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TwoForty
02-08-2008, 02:10
When ever I used to go on shorter 2-4 days trips I would always get a single song stuck in my head. I usually just sing aloud and it's all good.
Last summer I did my first semi long distance hike and I brought and ipod for the first week but I never used it so I sent it home. For the next 2 weeks I had the most annoying songs stuck in my head where I only knew a few lyrics. I really wish I had kept the 2oz ipod.
Anyways, do you notice you get songs stuck in your head on long thru hikes or does it pass? Any tricks to combat this, other than bringing along an ipod (not enough battery)?
kayak karl
02-08-2008, 06:16
When ever I used to go on shorter 2-4 days trips I would always get a single song stuck in my head. I usually just sing aloud and it's all good.
Last summer I did my first semi long distance hike and I brought and ipod for the first week but I never used it so I sent it home. For the next 2 weeks I had the most annoying songs stuck in my head where I only knew a few lyrics. I really wish I had kept the 2oz ipod.
Anyways, do you notice you get songs stuck in your head on long thru hikes or does it pass? Any tricks to combat this, other than bringing along an ipod (not enough battery)?
i know how u feel. i get this song stuck......
Green acres is the place to be
Farm living is the life for me
Land spreading out,
so far and wide
Keep Manhattan,
just give me that countryside..
:bananatell me your NOT reading it to the music:D
Doughnut
02-08-2008, 06:52
I get Broadway musical songs stuck - my daughter and I are fans of musical theatre..
Dough Nut
The scientific name for this phenomenon is "earworm."
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=32352&highlight=earworms
The piece on NPR said that earworms occur when the brain is bored.
I called my family and talked to my then-13-year-old sister from Neel's Gap. Since it was playing in the background, I wound up with Aqua's "Barbie Girl" stuck in my head until Plumorchard Gap, an astoundingly annoying tune for three days.
Life in plastic is NOT fantastic........:mad:
satchownz
02-08-2008, 09:53
haha... i usually just repeat a verse of a song over, and over, and over if it matches my foot steps. I know the feeling! I even do it if I don't really know the lyrics.
I think I did the entire franconia woods trail to the chorus of "pump it up" by Elvis Costello... I swear I was going nutty..
Glad I'm not the only one..
Pennsylvania Rose
02-08-2008, 09:59
I get songs stuck in my head, too. Usually just a few lines over and over. It goes away once I force myself to think of something else. My poor husband had "Three Blind Mice" stuck in his head the whole time he was in the Army. UGH! Worst part was when he sang it to me he had the words wrong!!!!
I have one of two beats in my ear:
1. The ear worm is hammering out tunes, usually repeating until the hiker is on the brink of insanity or...
2. The "counter" is doing a job on me. I find that often I am counting my steps... ya it's weird, but I start "pounding out" a beat and there is a constant numbering with every step. Most of the time it is an unconscious cycle, when I become cognizant of it, it is usually in the 20's, 30's of 40's. So I am not consistently counting up, just counting.
AHHHHH.... the insanity! AAhhhhhhh the numbers :datz:eek:
For some reason I was haunted by the bad luck of hearing this one Beyonce song everytime I went in for resupply from Hiawassee to Damascus. I would gone through just about anything to get that song out of my head.
MobiBlu153: mp3 player with 153 hour battery life
there are some mp3 players out there that have 40 or even 80 hour lives on a single AA
Cannibal
02-08-2008, 11:32
Always The Ramones "I wanna be sedated". I have no idea why, but it always gets stuck in my head when I'm out hiking.
Miss Janet
02-08-2008, 11:36
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JuVHCJVYf4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JuVHCJVYf4&feature=relatedThat's just wrong.
The song featured in this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsFuf4cPmug&feature=related) classic Elmer Fudd cartoon is my Achilles' Heel. It always gets stuck in my head when I least expect or need it to. :o
TwoForty
02-08-2008, 11:44
haha... i usually just repeat a verse of a song over, and over, and over if it matches my foot steps. I know the feeling! I even do it if I don't really know the lyrics.
I think I did the entire franconia woods trail to the chorus of "pump it up" by Elvis Costello... I swear I was going nutty..
Glad I'm not the only one..
Haha, that is exactly what I do. I often make up my own lyrics after I get tired of singing the same chorus over and over. I usually match my pace to it too.
satchownz
02-08-2008, 11:52
Arrghh.... i need to stop reading this thread. I keep humming "i wanna be sedated" after seeing it referenced above....
