Ear worms! What’s yours today?

Gosh, I remember that flipping bus and its endless wheels! There would be about six of us tunelessly singing it to stop junior daughter's son from screaming!

Last week's and today's worm is the NHS electronic musak when one is kept on hold waiting for the phone to be answered!! It was blasting at me for an hour and a half and still noone answered.

Could I PLEASE not read this thread title as “Eat worms” !!!!

Here's one

youtu.be/DtuZJrwkosY?si=IMYR1agbbZz3O4mi

Visgir1

I miss read the heading... I thought it said.. Eat worms? 🤭

Me too! That reminded me of the song about eating worms, but fortunately that has not become an ear worm.

What has, is the Air Scotia company song from The High Life TV series of the 90s. It has recently been made into a musical with the original cast, and has been touring Scotland. Scottish GNers may remember it! It's been going round and round in my head for days now.

BoggledMind, I too get random songs popping up to have a shot at being ear worms. Goodness knows where they come from and why they surface!

Visgir1

I miss read the heading... I thought it said.. Eat worms? 🤭

Ha ha, that’s exactly how I read it Visgitl! Yuk I thought.

I miss read the heading... I thought it said.. Eat worms? 🤭

Hey that’s no way to say goodbye. I can even see Leonard Cohen!

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden, Along with the sun, you need a little rain sometime.

The other day, on YouTube , i came across a young autistic young boy, Jack, who loves Legos, sing ‘Just when i needed you most’ - I can’t get that out of my mind.

Allegri’s ‘Miserere’. I hate it. I’d sooner have my teeth drilled than suffer twelve minutes of it and now I can’t get rid of it!! Thank you, radio 3!

I find a particular sound might cause an earworm for me.
My mind will fit a tune around the sound of a noisy fan, for example.
I can't remember which scan it is, (the horribly noisy one) had me singing "sweet child of mine" to it, follwed by a multitude of other songs.
Absolute torture!
I had to do all the twiddly guitar solos, too!

I don't have an ear worm floating around as yet, but I am curious about them, and it's this.

We often get them after hearing something (as mentioned previously), but many times, I get an ear worm of a song or tune that I haven't heard for perhaps a very long time. It appears to come out of nowhere. Does this happen to anyone else? And why would a random song / tune appear from nowhere? Is there a file in our brains storing music throughout our lives, kept hidden until ear worm day?

Hmmm, that is interesting.
A sign? A lttle "Hello" from the other side?
What do you think?

Rocketstop2

Sometimes they say it's someone trying to communicate with you, don't know if it's in this place or the next !

That's a bit spooky.

It's almost exactly 5 years since my DF died and for the last few days I've had 'There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier, who wandered far away, and soldiered far away' running through my head. My DF used to sing it all the time when we were small and I always associate it with him as I've never heard it sung by anyone else.

Galloping Major - thanks to the childhood song thread!

Silvertwigs

😂😂😂😂 she’s a one isn’t she, that will teach good looking Clint!

Silvertwigs - I just got this! ha ha
yes indeed
soon put a stop to that crying nonsense

MissAdventure

It reminds me of dedicated follower of fashion- now I've got that stuck in my head!

Yes, it is similar.
Dedicated Follower of Fashion is my favourite Kinks song and gets stuck in my head too.

It reminds me of dedicated follower of fashion- now I've got that stuck in my head!

Listen if you dare 😁

youtu.be/pNF8sKbqAZE?si=MQB18vG_h1La7nYr

3 6 9 The goose drank wine, the monkey chewed tobacco on the streetcar line......
On and on it goes, I always used to love this nonsense rhyme, but once I start humming it, cannot get it out of my head...

Not Matchstick Men?

MissAdventure

I don't know that song.
Tempted to look it up, but i don't want it buzzing around in mine!

I don’t know it either🧐

MissAdventure

I don't know that song.
Tempted to look it up, but i don't want it buzzing around in mine!

Probably a good idea. It's very catchy and does stick !

I don't know that song.
Tempted to look it up, but i don't want it buzzing around in mine!

I currently have Plastic Man by The Kinks whizzing round my head. Fortunately I like the song.