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mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
All this week I've had a verse from Ruff Sqwad's 'Oochie wallie' freestyle -

"I'll get it poppin yeah
Poppin at you
And I'll surely blaze the fire
That will surely burn you
Look! But when you look
There'll be a gun in your view
I'm a clappy nigga on the loose ready to shoot
Oi!"

in my head, my dreams, all over. I know there was an article a while back about songs that could drive people mad, but I'd be interested in what tunes Dissensus people get stuck in their heads, either now or in the past.
 
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martin

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I used to get these runs of insomnia when I was younger, where I'd be up for 4 or 5 days. One of these times I had Billie's "Because We Want To" in my head for what seemed like an eternity. It's pure evil, that song, kid disco hell. Most people think it was just an annoying girl who went on to marry Chris Evans, but every note of it drips darkness to me.

And the 'Minder' theme tune, but I can handle that.
 
Leo

Leo

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um...here it goes :eek:

currently can't shake "jeans on" by david dundas ("when i wake up/in the morning light/i put on my jeans/and i feel allright"!), orginally the jingle for a mid-70s advert for brutus jeans, released as a single and stayed on the uk charts for 13 weeks.

a friend recently burned it from vinyl on a cd mix and it's starting to overtake my life.
 
MankyFiver

MankyFiver

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do you know the way to san jose - dionne warwick, whenever im just waitng for a bus or doing nowt it just pops in, if i ever think about a song to sing when scrubbing the floor its that as well

remember years ago hearing about a guy who was in a car accident and was trapped in his car for something like 5 hours while the firemen cut him out and stuck in his tape player was Fantastic - Wham which just played in a loop the whole time- i believe he cried
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Girlfriend was watching South Park...
I heard this from the other room



Which lead to this



And then this...



I've got this oooh-ooooh-ooh thing totally stuck in my head now for ever as far as I can tell.
 
shiels

shiels

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Human Nature by Michael Jackson has been playing in my head for about two months now like a mental illness. Im starting to hate it because I cant get it out and its so saccarhine and becoming horrible, nauseating. Its obviously a perfect song and I got so into it that I played it about twenty times in one day and now I have this mental illness just going whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy all day
 
shiels

shiels

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The mind latching on to some familiar pattern when in distress like some cohesion stabilising function gone out of whack?
 
shiels

shiels

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The mind does incredible things when exhausted - thrown into states otherwise inaccessible. I only lucid dream when I’m feeling terrible and stressed. Stunning vivid dreams where I have control and can laugh at the scenarios and fuck about and make stuff up
 
shiels

shiels

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luka said:
@woops has talked about how under certain conditions eg delerium tremens he has experieced a level of advanced hallucination that far exceeds what people ususally refer to as imagination a fully fleshed out reality in his case involving a radio station with a smarmy presenter and a full range of perfectly realised composed and arranged pop songs startling in their realistic banality
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shiels

shiels

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This is a great description of the kind of dreams I have when I’m stressed. Pristine detail, real in the sense of being a totally complete and vivid model that I can move about in and has its own logic. Rather than messy and incoherent and surprising as most dreams are
 
shiels

shiels

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Which is pleasurable but also quite scary. Who the fucks in control here and where im I getting this from and how is it this good?
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Delirium terms is apparently your brain catching up on REM sleep when you're awake cos booze stops you dreaming
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Some rando on quora sayeth

A tune stuck in your head is a phenomenon known as perseveration. The frontal cortex has a number of feedback loops that cycle through the basal ganglia. When tired, the inhibitory circuitry in the frontal lobe that control focus (think prevention of a “ooh shiny thing” moment) start to fatigue and regulation of those frontal lobe processes decrease. Unregulated cellular activity can create a positive feedback loop through the basal ganglia creating a thought or in your case, song, to be recurring and uncontrollable until you have some sort of sensory feedback to activate the cortical areas associated with the thought to provide the stimulus the brain was trying to mimic by perseverating the tune in the first place. For example, if you have a song stuck in your head, and you listen to the song, then it is no longer stuck in your head.
 
shiels

shiels

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Corpsey said:
Delirium terms is apparently your brain catching up on REM sleep when you're awake cos booze stops you dreaming
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It’s the nervous system flooding you with all the fear and stimulant hormones that it usually does but because it doesnt have the alcohol to suppress you end up going into Total Fear seeing and hearing rodents and snakes and a radio station with a smarmy presenter and a full range of perfectly realised composed and arranged pop songs startling in their realistic banality
 
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