Whether you call them âearworms,â âbrainwormsâ or âsuper-catchy-songy-thingsâ–getting a song stuck in your head can be worse than not having a proper third example of what youâre writing about.
On the flipside of that, getting a particularly good song stuck in your head can be one of the best things ever. An estimated 98% of us experience âSong Stuck Syndrome,â and despite the annoying times that we canât get a chorus or a hook of an overplayed pop song out of our heads, a really good earworm can can get us through a tough day at work, through mundane chores, or even help us kick ass at the gym.
We here at Nerdist.com are dead-set on bringing you those types of songs, if only for the weekend. Weâll be scouring the internet for the best earworms we can shove into your meaty brains!
Todayâs earworm is brought to us by musician and YouTuber Pogo, Hailing from Perth, Australia.
Nick Bertke, âPogoâ if youâre nasty, has four full length albums and eight EPs but where he really shines is in his YouTube remixes where he samples from movies, video games and TV to create original songs.
This earworm specifically, sampling from the cult British show The Mighty Boosh, is âNicey Niceyâ
Where Pogo particularly excels is his ability to build such earwormy goodness from such a wide range of samples from so many episodes of The Mighty Boosh. Fans of the show will recognize clips from all over their different seasons and yet Pogo is able to construct an incredibly catchy and and cohesive song. It also certainly helps that The Mighty Boosh was, to begin with, a very musical show.
Thereâs no doubt weâd want to feature Pogo dozens of times and we very well might. However, for now, if âNicey Niceyâ doesn’t do it for you, hereâs another one of our favorites from Pogo using samples from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Whatâs an earworm you love? How about one you can’t stand? Suggest one in the comments or attack me (@TheBlakeRodgers) with some earworms on twitter.