That's right, the weird fucking ear worms that start playing on radio station brain at random times for no reason.

Huge trigger warning for this thread, it invites mention, or even videos of the very songs that torture our minds. This came in to my mind the other night and I'm absolutely sure I haven't heard it playing over any speakers in any business or domicile for 5 years on the conservative side. And yet there it was, spinning away in my brain with all of its weird 90's alt earnestness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbW9mlm7io

I usually get a couple of songs in my head at the same time, and the loop just goes over and over between one and the other. Hard to shake.

Had a bartending shift last night, and from out of nowhere came this. It stayed in my head for about 3 hours, and it's still lingering this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUMAmI5YcBQ

kicker_of_elves wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:25 am Had a bartending shift last night, and from out of nowhere came this. It stayed in my head for about 3 hours, and it's still lingering this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUMAmI5YcBQ

Any excuse.

https://youtu.be/u-MRRLvCUwo

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:27 am

kicker_of_elves wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:25 am Had a bartending shift last night, and from out of nowhere came this. It stayed in my head for about 3 hours, and it's still lingering this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUMAmI5YcBQ

Any excuse.

https://youtu.be/u-MRRLvCUwo

I wish hockey was this cool.

Now is probably a good time to reintroduce the PRF-circa-2005 exercise Private Dancer Mind Eraser. Listen to this song and it'll eradicate whatever song is stuck in your head. Careful though, because then you'll probably just have Private Dancer stuck in your head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4QnalIHlVc

I have no idea why, but for the last few weeks I've had this, or more accurately, the "son of a bitch/He was a snitch/Drama" couplet playing on a loop in my head.

I don't think I've listened to it in over 20 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb8ejscAqbE

Had just the bridge from Van Halen's "Dreams" stuck in my head for days. Somehow I'm still alive.

Usually this happens when I wake up, I'll have a song spinning around inside my head, sometimes something I haven't heard in years. I haven't had one in a while, when I do, I'll report back here.

I really can't stand Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock and Roll". I only hear it in the wild maybe once a year or so, but at least once a week I'll be minding my own business and my brain will cue up the intro piano riff, and I have to fight it from becoming an active earworm.

And several times a week I get the intro loop to "Enter Sandman" stuck in my head -- a bar or two of the quiet guitar and tom intro, then the bit with the cymbal crashes when the crunchy guitars start. I gave up on that band after Justice, and never even owned the Black Album. WTF, brain? WTF?