Phrases that, when you see them, you inexplicably start singing them to the melody of something else (and then will forever be associated with that)

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--Whenever I'm in a convenience store and see Tillamook County Smokers beef jerky, I sing "Tillamook County Smokers" it in my head to the tune of Michael Jackson's "You Wanna Be Starting Something"

--Neurot band US Christmas has a CD on my desk called Eat The Low Dogs which I've spent the better part of a year singing to the tune of Bubba Sparxxx's "Take The Load Off"

uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 30 November 2008 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

shit, i was just thinking about this a couple hours ago. my brother said something that happened to be a song lyric I liked and i started singing it. forget now

k3vin k., Sunday, 30 November 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)

Because of an old "Mary Tyler Moore Show" episode, I am incapable of hearing the name Anna Maria Alberghetti without breaking into "Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi honey..."

My Mom is very good at finding an appropriate song with very little prompting. I stopped testing her after I fed her the word "asparagus" and she sang it to the tune of some old song called "The Pair of Us."

Hideous Lump, Sunday, 30 November 2008 01:54 (seventeen years ago)

Temple Of The Dog: Hunger Strike

I'm doing laundry....doin' lauundraaaaaayyyayayayayaya

kornrulez6969, Sunday, 30 November 2008 02:09 (seventeen years ago)

haha, i do this all the time. must think... a similar phenomenon is when, apparently out of nowhere, you get a melody stuck in your head, and then realize that the lyrics to that song are what you were thinking/talking about.

poortheatre, Sunday, 30 November 2008 02:23 (seventeen years ago)

oh man, this happened to me the other day. for better or worse it was 'dat nigga delmarrrr!' to the melody of 'that girl is poison' by bell biv devoe. i'm sorry ilx

6335, Sunday, 30 November 2008 03:41 (seventeen years ago)

ahahahaha

uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 30 November 2008 05:06 (seventeen years ago)

I think I'm going to be stuck with "I'm doin' laundryyyyy" from now on, thanks...

I'm sure I have tons of these, but can't remember any of them, so I'm glad there's this thread now.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 30 November 2008 21:56 (seventeen years ago)

Two trucking companies who work in the Rock n' Roll touring business always start me singing their names to the tune of Eton Rifles:
'Redburn Trans-fer"
and
"Edwin Shir-ley"

sonofstan, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

"Cheese and crackers" to the tune of "Shaved Women" by Crass. Try it out!

Ivan, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

There was a Charlie Brooker article some time ago in which he said that every time Robert Mugabe was mentioned, his name started going around Brooker's head to the tune of Eleanore Rigby. The same thing has started happening to me since I read the article.

chap, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

zydrunas ilgauskas gets sung to "hakuna matata" in my head
(i can't remember whether i thought it up on my own or not, but google finds some other people doing the same thing)

circles, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:48 (seventeen years ago)

this isn't really the same thing cuz it isn't a phrase i saw, but i just heard it today on the radio, so: whenever i hear "jet" by paul macca and wings i always sing "jet! ooohhhooohoohoohhoo, RALPH NADEEEEEER, JAMES SPADER!"

been doing that for years. i can't even remember what the real words are.

scott seward, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:56 (seventeen years ago)

Fairly often I'll see something that will prompt the melody to "Girlfriend in a Coma" by the Smiths.
For example, I was downtown and there was a midget handing out pamphlets, and I got "Midget with a pamphlet, I know, I know, it's serious..." in my head.

Oddly, I don't even know how the verses to "Girlfriend in a Coma" go. I barely know the song. But it only seems to happen with this song.

jsimp, Monday, 1 December 2008 01:30 (seventeen years ago)

This happens to me all the time. Sometimes I'm not even sure I'm conscious of it.

jaymc, Monday, 1 December 2008 01:32 (seventeen years ago)

To the tune of Tina Turner's "Steamy Windows" : "Skidby Windmill".

Me and Ruth Lorenzo, Rollin' in the Benzo (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 December 2008 01:34 (seventeen years ago)

"The sharif don't like it
Lock the Taskbar
Lock the Taskbar"

adamj, Monday, 1 December 2008 07:19 (seventeen years ago)

thread is everything i wanted it to be and more.

uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 December 2008 07:22 (seventeen years ago)

Lock the taskbar is hilarious and also reminds me of a couple of years ago in school when we were told to use only sans-serif fonts in our drawings. After a pause, my studiomate Casey declares: "SER-IF: don't like it! ROCK the caption."

Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 December 2008 07:51 (seventeen years ago)

The shower in my last house had embossed directions for unscrewing the head:
<-- REMOVE | REFIT -->
ensuring Sepultura's "Refuse/Resist" was always in my head while showering, even for a couple of years after moving out.

..··¨ rush ~°~ push ~°~ ca$h ¨··.. (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 1 December 2008 10:35 (seventeen years ago)

"The sharif don't like it
Lock the Taskbar
Lock the Taskbar"

LOL my bf just told me he does exactly this one too!

Trayce, Monday, 1 December 2008 10:39 (seventeen years ago)

My brain can't keep track of the Cure's "Wild Mood Swings" vs Stabbing Westward's "Violent Mood Swings". And since the Stabbing Westward tune came out before the Cure's album did, at any mention of the second I hear the melody of the first.

NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 1 December 2008 11:12 (seventeen years ago)

I used to make-up the car adverts for a local newspaper. Every week I’d have a complicated ad which would take 3 or 4 hours for a company called ‘Portland Carriage’ - everytime I’d have Frank Sinatra in my head singing it to the tune ‘Love and Marriage’.

Chewshabadoo, Monday, 1 December 2008 13:24 (seventeen years ago)

The car dealership near my parents house - Aylesbury Honda - always gets their name sung to the tune of 'Help me Rhonda'

NickB, Monday, 1 December 2008 13:32 (seventeen years ago)

Chaka, Chaka, Chaka
Chicken & waffles
Chicken & waffles
Chicken & waffles
Chicken & waffles

Chicken & waffles
Let me rock you
Let me rock you
Chicken & waffles
Let me rock you
That's all I wanna do
Chicken & waffles
Let me rock you
Let me rock you
Chicken & waffles
Let me rock you
'Cause I feel for you
Chicken & waffles

Snop Snitchin, Monday, 1 December 2008 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

This could be ILM's highest earworm risk thread yet. My version of "I'm doin' laundryyyyy" when I'm checking tags to split up the colds and warms: "I'll tumble dry ya"

dad a, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:45 (seventeen years ago)

Also stuck in my head, ever since record store coworkers tried to help a customer seeking "that Bob Marley song, Pajamas," leaving them mystified until she sang it for them:

Pajamas
Pajamas
I'm in pajamas with you
Pajamas pajamas pajamas pajamas pajamas pajamas pajamas
And I hope you like pajamas too
Oh-oh-oh

dad a, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:50 (seventeen years ago)

ahahaha

uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 December 2008 16:02 (seventeen years ago)

omg "I'll tumble dry ya" - laundry is never going to be the same!

Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 December 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

"The sharif don't like it
Lock the Taskbar
Lock the Taskbar"

Takes me back to my college days, where, stumblinginto yet another cheap-ass mixer, my friends and I would break out into:

"I forgot my wallet...
Oh fuck, it's a cash bar!
Fuck, it's a cash bar!"

mottdeterre, Monday, 1 December 2008 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

Until recently my local corner shop was called Akbar's, and every time I went there I would sing "Akbar's! I wanna take you to Akbar's!" (to the tune of 'Gay Bar', obviously). I do have loads more of these, but usually don't remember them aside from when I do it.

More annoyingly, I've found that whenever someone says "yes" in a certain manner, I have to finish it with "the rhythm the rebel". It is driving me insane.

emil.y, Monday, 1 December 2008 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

Argh, "yes, the rhythm the rubbish, without a pause I'm taking out the garbage" went through my head for about a decade whenever I did the trash. What is it about chores that makes them such a breeding ground for these singsongs?

dad a, Monday, 1 December 2008 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

Any street name of the form 2 syllable word + avenue gets 'and I'm caught one more time up on duh-duh avenue' sung to it

sonofstan, Monday, 1 December 2008 22:49 (seventeen years ago)

On seeing a chinchilla in a city farm: "Chinchilla! Who got the keys to my bima?"

chap, Monday, 1 December 2008 23:07 (seventeen years ago)

Shih Tzu, that's how we act when we team up.

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 00:05 (seventeen years ago)

(there are probably better ways to fill that in)

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 00:06 (seventeen years ago)

I'm always on the hunt for names and phrases that can be sung to "Camptown Races." My favorite so far is baseball player Yuniesky Betancourt.

Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 02:02 (seventeen years ago)

When they lived in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, my parents used to take advantage of the lower gas prices in the U.S. by driving two miles south across the river to Sault Ste. Marie Michigan and filling up there. And when they passed the appropriate sign... http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/29589361_c80f1d9834.jpg?v=0 ...my dad would usually annoy my mom by singing "Briiidge - to the USA!" Springsteen-style.

Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 09:50 (seventeen years ago)

"Doug" substituted for the word "love":

Can You Feel The Doug Tonight?
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Doug
Doug Will Tear Us Apart
Now That We've Found Doug
etc.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

WHAT

k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:21 (seventeen years ago)

A friend was obsessed with switching out love for lunch: Lunch Will Keep Us Togwether, Lunch Will Tear Us Apart, The Greatest Lunch of All, Stop in the Name of Lunch, When a Man Lunches a Woman....

mottdeterre, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

^^LOL esp. "when a man lunches a woman"

k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:24 (seventeen years ago)

I feel the lunch, baby

mottdeterre, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:24 (seventeen years ago)

then you guys will love this thread

Feel Like Making Lunch

I was hearing "no shakey shakey" to the tune of "push it" after seeing this

http://istor.indyarocks.com/trphotos/NoShakeyShakey1206254587.jpg

Edward III, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:34 (seventeen years ago)

the mayor of my town is named fung and while he campaigned I couldn't stop hearing "everybody vote fung tonight" in my head

thank god the election is over

Edward III, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:39 (seventeen years ago)

I fear we're veering from the question's intent. Nevertheless, I have to add that whenever I hear the John Denver & the Muppets' version of "Deck the Halls," when Scooter sings "See the blazing yule before us," I sing it as "See the blazing UB40."

Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 4 December 2008 07:44 (seventeen years ago)

as i was shutting my work computer down for the day - 'the server shut down' to the tune of 'the final countdown'

6335, Thursday, 4 December 2008 07:54 (seventeen years ago)

There's a call center company called Ruffalo Cody with an office in Athens that I would ride past, inevitably leading me to sing their name to the tune of "Buffalo Soldier."

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 7 December 2008 05:44 (seventeen years ago)

There Will be Blood, sung to the tune of "She Will be Loved"

reggaeton shark (salsa shark), Sunday, 7 December 2008 17:25 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Upon seeing a Ralph Lauren Nautica box unwrapped this morning, I sung in my head, as always:

"Nautica, bloody red eyes go to, Nautica, bloody red eyes go to"

bendy, Friday, 26 December 2008 01:21 (seventeen years ago)

There's a coffee chain here called "Cup o Joe" which I have stuck together with "Poppa Joe" by the Sweet.

Doctor Casino, Monday, 29 December 2008 02:44 (seventeen years ago)

hahaha nautica

stfujan stevens (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 December 2008 07:50 (seventeen years ago)

bendy truly gets the spirit of this thread

stfujan stevens (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 December 2008 07:50 (seventeen years ago)

Run fast as you can.
You can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man.

To the tune of Iron Man. Whenever i see hear anything ginger related.

NotEnough, Monday, 29 December 2008 13:52 (seventeen years ago)

WIth Michael PARKINSOn, liza goddard, and LIonel blaiR

to the tune of happy house by juan Mclean

FrAnKoLoCo, Monday, 29 December 2008 13:55 (seventeen years ago)

"I drowned a girl and I liked it"

Bape Store (some dude), Monday, 29 December 2008 16:02 (seventeen years ago)

Looking at medicines that declare "Pain Reliever / Fever Reducer," I flash on Keith Murray saying "Panty raider / party exciter!" on "Special Delivery."

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 11 January 2009 00:43 (seventeen years ago)

"I could drink a quesadilla, darling
and I would still be on my feet..."

banjoboy, Sunday, 11 January 2009 16:23 (seventeen years ago)

I almost forgot this one, whenever I see Fujiya and Miyagi's name, I sing it to "Kokomo"

Fujiya, Miyagi, oooh i wanna take ya

Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 11 January 2009 17:17 (seventeen years ago)

whenever i read the shampoo & face wash bottles in the shower, i start singing "ex-fo-li-aaa-aation, is makin' me scrape."

ian, Sunday, 11 January 2009 18:05 (seventeen years ago)

burrito = "Amoeba" by the Adolescents - Burr - ee -TO! Burr - ee - TO!

sarahel, Sunday, 11 January 2009 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

and another - 70s artist Blinky Palermo to the tune of "Bitchin' Camaro" by the Dead Milkmen.

sarahel, Sunday, 11 January 2009 22:26 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

Everytime I see a Blu-Ray disc or player, I sing "blu-ray" to the tune of:

Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 17 April 2009 14:48 (sixteen years ago)

if blu-ray technology catches on, I'm screwed!

Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 17 April 2009 14:49 (sixteen years ago)

Congrats Whiney, I am totally going to start doing that in my head now. Man, I haven't heard U-Way in forever.

Actually they were kind of dumb not to license the song!

Doctor Casino, Friday, 17 April 2009 17:44 (sixteen years ago)

('they' meaning the blu-ray people, not the Youngbloodz)

Doctor Casino, Friday, 17 April 2009 17:45 (sixteen years ago)

the mayor of my town is named fung and while he campaigned I couldn't stop hearing "everybody vote fung tonight" in my head

thank god the election is over

― Edward III, Wednesday, December 3, 2008 4:39 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

At one old job we had a regular customer named Wei Ding (we had to pull the customer's charge accounts from the filing cabinet, so people's names were well-known). This guy came in all the time with large, elaborate orders.... and one day right after he left it clicked in my head: "So tired... Tired of Wei Ding..."

Doctor Casino, Friday, 17 April 2009 17:51 (sixteen years ago)

Temple Of The Dog: Hunger Strike

I'm doing laundry....doin' lauundraaaaaayyyayayayayaya

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, November 30, 2008 2:09 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark

this will never leave my head ever

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 17 April 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

Clothes are on the table, the dryer's cookiiiiiiin'

Doctor Casino, Friday, 17 April 2009 18:50 (sixteen years ago)

last night I dreamed about this thread. in my dream I posted that I always hear 'Gilgamesh' to the tune of "Silver Bells". that doesn't actually happen to me, but now I think it probably will.

I'm the head soul brother in the US. Where to now? (bernard snowy), Saturday, 18 April 2009 12:21 (sixteen years ago)

ahhhon mind steelin shirts from the mouth of the dryeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

one thousand BIG HOOS raging and pounding (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 18 April 2009 13:16 (sixteen years ago)

Whenever "Rosemary's Baby" is mentioned I start singing, to the tune of Jackson Browne's "Somebody's Baby," "It's got to be Rosemary's Baby, oh yeah, it's got to be Rosemary's Baby, cause she's so fine...she's gonna be Rosemary's Baby oh yeahhhh"

Like the very nature of these things, it's pretty obnoxious to other ears prob

Cunga, Saturday, 18 April 2009 17:30 (sixteen years ago)

The city of Bangalore = "Albacore" by Palomar.

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 18 April 2009 19:16 (sixteen years ago)

A record store I frequented in my teens had a Papa John Creach poster in the back, which name now and forever sparks a Madonna tune in my head:

Papa John Creach
I'm in trouble deep
...

staggerlee, Sunday, 19 April 2009 14:53 (sixteen years ago)

Surprised Papa John's Pizza hasn't picked it up to promote a deep-dish pie. Put it down with "Blu-Ray!"

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 19 April 2009 15:16 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Our house has several bird nests under the eaves. During the summer months, baby birds will regularly fall out of their nests to meet their demise on the sidewalk below. It sucks a bunch.

Anyway, to the guitar riff from "Baracuda":

Dead, d-d-dead, d-d-dead, d-d-dead, d-d-dead d-d-dead, d-d-dead BA-BY BIRDS!

"Gin And Juice," the baddest groove in years (kingkongvsgodzilla), Saturday, 6 June 2009 11:51 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.whataboutclients.com/archives/Beavis_and_Butt-head.gif

Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 6 June 2009 12:15 (sixteen years ago)

WOah...weird...I was just going to revive this to talk about how shelves of daytime and nighttime cold/flu medicine are fused in my mind with "Daytime Nighttime Suffering" by Wings. Which doesn't really require changing the words at all but it sort of relates.

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 6 June 2009 12:23 (sixteen years ago)

The lyrics to "I've been working on the railroad" nicely fit "fly by night" by rush.

Jake Brown, Saturday, 6 June 2009 13:10 (sixteen years ago)

This one is really bothersome: often when I there's a discussion about the motorik beat (as I just read in regards to the new Lindstrom & Prins Thomas) Night Ranger comes alive in my brain, belting out "YOU'RE MOTORIK"

bendy, Thursday, 11 June 2009 19:49 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

I sing "haters to the left" as "solid as a rock"
I sing "this is why you're fat" (when I'm talking about the blog) as "this is why i'm hot"

musically, Thursday, 3 September 2009 04:57 (sixteen years ago)

I haven't confirmed this, but I strongly suspect they might have been thinking of "This Is Why I'm Hot"...

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:34 (sixteen years ago)

When I worked on the library desk I always used to sing dewey codes to myself to the tune of the bit on the Wu Tang's first album when Method goes "M-E-T-H-O-D maaaaaaaan"; like, I'd sing "7-9-1-.-43 RAH", so I could remember when when retrieving temporary reserve books.

Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:43 (sixteen years ago)

Fairly often I'll see something that will prompt the melody to "Girlfriend in a Coma" by the Smiths.
For example, I was downtown and there was a midget handing out pamphlets, and I got "Midget with a pamphlet, I know, I know, it's serious..." in my head.

Oddly, I don't even know how the verses to "Girlfriend in a Coma" go. I barely know the song. But it only seems to happen with this song.

