I am being earwormed by U2's "The Unforgettable Fire." What's earworming you right now?

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"Earworm, a literal translation of the German Ohrwurm, is a term for a song stuck in one's head, particularly an annoying one." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm)

I attribute my current earworm to the gin, although I also have a weakness for Bono's early U2 vocals. (I've always intended to make a mix tape, to be entitled I Can't Believe It's Not Emo.) But enough about me; what song can't you get out of your head right now? And do you regard this as a Bad Thing, or a good one?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 25 July 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

Dizzee Rascal and that Kenya/Lions thing (thanks AGAIN Ian, damn you)

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 25 July 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

I went to bed last night and woke up this morning with Evan Dando's "Divan" stuck in my head. Not a bad thing. Just annoying. Getting lyrics stuck in my head sucks the most 'cause I don't actually sing the lyrics in my head, I just recite them; so I had a tuneless "Crash out on my divan, you can crash out on my divan" being repeated by that voice (not Dando's) in my head.

― shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Monday, 25 July 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

I was watching The Backyardigans on Nick Jr. the other day and the little mouse-guy/girl was pretending to be a cowboy. He/She was singing this song that went "Hippy Ya Ya Hippidy, Ye Haw Yippidy" or something like that.

I hate when you have a song that you can't remember the lyric to tuck in your head.

― Horridmonsta (MichaelCostello1), Monday, 25 July 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

City's Too Hot by Lee Perry. B/c its too damn hot in this city right now.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Monday, 25 July 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

'fall' off the Editors album .. gorgeous stuff

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

"fiddler a dram" by the family of apostolic, who were some kinda christian culty thing. got it from an mp3 blog, and the song is so bloody catchy it's going to drive me insane.

― el sabor de somebody give the fiddler a dram! (yournullfame), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

3 Doors Down, "Let Me Go". Probably heard it on the radio in the lab earlier today, grr.

― willem (willem), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

when i'm not thinking about anything, i keep getting two lines from jay-z's "what more can i say" (a track i don't even particularly like) stuck in my head - they're actually parts of two separate rhymes, but for some reason my head feels compelled to combine them into
"you already know what i'm about
flying birds down south"/
"it's hard to yell
when the bar-rels in ya mouth". i mumble this to myself all fucking day. it's been like this for months.

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

"The Unforgettable Fire" is one of the few U2 songs (and the only early one) I consider too beautiful to resist. Great production, especially the synth solo, an unexpected moment of schlock greatness right out of the Trever Horn book.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

"Cecilia" by Simon and Garfunkel. Evil coworker is to blame.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 July 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

the term "earworm" seriously gives me the heebie jeebies

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Making love in the afternoon with cecilia
Up in my bedroom (making love)
I got up to wash my face
When I come back to bed
Someone’s taken my place

― Gabe Tonkin, Monday, 25 July 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

I wish I'd known when I had it good. Now I'm being earwormed by Jr. Walker and the All-Stars "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)." Motown at its most maudlin and unrequited love, ya me.

― phlegm brûlée (j.lu), Friday, 17 July 2009 05:39 (sixteen years ago)

seals & crofts, summer breeze

― mookieproof, Friday, 17 July 2009 05:47 (sixteen years ago)

the fucking boy does bloody nothing

― matt preston's cravat rack (electricsound), Friday, 17 July 2009 05:48 (sixteen years ago)

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