<p>Time for another one.</p>
<p>I need help–went shopping at my local Shop Rite, which for some godawful reason plays lite and/or seventies music most of the time. I have had “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” stuck in my head for two days.</p>
<p>Someone shoot me now.</p>
<p>Any fellow sufferers?</p>
<p>I wasn’t until now! Aaargh, I was curious about the title of this thread, opened it, and now Cher is torturing me. A pox on you, Garland!</p>
<p>Well, there’s always “It’s a Small World” or “High on a hill was a lonely goatherd” if you’re tired of Cher. :)</p>
<p>Well, I don’t remember the earworm thread, but the tune that does me in every time, makes me grind my teeth and reach for the remote is the Empire Carpet jingle. I’ll never, ever, EVER buy a carpet from Empire!</p>
<p>Here, for everyone’s personal torment, is the last earworm thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/411635-arrrgh.html?highlight=earworms[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/411635-arrrgh.html?highlight=earworms</a></p>
<p>I want to add that I didn’t re-look it till just this second, so I think it’s interesting that I ended with “shoot me now” just like ZM, the OP of that thread, did.</p>
<p>Thanks ever so much, garland…gypsies, tramps, thieves, gypsies, tramps, thieves.</p>
<p>Noooooooooooooooo! I have to go to a meeting in five minutes and I don’t think I can survive with Cher in my head. </p>
<p>owlice, I’ll take the goatherd. Except inevitably it will lead to So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehn Goodni-ight. . . . DEET deetle-eet deet deet deet deet, etc.</p>
<p>Uh oh. This meeting doesn’t stand a chance.</p>
<p>Have you ever read the poem “More Than a Woman” by former poet laureate Billy Collins? I don’t think I can cut and paste it here due to TOS copyright rules, but it’s worth looking up. It’s very funny and perfectly describes that musical “earworm” we’ve all experienced.</p>
<p>Thanks very much, Mary13. Now I have the BeeGees version of “More Than a Woman”-that falsetto-as my earworm!</p>
<p>The Charmin Ultra jingle is the bane of my existence.</p>
<p>have had “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” stuck in my head for two days.</p>
<p>Oh * thanks* Garland.
hmm- how to payback.
I know… anyone remember Chewy, Chewy? or maybe Sugar, Sugar, by the Archies?
my problem is not usually how to get something out of my head- but what band originally played it.
I love Google.
:)</p>
<p>I <em>wish</em> Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves was my worm.</p>
<p>I’ve been stuck with Billy Squire’s “Stroke Me” since pumping gas yesterday.</p>
<p>Should have stopped reading at the first post. Now, “Bald-headed Woman” is in my head for the rest of the day! Weird Al, I hate you!</p>
<p>EK–I kinda like Sugar Sugar (it was one of the very first 45’s I owned.)</p>
<p>“Comet it makes your mouth turn green, comet it tastes like gasoline, Comet it makes you vomit, so have some comet and vomit today!”</p>
<p>On a good note - Wilco’s “Heavy Metal Drummer” is a real earworm song.</p>
<p>Daughter was doing an essay on American Musicals - </p>
<p>Guess what she was playing this morning before school…</p>
<p>Hopelessly devoted to you… </p>
<p>Hopelessly stuck in my head today :)</p>
<p>Missed the last thread. 
Thought this one had some relationship with bedbugs.</p>
<p>You know, if you listen to the song all the way through, the earworm will likely go away. For most of us, musical or not, we cannot handle the latent chords and leading tones. Our brains want to finish them. The earworm often starts because we only heard part of the song.</p>
<p>That’s how we used to get our middle S out of bed in the morning… play a series of chords or a melody - but not finish it. He would have to get out of bed to complete the sequence on the piano. </p>
<p>So go ahead, sing it all the way through. You will thank me later! And all your coworkers, who run out on you part way through, will then have earworms. :)</p>
<p>When we drove back from Disneyland in the late 60’s my sister sang * It’s a small world* the whole way. 
I hold grudges.</p>
<p>My kids used to love [Lamb Chop]( <a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNTxr2NJHa0”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNTxr2NJHa0</a> )</p>
<p>Mathmom - everytime our community band plays the Colonel Bogey march I sing that Comet song…the older band members smile while the younger ones are perplexed…</p>