Comments on: How To: Get That Damned Tune Out Of Your Head http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/ Where every man is king. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:06:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rob http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-42223 Rob Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:20:48 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-42223 To echo a previous post... my method of purging an earworm involves playing the tune to the end and adding a "big ending" as if it were the live version of the song. Nothing says, "finale" the a 70's arena rock ending. Think, "Do You Feel Like We Do" off Frampton Comes Alive. To echo a previous post… my method of purging an earworm involves playing the tune to the end and adding a “big ending” as if it were the live version of the song. Nothing says, “finale” the a 70’s arena rock ending. Think, “Do You Feel Like We Do” off Frampton Comes Alive.

]]> By: Expose Yourself: Picking Up On New Sounds at Dethroner http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-42202 Expose Yourself: Picking Up On New Sounds at Dethroner Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:30:01 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-42202 [...] site to hunt for the new. I decided to me merciful and pick The Girl From Ipanema, largely due to my old post on the matter. Alas, it isn’t available. So I sniffed around for something else and eventually wound up [...] [...] site to hunt for the new. I decided to me merciful and pick The Girl From Ipanema, largely due to my old post on the matter. Alas, it isn’t available. So I sniffed around for something else and eventually wound up [...]

]]> By: Dave Copeland » Blog Archive » Monday’s links: Leftovers from the weekend with a … http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-30024 Dave Copeland » Blog Archive » Monday’s links: Leftovers from the weekend with a … Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:28:25 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-30024 [...] How To Get That Damned Tune Out Of Your Head “The absolute worst pet peeve of mine is when I get some goddamned awful pop tune stuck in [...] [...] How To Get That Damned Tune Out Of Your Head “The absolute worst pet peeve of mine is when I get some goddamned awful pop tune stuck in [...]

]]> By: Andrew http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-24644 Andrew Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:27:45 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-24644 Verb from Schoolhouse Rock totally owns! I can take a noun and bend it, Give me a noun - Make it a verb and really send it! (Show me how) Oh, I don't know my own power. (Verb!) I get my thing in action (Verb!) In being, (Verb!) In doing, (Verb!) In saying Verb from Schoolhouse Rock totally owns!

I can take a noun and bend it,
Give me a noun -
Make it a verb and really send it!
(Show me how)
Oh, I don’t know my own power. (Verb!)

I get my thing in action (Verb!)
In being, (Verb!) In doing, (Verb!) In saying

]]> By: Malcolm Owen http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-24000 Malcolm Owen Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:18:41 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-24000 I work in a call center, and occasionally I intentionally infect other people with music whilst they work. The best ones are when it hits them mid-call and they don't know why they're thinking about it, despite me sitting next to them humming it out loud. The best are: The theme to Black Beauty Wannabe - The Spice Girls Star Wars and Superman combined (They can be very similar in humming, and people confuse the two easily. Brilliant!) I work in a call center, and occasionally I intentionally infect other people with music whilst they work. The best ones are when it hits them mid-call and they don’t know why they’re thinking about it, despite me sitting next to them humming it out loud.

The best are:
The theme to Black Beauty
Wannabe – The Spice Girls
Star Wars and Superman combined (They can be very similar in humming, and people confuse the two easily. Brilliant!)

]]> By: andrew http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23684 andrew Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:17:33 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23684 i find that the best way to get it out is to sing the whole song completely. it just goes away after i finish i find that the best way to get it out is to sing the whole song completely.

it just goes away after i finish

]]> By: Jay Wilson http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23681 Jay Wilson Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:11:07 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23681 Easy Reader! Alex, I haven't seen that clip in 20 years - great find. Are there any children shows today that rival the Holy Trinity of kids' programming that is Sesame Street, the Electric Company, and 3-2-1 Contact? Easy Reader!

Alex, I haven’t seen that clip in 20 years – great find. Are there any children shows today that rival the Holy Trinity of kids’ programming that is Sesame Street, the Electric Company, and 3-2-1 Contact?

]]> By: Blackie http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23643 Blackie Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:46:09 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23643 An evil friend at work used to wander down the halls whistling "Somewhere over the rainbow". I would be working on a machine and barely hear it. Freakin' song would be with me all day. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Well I made the mistake of mentioning this to him one day and being the evil person that he is, he would then do it just for fun. He would stand just at the edge of ear shot and whistle his dastardly tune. If I heard it and looked, he would just smile and walk away. Never, I repeat NEVER, let anyone see a weakness. just sayin... An evil friend at work used to wander down the halls whistling “Somewhere over the rainbow”. I would be working on a machine and barely hear it. Freakin’ song would be with me all day. Grrrrrrrrrrr.

Well I made the mistake of mentioning this to him one day and being the evil person that he is, he would then do it just for fun. He would stand just at the edge of ear shot and whistle his dastardly tune. If I heard it and looked, he would just smile and walk away.