― jsimp, Monday, 1 December 2008 01:30 (9 months ago) Bookmark

This is one of mine too, but I suspect it comes from seeing a Never Mind The Buzzcocks Christmas special some years ago, that featured Bill Bailey and Rick Wakeman dressed as wizards with point hats and capes singing "Bender in a ski-lift, I know, I know it's serious..."

None of my other ones come to mind at the moment though.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate (aldo), Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:55 (sixteen years ago)

I am on a continuing mission to sing the entirety of Beethoven's 5th using nothing but the phrase "bacon and eggs".

Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 3 September 2009 13:42 (sixteen years ago)

"Lock the taskbar" wins this thread for me

een, Thursday, 3 September 2009 15:03 (sixteen years ago)

Was totally thinking about that one today!

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 September 2009 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

I was in mamroneck a couple weeks ago and couldn't stop singing it to the tune of the manah manah song from the muppets

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 3 September 2009 17:08 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

Whenever my kid puts X-Men: Evolution in the DVD player, I sing Tracy Chapman.

"Don't you know, they're talking 'bout X-Men: Evolution?"

Kylie is a vacant Phifer (kingkongvsgodzilla), Friday, 15 January 2010 20:54 (sixteen years ago)

i'm so glad i finally returned The Night Porter, because every time i would see the netflix envelope i would sing it to REM's "Nightswimming"

also the movie sucks

laverne and shipley (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 January 2010 21:15 (sixteen years ago)

In another thread, someone posted a paragraph by Roger Ebert that ended in "How cool is that?" and my mind immediately went to Rivers singing that song from Weezer's Pinkerton album.

Cunga, Friday, 15 January 2010 22:31 (sixteen years ago)

er, this thread is about something slightly different, something that I do all the time but can't think of any examples of right now.

Cunga, Friday, 15 January 2010 22:35 (sixteen years ago)

There's a convenience store around the corner called "United Foodland" which always triggers Huey Smith & the Clowns' "We Like Birdland."

UUUUU NITE, FOOD LAND!
U-NITE-FOOD-LAND!

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 16 January 2010 02:33 (sixteen years ago)

a (north american) toilet flush always brings the GI Joe theme to mind.... "Gee-Eye..." on the pull, "Joooooee" on release, "a real american hero...." during the drain. hmmmmm

wherewasyou, Saturday, 16 January 2010 06:30 (sixteen years ago)

'Love On A Farmboy's Wages' over 'Love In Elevator'

PaulTMA, Saturday, 16 January 2010 12:16 (sixteen years ago)

An

PaulTMA, Saturday, 16 January 2010 12:16 (sixteen years ago)

All through Avatar references to Eywa triggered Hey Ya.

dad a, Sunday, 17 January 2010 05:19 (sixteen years ago)

hahaha

i ben b bag all by myself (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 17 January 2010 08:23 (sixteen years ago)

lol recently with my nephew Omar - Oma-Oma-ma, gaga ooh la-la...

drives me crazy.

Roz, Sunday, 17 January 2010 08:47 (sixteen years ago)

'Baked beans and grated cheese' to Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)

'virgin' should be 'wizard' (GamalielRatsey), Sunday, 17 January 2010 11:33 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.oswego-illinois.org/images/welcome-to-Oswego.jpg

This town, and a woman named Teresa Rentaria, both crop up anytime my family watches The Wizard of Oz.

Hideous Lump, Monday, 18 January 2010 01:39 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.coffeeicon.com/core_images/store_images/6423.jpg

Roll 'em up and twist 'em up
A high tuck a-haw

antexit, Monday, 18 January 2010 01:47 (sixteen years ago)

cereal first what the fuck

― i ben b bag all by myself (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, January 18, 2010 11:08 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Coca-Cola came and bought it for billions, what the fuck?

dyao, Monday, 18 January 2010 03:10 (sixteen years ago)

....what the fuck?

Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 January 2010 03:30 (sixteen years ago)

to the left, to the left

STILL

لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 18 January 2010 09:45 (sixteen years ago)

I occasionally annoy friends when during a lull in a conversation someone says "so....." and I break out into "a needle pulling thread!"
It doesn't help that almost no one I know has seen the Sound of Music.

Fetchboy, Monday, 18 January 2010 10:13 (sixteen years ago)

When I hear "Love's Train" by ConFunkShun:

Sometimes heart strings can be broken
You've just have to keep on hopin'

I sing:

"Sir Too Short comin' straight from Oakland"

Bobbi Peru, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:50 (sixteen years ago)

I get repeated collection agency calls for one Carlos Molina, despite having actually called and told some people in an office somewhere that I am not Carlos Molina and that I have no idea who he is. Anyway, I have taken to singing (to the tune of "Carlos Dominguez"): Carlos Molina, an unhappy man. . .

_Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:54 (sixteen years ago)

I'm really tempted to tell one of these callers that I killed Carlos Molina, burned his corpse, and buried it on the West Mesa here in Albuquerque, because he wouldn't pay back the money he owed me.

_Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:56 (sixteen years ago)

So I got up and strolled over to the other side of the cantina
I asked the guy, Why you so fly? he said, Funky Carlos Molina

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:59 (sixteen years ago)

Lipps, Inc.

Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Friday, 22 January 2010 18:45 (sixteen years ago)

I realize that when I see those Coin Star vending machines that turn your loose change into cash vouchers I sing Suede's "Film Star" but with, you know, Coin Star.

Cunga, Friday, 22 January 2010 18:48 (sixteen years ago)

juuust the tuomas, we can make it if we trhy-yeee, juuust the tuomas, you and i

dumb mick name follows (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:08 (sixteen years ago)

i just sing all sorts of different things to the tune of eleanor rigby.

open your shart to me (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 24 January 2010 00:27 (sixteen years ago)

Not singing, but, there is an architect named Winka Dubbeldam, and every time I see her last name on anything my brain immediately goes: Lisa needs braces!

Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 January 2010 22:47 (sixteen years ago)

when I see Joe Biden I have to sing "want Joe Biden, need Joe Biden" a la TI's "Whatever You Like"

musically, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 06:22 (sixteen years ago)

Lex you say "STILL" like it's not going to be forever associated for the rest of our lives

26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 06:28 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

Lately when I'm getting ready for work and making sure I've got my keys, wallet, etc. I hear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btkDt0zEGAQ
as "check your pockets"

Fetchboy, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

I still do the Lock the Taskbar one whenever I see it on my screen.

Also sing Papa Don't Preach as "papadums please, I need my curry cheap" (I blame the ex for that one).

Eyjafjallalalalalatrolololol (Trayce), Thursday, 22 April 2010 00:39 (fifteen years ago)

we are the sons of no one
keggers of yore

鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 22 April 2010 01:12 (fifteen years ago)

Some good ones here: Lyrics You Purposefully Liek to Sing Incorrectly

dad a, Thursday, 22 April 2010 03:51 (fifteen years ago)

thanks for ruining a bunch of songs for me guys!

Fellini.Kuti, Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:07 (fifteen years ago)

Came up with a couple of these in med school. The one I remember is from Mary Poppins:

Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis
Even though the sound of it is simply quite atrocious...

The Amy Misto Family Knife (Plasmon), Thursday, 22 April 2010 04:23 (fifteen years ago)

You got the body
Now you want my soul
Don't even think about it
Geir Hongro

dad a, Thursday, 22 April 2010 05:28 (fifteen years ago)

this is normally streets...

Walking Down Ella Street (yes, the kirsty maccoll song about 'ull)
Come back to Cranbrook (/Chestnut/Princes/etc) Avenue

tomofthenest, Thursday, 22 April 2010 07:59 (fifteen years ago)

or even Rock Down To Cranbrook Avenue. I can't even get that part of the song right. To the tune of Eddy Grant anyway. sheesh.

tomofthenest, Thursday, 22 April 2010 08:01 (fifteen years ago)

And I appear to have triangulated my address for the internets. oh well. morning all. yawn.

tomofthenest, Thursday, 22 April 2010 08:01 (fifteen years ago)

I once heard Willie Rushton 0n I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clues sing the words of the 'To Be Or Not To Be' speech to the tune of 'A' Your Adorable and nearly had a hernia laughing.

You Weaked It! (MaresNest), Thursday, 22 April 2010 08:13 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

'cause I live and breathe
this PHILADELPHIA CREAM CHEESE!

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

My children sing "It looks like cheese in another world" to the Libertine's Up the Bracket

Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 21 July 2011 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

the phrase "don't be a dick about it" occasionally enters my head
and it's always to the tune of "don't you forget about me" by Simple minds

kinder, Friday, 22 July 2011 03:42 (fourteen years ago)

the other day i got that "berserker" song from clerks stuck in my head for some reason and after a while it became "GEIRHONGO."

cross ref with "too much time on ilx."

apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 22 July 2011 03:45 (fourteen years ago)

maybe I should've bought a different brand of spaghetti this week. it's hard to follow cooking instructions when you have "yum yum yum yum, Barilla, illa, illa, eh, eh, eh" running through your head on a loop to the tune of the Rihanna song.

why delonge face? (unregistered), Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:06 (fourteen years ago)

When I was about to watch the movie "Fletch" in the theater in 1985, I convinced my little sister that the Kool and the Gang's "Fresh", which was a hit at the time, was actually called "Fletch" and was in fact the theme for the movie we were about to see. So if I see a reference to to Fletch somewhere "He's Fletch...exciting...he's so exciting to me" starts running through my head.

Mark, Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

Whenever I see the phrase "simply (something)-able" I pause for a sec and go all Robert Palmer. You have to pause, though, like in the song.

lost dion/tomita collab (blank), Monday, 23 January 2012 23:17 (fourteen years ago)

My brain has recently taken to (when prompted by evangelical uses of 'JC' etc.) started singing "Me and JC got it locked, crazy" a la Money Ain't a Thang.

Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 23 January 2012 23:29 (fourteen years ago)

oh god, "the doors" hit me at the worst times and i annoy myself even thinking about it
waiting... waiting... waiting... wai-ai-ting

that and almost every person i know has a song permanently attached to them. "jessie's girl" and "hey joe" are by far the worst, and people with those names soon learn to avoid me. if their name is two syllables and i can't think of anything better, the "feelings" chorus usually does the trick

chilli, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 01:00 (fourteen years ago)

for a while there were flyers up around town that read "Cash for Comic Books", which i always heard in my head to the tune of "Flesh for Fantasy"....

m0stlyClean, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 01:40 (fourteen years ago)

I almost forgot this one, whenever I see Fujiya and Miyagi's name, I sing it to "Kokomo"

Fujiya, Miyagi, oooh i wanna take ya

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, January 11, 2009 5:17 PM (3 years ago)

i do this all the time now. thanks thread.

sarahell, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 01:54 (fourteen years ago)

The word "alcoholism" always triggers "There's nothing wrong with alcoholism!" to the tune of Capitalism by Oingo Boingo. Which then usually gets followed up by "There's nothing wrong with drinking some wine."

Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 01:57 (fourteen years ago)

Now when I step up in the place, ayo, I step correct...
U-HAUL! I got you all in check.

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

back at Christmastime, once I replaced "Feliz Navidad" with "Phylicia Rashad," there was no turning back.

andrew m., Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:56 (fourteen years ago)

whenever I'm watching Cheers for some reason I pretend the music that plays when they go to commercial is (to the tune of Elvis Costello's "No Dancing")

There's gonna be
Ted Danson
There's gonna be
Ted Danson
There's gonna be
Ted Danson, when we come back!

frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Friday, 27 January 2012 23:18 (fourteen years ago)

Mon. 1/30-Fujiya & Miyagi/The Frail@The Independent

sarahell, Friday, 27 January 2012 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

The word "hurting". It always, immediately, makes my mind shoot into "Hurting death is not for you I think you should choose life"... thank you jinglesource for forever ruining the word "hurting" for me.

future debts collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 27 January 2012 23:23 (fourteen years ago)

You know that bit in 36 Chambers when Meth comes in and goes "M-E-T-H-O-D maaaaaaan"? I used to use that to memorise Dewey decimal codes of books when I worked in the library. 7-9-1.43 NOR. Still do it.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 28 January 2012 07:41 (fourteen years ago)

Pho restaurant called Pho Supreme brought to mind "a pho supreme.. a pho supreme.. a pho supreme"

lost dion/tomita collab (blank), Sunday, 29 January 2012 02:41 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

whenever I see jamon on a menu I have to sing it like Michael Jackson, "jamon" or "shamone" or "chamone" or whatever it was he sang in Bad.

musically, Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:44 (thirteen years ago)

i bought a bottle of diet mountain dew today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u89_AiQu9BQ

tits or kitfo (get bent), Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:48 (thirteen years ago)

ex-foli-a-a-tion
is makin' me scrape

one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 20 April 2012 14:45 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

"brony, brony, my little pony, brony brony, sha na na na"

to the tune of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjsnkIP4ddo

barman's bar mitz (unregistered), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:00 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I just absent-mindedly sang "DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL" to the tune of "Everybody Dance Now" by C&C Music Factory.

Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Friday, 29 June 2012 11:20 (thirteen years ago)

hahahahahaha

manditory fun. day (Ówen P.), Friday, 29 June 2012 14:30 (thirteen years ago)

Brilliant

owenf, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:44 (thirteen years ago)

whenever I hear "Dashboard" by Modest Mouse I just start barking like a dog, "arf! arf! arf!"

frogbs, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:45 (thirteen years ago)

people named owen approve of devon county-related jokes

manditory fun. day (Ówen P.), Friday, 29 June 2012 14:54 (thirteen years ago)

I used to sing the 'There was an old lady who swallowed a fly' to the tune of the Adams Family theme a LOT when I was a kid.

owenf, Friday, 29 June 2012 15:22 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

when i say oopsie daisy i sing it like "sherry baby"

"ooh-oohp-sie, oopsie DAISY"

you could even do the entire chorus if you were so inclined

musically, Monday, 22 October 2012 17:13 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

browsing tv listings on my computer when all of a sudden in my head:

http://i40.tinypic.com/rmkw0y.png

feel the bass
SCAAOP
talk to em
LOOK
looking for comedy/muslimmmmm
now now now i'm looking for comedy/muslimmmmm

sleepingbag, Monday, 18 November 2013 05:45 (twelve years ago)

Used to have to reference non-domestic rateable values of properties in a past job and in my head it always became
What's the NDRV?
Aren't you Britney
Let's turn this dancefloor into our own little nasty thing

kinder, Monday, 18 November 2013 22:33 (twelve years ago)

hahaha speaking of "property" --

MQC (mid-quarter convention for depreciating property)

I'm down with MQC
Yeah you know me

sarahell, Monday, 18 November 2013 22:37 (twelve years ago)

Hi dere. I can never find this thread when I need it. Now that it was recently revived I can't remember what I wanted to post.

Croupier's Cabin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 November 2013 00:55 (twelve years ago)

"Shock top" beer for whatever reason makes me think "drag you out that bentley coupe and take it to the chop shop" from T.I.'s "what you know".

brimstead, Friday, 22 November 2013 01:22 (twelve years ago)

never gonna top ''i'm doin' laundry'' in terms of impact on my life, but still a great thread

Doctor Casino, Friday, 22 November 2013 02:09 (twelve years ago)

http://youtu.be/6VRNdNIbic4

Black Arkestra, Saturday, 23 November 2013 00:35 (twelve years ago)

billboard advertisement: Freeze your Fat Away as "Fuck the Pain Away" by Peaches

sarahell, Saturday, 23 November 2013 00:39 (twelve years ago)

never gonna top ''i'm doin' laundry'' in terms of impact on my life...

Hahah...I was gonna post that. It never gets old.

kornrulez6969, Saturday, 23 November 2013 02:35 (twelve years ago)

Like everybody else, I am addicted to Candy Crush. And every time I start a new game, In Dreams by Roy Orbison pops into my head.

"A Candy Crushing clown they call the sandman…."

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:29 (twelve years ago)

Korean fried chicken joint Bonchon leads to the following from soul coughing:

Move aside, and let the mango through
You gotta take the elevator to the mezzanine
Chicken Bonchon Chicken Bonchon Chicken Bonchon

lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:50 (twelve years ago)

this is maybe something different but every time I hear "Blurred Lines" all the lyrics from Flynt Flo$$y's "Did I Mention to Dance?" pop into my head. like I'm just singing "This beat is crazy baby, you can't be acting lazy" over and over again

frogbs, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:54 (twelve years ago)

I wore two pairs of gloves on the ride home the other night, and thought of "doublin' up on my gloves, yeah" to "do what you want to my body"

cheeseburger, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:55 (twelve years ago)

Oh word, there's other people who associate "I'm doin' laundry" with "Hunger Strike." That's kind of amazing.

billstevejim, Thursday, 28 November 2013 05:07 (twelve years ago)

A friend of mine used to sing "I got Tide for cleanin' threads" instead of whatever they sing.. "I don't mind stealin' bread."

billstevejim, Thursday, 28 November 2013 05:09 (twelve years ago)

ten months pass...

Empty the Recycle Bin
Same old trip it was back then

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 28 September 2014 18:23 (eleven years ago)

Can never remember the title of this thread when I need it and can't remember why I was looking for it when it is revived.

The "5" Astronomer Royales (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 September 2014 18:33 (eleven years ago)

My avocado don't
My avocado don't
My avocado don't
want none if it's got brown spots, son

sarahell, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 05:31 (eleven years ago)

don't know that soul coughing track so i just read Chicken Bonchon to the tune of Shake Your Bon Bon .......

m0stlyClean, Friday, 3 October 2014 17:51 (eleven years ago)

http://nypress.com/ricky-martin-stole-my-song/

Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 October 2014 18:38 (eleven years ago)

lol:

Hi dere. I can never find this thread when I need it. Now that it was recently revived I can't remember what I wanted to post.

