What song is going through your head right now?

Scarlet Pimpernel · 09-15-2005, 11:56 AM

I've got "Gangster's Paradise" - goodness knows why - I don't even like the song! I've also got the video scrolling through my head. What makes it additionally frustrating is I've only got about five seconds of it.

Anyone have any suggestions for getting rid of the earworm?

dauer · 09-15-2005, 02:21 PM

Listen to Gangsta's Paradise a few times, and really listen to it. Maybe that will help.

I have a modzitser rendition of "hodu lashem ki tov" stuck in my head. It goes, "hodu lashem ki tov. Ki l'olam chasdo." But they say "hoydu lashem ki toyv. Ky l'olyam, ki l'olyem chasdoy." which is the litvak accent, not the repetition. It means, "Praise Hashem because he is good. Because his lovingkindness is endless." I found it on a website with all Modzitz melodies, here:

http://www.modzitz.org/media/hodulash.ram

I've been listening to Modzitzer and Bobover niggunim and they're all getting stuck in my head. The modzitz ones are layered with multiple parts, and the bobover ones are really upbeat, more marchy, with multiples harmonies, and it's really getting stuck in my head now. Alternatively, I've been getting Nightwish songs from their new album, Once, stuck in my head, which they recorded with the same orchestra that did LoTR. They're kinda operatic metal. Woe is my puny mind, incapable of holding so much beautiful music.

Dauer

Bandit · 09-15-2005, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Scarlet Pimpernel

I've got "Gangster's Paradise" - goodness knows why - I don't even like the song! I've also got the video scrolling through my head. What makes it additionally frustrating is I've only got about five seconds of it.

Anyone have any suggestions for getting rid of the earworm?

LOL- get rid of the ear worm

i have I BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUSE by dolly pardon & kenny rogers.
i wonder why that is. too much CR?

that is hard because even when you try to focus on a another song, that ONE line of the other song, keeps popping back into the head...for days.

manytrailsonepath · 09-18-2005, 06:08 AM

Hello,

I'm a newbie and "footprints on my ceiling" by social distortion is in my head right now. I would guess that if you would want to rid yourself of a song you don't want to have stuck in your head you might try humming a few bars of the brady bunch theme song

.

juantoo3 · 09-20-2005, 07:27 AM

Ding Dong, the witch is dead!

Which old witch?

The wicked witch!

Ding Dong, the wicked witch is d e a d!

Sorry...you did ask.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine · 09-21-2005, 12:31 AM

Beth by KISS and Only Women Bleed by Alice Cooper (I'm far more into ballads than hard rock, as you can tell.

)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

Magicfox · 09-22-2005, 12:44 AM

Guns 'n' Roses - "Sweet Child Of Mine"

dauer · 09-22-2005, 12:51 AM

I just made a recording of the curses from this week's parsha, and now the bass part is stuck in my head. Also, I included a Chabad nigun in the recording, in the background behind the curses, and that's in my head too.

juantoo3 · 09-22-2005, 06:24 AM

You are my sunshine,

My only sunshine,

You make me happy

When skies are grey!

You'll never know dear

How much I love you!

Please don't take

My sunshine

A w a y

Scarlet Pimpernel · 09-22-2005, 01:34 PM

Geez, dauer, looping curses in your head (or even parts of) - that has all sorts of theological implications, doesn't it?

I'm at school right now, so I've got "Claire de lune" superimposed over some clarinet piece or other. No wait, they're not in my head - they're coming from the practice rooms next to me.

"Claire de lune" is making me flash back to "Ocean's Eleven" (love that flick). Hmm, I always seem to have some kind of visual associated with my earworms.

dauer · 09-22-2005, 02:44 PM

Well, they're really more like warnings of potential curses, so I guess it's like an ethical training. You won't catch me building a graven image in secret.

bananabrain · 09-22-2005, 06:06 PM

oasis' "champagne supernova". goodness knows why, as they are a couple of derivative, humourless yobbos (and i know someone who has spent a fair bit of time dealing with liam's oafish behaviour) if they were hanging around outside my house i'd call the pigs and slap them with an ASBO. scrotey little oiks - they can sod off back to the burnage hellhole they come from. they're the best argument for building a wall north of watford across the M1.

b'shalom

bananabrain

Scarlet Pimpernel · 09-22-2005, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by bananabrain

if they were hanging around outside my house i'd call the pigs and slap them with an ASBO. scrotey little oiks - they can sod off back to the burnage hellhole they come from. they're the best argument for building a wall north of watford across the M1.

b'shalom

Not that I disagree with you about oasis, mind.

juantoo3 · 10-04-2005, 07:58 PM

Zip-a-dee-do-dah

Zip-a-dee-ay

My Oh My what a wonderful day!

Plenty of sunshine heading my way!

Zip-a-dee-do-dah

Zip-a-dee-ay!

Vajradhara · 10-05-2005, 12:35 AM

Namaste all,

there are a few songs running about through my head...

one, now that i've read the OP

is "Amish Paradise" a take off by Weird Al Yankovic

As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain
But that's just perfect for an Amish like me
You know, I shun fancy things like electricity

At 4:30 in the morning I'm milkin' cows
Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows... fool
And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that
Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone
I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline
Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine
Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699

We been spending most our lives
Living in an Amish paradise
I've churned butter once or twice
Living in an Amish paradise
It's hard work and sacrifice
Living in an Amish paradise
We sell quilts at discount price
Living in an Amish paradise

A local boy kicked me in the butt last week
I just smiled at him and turned the other cheek
I really don't care, in fact I wish him well
'Cause I'll be laughing my head off when he's burning in hell
But I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved
An Amish with a 'tude? You know that's unheard of

I never wear buttons but I got a cool hat
And my homies agree, I really look good in black...fool
If you come to visit, you'll be bored to tears
We haven't even paid the phone bill in 300 years
But we ain't really quaint, so please don't point and stare
We're just technologically impaired

There's no phone, no lights, no motorcar
Not a single luxury
Like Robinson Caruso
It's as primitave as can be

We been spending most our lives
Living in an Amish paradise
We're just plain and simple guys
Living in an Amish paradise
There's no time for sin and vice
Living in an Amish paradise
We don't fight, we all play nice
Living in an Amish paradise

Hitchin' up the buggy, churnin' lots of butter
Raised a barn on Monday, soon I'll raise anoder
Think you're really righteous? Think you're pure in heart?
Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art
I'm the pious guy the little Amlettes wanna be like
On my knees day and night scorin' points for the afterlife
So don't be vain and don't be whiny
Or else, my brother, I might just have to get medieval on your heinie

We been spending most our lives
Living in an Amish paradise
We're all crazy Mennonites
Living in an Amish paradise
There's no cops or traffic lights
Living in an Amish paradise
But you'd probably think it bites
Living in an Amish paradise

the other is a Pink Floyd song called Time, from Dark Side of the Moon:

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

metta,

~v