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Post by htmb on Aug 19, 2014 20:19:48 GMT
The loop in my head has been playing much longer than ten hours.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 20:35:02 GMT
Most of my ear worms are in the form of "corrupted files" -- I find myself stuck with partial tunes that I cannot even identify, like a piece of movie soundtrack music when you don't remember what movie it was from. However, I guess that I am pretty lucky because I have never had a problem getting rid of an ear worm once I realise that I have one. It's just a matter of voluntarily latching on to another thought, not necessarily musical.
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Post by htmb on Aug 19, 2014 20:59:07 GMT
So, if I wanted to get rid of this particular ear worm I should work on acquiring another ear worm? It doesn't work that way with me, plus I have a couple of different channels playing in my head at the same time.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 14:36:07 GMT
There are other earworms besides musical ones. My washing machine says the same word repeatedly while agitating, and my brain says it right along with it. Lately the word has been "Vietnam", but sometimes it's other words. I occasionally will reread some of these threads from onset, (highly recommended btw), because one never knows what one will find. The frogs in our rain barrel nightly began their chant,and, our house guest,whose bedroom window is right above the rain barrel swears that they were chanting OBAMA, OBAMA,OBAMA... Well, the most uncanny part of this is, our house guest at this time last year said the same thing!! GO FIGURE!!!! In the meantime,my earworm today is Harvest Moon, Grazie, Bixa....
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 10, 2014 23:46:14 GMT
Heh heh heh heh heh
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Post by htmb on Mar 11, 2015 16:43:36 GMT
Elle Me Dit!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 17:19:43 GMT
That's Kerouac's fault; and now that you've mentioned it, that's all I can hear!
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Post by rikita on Apr 2, 2015 5:28:55 GMT
i lately have lots of "great" ear worms, like "the wheels on the bus" or "three little kittens" or similar songs ...
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Post by lugg on May 8, 2015 19:36:44 GMT
I remember those kind of ear worms Rikita - now I remember them with an increased tolerance.
This is currently one of my ear worms - cannot switch off the radio quickly enough ...
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 19:46:30 GMT
Next autumn, one of the inevitable major musicals that have infected France for the last 10 years or so is opening, so the first song has been released as a video. It's about King Arthur, Merlin and all that crap. I suppose that the TV station France 2 must be a co-producer because every morning just before the news-and-interview show Télé Matin starts at 6:30, an abridged version of the song appears on the screen. It sticks in my head for an hour or two, and I really wish it would not. They seem to know that our brains are particularly vulnerable at dawn.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2015 16:20:52 GMT
I recently ran across a CD I have, and, had not listened to for approximately 5 years. (not because I was avoiding it). "Little Creatures" by the Talking Heads.
Well, I have the most vivid recall of playing this particular CD while dressing to go out to dinner with my husband to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. I was in a very light hearted fun mood. In the midst of this I received the the phone call that my mother had died. The CD kept going into replay mode without my really noticing as I was in shock and denial. My husband finally turned it off and I found my self being irritated that he had done so.
Anyway, I was listening to it this past week, no bad memories associated with it but have the song "And She Was" embedded in my brain for days now. I don't really mind it. If my husband could hear it he would shut if off as he did that evening.
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Post by rikita on May 19, 2015 6:05:10 GMT
for some reason just listened to a mix of gdr rock songs, and now have this one stuck in my head:
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Post by bixaorellana on May 19, 2015 18:25:48 GMT
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Post by rikita on May 19, 2015 22:05:01 GMT
haven't been inside but have passed it various times ... my impression is though that it is more meant for tourists than for locals ...
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Post by bixaorellana on May 20, 2015 1:36:00 GMT
I have a friend who gives tours there. If you ever go, let me know & you can say hi from me to him.
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Post by rikita on May 20, 2015 10:37:07 GMT
ok, will do - i might suggest going there whenever i have friends visiting from abroad, which sometimes happens ... that usually is the opportunity on which i visit sights and museums ...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 11:29:09 GMT
After finally ridding myself of "Sea Cruise", gratis of Bixa's posting of Frankie Ford's passing, this a.m. I was"treated by the news of Johnny Mathis's 80th birthday (Jeez, he's young!!!). But, the song the radio chose is one of the many songs that bring to mind my mother who was obsessed with "The Twelfth of Never".