― Croupier's Cabin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:55 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Friday, 3 October 2014 18:53 (eleven years ago)

at work we sell a cheese called "evalon" that i can't not say without going "ooooh-ooooooooh eh-vuh-laawhn"

clouds, Friday, 3 October 2014 19:02 (eleven years ago)

the other day a midget carrying a large trash bag rode by on a bicycle and I thought of this thread and:

midget with a trash bag, I know, I know, it's serious

sarahell, Friday, 3 October 2014 19:12 (eleven years ago)

how often does the phrase "midget with a trash bag" pop up in your life

💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Friday, 3 October 2014 19:15 (eleven years ago)

seeing "sour lean" in the dairy section at the store;

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/ShoulderLean.jpg

every time.

goole, Friday, 3 October 2014 19:18 (eleven years ago)

xp - now that i think of it, i think he was actually a dwarf, but that doesn't scan

sarahell, Friday, 3 October 2014 19:37 (eleven years ago)

though "dwarf with a trash bag" sounds great to "smoke on the water"......

m0stlyClean, Friday, 3 October 2014 19:40 (eleven years ago)

holy shit!

Dwarf with a trash bag
Riding on a bike

sarahell, Friday, 3 October 2014 19:48 (eleven years ago)

Whenever I opt for cayenne in a recipe, Guided by Voices' "Cheyenne" is never far from my mind

Simon H., Friday, 3 October 2014 22:03 (eleven years ago)

A single glimpse of purity
In a flickering light
Cayenne seems right

Simon H., Friday, 3 October 2014 22:04 (eleven years ago)

xxp: holy shit indeed...
now, i am really hoping i one day will see a little person with a garbage bag on a bicycle...
what a strange thing to hope for....

m0stlyClean, Saturday, 4 October 2014 02:35 (eleven years ago)

The album title My Name Is Albert Ayler always makes me start singing

Oh, my name is Albert Ayler,
I hope you like my show
I know you're rootin' for me,
but now I have to SKRONNNNKSREEEEESRIIIERAAARRRK

to the tune of this: http://youtu.be/ESEiJlseLWo

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 4 October 2014 16:55 (eleven years ago)

lol:

_Hi dere. I can never find this thread when I need it. Now that it was recently revived I can't remember what I wanted to post.

― Croupier's Cabin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:55 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink_


Guess I can't even be bothered to read this thread and see my own posts on it so I deserve whatever I get.

You Better Go Ahn (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 October 2014 17:01 (eleven years ago)

Lock the taskbar = rock the casbah

paolo, Sunday, 5 October 2014 17:01 (eleven years ago)

The code to the bins in my black of flats is C1389 which I sing to TVC 15 by Bowie. It's getting to the point where I'm avoiding taking the recycling out because I don't want that stupid earworm.

DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Sunday, 5 October 2014 17:46 (eleven years ago)

I realized just now that besides not remembering the thread title, I do this so often that it is probably not worth posting about.

You Better Go Ahn (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 October 2014 01:06 (eleven years ago)

Of course that's never stopped me before.

You Better Go Ahn (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 October 2014 01:06 (eleven years ago)

Anyway I've committed to memory that this thread's name starts with "Phrases" and it was created by upside-down Whiney so it should be smooth sailing from here on in.

You Better Go Ahn (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 October 2014 01:09 (eleven years ago)

i always sing "The Big Payback" as "It's Vic Tayback!"

the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 October 2014 02:45 (eleven years ago)

Me too! In fact about a week or two ago I posted "Vic Tayback! Revenge!" on Mr. Fine Wine's FB page because I thought we had discussed this years ago on more than one occasion and that he did the same thing, but he claimed ignorance.

You Better Go Ahn (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 October 2014 02:51 (eleven years ago)

huh, i've been doing that more or less since i first heard the song as a kid. I wonder how many of us there are.

the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 October 2014 02:55 (eleven years ago)

I've been doing it for a decade or two, which is maybe since when you were a kid.

Trying to remember who was with me and Mr. FW when we had this discussion so as to triangulate and corroborate.

Seems to me there was sometimes additional discussion about Vic Tayback's appearance on Star Trek TOS.

You Better Go Ahn (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 October 2014 02:59 (eleven years ago)

i've been doing it for three decades so

the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 October 2014 03:03 (eleven years ago)

You win then.

You Better Go Ahn (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 October 2014 03:11 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPxxG31JOCg

You Better Go Ahn (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 October 2014 03:12 (eleven years ago)

I've said this one elsewhere on ILX, but every time I make a curry it's 'Cumin, cumin, cumin, cumin, cumin, cumin... after all'

Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Monday, 6 October 2014 09:21 (eleven years ago)

I almost forgot this one, whenever I see Fujiya and Miyagi's name, I sing it to "Kokomo"

Fujiya, Miyagi, oooh i wanna take ya

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:17 AM (5 years ago)

Guess who's playing in SF tonight, and guess what song is now stuck in my head after the DJ read the entertainment listings for tonight

sarahell, Sunday, 12 October 2014 22:39 (eleven years ago)

http://www.arlingtonglassrepair.com/files/uploads/2012/08/broken_glass-11.jpg

BROKEN GLASS, everywhere!
people pissin' on the stairs
you know they just don't care

clouds, Sunday, 19 October 2014 04:01 (eleven years ago)

Ooh, I remembered one the other day. Every time I get the train through here:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/html/NRE_TBD/images/photos/800/o3208-0020065.jpg

I sing the station name to the tune of 'True Colours'.

emil.y, Sunday, 19 October 2014 14:26 (eleven years ago)

http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_18808.jpg

slicin' up eyeballs, whoahoahoahoa
DEGREASER

clouds, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 04:16 (eleven years ago)

not quite the same but anytime somebody says "these are the only X I know of" I have to restrain myself from singing the tag to lehrer's "the elements" -- "these are the only ones of which the news has come to haaaarvard / and there may be any others but they haven't been discaaaavered."

everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:28 (eleven years ago)

I have kind of the reverse problem - phrases of certain lengths always get stuck in my head to certain tunes. e.g., anything with 7-8 syllables starts reverberating to the tune of "Camptown Races." So the other day I was in the store and, after passing through the dairy aisle, started singing, "Lowfat cultured buttermilk, doo dah, doo dah . . ."

Similarly, six-syllable phrases get the classic conga line rhythm, a la The Simpsons' "You don't win friends with salad, You don't win friends with salad!"

bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:35 (eleven years ago)

ah shit..... i do that six syllable conga thing sometimes too.......

m0stlyClean, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:13 (eleven years ago)

Carphone Warehouse = 'Cartoon Boyfriend'

Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:38 (eleven years ago)

Been working on some marketing materials for women in menopause called "Red Hot Mamas" which keeps making think of:

"Red hot mama
Velvet charmer
Time's come to pay your dues

[chorus:]
Now you're messin' with a
A SON OF A BITCH"

Also, working with a clinic in a little town called Cottage Grove which leads to fucking China Grove.

Darin, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 21:03 (eleven years ago)

in college a friend and I changed the words to Wings' "Let'em In":

Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Leon Trotsky
all sing along

Fidel Castro
Idi Amin
Vladimir
LEEEENNNIIIIIINNNNN
(ooh yeah)

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 21:13 (eleven years ago)

The Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo's name is a pretty close rhyme to "Song Sung Blue"

Hong Sang-soo
Likes to use his zoom lens...

this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 21:16 (eleven years ago)

Not a phrase but an action - I sing "Cold As Ice" by Foreigner (specifically "You're digging for gold/Yet throwing away/A fortune in feelings/But someday you'll pay") whenever I clean the cat box so now that song reminds me of cat poop.

carl agatha, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:28 (eleven years ago)

lol. I always sing "I really don't like it/Clean the catbox/Clean the catbox", a 98 Rock Twisted Tune from back in the 80s.

kelly sleater's pro kinney (how's life), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:18 (eleven years ago)

"kurdish peshmurga" to the tune of that rural juror song Jenna songs at the end of 30 rock: I will never forget you, kurdish peshmurga, I'll always be glad I met you, kurdish peshmurga

sleepingbag, Thursday, 30 October 2014 22:10 (eleven years ago)

Whenever I see the "lock the taskbar" option in windows I sing it to the tune of Rock the Casbah.

29 facepalms, Thursday, 30 October 2014 22:18 (eleven years ago)

i saw the thread title 'tight black leggings and big foofy boots' and immediately it was to the chorus melody of 'style'

Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 5 November 2014 01:21 (eleven years ago)

See, it happened again: There was a headline on Cleveland.com reading "Surgery remove's Ohio snake's toxic, swollen venom gland" and I was all "toxic swollen venom gland, doo dah, doo dah . . ."

Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:13 (eleven years ago)

lol

how's life, Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:13 (eleven years ago)

lol!

cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:14 (eleven years ago)

hahahaha

example (crüt), Thursday, 6 November 2014 21:59 (eleven years ago)

Just bought a bag of salad 'baby, baby rocket/king of the wild green herbs'

joni mitchell jarre (dog latin), Thursday, 6 November 2014 23:08 (eleven years ago)

excellent..

m0stlyClean, Thursday, 6 November 2014 23:33 (eleven years ago)

phil, just caught myself doing this: too much time on ilx, doo dah doo dah

how's life, Friday, 7 November 2014 22:30 (eleven years ago)

every time i see these at work

http://i.imgur.com/hZeGvhG.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1aJW0_Bo6I

tribe? de la? no "humpty dance?" (clouds), Saturday, 8 November 2014 05:03 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

The revised S&D: Billy Joel thread reminded me of "Pressure," where the lines

But you will come to a place
Where the only thing you feel
Are loaded guns in your face

becomes

Where the only thing you feel
A load of cunts in your face

Hideous Lump, Sunday, 30 November 2014 02:50 (eleven years ago)

Quatuor pour la fin du temps, doo dah, doo dah

I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Sunday, 30 November 2014 04:41 (eleven years ago)

pajamas
to think pajamas were a thing of the past
pajamas
and i hope pajamas gonna last

Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 30 November 2014 05:35 (eleven years ago)

billy went away with the peace keeping force
cause he liked a bloody good fight of course
went away in an old nakhchivan to the banks of the river jordan

estela, Sunday, 30 November 2014 06:37 (eleven years ago)

Watching MotD last night and Brede Hangeland came on for Crystal Palace. Which started me off singing his surname to Shang-a-Lang by the Bay City Rollers.

the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Sunday, 30 November 2014 09:47 (eleven years ago)

I was in Thailand last spring and there were tropical fruits for sale everywhere which always got "whoa-oh black Betty, rambutan" stuck in my head.

Also went to a ramen place named Nudo last week which has become the chorus of Lido Shuffle

joygoat, Sunday, 30 November 2014 15:14 (eleven years ago)

Sometimes when I'm cooking, I'll start singing "I'm using cumin" to the tune of the Human League's "I'm Only Human."

Ex Slacker, Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:55 (eleven years ago)

i'm using cumin / a spicy rub i made

(曇り) (clouds), Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:56 (eleven years ago)

ha, I might do that with Billy Joel's "You're Only Human."

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:56 (eleven years ago)

I'm assuming I'm not the only one who in their head sings the title of the 'bear say hi to me' thread to the tune of SOS Band - Just Be Good To Me.

Wet Umbrella Guard (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 7 December 2014 10:15 (eleven years ago)

this one is truly unfortunate but ...

I've been reading Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and after a passage where she writes about how Eichmann never really made it into the Nazi inner circle ...

I have "Adolf the Nazi Scapegoat" in my head to the tune of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"

Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Monday, 8 December 2014 00:19 (eleven years ago)

music website Wondering Sound always gets the Specials/Skatalites song "You're Wondering Now"

You're Wondering Sound
What to do
Now that you know
This is the end

how's life, Friday, 12 December 2014 14:19 (eleven years ago)

I do a similar thing except it's either one of a number of stock dancehall shoutouts: - 'CHAMPION SOUND', 'THE WICKEDEST SOUND'

dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2014 14:23 (eleven years ago)

i've been speaking to a client called C4th1 St1rl1n9 lately and wondering why I get the Altered Images song 'Happy Birthday' stuck in my head.

dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2014 14:28 (eleven years ago)

Not quite the same thing, but while we're at it:

For years, quite puzzlingly, I found whenever I'd see the word 'bacon' written down, I'd hear it sung in the voice of Neil Tennant.

It just occurred to me that this is because my mind is conflating the word 'bacon' with 'taken', specifically in the way it gets sung on 'How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously'.

dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:15 (eleven years ago)

Now I'm thinking about copyrighting a vegetarian meat product.

dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:18 (eleven years ago)

Whenever I saw the poster for the Strangers on a Train play that was on a while back I always sung it in my head to the tune of either 'Strangers in the Night' or 'Riders on the Storm', depending on the mood I was in.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 12 December 2014 15:21 (eleven years ago)

Whenever I think of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, I sing "In Sagrada Familia" to the tune of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida."

Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 December 2014 19:44 (eleven years ago)

Not for 17 minutes straight, though.

Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 December 2014 19:48 (eleven years ago)

Oh, that's good! I have a whole list of architecture-related ones of these - "Ronchamp" to the tune of "Oh My Golly!", "We're at American Bar" to the tune of "We're An American Band," etc.

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 13 December 2014 20:07 (eleven years ago)

I work across the street from a small airport, and on breezy days the old Windsong perfume jingle plays in my head: "I can't seem to forget you / Your windsock stays on my mi-i-i-ind....."

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 13 December 2014 20:55 (eleven years ago)

Ha. I sing the same song for a wine called "Windspiel."

Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 December 2014 21:05 (eleven years ago)

Just started doing:
A Winter's Tale
In a deep and dark December

Murdstone From The Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 December 2014 00:52 (eleven years ago)

We have two different sets of baby footie pajamas with a moose on them, which have become known as Moose Suit #1 and Moose Suit #2. Whenever one of them gets installed on the baby I have to sing this to the tune of Roots Train Number One.

joygoat, Sunday, 14 December 2014 02:52 (eleven years ago)

Moose Suit 'jamas (jamas!)
Throw back a bottle of milk

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 14 December 2014 03:03 (eleven years ago)

Boomkat will now always be known as Boom-boom-boom-KAT! in my head

Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 11:42 (eleven years ago)

Pretty obvious but, whenever I see an ad for Shari's Berries I sing it to the tune of Shari Vari by A Number of Names.

Pooja Bhatt's erotic thriller Jism 2 (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 19 December 2014 12:37 (eleven years ago)

I'm snapping to guides (doodle-oo, doodle-oo)
I'm snapping to gui-i-ides

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 21 December 2014 15:38 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVte8cdwpXc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70QfHtKdh_0

example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 06:43 (eleven years ago)

whenever i see you smile

when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 12 February 2015 06:59 (eleven years ago)

i have a client named Margo, who has outsourced the preparation of various financial reports for the org's board of directors to me

for the past two days

I'm only making reports for Margo to "making plans for Nigel"

Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Thursday, 12 February 2015 07:27 (eleven years ago)

We took our cat in to the vet to be neutered today, and all day long I've been singing "cat neuter" in my head to the tune of Apollonia 6's "Sex Shooter."

Cat neuter
'snippin off of my Chewbacca
Come on, lose the balls

Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:28 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

thanks to DJP

now Girlfriend in a Coma = "hitler on the toilet"

let he who has not approved of the ronaldinho bottle opener cast the (sarahell), Thursday, 11 June 2015 22:12 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

"isomorphic to a smooth manifold" = "you've been hit by a smooth criminal"

where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Friday, 14 August 2015 02:19 (ten years ago)

Used to have a white cat and always sang "It's a nice day for a white kitten". I lost the cat and now whenever I hear the words "White Wedding" I think of him and miss him.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 August 2015 04:14 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

Here kitty, kitty. Have a K. D. Lang treat

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81GQ0v0%2Bs5L._SY355_.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqPjx94YMg

juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Thursday, 12 November 2015 02:07 (ten years ago)

I know I mentioned this over on a Moody Blues thread, but apparently not on this one:

My daughter's favorite kind of mac and cheese is Shells and White Cheddar. "Never reaching the end..."

SlimAndSlam, Thursday, 12 November 2015 03:23 (ten years ago)

Local coffee sellers, Stumptown Roasters:

Stumptown Roasters sing this song,
Doo-dah! Doo-dah!

Josefa, Thursday, 12 November 2015 04:11 (ten years ago)

midget with a trash bag, I know, I know, it's serious

― sarahell, Friday, October 3, 2014 12:12 PM (1 year ago)

saw him again yesterday

sarahell, Thursday, 12 November 2015 05:48 (ten years ago)

VIC TAYBACK

i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 November 2015 06:07 (ten years ago)

Revenge!

joygoat, Thursday, 12 November 2015 06:09 (ten years ago)

:)

The Cosimo Code of Blueshammer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 November 2015 09:56 (ten years ago)

Tom Driberg famously drew attention to the fact that the phrase used to open proceedings in the House of Commons each day, "The Clerk will now proceed to read the orders of the day", could be sung to the tune of 'John Brown's Body'.

Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 November 2015 10:52 (ten years ago)

four weeks pass...

"This PC be Warren G"

lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:09 (ten years ago)

The word podcaster to the tune of the B-52s Rock Lobster.

how's life, Monday, 21 December 2015 15:55 (ten years ago)

Aztec Camera's gonna get you
gonna knock you right on the head

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Monday, 21 December 2015 16:03 (ten years ago)

'obama don't like you and he likes everyone'

About 7 results (0.56 seconds)

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Monday, 21 December 2015 21:50 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

While walking around Atlanta doing an architecture tour recently I somehow got architect-developer John Portman tied up with "Four Horsemen" by the Clash. Have pretty much not been able to shake it since.

Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 02:07 (ten years ago)

he just built an atrium as big as the sun
john portmaaaaaaan

bentelec, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 02:13 (ten years ago)

hahaha exactly

Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 14:24 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

Silk sleep mask!
Poet and a prophet
Silk sleep mask!
Taught me how to off it

how's life, Saturday, 23 January 2016 08:03 (ten years ago)

almost feel like this is too obvious not to have come up already, but whenever an application says "do you really want to exit?" it's always, always culture club

white privilege 2: the legend of clumsy scold (wins), Saturday, 23 January 2016 10:37 (ten years ago)

three weeks pass...

Maybe not in the spirit of things since they're both names, but "Vin Diesel" is always to the tune of "Ben Weasel" as performed by The Queers.

the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Monday, 15 February 2016 05:09 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

More RHCP lately when I'm feeding my cat:

My talking leaf speaks of
A TENDER BEEF FEAST

how's life, Monday, 29 February 2016 21:10 (ten years ago)

My wife has a real good one for the John Denver classic...

