Bet it wasn't this bad:
'Stranded on a peak in the Andes in 1985, mountaineer Joe Simpson - starved, dehydrated and in agony from a broken leg - suddenly found Boney M's song "Brown Girl in the Ring" playing in his head, for hours on end. "Bloody h@&l," he remembers thinking, "I'm going to die to Boney M."'
But he lived to tell the tale. :)
From the UK Independent newspaper review of Touching the Void, the 2003 film version of Joe Simpsons book.Â
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/touching-the-void-576717.html
Don
Not only do I get songs stuck in my head, I am a life-long whistler, sometimes I am not aware I am even doing it. I've had quite a few people yell,
WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP WHISTLING THAT SAME SONG OVER AND OVER! :roll:
If you know something better than Rock and Roll, I'd like to hear it - Jerry Lee Lewis
I worked with a man , a machinist , who whistled " Red River Valley " all day , everyday occasionally mixing it up with " La Cucaracha . " I was laid off from that job and years later (10 years later) he was hired at the company where I was working . He still whistled the same tunes .
If I claim to be a wise man , it surely means that I don't know .
I normally cause it. I might be humming/singing a song and it'll get stuck in my wife's head. Then she'll make the mistake of telling me. Boo-wah-ha-ha :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Oh well. That's me.
Roy
"I wonder if a composer ever intentionally composed a piece that was physically impossible to play and stuck it away to be found years later after his death, knowing it would forever drive perfectionist musicians crazy." - George Carlin
at work we taunt each other with songs. for example, there will be five of us installing a large painting when someone sings a fragment from a song, let's say Journey or Boston. then that song will haunt all of us until someone else names a song.
many times when i am working on a song to record I will play it over and over in my head, but that's intentional.
the experience you mention is more like this for me...I hum part of the song, maybe the first line...and that's where I get stuck; the same line over and over.
yep song waterboarding.
'more than a feeling......'
:lol:
I had somebody fuss at me in my Bible class at church a while back for singing a bit of "Good King Wenceslaus" and a verse of an ancient church song about martyrs to the same tune. Said she couldn't get the tune out of her head for 2 weeks. :lol:
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
Man, I wouldn't last long at your workplace, db! They'd be hauling me off in a straitjacket in no time.
The deadliest one for me lately is the Beach Boys song that plays over the opening credits of the TV show, Big Love.
That one burrows in and won't come out.
"God only knows what I'd do without you"
Oh, oh. :shock:
Don
Great name for it is "earworm."
I'll spare you my suggestions for them.
Unimogbert
(indeterminate, er, intermediate fingerstyle acoustic)
I don't mind songs I like getting stuck in my head, but it's the songs I hate that make me want to swallow roofing nails. That would be less agonizing. One of my most detested songs is Oh What A Night - The Four Seasons. Just thinking about it now has it in my head. :evil:
Now I've got to try to flush it out with... with... Macarena! :lol:
It is difficult to answer when one does not understand the question.
I'm 'enry the eigth I am
'enry the eigth I am I am
I got maried to the girl next door
she's been married sven times before
...
tuesdays earworm
When I'm running I play songs in my head. Usually I play a songs with a tempo similar to my pace for that day or moment. The problem arises when I have to run a long distance and I only play a song (or even a part of a song). For example, sometimes I play several times the second solo of "Sultans of Swing", over and over.
I have to increase my repertoire!
Warning: Ear Worm
It's the rock that gives the stream its music . . . and the stream that gives the rock its roll.
That's a great one, but I much prefer this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt1fBjCm49g
Or perhaps this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fzyI3ulKo&feature=related
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
For all my peeps here at GN. Enjoy your day, and good luck getting this one out of your head. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGhQ2BDt4VE&feature=related
Killll the wabbbit, kill the waaaaabbbbbiiiiitttttttt!
Roy
"I wonder if a composer ever intentionally composed a piece that was physically impossible to play and stuck it away to be found years later after his death, knowing it would forever drive perfectionist musicians crazy." - George Carlin
Yeh, but can you play and sing this? . . . :note1: Kill the Wabbit :note2:
It's the rock that gives the stream its music . . . and the stream that gives the rock its roll.
