At the back of mind all the time I have my own soundtrack playing. The tunes my mind plays are picked totally at random. Could be trad, classical, pop, opera, an advert jingle, whatever. Sometimes if the tune thats popped into my head annoys me, I "overwrite" it by "inserting" an alternative tune and letting that percolate away....
Right now its a trad tune playing, I cant recall the name of it...in 5 mins....who knows!
I presume Im not unique in this repect....am I?!
This is normal for the 0.001% of the population who don't destroy their inner juke box by sticking an eyepod or whatever they're called in you're ears. I find reels work very well at brisk walking pace. But it was Lost Indian that accompanied me on my walk today and he's still with me.
Yes, I find this completely pervasive. But it's difficult to snap out of it when there's something pressing to attend to, like the claims of another human being on your attention or some looming crisis. This gives me Doubts, and an inkling that to be lost in one's own inner labyrinth following skeins of virtual head diddly may not always be entirely a Good Thing.
It happens from the moment wake up in the morning. So much so that I suspect it goes on all night too. A mixture of trad, pop (mainly old stuff - yesterday's was Judy Garland's Good Morning) and classical. Apparently at random.
domnull - that might be the rule, but can you have a rule for breaking rules?! I'm sure you can pepper them just about anywhere except in the right place, as in brus'sel sprout's and golden deliciou's. Not really in the anarchic spirit of the British greengrocer to use them consistently!
I have what you are describing. It is not just a tune in my head it is like listening to an actual performance. Full orchestra, voice, band, whatever. It sounds like the real thing. Really hard to describe, very annoying and something I can't control.
The worst part is I sometimes hear music really, really dislike.
I've been told it's a "neuron" thing the brain does and there is a medical name for it which I don't remember.
Somebody – can’t remember who – once said that when he gets a tune or song stuck in his head, he just starts up The Girl From Ipanema to chase it away. I suspect it was a joke, but I’ve actually done that successfully without subsequently getting stuck on The Girl… Untiil now. Oh, god! Help!
I've spent today with my Passive Mental Jukebox going over and over the bit from Montana from Overnite Sensation by Frank Zappa (1974) where Tina Turner & the Ikettes sing that 'I'm picking the old dental floss etc etc' in the high voices and impossible meters and with marimba parts.
I wish I could change it to something more diddley...
I usually have a few notes of a tune I have been learning within the last week or so that are on a loop, played on the low notes of an organ, or maybe a bass flute type thingy. I think it is my brain trying to make sense of what I have been shoving into it, in the way that dreaming seems to be my brain filing away recent experiences. I really only become aware of it when an external source of music intrudes -- which is all too often these days -- and seems to be going on 24 hours a day somewhere in the background. Its even happening right now. Weird.
I'm really jeolous. It's only when I have time and mental energy to play, listen or think about music that I get this effect. I have to be really relaxed - which I'm not when I have to work at the day job.
By the way does anyone else get different coloured letters 'l' and 'i' when they're typing? I'm not complaining, it's quite pretty - just intrigued.
Only since I moved to a tiny fishing village in Dorset last year where it is VERY quiet most of the time have I realised that I have tinnitus. So THAT is my internal soundtrack thanks to playing in bands for 30 years and genetic deficiencies.
I pretend it is either Stockhausen or Bjork but that doesn't seem to make it any more acceptable.
I have the soundtrack most of the time, though I often don't notice it... these days it mostly plays some of the tunes I've been working on recently (or the tunes I probably will learn next), round and round. If I have a moment to myself, I may tune in and mess about with some variations or tune transitions before letting it fade back into the background. Before I started to play trad, I got earworms all the time, random and sometimes annoying stuff - I'm very happy with the change.
Antiknhtr This is not an annoyance, If you can really hear whole compositions with harmonies and percussion you should learn to write it down, and maybe create your own music, straight from the head, like Mozart.
Internal soundtrack
Internal soundtrack
At the back of mind all the time I have my own soundtrack playing. The tunes my mind plays are picked totally at random. Could be trad, classical, pop, opera, an advert jingle, whatever. Sometimes if the tune thats popped into my head annoys me, I "overwrite" it by "inserting" an alternative tune and letting that percolate away....
Right now its a trad tune playing, I cant recall the name of it...in 5 mins....who knows!
I presume Im not unique in this repect....am I?!
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by BanjoBongo
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This is normal for the 0.001% of the population who don't destroy their inner juke box by sticking an eyepod or whatever they're called in you're ears. I find reels work very well at brisk walking pace. But it was Lost Indian that accompanied me on my walk today and he's still with me.
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by RichardB
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Ooops, sorry about the greengrocer's apostrophe in the above
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by RichardB
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Don't worry Bongo .. I'd say that's fairly normal for most of the people who visit here and we're all normal, aren't we ..???
