I'm surprised you hadn't heard it but earworm it is,

Beach Boys all grown up and on acid? No it's the wonderful Zombies, and the only single ever to brightly celebrate someone returning home from incarceration.

I've heard Bruce Springsteen's version a million times

This isn't an earworm, this is just some reflective thoughts about earworms I've been having recently

Man I tellya hwat. I swear that antidepressants removed all the songs from my head. Before them I would hear music all day.

Our brains get a chance to linger or slow down and they will settle in on things like music and thoughts and whatnot. Paxil and the like just speed your brain up a tad, and those kinds of things tend to go away. It helps, if that's what you need. If your head lingers on depressing/worrying things, you will wind up depressed and anxious.

But I've been off it all for a few years now. And these days, music plays in my head allllll day. The job is more "bursty" now, and requires less attention span, so this is fine. But I wonder if this will eventually lead to the anxiety that a busy brain clobbered me with in the first place.

There's also the chance that I've been listening to some music with amazing melodies - or is it that I like melodic music now because melodies catch my brain differently?

just some reflective thoughts

Maybe try to actively turn your brain off? When you find it casting about, shift your focus to what your body is doing. Pay attention to your fingers and toes. Stay present in the moment.

Interesting thoughts. We're maybe just coming out of the Dark Ages as far as neuroscience goes. It's fascinating stuff, I wonder if ethics can keep up? Jim is probably right that maybe you consciously control it if you can. I generally get comfort from my earworms, but maybe yours could be thought of as a signal to recenter?

Starman this morning.

I don't really believe it's possible to "think one's self out" of most of these kinds of things, a la "A Beautiful Mind". Once in a while it seems someone can manage, particularly for mental injury that happens after childhood, like PTSD. But most of the time it's just coping strategies, and we are just flummoxed and require outside therapy or meds to actually change.

can't shake this



not even with Agadoo. which is probably a good thing?

What a brilliant video.

And now it's in my head, too.

sorry. it's more of my anthem right now, I guess. I'm not in a really great place. :(

Music helps, doesn't it. It puts shit into words so you can listen, agree, cry it out of your system and move forward. To a happy earworm.

and now this jumped in :lol:

hopefully, in a better place than the subject of my current earworm:

Music does help, though it still sucks to be in the position to need it like that. I hope you feel as better as you can.

Heard this first thing this morning, and it stuck:



Then, in the Word Ass thread, I put this in mine own head:



There was a third one that's been rattling around my noggin, but, damned if I can think of it now.

"God Only Knows", again, because for George Martin's death, someone presented this tidbit: Brian Wilson watching Mr. Martin study the original master tape of the song. (At about 2:50 on) One genius studying the other genius at work.

You prick. I thought George R. R. Martin had died.

I watched this and then I watched it again...and now it's in my head and won't go away.

You've got dongs all over the world stuck in your head?

She's donged like a pin cushion.

♪ ♫People all over the world (everybody)♪ ♫
♪ ♫Join dongs (join)♪ ♫
♪ ♫Start a dong train, dong train♪ ♫
♪ ♫People all over the world (all the world, now)♪ ♫
♪ ♫Join dongs (dong ride)♪ ♫
♪ ♫Start a dong train (dong ride), dong train♪ ♫

Now I've got dongs on the brain...:facepalm:

sounds like something you'd hear in a bath house

What earworm songs are burrowing through your head today?
 

This one (<--Cellar link) has burrowed deep. Again.

I have one of those really evil ear-worms right now. I don't even know the name of the thing. Its an overplay on alt radio right now. I think it's launch has something to do with my tinnitus.

My current earworm:



In other news, here's a trivia question:

What do these three songs have in common? (aside from being on youtube)

Junk Food Junkie, Larry Groce

Afternoon Delight, Starland Vocal Band

sombre reptiles, Brian Eno

:D

:lol2: :thumb2:

:)

Have a worm... :D

Vince Gill has been worming his way through my head for a month or so with this song for/about George Jones:

Popdigr made me a rig for holding a tape recorder on the crash bar of my Huffy dirt bike (I was 10 maybe 12 years old), and I can remember riding all over town with that tape player playing all sorts of music. On a compilation tape Grandmadigr ordered for me off a tv commercial was this tune, it's the only song I remember:

This has been in my head alllll day on a loop - mainly the chorus

My mom taught her "heart horse" (the One True Companion Pet of her life) how to dance the box step. She would drape his fanciest lead rope over his shoulders and sing "Sharp Dressed Man" while holding the ends, and he just followed everything she did with her feet. It was hilarious and beautiful at the same time.

http://http://www.premierguitar.com/...-Cover_WEB.jpg

Track #2, "Live In The Dark".

Really hard to believe Jeff Beck is 72.

Rats, image didn't make it in. The album is called Loud Hailer.

Songs from Bowie's Lodger album...criminally underrated album.

Read about how Bowie and Eno used Adrian Belew on Lodger here:

http://www.newsweek.com/david-bowie-...-lodger-414084

Belew wrote a lot about Bowie after his death, all good...

I don't think I've actually read that before. Doesn't surprise me, based on how Bowie and Eno did Low and Outside.

Adrian Belew is also criminally underrated.

That was interesting, even though I'm not familiar w/Belew, nor the album.

I'll have to check it/them out.

There was also this song that was a fave of mine as a teenager: https://youtu.be/wDWPyVCT0X4

I've never owned so much as a Bowie single. Would never buy an album's worth. There's just too much of his music I just can't care for. I like most of his (American) radio hits, though.

My music tastes are a little, idk, fucked up, to say the least.

Have you seen some of the shit we listen to?

For whatever reason, I don't seem to like anything anyone else likes. And I'm looking, man, I'm looking...

I've been sleeping with my stereo on with the volume set so that if you try real hard, you can make out what song is playing, and I must have heard this in my sleep, cause I woke up this morning and it was already looping in my head.

Christopher Cross "Ride Like The Wind"



It is exactly the same bigger.

I just read (over at Wiki) that Cross wrote the lyrics to "Ride Like The Wind" while he was tripping on acid.

Excellent.

And that Michael Murphy is, indeed, doing the background singing.

Also, excellent.

Michael McDonald, not Murphy. He's a damn pimp.

Yeah, McDonald. Thanx for the correction.

win

yebbut it taunts me when my feet are hurting and I'm still at work...

good point, but maybe you need better work shoes. life's too long to wear uncomfortable shoes. come to think of it, most commercials are too long to wear uncomfortable shoes.

Don't click the video. As addicting as the title subject. Extremely clever lyrics, always a plus, and a dragging, irrepressible groove. Good luck to you.



Comments/observations about the girl?

Clever.

Don't know if the brand names translate to US?

Golden Virgin(ia) is a rolling tobacco. 'Benson' is Benson and Hedges cigarettes

Ohhhhhh
He lives in a house, a very big house, in the country
Watching afternoon repeats and the food he eats in the country
He takes all manner of pills and piles up analyst bills in the country
It's like an animal farm lots of rural charm in the country ♪ ♫

BLOW
BLOW ME OUT
I AM SO SAD
I DON'T KNOW WHY

I had the country Hootie doing Wagon Wheel in my head this morning. Totally Amandas fault.