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Elrel Mon 06-Feb-17 13:29:20

Since watching DSiL strutting his stuff as Lord Mountararat in Iolanthe 'Faint heart never won fair lady' is going around my head!
Anyone else with an earworm in residence?!

spallam Tue 07-Feb-17 10:36:32

I can't get the tunes from 'La La Land' out of my head - we saw the film a fortnight ago and they keep popping up in my head - even when I wake in the middle of the night!

hulahoop Tue 07-Feb-17 10:52:56

Depends what I have been doing or company I have been in but paw patrol or Bob the builder tends to stick ?

MissAdventure Tue 07-Feb-17 11:01:06

I hung a new picture in my hall, which says "All you need is love"
Now everyone who walls past starts singing it, complete with "wah wah wah wah waaah!"

MissAdventure Tue 07-Feb-17 11:01:36

*walks!

Swanny Tue 07-Feb-17 11:06:53

Every morning for the last week it's been 'We went to the animal fair' running through my head. Today it was (still is!) the advert about controlling your home from your phone. Next week is half-term so it will probably be 'Shaun the Sheep' grin

Barmyoldbat Tue 07-Feb-17 11:07:01

Don't stop me now I am having a good time by Queen goes around and around in my head when I out cycling.

NonnaW Tue 07-Feb-17 13:03:05

Whatever DH happens to be practicing most on the saxophone, plus a few BeeGees numbers after watching something about them on sky Arts at the weekend.
Usually I wonder why a particular song then realise it's being used in an advert.

JanT8 Tue 07-Feb-17 13:30:46

We had a CD ,when grand daughter was small, of Jo Jingles and it would last all the way from Lutterworth to Lincoln where we visited my sister. Grand daughter would go to sleep listening to this and we never dared to switch it off in case she woke and was grumpy.
So 'My bicycle has a bell' is now my current ear worm and I haven't heard this for about 10 years! The brain is a marvellous thing but I do wish it would change the tune!!

chrissyh Tue 07-Feb-17 13:31:58

Somebody told me that if you sing 'Happy Birthday to You' all the way through, it will get the thing you're singing out of your head. It works for me.

LyndaB Tue 07-Feb-17 14:16:17

I find singing 'God Save the Queen' gets rid of my earworms.

Emptynester Tue 07-Feb-17 14:55:49

My worst ever was ' Pass de Dutchy on de left hand side (?)! Why oh why? It lasted days. My DDs worst was Ring of Fire! She didn't even know she knew it?

joannewton46 Tue 07-Feb-17 16:02:12

I'm glad I actually read your message instead of just being put off by the heading. The idea of a genuine ear worm is horrific!

Meriel Tue 07-Feb-17 16:57:58

Yes, I have them quite a lot, very irritating. Someone advised me to sing Happy Birthday whenever you realise the ear worm is wriggling and it does seem to work most of the time - perhaps not immediately, you have to try it a few times.

1974cookie Tue 07-Feb-17 17:33:01

Scales and Arpeggios from the film The Aristocrats is my current earworm.
My 1 year old Great Niece absolutely adores it, so it is played almost constantly when she visits her Gran ( my Sister).

NanKate Tue 07-Feb-17 17:35:59

The Shape of you by Ed Sheeran was in regular pkay by my eldest GS this weekend. I quite like it now smile

NanKate Tue 07-Feb-17 17:36:40

Play hmm

pollyperkins Tue 07-Feb-17 17:52:15

Im off to choir practce in a minute so Im sure the tunes we are singing will be going round my head all night. I was singing all sorts of silly songs to DGC at the weekend so had 'There was an old woman who swallowed a fly' on the brain for a while.

GannyRowe Tue 07-Feb-17 17:57:49

I habitually listen to BBC Radio 4. But after the One O'clock News I leap up to turn off before The Archers theme begins. If I don't move fast enough I'm doomed to have it as a tune in my brain for the rest of the day, minimum!

Nelliemoser Tue 07-Feb-17 18:04:12

After choir last night it was the opening song of Joseph. ('im with the coloured coat.) Tonight's choir offering is a "Gloria" with far too many Amens. "Gloria in Excelis Deo" stuff.

gulligranny Tue 07-Feb-17 19:24:59

Always a whole wormery! At the moment I'm switching seamlessly between "For Me And My Gal" (I was listening to my Harry Nilsson cd at the weekend), "Summertime" (obviously,it's Feb 6th ...) and Faure's Pavanne.

Yesterday - all day - was "Largo Al Factotum", don't know why,drove poor DH mad.

Greyduster Tue 07-Feb-17 19:52:19

joannewton I read a story about that once; about a man who put a centipede into the ear of his wife's lover while he was sleeping. He told him that it would "find its way out by eating its way through his brain". ? I think it might have been Edgar Allen Poe. Sorrry; digression!

Greyduster Tue 07-Feb-17 21:01:45

Please, Lord, don't let me kill this thread! ??

hicaz46 Tue 07-Feb-17 21:07:28

oh yes I have them often. It was The green, green grass of home this morning and then 'the sound of silence' I wish it was!!

Elrel Tue 07-Feb-17 22:31:44

I've often had 'The green, green grass of home'!

rosesarered Tue 07-Feb-17 22:34:08

Every other day I get a song stuck in my head, usually just some of it rather than the whole thing, today it is Abba, 'thank you for the music.'