D' do do do, d' da da da, is all I want to say to you

The only cure for such a thing is to listen to the entire song. So load up Nyan Cat 10 Hr and have a good day.

/Nya-nya-nya-nyanyanyanyanyn-nya

ArkAngel: It's a small world after all

Not even 9:30 AM, and I can safely say I've found the person I'm going to loathe most today. Well played.

I don't remember having an earworm that I didn't like

But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
I just don't think it'd understand

Your Zionist Leader: rikdanger: ArkAngel: It's a small world after all

I hate you.

He and subby should fight to the death for the right to be beaten to death with a wiffleball bat

Now your name is on the list too.

/Beastie Boys just aren't that great

Those seem like legitimate reasons for a song to *enter* your head, but not necessarily why it would stick. I've recalled many songs for those reasons, but few of them stuck; there has to be something else. One thing that gets songs stuck for me is trying to remember and/or decipher the lyrics, so I'll get a particular verse stuck in my head.

LewDux: I don't remember having an earworm that I didn't like

That seems unusual. It's about 50/50 for me, at least it's been that way in the past. Nowadays I'm less exposed to songs I don't like and about the only time I come across them is when I'm visiting an office or in a store and they're playing whatever "lite-rock" station in the background.

I don't know what a "hollaback" girl is, I just know I want her dead.

It's in your heaaaaad, in your heaaaaad. Zombie!

/with the bombs and their bombs and their guns

If I had a million dolllars
If I had a million dollars

Once there was this girl who got into an accident and couldn't come to school.

Mmm mmmm mmmn mmmmm

what I found most interesting was the "low attention state" impact on whether or not a song becomes an earworm...
In my experience, the song most likely to get stuck in my head for a long period is that which is playing on the alarm clock when it wakes me from sleep ... makes intuitive sense that the song snippet gets right in past your conscious appreciation of actually hearing it (because you're still largely asleep!).
Often times I will have no idea why I'm humming some piece of a song until I focus and remember that it playing that morning on the alarm...

/csb?

After reading that story, I'm walking on sunshine. And you know what? It feels good, man.

sine, cosine, cosine, sine. 3.14159.

fark you john lithgow!

Current ear worm is Beethoven's 9th (the Ode part, naturally)



/obscure?

You've got an ear worm in your head?
It could be worse, you could be dead.
Don't worry - be happy.

fark you, subby

/you're now breathing manually

Dead for Tax Reasons: Banana phone?

That's more of an explanation of what happens after it gets stuck in your head

RING RING RING RING RING RING RING

LoveRBS: The only cure for such a thing is to listen to the entire song. So load up Nyan Cat 10 Hr and have a good day.

/Nya-nya-nya-nyanyanyanyanyn-nya

I'm listening to that right now so I'm getting a kick...

// trying to convince my daughter to play it for her piano recital

My ear worm of the moment is Del Shannon - Runaway

my humps my humps my humps my humps
my humps my humps my humps my humps

you're welcome

taoistlumberjak: fark you, subby

/you're now breathing manually

Happy Tongue Awareness Month, everyone!

The earworm that always gets my wife is Electric Avenue. I can usually keep it going by answering 'oh nooo' anytime she asks something.



/ OH NOOO!

Wow...the least interesting article possible on such a potentially interesting subject.
/off to listen to Hamster Dance, which is stuck in my head.

I usually get Debussy's Sunken Cathedral stuck in my head. As earworms go, it's not too bad. *Adjusts monocle*

improvius: taoistlumberjak: fark you, subby

/you're now breathing manually

Happy Tongue Awareness Month, everyone!


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monkey54it 2011-11-15 10:53:31 AM
sine, cosine, cosine, sine. 3.14159.

fark you john lithgow!

I thought it was "cosine secant cosecant sine, 3.14159.."

LarryDan43: Once there was this girl who got into an accident and couldn't come to school.

Mmm mmmm mmmn mmmmm

Now that's a song I forgot about

/till now
//*whip crack sound*
///weird al version

I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves

/everybodys nerves

SurfaceTension: Here's the story of a lovely lady
Who was bringing up three very lovely girls.
All of them had hair of gold, like their mother,
The youngest one in curls.

That always remind me of "Hot Shots!"

This is the song that never ends
It goes on and on my friends

Zorkthemadman: monkey54it 2011-11-15 10:53:31 AM
sine, cosine, cosine, sine. 3.14159.

fark you john lithgow!

I thought it was "cosine secant cosecant sine, 3.14159.."

e to the x, dy dx
e to the x, dx
cosine tangent secant sine
3.14159
square root
cube root
log of pi
dis-integrate them
RPI

/had no idea this entered popular culture
//have RPI alum in my family

ALL of these songs are now playing through my head at the same time. Ouch.

Ear Bleach (for those who like guitar / rock stuff) - Kind of catchy, but not quite an ear-worm:

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