Earworms

[andrewducker]

I started today with "Tainted Love" stuck in my head.

I got it out by thinking of Europe's "Final Countdown" which, in my experience, will drive absolutely anything out of my head, and rarely lasts more than 30 seconds before vanishing itself, largely because I can't remember more than 30 seconds of it...

What's your favourite earworm?  Leave a comment and inflict it on the rest of us...

Comments

[meihua.livejournal.com]

My earworm therapy is identical to yours. :)

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

I had Regina Spektor's Real Love stuck in my head while trying to get to sleep last night.. Prior to that, most of yesterday was spent singing a TV theme but I can't remember which one now. Something awful, no doubt :)

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

I wake up most mornings with 'Fie on Goodness!' from the musical Camelot in my head (obscure I know!). I try to drive it out with Herman's Hermits 'I'm into something good' which then quickly gets equally annoying...

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

Kenya.

Also Strangers in the Night is a good one.

[captainlucy.livejournal.com]

Well, my earworms vary wildly from the incredibly annoying (I once had the F**t F**d S**g going through my head for three days straight) to the strangely obscure and hard-to-find (the Cocteau Twins tune from a deodorant ad back in about '91/92) to the downright awesome (the theme tunes to Airwolf, Streethawk and Blue Thunder taking turns).

Yesterday's earworm of choice was The Pop Singers' Fear of the Pollen Count,with occasional interludes from The Frog Princess (yes, it was a very Divine Comedy sort of day). So far today, nothing has surfaced out of the background muddle, though I did find myself humming a couple of bars of Robert Palmer's Johnny and Mary when I was making a cup of rosie earlier.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U

*grin*

[andrewducker]

I am terrified!

[nmg.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUMwu_gXK7Q

Kills all other earworms dead.

a-weem-a-weh a-weem-a-weh
a-weem-a-weh a-weem-a-weh

(etc)

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Chelsea Dagger.

I managed to spread it round half the department one day, including via email.

Evidently that did not work

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

how about now?

I had that stuck in my head for like, six years the other week.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

This probably isn't my favourite but it was very useful. I once had just the chorus from New Model Army's Brave New World in my head for 8 hours straight. "No, there's nothing wrong here, there's nothing wrong here, no nothing at all. Brave New World!" It kept me relatively sane as I was chief poolside ref at an octopush tournament.