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A friend once told me the the cure for this: hum the introduction to Led Zeppelin's Kashmir inside your head. Gets rid of anything :)

• mojuba 16y ago
  ... and in case Kashmir gets stuck in your head, use a metacure such as Bach's intro for Johannus Passion :) Seriously though, I think we use music to reconstruct emotions, mostly (but not necessarily) positive ones. In fact we use every possibility to reconstruct emotions, e.g. scents, views, someone's voice, but music seems to be the simplest "hook" that works on its own, without the help of external stimulus, like with scents for example.
• jerf 16y ago
  In all seriousness, I have had good success with this technique. Remember what song was an earworm for you before (call this earworm A), then when you get earworm B stuck in your head, start deliberately hummming A. A will often displace B, but it's still worn out and it'll go away again pretty quickly, leaving nothing behind. Two applications may be necessary. I used to have a near continuous soundtrack to my life (though fortunately it was never that annoying to me) and this got it under control.