Songs that get stuck in your head...

I fight fire with fire. There are some good songs I just have to think of for a second, and any not-quite-as-catchy song that's been bugging my brain is gone.

Billy Joel's Uptown Girl usually works against everything. Unless, of course, you don't like Billy Joel and the song stuck in your head is Uptown Girl.

In which case I apologize. I know just mentioning that one can haunt an unsuspecting mind for days.

But try to get "Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy" out of your mind...

When it happens to me I usally have to hear Robin Thompson's Sweet Virginia Breeze to clear my mind. I almost miss living in Richmond, one of the lite rock stations used to start the morning show with that song. Of course, that meant being awake at 6:00 a.m.

Childrens tv shows have particularly insidious themes.

I've had 3rd and Bird in my head today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENSkeE26_VU

But it's been usurped by "yommy Yummy Yummy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFfmrLl-BPw

This song was stuck in everybody's heads when it came out.

Warning! The song I'm going to mention is insidious and hellish and will haunt you for days. You've been warned...'Ma na ma na, doo doo doo-doo-doo, ma na ma na doo doo doo doo...'

The only songs that ever get stuck in my head are ones I hear on the radio either in the car or at the shops.

Apparently, if it's on my playlist, it doesn't get stuck in my head. *shrug*

To get a song out of my head, I usually just wait till I'm able to hear another song. Any song will do, so long as I hear the whole thing.