The Ear Worm Clinic

[Trojina]

I was unwittingly led to this a few days ago

[video=youtube;TWoagq8qhtI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TWoagq8qhtI#t=3[/video]

....and it has been playing incessantly in my head....in the middle of the night !!

I hereby exorcize it !

The song I mean, not the hamster.

 

[anemos]

Can't complain for this one


[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=70-WSgZn1MQ[/video]

 

[Trojina]

No you can't complain too much with high quality earworms.

I hit a new low this morning when I found myself dancing to 'Hamster on a Piano' whilst getting ready to shower.

 

[anemos]

Lol

..at least you were alone . I really struggle not to sing and dance in the train hehehe

 

[Trojina]

Get Thee Behind Me EarWorm

[video=youtube;2H5Se-9XAVE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2H5Se-9XAVE#t=3[/video]


I don't know how this one got in my ear. It won't stop playing. I must have been inadvertently infected through the radio ? I don't remember hearing it on the radio. It's an old song I don't think it's played much....so beats me where it came from. It's not that I don't like it ...but why....why now....where did it come from ?

This is the EarWorm clinic and I hereby exorcise it.

Be Gone........

 

[butterfly spider]

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour by the Smiths
Or as I usually sung
I was happy eating buns in Shottisham but heaven knows I'm miserable now ....

Big fat juicy worm this one
So ..........

I'd forgotten the Flintstones - wow I hope the worms aren't catching ..

 

[Trojina]

There you are



[video=youtube;TjPhzgxe3L0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TjPhzgxe3L0#t=2[/video]

 

[butterfly spider]

Thank you - have been trying to get it on CD
I think my worm has got rather large and fat - so it might need a few more tries before it wiggles out

Perhaps someone would like to adopt it

I have a bone to pick with the person who put the Flintstone worm on here -dabadabadooooo ....

 

[Trojina]

This infestation is quite inexplicable. It's a very old song and as far as I remember I have not heard it anywhere for some time.


[video=youtube;2_2lGkEU4Xs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs&feature=player_detailpage#t=3[/video]


Perhaps it is a message from my subconscious ...or perhaps I heard it on TV and forgot I heard it. Either way it keeps coming in to my head. It won't after I have posted it here

 

[butterfly spider]

Little boxes

Thanks a bundle
I was the yellow box in my dance school production - I had completely forgotten this
I had to jump forward on my turn dressed in a box
I was 6
I also sang it for a Girls Brigade competition and came second to a girl who sang Bessie was a black cat

Now that is def an ear worm it's been haunting me for yrars

Bessie was a black cat as old as the house
She never chased a dog and she never chased a mouse
She sat beside the fire from morning until eve
But this warm spot she never would leave

I will pass this little gem on to some other soul

 

[Trojina]

The weird thing is the earworm clinic really works....well for me it does. Once I have posted the song and infected a passerby it just stops playing in my head.

I never heard of the lyrics you posted or the song and this was the only version I could find on youtube

[video=youtube;JHtPEHOWrlA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JHtPEHOWrlA#t=3[/video]

 

[butterfly spider]

Yes that's it
I sang it at the Girls Brigade show - I practised so hard to sound better than the girl who had won at the competition.
Thanks for this

 

[butterfly spider]

Islands in the stream by Dolly Parton today
Have been singing total rubbish in my head for years.
My daughter and I were dancing in the beach
Just listened to the lyrics ....

This one keeps returning so someone can have it ...

 

[butterfly spider]

Bloops upside your head oh bloops upside your head
At least I think they are the lyrics...not sure about the bloops but sounds good

All day today swimming in the sea (very rough)
Someone
Can
Have
It
Please

 

[butterfly spider]

In the New Scientist this week they are talking about Ear Worms
Apparantly if you have them and find them infuriating then you use one specific part if your brain connected to intelligence and memory. If you just accept them and they are not irritating you have a poorer memory and are less creative ....

Sadly although I find them a pain they do not drive me mad. My daughter on the other hand says they drive her crazy ...

 

[themulberrytree]

Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men?

I rarely get ear worms, unless I choose to do so, and when I do, I don't mind. I don't feel more or less intelligent after reading this and I feel that this article is playing on people's desire to gauge their intelligence, memory, and creativity. It's all about ego boosting and I don't think the article should change your understanding of yourself, either. You've lived your whole life just fine -- should it matter?

