What's the Worst Song to Have Stuck in Your Head?
You know, those pesky earworms? Tell us what song you hate having in your head and we'll make a playlist.
We've all had songs stuck in our head that aren't necessarily terrible, but when it's the last thing rolling around your head when you're trying to go to sleep or when you're trying really hard to concentrate, it's pretty darn annoying.
So we want to know what you think the peskiest earworm is so we can compile a Spotify playlist, and then we can all commiserate (or laugh) together.
Maybe it's the Macarena (who knows the words to that song, anyway?), or maybe it's the Spice Girls' Wannabe (tell me what you really, really want). Whatever it is, we want to know.
Tell us in the comments! You have until 5 p.m. Thursday, and the playlist will be available Friday morning.
Cat Givens
7:28 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
worst: It's a small world after all.
Deanna Perdue
5:22 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Oh, yes! The only time I actually like this song is when I'm visiting Disney. How often does that happen? :)
Rick Uldricks
7:57 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
The IX Indoor Amusement Park song.
Brandon Baker
9:10 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Wow, that's completely spot-on
Nikki Ferrell
9:19 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
I'm not from Cleveland, so I just looked up this song and heard it for the first time...anyone else intrigued that the park bills itself as "a great place to meet someone"? Is this a singles amusement park? IS it a great place to meet someone?
Deena Weber
9:35 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
It's a great place to meet single mothers of 12 unruly kids!
Kaye Spector
10:30 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
OMG. Yes.
T. Bush
12:02 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
OK, song change, this is in my head now. Every year when they'd start advertising, my colleague and myself would constantly sing it at work.
Joe Strailey
8:20 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Good call, Rick! I'd have to go with Sweet Caroline.
Mindy Davis
9:02 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
MMMbop
Deena Weber
9:33 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Scoop, Scoop. Yum, Yum. Ruggles Ice cream premium!
Susan Kaminski
11:58 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Thanks Deena. This has been going through my head for the past couple of hours now!
Joe Strailey
9:36 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
How about the Garfield 1-2-3-2-3 song?
Amanda Harnocz
9:44 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
I'm from Garfield, but you beat me to it Joe. so annoying!
Jason Lea
9:55 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Yes. A million times, yes.
Sara Schlayer
10:29 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
I've been trying to flush that miserable song out of my brain since I was a very young child. You have now re-injected it. I will now go outside and howl at the moon.
Justin Waite
9:54 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Tubthumping by Chumbawumba - "I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down!"
deborah malisheski
10:07 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Billy Don't Be A Hero, or Seasons In The Sun. The two worst of all time
Jeanne Travaglianti
11:31 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Yes, Seasons in the Sun!!!
I.M. Wright
10:32 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Commercial jingles (as some have mentioned here) are NOT songs.
Plus, if you still find them "annoying" -- especially those that haven't been on the air in many years -- then their advertising was successful. :)
Deena Weber
11:24 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
DEFINITION OF A SONG: 1.A short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung. I think jingles would be included!
I.M. Wright
6:21 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
I love people who copy and paste stuff w/out knowing what they're talking about.
A commercial jingle is NOT a song. I know from professional experience. You don't.
Unless you'd like to share with us your professional experience
Deena Weber
8:02 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Do you know what I love "I.M. Wright"? People who are self-proclaimed know it alls who like to go on social website for the purpose of being confrontational and berating other people while being so cowardly that they have to hide behind a fictional name. Here are a few more definitions I have copied and pasted for your enjoyment:
jingle: A short song, usually mentioning a brand or product benefit, used in a commercial.
douchbag: An individual who has an over-inflated sense of self worth, compounded by a low level of intellegence, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears.
Pratik Patel
10:36 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Surfin' Bird by the Trashmen. How can you possibly get "bird, bird, bird b-bird's the word" out of your head?
Steve Rosen
4:23 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Pratik, I had not heard. Thanks, thanks for letting me know. A certain ornithological piece. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184
Kaye Spector
4:34 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
@steve hilarious. family guy has ruined me for this song.
I.M. Wright
6:22 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
This Family Guy episode was just on TBS last night.
Amanda Harnocz
10:49 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
I'M A BARBIE GIRL, IN A BARBIE WORLD ... C'MON BARBIE LET'S GO PARTY. you're welcome for that doozy of an earworm.
Rachel Abbey McCafferty
10:58 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Ha! Yes.
lyn
10:51 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Fox 8 Friday night sports ad and music - Not really a true song, but I keep hearing it now, over and over and its starting to make my head pound! I have to change the channel when it comes on. I guess I'll be watching other programs for the next few months, as long as high school football season lasts!!!
Reminds me of how I grew to hate Queen's "I want it All", thanks to Value City using it in their commercials last year.
Carol Donofrio
9:54 pm on Friday, August 10, 2012
I agree lyn. It is so awful in so many ways. I am a Fox 8 fan but will tune out until they are done with that one. I was thinking that whoever thought that was a good idea should be looking for a different job.
Amanda Harnocz
10:51 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
How about Wham's wake me up before you go-go?
Rachel Abbey McCafferty
10:58 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
I love The Beatles, but I once had "Yellow Submarine" stuck in my head for two solid weeks. Not fun.