Toothpaste on my shoulder looks like bird pop

kornrulez6969, Monday, 29 February 2016 21:23 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

"Boricua College" to the theme of "Eureeka's Castle."

never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 16:50 (ten years ago)

three months pass...

"Homi Bhabha" ~ "Floridada"

Harvey Manfrenjensenden (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 15:43 (nine years ago)

Roger Corman's wretched Teenage Cave Man has forever transformed the way I hear/sing the climax of "Baba O'Riley."

five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 July 2016 00:17 (nine years ago)

"Take your card and your cash will follow" En Vogue style.

thomasintrouble, Sunday, 17 July 2016 00:33 (nine years ago)

hahaha

five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 July 2016 04:00 (nine years ago)

you're crumbelievable

flappy bird, Sunday, 17 July 2016 05:46 (nine years ago)

i remember back in 2007 learning from a teenager that they only knew "unbelievable" thanks to the kraft "crumbelievable" commercial. that kid is now working on a ph.d.

five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 July 2016 06:38 (nine years ago)

maybe this is deliberate but I was cleaning out my oven the other day using a well known oven cleaner and immediately started singing 'That's what my heart yearns for now/Oven Priiiide'

TARANTINO! (dog latin), Sunday, 17 July 2016 10:49 (nine years ago)

"Take your card and your cash will follow" En Vogue style.
― thomasintrouble, Sunday, 17 July 2016 01:33 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, me too every time

TARANTINO! (dog latin), Sunday, 17 July 2016 10:50 (nine years ago)

"Pictures of chickens

chickens, oh! chickens"

No idea why.

MaresNest, Sunday, 17 July 2016 10:57 (nine years ago)

Pictures of lily is terrible for this for me. Generally hearing 'pictures of' something-two-syllabled, which happens surprisingly often.

inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Sunday, 17 July 2016 12:07 (nine years ago)

For some reason, I always sing "Two cheeseburgers and a microphone" during where it's at

poolboy skew (voodoo chili), Sunday, 17 July 2016 13:15 (nine years ago)

"I've been waiting for delivered food" to Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You"

sarahell, Sunday, 17 July 2016 17:56 (nine years ago)

Whenever I have to clock into my work's logging system: "clock in noooowwww honey, clock in nowwww!"

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 18 July 2016 00:29 (nine years ago)

thanks to my stupid ass workplace playlist:

all the other kids with pumped up kicks say CLEVELAND ROCKS! CLEVELAND ROCKS!

clouds, Monday, 18 July 2016 00:48 (nine years ago)

maybe this is deliberate but I was cleaning out my oven the other day using a well known oven cleaner and immediately started singing 'That's what my heart yearns for now/Oven Priiiide'

haha, when I was a kid, I used to sing "thats what my stomach yearns for now/sauce on piiiieeee".

But then again I used to change the lyrics to everything, such as Echo and the Bunnymen's "put on a decent record" to the tune of "bring on the dancing horses"

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 18 July 2016 01:16 (nine years ago)

Dem party bullshit always makes me hear the Doors:

She's a

*BOMP!* *BOMP!*

Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

how's life, Monday, 25 July 2016 13:12 (nine years ago)

domo arigato, D0m P4ssantino

hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Monday, 25 July 2016 23:41 (nine years ago)

it's the little old lady, D0m P4ssantino

hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Monday, 25 July 2016 23:42 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/j3YK5xm.jpg

D0menico P4ssantino
P4ssantino, that is where I'll be
D0menico P4ssantino with me

hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Monday, 25 July 2016 23:44 (nine years ago)

another one bites the dust?

it's time to catch the bus

mh, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 14:02 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

(At about 1:20 mins) The chorus of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzhUp8mWgs

to the tune of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSMmxyGeEb4

Take that, Creed

sbahnhof, Friday, 12 August 2016 22:39 (nine years ago)

was washing fever-sweaty bedclothes yesterday while singing "the secret life of ammonia"

le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Friday, 12 August 2016 22:40 (nine years ago)

The Winston Wolf/Harvey Keitel Direct Line advert where the guy has a bathroom leak that he's tried and failed to fix.

Keitel: "So, you've got an uncontrollable leak?"
Me: "I've got an uncontrollable leak
He's got an uncontrollable leak
I've got an uncontrollable
It's got style, it's got class
So strong, I can't let it pass
I gotta tell you all about it
I gotta scream and shout it"
Mrs aldo: "Shut the fuck up"
Me: "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah"
Mrs aldo: "I'm leaving"

Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Thursday, 25 August 2016 10:07 (nine years ago)

This morning:
"Anti-matter? (Shattered)"

I Don't Sound Like Nobodaddy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 August 2016 13:47 (nine years ago)

four weeks pass...

"Pepperidge Farm" >>> "Paper In Fire"

Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:30 (nine years ago)

My kid has a book called "i dreamt I was a dinosaur" that has lines like "here is sammy stegosauraus busy foraging for food / he likes kay camarosaurus but she's in a grumpy mood" and it's impossible for me to read it without it sounding like the Nails "88 lines about 44 women"

joygoat, Thursday, 22 September 2016 18:38 (nine years ago)

Also just now, at the laundromat (in what must be a spiritual successor to "I'm Doin' Laundry" upthread):

Add the bleach! Add the bleach!
Get out those fuckin' stains!

Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 22 September 2016 18:54 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

Trump towers just a sign of the power
Of loving you, oh baby

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 14:22 (nine years ago)

Most days I have cause to sing...

I'm ah kitty in a box,

I'm ah kitty in a caaaaaaaardbooooard box

MaresNest, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 14:29 (nine years ago)

leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain
leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain

difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 10:17 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

How does it feel to be
out of the pineapple
pizza?

how's life, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:00 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

So not gonna happen
So!
Not gonna happen
So not gonna happen
Anymore...

how's life, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 15:23 (nine years ago)

seven months pass...

Infuriatingly, this prompt, when I'm stepping away from the desk for lunch

http://cwtuning.com/imgs/ImageTips/eng/Win_7/DisableLockWorkstation.png

gets mashed up with "Rock This Town" by the Stray Cats: "We're gonna lock this computer/lock it inside out/etc."

how's life, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:47 (eight years ago)

Whenever I see the words Pop Secret, I always prefix them with a 'gimme gimme' in my head.

I Dream of Juice (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 16:54 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

Jasper Johns,
What's that flower you have on

Star Star City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 22:09 (eight years ago)

My mom was visiting and made one of her old standby vegetarian recipes. Once again I found myself singing "couscous tacos" to the tune of "Zoot Suit Riot."

geoffreyess, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 22:44 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbA01F6_gns

Graham Lambkin - The Personality

i usually think of the Davy Crockett song ("king of the wild frontier") when i hear the cello here.

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 23:32 (eight years ago)

lol @ "gimme gimme pop secret"

pretty firmly linked to Arrested Development in my mind but that's great

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 00:01 (eight years ago)

I now have the phrase "take a knee" going through my head to the tune of "take on me" and I need it to stop.

MarkoP, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 16:52 (eight years ago)

Kind of the reverse of this scenario, but a thing that's been happening a lot lately is 1) I hear a two-syllable word or phrase, 2) I then sing '(two-syllable word/phrase), baby (two-syllable word/phrase)' to the tune of 'Love Shack'. Like I say, this is happening a lot. Maybe I should see a neurologist.

Gewgaws for Meemaw (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 16:58 (eight years ago)

Shana Tova to the tune of Cuyahoga by R.E.M.

sarahell, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 17:22 (eight years ago)

The 'ramblechat' jingle from the Adam Buxton podcast morphs into Now That We've Found Love by Third World when it gets to the 'blah blah blah' bit...

MaresNest, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 21:18 (eight years ago)

xp oh no

bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 22:09 (eight years ago)

My dog takes one of these daily and we keep the box on top of the fridge, so whenever I get anything from the fridge I end up with ACID REDUCER, I'M NO LOSER stuck in my head
https://www.dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/archives/image.cfm?archiveid=44680&type=img&name=a5cfbbe2-93b4-4015-ae15-5ac11ef9b948-01.jpg

joygoat, Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:39 (eight years ago)

It's been almost nine years since this thread started, and the sight of a midget now always prompts "girlfriend in a coma" -- the other day it was "Midget with a Smoothie" (this was a different midget than the previous years' midget with a trashbag)

sarahell, Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:48 (eight years ago)

sarahell is in my brain, as this is pretty much me 900% of the time. I am an amateur collector of phrases that can be sung to the tune of "Girlfriend in a Coma."

When my children were babies it was "baby in a diaper I know, I know, it's serious."

Recent other examples:

Gerbil with a carrot I know, I know...

Penguin in the men's room...

Robot with a migraine...

Ninja with some hummus...

P as in pterodactyl (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:57 (eight years ago)

just now: Cat that looks like Hitler, I know, I know ...

sarahell, Thursday, 5 October 2017 19:05 (eight years ago)

great thread

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 5 October 2017 19:05 (eight years ago)

I do this with times and "Slave to the Rhythm."

Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Grace Jones. Eight Twenty Seven.

EIIIIGHT TWENTY SEVENNNNNN

El Tomboto, Friday, 6 October 2017 00:30 (eight years ago)

"lock the taskbar" is also timeless, shame on microsoft

El Tomboto, Friday, 6 October 2017 00:32 (eight years ago)

No more lock the taskbar, I know, I know, it's serious ...

sarahell, Friday, 6 October 2017 06:06 (eight years ago)

"Smiling Pizza," neighborhood pizzeria

Smiling Pizza
Smiling Pizza sometimes they don't tell the truth
Smiling Pizza, Smiling Pizza tell lies, and I got the proof

Josefa, Friday, 6 October 2017 06:20 (eight years ago)

Every time I see a review for this show that i know nothing about:

Because I'm Nathan for You but I'm not that Nathaaaan.

Frederik B, Friday, 6 October 2017 09:16 (eight years ago)

See, it happened again: There was a headline on Cleveland.com reading "Surgery remove's Ohio snake's toxic, swollen venom gland" and I was all "toxic swollen venom gland, doo dah, doo dah . . ."

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, November 6, 2014 3:13 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Sadly, toxic algae blooms, doo dah, doo dah"

https://www.facebook.com/NationalWildlife/photos/a.10150122178318987.297864.5644748986/10155890323003987/?type=3&theater

how's life, Friday, 13 October 2017 11:57 (eight years ago)

Oh, Camptown Races is another great one.

looser than lucinda (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 13 October 2017 12:46 (eight years ago)

Often when I get myself some green tea, I'm getting it with Greensleeves playing in my head. It's best whenever it's the Leonard Cohen version.

And if I have anything with old cheese (slice, salad, whatever), it tends to go on Simon & Garfunkel's Old Friends. "Old cheese. Old cheese. Great on a toast made of fine wheats." or similar.

Valentijn, Friday, 13 October 2017 13:11 (eight years ago)

subscribe

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 13 October 2017 13:14 (eight years ago)

--Whenever I'm in a convenience store and see Tillamook County Smokers beef jerky, I sing "Tillamook County Smokers" it in my head to the tune of Michael Jackson's "You Wanna Be Starting Something"

someone on fb posted a picture that included a visible package of Tillamook County Smokers .... I had the Michael Jackson song stuck in my head for at least 30 minutes non-stop

sarahell, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:05 (eight years ago)

basically, it's not just my inexplicable phrases/songs -- I end up with other people's as well

sarahell, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:07 (eight years ago)

for some reason I started hearing that to the tune of "big rock candy mountain"

mh, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:08 (eight years ago)

oh but I had a new one last night! -- "Windows Defender" to the tune of "Ghetto Defendant" by The Clash

sarahell, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:09 (eight years ago)

it was like some deep subconscious Manchurian Candidate thing, as I had not heard or even thought about that song for at least 20+ years

sarahell, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:11 (eight years ago)

good one

mh, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:15 (eight years ago)

"Take your card and your cash will follow" En Vogue style.
― thomasintrouble, Sunday, 17 July 2016 01:33 (10 hours ago)

Yes, me too every time

― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Sunday, July 17, 2016 11:50 AM (one year ago)

This one always gets me too.

emil.y, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:17 (eight years ago)

I do wonder if the entirety of Combat Rock can be inspired through regular use of Windows (pre-Windows 10 - R.I.P. lock the taskbar)

sarahell, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:25 (eight years ago)

Ha! Speaking of the Clash...

Spanish Bombs - Oh my car is on

kornrulez6969, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:29 (eight years ago)

Recently been infected by a Steely Dan one - "Breaaaaaaaad - it will come back to you." and "Caaaaaake, it will come back to you.", works with loads of words, it really is a sickness.

barbarian radge (NotEnough), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 20:45 (eight years ago)

leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain
leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, November 1, 2016 12:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 10:30 (eight years ago)

At some point, I started hearing Iggy's shouted chorus in 'Down in the Street' as 'DEWALT! DEWALT!' and now my brain always tries to turn the song into a commercial for power tools.

Winky Carrothers (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:10 (eight years ago)

Or I guess I should say, for the purposes of this thread, that I always find myself singing 'Down in the Street' when I use my drill.

Winky Carrothers (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:12 (eight years ago)

When I use my drill I invariably sing "I... found... my... DRILL, on Blueberry Hill."

what if a much of a which of a wind (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:47 (eight years ago)

It keeps coming back to this:

I almost forgot this one, whenever I see Fujiya and Miyagi's name, I sing it to "Kokomo"

Fujiya, Miyagi, oooh i wanna take ya

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:17 AM (eight years ago)

My drill is a Makita, so I sing, Makita, Miyagi, ooh i'm gonna drill ya ... to the tune of Kokomo

sarahell, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 15:59 (eight years ago)

At work a few years back we were ordering a lot of Wagamama’s when working late. To this day, their Amai Udon makes me go “amai udon - amai - amai udon” to the bridge melody of Livin’ Joy’s Dreamer.

bamboohouses, Thursday, 2 November 2017 09:03 (eight years ago)

haha, I'm now gonna be doing this too

kinder, Thursday, 2 November 2017 12:54 (eight years ago)

You can probably guess what song materialized as I wrote 'November rent' on the Memo line of the check.

Vas the deferens? (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 November 2017 13:50 (eight years ago)

http://youtu.be/JBy_M4hVHag

kinder, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:21 (eight years ago)

Getting a rental car at the Denver airport today, there were four traffic islands between lanes where you had to wait for shuttle buses, labeled island 1-4.

I’ve had “island number three, that is what we are” in my head since.

joygoat, Friday, 3 November 2017 23:42 (eight years ago)

agh I just read a tweet about Denver airport then read this thread

kinder, Saturday, 4 November 2017 00:01 (eight years ago)

Upland bog
But to get there is an uphill slog

bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 4 November 2017 21:01 (eight years ago)

Casual Pants --> American Band

sarahell, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 22:16 (eight years ago)

Moist (vreeeeeeet)
Towelette (vrooooot)

Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Thursday, 16 November 2017 09:52 (eight years ago)

"Fried Egg I'm In Love" to the Cure song

thomasintrouble, Thursday, 16 November 2017 12:10 (eight years ago)

Also my cat is called Moey so we sing

"I can call you Moey,
and Moey when you call me,
you can call MIAOW"

thomasintrouble, Thursday, 16 November 2017 12:15 (eight years ago)

lol

how's life, Thursday, 16 November 2017 14:10 (eight years ago)

Bloomberg has this little 2-factor authentication gadget for their terminal, the B-B-B-B-B Unit!. Four five years on, still in my head.

Siegbran, Thursday, 16 November 2017 15:00 (eight years ago)

awwwwww call MIAOW! <3

sarahell, Thursday, 16 November 2017 21:58 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

Related:

I've spent a good chunk of today going

"I'M PORTER RIIIIICKS! REEEEEE!"

mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 17:38 (eight years ago)

I'm in the target market for that comment, and lol

mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:23 (eight years ago)

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

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To the tune of Carly Simon's "Anticipation" --> EX FO LI AAAAATION - IS MAKIN' ME FLAKE.

ian, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:27 (eight years ago)

for the past month or so:

"roy moore, juan peron, toscanini, dacron"

Stupor Fly, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 01:37 (eight years ago)

To 'Vogue'?

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 21 December 2017 00:26 (eight years ago)

This doesn't really work for this thread, but just walked into The Strand Bookstore and started mentally singing Roxy Music's "Do The Strand."

Burru Men Meet Burryman ina Wicker Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 December 2017 00:40 (eight years ago)

There's some (unused) boxes of LED wire at work, and I can't pass them without it triggering "LED, LED wire, stay close to meeee"

♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 December 2017 15:56 (eight years ago)

Now singing “Sweet Baby James” to the tune of “Sweet Lady Jane.”

Steely Rodin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 December 2017 13:53 (eight years ago)

And, of course, this: Songs That Reference Carry On Films Somehow

Steely Rodin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 December 2017 13:55 (eight years ago)

Call me by blondie

kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 23 December 2017 23:08 (eight years ago)

LeFrak Center (ice skating rink) in Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Aaaaaah... Frak out!
LeFrak... c'est chac!

Josefa, Saturday, 30 December 2017 19:47 (eight years ago)

one day when I was reading the rimming thread I thought of the song by Spanky and Our Gang and now forever, "I'd Like to Get to Know You" goes...

well Id like to lick your butthole
if I could

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 31 December 2017 16:56 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

I like Wolves In The Throne Room but I always end up singing their name in my head to the song Bernard sings in Black Books "cows in the morning 1-2-3 upland at them with a STICK!"

Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 12:34 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

inexplicably, for a few weeks off and on i've had the saw-the-video-once Limp Bizkit comeback failure "Gold Cobra" stuck in my head, except the chorus is

Golan and Globus they're golden,
They're golden, so golden, y'all
Golan-Globus

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:43 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://imgur.com/RQT4Us2l.png

These are your orders, seems like it's do it or die
So please read them closely
When you've learnt them be sure that you eat them up

mick signals, Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:29 (eight years ago)

Was in the pub the other night singing along to The Killers' classic "I'm Norman Whiteside"

bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:47 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

By Order of the Fire Chief
I know, I know
It's serious

how's life, Monday, 23 April 2018 11:37 (seven years ago)

In a local grocery this weekend I spotted some large yellow courgettes, with a the name written on a tag in front of them. I must have looked at the tag for a split second.. Cue my brain singing 'large yellow courgettes' to the tune of Raspberry Beret at me for 3 days straight.

raise my chicken finger (Willl), Monday, 23 April 2018 11:42 (seven years ago)

Not to the tune of “Little Red Corvette”(?)

