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At the moment, my current earworm[*] is Quartet: A Model of Decorum and Tranquility from Chess. This is not terribly surprising, as I have been listening to the soundtrack quite a bit in the past week and a half!
The phenomenon of earworms has long interested me. Not so much the type that I am currently experiencing; I call that the "acute earworm" when it is composed of a song that one has recently been exposed to, especially repeatedly. I am more interested in what I call the "chronic earworm" -- songs that recur as earworms, even when there has been little or no repeated exposure to the song in recent experience.
I "suffer" from a few chronic earworms. For example, Suddenly Seymour, from Little Shop of Horrors, is an excellent example of an earworm that I haveinflicted shared with those around me[**] on more than one occasion.
Dear friends, I am curious about your own experiences with these enigmatic creatures. Do you also suffer from earworms? If so, please to be sharing! What is your current -- or recent -- earworm? Do you also have chronic earworms? What are they?
[*] For those gentle readers unfamiliar with the term, you can find a concise description of earworms here.
[**] Especially the denizens of the Event Horizon.
The phenomenon of earworms has long interested me. Not so much the type that I am currently experiencing; I call that the "acute earworm" when it is composed of a song that one has recently been exposed to, especially repeatedly. I am more interested in what I call the "chronic earworm" -- songs that recur as earworms, even when there has been little or no repeated exposure to the song in recent experience.
I "suffer" from a few chronic earworms. For example, Suddenly Seymour, from Little Shop of Horrors, is an excellent example of an earworm that I have
Dear friends, I am curious about your own experiences with these enigmatic creatures. Do you also suffer from earworms? If so, please to be sharing! What is your current -- or recent -- earworm? Do you also have chronic earworms? What are they?
[*] For those gentle readers unfamiliar with the term, you can find a concise description of earworms here.
[**] Especially the denizens of the Event Horizon.
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Not too long after that, "Who Let the Dogs Out?" was overplayed on the radios and for some reason it never stuck in my head. Thinking on that song became the instant cure for any future would-be earworms.
When i'm without music and need a soundtrack, i usually end up just humming or singing some tuneless ditty that morphs into a "musical" narration of whatever it is that's going on.
i think it's interesting how we all seem to come equipped with repeat, but not shuffle. :)
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In the past I"ve had the "Mah-na Mah-na" song from Sesame Street in my head for weeks as we have renamed it "The Nemeton Song"...sing along now.....do do do do do.....The Nemeton.....etc.
On a recurring basis, I get the theme music for the circus stuck in my head and find myself humming it...usually at inopportune moments. :-)
It's far more irritating to me when it is some horrible pop song that infiltrates my consciousness in a much unwanted way and becomes difficult to exorcise.
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Most people remember it from the Muppet Show, not Sesame Street, anyway.
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But most people I know remember it from Sesame Street. Because well, we're old enough to have seen the skit on the first episode. *sigh*
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A few recent ones...
El Paso
Anything Goes
Au claire de la lune
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
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Re: A few recent ones...
Uno lo mío y lo tuyo
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What I'd be interested to know is how many people get earworms without lyrics, and the extent to which words are essential to earworms.
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Oh yeah....I was there anyway. :)
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Of course, I can't think of any examples right now!
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There are only two ways to get rid of an earworm: find the original and listen to it until it loses its magic, or replace it with an even worse earworm - usually "The Song That Never Ends".
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from time to time.
* Post War Dream
* Fletcher Memorial
Lots of "show" tunes as well.
* Pretty Women, Sweeny Todd
* Good morning, Singing in the Rain
etc...
At this time of year I also tend to get
bombarded by Christmas tunes so I get
* Santa Baby (most of the words I dont know)
* Carol of the Bells (yes, just the bell parts!)
* Little Drummer Boy (this one even comes w/diff versions)
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da nah nah nah NAH nah nah nah...
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I have a friend who claims that her default mental soundtrack is the theme tune from The A-Team!
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Current acute earworms include: the entire Christmas Caravan album by the Squirrel Nut Zippers (especially "Carolina Christmas," for rather obvious reasons); "Physical (You're So)" by Adam Ant; "Paper Bag" by Fiona Apple; "Alfred Hitchcock" by the Nields (I watched Rear Window for the first time the other day); the Into the Woods soundtrack (you're responsible for this one *grin*); "All I Care About" from the Chicago soundtrack. As you may note, I have an awful lot of music going on in the back of my head - pretty much constantly.
I have a fair number of chronic earworms as well. "Lola" - both the original Kinks version and the Raincoats' version; "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads; a fair amount of Ani DiFranco ("Shameless", "Both Hands", "Out of Habit", "Dilate" when I'm being mopey); "Do You Want to Know a Secret", "I'm so tired", "Your Mother Should Know" and "Rocky Raccoon" by the Beatles; "Blister in the Sun" by the Violent Femmes; "Step into my Office, Baby", "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" and "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying" by Belle and Sebastian; "Hooked on a Feeling" (the ooga-chaka, Blue Swede version); so many more. I think the worst one is "The Lonely Goatherd", though - if I hear even the tiniest bit of it, it is stuck in my head for ages. There's a lot of oldies rattling around in there as well.
I have quite the internal cacophony at this point. *grin* So what are your earworms, both chronic and acute?
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