:confused:
must.... focus.. [24, 24.. hours to goooo] .... NO... must ... focus...
Cannibal
02-08-2008, 12:03
Arrghh.... i need to stop reading this thread. I keep humming "i wanna be sedated" after seeing it referenced above....
:confused:
must.... focus.. [24, 24.. hours to goooo] .... NO... must ... focus...
Welcome to my hell! :D
Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And Id like to take a minute just sit right there
Ill tell you how I became the prince of a town called bel-air
In west philadelfia born and raised
On the playground where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys said were up in no good
Started making trouble in my neighbourhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
And said youre moving with your aunte and uncle in bel-air
I whistled for a cab and when it came near the
Licensplate said fresh and had a dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
But I thought now forget it, yo home to bel-air
I pulled up to a house about seven or eight
And I yelled to the cabby yo, home smell you later
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there
To settle my throne as the prince of bel-air
Cannibal
02-08-2008, 12:09
This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMD7Ezp3gWc) one's for you satchownz.
Brushy Sage
02-08-2008, 12:13
This will reveal my old age: For several days I was humming "I'll Never Walk Alone."
F-R-E-E that spells free, credit report dot com baby.
envirodiver
02-08-2008, 12:21
This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMD7Ezp3gWc) one's for you satchownz.
What a great band! I had the pleasure of seeing them perform in a small club in about 1975-76. What a show, I've never seen that much energy on stage before or since. I left at the end with my ears ringing, soaked w/ sweat, exhausted.
Wow...
Labotomy...labotomy
taildragger
02-08-2008, 12:28
I had just found out that I got a job with an upstream oil company right before I went on the death march with my friend (mmm 1 week of unplanned bushwacking)
It was the last song that I heard in the car, and I would annoy the hell out of my friend by singing it whenever he asked me what was up.
"The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man)"
[Chorus:]
And its go boys go
They'll time your every breath
And every day in this place your two days near to death
But you go
Well a process man am I and I'm tellin' you no lie
I work and breathe among the fumes that tread across the sky
There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air
There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell and dust all in me hair
[Chorus]
Well I've worked among the spitters and I breathe the oily smoke
I've shovelled up the gypsum and it neigh 'on makes you choke
I've stood knee deep cyanide, got sick with a caustic burn
Been working rough, I've seen enough, to make your stomach turn
[Chorus]
There's overtime and bonus opportunities galore
The young men like their money and they all come back for more
But soon your knocking on and you look older than you should
For every bob made on the job, you pay with flesh and blood
[Chorus]
Well a process man am I and I'm telling you no lie
I work and breathe among the fumes that tread across the sky
There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air
There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell and dust all in me hair
[Chorus 2x]
TwoForty
02-08-2008, 14:05
You guys have some pretty bad ones. I think having the Gilligans Island theme song in your head for 2 weeks when you only know "3 hour tour" is the worst though. I eventually adapted the song to be me getting stuck in the mountains.
You guys have some pretty bad ones. I think having the Gilligans Island theme song in your head for 2 weeks when you only know "3 hour tour" is the worst though. I eventually adapted the song to be me getting stuck in the mountains.
Just sit right back & you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailing man, The skipper brave & sure.
Five passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour,
A three hour tour
The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Minnow would be lost,
The Minnow would be lost.
The ship's a-ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan,
The Skipper too,
The millionaire and his wife,
The movie star
The Professor and Mary Ann,
Here on Gilligan's Isle.
satchownz
02-08-2008, 14:33
ARCHHH..... Why do I keep checking this?!
Props on the fresh prince intro.. ;)
All right!
Stop whatcha doin'
'cause I'm about to ruin
the image and the style that ya used to.
I look funny
but yo I'm makin' money see
so yo world I hope you're ready for me.
Now gather round
I'm the new fool in town
and my sound's laid down by the Underground.
I drink up all the Hennessey ya got on ya shelf
so just let me introduce myself
My name is Humpty, pronounced with a Umpty.....
(i swear I am my own worst enemy here.. )
satchownz
02-08-2008, 14:35
F-R-E-E that spells free, credit report dot com baby.
hahaha!!!!
call 1-800 east west...
(allll you gotta do is calll...)
1-800 east west...
(oooohh yeahhh!!)
1-800 east west...
Get THAT out of your head... MUAHAHHHAAHAA!!!
