Earworms

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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
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    I was listening to Material World on Radio 4 yesterday and it had a piece on Earworms. A scientist has written a paper on Earworms and how they work.

    Good news, its on iPlayer.
    Bad news, they were talking about advertisers using what the scientists have learnt to make catchy tunes for adverts.

    My latest earworm: Just 4 U London by Body Snatch Love the break at 2:56 to 3:38.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,811
    Hey Boy Hey Girl by the Chemical Brothers was bouncing around in my head this morning on the run in to work, with the "Here we go" bit being the signal to up the pace a bit. Remarkably effective.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Must remember that one.
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  • thel33ter
    thel33ter Posts: 2,684
    Hmm, I must be really sad, My school has a marching band with bagpipes and stuff in it and I get those tunes stuck in my head :oops: We have to listen to them every Friday when we do parade practice :shock: :roll:

    At the minute I have Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag stuck in my head.

    http://www.we7.com/#/song/Wheatus/Teenage-Dirtbag+
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    This will be in my ear all weekend. Absolute genius :lol: :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNfbX6uvA6s
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  • thel33ter
    thel33ter Posts: 2,684
    Also this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn29DvMITu4

    and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru2Dpe1LkNU

    Don't say I didn't warn you.
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    cjcp wrote:
    This will be in my ear all weekend. Absolute genius :lol: :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNfbX6uvA6s

    Someone at work forwarded this to me in the week. It's gone viral, as I believe the youngsters say.

    (or it was popular about three months ago).
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  • Sewinman
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  • Fixxxer87
    Fixxxer87 Posts: 45
    Sepultura - Ratamahatta. I love the sound of Brazilian thrash metal in the morning.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiwqRSCWw2g

    Don't be off put by the beginning, it starts ~20 seconds in.
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  • cyclopsbiker
    cyclopsbiker Posts: 516
    cjcp wrote:
    This will be in my ear all weekend. Absolute genius :lol: :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNfbX6uvA6s

    love it, don't often watch clips all the way to the end but this one I did :lol:
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  • MonkeyMonster
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    For some reason MC Hammer, You can't touch this, has been in my head for weeks.....
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Damn you, sketchley ;)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    I tend to get killer cars in my head when cycling which isn't ideal.

    "too hard on the brakes again, what if these brakes just give in? what if they don't get out of the way, what if there's someone overtaking".
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    I've been repeatedly 'singing' along to Valerie (Mark Ronson version) for weeks now

    Although RHCP "Under the Bridge" keeps creeping in at the moment....
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  • Paul E
    Paul E Posts: 2,052
    You & I (Mark Maitland ReRub) - Michael Canitrot

    It's on a mad loop in my brain
  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    Sketchley wrote:
    For some reason MC Hammer, You can't touch this, has been in my head for weeks.....

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  • byke68
    byke68 Posts: 1,070
    Had the ending to Fretwork Homework by Half Man Half Biscuit this morning - "The chords are all augmented/the amplifiers rented" over and over till I got to work. At least it was a tune I liked. :)
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    I feel a bit sorry for Mrs EKE. She's a primary school teacher and her earworms are kids songs, nursery rhymes etc.
    Things like this. The US psyops guys use it to break-down Al-Queda terrorists.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,865
    When the kids were younger I'd inevitably have kids TV theme tunes messing with my head.
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    BigJimmyB wrote:
    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.....
    Which was taken from George Gershwin, 1935.
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Had Altered Images singing Don't Talk To Me About Love most of the way in this morning, which is great as it's one of the best pop tunes ever. And Claire was cute in the vid.
  • Vitessetortoise
    Vitessetortoise Posts: 53
    I quite often have a variation of ‘Mother’ by John Lennon going round my head (and indeed being sung out loud) but I change the words from “Mother, I wanted you, but you didn’t want me” to the likes of “dri-ver, I saw you, but you didn’t see mee-eee-ee” “Ford Foc-u-us, I avoided you, but you didn’t care about mee-eee-ee” etc etc.
  • Fat-Boy-Roubaix
    Fat-Boy-Roubaix Posts: 413
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ok26p7Tbg4 Someone call 911 is whining through my head!
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,865
    Sketchley wrote:
    Your own personal Jesus....

    Lift up the receiver and I'll make you believer...

    Reach out and touch faith .....

    I went to bed with that in my head. But, the Johnny Cash version.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,865
    Burn baby burn. Had that in my head since I read that Jimmy Ellis had died.
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  • Applespider
    Applespider Posts: 506
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Burn baby burn. Had that in my head since I read that Jimmy Ellis had died.

    Me too! That was my earworm for the way home tonight!
  • Initialised
    Initialised Posts: 3,047
    Bloody kids, woke me up with this the other day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH5ay10RTGY

    Stuck.
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    I had soft cell's where did our love go in my head all the way to Brighton Friday night....
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