earwormhole

Bang!

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:51:43 GMT

It so happened that someone mentioned the word "bang" in #dreamwidth-support, and dreamatdrew and I both instantly got earwormed.

Now, my earworm is a classic, and is very well suited for me to then blame other people for my getting earwormed.

R.E.M. - Bang and Blame

( Lyrics )

I have been seriously into R.E.M. ever since pyrogenic introduced me to their music, so this is not a surprise.

Now, the song that Drew was earwormed with ...

Ricky Martin - She Bangs

The comments there are really not worth reading, unless you like ( executive summary ) With a few people decrying the prudishness of modern music on modern broadcast radio.

( Lyrics )

So I listened to it, and then watched the whole thing because I was too busy giggling about the octopus-merman (TENTACLES!!) and in short, I've been earwormed with this for about the past week due to excessive rewatching. As one does.

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Done of my own accord

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:42:30 GMT

I was /roll-ing over some people on my AIM buddy list, and of course, what comes to mind but Katamari on the Rocks

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I've ordered in a shipment of the relevant equipment...

Tue, 03 May 2011 22:35:54 GMT

So the excellent erika popped into #dreamwidth, and between one thing and another, she mentioned The Wet Spots: "Do You Take It?", which was a staple of my internet-based hilarity some years ago. Naturally it popped straight into my head.

Both video and lyrics are less suggestive and more blatantly lewd.

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stuck where?

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:50:56 GMT

thanks to synecdochic I have Moxy Fruvous: stuck in the 90s stuck in my HEAD.

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I wish I was ... Wait.

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:59:24 GMT

I have been massively earwormed all evening with the Bloodhound Gang's "I wish I was queer so I could get chicks". (It's also about the effects of homophobic bullying, besides a straight teenage guy who wants to get laid.)

Why?

I just now figured it out.

It is pea season. There is a fry-up I do with potato, cheese, peas ... and sausage. So I bought some sausage.

Jimmy Dean.

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Steady as -- aiii, cliff!

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:31:29 GMT

I wound up with the chorus of a song I hadn't heard in quite a while in my head, with no idea what it actually was. I found it in short order, happily, and therefore have this fairly surreal treat of a vid to share.

The Raconteurs "Steady, As She Goes"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvabLhs6_LM

( Video and some description )

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Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:51:10 GMT

Apparently when tiferet and I road trip together, we will wind up singing bits and pieces of "Still Alive" the whole way. One of us will start, and that will set the other one off, and we will keep on doing this until one of us turns on some other music.

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Crossfire

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:28:25 GMT

"Crossfire", Brandon Flowers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhU12zC8fc

Brandon Flowers, of course, is that dude from The Killers, in case you recognized his voice but not why you recognized it.

This song has been in my head off and on since I first heard it, and has quietly but firmly attached itself to The Demon Mirror, due to the Heaven vs. Hell theme that they've both got going on. (Uh, perhaps that won't make sense to anyone outside my head -- it's one of the books I'm writing.)

( Lyrics )

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Fly, fools, fly!

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:42:07 GMT

Despite not having heard the song for goodness knows how long, this song gets stuck in my head regularly, often in the shower.

Lords of the Rhymes: Black Riders

( Lyrics are a bit cussy. )

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"Birds of Prey" from Batman: The Brave and The Bold

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 22:17:44 GMT

So someone showed this off, with extensive commentary, giggling, and WTFery about the amount of innuendo packed into such a sweet little song. And naturally I played it several times, because oh my. AND THEN IT STARTED PLAYING ON ITS OWN IN MY HEAD. OF COURSE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAFP0IoMfsA

Transcription & lyrics:

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And for those who missed all the innuendo:
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Ye Gods

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:24:59 GMT

The only version I've ever heard has been when my sister sang it. THAT'S the one rattling around in my head. Since I want to torture you all, I present to you: Bananas in Pajamas!

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size of the entire universe man!

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:38:32 GMT

Thanks to a tweet by azurelunatic ("RT @tmbg: JF: Speaking of drugs and the Bierberized of everything--"Istanbul" slowed down 800%. For the DRANK! Best around 9 min. http://soundcloud.com/captaincaustic/istanbul-not-constantinople-slowed-down-800-the-bierberization-of"), I was earwormed with "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants. Here is the one I remember from being a kid, done by Tiny Toons Adventures:

Of course, this lead to reminiscing about another TMBG song of my childhood, namely, this Dragon Ball Z AMV set to "Particle Man":

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A tool!

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:02:32 GMT

http://unhearit.com/ -- found via Lifehacker, for replacing one earworm with another one.

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Two Chad Mitchell Trio earwormholes for the price of one, with Youtube links.

Fri, 21 May 2010 17:34:40 GMT

The I was not a Nazi polka
The John Birch Society

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At least it's not Bananaphone?

Tue, 04 May 2010 17:12:59 GMT

[07:15] xb95> stop calling stop calling I don't wanna think any more
[07:15] xb95> whyyyyyyy is it so early
[07:16] *** TheDivineGoat has quit IRC: Read error: Connection reset by peer
[07:16] *** TheDivineGoat has joined #dreamwidth
[07:19] Alertsy> [28] sb-web02:Disk Health sda is CRITICAL: CRITICAL - Plugin timed out while executing system call
[07:19] xb95> hmm
[07:21] *** amaliedageek has joined #dreamwidth
[07:23] * rahaeli onward!
[07:23] *** rahaeli has quit IRC: Quit: I'm vertical, I'm dressed, and my hair is brushed. This is the closest I'm going to come to being ready for facing the world.
[07:26] thecatwasnot> mark likes Lady Gaga?
[07:27] xb95> yeap, and I'm going to the LG concert in august!
[07:27] xb95> but now I have to go to a conferency thingum, so bubye :D
[07:27] thecatwasnot> hehe, cool! bye!
[07:29] Woggy> woot!

