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drcello
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(5/4/01 6:03:34 am)
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Stop
the music!!!
I have this problem of music
continuing to play in my head for hours and more after rehearsals
and concerts. I bet some of you have the same problem. How do you
stop the music?
Marshall C. St. John
drcello@vei.net
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JanJan2
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(5/4/01 7:12:21 am)
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Stop the music!!!
It only stops when I go to sleep.
The worst is when (as a vocalist) I've bee rehearsing G & S
chorus parts!
Janet
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 Steve
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(5/4/01 9:44:42 am)
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I can't stop it. The only remedy is
to play something else in your head. I've got an awful lot of kids
music running through my head these days...
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bridge
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(5/4/01 9:51:10 am)
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I find myself singing "Teletubies"
in the shower.
My wife is REALLY bad about this. She used to
share an office with someone. When he didn't like the song she was
singing or humming, he would sing/hum a few bars of something better
and that would get stuck in here head instead!
Sometimes,
just for fun, I sing a really cheesy '70's song just to get it stuck
in here head. Tee Hee. Think "Shadow Dancing".
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Tracie
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(5/4/01 10:02:26 am)
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I was unable to read books for a
long time because of this! (strange, huh?) Every time I would try to
concentrate on a book or some other thing, a piece of music would be
going in my head and I'd think "Oooh, Brahms!" and go off listening
to the symphony in my head instead. Kind of cool, yet not very
practical.
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cyn38
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(5/4/01 3:34:59 pm)
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The music doesn't stop for me. I
have music playing in my head 24/7 around the clock, even when I
sleep. It's been this way as long as I can remember. Sometimes I
have more than one piece playing, as if running simultaneously on
two separate tracks. And yes, it does get a little
noisy!
I'ts also very soothing. I've learned to live in
harmony with it and take comfort in knowing that I always have a
melody with me. I'm glad to see this thread, because I've felt
rather alone in this musical phenomenon, and knowing it happens to
others makes me not feel quite so strange.
As far as chasing
out tunes that linger and begin to drive you crazy....the thing that
works best for me is to put on some other music that gets me back to
a relaxed state, and for me that's usually something from the
Baroque period. It's great background music and very compatible with
the day to day living of life.
I'll also have to agree with
Bridge in saying that there are some songs you can start singing and
never get out..."It's a small world", and "Follow the Yellow Brick
Road" are just two of the annoying songs that can drive you batty. I
have 'friends' who start singing a bar or two of that just to annoy
me and get it stuck. (Hope I didn't just plant some subliminal
message that gets these songs going in your mind
now...)
Lastly, it's more than a little ironic that one of my
favorite pieces of music I use to chase out tunes on permanent
'repeat' is the beautiful song, "How Can I Keep From Singing?"
Ha!
--cyn
cynsymphony@aol.com
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MaryK
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(5/4/01 8:11:11 pm)
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I just let it play and play and
play, 'til it peters out of its own accord.
Anybody listen to
"This American Life?" Remember David Sederius (sp) doing the Oscar
Meyer song a la Billie Holiday in last week's episode?? That's
what's been going thru my head the past few
days...
MaryK
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Laura
Wichers
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(5/6/01 9:41:29 am)
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Stop the music!!!
I've spent the last week arranging
Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" for string quartet. That opening
riff has been going through my head around the clock!!!
AAAAAaaaaargh!!!
G Bb C... G Bb C# C... G Bb C, Bb G. Make it
stop!!! Make it stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, and if anyone is
familiar with the lyrics of this song, what is a "funky
Claude"?
Laura
Edited by: Laura
Wichers at: 5/6/01 9:41:29 am
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Steve
Drake
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(5/4/01 11:33:57 pm)
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Try "Raindrops Keep Falling on my
Head". One of my recent candidates. I played it in some concert
recently, and it's stuck.
"Smoke on the Water" has tons of
inside references that don't make much sense unless you're a big fan
of the group. If you get the original LP, with the gatefold, you
might find a clue in the tiny pictures within...
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pnorris
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(5/4/01 11:56:44 pm)
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I am glad to hear that others go
through this as well. Whats funny is months after doing a musical,
some dorky dance tune from the show will plant itself in my head for
days. Last summer it was "The King and I." I was hearing those songs
for months. It seems like the more inane the song/dance the longer
it stayed with me.
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zambocello
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(5/5/01 2:26:27 am)
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These kinds of mental tape loops can
only be replaced by one more insipid, it seems. By the end of the
day I'm humming Beach Boys tunes.
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bridge
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(5/5/01 7:23:18 pm)
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The groupn is Deep Purple. The
Hendrix song is Purple Haze. I don't know about a "funky Claude".
I'll ask around.
The whole thing about "Frank Zappa and the
Mothers" and "Someone with a flare gun burnt the place to the
ground" are all things that happened. I forget the
particulars.
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Laura
Wichers
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(5/6/01 9:41:12 am)
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Whoops. I'd been listening to
Hendrix while I was typing that post.
Laura
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