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Two Drink Minimum: Earworms
No, not a pest that attacks corn, tomatoes or cotton. The songs that get stuck in your head and play over and over and over. They’re a curse that drives you nuts when they get played on a radio, or at a grocery store, or at the nightmarish Chuck E Cheese ripoff you’ve been dragged to for your nephew’s birthday. Or that a love one sings next to you in a car. The sort of song that makes you want to pick up a baseball bat and register your opposition. This phenomenon is so irritating there’s been a TED talk about it, because that’s the only thing that could make them worse:
There are some terrible songs that qualify:
Terrifying songs too:
And some that are irresistibly catchy songs that make you into a vodka-swilling commie:
What earworm drives you nuts that you want to inflict on the rest of the Ricochetti, and what are you drinking to forget the one you hear now?
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I can’t believe no one has included this one…
“1 877 kars 4 kids”
I’ve never heard that, but it must be awful, because people keep bringing it up.
I cannot believe that THIS would be my first post. Lord have mercy on my soul. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJjx19sRbs
@umbrafractus: “All Night Long” is an earworm? I think that’s a spectacular, thrilling song, and a great video too. If that gets stuck in my head, that’s fine with me.
This will be a new one, just looked it up after seeing the Target commercial it’s on again:
Da ba dee, da ba die.
Oooh, this’ll be in my head for weeks.
SeaWriter, deep cut or crowd favorite?
That TED video was neither explanatory, nor interesting.
SeaWriter, “My Little Town”.
Teddy O’Neil. I recommend Maura O’Connel’s version.
And
Andrew Klavan’s theme song. Why not just give us Danny Kaye’s version of Everything is Tickety Boo, which is already on my play list?
Absolutely anything Adele sings. Goes on for days.
Speaking of which, Richard D. Trentlage has passed, aged 87. That name probably means absolutely nothing to you, but Trentlage was an advertising man and a composer.
If your ear worm ever started out, “Oh I wish I was an Oscar-Meyer Weiner…” – now you know who to blame.
This one. And, of course, other versions.
Not that anyone around here ever plays other versions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBJzdSRrYF4
Which makes it the perfect TED Talk!
Good try. A bit later in their careers. Or his.
If this was a contest entry in my name that tune, why,…WE HAVE A WINNER!
Not just that she couldn’t lose the song. She just kept hearing one line over and over. “Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town”.
To claim your prize, just sing “I’m comin home I’ve done my time ” 20 times in a row and you should be set for the next two years.
No discussion of earworms is complete without this…
That’s worse than a full earworm. I frequently get guitar riffs stuck in a loop and can’t remember which song they belongs to.
Delta Dawn
What’s that flower you’ve got on…
Love Danny Kaye; always cheers me…
This one bugged me for years:
Right about the 3 minute mark; the bass riff.
I would hear it but not know what song it was from.
could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
When my son was a toddler his favorite little tune was Itsy Bitsy Spider goes up the water spout, etc. I sang it to him or heard my wife sing it to him so many times that it would come back and haunt me when I was kicking steps up long snow slopes on Mount Rainier or other peaks in the Cascades. I could not get it out of my head. Hours of stepkicking, the most boring exercise in climbing big mountain were accompanied by that ridiculous tune looping through my brain over and over again. More than 30 years later, it still happens when I occasionally go for a climb or a long boring hike.
Earworm’s are not necessarily bad….
Earworms…
For me it was this one:
Had the main riff stuck for months.
I didn’t know Mahoney was on a Cheers episode. Funny too that that clip has that comedy joke trope Rob just mentioned on GLOP.
Sweet! I win! Even had the right line.
And for some reason, I thought SeaWriter had issued the challenge.
Odd.