The same reason I sing "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" (which I hate thanks to Clyde Gilmour) every single time it rains and I have to turn the windshield washers on in the car.
Clyde's program was wonderful, and he was a lovely man -- but every now and then he had to play different versions of that bloody song one after the other. Year after year. Decade after decade.
Because that is how life works. You can listen to a CD and in the process play your favorite song twenty times in a row, and the one that gets stuck in your head will be the one toward the end you weren't even really paying attention to.
It's some inverse law. The more you dislike a song, the more difficult it is to dislodge, usually. I have a trick, though. There's a Genesis song called "You Might Recall" which is dangerously addicting because it never really comes to a cadence. So that means it never breathes, and once you get stuck singing it, there's no place to stop. It's like getting on the "Twist and Shout"/"La Bamba" treadmill. But I quite like "You Might Recall". So if there's a song I don't like in my head, I start singing "You Might Recall" , and it displaces the disliked song. Works every time.
It is now, of course, stuck in my head, but I don't mind so much.
Here you go. (http://www.mediafire.com/file/kninkgene0d) It's the "chorus" section that works for me (although Genesis was never particularly good at song structure - both an advantage and a disadvantage).
Why do our brains torment us like this?
Dunno. Revenge for not letting it roam free during work hours or something?
The songs that make me have seizures when they come on the radio are the very ones that get stuck in my head.
And I have realized that this happens most when I am otherwise already in straits, either from physical ailment or discomfort, or anxiety, or additional sensory deluge. At least I know that now. Doesn't help me stop it from happening. Ever get a song stuck in your head, go to bed one night, and wake up with it still in your head?
Oh, yes, a song can stay (or come and go) over any period of time. The best solution when I don't like it is to listen to something that I do like. Not always possible, but - helpful.
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Date: 2008-12-23 02:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-23 02:07 pm (UTC)Life is unfair this way.
Clyde Gilmour was a very nice man with a radio program I loved. But every time I think of him now I think of you and that song.
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Date: 2008-12-23 02:44 pm (UTC)When
When <ljuser=lanning> feels down she does up a bunch of icons. Gorgeous, colourful, lovely icons.
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Date: 2008-12-23 03:47 pm (UTC)To make you remember to watch Angel, of course.
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Date: 2008-12-23 08:47 pm (UTC)It is now, of course, stuck in my head, but I don't mind so much.
I can upload if you're interested!
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Date: 2008-12-23 11:13 pm (UTC)Oh, yes - I'd love to hear it. You've got me curious! And it might save me from the curse of "Angel". [g]
The more you dislike a song, the more difficult it is to dislodge
Groan - I think that's true. Why do our brains torment us like this?
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Date: 2008-12-24 01:45 am (UTC)Why do our brains torment us like this?
Dunno. Revenge for not letting it roam free during work hours or something?
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Date: 2008-12-24 03:40 am (UTC)Revenge for not letting it roam free during work hours or something?
*Groan* That must be it.
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Date: 2008-12-24 01:27 am (UTC)But I stop it by listening to my MP3 player.
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Date: 2008-12-24 03:40 am (UTC)That works! I love those things.
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Date: 2008-12-25 03:18 pm (UTC)And I have realized that this happens most when I am otherwise already in straits, either from physical ailment or discomfort, or anxiety, or additional sensory deluge. At least I know that now. Doesn't help me stop it from happening. Ever get a song stuck in your head, go to bed one night, and wake up with it still in your head?
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