Frankly, I have a lot of doubt that this was well-reported. I haven't read the original study or this article even, mind you, but well - how was intelligence defined? How was creativity defined? How about memory? Are they linked? How are they linked? Why? Or is this one of those pop-science things?

Music is a lot more about patterns and a particular set of patterns -- auditory patterns. I suppose memory could be a thing, but the amount of things that need to be considered suggest to me that the article was simplified for general audiences and needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

 

[sooo]

The entire foundation of pop music is formulated upon "the hook": the repetitive catchy phrase upon which the obsessive compulsive inducing worm is inseparably joined. It's not limited to pop music or culture either, but a pop tune lasting 3 minutes is typically 2 1/2 minutes of repetitious hook, whereas Beethoven's 5th Symphony averages 32 minutes wherein the famous 8 note hook appears with several variations on the theme throughout its 4 movements. "It is a rhythmic pattern (dit-dit-dit-dot*) that makes its appearance in each of the other three movements and thus contributes to the overall unity of the symphony" (Doug Briscoe) It is the first 8 notes however that is the essential hook, albeit within a vastly more interesting and complex composition, beginning with the first 4 notes, which represents fate knocking at the door, according to the composer.

The ear worm, or more correctly, the hook, is deliberate, and a song, pop or classical, is not a successful composition without it. That's why I like Frank Zappa's music, which deliberately mocked mass media culture and its "slime", or Miles Davis, who made art from the soul; antidotes for the ear worm, or more correctly, obsessive compulsive mind worms. As it is said in the advertising world: if you call someone a horse enough times, they will start looking for hay.

 

[butterfly spider]

Teaching 4-5 year olds on a music course today where we were singing songs
Thinking about the ones that stick in the mind - they all have that little hook
Interesting ...
Dashing away with the smoothing iron...

Xx

 

[sooo]

I wouldn't deprive a child of catchy tunes, nor anyone. Our memory depends on them, just as the features on someone's face or the sound of a mother's voice.

Even improvisation relies upon patterns, as Themulberrytree has pointed out, and the fewer of them, the more abstract the music becomes, until it becomes utter chaos. Modern jazz can be extremely tedious to follow as their hooks become fewer and diverse. However, a melody that has an ebb and flow, a coming and going, as would be found in nature, is more like a meditation than a hook, a groove you can swing in, not get stuck in. Hex 16 rather than 29.

[video=youtube;OFclKdniaDk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OFclKdniaDk#t=72[/video]

 

[Trojina]

Lyrics can hook me before the music or if a lyric intrigues me and I wonder what it means it will keep replaying. Like 'Crackling Rosie' by Neil Diamond. It seems to come on the radio often when I'm driving, each time I wonder at 'crackling rose you're a store bought woman, but you make me sing like a hurricane humming' so I'm thinking about what he means by 'store bought woman'.. I figured he meant a woman who is dolled up, wearing lots of makeup and so on but I found out today he is singing to wine

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4009

Even though he's singing about wine it sounds like he is singing to a woman because he has love in his voice. He has a very rich voice. I'm not a fan but I think he has a very rich voice. Anyway Cracklin Rose has been earworming me for about a week. Actually he grows on me the older I get.



[video=youtube;YhumCu3fzMI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YhumCu3fzMI#t=3[/video]

 

[Trojina]

The titles of threads set off earworms for me too....someone posts a title 'does he love me' and wham bam I have this for 3 days

[video=youtube;Z2PyUbNuUpo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Z2PyUbNuUpo#t=9[/video]

 

[Trojina]

This is pretty shameless earworming has been haunting me ....an ad for Nationwide Building Society. They don't keep any one safe they just charge them huge interest rates

[video=youtube;hWimDK4tpg0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWimDK4tpg0&feature=player_detailpage#t=24[/video]



The comments below the vid go on about it. Bank ads used to be about money, taking it to this whole new highly emotional level is another thing. So this got it's hooks into my ears...I just wish it wasn't for Nationwide

 

[sooo]

This one hooked me good as a young lad, both the lyric and musical composition. I was so in love with this Girl from Ipanema, personified by the innocent and beautiful voice of Astrud Gilberto and accompanied by Stan Getz on sax. I had to learn this song on guitar, which I still love to play today, while my mind still plays her walking by, not seeing me. Perhaps the most beautiful anima image I've experienced, though we did meet once in a dream. Funny how I always want the illusive girl I can never have. Two other similar songs hooked me in my heart: Walk on By, and Girl Don't Come. The last 45 I wore out on my father's hi-fi.

