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

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-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

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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.

lumberjim;499113 wrote:

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. [COLOR="Blue"]Marconi can eat a dick[/COLOR].

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.
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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!

Juniper;498646 wrote:

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.

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..

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Noooo!!!

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powerful earworm:

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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.

lumberjim;633603 wrote:

powerful earworm:

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

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Ohhh! I love that one jim!

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

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Ted, Just admit it.

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25 or 6 to 4...

This

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is firmly wedged right now

Stuck for years..

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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....

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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.

lumberjim;646613 wrote:

the nutbar with the bug eyes,

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

Animal reminds me of Timmy from South Park.

TIMMAH!!

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

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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! :)

UncaDollas;647533 wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBc_DPX-xjs

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

Rock the Boat by the Hues Corporation. I had this song in my head almost all day. I'm glad I don't anymore.

Gravdigr;648203 wrote:

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

8 IS enough ... if you know what I mean. :3_eyes:

So, this lady from a satellite campus keeps calling me. She's a bozo, but that's neither here nor there. Her name is Mary M---(I won't post her last name, of course.) It's not Moon but that's the song that starts in my head every single time her name comes up on my phone.

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QUIT TALKING ABOUT WHAT SONGS ARE STUCK IN YOUR HEAD.

No!
The theme from the Rifleman is stuck in my head!

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don't tell me that you di'int try to check out my bum, cos i know that you did cos your friend told me that you liked it.

Lusty Young Smith -- an old version

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I heard it for the first time on an LP the other day and it has been playing in my head ever since :
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wow really, your first time? Love that song.

Disturbed - Another Way to Die. 41 years old, but still like my metal.

classicman;668823 wrote:

wow really, your first time? Love that song.

Yea first time I had never listened to Abby Road before.

How about Here Comes the Sun or Octopus's Garden?

I hereby commit my brain to yet another week of:

Lara's Theme
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classicman;669167 wrote:

How about Here Comes the Sun or Octopus's Garden?

First time for Garden as well. I heard Here comes the Sun when Harrison died

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Harrison was my favorite Beetle.

mine too - thanks for the link! LOVE that song as well.

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Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

No thank you very much.

"Stuck In the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel...that tune's so catchy and definitely hard to get out of my head

The video kinda sucks, but, the tune is downright contagious.

They're from Bowling Green, KY, about fifteen minutes up the road.

Cage the Elephant - 'In One Ear'

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Not sure if the link above is gonna work, I keep getting "an error ocurred, try again later".

I have it on very good authority, the song stuck in your head is echolalia. :D

Echolalia...I repeat, I mean, I remember it well. :)

http://www.cellar.org/showpost.php?p=496711&postcount=2

And uh, damn yummy looking ribs! :yum:

Gravdigr;670651 wrote:

Not sure if the link above is gonna work, I keep getting "an error ocurred, try again later".

Youtube apparently needs you to enable third-party cookies now. :(

At least that fixed my YouTube embedding errors.

Anybody else notice the Pepsi-Cola jingle (the original jingle) fits "Gaudeamus Igitur?"

Pepsi Co-la hits the spot --
Twelve full ounces, that's a lot

"I gotta feeling" by Black Eyed Peas.

Catchy. At least the first few score times!

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This is the first day of my life
I swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
They're spreading blankets on the beach

Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don&#8217;t know where I am
I don&#8217;t know where I&#8217;ve been
But I know where I want to go

And so I thought I&#8217;d let you know
That these things take forever
I especially am slow
But I realize that I need you
And I wondered if I could come home

Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed
You felt as if you'd just woke up
And you said &#8220;this is the first day of my life
I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t die before I met you
But now I don&#8217;t care I could go anywhere with you
And I&#8217;d probably be happy&#8221;

So if you want to be with me
With these things there&#8217;s no telling
We just have to wait and see
But I&#8217;d rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery
Besides maybe this time is different
I mean I really think you like me

This week I have had a couple of songs stuck in my head. These were obscure songs I have not heard in years, yet there they were.

I wish I could remember, yet if really tried to remember they would come back to haunt me. I really don't want that.

I wonder where they come from? Those songs in your head. Not the ones you heard yesterday, but ones you haven't heard since 1970's.:)

Can't remember what the commercial is for, but:

"I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key"

Hell, I could've just looked it up the first time:

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I seem to be experiencing a totally ghey chick music phase
I LOVE this though.

Here, share my pain. ( This is the song! It's evilllll...)

The cartoon is an added bonus. I can't believe someone took the time to do that.
hehe the comments about it on youtube are funny.

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I thought I was losing my mind last year when this one got stuck in muh head for weeks

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just the mumbling part is stuck. I like it. i'm annoying everyone around me, though.

huh nuh nuh nuhnnuh nuh nuhhnu nuh nuh nuh, repeat.

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God, I hate this song.

red rubber ball

Big blue note

Friends of mine posted this on Facebook, so we could mock it, and now it is going round and round in my head. It's the worst thing ever.

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I'm not sorry I watched it. That is hilarious! And so is the fact that it's stuck in your head.

This is one of those things where it's tragedy if it happens to you, comedy if it happens to someone else.

is that a...... polka?

maybe this will help erase it from your heid, blue
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Here, this will cure what ails ya. The lovely, relaxing version of Rebel Rebel from The Life Aquatic that is on regular rotation at one of my neighborhood bars. I heard it Tuesday night...and I'm still hearing it...

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I infected myself with "One Lonely Night" last week. It was ... oh shit. Now I've gone and done it again.

"Jamie's Crying" by Van Halen.

I hate myself when I hear it, too, it's one of those things. It's not that I hate Van Halen, but "Jamie's Crying" always sends me into this weird loop where I try to figure out whether the song is vaguely mysogynistic, or totally mysogynistic.

Seen this commercial?

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The "somebody left the gate open" part sticks in my head and repeats, over, and, over, and, over...

Here's the actual tune:

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