88BlueGT
02-08-2008, 14:36
Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And Id like to take a minute just sit right there
Ill tell you how I became the prince of a town called bel-air
In west philadelfia born and raised
On the playground where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys said were up in no good
Started making trouble in my neighbourhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
And said youre moving with your aunte and uncle in bel-air
I whistled for a cab and when it came near the
Licensplate said fresh and had a dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
But I thought now forget it, yo home to bel-air
I pulled up to a house about seven or eight
And I yelled to the cabby yo, home smell you later
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there
To settle my throne as the prince of bel-air
LMAO HAHAHA Thats our generation right there (Im 20), these old guys wouldnt know anything about the fresh prince :D jk
Some other songs that constantly get stuck in my head are,
Raindrops keep fallin on my head, just like the guys whos feet were too big for his bed, nothing seems to fit, yaddaa yadda i dont know the rest
and that song from that artist sara somethin.... head under water, and you told me, to be breathe easy for a while.... and thats all I know :D
taildragger
02-08-2008, 14:42
ARCHHH..... Why do I keep checking this?!
Props on the fresh prince intro.. ;)
All right!
Stop whatcha doin'
'cause I'm about to ruin
the image and the style that ya used to.
I look funny
but yo I'm makin' money see
so yo world I hope you're ready for me.
Now gather round
I'm the new fool in town
and my sound's laid down by the Underground.
I drink up all the Hennessey ya got on ya shelf
so just let me introduce myself
My name is Humpty, pronounced with a Umpty.....
(i swear I am my own worst enemy here.. )
Please tell me that you don't do the humpty hump (dance) on the trail
satchownz
02-08-2008, 14:46
Please tell me that you don't do the humpty hump (dance) on the trail
um... no... that would be.. um ... wrong.. .*coughs
Lion King
02-08-2008, 14:48
Songs that I dont know well that come to me on the AT for some reason....
BABY GOT BACK--which is fun to hike to...
THE RIGHT STUFF---Ooo-oo-oo-oo-o..the right stuff. ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!
Alright, that does it. You guys asked for it, so here it is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-is6S_b_g). Don't say you weren't warned. :p
satchownz
02-08-2008, 14:49
hahaha.... this is killin me...
Just sit right back & you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailing man, The skipper brave & sure.
Five passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour,
A three hour tour
The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Minnow would be lost,
The Minnow would be lost.
The ship's a-ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan,
The Skipper too,
The millionaire and his wife,
The movie star
The Professor and Mary Ann,
Here on Gilligan's Isle.
You had a misspent youth, man.
mambo_tango
02-08-2008, 15:29
and i would walk 500 miles and i would walk 500 hundred more.......
envirodiver
02-08-2008, 15:35
You can't touch this
Doo doo doo doo doo ugh da da da doo doo :banana
Course I hike in parachute pants too
Alright.... alright... Here's one for the older folk (or the younger folk who watch repeats!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZp2JcmUU6o
BuckeyeGRRL
02-08-2008, 17:28
Nice hobojoe!
taildragger
02-08-2008, 17:45
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg
I think that this will cover what most of us do while hiking and no ones looking.
Jaybird62
02-08-2008, 17:45
Alright, that does it. You guys asked for it, so here it is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-is6S_b_g). Don't say you weren't warned. :p
I could see the whole "cookin mc's like a pound of bacon" really being a problem!!!:eek::p
Flush2wice
02-08-2008, 17:52
Anybody with little kids? Horsey, horsey don't you stop let your feet go clippety clop, So when your tail goes swish and your wheels go round, giddy up, we're homeward bound. clip clop clip clop clip cop clip clop,giddy up, we're homeward bound.Horsey horsey on your way We’ve got a journey of many a day So let your tail go swish and your wheels go round, giddy up, we're homeward bound.Clip clop clip clop clip clop clip clop,giddyup, we're homeward bound. The clip clop part is done by clucking your tongue.
leeki pole
02-08-2008, 18:13
My daughter says the only cure for an earworm is to hear the song again. It's your brain asking for a reprise. Once your brain gets the replay, it's gone, shortly to be replaced by another, probably the next song you hear.
You had a misspent youth, man.Nah, it was all cut-and-paste. :D
You can't touch this
Doo doo doo doo doo ugh da da da doo doo :banana
Course I hike in parachute pants tooThere ya go (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMzoBkaFxh4)!
kayak karl
02-08-2008, 21:12
remember this http://www.4physics.com/phy_demo/slinky/song.htm you will tommorrow:D
Camper Fun
02-09-2008, 00:16
This is the song that never ends.
It goes on and on my friends.
