How do you shut the music off...?

Carson Leighton · Post by **Carson Leighton** » 22 May 2010 4:24 pm

I know that this must happen to a lot of people besides me,,but how do you shut that song down that's rolling around upstairs so you can go to sleep...? Lo and behold,,I was working in my little garden the other day, and that song Marty and Merle were singing called Farmers Blues popped into my head and stayed there all day..Kind of appropriate for garden work,even though I'm not much of a farmer...

Carson

Papa Joe Pollick · Post by **Papa Joe Pollick** » 22 May 2010 4:38 pm

That's called ear worms..Ain't no cure.

Jon Moen · Post by **Jon Moen** » 22 May 2010 7:24 pm

Some people say if you "play" the song all the way through in your head that it will go away.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 22 May 2010 11:51 pm

If you listen the Jon Wayne song "You And The Kitten" a few times, the Merle Haggard song will go away.

Carson Leighton · Post by **Carson Leighton** » 23 May 2010 1:37 am

So Earnest,,what's that going to do...? Replace Merle and Marty with Jon Wayne and the kittens...??

Bob Hoffnar · Post by **Bob Hoffnar** » 23 May 2010 1:46 am

Sing Gilligan's Island to the tune of Amazing Grace. Sure cure for ear worms. Gregg Galbraith told me that trick.

Carson Leighton · Post by **Carson Leighton** » 23 May 2010 4:42 am

Earnest,,I have never heard of that song...Bob Denver of Gilligans Island used to come here on vacation about every year,and stay not far from where I live...Gilligan's Island to the tune of Amazing Grace just might work..Who'd want that rollin' around in their head all night long...

John De Maille · Post by **John De Maille** » 23 May 2010 8:08 am

I think this is an interesting topic, that's never been broached before.
I have this problem, usually, late at night, when, I'm trying to go to sleep. A tune will go through my head and I start figuring it out on my steel. Sometimes it just won't stop and it drives me crazy. I've found, that, if I get up and start to play through what I was thinking, it then subsides in intensity. If I'm not able to access my steel, eventually, it kind of goes on the back burner, but, never disappears. It certainly is a strange malady and can be quite annoying, at times.
I don't knowe if there is a "cure" for it.
On another note, when I play through what's haunting me, I feel much better and have another tune for my arsenal.

Fred Shannon · Post by **Fred Shannon** » 23 May 2010 8:15 am

EAR WORMS----there ain't no cure for it that I've found and I've been at it over 60 years. I just learned to live with it and enjoy what I can hear.

phred

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 23 May 2010 10:22 am

Bob H beat me to it! Gregg posted that trick on the Forum once. Of course you may find the cure to be worse than the disease......

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 23 May 2010 11:41 am

Reading helps.

Repeating a mantra helps too. I repeat the nonsense syllables "I - ing, I ing, I Ing" in my head, over and over again. An old hindu trick. Helps lower your blood pressure as well.

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 23 May 2010 4:16 pm

Think about Baseball

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 23 May 2010 6:02 pm

Think about Baseball

Isn't that for premature ejaculation?

Actually, I've had this condition for a long time. I can be listening to a song on the iPod and have another song playing in my head at the same time. Very distracting. I have the same thing going on when I'm reading. I've never really researched it, but I suspect it has something to do with Attention Deficit Disorder, ADD.

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 23 May 2010 6:52 pm

Sometimes a mystery guest puts a whole roll of quarters in the jukebox in your mind and plays the same song over and over. I say let him buy you a beer, too.

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 23 May 2010 6:58 pm

Cal, my name is NOT Jack, its Kevin. I resemble that remark, and I say that without constipation. I'm going to go drink some decapitated coffee.

Carson Leighton · Post by **Carson Leighton** » 23 May 2010 7:03 pm

Cal,,I believe you are right..Your condition sounds the same as mine... Keeping focused on what I'm reading is a real problem too..I have to re-read a lot...I've had this problem for as long as I can remember...It is always worse for me after a recording session or a gig as far as the music goes....Just can seem to shut it down....Carson

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 23 May 2010 7:09 pm

Read Beowolf.

Tony Glassman · Post by **Tony Glassman** » 23 May 2010 7:36 pm

Ambien 10 mg.

Steve Alcott · Post by **Steve Alcott** » 23 May 2010 8:42 pm

Just tell yourself that it is, after all, a small, small world....

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 23 May 2010 9:44 pm

This is an interesting topic. "Ear Worms" ?? ADD ?

I find that if I play the tune it stops.

Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 23 May 2010 10:17 pm

I find that a gift and a blessing. When you have listened to enough music long enough you can play it back in your mind with the accuracy of a tape recorder. This means you are a real musician. My mind is my radio.

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 24 May 2010 2:03 am

I recently was able to shut off " Farmers Blues",but within minutes Marty's "Tempted" started playing... I think I'm on auto play with no off button...

Bryan Daste · Post by **Bryan Daste** » 24 May 2010 10:24 am

Great podcast about the subject:
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2008/06/17/earworms/

Here's the entire show:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/03/21/

J. R. McClung · Post by **J. R. McClung** » 24 May 2010 8:10 pm

Here's a replacement "earwig" for you:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqhdRs4jyA&feature=related

Quite a toe-tapper.

Maybe the remedy is worse than the disease.

See ya..........Joel

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 25 May 2010 12:02 pm

I wake up with a song in my head...

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