May 28, 2004

• AND I'LL PROUDLY STAND UP, NEXT TO YOU AND DEFEND HER STILL TODAY... ha. sorry.
• 1) I thought that "The Brady Bunch Theme" was consider the de facto mental-saltine-cracker for clearing one's musical palette. 2) Now? "The Brady Bunch Theme." Thanks a lot.
• WE LIKE THA MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!! COZ IT IS CLOOOOSE TOOOO USSSSS!!! That is the answer to the problem, unless it is in itself the problem, in which case I can only suggest a loud, public rendition of any 80s power-ballad, which should provide a traumatic psychological block to enjoying any music for several hours at least.
• What, you want to change your name? OK, from now on, it's IwanttogiveyouamajorPITA! Thanks. Just THANKS. I could have gone ALL DAY without THAT stuck in my head. three words: Head. Toilet. Flush.
• Flashboy, you will suffer for that. My solution? Listen to the album on which the song appeared in it's entirety. Then listen to another album, as different sounding, and uncatchy as possible. I.E. I had a Devo song stuck in my head this morning (The Day My Baby Gave me a Surprize). I proceeded to listen to the whole album, and then listen to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion for an hour. Problem solved.
• The last time I had a song in my head I didn't want, it was the "Oh, yes! Wyoming" song from the Seinfeld/Superman commercial. Anyways, the best way to get it out was to see Avenue Q and listen to The Internet is for Porn. Catchiest tune ever, and I don't mind having it stuck in my head. Mind you, if that changes, I'm doomed. But it works for the moment.
• FOXY LADY!
• "I've got the BOOOOOGEEEEEE fevah... I've got to boogie, down, now get on DOWN! I've got the BOOOOOGEEEEEE fevah... I think it's goin around." The Sylvers, ladies and gentlemen. Heard it on the radio this morning, it's rattling around my brain like a marble in a coffee can.
• My friends and I used to have a contest to see who could get the most annoying song stuck firmly in the other guy's head. "Tom's Diner" was always a player, so much so that we finally burned out on using it. My wife used to torment me by singing "I'm the walkin' talkin' biscuit, but you can call meeee BEEEEEEEEEE!" I find listening to some good instrumental music helps, the more complex the better -- but something that you really love. For me, it could be anything from a jam band to a jazz combo to classical to some mighty-fine bluegrass pickin'.
• I've never had this problem, interestingly. I have perfect pitch and really good audiation/musical imagery skills, so I hear music in my head all the time... but I can turn it off and on. It's kind of like a near-photographic memory, but for music. This ability has saved me from boredom on multiple long trips when I didn't have a tape-deck/CD player in my car. The poet Billy Collins wrote a wonderful poem on the "song stuck in your head" phenomenon (iirc, it's called "More Than A Woman")... I recall him reciting it on Prairie Home Companion a couple of years ago. I believe audio of the recitation can be found here (I can't preview the audio, so sorry if the link is fux0red).
• "All my ex's live in Texas, and Texas is the place I truly love to be. But all my ex's live in Texas, therefore I reside in Tennessee..." George Strait is the way to go, especially with the twanginess of that song.
• i find that each day when i wake up a different sinatra song is stuck in my head. i find that quite pleasant, actually. and i can switch it during the day if i try hard enough. frank swings!
• Apparently the best cure is to sing the song that is stuck in your head, as loud as you possibly can. Strange, but true. One time I had a song stuck in my head for two weeks. Some Godawful RnB-lite pap. That was heinous.
• You think you have problems... several years ago I went for a week with "Mmm Bop" stuck in my head. That will leave scars.
• Okay, you guys are hurting me, seriously. I've got Hanson backing up George Strait and the Bee Gees jamming in my head now.
• babies you will now be drop-kicked through the goal posts of MonkeyFilter Memorial Stadium. Well, you would be until SideDish got me to "Come Fly With Me". Lucky for you. Ring-a-ding-ding!
• I had that damn banana phone song stuck in my head for days. It finally went away when I just started singing it at a party I was at last week. I don't think the other people there were very happy though.
• Only those with rug rats know the irritation of having "Imaginary Friends" or "Friends for Dinner" from Littlefoot, Cera, Ptre, and Ducky going round and round and round...
• Thanks to metafilter I now have this song in my head. I can't even sing it out aloud to get it out of my head. [Link NSFW!]
• Forty-seven ginger-headed sailors You can bet you're going to hear them when they hail us An old maid down in Devon Said my idear of heaven Is forty-seven ginger-headed sailors!
