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

[jvs]

3 hours ago, fittobethaied said:

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
 

Have you tried Cannabis?

Some good music on the Cannabis page here.

[PETERTHEEATER]

I must be different although British veterans from the '60s might understand.

My current 'wont go away' earworm starts with the verse:

 

"This old shirt of mine has seen some effin time, this shirt of mine has seen some stormy weather" 😀

[bobandyson]

'Shine on Harvest Moon' is a tune along with many others from that Tin Pan Alley era that I listen to most days so a lot of them will pop into my head, usually within seconds of me waking up in the morning. Thanks to Leon Redbone who mainly just did covers of those old time songs and made them cool to listen to. 

 

 

This one by Leon often gets stuck in my head. 

 

 

 

[save the frogs]

I HATE this song.

But a thread just made it pop into my head.

 

If you wanna get down, get down to the ground

 

 

[save the frogs]

Try to get THIS out of your head, Gamma!

 

 

[KhunLA]

This one stuck in my head this AM as I think what to do w/bro & sis next month in Bangkok.   Hitting a jazz bar maybe, and thought about Koh Mr Saxman, who does a nice cover of it ...