Songs Stuck In Your Head?
 

A few days ago I mentioned (in a post about dreams) that I seem to have this second "video" in my head - yeah, kind of weird - I mean, I tend to visualize things very easily.

Well, I also seem to have a constant soundtrack in my head. No need for an MP3 player, I take it with me anyway. But I'm thinking I might want that MP3 player anyway, because the songs stuck in my head are never GOOD songs, they're always annoying crap.

I am actually starting to wonder if I'm going slightly nuts lately, it's so bad. I think it must have something to do with the level of stress in my life; the constant soundtrack is a method of coping and calming myself.

But there is nothing calming about having the same DUMB song playing in my head all day long. All day today AND yesterday it was...um...I am almost embarrassed to admit it...Daydream Believer.

Seriously I am about to go find Davy Jones on YouTube and maybe look up the lyrics just so I can GET IT OUT OF HERE.

I don't even know where it came from; I don't remember hearing it anywhere. I often fall prey to "last song syndrome" but just as often they seem to pop in out of nowhere.

I have tried putting other songs into my head over it, but that is no use. They annoy me too, but then I keep going back to Cheer Up Sleepy Jean, Oh What Could it Mean...ugh.

Ever happen to you? Am I losing my marbles?
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Edited to add this ---- I looked up the damn song, and found out that it was the #1 song right at the time I was born, Jan. 1968. I honestly didn't know that. And my middle name is Jean. My mom's middle name was Jean, and that's the name she went by. This is eerie. It's almost like a message. (sigh) I really am going crazy, it's official.

Did I mention I got an e-mail from my mom the other day? It wasn't really from my mom; she died last December. It was spam, but somehow a spammer got her name and sent me a recipe for white chicken chili. I am not making this up. Yesterday I got one "from" my maternal grandmother, same way. How very strange to see my mom's name in my inbox.

Oh, you say it's almost Halloween? AAAAAHHHHGH!!!!

My sincere commiserations about Daydream Believer.

I have had this in the past, but fortunately these days only the songs of my favourite composer/bandleader bounce around my mind and I'm always glad when they do. I consider myself the opposite of a music expert, can't read music and don't play any instrument, so I am particularly surprised when large parts of titles play themselves in my mind.

I guess you just keep playing your favourite stuff and it will stick eventually. Don't listen to promotionals or broadcasts of crappy music. :cool:

Good luck!

They're called earworms. Happens to most people from time to time. The easiest, but not best way, is to supplant it with another earworm. The catch is that the new song has to be worse than the old song for it to stick.

i always have some kind of song in my head.

here try this

-groans- I love my housemate to bits (in that friend kind of way), but lately he's been sending me various earworms that he finds while surfing the 'net at work. And every single one of them is worse than the last. I'm about to shoot him. Current ear worm is "Small World"... "It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all..."

I am extremely susceptible to getting songs stuck in my head. Thing is, since it's pretty much constant, they don't bother me, they just float in the background. Mr. Clod has deliberately tested me before: he will very subtly hum a few bars of some song while I'm not paying attention to him, then come home from work hours later to find me singing the same song to myself absentmindedly as I cook or whatever.

Juniper, that is kind of freaky.

Mr Clod is a very naughty boy.

The best way to get rid of earworms is to fish them out manually with a wire hook. Up the nose is generally best.

I have Mac the Knife going round my head at the moment. On and off all day. Not enough of it for it to be enjoyable, just the same bit on a loop...

Three Dog Night's "Never Been To Spain" has been going through my head today.

here ya go, the worst rap song evah, as discovered by the morning show we listen to. they've played the damn thing so often it's well and truly lodged, so i thought I'd share the joy

I've had this tune stuck in my head relentlessly since Saturday night.

Ras-Trent

We should stop talking about this. Pretty soon the RIAA will be wanting fees for the performance in our heads. :eyebrow:

"I kissed a girl" by Katy Perry-thanks to my damn 12 year old daughter

"do me, baby" by Bel Biv DeVoe. . . ugh.

every day, I hear "We built this city" by Starhip.

-this, for the record, is the absolute worst song ever written.

I really don't care if Marconi plays the Mamba. Marconi can eat a dick.

