** SOME NOTES ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE OF KEEPING SUCH A DIARY Smartphones make this possible. Not just as a useful recording device: I could do that just as easily with a pad and pencil. But more often than not, the earworm does not present at the beginning of the song,...
No particular song stood out this month, but an album did: Sloan started listening to Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom Live At Pearl’s, and many of those songs took up residence in my head. For those not there at the time: Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom was a short-lived but...
This month Suzanne Vega and The (English) Beat vied for top spot in The Played CD That Earwormed The Most category, but other than that, it was business as usual....
One of the things about my new chronic migraine presentation, it definitely seems to amp up the volume on earworms, and makes specific songs more sticky. Case in point: I pulled out a favorite album of mine from the 90s, Martinis & Bikinis by Sam Philips, and for...
It was a pretty normal time, lots of Frente! because of Sloan’s car CD preferences, and then I put on Moon Safari by French Band AIR, and suddenly my brain was back in 2002....
A pretty normal selection for most of the month, until my chronic migraine brain decided to obsess on two unlikely songs while it was migraining: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash and Here Comes The Rain Again by Eurythmics. Always a surprise, the interactions...
New year, new fun stuff in the Top 20s and Yearly Fun sections. Also, 2024 was interesting in that there was a large jump in the number of recorded earworms, from 944 in 2023 to 1211 in 2024. Not sure the dynamic behind that, it’s possible that moving to...
The Songs From The Distant Past situation continues on the Earworm Chart, with Sloan now listening to the demo and practice recordings of my second garage band Conspiracy Theorists. Again, I’ve been surprised at how well those songs have stood up over the years....
This month’s update is kinda crazy… my kid has started to listen to the CD I recorded back in 1999, and as a result, that particular garage band, named Külip, has skyrocketed to the top of the charts. It’s a funny thing, listening with fresh ears to...
Starting with this updates September 2024, I’m going to try to add notes to each update, in case there are odd, interesting or outlier things happening with the earworms. ...
