| Author | Message | ||
     Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
For a change, the song that I can't get rid of that I've got going through my head is actually a good one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhjSzjoU7OQ enjoy | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.25.141.120 |
Then it doesn't count as an ear worm, at least in my definition. (Yesterday, it was "Don't Give Up on Us Baby" by David Soul. I notice they often attack me in grocery stores, where they often lie in wait to infect unsuspecting shoppers. Pernicious, I say! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.155.217.224 |
Saw someone I used to work with and disliked intensely on my way home from work and for at least an hour, this was my earworm/mindworm whatever you want to call it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUXj2i0PsTQ All in all a good day for internal music. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.51.159 |
Today in the hypermarket. A little girl who cannot have been more than four years old was either singing or yelling "Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex!" The shoppers tried very hard to ignore her, and the embarassed mother smiled apologetically. I'm not making this up. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
I was at a karaoke fundraiser one time for a theatre group and someone allowed their 6 and 7 year old daughters to get up and sing Sex on the Beach... Not the most appropriate song | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
And today's earworm is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7lKKNrXUJg No I don't know why. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
And it isn't even Christmas! I just can't shake the Village People's YMCA out of my head. I've been like this now for over a week! I blame that damn advert on TV for confused.com and the fact that I needed to try to remember to sort out new car insurance. But now I've got my new insurance and I just want to stop that song going round and round in my head all the time. Help!!  | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
No problem, Caroline... "Ag-a-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, grind coffee To the left, to the right, jump up and down and to the knees Come and dance every night, sing with a hula melody." One more time for the world... [At this point the muffled report of a high velocity rifle shot from the roof opposite was heard followed by a sharp crack of glass.. and silence...] | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
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| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.79.71 |
Conversely - "You put de lime in de coconut, you drink 'em bot' togedder Put de lime in de coconut and you'll feel better, Put de lime in de coconut, drink 'em bot' up, Put de lime in de coconut and call me in the morning. Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo. Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo." | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBoL-DjMptk Today's earworm | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.79.71 |
Mine today is "Mc Arthur Park", which needs no introduction. I recently read in an old music magazine that the Harris version was recorded in three takes, by the studio cats who played on Beach Boys records, no less. You don't have to like the music to see that is a tour de force of some magnitude. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFevDtxbBHM | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ3-NnNx6Zs | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.23.80 |
"Now enter in and be justified, Yes, enter in just like me. Just enter in and be justified, But enter in like a flea. Now enter in and be justified, Yes, enter in and you'll see. Just enter in and be justified By emulating a flea." | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Oh heck. I got a message from Adobe today to upload a new something-or-other. I did - and now I find (after trying to view that video, Weber) that I can't view/play any videos. Anyone got any idea what I can do about that? Help! (or is YouTube doing strange things? Perhaps it isn't my computer at all) | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.23.80 |
Works on mine, Caroline. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Ah, the BFS and BBC sites are doing strange things for me too - so it's definitely my computer. Thanks, Ramsey. When this has happened before with the BFS and BBC site, a bit of computer maintenance - running a malware programme, etc - has sorted it out for me. I'm off to do some computer maintenance now ... (I might be able to see what Weber's mindworm is then!) Sorry for going OT! | ||
| Christopher Overend (Chris_overend) Username: Chris_overend Registered: 03-2012 Posted From: 217.33.165.66 |
The Muppets are always good for a mindworm: Mahna Mahna (Do doo be-do-do) Mahna Mahna (Do do-do do) Mahna Mahna (Do doo be-do-do, be-do-do, be-do-do, be-do-do-doodle do do do-doo do!) | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Or the Wombles: "Overground, underground, wombling free The wombles of Wimbledon Common are we Making good use of the things that we find Things that the everyday folk leave behind" | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
In fact, I've got the first two words the wrong way round, haven't I? Never mind. A nice catchy tune with an ecological message - can't be bad!  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
I don't know if it's because of the Adrian Mole book putting my brain back into early 80s mode, but I've had the "Um Bongo Um bongo they drink it in de Congo" tune on an almost constant loop today. The worst thing about it is I actually know the lyrics still... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYj5o4kQsXs I hope that right - I can't view it from work. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.25.43.252 |
I read a book all about this issue called THE MEME MACHINE. It was rubbish. Just thought I'd mention it. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.18.63 |
