Songs you love that get stuck in your head, then you hate

[orator]

Have you ever gotten great songs that you love stuck in your head, then as the days pass by you begin to hate them and they're ruined for you?

One I remember vividly was Guided By Voices - A Big Fan of the Pigpen.

It must have been a week, and by the end I felt like I was going crazy and for a long while I never wanted to hear Robert Pollard's voice again. I would wake up and hear,

"Bah bah dah dah dah dah dah, bah duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh"


And lately I've been listening to the late 06 archives and Tom's been playing Dr Dog's "Ain't It Strange" somewhat frequently, and now it's been stuck in my head for a few days and I'm beginning to hate it.




Anyone else, or am I alone in this phenomenon?

[Pastor Josh]

I know the feeling, but I can't really think of any good examples.  I still get songs from the last musical I was in stuck in my head, but I hated them to begin with.

[DoodleJump!]

Any song by the Flaming Lips pretty much does it for me. I love them a lot, but if I listen to their music one song too much, it gets stuck in my head and I begin to hate it.

[methanolcereal]

I just hate it when I can only remember a melody or something and can't place it with a song.

[Gilly]

Gnarls Barkley- Crazy: I loved that song when it first came out and now I loathe it.

[DoodleJump!]

Gnarls Barkley- Crazy: I loved that song when it first came out and now I loathe it.

Yeah, honest to goodness when it first came out and was played somewhere in public, I would dance (horribly) because that song was so fun. After a while it became uninspiring, and that made me sad.

[Barry Egan]

I call this phenomenon the Hey Ya Effect.

[methanolcereal]

Gnarls Barkley- Crazy: I loved that song when it first came out and now I loathe it.

Yeah, honest to goodness when it first came out and was played somewhere in public, I would dance (horribly) because that song was so fun. After a while it became uninspiring, and that made me sad.

Oh, I think I get the thread now. But yeah, Crazy was definitely like that.

[kiemzi]

what about Seal - Crazy or Patsy Cline - Crazy... any song named Crazy will eventually drive you crazy.

I always get songs I already hate stuck in my head. The most diabolically catchy song of all time is "Tainted Love"... I had that song stuck in my head for three months. it was a living nightmare. now I usually have Buffalo Stance stuck in my head. but I still love that song.

[JonFromMaplewood]

"Words and Guitar" by Sleater Kinney almost sent me over the edge when it first came out.  Felt like trepanning my own skull to get it out.

[buffcoat]

This is going to get me in a lot of trouble, but right now it's "Another Day" from the Tom CD.


Don't hit me!  Nothing against The Barbaras, but the whole "Slipping into stockings, Stepping into shoes" (pronounced "Shews," McCartney style) is Mac at his most cloying. 

The album as a whole is great, and I have a strong appreciation for everyone's contributions to the project - but I can't stop hearing that two-line phrase in my head and it's driving me nuts.

[yesno]

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, bananaphone.

The reason I initially loved that song was because I first heard it when a cute girl in a banana costume danced around and then stripped to her underwear. Something of an earworm, though.

[masterofsparks]

I've got to say, this doesn't really happen to me. It does happen where I love a song and then get tired of it through overexposure, but it doesn't really progress to hatred. The closest I've ever come to making that step is with "Smells Like Teen Spirit," but after a break of several years I returned and found it to still be great.

The more magical thing for me is a song that you hear over and over again and NEVER tire of. Examples of this from my life would be something like The Boys are Back in Town by Thin Lizzy or Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[nec13]

"Time" and/or "Money" by Pink Floyd