The Earworm Thread

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

All that's going through my head today has been the Brahms Violin Concerto!

[Pulcinella]

All that's going through my head today has been the Brahms Violin Concerto!

Lucky you: I've had the w******d double concerto spinning in mine, despite other music coming out of the speakers (Rorem, Rubbra, Schuman).

[Bryn]

Lucky you: I've had the w******d double concerto spinning in mine, despite other music coming out of the speakers (Rorem, Rubbra, Schuman).

"the w******d double concerto". Would that be the Delius? it can't possibly be the wonderful one by Brahms. (Actually, I am quite fond of the Delius, too).

The Hindemith Cello Concerto of 1940 has been spinning in my head today

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm trying to work out "w******d"!

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm trying to work out "w******d"!

"Anchored" - in a slightly different spelling, perhaps!

[vinteuil]

I'm trying to work out "w******d"!

w*e*c*ed, I 'spect.

( tho' why it needs a*******s I dunno... )



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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Anchored" - in a slightly different spelling, perhaps!

It's the "d" at the end that's puzzling me.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's the "d" at the end that's puzzling me.

I wouldn't put it past Bryn to come up with a neologism!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

w*e*c*ed, I 'spect.

Ahh! That works

Trouble is, the asterisks made me think that a less "well-mannered" epithet was implied!

[Serial_Apologist]

Ahh! That works

Trouble is, the asterisks made me think that a less "well-mannered" epithet was implied!

Can't imagine what one...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Can't imagine what one...

Neither could I - that's why I was puzzled!

[Pulcinella]

Ahh! That works

Trouble is, the asterisks made me think that a less "well-mannered" epithet was implied!

Wretched indeed!

Now, would I be anything less than polite?
I didn't want to cause offence: wretched only to my ears perhaps.

[gradus]

Went to a footie match and they played a horrible version (at deafening level) of John Denver's Country Road. Unfortunately on returning home I listened to the original and now...help!

[Serial_Apologist]

Went to a footie match and they played a horrible version (at deafening level) of John Denver's Country Road. Unfortunately on returning home I listened to the original and now...help!

My advice re unwanted earworms, as said earlier, is to find a piece of Villa-Lobos - any piece - and put it on. Always works for me.

[Pulcinella]

My advice re unwanted earworms, as said earlier, is to find a piece of Villa-Lobos - any piece - and put it on. Always works for me.

But doesn't that become the earworm instead?
Possibly no bad thing, though!