• To Remove The Unwanted : 1) Purchase Large Bottle of Single Malt Scotch. 2) Pour into a clean glass. 3) Drink. 4) Repeat.
• E............A.....F#m Purchase Large Bottle, of G#m.........A Single Malt Scotch B.........(C#m - G#m) Drink, oo-oh yeah, E Purchase, (Repeat)
• About a year back I had a song stuck in my head for weeks, and while I don't know who sings it, it goes something like this: "All I wanna do is to thank you, even though I don't know who you are. You let me change lanes while I was driving in my car." Literally, it was replaying in my head on and off for weeks. It doesn't always work, but to get a song out of your head I recommend listening to something LOUD and catchy. All I wanna do is to thank you, even though I don't know who you are...
• From the comments here, getting a song out of your head appears to be much like surviving viewing The Ring. I always ask other people what song is stuck in their head. If I don't like it I ask another person, and so on. The friend whose answer is always Champagne Supernova no longer gets asked...
• de C! i love that song!
• ....i'd miss you babe and i dont wanna miss a thaaaaaaang.....!!! (Aerosmith) Somebody please!!!!! Help me! Get this song out of my head before it explodes!
• Whenever I get an unpleasant song stuck in my head, I remove it by thinking of another song that will get stuck in my head, but one I don't mind and can ignore that will go away pretty quickly. My song: A song from The Muppet Show. The one that goes: Mah nun muh nuh. Doo doo doo doo doo. Mah nuh muh nuh. Doo doo dee doo. Mah nuh muh nuh. Doo doo doo Doo Do Doo DO do dee doo doo doo doo Doo dee doot doo DOOT. (repeat). Works like a charm!
• Just whistle the Bridge on the River Kwai song. If you don't mind having it get stuck in your head instead, that is...
• Ack! Kimberly!!! *glares*
• Thanks to certainsome1 I've had "Our Love Would Be Better (if I gave a damn about you)" in my head for weeks. And it really takes something away from a romantic evening when your significant other hears you singing that under your breath.
• Imaging a casio keyboard beeping rythmically... BeepBeep...BeepBeepBeep...BeepBeep "What you do and what you dont What you will and what you wont What you can and what you cant This is what you got to know Loved you though it didnt show Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht [repeat 4X] da da da [repeat 4X]" By Trio Whew! Flushed it finally with BADGER BADGER BADGER Aggh! Now that's stuck!!! - A SNAKE...OOOHH A SNAKE
• Kimberly! Beautiful! I LOVE that. Everytime I get myself in a foul mood I have to listen to that song...normally accompanied by this newgrounds cartoon. Turned up really really loud. And now, of course, that's stuck. I've had some bizarre songs stuck. A friend of mine and I kept a record of it once and the worst was "How much is that doooogggie in the window..." for 3 weeks! (wasn't me...that was her. The poor thing).
• danapiper: Thank you!!! That cartoon is awesome!!
• I find the theme to Hockey Night in Canada works for me. A little culturally specific I realize, but clears the music sinuses every time.
• After the Viking Kittens appeared on the interweb scene, I had that song in my head for a month. A month! It wasn't helped by a trip to Zurich during which we stayed in the Walhalla Hotel. I use the "Ma na na na, do-doo-dododo" muppet song to get others out of my head too. Usually by singing it aloud no matter where I am. I enjoy being stared at by strangers as if I were completely insane.
• Heh. "as if" * snicker *
• Well, I know what'll be stuck in my head in the car all evening. Thank you Kimberly and danapiper. I think. Here are the lyrics, and here is the whole thing, for your sing-along pleasure.
• IgSlut - thanks! It's been a long time since I've come between a woman and her man. I mean... yeah.
• (lyrics for the offending song)
• I've had "Mad World" by tears for fears in my head for about 48 hours. Excuse me, I'm going to go slash my wrists.
• Falling in love again, thanks to this.
• Years ago I heard an interview with the members of Prairie Oyster. They introduced the concept of the "tune eraser" which can be used to eradicate a pesky mental tune. After considerable research they concluded that the most effective tune eraser is the theme from Hockey Night in Canada. (Canada's 2nd anthem.)
• I'm the with the_bone: nonstop head music until I turn it off.
• It was a rebel L, it cried moh moh moh ho ho.
• I thought love was only true in fairy tales...the Monkees version. Barbie Girl by Aqua crushes everything though. Unfortunately.
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