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I always have music in my head and I was wondering if other people have something similar.

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[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have what I call a "Song of the Day". Every day, it seems one song wins out and is on replay in my head. At the end of the day, I realize that it was the song for that day :)

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 4 points 9 months ago

Same. Usually it's a good song, though. On the rare occasions when it's a bad one, I just need to listen to it once, immediately followed by abgood one to replace it in my head.

Today is one of those good days. Destiny Potato - "Blue Sun", if anyone wants to know.

[–] LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The Hamster Dance theme, since about 1999 or so.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Witch Doctor - Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Aah in my case. πŸ˜‚

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

I saw a user profile earlier that said

"There is nothing worse than having a Cranberries song stuck in your head, in your heeeeeeead...."

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Greasy Fried Bread from the show Reservation Dogs got lodged in my head for about a week.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Catfish is life

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[–] plumbus@feddit.de 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The latest was β€žCall me maybeβ€œ. I’m not mad, that song slaps.

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Today@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I've had copacabana off and on for about 6 years. Lately it's 25 or 6 to 4.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Raphael's Final Act has been living rent free in my head for a few weeks now.

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[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] swab148@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ren is so underrated, what a brilliant musician.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The theme to The Littlest Hobo.

I had it for like three months.

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[–] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Every morning since Feb 2 started, I hear "I Got You, Babe" on the radio. I dunno if it'll ever change. I don't even like Sonny & Cher.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Like I said before, time loops suck.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

My brain is like a playlist with thousands of songs, playing constantly on random. At any time, you could ask me what I have stuck in my head right now and I would have an answer.

Right now, it's Come Monday by Jimmy Buffett. Yesterday, it was a song from an obscure old musical (the Fantastiks). And the day before that (for no reason I can explain) it was Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I can't listen to or sing (or "sing") A Pirate Looks At Forty or He Went To Paris without getting choked up these days.

RIP Jimmy Buffett.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

My parents were "Parrotheads" and despite me not really heavily listening to Buffett as an adult, my parents listened to him a lot when I was a kid and I basically still know all the lyrics by heart.

I was always fond of Pencil Thin Mustache, one of the few times Buffett seemed to sort of channel a different style of music than his usual offerings.

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The only time I don't have something playing in my head is when I am actively listening to music.

At the moment its the guitar bridge from "In a Big Country" by Big Country. If I pay attention to it the song will continue to the end. But if I'm ignoring it, it'll stay constant guitar solo.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

My union has reached supermajority and we're about to go public, so I've been thinking about Pete Seeger's Union Train for the last couple weeks

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The last week or so it's been Too Much Too Young by The Specials. It was on the radio, once, last week and for no good reason I've been stuck with it since. Thanks brain.

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[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lately it's been The Movies - a song by ceilingmouse, using clips from Kitboga (a scambaiter on Twitch).

"I can see right through your disguiiiIIIIISE!" Lmao

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[–] med@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

It changes up two to four days.

Currently it's Witness (Hope 1), by Roots Manuva.

Last week it was The Caves of Altamira, by Steely Dan

[–] GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Well this is Lemmy, so i know this will probably get at least 60% of you:

Its been a long road…

[–] paws@cyberpaws.lol 3 points 9 months ago

The worst one I ever had was King of Spain by Moxy Fruvous. Every day for like two weeks I'd wake with it playing in my head. Know all the words now.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If left alone with my thoughts for too long, I invariably start humming the Hamsterdance song.

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[–] Stunning@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

Soulful Strut.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Solidly Pale Shelter by Tears for Fears. β€œHow can I be sure!”

[–] punkhazard@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

96 Quite Bitter Beings by CKY

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[–] Rand0mA@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner Pops into my head often since the 90s.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

French Class - Robot Tune I saw this little animation a few days ago and since then I can't get this song out of my head. What's cool is the artist actually made this animation their official music video for the song too.

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Go Go Power Rangers! Started listening Through The Fire and Flames and somehow the algorithm sneak this one into the list, and now it stuck in my mind for a few days. Yes it's a theme song for a kids show but dang.

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[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

We watch the nephew twice a week, so right now it's some nameless goddamned children's song from one of his shows

[–] brandon@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

Right now: Witch Image by Ghost. I actually created a playlist to keep track of all the songs that get stuck in my head a while ago, and I'm up to ~36 hours of songs so far. Shuffling that playlist never disappoints, because they're all songs I've been listening to in my head anyway.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Always playing? No

Keeps coming back every 6 months or so?

when the children cry

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Fire and rain - James Taylor

Or sometimes Never Going Back - Fleetwood Mac

When it's driving me nuts I blast the song and sing along on repeat a few times and it stops.

[–] iconic_admin@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Cure for this: start singing β€œJessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield. Works every time.

[–] cosmicsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Almost always, but the song changes. Right now it’s Knucklehead by Grover Washington Jr.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Only with entirely wrong lyrics, and often mixed with recent covers.

I had to look up the title but The Tide Is High, but I always struggle to make out what the words are after "I'm not the kind of girl" and my brain goes on infinite loop trying to figure it out, even losing recollection of what it even sounded like and becoming more incorrect as a result.

I'm not the kind of girl that looks up from her knees next to daaaad oh noooo ooohhhh Plus the hup hup hup hup from the black vocals remix

Yeah, this weird, orchestral rendition of All Along The Watchtower. It’s the damnedest thing.

[–] BlueFairyPainter@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not every day, every living minute, but quite regularly and throughout the year, the first 4 beats of "Deck the Halls" on infinite loop in a 6/4 beat so after the 4 beats there's 2 beats silence before it begins all over again. Weirdest thing is after all these years I don't even know the text, just the melody.

[–] burkybang@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

My wife is a songwriter. I have her latest song stuck in my head.

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Caravan Palace - Mirrors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2y6RQFKEsc

  1. Song is catchy. 2) Animation is so crisp.

Bonus: 1 hour loop of the bridge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2trHz4_aSg

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[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

So how this works is either me or my youngest son start singing or humming the song in our head and the rest of the family catches on. Repeat.

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oooooooh this one is fun, as I just solved the riddle today! I kept getting Korn's Falling Away From Me stuck in my head, which would morph into other Korn songs, etc. I couldn't figure out why the fuck it was in my head so much. Today in the shower I had Nookie in my head which is a song I only recently remembered existed in the first place. For whatever reason, nookie morphed into In the End. And then. THEN it turned into Falling Away From Me because of the similarities of the piano ending of In the End reminding me of the guitar intro to Falling Away.

I have been going through this for days. It drives me nuts. Why on earth would Nookie be in my head? I'm 37, and I did my time with Limp Bizkit and Korn.. cut to today when my phone alarm went off before work.

I have an alarm set to play The Head That Controls Both Right and Left Sides Eats Meats and Slobbers Even Today, because the beginning is a Japanese woman absolutely shredding vocally. It is a good wakeup.

So. Today, and all last week, I've had a rapid earworm race from The Head-->Nookie-->End-->Falling Away. All the way to work in the morning.

After that it's just whatever is playing around me.

Might change my alarm.

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