THE ANAGRAM CURE
Get that tune out of your head - scientists find how to get rid of earworms
ADVISORY: Scary Lady Gaga photo.
(Thanks to Mark Schlesinger and Rob Simbeck)
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March 24, 2013
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I woke up with a Barry Manilow earworm ("I Write the Songs"), but I'm not sure I want to get rid of that, as the replacement earworm ("I am Stuck on Bandaids...") seems somehow worse. Then I Googled it. Mr. Manilow wrote *both* of these songs.
Posted by: PirateBoy | March 24, 2013 at 11:23 AM
*snork* @ 'Dr. Hyman' - kinda sounds like a broken
record...
Posted by: ligirl | March 24, 2013 at 12:09 PM
I tink that's "Call me Maybe" not "Baby". Unless, Jespen wrote more than one song.
Posted by: Elon | March 24, 2013 at 12:53 PM
If this thing works, I smell Nobel, baby!
Posted by: FredKey | March 24, 2013 at 01:25 PM
* * earwig alert * *
♪ 'Hyman the mood for love'....
Posted by: shishkaBob | March 24, 2013 at 02:21 PM
I always used "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" by Zevon as my earworm killer.
Posted by: wiredog | March 24, 2013 at 02:37 PM
Insidious, Dave. First you give us a book of supremely bad earworms, then write novels we have to buy to get them out of our heads. Sadist capitalism.
Posted by: Loudmouth | March 24, 2013 at 04:22 PM
When I get an ear worm I read or knit. Knit,knit fo fit. Banana fanna fo fit. Fi fo fo fit, knit. I was watching something on the National Geographic Channel and you know, it really is a small world after all. Bwahahahaha.
Posted by: nursecindy | March 24, 2013 at 04:31 PM
*snork* @ Loud, and Cindy too.
And I notice that She Loves You is so infectious that it appears twice on the boffins' list. Maybe they need to do an Agra Man.
Posted by: Betsy | March 24, 2013 at 04:46 PM
" It's a Small World " masks anything.
Posted by: Clankie | March 24, 2013 at 06:29 PM
Humming 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' works every time.
Posted by: Jan in Grimsby | March 24, 2013 at 06:34 PM
Forgot the Lumberjack Song by Monty Python....
Posted by: funny man | March 24, 2013 at 09:05 PM
99 bottles of beer on the wall....
Posted by: Ralph | March 25, 2013 at 02:46 AM
The only thing that works for me is to compose a parody of the thing in question. Sometimes it takes days, but when I get it down, twist its arm, and give it a thorough mocking, it usually goes away -- usually.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | March 25, 2013 at 09:24 AM
I have found the sure-fire cure for a song stuck in your head (earworm). Just recall the theme for Hawaii Five O. Really. It blows any stupid, inane song looping in your head right out of the water.
Now, you might think that you would be stuck with Hawaii Five O in your head but somehow it doesn't work that way. I've been using this little trick for years. Hey, but what if the song you have looping in your head *IS* Hawaii Five O! That's easy, just recall the theme from Mission Impossible. They both have the same effect.
Posted by: Richard Chapman | March 25, 2013 at 02:21 PM
Lady GagGag is the most common? I think I would have to had listened to one of her "songs" for it to get stuck in my head.
Posted by: Layzeeboy | March 25, 2013 at 02:57 PM
Great idea Richard. " Classical Gas" which is my favorite song to play on the guitar, does it for me.
Posted by: nursecindy | March 25, 2013 at 05:05 PM
For anyone who wants to try my cure (above) there's this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGby97ZrgVk
Go ahead, I dare you.
Posted by: Richard Chapman | March 27, 2013 at 09:22 AM