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 23 April 2018 12:46 (seven years ago)

lol

how's life, Monday, 23 April 2018 12:51 (seven years ago)

Thanks, I now have a B side for my unshakeable brainworm.

raise my chicken finger (Willl), Monday, 23 April 2018 18:30 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

lately been hearing Jack Kirby to the sound of David Lowery singing Jack Ruby.

how's life, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:37 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

"total goat rodeo" » "rollin' down Rodeo"

noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 15:11 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

Maria Butina and the jingle for Maria Christina wine. Happens every time.

https://youtu.be/eUWlyLKXEeU

dinnerboat, Sunday, 22 July 2018 03:15 (seven years ago)

I was visiting our local water park a few weeks ago when I spotted an older guy with a Psychopathic Records Hatchet Man tattoo. Wouldn't you know it, Bob Marley was playing over their sound system at the time. Since then, I've had

He was a Juggalo grandpa
At Six Flags America

stuck in my head.

how's life, Monday, 23 July 2018 16:41 (seven years ago)

^This is not quite the right thread for that post, but it was the best I could find.

how's life, Monday, 23 July 2018 16:44 (seven years ago)

Every time I see a package of “Baby Arugula” in the grocery store I get Raffi’s “Baby Beluga” stuck in my head. Am I doing this right?

stillHera, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 02:03 (seven years ago)

A friend brought a six pack of these to a BBQ the other day and I've been screeching the name to myself in a Brian Johnson voice since
https://untappd.akamaized.net/photos/2018_07_07/bde3196677c33356204e07e97d1b7e52_640x640.jpg

joygoat, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 02:24 (seven years ago)

He was a Juggalo grandpa
At Six Flags America


This is v funny, and I don’t want you to think it is going unappreciated

i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 02:59 (seven years ago)

^^^

This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 04:47 (seven years ago)

yes, very good

Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 07:43 (seven years ago)

two months pass...

"Strangers On A Train" and "Blame It On The Rain"

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 27 September 2018 15:04 (seven years ago)

"Man Bun" to the tune of "Slow Ride"

sarahell, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 03:33 (seven years ago)

*walks into local specialty grocery store*
*overcome by Elton John voice*
“Well I love to shop / at the International Pantry...”

Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 04:07 (seven years ago)

god fucking damn this is a great revive

flappy bird, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 04:11 (seven years ago)

Saw Spider Baby tonight and Matthew Sweet's "Super Baby" has been in my head ever since.

geoffreyess, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 04:21 (seven years ago)

We have a kid's book called 'What can rabbit see?', it can only be read to the tune of Mercy Mercy Me.

Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 07:56 (seven years ago)

https://i.redd.it/1oh153dyiiey.jpg

Darin, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 20:52 (seven years ago)

Over the last week I keep hearing "brett kavanaugh" in place of "suntanama" from the Genius' verse on ODB's "Damage".

joygoat, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 21:27 (seven years ago)

Max Muncy from the Dodgers always makes me think of Brass Monkey

frogbs, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 21:31 (seven years ago)

Message from the wreckage, it is soft-rock shit
TLS handshake, the over-grown super shit

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 8 October 2018 17:48 (seven years ago)

three weeks pass...

But I can't find my keyring anymore
Is it under something on the floor?
I need to unlock and lock my door
I should have left the house at four
But baby I can't find my keyring anymore

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 03:26 (seven years ago)

If Beale Street Could Talk to the tune of "These Walls" by Kendrick Lamar

flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 04:43 (seven years ago)

douchebag in an Audi
I know, i know, you're serious

sarahell, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 18:29 (seven years ago)

three months pass...

https://img.discogs.com/3oSqTlLZ-QFFPVjEgUuJapyIro4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7032799-1432192692-7771.jpeg.jpg

K-19, The Widowmaker
It was directed by Bigelow
It's hard times befallen, sub survivors
He's Liam Neeson, and I'm just Harry Fooooooord
K-19!

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:51 (seven years ago)

lol

peace, man, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:54 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

Don't save the file
Don't change a thing
For me

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 22 March 2019 17:53 (seven years ago)

US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled. The dreams in which I'm dying are the dreams in which I'm... killed”

shoulda zagged (esby), Friday, 22 March 2019 18:40 (seven years ago)

PG Tips (the "tea of the English Working Class") = "I can almost smell [sniff sniff] your TB sheets..."

Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 4 April 2019 20:55 (seven years ago)

Various things get sandwiched into Hall & Oates' Maneater these days:

Whoa-oh here she comes
Watch out boy, she'll bomb your home
Whoa-oh here she comes
She's a cruise missile

☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 11 April 2019 17:18 (six years ago)

eh, meant to underline cruise missile there to showcase the interchangeable parts.

☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 11 April 2019 17:20 (six years ago)

xxp - PG Tips has a totally different association for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTam9BJJq9w&t=17

Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:29 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTam9BJJq9w&t=17

Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:30 (six years ago)

Oh well, it was supposed to be the PB Crisps ad from 1994

Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:33 (six years ago)

youtube with an error, i know, i know, it's serious

sarahell, Thursday, 11 April 2019 18:38 (six years ago)

Occasionally I have to teach people how to use an espresso machine, and one crucial step is telling them to "purge the group head" which I always think to the melody "hang the DJ hang the DJ hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ hang the DJ hang the DJ" but I never sing it out, I just get a faraway look for a moment while it happens.

mick signals, Thursday, 11 April 2019 19:00 (six years ago)

re: H&O, I was giving myself the giggles with "You're out of touch, I'm out of time / Blood runs out of my head when you're not around" earlier this week, shoutout to whoever shared that one upthread

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 11 April 2019 23:33 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

🎶"It's not like salmon, but a little like trout and it's name is tilapia".🎶

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/960x540/p01bqhrp.jpg

Darin, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 16:07 (six years ago)

every day is a SAFFRON ROAD ... frozen entrees on sale today ...

sarahell, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 16:10 (six years ago)

We buy these little satsumas that are branded as 'easy peelers', now renamed 'peaceful easy peelers'

MaresNest, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 17:52 (six years ago)

emily, emily can't you see / sometimes your words just hypnotize me

flappy bird, Friday, 10 May 2019 18:31 (six years ago)

Just picked up an early Dick novel

https://borgdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/world-jones-made-e.jpg

and I can't get the chorus of this out of my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuWE_pm5O4

mick signals, Friday, 17 May 2019 15:12 (six years ago)

one month passes...

Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Teenage_caveman.JPG

Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 14:59 (six years ago)

Bam-Bam O'Riley

☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 15:02 (six years ago)

https://youtu.be/M3qoqkKCK3M?t=1689

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 16:35 (six years ago)

It’s not that inexplicable — but when I see the word “Panama” (like on my TV right now, where soccer is playing), my head plays the obvious tune

Consider the coconut (morrisp), Thursday, 27 June 2019 02:13 (six years ago)

d'oh... i got introduced to teenage caveman by that MST episode so i've certainly seen that Tom Servo riff, but forgotten it. and hear i thought i was on the cutting edge of dad song joke humor.

Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:24 (six years ago)

one month passes...

I was recently pouring vodka into a water bottle, so as to bring it someplace where it was technically not allowed, and I explained to my wife that it was stealth vodka.

We both immediately shouted STEALTH VODKA! in a Fred Schneider style

Rumspringsteen (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 17 August 2019 11:55 (six years ago)

lol

☮ (peace, man), Saturday, 17 August 2019 17:00 (six years ago)

A+

sarahell, Sunday, 18 August 2019 16:17 (six years ago)

My cabin had a problem with an ermine that kept getting in, but we could never find and catch it. One day my boyfriend was over and his car was parked out front, and my cousin spotted a tiny ermine disappearing under his car. So she came in and reported, "John, there's a baby ermine underneath your car."

John: What?
Cousin: There's a baby ermine underneath your car.
John: WHAT?
Cousin (patiently): Underneath your car, there's a baby ermine.

Cousin and I looked at each other, had an epiphany, and simultaneously sang "Underneeeeaaaath your car, there's a baby ermine!" to the tune of Shakira's "Underneath Your Clothes."

Lily Dale, Thursday, 22 August 2019 09:41 (six years ago)

I don't know why, but my horrible brain has recently started torturing me with:

Here I am!
Rock you like I'm Herman Cain!

Auld Drink of Misery (zchyrs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:45 (six years ago)

On a similar note, I keep singing "Joe Biden" to the tune of KISS's "Black Diamond"

Darin, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:59 (six years ago)

loooool

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:15 (six years ago)

TaskRabbit to the tune of "Phat Rabbit."

Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 25 August 2019 02:18 (six years ago)

I started using a cpap machine this summer for sleep apnea, and mentally refer to it as the "apnea machine". When I put it on before bed now I hear Paul Westerburg saying, "how do you say good night to an apnea machine?"

joygoat, Monday, 26 August 2019 14:19 (six years ago)

Jordan Henderson will all be there
Mane Salah Firmino, what a scene

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 26 August 2019 14:41 (six years ago)

How do you mend
A broken poptart

FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:52 (six years ago)

It’s totally problematic
Whenever you’re around
Problematic

Pointer sisters voice

ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 15:56 (six years ago)

There was a Charlie Brooker article some time ago in which he said that every time Robert Mugabe was mentioned, his name started going around Brooker's head to the tune of Eleanore Rigby. The same thing has started happening to me since I read the article.

― chap, Sunday, November 30, 2008 2:33 PM (ten years ago

when I read that Robert Mugabe died the other day, I thought of this

sarahell, Saturday, 7 September 2019 21:10 (six years ago)

/There was a Charlie Brooker article some time ago in which he said that every time Robert Mugabe was mentioned, his name started going around Brooker's head to the tune of Eleanore Rigby. The same thing has started happening to me since I read the article.

― chap, Sunday, November 30, 2008 2:33 PM (ten years ago/

when I read that Robert Mugabe died the other day, I thought of this


Hunh, now this is happening to me, but to the tune of Love’s “Robert Montgomery”.

bendy, Sunday, 8 September 2019 00:42 (six years ago)

♫ Octa octa,
gimme the news,
I've got a bad case
of loving you ♫

Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:37 (six years ago)

*Octo octa obv

Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 09:38 (six years ago)

this content's not available right now ---> that joke isn't funny anymore by The Smiths

sarahell, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 16:32 (six years ago)

There's a store here called "Pet Places". My wife and I always sing it to the tune of "Face Dances" when we drive by.

j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 17:57 (six years ago)

Hunh, now this is happening to me, but to the tune of Love’s “Robert Montgomery”.

How do you think Arthur Lee wrote "Robert Montgomery"?

The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:00 (six years ago)

Triggered by seeing the thread 'The Irish' on ilx:

"Help the Irish,
One time they were just like you
Drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue
Help the Irish
Don't just put them in a home
Can't have much fun when they're all on their own
Give a hand, if you can
Try and help them to unwind
Give them hope and give them comfort
'Cause they're running out of time"

:-/

Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:19 (six years ago)

i'd make bolognese for ya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6iYWJxHqs

unashamed and trash (Unctious), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:22 (six years ago)

Better to 'God Gave Rock and Roll to You'.

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:24 (six years ago)

To me, Octo Octa doesn't summon Robert Plamer.

It summons Thompson Twins.

https://youtu.be/APyl6Cnbfzw

Ramen? No thanks, I prefer them cooked (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:38 (six years ago)

sometimes I like to sing to owen pallet's midnight directives, "the way will be lit, i'm a fat piece of shit, oh whooooah"

unashamed and trash (Unctious), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 05:03 (six years ago)

rude!

sarahell, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 20:01 (six years ago)

When I attempt to crack macadamia nuts "woooaah macadamia, fighting to survive"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSbyk0VReyo

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 20:29 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

What becomes of the brokenhearted?
Had to shit
But only farted

When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 October 2019 18:10 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

I see a bunch of Yang 2020 stickers around including ones that say "Yang Gang" which immediately got this, which I completely forgot existed for the last 30 years, stuck in my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXGgWf2lacM

joygoat, Friday, 1 November 2019 16:02 (six years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_with_a_Shotgun

Hobo with a Shotgun, I know, I know, it’s serious

Manitobiloba (Kim), Friday, 1 November 2019 20:18 (six years ago)

^^ yes!!!

sarahell, Friday, 1 November 2019 20:19 (six years ago)

Rudy! Giuliani! to the tune of Hey! Luciani!

Fine Toothcomb (sonofstan), Friday, 1 November 2019 20:45 (six years ago)

* "Jojo Rabbit" to the "mojo rising" part of "L.A. Woman"

* "Tammy and the T-Rex" to "Devil in a Blue Dress"

weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 1 November 2019 22:07 (six years ago)

whenever someone says "it's cold outside" (which they did today ALOT) I immediately think "and the paint's peeling off of my walls"

henry s, Saturday, 2 November 2019 00:48 (six years ago)

'have a good one' makes me think of Joanna newsom

flappy bird, Monday, 4 November 2019 04:18 (six years ago)

Jonathan Demme's Ricki and the Flash, to the tune of the Dickies' "Manny Moe and Jack."

weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:22 (six years ago)

"the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive" to the tune of Klaatu's "Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III"

weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 November 2019 20:29 (six years ago)

black friday to the tune of Black Planet by Sisters of Mercy

sarahell, Thursday, 28 November 2019 22:45 (six years ago)

Saw an ad for ham from a 1960s newspaper that a friend posted on fb. In addition to the shank portion, the ad noted that one could also purchase the “butt face portion.”

Now whenever I hear “butt face portion” it’ll be to the tune of Foreigner’s “Juke Box Hero.”

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 29 November 2019 00:27 (six years ago)

Got stars in his eyes

they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 November 2019 01:53 (six years ago)

(to the tune of "Dirty Boots")

TURKEY SOUP
TURKEY SOUP, BABY

icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Saturday, 30 November 2019 00:48 (six years ago)

I enjoying singing TRASH NIGHT!! to the tune of Parliament's FLASHLIGHT when I need to wheel the bins out to the curb for the garbage collection.

Chantilly Bass, Saturday, 30 November 2019 05:57 (six years ago)

I nicked this from somewhere else but I still sing - when the occasion arises - 'lock the taskbar' to the tune of Rock the Casbah.

Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Saturday, 30 November 2019 10:56 (six years ago)

it's upthread in a couple places. a great one imo.

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 30 November 2019 16:39 (six years ago)

Thinking of you
And the things you do to me
That make me love you
Now I'm living in Exeter

does it look like i'm here (jon123), Saturday, 30 November 2019 18:35 (six years ago)

Mr. Bonamassa
Mr. Joe Bonamassa

(Mista Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina )

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 08:49 (six years ago)

Thinking of you
And the things you do to me
That make me love you
Now I'm living in Exeter

― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Saturday, November 30, 2019 6:35 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hah!

YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 10:56 (six years ago)

xp: nice!

☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 11:27 (six years ago)

And if the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
You're gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn into the wick
Oooh.....

OK boomer

Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 7 December 2019 04:00 (six years ago)

haaaaaaaaa

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 7 December 2019 12:23 (six years ago)

one month passes...

In the jungle
The mighty jungle
The Lion sleeps tonight

Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros, Ouroboros,

... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 January 2020 17:49 (six years ago)

Wuhan!! Got You All In Check

joygoat, Thursday, 30 January 2020 15:39 (six years ago)

where did you get that one from?

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 30 January 2020 15:47 (six years ago)

Any time I hear someone on the radio talk about the corona virus

joygoat, Thursday, 30 January 2020 15:48 (six years ago)

I recently bought some bird food that is "insect and pepper flakes"

Which is great fun to the tune of "Incense and Peppermints"

Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 January 2020 15:50 (six years ago)

xp Wuhan has been a weird constant in my life for a decade now - first I got married there, then my sister-in-law moved there, now I organise students coming from there to the UK. So it's been in my head since 2010. Could be worse.

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 30 January 2020 15:51 (six years ago)

hahaha "insect and pepper flakes"

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:04 (six years ago)

The Corrs, "Breathless": go on, go on.... feed me breakfast

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:05 (six years ago)

Also, my partner uses a "Kleen Kanteen" brand thermos for her coffee, and it has given rise to a number of songs as I wash the dishes, with Sheryl Crow's "Steve McQueen" most badly affected. REM's "Electrolite" (also mentioning McQueen) has also been invoked, along with the "clean machine" line from "Penny Lane."

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:06 (six years ago)

When i was a kid, I thought Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" was Ozzy's "Crazy Train".

Cos he sings Gravy Train but i thought it was Crazy Train

So now that's the way i hear it

Fuck Roger Waters

... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 January 2020 18:27 (six years ago)

local oyster n seafood joint's staff used to wear t-shirts that said Shrimply Irresistible. so basically the robert palmer song no longer even exists for us. we came up with some excellent lines for it, too, but i can't recall 'em right now.

andrew m., Thursday, 30 January 2020 20:45 (six years ago)

xp - I had a similar issue with Stone Roses "I Wanna Be Adored" -- thinking it was a cover of Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" -- years later I still hear "adored" as "your dog"

sarahell, Sunday, 2 February 2020 19:08 (six years ago)

https://imgur.com/a/y2h1rqD

bang a gong

Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:00 (six years ago)

errr

https://imgur.com/a/y2h1rqD

Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:01 (six years ago)

every time I walk down the tinned veg aisle:

https://i.imgur.com/DXMGlPi.jpg

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 17 February 2020 15:23 (six years ago)

lol

☮️ (peace, man), Monday, 17 February 2020 21:04 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

Covid-19

Oh I swear

At this moment

You mean everything

"Yeah usually it's more like 3:22." -John Cage's wife (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 7 March 2020 11:01 (six years ago)

This happened to me this week when I asked my son, "Do you want some soup for lunch?" -- and then immediately started singing "soup for lunch" to "Slave for Love."

a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 7 March 2020 20:25 (six years ago)

Out on the street for a livin'
Picture's only begun
Ooohhh
JOE BIDEN

Darin, Monday, 9 March 2020 06:21 (six years ago)

Also corona-related, to the tune of Personal Jesus;

REACH OUT
TOUCH FACE

Siegbran, Monday, 9 March 2020 06:42 (six years ago)

I hadn't heard or thought about Cut Your Face by June of 44 in years but now I hear "SHOW ME HOW YOU TOUCH YOUR FAAAACE!" in my head many times a day

Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 9 March 2020 21:06 (six years ago)

Covid-19
No we can't dance together
No we can't talk at all
Please take me along when you slide on down

Quinoa pedal (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 16:14 (six years ago)

Sheeeeeeeeee had Covid-19, Covid-19
I loved her so
But she was too young to fall in love
And I was too young to know

does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 16:26 (six years ago)

On a whim, my wife bought something called "Raspberry Rosé."

