Melody stuck in head: How to banish? Which song(s) plagues you most?

[GammaGlobulin]

Dear Folks,

 

Who among us cannot say that they have not, at one time or another, and for days, even weeks, had a tune plaguing them, and still find themselves incapable of ridding themselves of it?

 

This has most recently happened to me, yet again.

 

It again happened like this….

 

a.  I was not engaged in anything particular.

b.  And suddenly, I became aware of a tune, a melody, one I could not identify, playing in my mind.

c.  I soon realized it had been there for hours/days/weeks, just playing in the background of my consciousness, or semi-subconsciousnes, barely perceptible, yet irritating.

d.  I knew that I knew the melody well.  And yet….

e.  The title seemed somehow unidentifiable, nor even a few words of the lyrics recallable…just the melody.

f.  Hours, days went by, and I would discover myself humming it…only to stop and wonder what I was up to.

g.  Obviously no purpose for it being there, or at least no USEFUL purpose to it.

 

Only for multiple reasons was I able to identify this melody, including the following:

 

a.  A dim glimmering of the four words….”up in the sky”.

b.  Google, after tirelessly searching, coughed up…. “Shine on, Harvest Moon”, the correct answer to my prayers.

c.  I also found, so-unfortunately during my search, Neil Young’s tune, Harvest Moon, thereby providing just one more melody going through my head, almost without pause.

d.  I thought then that if I were to listen to Blue Moon, maybe all previous melodies might cancel out?

e.  Naturally, for most ungifted people, it’s impossible to simultaneously maintain three different melodies repeating, ad infinitum, in one’s mind…

f.  But, the mind is an unplumbable thing!

 

Yes. Ruth's song has been haunting me for weeks, .....maybe.  Once it starts, it just refuses to stop. Don't know why, really....
 

A Note:  In future, we plan to listen to nothing but JS Bach’s violin concertos during the months of 2025.  We need to recover our mind, and steer ourselves back on track, through nothing more sublime than JS BACH; Bach is the God of Music.

 

Known it is that one can regain some sanity through nothing more than daily Bach listening.

 

Thank you and listen to more good music,

Classical if you can, and...

Regards,

Gamma

 

Final Note:  Great classical music, such as that of JB Bach…can even make the frowers glow, if not also heal the troubled mind.

 

Nobody knows BMV 1043 like YEHUDI…!!!!!!

 

 

And, in closing, might we say that we do hope some guys on the Farang Pub appreciate our literary efforts, meager enough…though they may be. Now, let us drink our morning coffee, eat our cereal, sullenly scarf our eggs if lucky, and stop complaining.  Thank you.

 

No doubt, Gamma’s Topics are somewhat less than 1000 monkeys typing: One stays tuned, always, the morning’s Topic might, some morning, seem even more profound than the last morning.  Yet, profundity will never happen in the mornings.

 

And.....Try to keep all the above in one's grey matter, playing simultaneously, plus, also.....just one more moon song,

 

Not easy on a morning.

 

 

[TheAppletons]

 

[anchadian]

 

[cdnvic]

Old TV themes stick in the brain worst of all.

 

 

 

[0ffshore360]

OCD symptom.

[GammaGlobulin]

18 minutes ago, 0ffshore360 said:

OCD symptom.

 

Correct:

 

Spruce Goose

 

 

 

[KannikaP]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I thought then that if I were to listen to Blue Moon, maybe all previous melodies might cancel out?

I listen to it before every Manchester City game. hasn't done much good this season.

[Yagoda]

I love being hated. You will never be rid of this one. You have been warned.

 

[Lacessit]

 

[1FinickyOne]

 

[proton]

This crap, for some reason it used to be played a lot in Thailand, have walked out of places when it came on

 

 

[a3tsw]

 

[jvs]

 

[Moonlover]

4 hours ago, 0ffshore360 said:

OCD symptom.

98% of the world's population are reckoned to have this phenomena, known as an earworm or brainworm.  But I doubt whether statistic also applies to OCD suffers. (if that's the right term) I get them very often and they do not bother me in the slightest. And although I do show a slight inclination toward OCD, that doesn't bother me either.