Someone started singing it not knowing what it was,
and they'll continue singing it forever just because,
(start at top again)
Jaybird62
02-09-2008, 16:45
I don't know if any of y'all have heard any rodney carrington, but those are about the damndest songs to get stuck in your head!!!!!!!:mad::eek::p
taildragger
02-09-2008, 17:06
I don't know if any of y'all have heard any rodney carrington, but those are about the damndest songs to get stuck in your head!!!!!!!:mad::eek::p
Well, I like my women like I like my chicken
With a little bit of fat on the end
not too much and not too little
just enough to make me grin
see a little girl walking down the street
she ain't my type, I need a little more meat
She's skinny, and not my cup of tea.
I've got this burning sensation when I pee!!
Jaybird62
02-09-2008, 17:10
Them ones there aint too bad- but some of them other ones.........now all you do is stare at the floor......lmao
taildragger
02-09-2008, 17:29
I was 12 yrs old when I learned to....
Jaybird62
02-09-2008, 17:36
I was 12 yrs old when I learned to....
That is certainly another one!!!!:o:rolleyes:
sloopjonboswell
02-09-2008, 19:17
the grand old duke of york,
he had ten thousand men,
he marched them up the hill and then he marched them down again,
and when your up, your up
and when your down, your down,
and when your only half way up, your neither up or down
-repeat and increase speed
Nickel Creek's 'Out of the woods' always seems to run 'round in my head
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Sla_GL0nZio (video not up to much but the song is excellent)
Tool's 'Ticks & Leeches' creeps up and grabs the brain every once in a while for all sorts of reasons
Pennsylvania Rose
02-10-2008, 12:37
1-800-SAFE AUTO pick up the phone the call is free...
Little off topic, but I hate when a guilty memory gets stuck in my head while hiking. Bummer. It takes a while to shake that.
D*** whoever posted the "Can't Touch This" link.
Guess what was running through my head while I was hiking today?
I currently have Matisyahu stuck in my head, but I like the song, so it's all good.
Kirby
warraghiyagey
02-10-2008, 23:48
Little off topic, but I hate when a guilty memory gets stuck in my head while hiking. Bummer. It takes a while to shake that.
Do tell.;)
I have always loved the Grateful Dead (no comments, please:)) and my solution to earworms has always been a particular song that trumps all earworms. Scarlett Begonias from Cornell '77 will always do it for me. I can put it in my mind at any time and it will trump any bad earworm.:sun
Oh, that my earworms were GD tunes... :) Alas, I get stuck with stupid ditties from 30-40 year old TV and radio commercials... Like the Schultz and Dooley commercials for Utica Club beer. Ugh.
warraghiyagey
02-11-2008, 01:01
Oh, that my earworms were GD tunes... :) Alas, I get stuck with stupid ditties from 30-40 year old TV and radio commercials... Like the Schultz and Dooley commercials for Utica Club beer. Ugh.
At Beneficial (toot toot)
We're good for more (toottoot)
D*** whoever posted the "Can't Touch This" link.
Guess what was running through my head while I was hiking today? You're welcome. :D :eek: At least you had somehing suitable, Marta. As long as you're hiking, you move so fast that no one "can touch this". :banana
I currently have Matisyahu stuck in my head, but I like the song, so it's all good.
KirbyI hear "Beat Box" all the time for some reason when I'm hiking. It's on the Live at Stubbs CD. :D
StarLyte
02-11-2008, 09:30
I get Broadway musical songs stuck - my daughter and I are fans of musical theatre..
Dough Nut
Same here, especially Fiddler and Oliver.
Keep singing-have fun with it.
Lone Wolf
02-11-2008, 09:32
since last nite's grammys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD5sahXoj0U
since last nite's grammys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD5sahXoj0U Because crackheada are people too. Not to hijack the thread, but did anyone else see the performances by Foo Fighters and Herbie Hancock performing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue? Best of the night, if you ask me. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread. :D
Lone Wolf
02-11-2008, 09:41
herbie was great, yes.
I hear "Beat Box" all the time for some reason when I'm hiking. It's on the Live at Stubbs CD. :D
I'm not a big fan of that song, I enjoy their Live at Stubbs version of "King Without A Crown", and their regular version of "Close My Eyes", "Youth", is pretty good as well.
Kirby
RadioFreq
02-12-2008, 13:17
Ever since I was a kid I've had earworms. But I discovered that if I run
either the theme from "Hogan's Heroes" or "F Troop" (man, am I dating
myself) through my brain the earworm is gone...totally! Works every time.
And, no, those two never become earworms.
Go figure. :-?