The thought may conjure up mental images of those nasty ear-bugs in Wrath of Khan, and it wouldn't be too inaccurate.

 

EARWORMS.  Those annoying songs that get stuck in your head that you just can't seem to shake.  Sometimes mine are songs from primary or from sacrament meeting hymns or just plain church-y songs that people sang for special numbers.

 

I remember someone once said that the best way to avoid temptation or to calm oneself was to sing a hymn in one's heart or hum it aloud.  I used to try that whenever I'd get "dirty" impulses (and often afterward, too, when I was wracked with guilt for my evil misdeeds).  So getting earwormed by Mormon songs kinda has a very dark connotation for me.

 

Do you guys still get that?  How do you deal with it?  Does it bother you at all?  And what is your least-favorite Mormon earworm?

LOL. Occasionally but not so much anymore. I've been out too long. I don't want to think about it enough to come up with a "worst" 'cause I might get stuck with it. It's bad enough the Henry the 8th keeps coming back to haunt me.

I still get "put your shoulder to the wheel" (is that the title or just the chorus?) in my head from time to time, I think it may have been a ward favourite or something.

 

I never did the "song to prevent temptation" thing otherwise I would have been singing that song every morning

Since i never hear them anymore they pretty much fade out of my mind. My least favorites would be any like "Praise to the Man" that idolized Joseph smith.

"The Iron Rod is the word of God...." (Makes me laugh...)

JustThinkin:
LOL. Occasionally but not so much anymore. I've been out too long. I don't want to think about it enough to come up with a "worst" 'cause I might get stuck with it. It's bad enough the Henry the 8th keeps coming back to haunt me.

 

 ugh thanks JT now I have that tune playing in me head.

 

And of course NGS you know I don't know any of those Mormon Earworms! you was asking about cause Is a nevermo.  thank goodness when I was at the post/ex/mo BBQ a week ago here in Edmonton some of the guys started singing some really weird sh*t - apparently from Primary or something, not something I would want to have playing in my head.

TruthR:

JustThinkin:
LOL. Occasionally but not so much anymore. I've been out too long. I don't want to think about it enough to come up with a "worst" 'cause I might get stuck with it. It's bad enough the Henry the 8th keeps coming back to haunt me.

 

 ugh thanks JT now I have that tune playing in me head.

 

And of course NGS you know I don't know any of those Mormon Earworms! you was asking about cause Is a nevermo.  thank goodness when I was at the post/ex/mo BBQ a week ago here in Edmonton some of the guys started singing some really weird sh*t - apparently from Primary or something, not something I would want to have playing in my head.

 

Truth, was this when you abandoned your online B-list friends who were sobbing at the chat room door while you partied with your "real" friends in that country that borders the USA on the north?

"When I grow up,

I want to be a mommy,
And have a family,

one little,two little,three little babies of my own
Of all the jobs, for me I'll choose no other! I'll have a family
Four little,five little,six little babies in my home."

"And I will love them all day long,

and give them cookies and milk and yellow balloons.

And cuddle them when things go wrong,

and read them stories

and sing them special tunes...

"When I grow up, I want to be a mommy... and I will DO anything, and I will BE everything, when I'm a mother..."

StepfordWife:

"When I grow up,

I want to be a mommy,
And have a family,

one little,two little,three little babies of my own
Of all the jobs, for me I'll choose no other! I'll have a family
Four little,five little,six little babies in my home."

"And I will love them all day long,

and give them cookies and milk and yellow balloons.

And cuddle them when things go wrong,

and read them stories

and sing them special tunes...

"When I grow up, I want to be a mommy... and I will DO anything, and I will BE everything, when I'm a mother..."

 

Thank doG I was long out of Primary when that came out.  What utterly nauseating crap.

"Little Purple Pansies trimmed with yellow gold" (No longer in the primary song book...!!! Wonder why???)

jackfitzzzzz:

TruthR:

JustThinkin:
LOL. Occasionally but not so much anymore. I've been out too long. I don't want to think about it enough to come up with a "worst" 'cause I might get stuck with it. It's bad enough the Henry the 8th keeps coming back to haunt me.

