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Today's Earworm

  
  

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Sibelian 2.0
14:15 / 03.04.07

Well folks, today it's mostly been the B-side to "Stingray". But not the original version, the version as was sung by Phil Cool:

"MaaaaarIIIINaaaaaa....
Aqua MaaarIIIINaaaaaa...
What is that strange, enchanting smell of fish whenever you're neeeeeaar...?"

Interspersed with occasional snatches of the theme tune from "Casualty".

I need an earworm transplant.
 
 
Quantum
14:39 / 03.04.07
Working nine-to-five, what a way to make a living...

If you ever want to get rid of an earbee, the theme tune to Jim'll Fix It will knock anything out and won't itself be retained. Try it, I swear it's true, by the time you get to '..and yoooo-ooo-oooh, bababah..' you will have forgotten what tune you were trying to replace.
 
 
Saint Keggers
14:40 / 03.04.07
My worst earworm? The themesong to The Littlest Hobbo. It can get stuck there for days.
 
 
Triplets
15:02 / 03.04.07
There's a voice! Keeps on calling me!

Down the road! That's where I'll always be!

Every stop I make! I make a new friend!

Can't stay for long! Just turn around! And I'm gone again!




Is that it, Keggers? Is that the one?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:12 / 03.04.07
Where did you come from,
Where did you go?
Where did you come from?
Cotton-eye Joe.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
15:15 / 03.04.07

Where did you come from,
Where did you go?
Where did you come from?
Cotton-eye Joe.

/ rams screwdriver into ear to end the pain
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
15:19 / 03.04.07
...Where did he come from and go? That question was never answered. Also, why was he such an obstacle to the singer's marriage prospects?
 
 
Jack Fear
17:14 / 03.04.07
Either he stole the narrator's fiancée away, or he stole the narrator's heart away such that no other suitor could ever compare. Either way, he's one hell of a loverman, that Cotton-Eyed Joe, and a personal hero of mine.
 
 
Feverfew
17:33 / 03.04.07
Alternatively, my brain pops up with odd mixes every now and then.

I can't explain otherwise why or how the words for Cry Me A River map onto the music for Daniel Powter's Bad Day.

Tell me you love me / why'd you leave me all alone...

Why? Tell me Why! Please!
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
17:37 / 03.04.07
Today at work I, for no reason I can think of, Patrick Swayze's "She's Like the Wind" stuck in my head for a couple of hours.

I wanted to cry.
 
 
grant
17:49 / 03.04.07
Bum
bum
bumblebee
Bumblebee
tu-
na
I
love
Bumblebee
Bumblebee
tu-
na!
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
17:54 / 03.04.07
grant

That is a higly interesting earworm. Is it from reality as a whole or the subset of reality which is sometimes called "grantspace"? If latter, can I write a tune for it?
 
 
Ticker
18:05 / 03.04.07
chic-ken,
chic-ken, chic-ken,
chic-ken

This is the default earworm in my life. Enjoy!
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
18:11 / 03.04.07
I did have "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" stuck in my head at work all last week.

That wasn't too bad.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
18:19 / 03.04.07
TRIPLETS YOU BASTARD.

There's no getting that thing out now.

I bet your name is Simon. And the things you draw come true.
 
 
Feverfew
18:21 / 03.04.07
It could be worse. At a previous workplace, one of my workmates would always walk in and, the second he crossed the threshold, would have the song in his head going

When You Go! Will you send back... A letter, from America!

Which he just had to share.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
18:23 / 03.04.07
And here on Barbelith, we cannot avoid the Proclaimers in any form.
 
 
Feverfew
18:25 / 03.04.07
Ssh, you.
 
 
grant
18:28 / 03.04.07
I give you a gift, Sibelian.

More here and here.
 
 
Ticker
18:51 / 03.04.07
I think you meant to give that to me, grant.
BECAUSE I WANT TO LIVE THAT SONG FOREVER!!!!


US!
 
 
Jack Fear
19:21 / 03.04.07
grant: Did you go to high school with me? Because I had a teacher who used that very jingle as a classroom example of the earworm phenomenon.
 
 
Olulabelle
19:26 / 03.04.07
I am really perplexed about the whole bumblebee tuna thing because bumblebees make honey, not tuna. Tuna comes from, well, tuna and is a fish not a bee, so HOW can there be bumblebee tuna? Tuna is not a product, it's a thing itself. I just don't understand it. And now I've got a song about a thing I don't understand and isn't possible, at least in my reality, stuck in my head. Have you any idea how annoying that is?

Oh. And now I have just realised after typing this that bumblebees don't make honey anyway, honeybees make honey.

Christing fuck.
 
 
Triplets
19:30 / 03.04.07
Kali, Peanut Butter Jelly Time is an example of an earworm that is ALWAYS funny.

Peanutbutterjelly! peanutbutterjelly! peanutbutterjellywithabaseballbat!
 
 
grant
19:31 / 03.04.07
Because I had a teacher who used that very jingle as a classroom example of the earworm phenomenon

That's because it's possibly the most perfect example of earworm ever created. It's one of the deadliest sonic viruses in the world.

And now it is here.

Yum! Yum!
 
 
Olulabelle
19:37 / 03.04.07
But. What. Is. It. About?
 
 
grant
19:39 / 03.04.07
Bumblebee Tuna.

And sandwiches made with Bumblebee Tuna.

And the love.

(It is really about the love.)

The love we ALL feel for Bumblebee.
 
 
grant
19:41 / 03.04.07
Stop resisting.

I sense that you're resisting the tuna, Olulabelle.

You'll be much happier when we get past that.
 
 
Olulabelle
19:46 / 03.04.07
Omg it's a company that cans tuna!



It's a jingle! I thought it was just a freaky song.
 
 
grant
19:49 / 03.04.07
There.


That's better.
 
 
Saint Keggers
20:19 / 03.04.07
Just because I couldnt help myself, I clicked on that damn tuna link.

LHTs
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
20:52 / 03.04.07

I am enlightened. And delighted! And disappointed that the tune already exists.

I thought it was going to turn out to be a 20 second industrial / death metal thing with one of those dirty long-haired chaps vomiting into a microphone to a backing track of many small, innocent creatures being ritually put to death with some dreadful instrument of torture. Mass torture, I suppose, like in mass production.

But I was wrong.
 
 
Sibelian 2.0
20:54 / 03.04.07
And, Olulabelle, that would have been a really, REALLY freaky song if it was just a freaky song. Much freakier than my imaginary death metal version.
 
 
iamus
20:55 / 03.04.07
It's canned tuna.

That's how they make it.
 
 
Papess
21:09 / 03.04.07
Now I can't get that tuna out of my head!
 
 
Red Concrete
21:12 / 03.04.07
My childhood earworm nightmare is here, but I don't recommend listening to it...
 
  

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