The Not Quite Officially Sanctioned Earworm Thread

[RoyGBiv]

I played this for my kid a few weeks ago. He put it on in the car yesterday.
It's been stuck in my head since, but in a good way. The opening riff will be his ringtone by the end of the day.

[UNM1136]

In the '70s you knew you made it when you made the Muppet Show...















Debbie Harry and Alice Cooper too...

pat

[Maple Syrup Actual]

I don't think any of mine will be relatable at all because I grew up in the punk rock scene.

But this is probably the most popular song from that scene at that time which maybe scratched the surface of radio play? which also then became stuck in my head frequently as it was released in the summer of 2000, I think right around when I met my wife.

I know I've told the story of meeting her here before so some people will get this...it became a sort of theme song for our early relationship for a whole bunch of reasons. It reminded me of her (this was her favourite band back then and she introduced me to the song, apart from the song itself which lyrically has a bunch of tie-ins for us) and it reminded her of me because of the absurd cockiness of the singer who responds to a girl that won't sleep with him with the assumption that she must be a lesbian.



Erin would be annoyed if I didn't point out that the album it's from was actually one of her least favourite Dwarves albums (it's definitely the poppiest) and she only played the song in the first place because it was thematically appropriate.

Anyway there you go...that's one of my big earworms which potentially some of you may have actually heard, and the whole story behind it.

[Wondering Beard]

I don't think any of mine will be relatable at all because I grew up in the punk rock scene.

Well, in that category:

[JDH]

I don't think any of mine will be relatable at all because I grew up in the punk rock scene.

But this is probably the most popular song from that scene at that time which maybe scratched the surface of radio play? which also then became stuck in my head frequently as it was released in the summer of 2000, I think right around when I met my wife.

I know I've told the story of meeting her here before so some people will get this...it became a sort of theme song for our early relationship for a whole bunch of reasons. It reminded me of her (this was her favourite band back then and she introduced me to the song, apart from the song itself which lyrically has a bunch of tie-ins for us) and it reminded her of me because of the absurd cockiness of the singer who responds to a girl that won't sleep with him with the assumption that she must be a lesbian.



Erin would be annoyed if I didn't point out that the album it's from was actually one of her least favourite Dwarves albums (it's definitely the poppiest) and she only played the song in the first place because it was thematically appropriate.

Anyway there you go...that's one of my big earworms which potentially some of you may have actually heard, and the whole story behind it.

Are you two still married?

[blues]

I'm not much into punk and have never been to CBGB...but I did see Black Sabbath at the Fillmore East back in the day. (Sir Lord Baltimore opened.)

Oddly enough, I remember little about that night.

[Wondering Beard]

A little 80s weirdness earworm:

[Wondering Beard]

I'm not much into punk and have never been to CBGB...but I did see Black Sabbath at the Fillmore East back in the day. (Sir Lord Baltimore opened.)

Oddly enough, I remember little about that night.

No need to be




about it.

;-)

[Maple Syrup Actual]

Are you two still married?

Yes indeed - in the end it turned out her requirements were not nearly as set in stone as predicted.

[Andy in NH]

Well, in that category: