No Cure for Songs Stuck in Your Head

Strange News - AP | Mon Oct 20, 9:48 AM ET | By RACHEL KIPP, Associated Press Writer

[Loyalist]

"Hush Puppies and sneakers, now it's alligator shoes,
Because downtown came uptown for you!"

[over3Owithabrain]

Yes! I had that 45 - called it the Depression record. One side people dying, and even worse, the other side a dog kicking the bucket.

[killjoy]

This should be our new MILF thread theme song !!

Dude, there are threads about Stiffler's mom?

[Fierce Allegiance]

I hate it when those voices start to argue like a pair of teenagers.

[richtig_faust]

Eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, aus

Alle warten auf das Licht
fürchtet euch fürchtet euch nicht
die Sonne scheint mir aus den Augen
sie wird heut Nacht nicht untergehen
und die Welt zählt laut bis zehn

Eins
Hier kommt die Sonne
Zwei
Hier kommt die Sonne
Drei
Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen
Vier
Hier kommt die Sonne

Die Sonne scheint mir aus den Händen
kann verbrennen, kann euch blenden
wenn sie aus den Fäusten bricht
legt sich heiß auf das Gesicht
sie wird heut Nacht nicht untergehen
und die Welt zählt laut bis zehn

Eins
Hier kommt die Sonne
Zwei
Hier kommt die Sonne
Drei
Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen
Vier
Hier kommt die Sonne
Fünf
Hier kommt die Sonne
Sechs
Hier kommt die Sonne
Sieben
Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen
Acht, neun
Hier kommt die Sonne

Die Sonne scheint mir aus den Händen
kann verbrennen, kann dich blenden
wenn sie aus den Fäusten bricht
legt sich heiß auf dein Gesicht
legt sich schmerzend auf die Brust
das Gleichgewicht wird zum Verlust
lässt dich hart zu Boden gehen
und die Welt zählt laut bis zehn

Eins
Hier kommt die Sonne
Zwei
Hier kommt die Sonne
Drei
Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen
Vier
Und wird nie vom Himmel fallen
Fünf
Hier kommt die Sonne
Sechs
Hier kommt die Sonne
Sieben
Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen
Acht , neun
Hier kommt die Sonne

[BikerTrash]

There is a cure. Quiet Riot's "Metal Health" through the headphones, volume on ten.

[ChemistCat]

One of the things that happens to me is I get Tom Lehrer earworms. Especially the ones like SMUT and THE IRISH BALLAD, that I can't sing in front of the kids anyway, and probably shouldn't sing ever.

Also Sam Kinnison routines I heard fifteen years ago and are soooooo offensive to me now, but I loved them then. "I want my records back..." is the mildest of them.

[LizardQueen]

Alternate lyrics to the Barney song help defeat the earworm:

"I love you
you love me
we're a happy family..

Then a shot rang out and
Barney hit the floor
No more purple dinosaur!"

LQ

[Jonah Hex]

"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee'.

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

When the skies of November turn gloomy..."

[BSunday]

PING

Don't give us none of your aggravation
We've had it with your discipline
Saturday night's alright for fightin
Get a little action in

[cyncooper]

Anybody up for a rousing chorus of "Shannon"?

Hey, I LIKE "Shannon" (Shannon has gone away, she's drifting out to seaaaaa").

All of your annoying songs are at least pop tunes.

My daughter has been practicing "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" on the recorder. I defy you to top that as an annoying tune that gets stuck in your head.

[RosieCotton]

"See the tree...
how big it's grown

But friends it hasn't been too long...
It wasn't big."

Now THAT was just cruel.

WHY did I have to wander onto this thread...?

[Catspaw]

"Skyrockets in flight, afternoon delight Aaaaaaaafternoon deliiiight"

I hate you for that.

[dfwgator]

Oh, Where Is My Hairbrush?
Oh, Where Is My Hairbrush?
Oh Where, Oh Where
Oh Where, Oh Where
Oh Where, Oh Where
Oh Where, Oh Where
Oh Wheeeeeeere
Is My Hairbrush?

[Fierce Allegiance]

Yeah, that one always sticks in my head!

NOT!

[AngryJawa]

Dude, there are threads about Stiffler's mom?

LOL! There's gotta be one or two out there...

MILF threads start out as updates on the Filipino terrorist organization, but invariably digress into...well, you know.

[ChemistCat]

I'm safe from those--I listen to science fiction filk, and it's the Leslie Fish version that is in my head.

Darn, couldn't find that one, but here are some others. Not an earworm in the lot. (Maybe.)

http://www.prometheus-music.com/eli/virtual.html

(Well, I lie. BANNED IN ARGO is banned at SF conventions because it makes a good earworm. Or so my husband tells me. But he is a dog who should be studying instead of pestering me.)

[Fierce Allegiance]

Try this:

I hate you,
You hate me,
Barney died from HIV...

[BSunday]

"We had joy. We had fun/ We had seasons in the sun..."

[willieroe]

I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates
You've got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and
Try them on to see
I been lookin around awhile
You got something for me
I got a brand new pair of rollerskates
You got a brand new key