I have Westlife's "Home" song in my hear since new year's eve when I went down to the shop to buy some lemons for the party and it will NOT go away! I wish I was a smilie right now, they have no ears I just noticed!!! Help!!

I always get songs stuck in my head that I hate!

I often get songs stuck in my head too. Best way to make them go away is to play lots of other songs - then at least you get a different song stuck in your head!

I think it's fascinating how we get tunes go round and round in our heads. I've had that recent Mica (spelling) song driving my head crazy for days now. I don't know the title, but it's the bit where the singer gets really high. I don't know the song that well, it's just that bit what gets stuck. I end up humming it for ages!

I heard of a tip for dislodging an earworm... play the tune from beginning to end. Apparently it's meant to help. Or if not, get another catchy tune in your head to dislodge it, as BerkshireMum said.

Yes - if I ever listen to half a song - it's permanently stuck in my head - at least until I listen to the other half - then it disappears.

I pretty much always have some music or other going round my head, though it's usually not too annoying. I find it really strange that some people don't always have music in their heads, I guess I've just always had and it seems strange not to, for me

Apparently it has been scientifically proven that singing Frere Jaques three times through will get any tune out of your head, but I always seem to get bored before I've got three times through



Lol that could be any of Mika's songs

I'm having the earworm problem today with Pat Benatar's 'Hit Me With our Best Shot'. It's been going through my head for a day or two as I've been thinking of using it in a fanvideo but now it's constant swimming around on the periphery of my consciousness is starting to annoy.

During last month, it's (naturally enough) often Christmas songs that get stuck in my head, but also fairly recently, I heard that dreadful song that is 'The Chicken Song' (Spitting Image), and that's a song that I really didn't want circulating round my mind...

Oliver Sacks discusses earworms and other interesting musical phenomena in his book 'Musicophilia' - fascinating stuff. See here

Sue

I've never heard the term "earworm" before, but I know exactly what it means! I usually get rid of them by replacing them with another, usually (and I may regret admitting this) the Wombles Christmas song! After a few minutes of this going round my head it just stops. Usually. With any luck!

Also, James Kellaris has written some stuff too. Some interesting papers out there on the topic!

I often see something written down that reminds me of a song (e.g. title, words) and it's almost invariably a song I don't want in my head, but now it's triggered. But usually I can 'over-write' it with a different choice of song, if I try hard enough.
But then I almost always have a 'music track' going in the background of my head, with whatever I'm thinking in front of that, as it were. The best was a piece of music, thoroughly unidentified except I thought I might have played it as part of our recorder consort at school. Earlier this year I bought off eBay the G4 descant pieces I played in 1990, and there it was!!! I was utterly delighted to find it, it's one of my "fallback earworms". It's Chaconne from The Fairy Queen by H. Purcell. But it's been intermittently going round my head since 1990 with me having no recollection of what it was

I remember finding it really hard to get to sleep one night because I was thinking so much, so I started breathing slowly and counting slowly to relax myself, but then the counting slowly switched to my 'background' track and my head was then counting slowly in the background and back to spinning over whatever I was thinking about before!!

The term earworm, incidentally, originated in German.

songs stuck in heads are some of the most infuriating things. some times i don't wake up with a song stuck in my head, but with a phrase or word stuck in my head - completely unrelated to my life. recent, or memorable ones have been: "salacious slug" (i think a star wars character...)and "let's kill all the turks" (not hate speech... i don't even know any turks).

I have the Earworm quite alot and I find that the best way to get rid of it is to write the name of the song down. I have to do it all the time and it works!!!!

How about "We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz!" Years back when I was involved (as a teacher) in a school production of this, I couldn't sleep for a week, as that stupid song was on a continuous loop running through my mind!!! AARRGGHH...................

Earworm! That's so great! I love it!

Thank you so much for sharing! I'll never get that one out!