Can't Get it out of my Head (Ear Worms)

[Helmut83]

Horacewimp: Plastic chicken...

[queenofthehours]

If I hadn't been reading about ear worms I probably wouldn't have noticed that I've had 'Midnight Blue' in my head all day today right from waking up. Just the middle bit though.

[BIuebird]

Thanks BSJ

[nickheynes]

Oct 4, 2018 5:29:23 GMT Helmut83 said:

OK, I'll leave elegance aside and say the list on the article is pure shit because the examples are terrible. Most of those songs don't even have good hooks. The fact that they are corny doesn't automatically mean they are the kind that will get stuck in your head.

The fact that a song is a masterpiece doesn't imply being an earworm either. "Bohemian Rhapsody" doesn't even have a chorus which gets repeated. I'm not going to question the quality of the song, but it's not what I'd call earworm. In fact Queen has lots of more hooky, catchy songs.

And this goes on my account: the artists chosen suggest that the "sample" was comprised by a group of young people, a generation which was exposed to little good music and tons of shit, whatever the big records company wanted to sell them: Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, etc... Forget about Jeff Lynne, orioles70 , he's not on the radar of today's sub-25s which have their musical taste destroyed since they are young kids.


I'd grab those kids by the shirt and tell them: do you want a real hook? Here, have this chorus! Now you'll learn what a good old sticky earworm is, bitches!



 Seriously, catchiest chorus ever.  ♪♫ Cause we got a great big convoy rockin' through the night... ♫♪  

I think it actually inspired the film "convoy" but I maybe wrong.
It did also inspire a dreadful cover version by two radio 1 d's DLT and Paul Burnett.

[nickheynes]

Sorry didn't see the Laurie lingo vid .

[nickheynes]

On a slightly different but slightly connected topic do any forumheads have any songs they can't listen to without dissolving in to floods of tears ?

[eloneen]

Oct 10, 2018 18:29:04 GMT nickheynes said:

On a slightly different but slightly connected topic do any forumheads have any songs they can't listen to without dissolving in to floods of tears ?

There are a few for me, but it's because the songs were played or performed at (and therefore associated with) certain events in my life that have been laden with emotion- songs I remember from funerals and other goodbyes, songs we danced to at our wedding, a particularly beautiful moment at an outdoor cultural festival when an inspirational song was playing and an elderly woman started dancing very gracefully and a tiny little child got up and walked over to her and started dancing with her, and it was very beautiful and very moving... things like that. 

[Helmut83]

Oct 10, 2018 18:24:31 GMT nickheynes said:

I think it actually inspired the film "convoy" but I maybe wrong.

No, you are right, it did.

[BSJ]

I get melancholy over "Whiter Shade Of Pale" and "Lucky Man".

[Helmut83]

Being the soulless son of a bitch I am I never get as far as crying with music. But time ago I used to have feelings, and there were a couple of songs that got me a bit into that mood (they still do, but again, if Nick's question is "dissolving into a flood of tears", then no, I don't get anywhere close to that, be it a good or bad thing).

Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" is probably the one which got me the most, in my opinion it's the saddest melody I've ever heard (yeah, I know the lyrics go the opposite way, but I can dissociate one from the other). Second place for Alex's North composition "Unchained Melody".

[unomusette]

It doesn't make me actually cry but I can't listen to Elvis Presley's In The Ghetto, it's unbearably sad

[eloneen]

Oct 12, 2018 22:35:31 GMT unomusette said:

It doesn't make me actually cry but I can't listen to Elvis Presley's In The Ghetto, it's unbearably sad

That one gets me, too, unomusette. I distinctly remember being in elementary school and riding home one night in the car from the airport after we dropped my mother off there to go away for a conference abroad. I was really sad to see her leave town, and that sad song was playing on the radio in the car. I cried my eyes out the whole way home. 

Every time I hear that song (which I find a bit cliché now), I don't go back to quite that level of sadness, but I remember it very clearly, and I definitely feel a twinge of involuntary sadness. I typically like sad songs, though.

[queenofthehours]

Oct 10, 2018 18:29:04 GMT nickheynes said:

On a slightly different but slightly connected topic do any forumheads have any songs they can't listen to without dissolving in to floods of tears ?

Not quite floods but there's a few songs I know which could make me dissolve if they were not so beautiful that tears would distract me from the music. 'Blown Away' comes to mind as does 'When I Was a Boy'. There's a couple of songs by Gram Parsons I know, Ronnie Lane's 'Debris', and the Love album version of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'. A handful of Tom Petty tracks and too many George Harrison songs to count. 'Free as a Bird' is guaranteed to get me going but the floods are inside, it's the nostalgia that does it, even though I wasn't around in the 60s! 

Oct 10, 2018 23:05:23 GMT BSJ said:

I get melancholy over "Whiter Shade Of Pale" and "Lucky Man".

Both of those for me too but especially this version of 'AWSOP' -

[nickheynes]

Well. As I asked mine are all songs connected with my kids.
Harry by Catherine Howe. my boy's called Harry .Well he's 29 but you understand.
And for my daughter whose 23. Abba's "Slipping through my fingers" and "when she loved me"by Sarah Mclachlan from Toy Story 2.
They all give me such a warm but melancholic glow.Takes me back to their childhood
I literally cannot listen to any of them without blubbing
What a big softee lol

[Timeblue]

Daft as it may seem and the song itself is not linked in any way to my father,but 'Wind beneath my wings' by Bette Midler just plays havoc with my emotional side whenever I hear it. I think it's in the lyrics " did you ever know you're my hero" that sets me off,and even as I write this I'm getting emotional...