[video=youtube;UJkxFhFRFDA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UJkxFhFRFDA#t=7[/video]

 

[poised]

So close your eyes

Oh indeed, sooo.
Miles Davis caught the ear and the heart. Saw him a few times in Chicago back in the day.

My fave, however, was Oscar Peterson playing The Wave, by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Any rendition of The Wave turns me back into a lusty teenager. That four-note intro: "So close your eyes." And then the next verse: "You can't deny." Seems the perfect marriage of melody and lyrics.
Frank Sinatra, everyone else sang it ...

Haunted me in a good way forever.

"So close your eyes, for thats a lovely way to be
Aware of things your heart alone was meant to see
The fundamental loneliness goes whenever two can dream a dream together

"You can't deny, don't try to fight the rising sea
Don't fight the moon, the stars above and don't fight me
The fundamental loneliness goes whenever two can dream a dream together…"

Oscar Peterson at the piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSDQPWgyMFI

sooo, maybe you can tell me why I like this version better than all others.

 

[sooo]

Beautiful, Poised. No, I can't say why someone else likes something. I can't always say why I prefer one over another. I just do.

 

[Liselle]

Would anyone be willing to listen to this snippet of a pretty song and (I hope) tell me what it is?

It's been stuck in my head for several days, and I can't think of any of the lyrics . None of the people I've hummed it to know either. It's an older popular song, possibly from a musical or movie.

I found a website which says it can identify songs you enter by playing a virtual piano. I tried it and it didn't work, but I think you'll be able to listen to the song there by doing this:

1. Copy the contents of the below code box onto your Windows clipboard (highlight, Ctrl-C).

c'4 d'4 e'4 c'4 d'4 e'4 c'4 d'4 e'2. g'2 f'4 e'2 e'2 g'2 f'4 e'2 e'2 f'2 d'4 c'4

2. Go to http://www.musipedia.org/js_piano.html#x

3. Paste (Ctrl-V) what you copied into the white input box directly above the "Delete note" button.

4. Click the play button.

This widget does not do a good job with rhythm. It comes out differently every time it's played, so you may have to play it more than once to hear how it's supposed to sound. Also, I realize the written notes make no sense, counting-wise. First of all, I'm lousy at writing down music, plus I had to try finagling the note lengths so it would play reasonably accurately in the widget - not so it would actually be accurate. (The correct time signature is 3/4 or 6/8, I think.)

Also - in Firefox there is no sound. It works in Chrome.

[Edited: It also works in Internet Explorer, but strangely - you have to have Windows Media Player open, and then, after pasting the code into the box on the webpage, push your keyboard's Enter key, wait for a speaker/volume icon to display on the page, click on that, and then eventually it will play in Windows Media Player (realllyyy slowwlllyyyy). Argh.]

Edited again: Try this version for Internet Explorer. Faster and better rhythm:

c'8 d'8 e'8 c'8 d'8 e'8 c'8 d'8 e'2 g'4 f'8 e'8 r4 e'4. g'4 f'8 e'8 r4 e'4. f'4 d'8 c'8

(If you're all overwhelmed by now with instructions and have given up. I don't blame you. :bag

 

[Liselle]

Oh my gosh I found it, finally. But I like it as an ear worm, so I hope Trojina's purpose here fails.

[video=youtube;HSAhz58v3K0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSAhz58v3K0[/video]

 

[Liselle]

Here's the original Rodgers and Hart non-jazzy version, from the 1962 musical film Jumbo, which was adapted from the 1935 stage musical.

[video=youtube;rd0zAlWqugw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd0zAlWqugw[/video]

 

[Liselle]

(Wonder if there's a hexagram lesson in me eventually finding what eluded me for all that time, once I started paying a ridiculous amount of attention to it to post about it here. 5, maybe? Expectant/purposeful waiting?)

 

[canislulu]

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...&mid=703E2952B5C4173D7A48703E2952B5C4173D7A48