"I could be getting any more of them (More of them), I could be getting any more of them (More of them), I could be getting any more of them (More of them), I could be getting any more of them (More of them), I could be getting any more of them (More of them)..." Repeat ad nauseam. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I totally buy into the concept of memes. I see them as types of behaviour and ideas that spread throughout cultures by imitation and mass acceptance until they come to be regarded as the norm. New memes are always forming and those that accrete enough unconscious support among the populace survive and grow. In these days of mass media technology and instant global communication memes have the ability to replicate themselves like never before due to the pressure we all feel to conform. What we are seeing is a form of cultural and behavioral natural selection at work. I despise the idea of memes and strive to stay my own man in all things but no man is an island and mobile phones and the internet have made us all as porous as sponge when it comes to cultural evolution. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.150.17.221 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6oqbaSCkk8 This was today's ear worm. If my story in MBFG had a theme song, this would be it. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.150.17.221 |
I've also had an earworm recently yuo might guess from this  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6f593X6rv8 I have this segueing with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7xEizPtKwg Possibly 2 of the darkest songs aboout love to hit the charts. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Great choices, Weber! You know, just recently, I rediscovered the joys of the Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (1983) album... and like a mind worm, it was just not ever leaving the spin cycle. Weber, go to youtube too: all the B-sides/demos/outtakes (and there are many!) have been collected there, some of them quite rare... some of them better even than the stuff that made it! Yup. When I think of George Orwell's 1984 too, now, I think immediately of Eurythmics.... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.184.110.31 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospxlZZM2Hw | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Good stuff! This has been on my heavy-rotation the last few days: http://youtu.be/k6YAUPuTpAk killer album, btw | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
I don't know if it's because I've seen the Eurovision Song Contest mentioned so much online and on telly recently (I didn't watch it by the way!), but I woke up this morning with "Boom Bang-A-Bang" on the brain (was that Lulu?). Truly horrible. I just can't get rid of it.  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.58.152 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTF-nXqW1cs&feature=related more than 40 years ago this pair managed to nail how I've been feeling this week. How did they know? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Oh, that song hit a nerve here too! Many years ago, when I was a rather shy and lonely college student, that was *my* song too. Those last lines ...  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Oh stop! Don't wallow in that garbage, Weber - spend more time listening to this: http://youtu.be/wyx6JDQCslE | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.61.103 |
The only song by the pair I can stomach is "The Boxer". The sadness engendered by the cycle of chords on which they sing la-la-la takes on threatening, almost cosmic proportions when the heavy bass note enters near the end. A bit similar to but less devastating than the beginning of the Moody Blues' "Question". | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.61.103 |
Today's mindworm here is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzLFNJQR7WE A sadly forgotten British band. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.34.121 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQoVfW0qWo&feature=fvwrel Today's mindworm. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.145.129.136 |
Today's mindworm has been Oh Fortuna - but with odd lyrics. I wonder why... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Tonight's random mindworm, the other killer tune from this album that psychotically worms: http://youtu.be/9FUdjYOuEUQ | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Woke up this morning with this on the brain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA1n4oOYLfY Had to go and find it on YouTube .. and it's better than I remembered it! Have you ever heard anyone sing the blues that well? And that saxophone .. wow! .. sends a shiver down my spine. I think I'm going to have to update my Creedence collection with some CDs and really start to listen to them again.  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.142.0 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xASP72P2vY0 My thoughts about First Direct bank are summed up perfectly in this little ditty which is on a loop at the moment. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.61.103 |
My mindworm today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XG-tZRdTzQ. The instrumental middle section is sheer ecstacy to my ears. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
I've got a few lines from a Pnk Floyd song that I can't identify today. I know it's from the Division Bell album (or possibly from Delicate Sound of Thunder), just from the general sound of it but I have no idea what the song is. The lyrics are The grass was greener The air was cleaner the sky was brighter(?) and my mind won't let me get past that bit. Can anyone tell me what it is? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.61.103 |
"High Hopes" | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUwW7RI3U0w Today's | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Meanwhile, back in the real world of mind worms, that burrow to kill: http://youtu.be/BuxRh5sI_WQ | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.152.62.175 |
I love this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I9Ar6upx34 | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Meanwhile, on some kind of Lynchian nightmare planet.... http://youtu.be/8Uee_mcxvrw | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.61.103 |
Had a dream last night centered around this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mudlXF3MA8Q. Of course I'm stuck with it now. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 31.53.147.187 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N29vkIT3eo Since seeing them on Tuesday night at the Manchester Academy, I've had this in my head. She's still a sexy thing up on stage and gives a darned good show. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 31.53.147.187 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCNPXpehoCM Or even this version which has the full song... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.61.103 |