 

 ugh thanks JT now I have that tune playing in me head.

 

And of course NGS you know I don't know any of those Mormon Earworms! you was asking about cause Is a nevermo.  thank goodness when I was at the post/ex/mo BBQ a week ago here in Edmonton some of the guys started singing some really weird sh*t - apparently from Primary or something, not something I would want to have playing in my head.

 

Truth, was this when you abandoned your online B-list friends who were sobbing at the chat room door while you partied with your "real" friends in that country that borders the USA on the north?

 

 

NGS, part of me asks 'why oh why' because you brought this up but it's *such* an a propos PostMo topic!

 

Tessa, I didn't know that about that 'pansies' song but I can sure understand why! LOL@ '...the iron rod is the word of God....'

 

Yeah, that 'Shoulder To The Wheel' song has a way of imbedding itself in a very bad way.

 

 Stepford, OMG, I'm so glad I don't know that song. [although I've only been gone about a year and a half or so, I think.]

 

My earworms are usually those peppy, kitschy hymns/songs like:

 

'Welcome Welcome Sabbath Morning'

'Book of Mormon Stories' [I hate hate hate this one]

'Follow The Prophet' 

'Count Your Blessings'

'Scatter Sunshine'

'Have I Done Any Good?'

'Oh How Lovely Was The Morning'

'Praise To The Man'

'Popcorn' [like some LSD-induced hallucination and what a crappy tune]

 

Many of the hymns borrow traditional music aka 'we can't create great music so we steal someone else's.' There is little musical creative ability represented in the LDS music repertoire. I would invite anyone to contradict me!

 

 

 

 

 

DoubleX:

NGS, part of me asks 'why oh why' because you brought this up but it's *such* an a propos PostMo topic!

 

Tessa, I didn't know that about that 'pansies' song but I can sure understand why! LOL@ '...the iron rod is the word of God....'

 

Yeah, that 'Shoulder To The Wheel' song has a way of imbedding itself in a very bad way.

 

 Stepford, OMG, I'm so glad I don't know that song. [although I've only been gone about a year and a half or so, I think.]

 

My earworms are usually those peppy, kitschy hymns/songs like:

 

'Welcome Welcome Sabbath Morning'

'Book of Mormon Stories' [I hate hate hate this one]

'Follow The Prophet' 

'Count Your Blessings'

'Scatter Sunshine'

'Have I Done Any Good?'

'Oh How Lovely Was The Morning'

'Praise To The Man'

'Popcorn' [like some LSD-induced hallucination and what a crappy tune]

 

Many of the hymns borrow traditional music aka 'we can't create great music so we steal someone else's.' There is little musical creative ability represented in the LDS music repertoire. I would invite anyone to contradict me!

 

 

 

 

 

 Sorry the most recent contradictor has been banned.

 

jujukitty:

StepfordWife:

"When I grow up,

I want to be a mommy,
And have a family,

one little,two little,three little babies of my own
Of all the jobs, for me I'll choose no other! I'll have a family
Four little,five little,six little babies in my home."

"And I will love them all day long,

and give them cookies and milk and yellow balloons.

And cuddle them when things go wrong,

and read them stories

and sing them special tunes...

"When I grow up, I want to be a mommy... and I will DO anything, and I will BE everything, when I'm a mother..."

 

Thank doG I was long out of Primary when that came out.  What utterly nauseating crap.

 

 This is from the "Songs for a Mormon Child" album.  It's not a primary song but they were very popular.  i still know most of them by heart.  i also frequently get songs from the "I walk by faith" series stuck in my head... especially "Integrity".

Stepford, oh no! I remember that 'I Walk By Faith' song. I also get 'Within Me' sometimes. And who can forget that horrible 'Not of the World' seminary filmstrip soundtrack...'walkin'...walkin' together...?'

