NationStates Jolt Archive

After reading an article on the BBC news service (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3221499.stm) about earworms, it got me thinking about what my earworms are. So I'd just like to ask what are everybodies earworms? Mine are a "rift" from Beethoven's 9th and "In Christ alone".

Well they mention YMCA but for me it was Go West. Gotta listen to it now.. Ahh fuck yea!

lol interesting topic. have no idea tho!

Marty Robbins:

Devil Woman.

What the hell...? :confused:

Unfortunately, My Humps.

There aren't any special ones that get "struck" in my head. I do play music in my head pretty much all the time however. Unless I listen to something, it goes on automatically in the background. (both when I am awake and when I dream, altought I very seldom notice or remember what plays in my dreams. when I dream however, sometimes music I have never heard, composed in real-time by my brain, is played, often things that fit the mood of the dream) Pretty much any music that I have ever heard can end up being "played", altought what I listen to the most is most common. I can however suppress it, change track (between anything I have memorized) or apply effects such as various kinds of distortion, noise, frequency equalization or dynamics compression (the last one is a bit tricky and takes some concentration to get right), and insert pretty much any sample imagineable.

A few weeks ago, after watching an episode of Peter Kay's "Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere", where they featured a dance sketch of "Let's hear it for the boy", I couldn't get the damm tune out of my head for almost a week.

After reading an article on the BBC news service (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3221499.stm) about earworms, it got me thinking about what my earworms are. So I'd just like to ask what are everybodies earworms? Mine are a "rift" from Beethoven's 9th and "In Christ alone".
I have a "cognitive itch" alright, but it has nothing to do with music! :D

Unfortunately, My Humps.

You have my deepest sympathy.

For me it is rather appropriately Can't get you out of my head by Kylie Minogue

there is a constant soundtrack in my head anyway, so it's not really like I can pick out one song.

however since music is always going on in my head, I tend to make up songs to help me remember stuff, right now my grocerylist is running over and over to the tune of "Can-Can" (not entirely sure that's the actual name of the song)

EDIT: Can-Can from "Orpheus in the Underworld" - Jacques Offenbach
found a midi of it here (http://www.danshep.net/cancan.mid), and yep that's it. (DO NOT CLICK UNLESS YOU WANT TO HEAR IT!!!)

*sings*
milk eggs and sugar, coffee, tea and chocolate, ground beef, 2 bell peppers and supplies for chili pies.....

yeah, I am that weird.

I must be thinking of movin on or at least vacation. Ive got Changes in Attitudes Changes in Latitudes stuck in my head now

In the last 3-4 days it's been the song in my signature. It's funny, the tune well known, and it's a "real" Ohrwurm :D