We both took approximately .0001 seconds to sing "the kind you find in a secondhand store."

Quinoa pedal (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 13 March 2020 01:03 (six years ago)

Sibelius
You're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence
Daily

Robbie Shakespeare’s Sister Lovers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 23:55 (six years ago)

and IIIIIII
I shit on the ceiling
I can't believe it
That you still talk to me

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 00:42 (six years ago)

There's this girl that's been on my mind
All the time
Co-covidio

closed beta (NotEnough), Monday, 6 April 2020 21:57 (six years ago)

we're BAKIN A PIE
to Takin a Ride by the 'mats

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 6 April 2020 21:58 (six years ago)

All masked up and no place to go
Psych 1, Psych 2
What do you know?
All your life is COVID-19
Sesame Street
What does it mean?

I'll tell you what it means...

PRESHAH!

cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 6 April 2020 22:21 (six years ago)

we're BAKIN A PIE
to Takin a Ride by the 'mats

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, April 6, 2020 5:58 PM (one hour ago)


This is awesome.

Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 April 2020 23:17 (six years ago)

this isn't really the same thing cuz it isn't a phrase i saw, but i just heard it today on the radio, so: whenever i hear "jet" by paul macca and wings i always sing "jet! ooohhhooohoohoohhoo, RALPH NADEEEEEER, JAMES SPADER!"

been doing that for years. i can't even remember what the real words are.

― scott seward, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:56 (eleven years ago) link

Last week, my wife asked if I wanted crepes, and I immediately sang back at her, "CREPES! Woo-oo-oo-OOO-oo-oo-OOO-oo-oo..."

SlimAndSlam, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 01:30 (six years ago)

Also corona-related, to the tune of Personal Jesus;

REACH OUT
TOUCH FACE

My Franco sibling in their childhood thought it was "Richard, t'as faim?" and I never hear it differently now

we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 03:21 (six years ago)

Masks
Wait, they don't love you like I love you.

Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 04:25 (six years ago)

PTSD, we're making that green,
People always say, "What the hell does that mean?"

Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 23:10 (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/uiad83p.png

No need to ask, it's an egg separator
Egg separator, egg separator
Egg separator

anatomy of a buttless wonder (unregistered), Thursday, 9 April 2020 17:09 (five years ago)

oh that is really good, that will follow me forever

cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 April 2020 17:15 (five years ago)

When you're sliding into first
And you hear BLAPSQUISHPLOPSLURP
Onomatopoeia

Bo Johnson Coviddied (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 April 2020 17:24 (five years ago)

when i was a kid my bff and i made a whole weird al parody of "smooth operator" called "smooth toilet paper"
it was awesome

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 April 2020 17:26 (five years ago)

Go wipe your ass with the
SMOOTH TOILET PAPAH

Bo Johnson Coviddied (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 April 2020 17:30 (five years ago)

smooooooth
toilet papaaaaaaahh

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 April 2020 17:36 (five years ago)

imagining the phrase "go wipe your ahhhsss" in sade's voice is too much lol

fauci wally (voodoo chili), Thursday, 9 April 2020 17:55 (five years ago)

the one part i remember is the "coast to coast" part which ended

I think I'll diiiiiiiiie
So I buy
the
smooth toilet papaaaah

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:01 (five years ago)

FWIW I have been known to sing the Offspring "you gotta keep 'em sepaRATed" thing while separating eggs. Also helps with recycling.

A seam ripper (a sewing implement) is usually intoned to the tune of "Moon River." Seam ripper, wider than a mile etc.

cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:17 (five years ago)

That said, a friend of mine once worked in an office where someone who used the restroom in a spectacularly malodorous fashion, at about 12:00 every day. This person was stealthy and was never observed in the act. In fact, there was speculation that the person may not even have worked there, but rather was a worker on an adjacent construction site. He or she became known as "the noon shitter."

It became, as they say, A Thing.

Inevitably "noon shitter" became followed by "wider than a mile..."

cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:22 (five years ago)

xp - ha "Seam ripper" for me, translates to "Sex Shooter" by Appolonia 6 -- "Seam Ripper, ripping seams in my direction!"

sarahell, Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:45 (five years ago)

and on the Sade topic -- a friend has a dog named Blade. Another friend and I thought it was funny to pronounce the dog's name "Bla-day" (to rhyme with Sade the singer) which spawned dog-themed lyrics to Sade's greatest hits: Smooth Pupperator, Sweetest Dog Food, etc.

sarahell, Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:48 (five years ago)

That said, a friend of mine once worked in an office where someone who used the restroom in a spectacularly malodorous fashion, at about 12:00 every day. This person was stealthy and was never observed in the act. In fact, there was speculation that the person may not even have worked there, but rather was a worker on an adjacent construction site. He or she became known as "the noon shitter."

It became, as they say, A Thing.

Inevitably "noon shitter" became followed by "wider than a mile..."

― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, April 9, 2020 6:22 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Whoa-oh here he comes
Watch out boy, he'll foul your job
Whoa-oh here he comes
He's a noon shitter

☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:59 (five years ago)

nice

cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:11 (five years ago)

I'm leaning how to code and "yarn start" makes me think of this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHi54FfM29E

The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 April 2020 17:06 (five years ago)

I always hear Prince's Housequake when I see the Outbreak! thread on ILX. Shut up already, damn!

Darin, Friday, 10 April 2020 19:12 (five years ago)

Woah oh black pepper, blam alam!

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 10 April 2020 20:19 (five years ago)

old black pepper, keep on rollin
mississippi moon woncha keep on shinin on me

cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 April 2020 20:37 (five years ago)

If you're lost and you look and you will find me
Six feet apart

cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 April 2020 23:34 (five years ago)

downloading updates ---> I know what boys like by The Waitresses

sarahell, Monday, 13 April 2020 17:46 (five years ago)

Woah oh black pepper, blam alam!

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski)

old black pepper, keep on rollin
mississippi moon woncha keep on shinin on me

― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin)

Ha, for me black pepper is always to the tune of the SPT version of 'Black Metal' by Venom.

emil.y, Monday, 13 April 2020 17:52 (five years ago)

Lay down your bowl
To the gods of shrimp creole

genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 April 2020 18:16 (five years ago)

You don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
That's the Puddle of Mudd

☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 17:00 (five years ago)

hahaha

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 17:38 (five years ago)

COVID-nine-teen
Now we’re sharing the same dream

Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Friday, 17 April 2020 17:14 (five years ago)

don't know much about history
don't know much biology
don't know much immunology
don't know bout epidemiology

but I know more than doctors do
COVID-19 is just the flu
I am such a smart guy, yay for me

genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:26 (five years ago)

classic

☮️ (peace, man), Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:42 (five years ago)

covid nineteen
no we can't dance together
no we can't touch at all
please leave me alone when you leave your house

edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:49 (five years ago)

hah voodoo, I had the same thought

Covid-19
No we can't dance together
No we can't talk at all
Please take me along when you slide on down
― Quinoa pedal (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, March 10, 2020 12:14 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

molon labe, kemo sabe (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 18 April 2020 20:41 (five years ago)

great minds, terrible diseases

edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Saturday, 18 April 2020 20:42 (five years ago)

Sweet, sweet, little Corona

Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 April 2020 17:25 (five years ago)

Just bought Alice Coltrane's 'Ptah, the El Daoud', but I keep singing the title to the tune of 'Mouldy Old Dough' by Lieutenant Pigeon.

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 19 April 2020 17:45 (five years ago)

I kissed my girl
By the factory wall
Ptah, the El Daoud,
Mouldy Old Dough

The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 20 April 2020 05:16 (five years ago)

Shake Shack
Go ahead and give it to me
Shake Shack
Honey, take me through the night

☮️ (peace, man), Monday, 20 April 2020 14:03 (five years ago)

ok but

The Shake Shack is a little old place where
We can get together

molon labe, kemo sabe (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 20 April 2020 15:08 (five years ago)

This probably doesn't count but I always replace the word 'man' in a song with 'nan' today hilarious effect.

To wit: I'm waiting for my nan.
Nan! I feel like a woman.
Nan on the moon.
Naneater.
Nan in the mirror.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 20 April 2020 16:38 (five years ago)

*to hilarious effect. With hilarious effect? Fucking hell.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 20 April 2020 16:38 (five years ago)

Chinaski I love this and it will become my new hobby.

I'm a NAN, yes I am, and I can't help but love you so
Nannish Boy (spelled N... A, child... N)
I'm a nan and so's Lola
Sharp-Dressed Nan

molon labe, kemo sabe (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 20 April 2020 17:40 (five years ago)

any five-syllable phrase with stress on the fourth acquires the melody of the background singers in calexico's 'güero canelo'

mookieproof, Monday, 20 April 2020 17:49 (five years ago)

Albert R Broccoli ---> Mesopotamia by the B-52s

sarahell, Monday, 20 April 2020 18:22 (five years ago)

Hah, Ye Mad Puffin - sharp dressed Nan just made in real life lol!

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 20 April 2020 18:32 (five years ago)

I do the 'nan' (or gran) thing too.

'Space-Gran, I always wanted you to go into / Space-Gran!'

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 22:50 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

brothers
sisters
we don't need this mega vote thing

last updated a group of five done twelve times ago (geoffreyess), Monday, 11 May 2020 23:58 (five years ago)

four weeks pass...

I've been biking around town a lot and finding weird neighborhoods I'd never been in before. Whenever I end up trapped in some subdivision I hear Run's voice from sucker mcs in my head saying 'take that move back it's a cul-de-sac'

joygoat, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 18:10 (five years ago)

aged 7 or 8 i remember my dad singing "all coppers are bastards" to the tune of the line "pop does the weasel" when he didn't know i could hear him -- and then (to my mum's tremendous glee) having to explain to me what it means, why someone would say it, and finally why "bastard" is a bad word that it isn't polite to use

― mark s, Monday, 8 June 2020 16:32 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol

― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Monday, 8 June 2020 16:34 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

well i can't unhear that now

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:23 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 18:50 (five years ago)

proof of the timelessness of the Beatles' melodies:

Something in the way she poops
It's like she's got a second butthole

and

Lovely Rita Taco Maid
Nothing can come between us
When it gets dark
You feed me rice and beans

Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 18:59 (five years ago)

I remember reading somewhere on ILM many years ago, "Lovely Rita Meter Maid two big tittie in an escalade" and to this day I sing that when I hear the song.

Darin, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 20:09 (five years ago)

Cat litter!
Scoop it out to get even

peace, man, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 21:02 (five years ago)

Quesadila, quesadilla men have called you

Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Monday, 15 June 2020 18:10 (five years ago)

“Quesadilla, quesadilla men have NAMED you....”

Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Monday, 15 June 2020 18:11 (five years ago)

two months pass...

Lol

Came to post
Lexeme, the strawberry girl
Lexeme, banana split lady

because of today's Spelling Bee

Quit It And Hit It Sideways (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:53 (five years ago)

I will too often find myself wandering around the apartment singing "I don't know where my phone is...." to the tune of that Nelly Furtado songs, which is double bad 'cos now I can't find my phone and I'm singing a Nelly Furtado song........

m0stlyClean, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:31 (five years ago)

I do the same thing!

peace, man, Friday, 4 September 2020 12:45 (five years ago)

oh see mine is "I want to know where phone is, I want you to show me" dunno if that's worse

sarahell, Friday, 4 September 2020 14:15 (five years ago)

I think you better call my phone
Come on, help me find my shit

Neanderthal, Friday, 4 September 2020 14:44 (five years ago)

"Where is my phone" for me is sung to the tune of "Where is my Mind?"

tater totalitarian (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 September 2020 15:41 (five years ago)

oooh!! good one!

sarahell, Friday, 4 September 2020 15:42 (five years ago)

No no guys, it's to the tune of 'Where is the Love?'

emil.y, Friday, 4 September 2020 15:52 (five years ago)

Where is phone?
Oh baby don't hurt me
don't hurt me
no more

neith moon (ledge), Friday, 4 September 2020 15:53 (five years ago)

both ledge's and emil.y's came into my head before they posted it, lol....

Neanderthal, Friday, 4 September 2020 15:56 (five years ago)

y'all gon make me lose my phone
up in here
up in here

Neanderthal, Friday, 4 September 2020 15:56 (five years ago)

I've been thinking about starting a thread similar to this which is just 'songs you sing to your cat', as every time I feed my boy shrimp & plaice wet food I sing him "I'm gonna feed you shrimp and plaice, gonna stuff it in your face" or similar (usually Prodigy version rather than Max Romeo tbh). Also lots of songs modified to be about his fluff.

emil.y, Friday, 4 September 2020 15:56 (five years ago)

Phone/keys, it is you I'm looking for...

For the cat, it's 'I'm going to feed you Norman, I'm going to feed you, yes I am!' He looks at me like I'm a dick, of course,

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:11 (five years ago)

"ain't no food dish high enough"

Neanderthal, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:16 (five years ago)

anyone incorporating wet ass pussy into their songs for cat repertoire?

sarahell, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:18 (five years ago)

Ha, not yet!

emil.y, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:37 (five years ago)

my best friend has a cat with a big butt and she used to shout DUMPTRUCK at her, and then that word made her boyfriend and I to break into the Thong Song, before stopping once we remembered we were singing it about a cat

Neanderthal, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:43 (five years ago)

I'm pretty sure I've sung "let me see that fluff, Albyyyy, that fluff fluff-fluff fluff-fluff" at my cat.

emil.y, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:48 (five years ago)

lol

Neanderthal, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:52 (five years ago)

awwwwwww Alby!

sarahell, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:24 (five years ago)

Furtado phone search will likely enter my repertory, thank you.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 September 2020 19:55 (five years ago)

I have no clear idea why but every time I read the new US politics thread title I think:

People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows
All entrances delivered, courtesy of winter

Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:58 (five years ago)

(to the tune of "You Get What You Give")

Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
Murder rap to keep you dancin'
With a crime record like Charles Manson
Come around we'll kick your ass in

Neanderthal, Friday, 4 September 2020 19:59 (five years ago)

Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson

WE DIDN'T START THE FIYAH!

tater totalitarian (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 September 2020 20:00 (five years ago)

always love how that song reduces weighty historic moments as 2 second soundbytes

if he was describing the last year, it'd be

Contentious election year
Global pandemic is here
Angry streets, police beats
QAnon is hot

Neanderthal, Friday, 4 September 2020 20:10 (five years ago)

'vid nineteen
on the scene
what else do I HOOS to steen?

(should probably be in Songs where it's fun to say HOOS in place of the actual lyrics)

tater totalitarian (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 September 2020 20:41 (five years ago)

The famous COVID-era phenomenon of Bad Hands (when you’ve touched something from outside of your home and need to wash your hands before doing anything else)

— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) August 28, 2020

saw this tweet, and now every time i go too long without sanitizing i hear springsteen scream "BAD HANDS, you gotta live it everyday!"

ptah el dude (voodoo chili), Friday, 4 September 2020 20:54 (five years ago)

I have no clear idea why but every time I read the new US politics thread title I think:

People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows
All entrances delivered, courtesy of winter

Same!!

syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 September 2020 21:29 (five years ago)

every time I see the name Ted Danson I think of Elvis Costello's "No Dancing" and what it would be like if the lyrics were all about Ted Danson

frogbs, Friday, 4 September 2020 21:32 (five years ago)

Whenever I see an Imperial IPA, the Unrest song plays in my head.

“Pizza House!” (morrisp), Saturday, 5 September 2020 00:09 (five years ago)

but iiii don't feel like Danson
no sir, no Danson for me

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 01:17 (five years ago)

also, xpost: I only know a couple of Unrest songs, am working off West Coast Love Affair and coming up with "i'll meet you IPA..... I'll drink you, IPA"

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 01:18 (five years ago)

haha, that would be better actually

“Pizza House!” (morrisp), Saturday, 5 September 2020 01:25 (five years ago)

had to drive co-worker to a meeting in suburbs that involved taking highway 238 ... i warned him I would get the Misfits stuck in my head ...

We're on 238
We're on 238 ...

he was warned

sarahell, Saturday, 5 September 2020 02:04 (five years ago)

On a recent camping trip someone used a Jetboil to make coffee and I had Jet Boy, Jet Girl stuck in my head for quite a while.

Lily Dale, Saturday, 5 September 2020 02:14 (five years ago)

I absolutely do that with any number that ends with 38

My kid is hardcore into Pokémon lately and I get a bunch of their names set to tunes in my head.

Besides the obvious Siouxsie pronunciation of pikachu, I hear Stevie Nicks or Gene Simmons saying “golduck woman” and Stephen Malamus yelling “not here babe...torchic!”

joygoat, Saturday, 5 September 2020 15:11 (five years ago)

My Bloody valentine
dead rotting valentine
you made me rip out your heaaaaaaaaaaaaart

Neanderthal, Saturday, 5 September 2020 15:29 (five years ago)

Whoa, Antietam
We could make it together

ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 September 2020 01:40 (five years ago)

Gonna see the Rona
Got a ticket for the Bay City Rona

ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 September 2020 01:56 (five years ago)

Don’t think I’ve ever looked at the menu of an Indian restaurant without singing “Vindaloo!” to the tune of ABBA’s “Waterloo.”

Can Butch Vig not do "dynamimcs"? (morrisp), Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:43 (five years ago)

totally owned by the actual lyrics of "I Just Wanna Have Something To Do" for me

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:49 (five years ago)

OTM

ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 September 2020 16:49 (five years ago)

Here’s your ticket
Hear the drummer get triptych

ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 September 2020 00:08 (five years ago)

Or substitute on the first line instead of you prefer

ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 September 2020 02:43 (five years ago)

whenever i see last posted by ilxor "One Eye Open" I get "I'm Not Losing Sleep" by Julian Cope stuck in my head for at least 30 minutes

sarahell, Friday, 18 September 2020 05:38 (five years ago)

“Born Under Punches”/The Jerk
“Take a look at these cans!”

ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 September 2020 04:02 (five years ago)

Lol, nice.

This is still a problem for me.

Various things get sandwiched into Hall & Oates' Maneater these days:

Whoa-oh here she comes
Watch out boy, she'll raise your boat
Whoa-oh here she comes
She's an airbladder

📺👁️ (peace, man), Saturday, 26 September 2020 13:16 (five years ago)

Me dealing with a constipated dog that I was walking last week had an rewrite of the Shoop Shoop song in my head.

"Is it in the street?
Oh no, that's just some sticks
Is it by his feet?
Oh no, that's melted Twix
If you wanna no
The dogg didn't go
It's still in his butt"

LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 September 2020 13:35 (five years ago)

oh my God, that's super-relevant to my life right now.

📺👁️ (peace, man), Saturday, 26 September 2020 16:09 (five years ago)

*ugly kid joe voice* "10 things I still hate about you!"

(needs a "still" to work, in my head)

swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Saturday, 26 September 2020 16:34 (five years ago)

We watch a lot of Dodger games in my house and whenever Kike Hernandez comes to bat my wife sings “Kike, do you love me?”

sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 27 September 2020 01:20 (five years ago)

it's a good day for you to learn alt-0233

Thoia Thoing, Maryland (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 27 September 2020 02:24 (five years ago)

Ha - sorry. Kee-kay.

sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 27 September 2020 02:55 (five years ago)

I read right past that and wondered why he was coming to beat your wife.

error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 27 September 2020 03:32 (five years ago)

"It's your turn..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LED83F8tW10

calstars, Sunday, 27 September 2020 10:59 (five years ago)

I was vaguely thinking of making spaghetti carbonara for dinner.

Now my head is like, "going to carbonara in my mind."

Can't you see the bacon

velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 27 September 2020 18:28 (five years ago)

lol

in my mouth, it's paaasta carbonaara

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 September 2020 18:49 (five years ago)

Someone in my social media orbit posted something about how the way to deal with pandemic isolation plus winter isolation is to "think like a Norwegian."

And of course we all went off on a long mental vacation singing that to the tune of "Walk Like an Egyptian."

zombeekeeper (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 22:54 (five years ago)

“How I got COVID,” to the tune of “How I Got Over”

She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 October 2020 23:15 (five years ago)

Could also be “How I Got Rona,” I guess

She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 October 2020 23:16 (five years ago)

whenever I see this thread I think of that Burger King ad with little people cowboys singing “Buffalo mini sirloin burgers” over a campfire

brimstead, Sunday, 11 October 2020 01:08 (five years ago)

I’m currently reading Yoon Ha Lee’s Revenant Gun, every time I pick it up I start singing the title to the tune of The Who’s “Eminence Front” to myself.

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 11 October 2020 01:31 (five years ago)

I keep singing rona to the tune of Craig Mclachlan's Mona.

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 11 October 2020 12:35 (five years ago)

Recent thread gets High Plains Drifter by the beastie boys stuck in my head “read me my rights, as if I didn’t know this / threw me in the tank with TRUMP GOT COVID”

joygoat, Sunday, 11 October 2020 12:42 (five years ago)

Ha, will now start singing Rona to Bo Diddley's "Mona."

She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 October 2020 12:50 (five years ago)

every time I see the word “hotelier” in my head I hear Juvenile saying it

A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Sunday, 11 October 2020 14:09 (five years ago)

I feel like it happens w a couple of other words too, but that’s the one that makes me irl lol

A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Sunday, 11 October 2020 14:10 (five years ago)

I guess I'm sadly unaware of Bo Diddley's stuff - hadn't realised it was a cover! Thanks James.

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 11 October 2020 14:14 (five years ago)

“How I got COVID,” to the tune of “How I Got Over”

― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, October 10, 2020 4:15 PM (yesterday)

haha now -- 2nd level -- "How I got COVID" to the tune of "Crimson and Clover"

sarahell, Sunday, 11 October 2020 15:53 (five years ago)

A few years back I glimpsed a story on the news where the headline was “Bizarre Manspreading Assault” (presumably, per Google, this one), for some reason my brain immediately inserted that phrase into the scansion of Pete Townshend’s “Let My Love Open The Door”, and ever since I’ve found myself intermittently singing “bizarre manspreading assault” under my breath to the melody of the Townshend song entirely unprompted by any reminder of manspreading or “Let My Love Open The Door”’s existence.
(I guess I could’ve posted that in this thread at any point since 2017 but this is the first time since then that an instance of the described phenomenon has lined up closely enough with a thread revive for me to a) Remember the thread’s existence and b) Not go “aww, man, I know this has happened to be before, I just can’t think of how or with what song.”)

really looking forward to wearily scrolling past all your posts (Champiness), Sunday, 11 October 2020 21:55 (five years ago)

wowwww

Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 October 2020 00:22 (five years ago)

‘Mats
Wait, they don’t love you like I love you
#OneThread

She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 October 2020 04:19 (five years ago)

Pinky & the Brain obviously already have an iconic theme song, but also: to the tune of "Blame it on the Rain."

Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 October 2020 16:56 (five years ago)

there was a buttermilk culture/in the heart of the refrigerator

brimstead, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 17:47 (five years ago)

♬ "Demonyms spoken in claasss todayyyyyy" ♬

Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 15 October 2020 11:18 (five years ago)

POLL pots, POLL pots, POLL pots, POLL pots

Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 October 2020 23:45 (five years ago)

POLL pots, POLL pots, POLL pots, POLL pots

it's the new Oktoberfest Pretzels
they're 2 for 7 bucks
...

sarahell, Friday, 16 October 2020 16:12 (five years ago)

I mean, as the threadstarter I had absolutely no hopes for it. Turns out Lindelof did the right thing in the end, which I didn't expect in the slightest. Happy to have expectations undone.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, October 17, 2020 12:53 PM (three hours ago)


”I AM THE THREADSTARTER!”

Guitar Dick (morrisp), Saturday, 17 October 2020 23:06 (five years ago)

“I AM THE GOD OF THREADSTARTING!”

Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2020 23:10 (five years ago)

lol x2

sarahell, Sunday, 18 October 2020 19:24 (five years ago)

big RAGGS aka the

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 18 October 2020 20:43 (five years ago)

The name of a certain lawyer who used to be mayor of NYC to the tune of “Gary, Indiana.” Been doing this since he WAS mayor, I think, don’t believe I posted it before/zingposting.

Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 October 2020 06:31 (five years ago)

We watch a lot of Dodger games in my house and whenever Kike Hernandez comes to bat my wife sings “Kike, do you love me?”

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, September 26, 2020 9:20 PM (four weeks ago)

At this point in our household, "Randy Arozarena" is always sung to the tune of "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer."

Weston-super-Mare, Minehead, Lynmouth, Ilfracome, etc. (SlimAndSlam), Sunday, 25 October 2020 21:42 (five years ago)

"Certified Lover Boy" reminds me of "Sugar pie honey bunch" from the Four Tops "I Can't Help Myself"

irerisered, Sunday, 1 November 2020 22:02 (five years ago)

Lots of phrases that fit the meter of “Vamos a la Playa”

JoeStork, Sunday, 1 November 2020 22:38 (five years ago)

"Charlemagne" to the tune of Lou Reed singing "Sally Mae" on "Foggy Notion."

An Andalusian Do-rag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 19:23 (five years ago)

wait, he isn't actually singing Charlemagne????????

sarahell, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 19:31 (five years ago)

Didn't the Windows icon for the top-level folder used to be 'My Computer'? I swear at some point it changed to 'This PC' without me noticing, because I've only recently caught myself unconsciously saying 'This PC be Warren G' when I open it.

Some dads are not YOUR dad (Old Lunch), Saturday, 14 November 2020 20:55 (five years ago)

Hahahahaha

Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 14 November 2020 21:14 (five years ago)

yes it was My Computer for a very very long time

sarahell, Saturday, 14 November 2020 22:06 (five years ago)

Someone tweeted an alert they’d gotten from Reverb about Sun Ra’s synths, plus their “play now, pay later” payment plans on gear. The tweeter said, “Sun Ra AND predatory lending? Now that’s my kind of email!”

Now I can only hear “predatory lending” to the tune of Sun Ra’s “Interplanetary Music.”

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 14 November 2020 22:12 (five years ago)

"four seasons total landscaping" ... (sorry) ... to Human League "Don't You Want Me"

I was working at four seasons total landscaping ... when I met you

sarahell, Saturday, 14 November 2020 22:19 (five years ago)

The four years we have had have been such good at times
I still love you
But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do

kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 November 2020 23:21 (five years ago)

scratch that:

The four years we have had have been such good times
I still love you now hate you
And now I think it's time I lived my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do

kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 November 2020 23:24 (five years ago)

the song’s scenario is basically the current ‘dialogue’ between Trump and America: “You know I don’t believe you when you say that you don’t need me” —“Yeah, whatever. We’re so over now”. #doyousee?

kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 November 2020 23:39 (five years ago)

I wanna know
Have you ever seen Lorraine
Falling down
Down the stairs

Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Sunday, 15 November 2020 01:59 (five years ago)

Whooooa
We're half way there
Whoooo-oaaah
Falling down the stairs

Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Sunday, 15 November 2020 02:00 (five years ago)

both ace

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 November 2020 02:02 (five years ago)

underused subject matter in songs

Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Sunday, 15 November 2020 03:01 (five years ago)

I'll tell you once more before I get to the stairs
I'm falling down

I'm falling down
groos!
I'm falling down
groos!

early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 15 November 2020 03:40 (five years ago)

just want to say that I have always sung it in my head as "Lorraine"

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 15 November 2020 03:45 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

My mother-in-law recently regifted me a huge cheese spread that she received as a token of appreciation for some legal work she did for someone. So now, every time I open my fridge, I hear to the tune of Ziggy Marley:

Wisconsin Cheeseman, where is your past?
Wisconsin Cheeseman, how long will you last?

peace, man, Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:21 (five years ago)

I am a cheeseman for the county

(the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:23 (five years ago)

Lol I love the randomness of that... but did "African Herbsman" somehow get mixed up in it?

Josefa, Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:29 (five years ago)

This is the inverse phenomenon, but thinking of John Bonham singing from other thread reminded me that I can never, ever hear “Out On The Tiles” w/o the little song he wrote that Page based the riff on:
I’m out on the tiles
I feel a little better, now I’ve had a pint of bitter and
I’m out on the tiles

early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:36 (five years ago)

Wait where is this Bonham singing discussion?

that is how it crumbles cookiewise (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 5 December 2020 21:20 (five years ago)

really about John Paul Jones singing in Zeppelin thread

early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 5 December 2020 21:37 (five years ago)

Most car license plate holders that have the name of the dealership at the bottom I sing to "Werewolves of London" because many do scan:

Honda of Oakland
Audi of Berkeley
Putnam Toyota

though enough of these do fit the Werewolves of London rhythm, my brain ends up hurting when I take note of one that does not fit because I will try and make it fit?

sarahell, Saturday, 5 December 2020 22:32 (five years ago)

I just tried and all of these work, also I think I’m stuck w this now

early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 5 December 2020 23:03 (five years ago)

a-ooooooo, Honda of Oakland

lol

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 December 2020 04:22 (five years ago)

I love that

Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:58 (five years ago)

CHANGELOG

Wash away my troubles
Wash away my shame
I'm on the road to chang-e-log

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 16:25 (five years ago)

assembling a dresser and the manual has instructions for the chest and then the drawers, including a diagram for "drawer parts" -- Hole / Doll Parts

I am/
drawer parts/
drawer right/
drawer left

I am/
drawer top/
drawer knob/
drawer back

I'm missing the drawer screws
missing the drawer screws
what should I do??

sarahell, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 18:43 (five years ago)

Every time I see Sanjay Gupta on CNN, I get the Pixie's Subbacultcha stuck in my head.

And look at Don Lemon in a funny kind of way, what you call it
When you look at the guy in a curious kind of way
You know when you SANJAY GUPTA.

Darin, Thursday, 10 December 2020 02:40 (five years ago)

I made a thread for my werewolves of london issue:

Thread for Car Dealership Names on License Plate Holders that Can Be Sung to the Melody of Werewolves of London

sarahell, Thursday, 10 December 2020 15:03 (five years ago)

Nvidia RTX series GPUs, which we are installing at work, keeps bringing the Sweet Sixteen album art into my brain... yay.

Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 21:56 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTcZ9THPX1E

"She's a eggbreaker,
love taker,
cruel baker run this prison like a man.
Eggbreaker, love-taker,
shoe-maker,
won't you cut my shoes for free.
Eggbreaker, Brubaker..."

A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 11:34 (five years ago)

He came from the glory
*clap clap*
He came from the glories of Swindon

Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 12:22 (five years ago)

I must've read the phrase 'keep refrigerated' hundreds of times before yesterday but now that I've inexplicably read it in the style of the Offspring I don't know that I'll ever read it the same again.

You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 13:11 (five years ago)

heh it is the true heir to the "Refrigerate After Opening" to Jello Biafra's delivery of the phrase "Holiday in Cambodia"

sarahell, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:51 (five years ago)

I will often say the word "Oolong" in manner similar to the ULLAA sound from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds.

MarkoP, Sunday, 27 December 2020 06:19 (five years ago)

This barely fits the thread—but in “Absolutely Sweet Marie,” when Dylan sings, “Well, I got the FEEEVER,” I always think he’s gonna finish with: “...for the flavor of a Pringle!”

Qui-Gon's Noble End (morrisp), Sunday, 27 December 2020 06:47 (five years ago)

Car Dealership Names on License Plate Holders that Can Be Sung to the Melody of Werewolves of London

I have a similar issue with Burien Chevrolet, which always starts Thunder Road playing in my head.

Lily Dale, Sunday, 27 December 2020 06:48 (five years ago)

The painting "Little Red Note: Dordrecht" popped up on my screensaver the other day, and my brain started singing "Little Red Dordrecht, you're movin' much too fast." But I'm not sure if that counts because I had to drop a word to make it work.

Lily Dale, Sunday, 27 December 2020 06:53 (five years ago)

hahahahah

sarahell, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:34 (five years ago)

Every time I see a DeWalt power tool I sing their brand name to the tune of 'Down on the Street'.

Telly Salivas (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:51 (five years ago)

Thanks to Nigella Lawson, I have spent a good chunk of the day singing "microwave" to the tune or "Rico Suave"

Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 19:54 (five years ago)

I, I want you
Hauntology

Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:08 (five years ago)

"Beef Bourgignon" to 'Carol of the bells'

kinder, Friday, 8 January 2021 23:02 (five years ago)

QAnon to the tune of Rhiannon, how do I make it stop?

kites aren't fun (NickB), Saturday, 9 January 2021 18:37 (five years ago)

“will Q ever win?”

partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Sunday, 10 January 2021 15:09 (five years ago)

All your life you've never seen / a president treated more unfairly

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 10 January 2021 23:44 (five years ago)

Timothee Chalamet, to the tune of "sur le pont d'Avignon"

Lily Dale, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 02:05 (five years ago)

loll

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 10:47 (five years ago)

someone i work with is named 3mm4 c0nn33ly and every time i say her name i have to stop myself from making it sound like a darts announcer going 'ONE hundred and EIGH-TEEE!!'

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 10:48 (five years ago)

haha, Lily's one is great too

A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 11:24 (five years ago)

'Q Anon' always sets off the 'and on and on and onnn...' bit of Don't Stop Believin' for me - which is distressing as I see it about 10 times a day at the moment.

(the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 11:48 (five years ago)

I am dying at "Micro! Wave!"

flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:09 (five years ago)

Cranch!
Won’t pick it up
Take them lights away

Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 January 2021 00:08 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

when I see the TRUE DETECTIVE thread my brain sings Undertones “true confessions”: “TRUETRUETRUETRUETRUE TRUE DETECTIVE!!!”

brimstead, Friday, 5 February 2021 18:43 (five years ago)

hahahahahah

sarahell, Friday, 5 February 2021 18:46 (five years ago)

This weekend, I was charged with distracting my partner's dog with a freeze-dried "Wild Weenie" treat product. Unfortunately, just at that moment, I had "Angry Johnny" by Poe stuck in my head. It begins.

honk honk honkin' on Bobo's door (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:02 (five years ago)

The Police Message In A Bottle gets triggered in my brain whenever I see KFC's local billboards Chicken in a bucket

Siegbran, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:27 (five years ago)

I live fairly near Holloway Road in London, whenever I see reference to it or go past it I have to sing Lindsey Buckingham's "Holiday Road"

Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:40 (five years ago)

xpost i'll send an extra crisp to the world

he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:55 (five years ago)

when I see the TRUE DETECTIVE thread my brain sings Undertones “true confessions”: “TRUETRUETRUETRUETRUE TRUE DETECTIVE!!!”

― brimstead, Friday, February 5, 2021 6:43 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

For me it's Devo's "Whip It": "Try True Detective / It's not too late"

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:00 (five years ago)

The Police Message In A Bottle gets triggered in my brain whenever I see KFC's local billboards Chicken in a bucket

lmao

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:07 (five years ago)

Wow, I somehow never connected the syllabic pattern of "Message in a Bottle" with my near-constant "Girlfriend in a Coma" trochee fixation.

Up to now I would almost certainly immediately sing "chicken in a bucket I know, I know, it's serious."

Now I am going to have to completely reassess "Message in a Bottle." In both directions! So like I can sing "Message in a bottle I know, I know, it's serious." But also everything like "kitten with a backpack" can be Policified, not just Smithsed.

