Ant Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Ohrwurm is a very useful German term to describe a tune that's stuck in your head. A direct translation would be earworm.This happens to me a lot. This morning it's I Just Wasn't Made For These Times. (Beach Boys, on the album Pet Sounds.)What's yours? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Ooh, you're a bad man. Fear and I sometimes have earworm wars in the music room.I believe someone did reserach into this and found wimmawah (or however it's spelt) otherwise known as the lion sleeps tonight, to be the most vicious earworm around. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-33771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostThePlot Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 mockney piers Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Ooh, you're a bad man. Fear and I sometimes have> earworm wars in the music room.> I believe someone did reserach into this and found> wimmawah (or however it's spelt) otherwise known> as the lion sleeps tonight, to be the most vicious> earworm around.IN case anyone has an anti virus, a DOS attack...Wim-away, wim-away, wim-away, wim-away..... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-33773 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Count yourself lucky. I woke up this morning singing, ?Knock off Nigel, he?s a knock off Nigel.? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-33782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Yesterday it was the Sheila?s Wheels song.I had to listen to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geGQyKLRQG4 just to get my sanity back. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-33783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_birdseye Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 For the parents out there, there's nothing worse than getting any of the following stuck in your head:Balamory (theme tune and "which coloured house")Come Outside (look up, look down, look all around, up in the aiiiiiiiir or on the ground)In the night garden (yes! my name is iggle piggle, iggle-piggle-iggle-piggle wiiii-gle) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-33785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 by a Kiwi band called Evermore.Saw this song live at the Pyramid Rock Festival in Melbourne last New Year, and it was about the only song of the whole weekend I thought I may have heard before. Anyway, I downloaded it recently, and it has been in my head since. Nothing amazing, but it's a nice enough song. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-33839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Dale Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Hannah's Helpline - Moo Baaa Double Quack Double Quack... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-33860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamafeelgood Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 i am blighted by that crock of sh*t that was number one for ages. i dare not mention the title for fear it re etch itself into my brain only to take ages to disappear. it's the tune about an item that keeps one dry in the rain which apparently signifies how tight their love is. how poetic. i hear you about the kids programme themes and raise you with big cook little cook. when suffering from a temperature each of those tunes paraded merry go round and round and round my fevered brain... absoloute hell. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-34008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 Shame on you Brendan - I followed your link and can't get out of my head now an image of TJ looking remarkably like Ian Botham - v. scary.Is there an equivalent word for a visual image one can't dispel? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-35303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 heh heh heh. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-35307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjaminty Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 I've been stuck on this tune for a while ... literally spent last wednesday shopping all day singing this out loud... it's now played hourly by xfm! Urgh.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9r_8gWP8Ek PS - I found an alternative video to go with the tune .... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-35318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 Digging up a very old thread to share this one with you all:De La Soul - Me, Myself and I. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-78975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lozzyloz Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Funny coincidence. I had 'Peas Porridge Hot', from the same album, playing on a loop in my head last week. I didn't realise I could download it out onto this thread. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-78977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
atila the gooner Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I always hear Skee-lo & "I wish" playing in my head at some point during the day Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-78981 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolo Tomasi Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 When i saw the thread "getting to know you" I had the song in my head for days... however, the visual image was of Spaced episode 1. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-78993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spadetownboy Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 that bloody advert with "wandrin star" is presently doing my head in, been humming it now for the past 2 weeks non stop.(6) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-78996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lozzyloz Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I know a song that will get on yer nervesGet on yer nervesGet on yer nerves>:D< Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-79000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 Echo Beach is proving stronger, Loz. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-79005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2degreesfrommadness Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 In a previous lifetime as a theatre sister, "the Lion Sleeps tonite" was known as the gynaecology song .... altogether now " ........... a womb away , a womb away" Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-79038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizenED Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Echo Beach! - I was wondering why I kept singing that. I actually like Moving Wallpaper but obvioulsy get the start of the soap too. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-79046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightyroar Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 but wandrin star is a great song! so sonorous, so moving, and sure beats Clint crooning 'I talk to the trees.....but they don't listen to me....... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-79060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lozzyloz Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 My mates dog is in Echo Beach.Back on thread . . . If you've got kids then you'll sympathise with me when, for no apparent reason I break into 'The wheels on the bus go round and round' or 'Can yoooo build it!?'. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-79067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizzygotDizzy Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I keep blooming walking around with the one line "blinded by the light" (and my own version of what the rest of the sentance might be, something about "like a roller in the night!!") in my head ever since I posted it on the Song Game! and its driving me crazy.Talking of own versions of lyrics, during the song "Angel of the morning" I got used to get the lyrics messed up and say "just touch my feet before you leave me, darling!" I did this quite unconsciously, funny what some people hear in a lyric! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-79459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalamityKel Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 "wonderful wonderful Copenhagen" grrrrr Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1262-gah-this-song-is-driving-me-mad-but-i-like-it/#findComment-79461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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