The Monday Poll - Ear Worms

[pjthompson]

Well, here it is: the eagerly awaited and much anticipated poll for the most insidious ear worm of all time. I should note that just because something is an ear worm doesn't mean it is not a beloved piece of...ear wormage. Things can lodge themselves in the synapses out of a sense of devotion as well as out of insidious, catchy repetitiveness. Or so I've been told.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the write-in.

Please note: portions of this poll are interactive.

[Poll #794727]

What is the most insidious ear worm of all time?

View Answers
"It's a small world after all"
6(46.2%)
"American Pie"
1(7.7%)
"Ode to Joy," Beethoven's 9th
0(0.0%)
"This is the song that never ends... It just goes on and on, my friends..."
0(0.0%)
"Mah-na, Mah-na"
2(15.4%)
"O mio babbino caro"
0(0.0%)
"Kung-Fu Fighting"
0(0.0%)
The hamster dance video/song on the internet...dic a dee da dee da do do
0(0.0%)
"Brandi, you're a fine girl"
0(0.0%)
George Bush's "I'm the decider"
0(0.0%)
Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
0(0.0%)
The Captain Morgan Parrot Bay rum theme
0(0.0%)
George Bush's "I get to slice the pig"
0(0.0%)
The Neverending Party theme
0(0.0%)
"I'd like to take you down to Tick-y-town"
0(0.0%)

Comments

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Believe me, there is nothing, but NOTHING to touch "Speed the Plough". A couple of years ago it took two weeks to get out of my head and a further week for it to get out of everybody else's in the office. As a counter measure "my friend the medievalist" produced these words for it:

Chorus:
There's that bloody tune again, that tune again, that tune again,
It gets in your head and it won't get out (twice)

1. Mind your backs now, here come the dancers,
Waving their hankies and prancing about:
Don't try to stop them, they'll do another one,
They've got in the middle and they won't get out.

Chorus

2. Three box players stuck in a corner,
Beer going stale and their fags gone out;
Don't try to hush them, nothing will shush them -
They've got in a tune and they won't get out.

Chorus

3. All folk tunes are really the same tune -
It gets in your head and it won't get out -
All musicians, all Morris dancers:
They get in the pub and they won't get out!

[pjthompson]

I'll be sure to include it next time I do a poll like this. :-)

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps put a button for "other"?

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Karma Chameleon.

::wins::

[pjthompson]

Definitely.

[nycshelly.livejournal.com]

American Pie as an ear worm? No way.

But the worst for me is a commercial that mercifully I haven't heard in many moons: the Peet Freens cookies radio jingle.

[pjthompson]

Ooo. Never heard that one, and it's probably a good thing. As it is I drive everyone in my Cubicleville nuts with the Captain Morgan tune. :*)