Did you every get stuck with a tune that plays over and over, day and night? It isn’t “I’ve Got It Bad, and That Ain’t Good”, but it might as well be. I live in Indiana, so naturally the tune is “Hoosier Rag”, a tune which I had never heard before hearing it on a CD that I checked from the library. Now the tune seems to have taken up residence in my head. Here it is: Hoosier Rag
Am I the only one who has this problem, or is it common?
I think we discussed this subject previously and pretty thoroughly. I don’t know why this particular tune should affect you this way, as it doesn’t seem particularly memorable to me, but that’s just me. Perhaps you have a predeliction for ragtime (?).
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djm
When I hear all of those notes coming in on the off-beat, I want to clap my hands in joy.
During a year spent in Terre Haute (French phrase meaning “out in the middle of nowhere…”), I rented a beautiful old upright and went on a ragtime tear, even finding an original copy of this rag and several books that contained others by Niebergall and other women composers of the area.
If you think this one is hard to shake, stay away from Frog Legs Rag!
(For me, it’s much more the second half of Joplin’s Solace.)
I’ve got Aretha Franklin singing Don’t Play That Song going through my head tonight. Spent too much time at YouTube last night apparently.
Thanks, djm, for the link to the previous posts on the same topic. As time goes by on the C & F forums, there is bound to be a lot of repetition. But that is not necessarily problematic. Perhaps more than anyone else, Mozart showed that repetition can be good. Each time a similar topic is revived, new ideas will emerge.
I’ve been playing Sally Garden (reel) and Reconciliation reel in my head for days. And I can’t even play Reconciliation on the whistle yet.
Wait, there they go again.
Sorry, Doug, I didn’t mean to imply we can’t discuss a topic again, only that there was a lot of ground covered the last time. Do please continue with ragtime. At least its better than Barry Manhole’s jingle for Band-Aids:
I am stuck on Band-Aids
Cuz Band-Aids stuck on me.
I am stuck on Band-Aids
Cuz Band-Aids stuck on me.
Cuz they hold on tight in the bathtub
And they cling in soapy suds.
I am stuck on Band-Aids
Cuz Band-Aids stuck on me.
I believe its his only song that actually made him any money, but that’s understandable. 
djm
Click this link to get those tunes out of your head. It will work, I guarantee. Turn your sound up, and for maximum effectiveness, close your eyes.
Nope, Now I just have a hybrid of it and the oompa loompa song in my head.
As a side note, I wonder if deaf people have a similar phenomena? Many things that are in the speech center of the cross over to ASL.
From what I’ve read, musicians are more susceptible. That counts me out. 
djm
Okay, now it’s the song from Rescue Me–‘C’mon, c’mon’ by the Von Bondies.
“off-beat” as in up beat?
Doug, did ever go to Square Dances as a child?
I’ve been told (by a teacher who grew up in Ind. btw) that the way they used to play the SD music was with less emphasis on the down beat and more emphasis on the up beat.
Emphasizing the up beat is less tiring for the dancers.
During a recent bout with insomnia, I found myself trying to be lulled to sleep with upper channel tv. I ended up on the 70s Music Explosion infomercial from Time/Life. I ended up with three or four earworms for days, including "Billy, Don’t be a Hero_ and “that’s the night that the lights went out in Georgia” and so forth.
There is something about 70s music that is more earwormy than other decades. Maybe its my age, I dunno…
No, I never went to square dances as a young person. My parents were homebodies that rarely took us kids anywhere other than to church and school. It wasn’t until I attended college that I became more involved with the music scene. However, as an adult I have done square dancing, contra dancing, international folk dancing, Sufi dancing, etc. As I mentioned before, I especially like dance rhythms that sound non-standard to the Western ear. Folk tunes and dances from the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Brazil are appealing to me. Ragtime or ragged-time has a dotted rhythm where emphasis is placed on what I call an off beat, because it is neither an upbeat or a down beat. Keep in mind though that my major was in geology so I may have this idea all scrambled up.
When Weekender mentioned the word “earworm”, I remember an earlier thread that I started on the same subject. I’m getting as bad as my Uncle Lester who told the same stupid joke over and over again, laughing his heart out each time he told it.
That’s one of the upsides of sticking to non-pop culture. ITM, for example. The earworms aren’t NEARLY as maddening.
Perhaps you are just re-establishing old patterns in your head, so it comes on that much faster (?).
djm
It’s probably a result of all that time you spent getting stoned and listening to the Partridge Family.
I realize that was a potentially offensive assertion, so in the event you were more a Cowsills guy, I do apologize.
Q. What will it take to get the Cowsills back together?
A. Three more hurricanes.
Nyuk. I missed the late 70s, pop music wise, completely. I was in music school, practicing away and gettin’ edumacated. I didn’t miss much, apparently.
But no, Cowsills and Partridges not my thing. THey mighta been 60s…