Earworms

sure love pink floyd

i find the brain will only repeat things because you want to learn the song because you like the song enough to listen to it a few times. the brain only wants you to be happy, but doesn't realized how annoying it is to have the same song run over and over... i've had 3 songs overlap in my head at times. and i'll always have at least one song running just to keep focused. when i get one in my head, i have to simply stop listening to it.

i have found that certain types of music are more likely to stay. anything that has two tracks for the left and the right, like trance. or high voices. the low ones don't seem to stick.

and sometimes the only way to remove the song is to place another song over and and the one i use, and it works almost every time, is the theme to the muppet show. try it, you'll be surprised how well it works.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

You want an irritating song that stays in your head ......"It's A Small World" theme song for same-named ride at Disney.

Ouch, Greg. Maybe next time you have that song stuck in your head, suggestions from this will help: http://mashable.com/2015/01/31/song-stuck-in-head/

Hiya Richard,

Right now mine is Roy Buchanan's Sweet Dreams.

just before that it was the Stone Poneys' Different Drum

Ouch., the muppet themes song and now It's a Small world.... aargh!

I admit that I do play the earworm challenge sometimes with a friend back in the UK, but this time I think it was a combination of coming back from vacation to uncertainty at work and feeling a bit "blue." Sometimes it's down to the timing and some songs just strike the right chord (pun intended!)

Richard Reeve
ReevePhotos.com

BTW Richard, I had an Art Director who used to work for me by the name of Sabino Caputo who said if Pink Floyd doesn't make it to Heaven, he doesn't want to go either. He used to play Pink Floyd in the Art Department several times a week.

I often pic up tunes subconsciously which will play over and over in my head. Most of the time I don't recall where I heard it or part of it and my brain sometimes tries to make up the rest of it. This often leads to then, trying to play it on my keyboard. If I successfully end up with what is to me a somewhat catchy tune, the practice on the keyboard only reinforces the subconscious loop that goes on in my head for hours, days and sometimes weeks. This type of thing is not always limited to subconscious tunes however. For weeks now, I've been playing Ring Of Fire continually in my head when I'm not practicing it on the keyboard. I know I pick up partial jingles from advertisements on radio and TV and of course certain pop tunes on music radio. :/

I'm expected to know how to play about 400 different tunes...instantly. I know way more than that. A couple of times a month I might get called to sub for a band's regular drummer. There's always a handful of songs that I've never played (and sometimes never even heard of!) but we make it work, or at least make it exciting.

Current earworm: Girl Crush by Little Big Town. OMG what a great song.


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

My biggest earworm was a revelation to me. I listened to Mozart's 41 Symphony a few times and for a week all I heard were movements
going off in my mind. It was beautiful. The third movement is a waltz of sorts, that has the planet revolving, weight coming down on you with joy.

This is what I heard. Otto Klemperer, Werner Klemperer's father, Hogan's Heros.
Otto Klemperer was perhaps the finest conductor of Mozart's music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SONlDLgx0Gw

A Little Night Music.....listen for the depth of this.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um56hmRy0jo

Latest ear worm: Charade by Mancini
There's a commercial on tv and the song playing has the same first six notes.

Nope, thankfully.

I've been doing a 'Week of Windmills' over on Facebook, so I've got 'Windmills of Your Mind' stuck in my head . . . since last Sunday!

Luckily, so many versions of the song have been recorded that I'm able to hear a variety of performances in my head -- while my neighbors, friends, and family (and the mailman, on one occasion) have only heard me, singing and whistling it about a thousand times over the course of this week.

Ain't they the lucky ones? ;-)

I also find that playing music in my head is a useful way to get through some of the tedium of the business days. The difficultly is in NOT humming during a long meeting! :D

Richard Reeve
ReevePhotos.com

It's when I am trying to sleep when things like that get into my head and keep me up all night.

Which is all fun and games until the local strip club jingle gets stuck in your head.

Sammy' the south's finest showgirls. .....

Ackkkkkkk

I never hum. Humming makes me sneeze! (Wow -- just thinking about humming is making my sinuses tingle. Argh!)

I can deal with a Pink Floyd ear worm, it's that "wake me up before you go go" ear worm that I find most malicious.

Well I have to go go back to work. Have a nice day.

This is my favorite thing on the radio right now. Sticks with me......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5OX7CO26c


more....had not seen this before....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTU5aKUVjHw

That song "I'm All About That Bass" drove me crazy for a week. :P

The cure was Bach's "Minuet in G Major".

"earworms"

I never knew that's what they call it. ;)