Monday 29 June 2015

I can't get that song out of my head....

.....grrrr!  I'm talking ear worms, which I was unaware for ages was the recognised term for them.


This morning, mine is a song from South Park, from the brilliant send up of Game of Thrones trilogy ~ it's not for the easily offended, by the way!  I watched the episode with this in two nights ago, and have been hearing it ever since.  It's funny, and clever, but I wish it would go away.  (For anyone who doesn't watch South Park, it follows an observation that a certain part of the male anatomy is featured in the show more frequently than the plot necessitates).


Usually, though, my ear worm is a song I hate, and they're mostly random, like  some 1970s hit that I thought was total dross even at the time.  Where do they come fromPuppy Love by Donny Osmond is a favourite (not), but I promise not to find a video from YouTube to put on here, lest you click on it by mistake and find yourself with it stuck in your head all day, too....

My most recurring one ever came about during my last job when I worked in the office of a small engineering firm.  At the end of most days I would file away the invoices for payment.  If I so much as laid eyes on one from Bookers Cash & Carry, I'd be hearing this toon for the next two days ~


Time is Tight by Booker T & the MGs ~ funny that it was never Green Onions, which I prefer, but that's ear worms for you, isn't it?!

Recently I watched all four episodes of the TV series Treme, and, thus, the theme tune was in my head on and off for several weeks.  I loved it that song, it was something I always liked hearing.  At first.....!  The theme of Treme is one of those vids that you can only watch Youtube ~ it's fab, and it's HERE, with some great bits of film, but beware.... 

I was talking about this on Twitter the other day, and discovered that my friend Judith Barrow suffers from advanced ear worm, as I do: it's not always music.  Someone else said the phrase 'spring forward, fall backwards' to illustrate the changing of the clocks, which Judith said then repeated itself in her head, over and over, all day.  However, it was not as bad as her worst one, which I'm sharing with you so you can sympathise.


What are your worst???? 


 

17 comments:

  1. Ear worm - it's such a lovely phrase I wrote it a poem, some years ago! I sing in a choir, so as each concert approaches there are bits of it that swirl around until I long to hear something different - and it's always the easy bits that lurk, never the difficult bits that I really need to practise!

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    1. Oh yes - it's the easy, catchy refrains. Yes, and it's still the South Park song for me!

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  2. I haven’t heard of ear worms before, what a great name! I loathe that Cillit Bang advert but you know what my ear worm is now after reading your post?? You spin me right round......!! :-D

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    1. Sorry about that.... I made the mistake of reading this again this morning and for me it's the Treme theme tune! But at least the South Park song has gone now!

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  4. Oh yes, songs and phrases stay with me for hours on end. My "worst" was "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear" sung by Alan Price. Here I go again: "Oh, who would think a boy and bear, Could be well accepted everywhere..."

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    1. Wendy, I'm damn sure I've had that one myself!!

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  5. Well!!! Thanks a bunch, Terry.. Just thinking of ending my day with a couple of hours writing and there you are, " bang and the dirt is gone...bang and the dirt is ... bang and the .dirt ... bangs and the ... bang and ... bang ... damn and blast it - he's here again.- bloody Barry Scott!!!.

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    1. Ha ha ha!!!!! Sorry! That's made me laugh out loud!!!!! :^D Ps. please look at my book review blog, new post, link on bio :)

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    2. Huh! Okay, going over there now. Right , where's my dishcloth ...

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  6. I know a song that'll get on ya nerves, get on ya nerves, get on ya nerves... sorry, couldn't resist :)

    By the way... I don't need to see the video to have 'Puppy love' stuck in my head... I was a Donny fan (teenage madness ;) ) - I know ALL the damn words o_O

    *Digs out 'Meatloaf* ;)

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    1. More of a Deep Purple girl in my teens, myself, Kimmie! :)

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  7. On the positive side, if you sing in a choir and can't read music, as I do/can't, earworms are a gift.

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  8. Haha! Thank you so much, I'm in work and should never have listened to that South Park clip, because guess what's in my head now?!? There's one You Tube clip that sticks in my head each time my 8 year old plays it - over, and over, and over....it's misheard lyrics for Carmina Burana and it is SO FUNNY, but boy is it an 'ear worm'!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwrgAnx6Q8

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