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Stupid songs that get stuck in your head.

I mean songs that aren't real hits or possibly even well known but for whatever reason the lyrics and sound get stuck in your head.

In 2009 I found this song and it became a bit of an ear worm.

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In the 80s / 90s songs like Agadoo were stuck in my head.

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How about "It's a Small World"(Disney) or "Tie Me Kangaroo Down"??? Or "Does Your Chewing Gum"?? Crazy songs!
 
Coming to you from the small town of Twin Peaks...

Ooooohhh Mairzy Dotes and Dozy Dotes and Littelamzeedivey
A kiddeleedivey too wouldn't you?
 
The song that doesn't end from Lambchop's Playalong comes to mind. Just the kind of song you never want to have stuck in your head. I think is one song that's been written to screw with people.

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I'm tempted to mention polkas... :scream:

Actually, not a lot of people know this: There is only one polka. It was recorded in 1947 and lasted 9 hours. Ever since then, radio stations in Minnesota have been playing three- or four-minute bits of that same polka. Some even have the whole thing on an endless loop and only interrupt it to give hog prices. :lol:
 
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This one was playing EVERYWHERE when I last visited England. Made me want to punch someone. There's also the added bonus that it's a pretty crap song to boot.
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Ever hear this version? Bob the Builder was a kids' TV show here and this was his second foray into the charts.
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I've had most of Green Day's American Idiot stuck in my head recently but that's probably because I was in an amateur production of it last month.

However, this song crops up as an earworm so often for me, probably because it appeared in one of my favourite TV shows.

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I played some Donkey Kong Jr. on MAME for the first time in ages and was sitting there at work with da du dumph da du dumph going through my head all day.
 
It's not stupid. I actually love it, but I've had "The Beautiful Blue Danube" by Johann Straus stuck in my head, non-stop, for over a week to the point that I've been whispering it and now I feel like I've just completed a vigorous ab exercise routine.

It might have something to do with not getting a solid hour of sleep in nearly a month (I was in bed for about 22 hours the other day, but I kept waking up at least once an hour, and yes, when I woke up, "The Blue Danube" was playing in my head.).

I've tried getting it out with TWOK music, and even my old earworm destroyer, "The March of the Ewoks" by John Williams.

Nothing is freaking working.
 
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My soon-to-be-ex was fond of playing Tim Minchin over and over and various Minchin songs would get stuck in my head.
 
That reminds me: Eminem. Rap was never my thing, don't have much of an ear for it...but anytime I got exposed to an Eminem song via my ex, it would be stuck in my head for days.
 
That reminds me: Eminem. Rap was never my thing, don't have much of an ear for it...but anytime I got exposed to an Eminem song via my ex, it would be stuck in my head for days.

One of my colleagues at work is getting close to retirement age but the other day I heard him quietly humming Emimem's 'Without Me'. He explained he'd been watching Suicide Squad and it got stuck in his head.

Yesterday, he was humming 'Seven Nation Army'. I told him I was impressed with his taste in music.
 
Best hit song to make it to Futurama (in "Anthology of Interest 1") :

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Now if you really want an annoying song, there is this one

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In this region, that's known as the Bird Dance, and the best-known version is by The Emeralds. They play it so it gets increasingly faster with each successive chorus.

I suppose it's not a bad song but 500 Miles is one that does that too and worse because it's just like two lines over and over because I don't know the others so it gets stuck in my head as "When I wake up I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you...I would walk 500 miles and would etc...and when I wake up...
If you don't enjoy this song, you're not doing it right. You need the Doctor Who version:

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I've had the opening bars of the Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You" stuck in my head at random times since 1975.
Thanks a lot. :vulcan:

Achy Breaky Heart.. (kinda like it .. I just don't think you'd understand..)
This was a standard one used by Western line dance groups.

I'm tempted to mention polkas... :scream:
There's nothing wrong with polkas. The Bird Dance mentioned previously is a polka. So is Una Paloma Blanca, which is one of the songs I enjoy listening to occasionally (in the video I'm thinking of, the group performing it is George Baker Selection - I like the recorder music).

I'd guess most people on this forum grew up with some sort of rock music (or whatever it's called these days). I grew up on country/western, waltzes & polkas, and the Irish Rovers.
 
There's nothing wrong with polkas.


Yeah, there's actually some very good polka out there if one gives it a chance. I think polka's maligned. A few years ago, I attended a folk music festival and this large band came out onto the stage and commanded the crowd with its music, and they ended up being one of the most popular acts ever at this particular festival. They were treated like rockstars. Lead singer looks a bit like Ragnar from Vikings :D

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