replacement tool” a few years back, is that site still alive?

]]> By: FelliniBlank http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/#comment-3041 FelliniBlank Thu, 29 May 2008 14:31:01 +0000 http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/#comment-3041 It takes very little stimulus to give me an epic headstick. Lately it's been "King Tut," but I have a ton of them -- especially when I'm mowing the lawn, walking dogs, anything physical that leaves my mind idle. Some of the most tenacious ones: "Tiny Bubbles," "Battle of New Orleans," "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves," "Jumpin' at the Woodside" (replete with Gene, Gene, the Dancing Machine moves and Chuck Barris gestures), and "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby." It takes very little stimulus to give me an epic headstick. Lately it’s been “King Tut,” but I have a ton of them — especially when I’m mowing the lawn, walking dogs, anything physical that leaves my mind idle. Some of the most tenacious ones: “Tiny Bubbles,” “Battle of New Orleans,” “Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves,” “Jumpin’ at the Woodside” (replete with Gene, Gene, the Dancing Machine moves and Chuck Barris gestures), and “Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby.”

]]> By: Josh Millard http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/#comment-3040 Josh Millard Thu, 29 May 2008 13:59:30 +0000 http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/#comment-3040 I've had "Yankee Doodle" stuck in my head as sort of a default idle-loop song for I think literally a decade at this point. It's not always there, it's not usually very present, but I'll be goddamned if it doesn't just pop up way, way more often than you'd think. Oddly enough, it's been largely supplanted in just the last couple years by "Such Great Heights" by the Postal Service. I don't know why that, either. My problem usually isn't with earworms that won't in the shorter-term sense go away, though; what gets me is how easily this stuff will jump into my ears in the first place. I've gotten songs running through my head based only on someone saying a word that <i>rhymes</i> with a key word in the chorus of said song, etc. My brain is a menace in this respect. I’ve had “Yankee Doodle” stuck in my head as sort of a default idle-loop song for I think literally a decade at this point. It’s not always there, it’s not usually very present, but I’ll be goddamned if it doesn’t just pop up way, way more often than you’d think.

Oddly enough, it’s been largely supplanted in just the last couple years by “Such Great Heights” by the Postal Service. I don’t know why that, either.

My problem usually isn’t with earworms that won’t in the shorter-term sense go away, though; what gets me is how easily this stuff will jump into my ears in the first place. I’ve gotten songs running through my head based only on someone saying a word that rhymes with a key word in the chorus of said song, etc. My brain is a menace in this respect.

]]> By: IndigoRain http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/#comment-3039 IndigoRain Thu, 29 May 2008 13:55:42 +0000 http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/05/28/some-people-started-singing-it/#comment-3039 THANKS for getting that one stuck in my head again. :P Darn that Lamb Chop! I can't say there's a worst earworm I've had... I get annoyed by a lot of songs. I hate it when I'm trying to go to sleep at night and I have one I don't like stuck in my head. I usually listen to something else which helps. THANKS for getting that one stuck in my head again. :P Darn that Lamb Chop!

I can’t say there’s a worst earworm I’ve had… I get annoyed by a lot of songs. I hate it when I’m trying to go to sleep at night and I have one I don’t like stuck in my head. I usually listen to something else which helps.

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