Gah! This song is driving me mad! (But I like it.)

[Ant]

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?

[mockney piers]

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.

[LostThePlot]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> 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.....

[Brendan]

Count yourself lucky. I woke up this morning singing, ?Knock off Nigel, he?s a knock off Nigel.?

[Brendan]

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.

[capt_birdseye]

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)

[Keef]

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.

[Alan Dale]

Hannah's Helpline - Moo Baaa Double Quack Double Quack...

[mamafeelgood]

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.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

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?

[Brendan]

heh heh heh.

[benjaminty]

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 ....

[Ant]

Digging up a very old thread to share this one with you all:

De La Soul - Me, Myself and I.

[lozzyloz]

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.

[atila the gooner]

I always hear Skee-lo & "I wish" playing in my head at some point during the day

[Rolo Tomasi]

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.

[spadetownboy]

that bloody advert with "wandrin star" is presently doing my head in, been humming it now for the past 2 weeks non stop.(6)

[lozzyloz]

I know a song that will get on yer nerves

Get on yer nerves

Get on yer nerves

>:D<

[Ant]

Echo Beach is proving stronger, Loz.

[2degreesfrommadness]

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"

[citizenED]

Echo Beach! - I was wondering why I kept singing that. I actually like Moving Wallpaper but obvioulsy get the start of the soap too.

[mightyroar]

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.......

[lozzyloz]

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!?'.

[LizzygotDizzy]

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!

[KalamityKel]

"wonderful wonderful Copenhagen" grrrrr