::bangs head against wall::

[truepenny]

So, in the past three days, and with little or no outside assistance, I have become earwormed with:
the theme from I Dream of Jeannie; the Mouseketeers' song; "The Final Countdown" as performed on the KazooKeylele; and "The Big Rock Candy Mountain."


mirrorthaw and I are agreed that there's something toxic in my head and it wants out. Via song.

Comments

[aedifica]

I followed the cut deliberately, in the hopes of finding something that would drive out "Pretty Woman," which has been in my head for weeks. At first it was fun, because I would use its tune to sing at the cats, but it wouldn't stop!

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

I recommend "King of the Road." It is my earworm nuclear option.

[ckd]

Which version? I'm partial to this one (also available in QuickTime .mov format).

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Not bad, but it's the Elvis version that is the true destroyer of earworms....

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

That's awesome.

I'm also very fond of the drunken REM version.

[aedifica]

Thank you! I'll give that a try. Right now I'd give almost *anything* a try.

muppet song

[mevincula.livejournal.com]

ma na ma na

you can sing it yourself (just those 4 syllables and others will join in) or find it onyoutube. guaranteed to end all earworms

Re: muppet song

[aedifica]

Also found in The Reduced Shakespeare Company in the puppet scene, and I've picked up from a friend the habit of singing it every time I drive by Menomonie, WI. ("Ba daa da da da," "Menomonie," "Ba da da da...")

Re: muppet song

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

The problem here is in distinguishing the cure from the disease.

Re: muppet song

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

Do doo do do-do!

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

...

...

...Can I have a kazookeylele?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I won't stop you.

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

That's because you live, like, two thousand miles from me!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

::nods like a hundred bobble-headed dogs::

[ronin-kakuhito.livejournal.com]

well, you could try The Girl from Ipanema to chase the others out. Of course there is the off chance that it would breed with I dream of Genie, spawing some sort of squamus and ruggose hell beast in your head, but that is a very minor posibility... I mean the stars are hardly ever right for that sort of thing.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Robin, with 6-year-old wisdom, suggests that if you have a song in your head, you ought to tip your head sharply to one side to let the song fall out your ear naturally.

Alternately, my friend Rachel's methods are to sing it in the style of Bob Dylan or, if it is a Bob Dylan tune, in the style of William Shatner.

[ckd]

or, if it is a Bob Dylan tune, in the style of William Shatner

"Mister Tambourine Maaaaaaaaaan!"

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

Well, sure. That's like dropping a nuke to eradicate all musicality within a 100 yard radius. :D

[ungemmed]

"Soulful Shade of Blue," by Buffy St-Marie, drives out everything. (Except David Bowie, oddly enough.) Of course, it then stays for a while itself, but it at least tends to be an improvement.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I usually find "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" works well to drive most things out, in case that helps.

[mac-stone.livejournal.com]

I knew better. I knew I shouldn't click.

Then I clicked anyway.

Gah.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

and then, of course, when you said "there's something toxic in my head," Britney Spears popped into mine.

Thanks. *headdesk*

Limbo Rock

[muneraven.livejournal.com]

Every limbo boy and girl
All around the limbo world
Gonna do the limbo rock
All around the limbo clock . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgCHOrF5ryY

For me it can kill any earworm and, after having that song itself as an earworm for like a week once, I now seem to be immune to getting it stuck now. Yes, I now have Limbo Rock antibodies in my brain.

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

Luckily I don't know several of those songs!

I wake up with 'Fie on Goodness' from Camelot in my head almost every morning; I think it's just become associated with the sound of the alarm clock somehow...

[pitselly.livejournal.com]

I've had 'How Long Has This Been Going On' stuck in my head for weeks.

Looking at this, I think I may be more fortunate than some.

[sraun]

I just know I'm going to regret this - I'm going to have to go listen to "The Final Countdown" as performed on the KazooKeylele tomorrow when I have access to YouTube.

My recent earworm has been random selections from West Side Story.

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

Well...there's always "So Happy Together" and "The Song That Never Ends," but in those cases the cure may be worse than the disease.

[ken-schneyer.livejournal.com]

Obviously you are supposed to write a story about a genie visiting a rocket piloted by Annette Funnicello.

Well, that's comforting

[inizitu.livejournal.com]

As John Williams owns part of my brain. My default shower song is either Indiana Jones or The Imperial March. (both of which I hate. I don't even like the Indy movies!!!)

So, that other folks are haunted, too, is terribly comforting.