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Jeebo

(2,284 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 02:55 PM Jun 2020

Battling ear worms...

There's a local accounting company that runs television ads with a jingle that keeps getting stuck in my head and driving me NUTS! I'm already crazy enough as it is, so I always frantically reach for the remote and the mute button whenever that ad comes on. Which is often.

And often I don't hit the mute button fast enough. This morning I woke up with that maddening advertising jingle bouncing around inside my head. Please, God, MAKE IT STOP!

Well, because God wasn't making it stop, I turned on my computer, found a You Tube recording of Sibelius' "The Swan of Tuonela", and listened to it -- not once, not twice, but FIVE times straight.

It worked! And what a pleasant way to solve that problem. I've always loved that piece. There's something haunting and fascinating and utterly captivating about it.

-- Ron

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Battling ear worms... (Original Post) Jeebo Jun 2020 OP
I need to try something like that. murielm99 Jun 2020 #1
It's a Small World After All.... Thunderbeast Jun 2020 #2
Interesting - and I'm totally not familiar with that piece ------- MyOwnPeace Jun 2020 #3

murielm99

(31,448 posts)
1. I need to try something like that.
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 03:25 PM
Jun 2020

I rewatched "Goldfinger" the other night and had that theme stuck in my head. Then, I watched a couple of "Lone Rangers." Now I am stuck with the William Tell Overture.

MyOwnPeace

(17,278 posts)
3. Interesting - and I'm totally not familiar with that piece -------
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 03:40 PM
Jun 2020

Thanks!

I'm battling my way through Beethoven 7, 2nd movement.



Came up yesterday on my I-pod in the car and now.............. well, you know how THAT goes!
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