Chulla 4,946 Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 Radio 3 presenters sometime mention earworms. These are pieces of music that one keeps hearing in their head. The music is not intentionally summoned but just happens. Likely as not it is a piece of music that one has heard for the first time and been impressed by it. Such an earworm is regularly in my head just lately. It will eventually go away. The music that keeps popping up in my mind is part of what is below. It is from the Love Duet by Wagner from his opera Tristan and Isolde. It's not enough that the finale to Act 3 has the most beautiful piece of music ever composed, it is complemented by this two-and-a-half minute segment. Unfortunately I cannot separate it from the rest of the recording below. The piece in question begins at the time 5.20 and ends at 8.00. Move the time bar to 5.15 and then let it play. The two singers are not performing here - it is an off-stage choir. Old Wagner knew how to tug at the heart strings. If you want to fondly remember someone you have loved and lost, then this is for you. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 Oh, that's a relief, I thought it was going to be about beware parasites! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,613 Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 Or lugworms 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 #2 That's earwigs 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 I do experience this from time to time. Either a short guitar riff or drum sequence, often prompted by a similar riff in a modern track. And it's bleddy annoying when you can't remember what it is from! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 Had me scratching my lugs! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 On a more serious note. Beautiful stuff Chulla, even though opera is not my favourite genre. Hard not to like Wagner. I guess one of my favourite "earworms" is the adagio from Mahler's 5th symphony. Speaking of loved and lost. I find that I cannot listen to this movement of the symphony without a tear or two. Yet one comes back and listens to it time after time. Please take the 11 minutes or so to listen to all of it, I'm sure you will be moved by it even if symphonic music is not you usual favourite. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 Nice one LL. Nice to know there is another sentimental old sod on the forum. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tompa 285 Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 All great stuff, love it 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 Thanks for posting that loppylugs, touched my soul and brought back memories...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 Glad you liked it Smiffy, Chulla, and Tompa. I guess I am somewhat melancholic by nature. You may like some of the brooding works by Sibelius and Bruckner, especially if heavy brass sections turn your crank. :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 860 Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 Didn't 'Eminem' do a better version,'M##### F###### Wagner Rap Dude' or something similarly obnoxious. It's operatic arias that earwig me, I can never remember which operas they come from unless it's my favourite 'Madam Butterfly'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BilboroughShirley 1,120 Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 When I was expecting our son I did not have any strange food cravings. Instead it was a piece of music. The music from the Lloyds bank advert. It would not go away. I asked a friend what the piece was and she said "Wachet Auf" by Bach and she lent me a recording. I played it in the house and in the car. My husband thought it was dreadful! I was hooked and could not get the tune out of my head. Thanks for the term earworm. It describes very well how this music wormed its way into my head. Our son is now a professional musician and loves the works of J S Bach. He plays them very loud on a large church organ. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 Love that post,there's a first..music craving!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted June 16, 2015 Report Share Posted June 16, 2015 Watchet Auf was one of the first pieces of Bach's music that I learned for the organ. It is very catchy, actually means Sleepers Awake. Now working on a much harder version. Bach was a genius. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,328 Posted April 4, 2017 Report Share Posted April 4, 2017 When I wake in the morning I like to lie in bed and listen to the radio for a while and this came on. It is one of those songs that once heard you cannot get out of your head. Any one else got one they would like to share?  Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted April 5, 2017 Report Share Posted April 5, 2017 Phew!!!  1:37 was about as much of that as I could take. Music about like the junk food they are singing? about. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,328 Posted April 5, 2017 Report Share Posted April 5, 2017 What's up Loppy? my brother says its the new anthem for Bulwell 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted April 5, 2017 Report Share Posted April 5, 2017 Well, you could be right there Oz.  Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,328 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Bl**dy Chulla and the Ying Tong Song it's stuck in my head now. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 I've always detested so called 'novelty songs'. Mostly they're musically non existent, and only appeal to people totally devoid of any appreciation of music. It gets ingrained in ones head, and can then cause them to keep repeating themselves whilst in a trance ! For instance, The Birdie Song, Grandad, ...... I can't recall any more, as it's too early for me to get fired up. Oh, and I never liked the Goons. It went way over my head. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,613 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Fly, you forgot Agadoo.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Most days I have music going round in my head,I joke that I have got a juke box in there. There is a great song by ELO ,called "I can't get it out of my head" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,328 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 500 Miles - The Proclaimers   Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,316 Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Bolero by Ravel is one of those pieces that reverberates for hours. I detest it! When it rose to prominence with Torvill & Dean, it nearly drove me potty. It was everywhere! Good old Maurice wrote much better works so why everyone seems to like that one escapes me! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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