Lovely lady. Glad to hear she's still looking good. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 31.53.147.187 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxQdVTjEMF4 Just for you Hubert. The sight of Shirley Manson staring seductively at you while singing "You can touch me if you want" is one of the great images from any music video ever made... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Hard to believe these are the same two as the last one I posted!!! In an earlier incarnation. And still rich with humor & horror. http://youtu.be/gRy6pBpwVbk | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 31.54.11.90 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlLT3hLXDUU&feature=related sheer genius. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.143.113 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dci1iet9kc Today's mind worm. I think this song sums up my opinion of the current pop scene better than I've ever heard... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
A kind of horror story, by the end.... http://youtu.be/AIXUgtNC4Kc | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
That's right: 10 straight hours of this.... http://youtu.be/Bav-xvxbaEc | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.145.132.209 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WurT2piQyjk | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia5sTCeyWug For the last 3 hours I've had the chorus from this one. Good thing I like this song | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
A mind-worm for the new year.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpl5mOAXNl4 | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.207.71 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8el_P4yvfc I match your silly cat with wise owls... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Hee-hee.... I liked his "Rotate Your Owl" one, too. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Ha! This one's for you, Weber (thanks Andrew Sullivan). True mind-worm fodder. And yet, it's such a happy song.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.145.131.120 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJVhpsKdNS0 | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.183.76.223 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRLC-GaJPS8 | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.148.20 |
https://www.youtube.com/user/AdamBuxton | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.233.148.20 |
It's possible that I haven't got the hang of this thread. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.167.145.246 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JUegq7nI8I This is a more cheerful song for me to mindworm with recently. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
... and at long last, the antidote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9950143/Get-that-tune-out-of-you r-head-scientists-find-how-to-get-rid-of-earworms.html Test it out, if you'd like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxopViU98Xo | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.150.133.146 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaZnIr-faM | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.134.105.231 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcgClucDd9Q Some songs aren't meant to be heard, theyre meant to be felt... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.134.105.231 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri-8Wq3GIg4 and the same goes for this one | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.134.106.64 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLDYEsppws Ronnie James Dio - greatest rock vocallist of the 70's and 80s. Discuss | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.134.106.64 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GahZQb_-OI0 | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.134.105.107 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIOKi4EIHg4 Great singalong tune for a day like today | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.134.105.107 |
And a cover that improves on the original... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZqPoriYXho | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.37.208 |
https://soundcloud.com/maddecent/blood-bros-first-blood It's a forty minute mash-up of action movie power ballads. You're welcome. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
This could have gone in another thread or two... but you know, it just feels like here's most apt: http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/indie-satire-hellaware-punks-internet-juggalo-vi ral-video-young-torture-killaz/ | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.134.105.133 |
The only thing wrong with this song is it's too damned short! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5zUGzvXUr0 | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Just a completely straightforward cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"... against a rather Lynch-ian nightmare, I must say....  http://youtu.be/-LoiblDKBDc | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.5.205 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqT3Xqei85A Not actually a mind worm but I can't find the thread for short horror films... | ||
| David Lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 2.219.133.41 |
I dunno if this will be of interest to anyone, but this label has a 50% sale on until the end of January if you use the code tympanik2014 when buying. Most digital albums work out around £3 using it. It's electronic music ranging from the sombre and atmospheric to glitchy and dancy. I've ended up discovering a load of new music and spending probably more than I should on albums. My particular favourite finds are Subheim, Stendeck and Ad*ver*sary. | ||
| David Lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 176.248.60.181 |
My current ear/mindworm - Body and Blood by Clipping. I can only describe it as industrial hip-hop, with a horror theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZAPtFRpuu8 | ||
| David Lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 2.121.220.176 |
I saw these guys supporting Dark Horses a few weeks ago and thought they'd be worth a recommendation, considering the band formed at an HP Lovecraft appreciation society and have been described as "A unique imagination filled with Freudian symbols and Jungian archetypes, cult cinema, fairy-tales, classic literature, high art and low art. With their music Natalie Pryce create a world to slip into: a world with raging hallucinatory characters and impossible nocturnal cities where magick is real and reality is never taken at face value… it’s music about life and death, love and sorrow, sex and dreams that leaves you still listening well after the songs are finished." http://nataliepryce.co.uk/music/ |