What's the hardest tune to get out of your head?

[jgraz]

I once had the theme to MacGyver running through my head for about 6 months, helped along by my brother who would leave me voicemails with his own rendition of the demonic song (DUN, dun dun DUN, dun dun DUN da da da dun DUN dun). I still owe him for that...

I'm currently struggling to exorcise Particle Man by They Might Be Giants. I'm hoping it has a short shelf-life.

So what's your best (worst) example of a pernicious earworm?

[peacebird]

1. So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night....

I hate to go and leave this pretty sight.....

There's a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is popping out to say "cuckoo"

Cuckoo Cuckoo

Regretfully they tell us Cuckoo, cuckoo
But firmly they compel us Cuckoo, cuckoo
To say goodbye . . .

Goodbye,

goodbye

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

14. goddamn you

now I have it stuck in my head...

[peacebird]

31. sorry..............

it's evil, I know....

:evilgrin:

[Dervill Crow]

42. Oh, man, I had that song last week and finally laid it to rest.

Now it's back. I HATE that song. :mad:

So I will raise you a . . .

This is the song that never ends.
It just goes on and on, my friend.
Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was.
And they'll continue singing it forever, just because
this is the song that never ends.
It just goes on and on, my friend, etc., ad infinitum.

[kedrys]

2. Lately?

U2's "Beautiful Day". So much so that I was seriously considering getting back on the meds last week.

I have a phonographic memory, so at least the earworms are precise and accurate, but it's not good for my general sanity. :(

[wildhorses]

3. my head is a radio--

turn me on:P:evilgrin:

[vixengrl]

4. This is kind of sad--but the Alanis Morisette parody

of "My Humps" has been stuck in my head. For a joke song, the melody is really pretty and catchy, and it's just stuck on high rotation in my head right now.

[Crabby Appleton]

5. It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small, small world

[Wcross]

6. "Do you know the way to San Jose".........

Took me two weeks to get that one out of my head one time. I don't know why.

[salin]

7. Ooga shuka Oooga shuka .... from "Hooked on the Feeling"

from Mac Davis - way old... but it did get stuck in the head for a little while.

[jgraz]

10. oohh -- I hate you

Bring back the MacGyver theme!!!!1111

[salin]

26. Sad when MacGyver seems a tame earwig

But I would venture to guess that there are many mid-seventy songs that would be much worse.

[merh]

28. ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhCM0MRMWYw&mode=related&search=


:hi: :hug:

[CTyankee]

8. The second movement of a Beethoven violin concerto

It is very soothing and has a beautiful melodic line. I guess I like it because it is so comforting.

[crim son]

9. Whatever I'm learning on the piano.

It drives me nuts.

[AshevilleGuy]

11. I do not want to think about it -that will get it started!! n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. Whichever one my choir is rehearsing most heavily at the moment

:-)

[Bicoastal]

13. Shiny happy people holding hands....(check THIS out)

...Shiny happy PEO-ple holding Haaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaands.

It may be REM's worst song (they'd be the first to admit it), but this is the best possible version of it.

[haf216]

30. Ok, now that is in my head.

[Guava Jelly]

15. This one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUHwsb9bom4
butterfly by Weezer...

[AlCzervik]

16. Superhero by Jane's addiction and now that Entoruage is back in i'll be

singing it tomorrow.

[unsavedtrash]

17. Brady Bunch

the damn Brady Bunch. It just appears and stays for days on end.

[Jamastiene]

21. That's one of the ones I mentioned too.

Just a warning before you maybe accidentally click on my post down thread. Maybe we can try to look out for each other to protect our sanity from that song.

[Steven_S]

18. In The Court Of The Crimson King.....

Since about 1970 or so.

I don't really WANT it out of my head.

OBVIOUSLY

[Cobalt-60]

19. Carmina Burana

[AllegroRondo]

38. Great, now I've got "O Fortuna" stuck in my head all day.

of course, there are worse things to get stuck in your head.

[Jamastiene]

20. The wheels on the bus go round and round.

and
...this is how they became the Brady Bunch...

are 2 that pop into my head immediately. I've had that wheels on the bus song in my head all day long today. Yesterday, it was "I'm Dreaming of a white Easter."

[yewberry]

22. Oh, how to choose?

I get some brutal ones.

The theme song to "Barbapapa" drives me nuts. Even worse, no one in this area has ever heard of that cartoon, so they all think I'm delusional.

Also the theme song to Wallace and Gromit. My in-laws gave me an alarm clock that plays the song. :cry:

I'll also include "Loving You" by Minnie Riperton, just so that others can share the joy.

[JVS]

23. can't get you out of my head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2sg1zw0CUc

[barb162]

24. "It's a small small world " (at Disneyworld)

[LostInAnomie]

25. This is going to sound crazy but...

... Wesley Willis' "Suck My Dog's Dick".

Check it out. It will be stuck in your head for the next week.

[dysfunctional press]

27. shave and a haircut, two-bits...

nt

[haf216]

29. Ever sense the season finale of BG,

I have had All Along the Watchtower in my head! Good song, but enough already.

[SKKY]

32. "Kung Fu fighting"....

That fuckin' song was in my head for an entire weekend once.

[underpants]

33. On a morning like a Bogart movie......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4F0_R3Hu9M

[av8rdave]

34. The Oscar Meyer weiner song

A guy I was flying with caused that, as he mentioned it as the most infectious and hardest to cure earworm ever. He was right, IMO.

[jgraz]

35. heh -- managed to stick my bro with "Land of the Lost"

Marshall, Will and Holly,
On a rou-tine ex-pedition
Met the greeeaaaatest earthquake ever known....

:evilgrin:

[Matamoros]

36. My Sharona

I HATE THAT SONG. I hadn't heard nor thought about it for years, and then we were discussing earworms and someone said it, and now I have been infected for years when someone merely mentions earworms. A-G-G-G-G-H-H-H-H!!!!!!

[datasuspect]

37. the cacophony of discordant demonic music that tortures me in the depths of the night

[MissMillie]

39. Copacabana

(now you're all going to hate me because it'll be stuck in your heads)

[XNASA]

40. The Munster's Theme

[Arkansas Granny]

41. I get the chorus to Living Next Door to Alice by Dr. Hook

stuck there for days at a time. Don't know why, it just pops into my head and takes up residence for a few days, then it leaves again.

Oh I don't why she's leaving or were she's gonna go
I guess she's got her reasons but I just don't wanna know
Cause for 24 years I've been living next door to Alice
(ALICE, WHO THE FUCK IS ALICE)
24 years just waiting for a chance
To tell her how I feel and maybe get a second glance
Now I gotta get used to not living next door to Alice
(ALICE, WHO THE FUCK IS ALICE)