Know What I Feel?
I challenge anyone to listen to this song (mp3 link now unavailable) ("No Culture Icons" by The Thermals) only once and be able to go throughout your once bearable life without singing it in your head EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF THE DAY.
After I'd heard the song for the first time I couldn't help but answer people who'd ask me, "Are you hungry?" with "HARDLY STARVING!!" over and over again. It was funny for the first three seconds and then I wanted to smash my head in with an axe just to dull the banging pain of a catchy song gone horribly wrong.
Now that I've heard it three hundred times I lie awake at night beating out the rhythm uncontrollably with my toes. I try to think of sheep but all the sheep in my head are dressed like little emo kids wearing bowling shoes, and each and every one of them are mouthing the words with their little fuzzy sheep mouths like freaky animatronic emo monsters.
What songs are you having trouble getting out of your throbbing, unsuspecting and tender little noggin?
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bushra said:
pretty tragic, but it's the theme to the show fimbles. nephew no 1 just loves it. in the wonderful world, in the magical world, of the fimbles. (get that fimbling feeling). i'll stop now.
04.10.03 - 06:38 AM / 1mbc said:
I thought I had banished it from my brain, but just thinking about songs that get stuck in your head has put the subway clay henry song back in my head. my life is complete.
04.10.03 - 06:42 AM / 2Sheila said:
A commercial for the Foxwoods casino was on the tv this morning... I had just gotten the stupid theme song out of my head...until I came here.
("...life is good, life is sweet, have yourself a front row seat...")
04.10.03 - 06:42 AM / 3christa said:
The most evil thing to do is to start doing the Sanford and Son theme song. It will stay in my head for days and I will start making up words to it.
04.10.03 - 06:43 AM / 4Kristin said:
Oh my god, Shiela, I am so with you. I used to work in Connecticut and that song for Foxwoods came on tv or radio about a trillion times a day. So catchy...so evil....
04.10.03 - 06:48 AM / 5kyle said:
MMMBop has pretty much taken up permanent residence in my brain since 1997. Whenever I need to get another song out of my head, I just start singing MMMBop, and that usually does the trick.
04.10.03 - 07:03 AM / 6Somelier said:
I heard a story on NPR that if you ever get a song stuck in your head you just need to hum 'The Girl from Impanema'. Evidently it is unique song that breaks all others and . . . it doesn't stick. Who knew? Try it out. If you don't know the song - click here for a crappy version (the quickest I could find on google) http://www.glorydays.com/InterActive/
music/Girl_from_Ipanema.htm
It worked for me - good luck!
04.10.03 - 07:04 AM / 7Los Feliz freak said:
Right now I'm going through the same thing with "He War" by Cat Power. It's haunting and catchy all the same time.
04.10.03 - 07:07 AM / 8kavin said:
bang bang bang by groupX. because i'm silly
04.10.03 - 07:14 AM / 9Beers Z Boy said:
I saw The Boss last night, so "Born to Run", naturally.
04.10.03 - 07:16 AM / 10Anne said:
At the moment? Friggin' "Copa Cabana" because I read the last comment on yesterday's post.
What's really funny is that I would have said that Foxwoods song too, without even seeing those other comments! Come to think of it, it's awful close to Copa Cabana....
04.10.03 - 07:18 AM / 11Naaman said:
Wangsta, by 50 Cent.
04.10.03 - 07:18 AM / 12UnderwearNinja said:
God damn Jenny from the Block.
Wholesome goodness of China Girl.
God damn Swing Swing.
Are the ones from recent memory. No matter how long David Bowie is stuck in my head, I don't get sick of it. But this swing swing shit, and J-Lo, uurrfff.
04.10.03 - 07:19 AM / 13Brooke said:
Phat Planet by FatBoy Slim from Live at Brighton Beach (last song on the cd). It's the most annoying, repetetive use of an old man singing about some bird of prey flying high....if you have heard the song you know what I mean.
04.10.03 - 07:20 AM / 14Windowsill Wendy said:
Underwear Ninja: That Swing Swing song? My boyfriend used to live with the guys in that band. I've had it stuck in my head for like 2 years. uurrfff, indeed.
The other one is the Goddamn "Goldfish" jingle by Barenaked Ladies.
04.10.03 - 07:33 AM / 15buzzsaw said:
in my head?
"they're laughing at you, saw. they're laughing at you.
"make them pay, 'saw. make them pay."
04.10.03 - 07:38 AM / 16julia said:
holy god. someone wrote "MmmBop" and i'm finished. FINISHED. i can't even remember the song i was going to write about here. stupid catchy pop!
04.10.03 - 07:49 AM / 17MB said:
"Ready or Not" by the Fugees. Damn Lauryn Hill and her perfectly sung chorus.
04.10.03 - 07:51 AM / 18Chantelle said:
Gordon Lightfoot, anyone? I went through a period of at least 10 days (not sure exactly, as I've tried to erase all traces of the memory) in which I could only listen to Seven Island Suite, and when it wasn't playing in my headphones, it was playing in my head. I mean, I love Gorgeous Gord and all, but I was ready to cry after Day 4.
04.10.03 - 07:53 AM / 19r3 said:
I'm going to reveal that I'm an old fart here.
"Kid Power" was one song that I couldn't shake--it was the theme song to a cartoon show that aired in the late 60s--early 70s.
It was a really cute show. :)
04.10.03 - 07:56 AM / 20chorizo said:
just last night I was being plagued in a most pleasant way by Wilco's "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. And I really couldn't complain, because it wasn't MMMBop.
04.10.03 - 08:00 AM / 21julie said:
i'm so happy i'm not alone in my ocd neurosis! thank you, heather b. at the moment, i've made my own version of "i ran" by flock of seagulls. jimmy van m played a wicked and beautiful (balance) remix of the song at a club a few weeks ago, but i can't find an mp3 of it yet. so between the remix and the original, i have my own little song and movie (i see a man and he's running! running and running and running. imagine that!) that plays in my head day and night over and over again.
04.10.03 - 08:05 AM / 22Kimothy said:
Fischerspooner's Emerge. Just can't get that driving synth out of my head. Unf, unf, unf.
04.10.03 - 08:12 AM / 23Ariel said:
Current: The Thin White Duke remix of The Faint's "Conductor."
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Former: Every single track off of "Justified." Yes, Justin Timberlake's legs musta been tired, cuz he was running through my mind for weeks.
04.10.03 - 08:12 AM / 24The Inmate said:
I am so hating myself for having read through all the posts. My head is now the equivalent of a tastelessly stocked jukebox gone horribly out of control. Thanks a yahoo, gang.
04.10.03 - 08:13 AM / 25JC said:
my siblings and i used to torture each other buy singing songs we knew would get stuck in the others' heads. actually, we still do. i gotta go check out that "girl from impanema" song...
04.10.03 - 08:26 AM / 26tj hooker said:
Prince's "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker." Love the song, but I'll never need to hear it ever again, because my brain can spin it without provocation.
04.10.03 - 08:26 AM / 27chris said:
since i heard this morning that rickey got booted off of american idol last night, i can't get "ricky don't lose that number" out of my head. sad.
04.10.03 - 08:28 AM / 28mervis said:
Sadly, I had Mariah Carey's voice ringing in my head this morning. "Vision of Love". Oy. I'm now trying to implant 'China Girl'. Not an easy task, I tell you.
And Dooce, thank you for what you do here.
04.10.03 - 08:29 AM / 29somnus said:
http://www.emusic.com/cd/10729/
10729201.html
april march : chick habit
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