My brother had at one point bought my mother a CD player and gave her a Best Of Mathis. She never learned how to properly use the machine but she sure as heck learned how to press the replay button to that particular song.
At one point she had to go to my brother's house to stay until some health care issues were sorted out. She made sure she packed that particular CD. After about a week, my brother's then fiancee was ripping her hair out because of the onslaught of her auditory overload, OD, of this particular song.
After she passed away and I was packing up her belongings, sure enough, there was the CD. I made a point of putting it in a box of things for my brother. We have had great sport over this and it remains to this day.
And, of course, this is my current earworm.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 12:51:26 GMT
My current earworm is this annoying ditty. Refrain only, of course.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 30, 2015 15:02:27 GMT
Oh gawd ~ J*hnny M*this: And that song. I am surprised your brother can laugh about it, Casimira. The words "silver dawn" are already stuck in my head, but I enjoyed the video and the song so much that I don't even mind. Using "Marvin Gaye" as a verb is brilliant.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 18:06:42 GMT
You have no idea Bixa,..after waking up way too early, foggy headed from being double stung on my face by a bastardly nest of wasps on my face, many benadryl, tobacco etc. I felt like crap and despite wanting to roll over and go back to sleep, that is what I woke up to. It was all I could do to not play that song into my brother's voice mail REAL loud. I didn't, but did speak with him and asked him if he knew whose birthday it was. He begged ignorance and then we had a good laugh.
There is actually a decent kinda soft sounding "unplugged" version of the the tune on you tube.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 4, 2015 19:44:10 GMT
This has been stuck in my head for days -- days, I tell you! Open at your own risk: {spoiler}{Spoiler}
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 3, 2016 12:15:10 GMT
I woke at 4am this morning and found myself trying to get Ol'Man River word perfect. That seemed to go on for ever.
Of course I had to look up the lyrics and I wasn't too far out but an interesting postscript to the original words -
**The lines "Niggers all work on de Mississippi, Niggers all work while de white folks play" were sung in the original 1927 Broadway Show. They were changed for the 1936 film version to "Darkies all work on de Mississippi, Darkies all work while de white folks play". By the time of the 1946 Broadway revival, the lines had changed again to "Colored folks work on de Mississippi, Colored folks work while de white folks play". And soon after, in the film "Till the Clouds Roll By", they had become "Here we all work on de Mississippi, Here we all work while de white folks play".
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Post by mossie on Feb 3, 2016 14:47:13 GMT
Whatever we would do without political correctness
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 3, 2016 16:02:09 GMT
Dammit, Mick! Now I have Old Man River rolling along in my tiny mind! My parents had the boxed 45 rpm set from the movie, so I know most of the words from most of the songs. If we ever meet, we can get drunk and I will perform my rendition of "Make Believe" in which I am both Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 4, 2016 5:01:08 GMT
Looking for French pronunciation videos last night, I fell across a version of La Vie en Rose. That song is always an earworm for me, so I was humming & whistling it all morning. Around noon I went out to the market. There was a taxi parked a couple of doors from my house. It was empty, but the radio was on ..... playing La Vie en Rose.
The taxi was playing the French song, but this is the version I heard last night. It's so sweet ~
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 4, 2016 8:21:50 GMT
Dammit, Mick! Now I have Old Man River rolling along in my tiny mind! My parents had the boxed 45 rpm set from the movie, so I know most of the words from most of the songs. If we ever meet, we can get drunk and I will perform my rendition of "Make Believe" in which I am both Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel. You too! Mine were Carousel and My Fair Lady. I was pretty much word perfect on the latter.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 4, 2016 16:15:06 GMT
Maybe we should work on something closer to our own era, like West Side Story. I want to hear you sing "I Feel Pretty".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 16:26:58 GMT
Oh!! Me too!! Perfect choice Bixa.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 5, 2016 8:50:01 GMT
I think "Gee Officer Krupke" micht be more my thing Bixa.
But you can be Rita Moreno.
We could do a Mexican/British version. What could the gangs be called? The Bandidos and the Old Etonians?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 5, 2016 15:09:21 GMT
Oh good ~ I get to be fiery!
How about Los Olvidados and The Unforgiven?
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