Or, spreading the wormy love
You know those songs that just stick with you and won’t get out of your head and eventually you grow to have a very complex relationship with them that is not quite love, not quite hate but very frustrating. You know what I’m talking about.
1. Dream Weaver by Gary Wright
Jonathan Fields mentioned this song on twitter the other day and I was like nooooo, that’s so unfair because I’d JUST gotten this song out of my head after it appeared in a very odd dream I had. I would tell you about the dream but then I’d be that person that bores everyone by telling them their dreams and having to explain who everyone was and what I thought it meant and nobody likes that person. Oh sure, they pretend to but that’s just so they can tell them their own dreams. In any case, the meaning of this dream was “you go on with your bad self” which is what all dreams mean when you get right down to it.
I should like this song more because it was some sort of inside joke between my husband and I when we first started seeing each other but now I can’t remember what the joke was and it makes me feel old.
2. Tiny Dancer by Elton John
Not sure this one belongs in here because I completely and without shame or hesitation admit to having it my regular song rotation, but after I said “nooooo, earworm!” Mr. Fields kindly mentioned that he’d moved on to this song and I realized, yup, this is another one that sticks with you. And then one is always tempted to sing “Hold me closer Tony Danza” even though that would out one as a Friends fan and one is far too intellectual for that sort of thing. But one does it anyway because one is alone in one’s kitchen.
3. Sometimes When We Touch by Dan Hill
My friend, Madame Fabulous mentioned this song the other day. I kind of hate her now. That’s why I’m updating my blog BEFORE I answer her email. That will learn her, learn her good. She’ll try to get me by mentioning Sweet Caroline but I’ll be all like HA! Can’t earworm me that because I did it to myself, my friend, I did it to myself.
4. Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
I want to like Bonnie Tyler, I really do, but I don’t know how much of my life has been squandered because I can’t get this damn song out of my head. The literal version assuaged this somewhat, but I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to get over it. I think she’s probably the queen of all earworms, what with this and the Holding Out for a Hero song and It’s a Heart Ache. Part of my dislike might be because I am jealous that she’s been a more than one over dramatic wind machine video and I have been in none.
5. Fireflies by Owl City
A new song but no less insidious. It makes me feel like I’m getting a head start on my future career as a cranky old biddy.
6. Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkins
This one doesn’t come up much these days but when it does, it’s staying. And you like it at first but after day 3 or 4 it’s more “DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!”
7. Queen of Hearts by Juice Newton
I might be a little unfair here, because it’s not just the incredible catchiness of this song that vexes me so – way back in the late 70s/early 80s, not sure exactly when, Juice Newton was on Solid Gold an inordinate amount of times. I don’t know if she was BFFs with Marilyn McCoo or what, but she was always on. And every single time my dad would say “Hey, did you hear about Juice Newton’s brother? Fig?”
Every single time.
She’s also a semi-repeat earworm offender, she wasn’t the first to record Angel of the Morning, but she’s a big contributing factor to it being an earworm.
You may add your own earworms to the comments although you might make an enemy or two.
