The Vine: April 24, 2009
Dear Sars,
My husband is driving me crazy. He’s trying to remember a song he heard, oh, maybe five or 10 years ago, about the world ending (and no, it isn’t REM’s “End of the World As We Know It”). So now he’s got me wracking my brains, because I think I know the song he’s trying to remember, and I can’t remember it either. Stupid song.
It had lyrics about the sun setting, something about rowing, swimming, or wading in the ocean, looking back at the shoreline, and watching the world burn or go up in flames or something like that.
I know it’s not much to go on, but we’re hoping that your vast readership might be able to help us figure out what this stupid song is, so I can to back to listening to Blossom Dearie in peace.
I Feel Fine
Dear Fine,
I assume you’ve already tried various strings of lyrics on Google to see if anything jogs his memory, but you never know when a TN reader is going to have just the thing on her iPod.
Readers?
Tags: Ask The Readers popcult
The “get the hell outta my head” song that always works for me is “Mexican Radio” by Wall of VooDoo.
Of course, my earworms don’t get stuck long; they have to do battle with They Might Be Giants and the Animaniacs for room inside my head – usually, the Warner Sibs win….
I love this thread :)
@Liz in Minneapolis & @Lauren: if you’re a broken social scene fan, you’ll know that in the liner notes for “it’s all gonna break” k drew writes “make sure ghosts doesn’t sound like goats.” the line in the song is “why are you always fucking ghosts?”
…which i always heard as “why are you always fucking girls?” probably because my boyfriend convinced me k drew was gay. but not goats. :)
Earworm cure: Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega.
The part where she’s “Doot-doot” ing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Bo42BNoow
I heard a good tip to clear the head: sing “Amazing Grace” to the tune of the theme from Gilligan’s Island. And it’s fun to try it.
Sarah of the Midwest:
I have to disagree, sadly. I’ve had Tom’s Diner stuck in my head for weeks on end, and it’s exactly the bit where she’s going “doot doot doodoot”… over and over and over and over….
My go-to is “Fidelity Feduciary Bank” from Mary Poppins. Don’t know why, but three or four lines in, and my earworms disappear and FFB goes with it.
Battle of the Earworm Killers! In this cornah…
I use the Flintstones theme song – it’s a short tune & I know all the words. My brain just says “Oh no, not that shit again” and shuts up, (until I hear some other music, then THAT’s stuck in my head.)
When I get someone’s voicemail I’m apt to sing one “Menomena” and hang up. It’s delightful, you should do it too. Heh.
Kylie, ‘I should be so lucky’, kills 99% of all known earworms (and then becomes one AAAARGH!)
My worst-ever earworm is Quuue seRA seRaaaa seRaaa…
Hope I passed it on to somebody;-)