Lady Gaga: Telephone (music video as performed by a bunch of soldiers)

...and now of course "Telephone" and "Bananaphone" are fighting it out in my head. NEVER A DULL MOMENT.

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But there's plenty of air!

Sat, 01 May 2010 10:46:21 GMT

As it so often happens, a little bit of a song gets stuck in the bottom of my head and I can't get it out, and the whole thing doesn't want to show up, and I have to first realize that it's in my head and it's a song (it's harder to pick that up out of the general clangour in my head than one might think) and then follow it to some lyrics that are recognizable. In this case, my head was singing, "I wish I could breathe." Fortunately, I recognized the deep and soulful voice of the lost-in-time-and-frequently-misspelled robert_from_ap.

Abney Park: "Breathe"

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This is wrdnrd's fault

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:16:47 GMT

We saw this very performance of Bohemian Rhapsody last July.

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Love, love, love, I want your love

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:45:27 GMT

majoline is hosting a Dreamwidth love meme. Naturally, my head started playing "Love, love, love, I want your love" to me. My head is caught in a bad romance, but Dreamwidth is nothing but good romance to me. ♥

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Is there an earworm rating scale?

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:38:59 GMT

...if there was, this one would score very, very high. I've only watched the video once, and it's burned into my head and it won't get out! I don't even know if I really like the song - I sort of do, but there are elements of it I don't, as well. And, fair warning - it is not a jaunty, happy tune and some of the pictures/video are disturbing. It's about the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in the town of Pripyat.

Linkie!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7lFPAWG7OE
(Ghost Town by Huns and Dr Beeker)

I became interested in the town after reading Wolves Eat Dogs, which was a rather half-hearted mystery but went into a lot of details about the locations around Chernobyl, and was good for that reason.

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What the Sherpa knows, Angelo Branduardi

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:48:29 GMT

This song by Italian singer Angelo Branduardi (sung in French) is something of a psychedelic UFO. The tune is particularly good at coming up uninvited too, if, like me, you're prone to earworm yourself with a stray thought (in which case, I'm sorry).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q48w9PrLPAs

( English version of the lyrics, don't worry if it makes little sense (or none at all), even in French it doesn't. )

I am sorry, really. ( I blame snorkey, he's the one who's shown it to me first, and now I can't escape it.)

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I blame jumpuphigh

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:47:25 GMT

[18:43] <jumpuphigh> sleep well
[18:43] *** jensl has quit IRC: Quit: Leaving.
[18:43] <jumpuphigh> and dream of large women
[18:43] <mathsnerd> hee
[18:43] * jeshyr blinks at jumpuphigh
[18:43] <Azz> oh dear goodness, now I've got yet another song in my head
[18:44] <jumpuphigh> don't share the earworm

TOO LATE.

Storm Large: "8 Miles Wide", NSFW lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgvOy69bJwI

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All azurelunatic's fault

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:15:05 GMT

[11:52:55] * azurelunatic sends a FarmVillain gift to ursamajor
[11:53:14] <ursamajor> oh god farmville *hides*
[11:53:26] <azurelunatic> farm*villain*. :D
[11:53:33] <ursamajor> and dammit azurelunatic, you earwormed me again!
[11:53:37] <azurelunatic> with?

[11:53:50] <ursamajor> the farmville theme! :P

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various and sundry covers

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:16:13 GMT

So dive and I were listening to Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)^[1], and (as one does) I looked it up on Wikipedia, only to learn that Peter Gabriel had covered^[2] it.

It was spectacularly terrible. So, of course, I looked up said cover on Wikipedia, only to learn that Peter Gabriel had also covered David Bowie - Heroes^[3]!

Naturally, we listened to that cover^[4], too... and discovered that while Youtube is a marvelous resource for finding music quickly, it is also a marvelous resource for finding ghastly horrors...

( No, seriously, we were both traumatized. )

[1] Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
[2] Peter Gabriel - Street Spirit (strongly nonrecommended)
[3] David Bowie - Heroes
[4] Peter Gabriel - Heroes (I cannot too strongly unrecommend this)

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It's R.E.M. night for staff and department heads.

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:50:33 GMT

CHANNEL-SPECIFIC DETAILS REDACTED:

[22:42] xb95: [mumble mumble] kirk [mumble mumble]
[22:42] rahaeli: heeee
[22:43] Azz: thank you for the earworm. R.E.M. is now playing "Where's Captain Kirk?" in my head.
[22:43] xb95: pleasure to serve
[22:43] rahaeli: oh god damn you azz
[22:44] Azz: do you have it too, or something else?
[22:44] rahaeli: you said REM and now i have "what's the frequency kenneth".
[22:45] Azz: oh dear.
[22:46] Azz: *you* said "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?", and I thought, "And my head obligingly changes station" preparatory to writing it, but THAT THOUGHT ALONE was enough to briefly tune me through "Radio Free Europe" before settling in on "Radio Song".
[22:47] Azz: inside of my head = VERY LOUD broken search engine.
[22:48] rahaeli: heeeee

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oh so intricate

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:57:34 GMT

I was reading down my reading page peacefully, when my eye was struck by a particularly catchy turn of phrase about the new Sudafed vs. the old (community membership required), and clicked through. In the comments, someone mentioned "not an arms race", and boom, earworm time.

This earworm comes to me via Rock Band, and screaming along with xb95 and household one happy evening.

Fall Out Boy: This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
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