What earworm is plaguing you right now? Want to swap?

I don’t have one and I haven’t had any trouble ejecting earworms since March, 1967.

So I’ll trade you the one I don’t have, and dump “PWD” into my abysmally large chasm of non-remembrance. ;-)

There is a bouncy little jingle on a radio commercial that has been annoying me for weeks. I can’t shake it out of my head.

This has been stuck in my head for the past 2 weeks. Not the best thing ever.

My coach keeps making me run it over and over and over again to the point where I feel like my vocal chords are about to fall out. Not to mention the amount of breath support that takes…

Dynomite by Taio Cruz

My kids play it incessantly and now I can’t get rid of it.

I’ve go the theme to PBS, Antiques Road show with Mark Walberg playing right now.
“It belonged to my grandmother. She paid $10 for it.”
“Well it is the finest specimen I have ever seen. At auction it would go for $80,000–90,000.”
“Oh, my! You can have it for $50,000!”

I have had “The Little Green Frog” firmly implanted in my mind for the last several days. Here is the best version of it I could find.

Compared to classical music, mainstream music is essentially a 2, 4, 6 second loop repeated over and over again. The same people that say they don’t like techno because it’s repetitive will listen to a shorter version with someone singing over it.

The repetitiveness of the song makes it easier for one to remember, I suspect.

Classical music is slower and less repetitive; there’s a plot that has to be followed because it changes, but a mainstream song is simply a repeated beat that is easy to pay attention to because it’s just “do-chh-do do-chh-do”.

I make sure to try and keep music that I like in my head, so it won’t ever piss me off. But a lot of music I don’t like does find its way in there, yet I still seem to enjoy it, until I get sick of it. But that actually happens to stuff I do like, too. Judging from what worm is in your ear now, I don’t think I can help.
I’m really not all that picky though, I like most music. I do have my preferences though. This may not be your style, but the lyrics have been stuck in my head for like three days. I love this song, but I’m sick and tired of singing it under my breath constantly lol. Still, I’d rather that than Polly Wolly Doodle. :D Perhaps, you shall too.

Stand Inside Your Love by Smashing Pumpkins. It’s been stuck in my head since Friday, man..

Would have to be Call It What You Want by Foster the People.

Just straight up indie pop.

I get the occasional new indie song stuck in my head, but the two that I get stuck in my head just about every time I hear them is the Meow Mix jingle and Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire. I wish Ring of Fire didn’t do that, since I like the song, but it gets tiresome after a few days. I loathe the Meow Mix jingle.

Most of y’all are lucky. I get horrible pop songs that I can’t stand… stuck forever in loops. I hate when one gets into a dream. You know how dreams can feel like they take a lifetime or two? Try that with “You gotta be” by Des’ree going on and on and on…. bloody hell! Can’t my dream give me a revolver to shoot myself?

@Blueroses I always have zombies in my dreams. Want some? :D I’ll send em over there. :)

@Symbeline Are zombies at all susceptible to earworms?

I’ve been listening to “Icelandic Folk Music” on Grooveshark.com. If that doesn’t drive nonsense songs out of your head, then maybe nothing will.

It’s good music, too.

@Brian1946 Not the kind spoken of in this question no, as zombies cannot think or sing. (unless it be chilling moans that call forth the frozen bells of middle night, the end of life and the advent of complete chaos) But they are sure susceptible to all sorts of other kinds of nasty and fugly worms. :D

Very nice, @CWOTUS. The ones with the vocals are especially so, like this one. Thanks—that helped a little.

Commiseration helps too. I couldn’t get in without signing up, @Symbeline, but thanks anyway. Send me a zombie music-killer, ok?

How about this, is it working? It’s in the same style of that which I linked earlier. Once you get the lyrics down…it’s like a zombie, it won’t give up lol.

Yep. I have that one marked as a Favorite.

You might like the Saw Doctors, too. But beware, they’ll put new earworms in your head. Fortunately, they’re more or less grown-up. And fun.

