Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Earworms Wanted

Have a song you just can’t get out of your head?

Have twenty?

This is an open call to list them here, in the comments section, for an upcoming project on this very blog. It’s sort of a blog game, like Blog Mad Libs of days gone by, but it’s mixed with just a touch of crackpot, totally subjective scientific inquiry. So lay ’em on me – the tunes that tintinabulate, thumping insistently like a telltale heart. “For the love of God, Montresor!” you might scream, were my name Montresor. “Wall me up in this cellar, just help me get ‘Brick House’ out of my head!”

So this is your mission: Give me your worst. The earworms you can’t ignore, the music that bounces around in your noggin until you start seriously consider trepanning to let the demons out. Think of it as an exorcism. You have to face your fears if you want to defeat them. Even though they’re mighty mighty.

Do it for science! What could go wrong?

Rob

9 comments:

Sharon GR said...

Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds (It's the Weeds theme song, and right now I'm in love with Weeds.)

Rob S. said...

Cool. To keep the ball rolling, here are a few that I've been plagued with:

Rush's "Tom Sawyer"
The Commodores' "Brick House"
The Gap Band's "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"
The I Dream of Jeannie theme song
Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy"
and for that matter, Seal's "Crazy" too.

Keep 'em coming! I need a lot of these!

Dave said...

The theme to the Andy Griffith Show.

Chris A. said...

I'm highly susceptible to this problem, but I'll try and cut off before I fill this page (if not the whole dang Interweb):

Los Del Rio's "Macarena" (the Black Plague of earworms)
Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
The Wonders' "That Thing You Do" (written by the guys from Fountains of Wayne, makers of fine earworms since 1996)
Slim Harpo's "Got Love If You Want It"
Bob Mould's "Dog On Fire" (better known as "Theme From The Daily Show")
pretty much anything from The Bee Gees' 70's heyday, but I'll go with "Jive Talkin'"
The Go! Team's "Ladyflash"
Wide Boy Awake's "Chicken Outlaw"
Prince's "1999"
Johnny Mathis's "Carol of the Bells"
A Taste of Honey's "Boogie Oogie Oogie"
Tangerine Dream's "Love on a Real Train (Risky Business)"
Marshall Crenshaw's "Cynical Girl"
M.I.A.'s "Amazon"
Lyle Lovett's "L.A. County"
Sugar Ray's "Fly"
Ray Parker, Jr. & Raydio's "You Can't Change That"
Daft Punk's "Da Funk"
Paul Westerberg's "Love You In The Fall"
Bizarre Inc's "I'm Gonna Get You"
Matthew Sweet's "Sick of Myself"
The Upsetters, "Party Time, Pt. 2"
Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"
Feist, "Mushaboom"
Jorge Ben, "Ponta de Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma)"
John Arnold's "I Can Be"
Van Morrison's "Wavelength"
Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party"
Living Colour, "Go Away"
Lou Reed, "Street Hassle"

Please try to harness this force for good, rather than just mass annoyance.

Rob said...

Any number of Disney songs, usually associated with their movies about various teenagers who are plagued by evil magical women:

"Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo"
"Kiss The Girl"
"Heigh Ho"

Oh and one from a movie about a certain magical nanny:

"Supercalifragilisticexpealadocious"

The mouse also invades my head:

"Mickey Mouse March"
"Theme from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse"
"Mouse-ka-Dance" (closing theme from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse)

As for regular songs...

"Someone To Love" by Fountains Of Wayne
"White Unicorn" by Wolfmother
"Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" by the Bloodhound Gang
"This Love" by Maroon 5
"Amish Paradise" by Weird Al
"Stickshifts and Safety Belts" by Cake
"Dragostea Din Tei" by O-Zone (that stupid "Numa Numa" guy song)
"Hands Up" by Ottawan

And thanks to Guitar Hero:

"Sweet Child of Mine" by Guns and Roses -accompanied in my head with a picture of the freakin' colored fret buttons required to play the dang thing in the game!

--*Rob

Rob S. said...

Wow -- NOW we're cookin' with gas!

Travis said...

"Brand New key" by Melanie
"The Brady Bunch" theme song
"Gilligan's Island" theme song
"Don't Let Me Down" by 311
"Goody Two Shoes" by Adam Ant
"Dancing Queen" by Abba
"ADIDAS" by Korn

Rob S. said...

Oooh-- Brand New Key... Thanks, Travis!

Jeri said...

That little tune Daryl Hannah whistles as she's walking down the hall to kill Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, vol. 1. Makes me want to yank out her other eye.

The Fox NFL football theme (written by John Williams), which until the second bar sounds just like "Sleigh Ride."

"Love Before Time," the theme song to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Sometimes I even get the Mandarin version stuck in there.

More later...