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Get out of my head!!!
clownfood
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JamesKeenan wrote: »♫
I only want to see you laughing in the purple rain!
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I want to thank JamesKeenan for this. Now I have "Purple Rain" by Prince stuck in my head.
Although James probably did this unknowingly, I have this issue with Prince songs where I hear one lyric and for the next few days I will be humming the chorus repeatedly. Darling Nikki, Little Red Corvette, 1999, I Would Die 4 U, Pussy Control, Seven...the list goes on and on. And the only way to get one particular song out of my head is to get another one stuck in there.
The worst part about it is that sometimes it doesn't even have to be Prince. I had a two week stretch where I had the theme song to the old show, "The Fall Guy," torturing my soul.
So what songs are notorious for getting stuck in your head? Is it a Fallout Boy song? Something by Tiffany? Does a snippet of "Disco Inferno" have you absent mindedly doing the hustle all day long? What do you do to get rid of a song stuck in your head?
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You know how sometimes you find yourself whistling a random tune? That's the tune I was whistling for about 5 years. Recently it's been Sweet Georgia Brown (thank you Futurama?).
I find there's no way to get a song unstuck from my head unless it's an equally catchy one. Something that helps me at times, is to try to remember song lyrics for some random song I really like. I usually don't listen too carefully to lyrics, so it helps me to focus on something else (it took me about 2 weeks to realize that Michelle Branch's song "Everywhere" was a love song :?).
To get rid of songs stuck in my head, I hum the theme song from I Dream of Jeannie. A friend of mine did this to get "stuck songs" out of her head, and I've always had success with it...I guess it's sort of like brain bleach for some people.
The tune Elle Driver whistles in Kill Bill.
The Humpty Dance.
The "12" song from Sesame Street.
Lots of others, but those are the worst offenders.
da ba deeee da ba daaaa
da ba dee da ba daa :whistle:
Generally speaking, the only thing to do is let it run its course, or replace it with something equally as catchy, if not offensive. The Katamari soundtracks are pretty decent in this regard.
I played that game like 3 years ago until I beat it. THE THEME HAS NOT LEFT MY HEAD SINCE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjF8sjuPLxU&feature=related
Oftentimes when I'm walking with friends, one of us will begin to hum this and we'll all immediately fall into step and begin to sing along. It has been known to not leave my head for periods of up to several days.
Champion of the sun!
Thanks a lot D&D!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvi4iA3PnKE
Hey, at least it's a decent song that gets stuck.
I was in hiking in New Mexico for two weeks, and despite the two tapes I brought with me to listen to, I wound up with Del Shannon's 'Runaway' in my head for those two weeks. It sucked hard.
Along that vain, I get a lot of game music stuck in my head, but I think it has more to do with the fact if I'm playing the game a lot (and I tend to play RPG in a very methodical way), I hear the music over and over so that it winds up getting drilled into my head, sometimes to the point where it becomes the theme music for my dreams that night.
Have you lost your groove?
Also, like Dark Moon, the theme song to The Great Escape. I was thinking about that song most of today and yesterday and I forgot where it was from and now blast it! It's in my head again.
ooga chacka ooga chacka
ooga ooga ooga chacka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG5RUNlxtkA
This song actually became a rickroll of sorts here at work. We'd play it randomly for people and get it to load and play on each other's computers with embedded flash files and things. We even filled one guy's entire voicemail box with it.
"Living on a prayer" has to be shouted when someone says something along the lines of 'halfway there'.
Also, that song from the Kill Bill soundtrack, 'Battle without Honor or Humanity', can get stuck in my head for days at the time and always makes me grin like an idiot when I walk somewhere and it's playing in my head
Goddammit, clowfood, see what you have done?!
Its sad that one of the songs from this skit gets stuck in my head.
:whistle:Mondays I hate Mondays/They get me so steamed!/Week-ends I prefer the Week-ends!/Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah:whistle:
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
I don't think it can possibly be good for my long-term mental health.
Sometimes I'll wake up with a song in my head. It's usually one I don't like.
Also I'll just wake up with a phrase in my head, and I end up just rolling it around in my head all day.
Fucking hate that. It usually helps if I write it down or say it out loud or listen to a speech.
also dayman was stuck in my head for about 3 weeks after i saw it. and then once it left my gf mentioned it and it stuck around another 2 weeks.
FIGHTER OF THE NIGHT MAN
Damnation I still have "Day Man" stuck in my head from 2 weeks ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C60iYHFE2pI
NOOOO NOT THE DAMN BONGO
I don't wanna leave the jungle no no no no no no....
CHAMPION OF THE SUN
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
HE'S A MASTER OF KARATE AND FRIENDSHIP FOR EVERYONE
DAY MAN
i sing that shit in the shower erry day
I wanna try something - if you hear a really awful rendition, does the song leave your head? It works for me as I've watched American Idol rejects butchering songs on youtube and BAM! the song doesn't bother for the rest of the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxRXleerWO8
So insidious....
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
For about two months after I saw Kill Bill v1, that song played in my head any time I walked anywhere, and I would be compelled to strut dramatically in time to the beat.