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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 03:11 PM
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Worst earworm ever?
I think it's one of the twin towers of 70's mediocrity, Andy Kim's "Rock Me Gently" or King Harvest's "Dancing in the Moonlight." However, the most pernicious (meaning not necessarily bad, but definitely ineradicable) is at least for me that Caddyshack theme by Kenny Loggins with the Michael McDonald backing vocals: "I'm Alright"

Yours?

By the way, this is all Adenoid_Hynkel's fault. (Earlier thread on most annoying song)
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 03:19 PM
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1. Anything Phil Collins
Cause they are all pretty much the same song and are designed to be earworms above music. :scared: I fear to name a title lest it stick in my head.

In the Air Tonight - don't even start thinking about that song!
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 04:00 PM
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2. "Dancing In the Moonlight" makes me ill
Love the Caddyshack theme though.

I don't mean to offend some people here who love the guy, but what really sticks in my head like a big ball of razor wire is just about anything by Van Morrison. :scared:
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 08:33 PM
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15. It does so for all right-thinking people. Somebody actually covered it
at some point for reasons that are totally beyond me.

I like all Van's tunes except "Moondance," but agree that they tend to be insanely catchy and almost ineradicable once you get them in your head.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 04:03 PM
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3. I had fucking Duelling Banjos in my brain yesterday
x(
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 04:07 PM
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6. Everytime Sen. Sessions speaks I hear that in my mind
Thanks to someone's suggestion at DU!
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 04:05 PM
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4. Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend"
and thanks for the new frickin earworm! :P
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 04:06 PM
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5. Dexxy's Midnight Runner's...
Come On Eileen
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 12:32 AM
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8. Lucky me. It was a hit the whole year I was in England, I get home and
guess what? It made the Atlantic crossing with me! Other than that, I really enjoyed junior year abroad.:)

How you been, fella?
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 11:43 AM
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13. I am good.... I had just broken up a really intense
but bad relationship with an Eileeen when it hit... it was not a fun summer of .... what? 82?
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 11:48 AM
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14. '82 in Britain, '83 here, I thought
but maybe the damned thing was a hit over here the whole year and I was mistaken all this time that it followed me home. Anyway, '82-'83 was my junior year abroad.
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 04:15 PM
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7. Kokomo (That's all I'm saying lest it get into my brain now)
Edited on Sat Jul-30-05 04:20 PM by jane_pippin
on edit: FUCK! It's in there. I should have known better.
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 12:35 AM
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9. Jussssssst sit right back and you'll hear a tale!
:)
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Porcupine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 12:59 AM
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10. "Someone left a cake out in the rain"
McArthur Park. Hah! Try and get that out of your head. It's the cockroach of all pop songs. Just can't kill the damn thing.
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General Zod Donating Member (652 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 01:03 AM
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11. Afternoon Delight, by the Starland Vocal Band
Once this piece of excrement is in your brain, your fucked. Catchy, but extremely wretched.
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 01:05 AM
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12. Seconded!

I saw _Anchorman_ the other day, and I have not been able to get this piece of shlock out of my head ever since.


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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 08:49 PM
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17. I am inclined to agree
Another good one is "Having My Baby"
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tinfoilinfor2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 08:47 PM
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16. The song from the Boner Bob commercials...
You, know, the guy with the beautiful wife waiting in the clubhouse...dum dum dum dee ditty dum dum dum. Ok, now ya got it. Live with it.
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