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@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social
2026-07-26 20:40:37

Missing from my #EarwormVortex Bingo Card:
Dire Straits – Money for Nothing (1985)
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (1986)
Both heard driving home from high-school and knew I would hear them so many more times
And of course The Macarena
#ListeningClub

@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social
2026-07-26 19:39:30

Most of the songs on my #EarwormVortex shortlist were things that might only have stuck in MY head
With one riff or section that I couldn’t remember where it came from but couldn’t get out of my head until I tracked it down
I ended up winnowing it down to a couple where the whole song was really obsessively catchy
You haven’t heard the next one which I actually really lik…

@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social
2026-07-26 19:19:19

Oh this is mine!
Sorry 🫣 🦈
#EarwormVortex
#ListeningClub

@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social
2026-07-26 20:29:32

Missing from some of these is the millions of other people being subjected to the song repeatedly from all directions that earned them their place in the #EarwormVortex
Heard on their own for the first time some of them seem kind of innocuous
That’s how they evaded people’s immune systems originally
I just thought of two more though that the first time I heard them, I kne…