DoubleX:

My earworms are usually those peppy, kitschy hymns/songs like:

 

'Welcome Welcome Sabbath Morning'

'Book of Mormon Stories' [I hate hate hate this one]

'Follow The Prophet' 

'Count Your Blessings'

'Scatter Sunshine'

'Have I Done Any Good?'

'Oh How Lovely Was The Morning'

'Praise To The Man'

'Popcorn' [like some LSD-induced hallucination and what a crappy tune]

 

Same for me.  Others are "We thank thee oh god for a profit," "Did you think to pray," and "I want to be a missionary" (though I never did).

 

Truth be told though, I don't get these stuck in my head much anymore unless someone mentions them... thanks a lot by the way...  

 

If I recall correctly, the suggestion to put a hymn in your head to combat "evil thoughts" was from the pamphlet "For Young Men Only".  This was Boyd KKK Pecker's sure-fire way to avoid thinking about playing with your little factory.  I used to hum (or imagine in my head) various hymns, from "We Thank Thee Oh God for a Prophet" to "Abide With Me," but all it ever did was reinforce the thought that I was too weak to keep my mind off of in the first place.  "Evil" thoughts.  Thoughts of things like Samantha who sat in front of me in math class, for instance... dirty little thoughts...

 

Which leads me to the next part of your post; what do you do when these ear-worms get into your head?  Well, I do what I should have done back then.  I replace them with some tune from the likes of Jimmy Hendrix or Van Halen.  They are much more appropriate for those kinds of thoughts.

Oh yes, the latter question!

 

I too crank up something louder and quite evil:

 

Lately...

 

Slipknot is a good choice.

 

Led Zeppelin.AC/DC. Pink Floyd. Jane's Addiction. Metallica.

 

Ozzy. Disturbed. Breaking Benjamin.

 

3OH!3. Crystal Castles. Shiny Toy Guns.

 

...really, anything with distortion at a very loud volume.

DoubleX:

Oh yes, the latter question!

 

I too crank up something louder and quite evil:

 

Lately...

 

Slipknot is a good choice.

 

Led Zeppelin.AC/DC. Pink Floyd. Jane's Addiction. Metallica.

 

Ozzy. Disturbed. Breaking Benjamin.

 

3OH!3. Crystal Castles. Shiny Toy Guns.

 

...really, anything with distortion at a very loud volume.

 

 I saw them recently at a concert.  Talk about an interesting experience...

 

I had never seen anyone play the drums by hitting them with a strap-on device attached to his nose before...

Interesting responses!  A lot of the listed songs are ones that get into my head a lot, too.  Maybe there's something about them. 

 

At any rate, I did have a song stuck in my head when I started the topic, but I forgot what it was, thanks to the mind-soothe of Cheers.  I love that show.  

 

But I've shot myself in the foot, because coming back to this topic has caused me to get I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus stuck in my head.  AAAAAUGH!

TruthR:

JustThinkin:
LOL. Occasionally but not so much anymore. I've been out too long. I don't want to think about it enough to come up with a "worst" 'cause I might get stuck with it. It's bad enough the Henry the 8th keeps coming back to haunt me.

 

 ugh thanks JT now I have that tune playing in me head.

 

And of course NGS you know I don't know any of those Mormon Earworms! you was asking about cause Is a nevermo.  thank goodness when I was at the post/ex/mo BBQ a week ago here in Edmonton some of the guys started singing some really weird sh*t - apparently from Primary or something, not something I would want to have playing in my head.

 

Glad to be of service, TruthR

 

I'm just laughing here. I'd (thankfully) forgotten some of the songs y'all listed.

 

I've now got Little Purple Pansies stuck in my head, but with pictures of WesManLV's head popping up from a garden plot. Bwahahaha

Draconis, I'm jealous that you saw that concert.

 

And using a strap-on like that...  

 

Makes me think the possibilities really are endless.