Earworms, Nothing More Than Earworms

[anarchist_nomad]

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 have inflicted 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?

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[*] For those gentle readers unfamiliar with the term, you can find a concise description of earworms here.

[**] Especially the denizens of the Event Horizon.

Comments

[haggis.livejournal.com]

It's not exactly an earworm but I find myself humming certain songs if someone uses a phrase from that song, or even if I just think that phrase. It can take a while to work back to what the phrase was sometimes as I only realise I'm singing several lines later.

Of course, I can't think of any examples right now!

[haggis.livejournal.com]

Evidence - due to the title of your last post, I know have a song called "Ten Years Asleep" by Kingmaker in my head (Youtube vid here (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uRBOmli-Fwg)) which I haven't heard in yeeeeeeeeeeears!