What is annoying is when something gets stuck and no matter how hard you try to shift it, your mind keeps jumping back into the groove.
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by the wounded hussar
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Yes, I find this completely pervasive. But it's difficult to snap out of it when there's something pressing to attend to, like the claims of another human being on your attention or some looming crisis. This gives me Doubts, and an inkling that to be lost in one's own inner labyrinth following skeins of virtual head diddly may not always be entirely a Good Thing.
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by nicholas
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Ya i do that all the time mostly trad these days
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by FergalOH
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It happens from the moment wake up in the morning. So much so that I suspect it goes on all night too. A mixture of trad, pop (mainly old stuff - yesterday's was Judy Garland's Good Morning) and classical. Apparently at random.
I do the "over-writing" thing as well ...
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by ethical blend
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... from the moment *I* wake up ...
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by ethical blend
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The music in my head drowns out the voices....
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by shanty
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The Greengrocers Apostrophe...thank goodness. I love that tune. Can't get it out of my head.
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
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Richard - I thought a greengrocer's apostrophe was its (sic) insertion immediately before an "s" in a plural e.g. " apple's "
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by domnull
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"The music in my head drowns out the voices...."
Entirely appropriate session etiquette; no problem.
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
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domnull - that might be the rule, but can you have a rule for breaking rules?! I'm sure you can pepper them just about anywhere except in the right place, as in brus'sel sprout's and golden deliciou's. Not really in the anarchic spirit of the British greengrocer to use them consistently!
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by RichardB
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I have what you are describing. It is not just a tune in my head it is like listening to an actual performance. Full orchestra, voice, band, whatever. It sounds like the real thing. Really hard to describe, very annoying and something I can't control.
The worst part is I sometimes hear music really, really dislike.
I've been told it's a "neuron" thing the brain does and there is a medical name for it which I don't remember.
Mary
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by Antikhntr
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Somebody – can’t remember who – once said that when he gets a tune or song stuck in his head, he just starts up The Girl From Ipanema to chase it away. I suspect it was a joke, but I’ve actually done that successfully without subsequently getting stuck on The Girl… Untiil now. Oh, god! Help!
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by Bob himself
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I've spent today with my Passive Mental Jukebox going over and over the bit from Montana from Overnite Sensation by Frank Zappa (1974) where Tina Turner & the Ikettes sing that 'I'm picking the old dental floss etc etc' in the high voices and impossible meters and with marimba parts.
I wish I could change it to something more diddley...
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by yhaalhouse
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I usually have a few notes of a tune I have been learning within the last week or so that are on a loop, played on the low notes of an organ, or maybe a bass flute type thingy. I think it is my brain trying to make sense of what I have been shoving into it, in the way that dreaming seems to be my brain filing away recent experiences. I really only become aware of it when an external source of music intrudes -- which is all too often these days -- and seems to be going on 24 hours a day somewhere in the background. Its even happening right now. Weird.
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by gam
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I'm really jeolous. It's only when I have time and mental energy to play, listen or think about music that I get this effect. I have to be really relaxed - which I'm not when I have to work at the day job.
By the way does anyone else get different coloured letters 'l' and 'i' when they're typing? I'm not complaining, it's quite pretty - just intrigued.
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by eiluned
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Another song to chase the tunes out of the head - "I'm 'Enery the Eighth I Am". Works like a charm.
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by vonnieestes
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Only since I moved to a tiny fishing village in Dorset last year where it is VERY quiet most of the time have I realised that I have tinnitus. So THAT is my internal soundtrack thanks to playing in bands for 30 years and genetic deficiencies.
I pretend it is either Stockhausen or Bjork but that doesn't seem to make it any more acceptable.
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by Geoff Pollitt
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I get amused when all the tunes/songs start playing at once like some giant orchestral crash. That way my tinitus never bothers me.
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by Gone to work
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I have the soundtrack most of the time, though I often don't notice it... these days it mostly plays some of the tunes I've been working on recently (or the tunes I probably will learn next), round and round. If I have a moment to myself, I may tune in and mess about with some variations or tune transitions before letting it fade back into the background. Before I started to play trad, I got earworms all the time, random and sometimes annoying stuff - I'm very happy with the change.
# Posted on February 26th 2010 by fuzzygreen
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Antiknhtr This is not an annoyance, If you can really hear whole compositions with harmonies and percussion you should learn to write it down, and maybe create your own music, straight from the head, like Mozart.
# Posted on February 27th 2010 by Earl Cameron
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BanjoBongo, do you have downloads available somewhere?
# Posted on February 27th 2010 by All Moldy
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Great! Now I'm going to sleep with Girl From Ipanema in my head!
# Posted on February 27th 2010 by wolfhul