OK, I'm getting mixed signals on this one. Do you like the song or not? ;)

i woke up with 'Mother' by Danzig in me head this morning.

I'm not sick of it yet.


the video is funny. the guy looks kind of pissed off and cool for the first minute or so, and then the camera pans back, and you see his hair. yutz/ fonzie/ jayleno chin.

the chicks seem perplexed by him, too.

Danzig knows that we built this city. We built this city on rock and roll! bwuauhahhaaaa!

Either the folks from the Shoe comic strips read The Cellar, or this is some serious synchronicity.

Today's strip

WOW, dar! Synchronicity indeed! That is spooky.

Fortunately, after spending hours at the cheer competition Sunday, Davy Jones has been replaced by Rihanna's Disturbia.

bum-bum-beyum-bum-bum-beyum-bum ACK!

"Hail to the Chief". Why the HELL is that stuck in my head?!

New doc for the commitment office at work.

I was sitting at the desk right in front of his.

Bastard spent a half-hour humming "Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho."

Even singing the Pina Colada Song to myself wouldn't get rid of it all shift.

Shawnee that rat! Now it's, people are people....

The last two weeks have been various numbers from Pirates of Penzance. Upon waking. Like at 0430. Occasionally other times through the day. And mostly numbers I wasn't singing in during our production that wrapped Oct. 19.

Good thing I like them, ain't it?

the subway commercial has been stuck in my head since monday night, 5, 5 dollar footlongs...

"Life in a Northern Town" by Dream Academy. Thanks a lot - I was fine until I read the title of this thread...:mad2:

I was going to post that kids songs from NOGGIN are trapped in my head. But now it's "Life in a Northern Town"! Great.

I have a song stuck in my head, but no matter how many times it cycles I still cannot understand all the words. And there's no volume control, so it was there/not there. I finally had to look it up. :mad2:

Presenting my earworm, One Night in Bangkok.

"Hey Ya" by Outkast. I know from previous experience that once that refrain gets in my head, it'll refuse to leave for at least a couple of days.

"Hey-ey yaaaaaaaa (doo-doo-doo-doo-doo)...hey yaaaaaaaaa...."

sigh.

This song did a number on me for years....It's back, and I think it happened because that stupid "starship" song came back too..



Noooo!!!

powerful earworm:

Awful pre-k circle-time songs are seeping out my ears. Got up and put a recent O.A.R. download on to quiet the nonsense. Weezer and Spoon to follow must purge.

Awesome video...it managed to capture the the fatalistic funk of depression very well.

Ohhh! I love that one jim!

This is the one that's been going through my head all day:

Ted, Just admit it.

25 or 6 to 4...

This



is firmly wedged right now

Stuck for years..

Really? You have room for all that crap to be stuck in there? Jeeze, your head must be bigger than LJs. Or you're just in the Attention Ho phase of your Bi-Poster Disorder.

Huge head....

really,,,,

only partially filled....

merc,

in that fleetwood mac video.....

they ALL look insane in their own particular ways. as the camera flits from face to face.... the nutbar with the bug eyes, the fag with the dangling earing, stevie flourishing hands knicks, .....gawd. what a weird scene that show must have been. no wonder they broke up into hate filled factions of crappy music and melodrama.

Agreed, but you know they were all fucking each other behind the others back...

like some twisted black laced incense smoke high heel boot daisy chain with no protection.

i think they started AIDS.

Possible. But I just can't shag them off because of it. I embrace them. The Dude Abides.....

Digging that.

check this out....

Man, those guys definitely knew the art of the jam session. They were all freaky, but I always worried most about that crazy fucker in the diaper.

... remind you of somebody? Cos Mick Fleetwood might have been the model for...

http://cellar.org/2010/animaldrummer.jpg

Animal reminds me of Timmy from South Park.

TIMMAH!!

I love Timmy! He rocks... But Cartman is cool too.

I am popping my head in here without reading a bit of it, just to let you know that this is the worst idea for a thread, ever.....

I have auditory hallucinations of the worst variety, and there is no way I am going to let you inject another song into my head. Some songs are lodged in for a year or two at a time.......No way...I am not adding to this library of bad music! Nu-uh! :)

I had to stop...I couldn't watch anymore.:p: