Earworms

EKE_38BPM
EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
edited July 2019 in Commuting chat
What was your Earworm today? Put a link to it in your post so that you can make your earworm contagious.

To get the ball rolling, today's Earworm was from Sometimes I Rhyme Slow by Nice and Smooth (early 90's hip hop), but in my head, I change the lyrics to Sometimes I Ride Slow, Sometimes I Ride Quick. Youtube here.
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  • Mr Sworld
    Mr Sworld Posts: 703
    WTF?

    What's an earworm? Something to do with Star Trek: Wrath of Khan?
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    A song that gets stuck in your head as you ride.
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  • jonny_trousers
    jonny_trousers Posts: 3,588
    It began with some Level 42 song that I cannot remember and then moved into Afroman's Because I Got High . (click here) WTF? It's been many a years since I last smoked weed and I don't particularly like that song anyway. You've got to love the ingenuity of the earworm.[/url]
  • Mr Sworld
    Mr Sworld Posts: 703
    Hmm.... Ok.
    Prefer to have nothing in my ears as I cycle. Roads are dangerous enough without not being able to hear the traffic.

    However whatever was last on Radio 6 as I leave the house does get hummed as I cycle in! :lol:
  • jonny_trousers
    jonny_trousers Posts: 3,588
    Mr Sworld wrote:
    Hmm.... Ok.
    Prefer to have nothing in my ears as I cycle. Roads are dangerous enough without not being able to hear the traffic.

    The earworm is a mentally conjured tune dude. I'm surprised you have never experienced it.
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    "We are the self preservation society" from The Italian Job. No idea why, just seemed an appropriate tune as I battled into Glasgow in the rain, this time down Dumbarton Road.
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • hisoka
    hisoka Posts: 541
    I think the song I have stuck is called Tinie Tempah-Frisky.
    It just has stuck in my brain and can't get rid of the beat.
    "This area left purposefully blank"
    Sign hung on my head everyday till noon.

    FCN: 11 (apparently)
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    @hisoka, is this the one?
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    I listen to music so I don't get it on the bike but I've had

    Bongzilla - Brownie

    on repeat for a while, in particular the very sludgy vocals of "Little cupcakes baked by Satan"
    Purveyor of sonic doom

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  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esi_XwbLsL4

    Fruitbat from Carter USM's side project. cracking band.

    the cycling connotations are pure couincidence.
  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    Apparently to get earworms out of your head just sing

    "hey mickey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind hey mickey!"

    on repeat a few times to yourself and voila - earworm gone and "mickey" will also leave quietly.

    Peace and quiet again....
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  • hisoka
    hisoka Posts: 541
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    @hisoka, is this the one?

    I will have to check when I get home. Joys of work blocking off youtube.
    "This area left purposefully blank"
    Sign hung on my head everyday till noon.

    FCN: 11 (apparently)
  • Notsolittlemisssunshine
    Notsolittlemisssunshine Posts: 25
    Despite all the great songs I listen to (well I think they are great) my earworms end up being something like Button Moon! Not sure what that says about me!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIRgTmTC ... re=related
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Today's cruise through the parks was accompanied by a mental rendition of 'summertime'. The '.... and the living is easy' version, not will smith.
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  • Mickey Eye
    Mickey Eye Posts: 590
    This.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C17yfGyJjM
    Seriously, whenever I'm riding I seem to end up with that ticking through my head.

    It's also got a music video that makes me laugh every time. Seriously, the high-five at 1:06 cracks me up every time.
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    This is my theme for the Parliament -> Putney Bridge SCR speed way:

    http://soundcloud.com/metalheadz/heist- ... z-platinum

    Something about the "Go, capture him, and bring me his magic weapon" sample makes me push a bit harder for that elusive scalp :)
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  • ketsbaia
    ketsbaia Posts: 1,718
    I had that ruddy Dog Days song by Abhorrence and the Latrine going round my head throughout the entire Dragon Ride on Sunday.

    It didn't help.
    One more gear

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  • BigJimmyB
    BigJimmyB Posts: 1,302
    mroli wrote:
    Apparently to get earworms out of your head just sing

    "hey mickey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind hey mickey!"

    on repeat a few times to yourself and voila - earworm gone and "mickey" will also leave quietly.

    Peace and quiet again....

    Rubbish.

    Mickey has been my earworm for the last few days!

    :lol:
  • BigJimmyB
    BigJimmyB Posts: 1,302
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Today's cruise through the parks was accompanied by a mental rendition of 'summertime'. The '.... and the living is easy' version, not will smith.

    Which was taken from Kool and the Gang.....
  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    as ever, First It Giveth, QOTSA
    "Bed is for sleepy people.
    Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."

    FCN = 3 - 5
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  • emotionless_softcore
    emotionless_softcore Posts: 31
    'No legs today' thread just put me in mind of one; parts of which have often tended to play in my head near the end of long commutes/on empty legs days generally.
    Come on, feet! Cruise for me?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsT_WVuMk8I
    [...]
    come on knees, don't be mean
    come on knees, cause that ain't the first scratch you've ever seen
    come on feet, do ya thang (come on baby!)
    don't cop out on me (come on baby!)
    don't give in on me
    come on legs, come on cruise for me
    come on feet, cruise for me...
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Very strange, but I like it.

    Kinda like an underground Handsome Boy Modeling School, as if that wasn't underground enough already!

    I am now checking out some of their other stuff.
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    emotionless_softcore wrote:
    'No legs today' thread just put me in mind of one; parts of which have often tended to play in my head near the end of long commutes/on empty legs days generally.
    Come on, feet! Cruise for me?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsT_WVuMk8I
    [...]
    come on knees, don't be mean
    come on knees, cause that ain't the first scratch you've ever seen
    come on feet, do ya thang (come on baby!)
    don't cop out on me (come on baby!)
    don't give in on me
    come on legs, come on cruise for me
    come on feet, cruise for me...

    Ah, Melvin van Peebles ftw. Dark album that, love it though.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    http://shutupwomangetonmyhorse.com/

    People were singing it in the campsite at Hellfest :lol:
    Purveyor of sonic doom

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    Fixed Pista- FCN 5
    Beared Bromptonite - FCN 14
  • dancook
    dancook Posts: 279
    Jonny_Trousers wrote:
    It began with some Level 42 song that I cannot remember and then moved into Afroman's Because I Got High . (click here) WTF? It's been many a years since I last smoked weed and I don't particularly like that song anyway. You've got to love the ingenuity of the earworm.[/url]

    It's nice to know that someone else listens to Level 42 still :) I need to expand my iphone album list so far I'm playing

    Alanis Morisette
    Garbage
    The Cardigans
    Aztec Camera
    Level 42
    The Cranberries
    Love Actually

    I should get some of The Beautiful South on there.
  • R_T_A
    R_T_A Posts: 488
    This morning, the Earworm dropped "Theme from S'Express" into my lughole.

    I haven't heard it for maybe 10 years, so no idea where that came from. Loving the fashion in the crowd at TOTP:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCW3RJNRIw&feature=related

    And whilst searching for that on Youtube, I saw this classic of my teens: D-Mob - We call it Aciiieed:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEdiOBz4zeM&feature=related

    I'm going for a lie down now.
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    This:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-KmvRdTgLU

    FILTH
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  • re-cycles
    re-cycles Posts: 107
    Hadn't heard the phrase "earworm" before, but I like it! This morning I had Star Trekking by The Firm in my head for about 30 minutes... Annoyingly I don't know all the words so it kept on looping around like a dodgy single.
  • walt jabsco
    walt jabsco Posts: 11
    Althia and Donna - uptown top rankin.
    FCN 6
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Try A Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
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