Sweet dreams.

Or alternatively, this

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard My mother and I like to dance through our house singing the “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” song. Fortunately, we knew it before that Insidious movie!

@KateTheGreat I like to sing that song as I jump out of my roommates’ closets and drag them under their beds.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard I have a feeling that with your accent, it sounds creepy as fuck.

@KateTheGreat wanna find out?

@Fiddle Please? :)

Sail by AWOLNation.

Yeah, it’s not the official video, but it’s a cool song, and I like this video better.

An entire classical piece might be difficult to get on your mind for the reasons @Blackberry stated, but what happens to me are that smaller tunes from larger pieces get on my mind, especially those by composers Tchaikovsky and Glazunov, who were masters of melody.

@KateTheGreat ask and ye shall receive.

Though it is a bit distorted sounding, you get the picture.

Right at this very moment, I have the sound of live frogs in my head. It’s nerve wracking. They are called coqui frogs and are native to Puerto Rico. Some of the little devils hitched a ride on some plants shipped here for agricultural use, and they’ve taken over the island.

The noise they make is their name: co-KEE co-KEE. It’s very loud though the critter is tiny. Here’s the Wikipedia article on them.

The Hawaiian environment is quite fragile and is prone to invasive species like this one and some others.

Sally’s Song by Universal Hall Pass has been stuck in my head for almost a week. I have listened to a thousand other songs, but this one is stuck.

Ever since I watched My Neighbor Totoro with my signifiicant other a couple weeks ago, this has been stuck in my head. I don’t even know the entire song. I just have “Totoro, TO-TO-RO” on loop.

@tranquilsea I love Dynomite :D It gets stuck in my head too. So does Remedy by Jason Mraz.

This song has been stuck in my head for about 2 weeks—my daughter complains about it being in her head too. I don’t know how it would affect other people, but the chorus just won’t go away. For those who’ve never seen songs being signed in ASL, this just might be a treat. (Marlee Matlin and Fabian Sanchez from DWTS are in it)

@dverhey Mine is a Foster the People song, too… Pumped Up Kicks. What I hate the most about earworms is that it’s usually just a small snippet of the song, over and over and over. Ack.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard That scared the shit out of me. I am scared to go anywhere near you now!

Why did I click on this Q? Now my brain is sploding!

I have just started singing Somebody To Love by Queen on a loop in my head. I blame @Jude and her Queen song question!

I’ve had this stuck in my head for a few weeks now. Sometimes I’ll be cooking and all of a sudden bust out singing “Call J.G. Wentworth, 877-CASH-NOW! 877-CASH-NOW!”

Now that I think of it, I have had some earworms since 1967.

One was my rendition of Purple Haze that would occasionally play in my head when I was in Navy boot camp. I didn’t bother me at all though; what it did was give me a musical respite while we were marching out on the grinder. It was also about the only music I heard for the 2 months, 10 days that I was being held in confined involuntary servitude.

Another one was about 40 years ago. I made up a song segment that was a mockery of something by Grand Funk Railroad, and sometimes it would involuntarily play in my head, but once it gave me my brief chuckle, it would go away.

@augustlan Their album is pretty awesome. Been listening to it for the past few days pretty heavily. One of my favorite of 2011 for sure.

Yes! The ditties stick in our heads for some reason. Advertisers know this very well. Here’s one akin to the Farmer in the Dell – “Go see Staaaan, Stan’s the maaaaan, get your used cars in Wetaskiwaaaaaaaaan” One hearing seems to take days to tune out.

This one.

Thanks to harple’s question, now it’s Help.

Thank goodness it’s now the theme song to the “Sharpe” TV series, which I’ve been watching lately. That’s still not high art, but it’s better than, uh, you-know-what.

Thanks for all the commiseration and fellow suffering. It always makes me feel a little better when somebody else has a case of it too.

Live in my house, I’ll be your shelter… Pay me back, with 1000 kisses…

my daughter’s watched RENT about 10 times in the last 3 days…arrrugh!