Never, I repeat NEVER, let anyone see a weakness.
just sayin…

]]> By: Alex http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23627 Alex Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:17:17 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23627 You womenfolk is evil. You womenfolk is evil.

]]> By: bridgitte http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23626 bridgitte Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:15:04 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23626 i *so* look forward to when sister christian comes up on my ipod! i *so* look forward to when sister christian comes up on my ipod!

]]> By: Heather http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23625 Heather Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:09:30 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23625 Are you actually implying that I don't want Sister Christian in my head? That's just Blasphemy. Motorinnnnnn! Are you actually implying that I don’t want Sister Christian in my head? That’s just Blasphemy.

Motorinnnnnn!

]]> By: Alex http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23624 Alex Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:07:21 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23624 I love that song, and strong, groovy black heroes in general. It all started with with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_PuAqRQLKA" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Easy Reader</a>. Talk about your catchy songs! I love that song, and strong, groovy black heroes in general. It all started with with Easy Reader. Talk about your catchy songs!

]]> By: Jay Wilson http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23617 Jay Wilson Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:20:21 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23617 This weekend I had the pleasure of pissing off everyone around me after watching my Schoolhouse Rock DVD collection. It wasn't "Conjunction Junction" or "I'm Just a Bill", but the rather underrated "Verb!" "I get my thiiiinnnnnnng in action...Verb! That's what's happening!" My gods, is that song catchy. This weekend I had the pleasure of pissing off everyone around me after watching my Schoolhouse Rock DVD collection. It wasn’t “Conjunction Junction” or “I’m Just a Bill”, but the rather underrated “Verb!”

“I get my thiiiinnnnnnng in action…Verb! That’s what’s happening!”

My gods, is that song catchy.

]]> By: jackp http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23597 jackp Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:11:56 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23597 I'm afraid I have to leave a counterexample; I once had The Girl From Ipanema stuck in my head for most of a week. I'll concede that, of the unkillable-brain-music episodes I've suffered in my day, it was one of the nicest. If you do ever happen to need a quick fix of the song, head on over to: http://www.nicolelislab.net It's the homepage of a neurology lab at the Duke University medical center, operated by Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, who (as you may have read in the NYT or heard on NPR) occupies himself by installing electrodes in monkeys' brains and teaches them to use an external robotic arm as if it were their own limb. On the lab's main page, you can listen to a blended Portugese/English live track of Garota De Ipanema as performed by Joao and Astrud Gilberto, watch a restive sidescrolling newsfeed of upcoming neuroscience conferences and Brazilian soccer matches, and stare at a nice picture of microscopic electrical leads penetrating brain tissue. No, I'm not joking. I’m afraid I have to leave a counterexample; I once had The Girl From Ipanema stuck in my head for most of a week. I’ll concede that, of the unkillable-brain-music episodes I’ve suffered in my day, it was one of the nicest.

If you do ever happen to need a quick fix of the song, head on over to:

http://www.nicolelislab.net

It’s the homepage of a neurology lab at the Duke University medical center, operated by Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, who (as you may have read in the NYT or heard on NPR) occupies himself by installing electrodes in monkeys’ brains and teaches them to use an external robotic arm as if it were their own limb.

On the lab’s main page, you can listen to a blended Portugese/English live track of Garota De Ipanema as performed by Joao and Astrud Gilberto, watch a restive sidescrolling newsfeed of upcoming neuroscience conferences and Brazilian soccer matches, and stare at a nice picture of microscopic electrical leads penetrating brain tissue.

No, I’m not joking.

]]> By: Jake http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23595 Jake Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:09:31 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23595 My buddy Miracle Ed calls this the "Cleaner Song" (cleaner, as in Jean Reno in La Femme Nikita). I've generally considered it replacing one earworm with another that you don't mind as much, but whatever. His choice, oddly, is "Material Girl". I like "Girl from Ipanema" better. My buddy Miracle Ed calls this the “Cleaner Song” (cleaner, as in Jean Reno in La Femme Nikita). I’ve generally considered it replacing one earworm with another that you don’t mind as much, but whatever.
His choice, oddly, is “Material Girl”.
I like “Girl from Ipanema” better.

]]> By: Tim http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23594 Tim Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:07:45 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23594 I've found that going through the words to "Balloon Man" by Robyn Hitchcock in my head does the trick as well. I’ve found that going through the words to “Balloon Man” by Robyn Hitchcock in my head does the trick as well.

]]> By: Sean Graham http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23585 Sean Graham Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:42:46 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23585 The best way to kill a song stuck in your head is to yell the theme to National Geographic at the top of your lungs... The best way to kill a song stuck in your head is to yell the theme to National Geographic at the top of your lungs…

]]> By: bridgitte http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-23574 bridgitte Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:50:39 +0000 http://dethroner.com/2007/02/12/how-to-get-that-damned-tune-out-of-your-head/#comment-23574 AND CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT... /me crosses her fingers AND CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT…

/me crosses her fingers

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