Problem with a song getting stuck in your head...?

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Damn, i hate it when that happens i can repeat 5 secs of a song all day long (and very very silently i sing/whistle it without realising it) by the time the day is over i get tired of that certaint song. Who els has this?

Last edited by UndercoverAlien on 17 Jan 2009, 12:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yeah, I think that happens to everybody, NT and aspie.

I hate it when that happens, everytime I have a tune in my head I have to tap the tune on the table, or hum it.

btw I'm not being funny but could you sort out that spelling, those typos are terrible

done (lol probably made them because i was used at writing it like that, oh well you can't blame me i don't have that firefox thing)
Btw gina-ghettoprincess this isn't the general autism discussion

I once had the song "Ex Girlfriend" by No Doubt stuck in my head an entire night so bad that I couldn't sleep. This was probably 10 years ago and to this day I can't stand No Doubt or Gwen Stefani because of it.

Lot of people get songs stuck in their head. I get Benny & Joon songs stuck in my head and other music I sometimes hear on the radio.


Right on Gina-ghettoprincess.

Yup, they're called Earworms.


among songs that have gotten stuck in my head in the past year:
"Phantom Limb" by The Shins
"A-Punk" by Vampire Weekend
"Death to Los Campesinos!" by Los Campesinos!
"Drop It Doe Eyes" by Los Campesinos!
"The Hollows" by Why?
"Baltimore" by Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
"Supper's Ready" by Genesis (specifically the "Willow Farm" section)
"Yeah, Whatever" by Splender
"The Nile Song" by Pink Floyd
"This is Fake D.I.Y." by bis (the Scottish band, not the Japanese one)
"The Next Untouchable" by Cajun Dance Party
"Our Bipolar Friends" by Johnny Foreigner
"Stupid as Wood" by The Victorian English Gentleman's Club

Last edited by DocStrange on 17 Jan 2009, 9:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.

If you got down to Willow farm
to look for hidden doors, tiny floors, more applause
We've been here all the time
,,,

their teeth in the soil, the soil, their teeth in the soil, the soil the soil the soil!
There's good and bad, and Mom and Dad, and everyone's happy to be here

Fortunately, I can't understand half the lyrics...

What I do (this probably works better for musicians) is to listen to the chord progression, then substitute another song with the same one. Works the same for beats, sometimes lyrics.

Everyone in the family either listens to hardcore rap or country (I guess I'm two old to hold diametrically opposed music forms in my head simultaneously...

So I get a lot of practice at it; modern Country's just rock and roll with bluegrass instruments and nostalgic subjects nowadays...

You think you've got it bad... I've had "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" song stuck in my head for the last six years.

Thankfully only over 1 year solid from ages about 17 / 18 -19. Drove me a little mad with it in my head 24/7, think it had to do with the exam stress.

Had it in my head a fair amount before then, and its finally starting to wane now. Would have been a bit more manageable having it stuck in my head 24/7 for a solid year had I known more than 6 lines from it (are there more than 6 lines?).

Yeah, I have this happen pretty much every day no matter what. Sometimes its the same song, sometimes its not. I seriously hate Green Grass and High Tides now. With a burning passion. Had it stuck in my head for like a month straight. I got sick of it before it even got stuck in my head.

In fact, to satisfy my craving for "Willow Farm" i went into Audacity copied the whole 2:38 of the section from of "Supper's Ready" and made it into a standalone MP3 track.

me *raises hand* i've got Green Day's Minority stuck in my head
"i wanna be the minority
i don't need your authority..." ARGH!! !!

I've also seen the term "Repetitive Tune Syndrome":

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/33029 ... atter.html

Scroll about half-way down that page, where it also mentions "Restless Leg Syndrome" - I suppose you could combine the two

The problem with getting songs stuck in the head is, that most of the songs that get stuck in my head I hate.

I get a song stuck in my head everyday. Lately it's been Regina Spektor, which is fine by me.

I have songs stuck in my head pretty much all the time, I can't get rid of it, but I found that I would rather have songs I actually like stuck in my head compared to other music, that's why I bought an mp3 player, now any music stuck in my head is something I don't mind being there, although whats really annoying is when I get scenes from tv shows stuck in my head and it keeps repeating over and over again.