Plenty of earwigs in my head; yesterday evening the song from “Halloween” was prevalent!! I do have earwigs a lot, and I hum and click my teeth to them, too!
mINI-mOSEY
Earworms on the trail?
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#22
I got you all beat. I hike with the theme song to Gummy Bears. Yup … Dashing and daring corageous and caring, faithful and friendly with stroies to share, all thru the forest they sing out in chours martching along as the song fills the air…
the sad part is not for 1 thru hike, but for 2 of um!!!
Sidetrack
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#23
How about “If I knew you were coming I would have baked a cake.” from the movie “Same Time Next Year” with Allen Alda and Carol Burnett. It was the song playing in the dinner when they first met. It was “their song.” No kidding, I went out and bought the sheet music.
Papa Smurf
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#25
I get them all the time. Here’s an excerpt from an email I sent my friends about halfway through my recent Tahoe Rim Trail thru-hike in September, which answers the question:
Some of you may have read the article in the New York Times last month about earworms – those catchy melodies that lodge themselves in our brains and persistently refuse to be dislodged. (Their lead: “There’s nothing nicer than a tune playing in your head – until you can’t turn it
off.”) I’m no exception in that the worms find their way into my head from time to time, but it’s much more of an issue when I’m hiking. One hikes at a tempo, of course, and any song set at that tempo that the chorus I sing in has performed recently, or from the memory bank of tapes in my head, is liable to emerge and remain on endless loop for miles. For example, a couple of tunes in the Top Ten from my AT hike last year were The Who’s “I Can See For Miles” and the Beatles’ “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.” This year, the earworms du jour are a bit more refined. My chorus is now working on the Bach B Minor Mass, and many of the powerful fugal subjects from that majestic work are accompanying my hike this year. At least my choral director can’t say that I’m playing hooky!
Snowbird
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#26
Interesting to put a name to this phenomenon…
My “earworms” tend to be sparked by an incident or comment. Sometimes something I see or read will spark one. This being the case, I now have Sweet Dreams in my head.
Thanks alot guys.
Ross:x
Ross - London,England
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#27
The night before I left for my Colorado trip in September, I was in Wal-Mart and this black woman was “singing” at the top of her voice over the loudspeakers. Then for the first two days in Colorado, miles from the nearest town or Wal-Mart, that black woman was still yelling in my ear. Gross.
steve hiker
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#28
I’ve had the Go-Gos “We Got The Beat” go “round and round and round” in my ear on the trail. Oh well, could be worse I guess.
steve hiker
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#29
looping the Beatles’ " There are places I’ll remember all my
life, though some have changed. Some forever, not for
better, some have gone and some remain…" on my second day!
And I did it without checking my journal. I wrote some of my earworms there.
Beach Boys are good, too.
Scamp
Scamp
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#30
TATER.
I HATE YOU.
I just hiked the past four days with one song in my head.
OVER.
and over.
and over.
and over.
“this kiss, this kiss. it’s like a something motion, this kiss, kiss…”
grrr…
:eek:
Dog Tag (aka Ken Woods)
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#31
Ken - So sorry you couldn’t remember all the lyrics during your hike this past weekend. This should help with your next trip –
It’ s the way you love me
It’s a feeling like this
It’s centrifugal motion
It’s perpetual bliss
It’s that pivotal moment
It’s, ah, impossible
This kiss, this kiss
Unstoppable
This kiss, this kiss
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/faith-hill/52531.html
And if you want to put a face to this centrifugal tune while you’re humming along, Ken: http://www.faithhill.com
cen·trif·u·gal
Pronunciation: sen-'tri-fy&-g&l, -'tri-fi-, esp British "sen-tri-'fyü-g&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: New Latin centrifugus, from centr- + Latin fugere to flee – more at FUGITIVE
Date: circa 1721
1 : proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis
2 : using or acting by centrifugal force :x
steve hiker
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#32
yeah, yeah…that’s all I need, the actual lyrics.
What fun is that?!?!
Dog Tag (aka Ken Woods)