I’m often visited by earworms. It’s a chronic thing. Songs from across my lifetime drop by in the part of my head where music memories reside, the mental music stream. This often happens in the morning, giving that realm the name, morning mental music stream.
These songs don’t just drop in and depart. They’re normally on a tour that lasts several days. Well, I recently shared a song as my day’s theme music, “Personal Jesus” by Depeche Mode. After dressing, heading out the door for the coffee shop this morning, I was singing it aloud as it played in the MMMS when I suddenly remembered Mom singing it to me once during a visit home, Mom, with her Doris Day voice.
Oh, that made me laugh. The song came out in 1989. I lived in Germany then, so I think it was when I came back to America in 1991 and visited her that the singing took place. I don’t know how she knew the song, but suspected it was through her daughters or grandchildren.
What a memory.
Michael Seidel, writer 
Oh I love that song—I’d be happy with it as an ear worm considering some of the crap that circulates my brain regularly. Right now it’s some awful new song called Boo Thang. I hate it but it won’t go away!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Lil’ Boo Thang? That your worm? LOL. If it is, it’s interesting song to me, with a late seventies/early eighties vibe to the melody, but words from a wholly different direction. Well, enjoy your worm. Cheers
LikeLiked by 1 person
Not that it’s a bad song, but having it in your head non-stop makes me insane!
LikeLiked by 1 person
LOL – I get it, really I do. Cheers
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hi Michael. When the earworms start playing the song, do you remember all the words, or just sections of it. I often have snatches of songs, generally the opening or chorus hit me but I never remember the entire song until I look it up. Hugs. Scottie
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hi Scottie, no, I first remember a snatch. Sometimes I don’t quite identify it at first, which will bug me, so I’ll start pushing myself to remember it. Then the dam breaks and everything flows in. Other times, it does come in whole. I think it depends on when the song was heard and the circumstances surrounding it. Very rarely, I’ll give in and look up a song to remember it. Hugs ‘n cheers
LikeLiked by 1 person