 

A tune that came to me recently kept me guessing for quite a few days. I knew that it was a film score but I couldn't think which one. Then after about a week the penny dropped. It was the title music from 'Gone With the Wind'. A film made 6 years before I was born. What a memory!

 

For those who are bothered by earworms, a few minutes mindfulness meditation can be helpful for you.

[cdemundo]

Punishment from god.

I hope it gets replaced with "Afternoon Delight".

[Crossy]

24 minutes ago, cdemundo said:

Punishment from god.

I hope it gets replaced with "Afternoon Delight".

 

Nooooo. Now this won't leave my brain (what's left of it).

 

 

[Prubangboy]

Don't Mess With Bill by The Marvellettes has haunted me for 60 years.

[Prubangboy]

And def. Wooly Bully. 

The original, not the Bad Manners version.

 

Too manic. That song wants to stretch out.

[jvs]

3 hours ago, cdemundo said:

Punishment from god.

I hope it gets replaced with "Afternoon Delight".

Here you go!

i see someone else has posted this already.

now it will be in your head forever.

 

[LosLobo]

A year or so ago I watched a modern German wartime movie, Phoenix (2014), where this song was featured.

 

I then remembered my mother singing this song when I was an infant over 70 years ago.

 

It must have been deep in my subconscious, and when I heard it again, it kept playing over and over in my mind until I recently found it again on YouTube.

 

There are many versions--it was made popular in my mother's time by her favorite, Frank Sinatra, and later by his wife, the stunner Ava Gardner. Here is Ava's version.
 

 

[jvs]

The best way to get rid of a song in your head is to play it a few times and to understand the full text.

If you don't know all of the words it can be very challenging to forget it and it will keep your head busy.

 

[connda]

Thank goodness you don't have these rattling around in your brain.

 

or worse!
 

Your welcome! 

[Luuk Chaai]

at least this one should cancel itself out    omly 98 more times to go

[Tedly]

  This has been in my head for a week now. 

[SportRider]

That BigC jingle stays with me for hours every time 🤦

[fittobethaied]

What the OP is experiencing is called "sound or auditory hallucinations" or "musical ear syndrome". I have had it for years, and it drives me crazy. I have a song or music without words playing in my mind every waking minute of my life since about 5 years ago, and I'm 76 now. The song may change several times a day, or my mind may simply make up a song that I have never heard before. Some of the songs I recognize and can place the singer(s) and even the circumstances in my life where and when that song played an important part. Other times, I recognize the song but just can't place it. 

 

The music never goes away, but I have learned by experimentation that if I go to YouTube and find a song or songs that I really like, for example, a contemporary Christian song, then that song will be cast into my mind and replace some of the unwanted songs that fill my head. I have also discovered that if I start to count to 50 in my mind, that distraction will cause my mind to stop playing the song, and even forget it, and replace it with another as if I had just changed the channel. 

 

I recently visited a mental health physician, and he recommended that I try a medicine called Risperidone. He insists that some of his patients had good results from that medication. I used it for one night and had terrible side effects, so I immediately gave up on it. It is also highly addictive, so I suppose I will simply have to learn to live the rest of my life with this affliction. You can check it out here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_hallucination
 

[NoshowJones]

Pity anyone who gets a Peltin Elton song in their head. 

[fredwiggy]

18 hours ago, jvs said:

The best way to get rid of a song in your head is to play it a few times and to understand the full text.

If you don't know all of the words it can be very challenging to forget it and it will keep your head busy.

 

This. Playing the song over in your head until it is finished usually works for me, although if you are really into music, the next song after that one in the album might start up in your head and you'll have the same problem.

[zyphodb]

22 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

Nooooo. Now this won't leave my brain (what's left of it).

 

 

 

Oh, you had to do it, didn't you?

Haven't heard that for a very long time, and of course it's stuck...

[jvs]

12 minutes ago, zyphodb said:

 

Oh, you had to do it, didn't you?

Haven't heard that for a very long time, and of course it's stuck...

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