Spencer Lazar
11:09 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
The theme from the Brady Bunch! Arghhhhhhh
KATHY MILLER
11:12 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Here's a real oldie - "Three Little Fishes in an Itty Bitty Pool". What resonates is "and they swam and they swam all over the dam. Boop, Boop didem, dadem, wadem chew"
Jeanne Travaglianti
11:32 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Love that one ... childhood memories!
Lisa V
11:36 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Baby, Baby, Baby...ooooohhhhh Baby, Baby, Baby...!!!!
Lynda M. Lash
12:53 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
"I wanna hippopotamus for Christmas" UGH
Melissa Hebert
7:02 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
HAAAAATE that song. I call the child who sings it "that adenoidal spawn of Satan."
Michael Lawless
1:22 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Abba's "Dancin Queen." I feel so pretty.
Megan Rozsa
2:01 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
I'm going to have to say either "Vengabus" by the Vengaboys or "Skidamarink-a-dink-a-dink…" from the Elephant Show.
B Weekley
2:11 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
That's the Way, Huh Huh, I Like It.
John Deike
2:51 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
The Proclaimers "I'm gonna be (500 miles)" And when I wake up, you know I'm going to be, I'm going to be the man who blah blah blah
Evan Hammersmith
2:52 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Escape (the Pina Colada song) by Rupert Holmes. If you like pina coladas, and gettin caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga. If you have half a brain...
Morgan Day
3:30 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Rachel Abbey McCafferty, you'll remember this one ...
In our newsroom at Kent State University, there was a guy who would always sing "What if God was one of us?" I think every time that happened there was a collective groan from the newsroom because we knew it'd be in our heads all week!
Rachel Abbey McCafferty
3:34 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
When I think of that song now, I don't even hear the actual singer's voice. I hear our classmate's voice.
Teri Ashley
3:59 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
The song that is stuck in my head right now is that "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Ray Jepson I think that is how you spell her name. They play this song everywhere even the USA Olympic swimmers and gymnast did a video on You Tube with this song.
Mary Jo Stack
4:10 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Just had a high school reunion, and although not from our era a friend said please don't play "Afternoon Delight". It was stuck in my head all day. Another horrible song to have stuck in your head is "Muskrat Love" YUCK!
Kaye Spector
4:37 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
After last week's Spotify playlist all i've been hearing is "Voices Carry" by Til Tuesday.
Mars
4:49 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Heart- Crazy on You
Daniel F
6:38 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Partridge Family - I think I love you! AARRRGGHHHH !
Ken Palosi
7:51 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
When my grandchildren were little I provided daycare for them; (see http://northcanton.patch.com/blog_posts/grandpa-daycare) and they just loved The Wiggles. One song Quack Quack sung by Captain Feathersword keep me awake nights for almost a week. "Quack quack, quack quack cockadoodle doo." Might be a mistake bringing this up. I could be awake all night tonight with it playing in my mind.
Cuddy
7:58 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Anything from Lady Gaga, Party Rock Anthem by LFMAO. I could pretty much say the entire play list that 104.1 has. I listened to that station all day one day and heard the same song 4 times.
I.M. Wright
6:23 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
" I listened to that station all day one day and heard the same song 4 times."
Because that's how formats that primarily program CURRENT music -- and to their target demo (which you are not!) have been programmed for years!
2bass
9:46 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
It's a Small World!
2bass
9:47 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
It's a Small World. A t least it's a happy place.
Sara Schlayer
10:24 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
Those songs were bad. I present to you all the worst song in the history of singing, and good luck with the brain lock: "A Horse with No Name." Pure crap.
Melissa Hebert
8:32 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
Also in the equine vein:
"She ran calling Wiiiiiiiiiiiiildfiiiiiiiiire..."
Earl Elevant
12:11 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
How's this duo:
Convoy by C.W. McCall
and
The Mah-nama-NAH song by the Muppets.
I.M. Wright
6:25 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
This song was a piece of crap when it was released in 1983, and 29 years later, it still sucks. That song would be the seasonal turd by Elmo & Patsy called "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer."
Tim Torrence
2:12 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Get this song out of your head. Ten straight hours in this YouTube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmcP3MShzS0
Megan Rozsa
10:16 am on Thursday, August 9, 2012
I'm also going to add Purple People Eater. You're welcome.
James Thomas
10:37 am on Thursday, August 9, 2012
The song that will drive out all others:
George of the Jungle.
Chuckes The Clown
10:39 am on Friday, August 10, 2012
Worst Commercial Jingle that gets stuck in there: WE ARE FARMERS, bum budda dum dum dum dum dum
EriK...
1:41 pm on Friday, August 10, 2012
Once heard, cannot be unheard, "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!" by Napoleon XIV. And, if you can sing along with the b-side, you deserve everything you get!!!
Mark McEwen
5:49 pm on Friday, August 10, 2012
How about Henry the VIII by Hemans Hermits. It makes me suicidal.
Colin McEwen
1:59 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
"I got married to the widow next door... She's been married seven times before."
David Bly
8:50 pm on Friday, August 10, 2012
One of the all time voted bad song ever played "we built this city" by starship
Daniel F
8:25 pm on Monday, August 13, 2012
I love the Mah nam ma nah Muppet song!!