This is mindblowing.

baelien (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:16 (five years ago)

I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Girlfriend in a coma, yeah

baelien (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:25 (five years ago)

lmao

Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:29 (five years ago)

ditto re immediately going to Girlfriend in a Coma!

kinder, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:04 (five years ago)

probably due to the long-standing "chicken in a korma, I know, I know..."

kinder, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:05 (five years ago)

when I was a kid everybody talked about Ozzy's "Crazy Train", but I didn't think I'd heard it before (turns out...I actually hadn't).

so I heard "Have a Cigar" by Pink Floyd and when they said "riding the gravy train" I thought they said "riding the Crazy train" and I wasl ike "why do people think this is a classic heavy metal song, wtf, there's an organ in it"

he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:31 (five years ago)

"i'll send an extra crisp to the world" is A+

honk honk honkin' on Bobo's door (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:52 (five years ago)

Sammy Hagar
Let me slip away on you
Sammy Hagar
You’ve seen better days

Guys don’t @ me because I tazed my own balls alright? (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 11 February 2021 00:33 (five years ago)

"monkey of cheekiness" to the tune of slayer's "altar of sacrifice"

massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 12 February 2021 06:44 (five years ago)

Not mine, but I stumbled on this account the other day and had a good laugh.

Cecil County Circuit Courthousehttps://t.co/p9n0YrVrul pic.twitter.com/CBfyGRxmr0

— Wiki Titles Singable to TMNT Themesong (@wiki_tmnt) February 24, 2021

Mingus (Joni Mitchell album)https://t.co/yDkIHUuF96 pic.twitter.com/Q7IYxgTzqb

— Wiki Titles Singable to TMNT Themesong (@wiki_tmnt) February 23, 2021

British Journal of Nutritionhttps://t.co/rB7jBgdrXa pic.twitter.com/XdV6n5qdQa

— Wiki Titles Singable to TMNT Themesong (@wiki_tmnt) February 21, 2021

peace, man, Thursday, 25 February 2021 12:22 (five years ago)

that's amazing

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 25 February 2021 12:32 (five years ago)

reminds me of the "Devon County Council"/"Everybody Dance Now" thing I still think about a lot

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 25 February 2021 12:32 (five years ago)

Twitter with a blue check
Twitter with a blue check
Twitter with a blue check on

The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:12 (five years ago)

https://unbornwhiskeyy.tumblr.com/post/644104077733691392

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:17 (five years ago)

When I hear the chorus of Lady Gaga's Poker Face, my brain always sings "come on Barbie let's go party" instead of "she's got me like nobody"

J. Sam, Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:26 (five years ago)

Me too - I think it's fairly common, weirdly

kinder, Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:27 (five years ago)

Ah, I should have googled that. I feel less alone now!

J. Sam, Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:33 (five years ago)

TMNT is total trochee fixation

Apologies for lame "obligatory relevant xkcd" but here

display names are for n00bs (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:30 (five years ago)

well that's a new word for me

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:31 (five years ago)

^ found the non-English major

display names are for n00bs (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:35 (five years ago)

Sigourney Weaver, I believe you can get me through the night

display names are for n00bs (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 27 February 2021 19:33 (five years ago)

Whenever the phrase “pooper scooper” is uttered (which happens from time to time), it is sung to the tune of the obvious ABBA song.

stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Sunday, 28 February 2021 01:35 (five years ago)

"take a chance on me"?

That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 February 2021 03:36 (five years ago)

"take a dump on me"?

Hideous Lump, Sunday, 28 February 2021 06:13 (five years ago)

There's a popular trades aggregating site in the UK called Check-A-Trade and the music they use in their jingle is based on the last notes in the William Tell overture (Check-A-TRADE! Check A Trade Dot Com).
But whenever I see the name, I just get the opening chant from "Take A Chance On Me"

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Sunday, 28 February 2021 11:11 (five years ago)

are the trades free?

sarahell, Sunday, 28 February 2021 17:11 (five years ago)

I see where you're going with that but sadly not

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Sunday, 28 February 2021 17:31 (five years ago)

Check-A-Trade Dot Com
Go tell your mom
Baby, trades are fun
Check-A-Trade's the one

stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Sunday, 28 February 2021 17:37 (five years ago)

(guess it would be "mum" in the UK though, huh)

stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Sunday, 28 February 2021 17:37 (five years ago)

I never understood why “dot cum” wasn’t the exclusive domain suffix for porn sites.

Guys don’t @ me because I tazed my own balls alright? (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 28 February 2021 18:56 (five years ago)

because porn is harder to misspell

sarahell, Sunday, 28 February 2021 19:06 (five years ago)

whenever i see white rice in the supermarket or something i hear lou reed sing "white rice" to the tune of "white light", with the same immediacy as the opening bar, and it always makes me laugh

maelin, Monday, 1 March 2021 13:58 (five years ago)

White rice/white meat

Guys don’t @ me because I tazed my own balls alright? (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 1 March 2021 14:32 (five years ago)

Huh. When I see white rice my head goes to Grandmaster Flash.

White... riiice... Vision dreams of passion / and all the while I think of you

chillin' like Emperor Maximilian (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 1 March 2021 18:43 (five years ago)

when I see white rice, my head goes to the your terrible ideas thread and the one about "rice that is brown"

sarahell, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 01:14 (five years ago)

guided by voices:

issa rae don't worry / if the road's a little worn
it's a cold and filthy chasm / that we're traveling on

orifex, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:01 (five years ago)

Magwitch
Magwitch, they call him Magwitch

The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 March 2021 01:04 (five years ago)

Property Needs Assessment --> Self-Obsessed and Sexee by Sonic Youth

Property Needs Assessment all the way

(all the way)

sarahell, Friday, 5 March 2021 05:49 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

kind of a stretch but my spouse is the chair an academic department committee that everyone just calls "AC" and whenever she mentions it I get this image stuck in my head, often another of our colleagues face in place of the puncher because they look sort of similar
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/EveryoneShouldBeKilled.jpg

joygoat, Friday, 19 March 2021 14:33 (five years ago)

Whenever I order sushi my brain starts singing, "weel may the eel roll, the eel roll, the eel roll."

Lily Dale, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:29 (five years ago)

popular Netflix docuseries: Murder Among the Mormons ----> "Welcome to the Jungle"

sarahell, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 05:35 (five years ago)

Walgreens vaccine to the tune of 'Christine Sixteen'

You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 13:40 (five years ago)

Hey to the tune of Pixies hey, every time...

JimCarrey, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 15:44 (five years ago)

My daughter’s partner began singing “chicken steak” taking with Caribou’s “Odessa” tonight & it will forever be burned in there

Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Chicken steak
Who knows what she’s gonna bake?

"The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 16 April 2021 04:23 (four years ago)

Just now read a thread title and musically translated it into

Fender, Jazzmaster
Boom boom boom boom
https://i.ibb.co/whdYGG3/Suburban-Lawns-insert1.jpg

You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 21:10 (four years ago)

Shatt al-Arab
and you're to blame
you give the Gulf
a bad name

I said maybe, you're gonna be the one that shaves me (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 12:08 (four years ago)

A+

sarahell, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 16:04 (four years ago)

Peaky Blinders, to the tune of “Kinky Reggae”

A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 May 2021 01:05 (four years ago)

"better than bullion" to the tune of "kooler than Jesus"

sarahell, Sunday, 2 May 2021 07:49 (four years ago)

Stevie Williams
Coming from the body heat

(the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Sunday, 2 May 2021 08:56 (four years ago)

"Cut my life into pieces
As per my last email"

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Sunday, 2 May 2021 09:19 (four years ago)

"The Muppet Babies" to the tune of Muse's 'Plug In Baby':

The Muppet Babies
Crucify my enemies

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 2 May 2021 10:08 (four years ago)

Chorus of That Don't Impress Me Much to the tune of the chorus of Higher Love by Steve Winwood

hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 2 May 2021 11:18 (four years ago)

The Muppet Babies
Crucify my enemies

irl lol!

kinder, Sunday, 2 May 2021 15:41 (four years ago)

After getting indian food yesterday -

Every thing was fine down here
What you call it here, call it what you will here
Way down down down in this onion kulcha

joygoat, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:28 (four years ago)

three weeks pass...

I want to Timothée
I want to Chalamet
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah pic.twitter.com/RS6G6izCkz

— Noah Garfinkel (@NoahGarfinkel) May 28, 2021

bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Saturday, 29 May 2021 16:09 (four years ago)

"Timmy Mallett" to the tune of Wiz Kalifa's 'Black And Yellow':

Uh huh, you know what it is
Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 6 June 2021 07:23 (four years ago)

George Michael's 'Too Funky' - the first line "Hey, you're just too funky for me" replaced with "I hope you saved some turkey for me".

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 6 June 2021 11:51 (four years ago)

I swear there was a commercial in the early 90s that was an extreme ripoff of C+C Music Factory with the “everybody dance now” replaced by the words “condition by clairol”.

Anyway I have that commercial stuck in my head it with “pacifico clara” instead

joygoat, Sunday, 6 June 2021 22:23 (four years ago)

It's always been "Devon County Council" for me

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 7 June 2021 00:44 (four years ago)


someone i work with is named 3mm4 c0nn33ly and every time i say her name i have to stop myself from making it sound like a darts announcer going 'ONE hundred and EIGH-TEEE!!'


I have a colleague I won’t name, but it’s hard not to think of his name without it being sung to the tune of Culture Club’s Do You Really Want To Hurt Me.

Alba, Monday, 7 June 2021 00:48 (four years ago)

“I like that Rick Astley song, ‘Ummagumma’”

“…”

“Ummagumma give you up
Ummagumma let you down
Ummagumma run around and hurt you”

"The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 7 June 2021 01:48 (four years ago)

two weeks pass...

i always seem to sub one line in sound of silence

"people talking without speaking"

becomes

"people pooping without wiping"

cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 June 2021 16:00 (four years ago)

Zinedine
Why can't you be true?

Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 July 2021 17:11 (four years ago)

Came across this line from a W.H. Auden play: "Revolutionary worker/ I get what you mean/ but what you're needing/'s a revolution within," and now my brain can't stop singing it to the tune of Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous."

Lily Dale, Thursday, 15 July 2021 04:20 (four years ago)

LOL

aging goth couple™ (morrisp), Thursday, 15 July 2021 04:37 (four years ago)

hahahah

I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 15 July 2021 12:07 (four years ago)

Newport Folk Fest has taken on the tune of Camper Van Beethoven's No More Bullshit in my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uc0WnqQo5w

peace, man, Monday, 26 July 2021 13:28 (four years ago)

“Coconut Yogurts” was on the shopping list, and my brain did this v strongly to the tune of “Buffalo Soldier.”

ghost runner on first (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 05:17 (four years ago)

Stolen from Africa
Placed in my shopping cart

trial by wombat (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 11:17 (four years ago)

Coconut yogurt
Milk-based culture
Fermenting sugars
With Bifidobacteria

Singing: Mmm Danone / Mmm-mm Danone

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 11:32 (four years ago)

there's a bar I visit
that's Wu-Tang themed and plays nothing
but 90s hip hop.

i love every visit.
and it's not just the usual songs either.
wide variety.

― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), dinsdag 27 juli 2021 20:10

my new favourite verse of "How Will I Know"

tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 18:21 (four years ago)

hahaha

making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 18:36 (four years ago)

On Lok restaurant always puts “California Gurls”into my head.

"The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 19:22 (four years ago)

someone on social media posted about a project called Alternative Art School

now it is permanently to the tune of Alternative Ulster

sarahell, Thursday, 29 July 2021 02:29 (four years ago)

Girlfriend is a big John Mayer + Seinfeld fan. Every time Love On the Weekend comes on we sing:

Love on the weekend
Love on the weekend
I’m out there, Jerry
And I’m lovin’ every minute of it

triggercut, Thursday, 29 July 2021 12:15 (four years ago)

We've had watermelon-feta salad a couple of times this summer which in my head is invariably sung by Harry Styles.

dinnerboat, Thursday, 29 July 2021 16:16 (four years ago)

Upland bog
We’ve been hiking in an upland bog

"The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 30 July 2021 03:43 (four years ago)

"Drawn Into the Flight Path of Sounds" --> every time I see this thread title, I sing it to "Caught up in the rapture of you" from that Anita Baker song

sarahell, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 18:54 (four years ago)

The "defenestrate them all" thread is to the tune of The Winner Takes it All.

a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Thursday, 19 August 2021 05:58 (four years ago)

Some antibiotics say they can be taken with or without food so of course then I’m tricked into singing U2.

Alba, Thursday, 19 August 2021 11:20 (four years ago)

xp - that thread title always gets me into "Defenestrate them all / no mercy shown / heaven knows it's got to be this time ..."

sarahell, Saturday, 21 August 2021 03:09 (four years ago)

My kids' Cheerios box says "You Oat-A-Know" on the back.

And I'm like:

Well I'm here!
To remind you!
Of the oats they put in your cereal!

Robert Cray-Cray (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 28 August 2021 13:22 (four years ago)

Kostas Tsimikas to the tune of What's New, Pussycat?

Piedie Gimbel, Saturday, 28 August 2021 13:29 (four years ago)

lol @ last two

kinder, Saturday, 28 August 2021 13:35 (four years ago)

Nunslaughter's latest album is called Red is the Color of Ripping Death

and all I can hear is Nick Hexum singing

whoa oh
red is the color of ripping death
whoa oh

Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 August 2021 13:47 (four years ago)

Asiago cheese.

When I see it I have to sing (internally, I'm not a monster) "Ohhh asia-a-go, obá obá obá" (Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66 "Mas Que Nada," and I had to google the lyrics to get the obá obá obá.)

nickn, Monday, 6 September 2021 21:25 (four years ago)

Lol, good one

What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 21:27 (four years ago)

Dear Evan Hansen to the tune of Kaleidoscope's "Dear Nellie Goodrich." Makes it way more tolerable to hear about Dear Evan Hansen.

the adventures of pavlo and schrödis (geoffreyess), Monday, 20 September 2021 16:14 (four years ago)

Been playing Lego and I have a.... Brick Separator

(Smooth Operator, obviously)

kinder, Monday, 20 September 2021 18:32 (four years ago)

When I'm feeling stressed I start singing "im gonna get stressed / and de-pressed" to Roxette's 'Dressed For Success'

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 20 September 2021 21:07 (four years ago)

It started with Holloway Road, which of course is v close to "Holiday Road", but now my brain has been doing this for every sign with "road" on it in London, no matter how tortured the meter. Halp!

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 10:01 (four years ago)

I used to walk by Harriet Street in Pittsburgh all the time in the early 90s, and it seemed like it should be the hook of some wet indie song, perhaps obliquely about getting your 7" put out by Harriet Records, "I want to live on Harriet Street". There's also Sarah Street in another part of town, but that didn't inspire the same jangly guitar sounds in my head.

Citole Country (bendy), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 14:21 (four years ago)

Chic - "Dance, Dance, Dance (Gyoza, Gyoza, Gyoza)" (when I'm making gyoza)

the adventures of pavlo and schrödis (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 20:48 (four years ago)

sometimes people on Twitter write "get in the bin" and I imagine it sung to the tune of Sparks' "Get In The Swing"

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 21:58 (four years ago)

When I'm feeling stressed I start singing "im gonna get stressed / and de-pressed" to Roxette's 'Dressed For Success'

Nice. When I'm exceptionally stressed it's "TIME TO HAVE STRESS!!!" to Mad Cobra's "Flex (Time to Have Sex)".

swim, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 22:03 (four years ago)

When taking the trash out on a rainy night (or when finding that someone else is throwing something out that would've been a great find if it wasn't already soaked): "sometimes it rains on trash night" to "Sometimes it Snows in April".

swim, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 22:07 (four years ago)

Upon returning home and being met at the door by my cat: "Cat! / Savior of the universe! / Cat! / She'll save every one of us!" to Queen's "Flash".

swim, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 22:39 (four years ago)

When I sing the diarrhea song I always replace "feel something burst" with "feel like Fred Durst"

you had me at "giallo" (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 22:42 (four years ago)

oh no

(fred schneider voice) we can be heroes, just for one DAY

— blaine capatch (@blainecapatch) September 22, 2021

grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 22:41 (four years ago)

One of my facebook friends just posted, "I wish I knew why I was on this plane," and my brain has been singing the beginning of "Half Past France" ever since.

Lily Dale, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 23:59 (four years ago)

There is a meme going around with a picture of Billy Idol that says "It's a nice day for a... light sweater" and the ln "It's a nice day for a... CARDIGAAAAN."

And I would just like to say thT I approve of this meme and I am incorporating these into my lifestyle

Because I am sheep

Baaa

Baa

Habemus poptimism (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 September 2021 21:51 (four years ago)

"I wish I knew why I was on this plane,"

"No one said that this jet was easy / did that no one ever take a jet this hard?" to Jawbreaker's "Ashtray Monument".

swim, Friday, 24 September 2021 23:27 (four years ago)

The Elton song Are You Ready for Lunch? is popular in my brain.

Alba, Saturday, 25 September 2021 12:40 (four years ago)

I've had the Four Tops' 'Bernadette' stuck in my head for like the last day and a half except at some point it morphed into 'Burn To Death' so that's what I just keep hearing over and over now

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Sunday, 26 September 2021 03:17 (four years ago)

xp, "Ready for Lunch" is a Bad Company jam.

Habemus poptimism (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 26 September 2021 11:48 (four years ago)

lol i picked up "Burn to Death" off a misheard-lyrics site circa 2005 and it absolutely defines the song to me. terrifying.

I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 26 September 2021 13:04 (four years ago)

lol, yeah, I hope it hasn't permanently ruined the song for me (e.g. that thing where I can't not hear Falco sing 'hot potatoes, hot potatoes').

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Sunday, 26 September 2021 13:08 (four years ago)

Van Halen's "Hot for Treacher" is an all time favorite, the well known classic about Roth's fetish for fish n chips

Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 September 2021 13:44 (four years ago)

Whenever these are around, I sing the name like the Pixies’ “Caribou”:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91745c3+LFL._SL1500_.jpg

juristic person (morrisp), Sunday, 26 September 2021 17:14 (four years ago)

Van Halen's "Hot for Treacher" is an all time favorite, the well known classic about Roth's fetish for fish n chips

lol i'm just going to take it all the way to being a boastful metaphor concerning his rock-star success: "I've got it made, I've got it made, I've got it made - I'm Arthur Treacher." sort of an "i think i'm Big Meech, Larry Hoover" type thing, but fast-food fish-n-chip related.

surprised to learn there is exactly one Arthur Treacher's establishment left. also that "Arthur Treacher" was a successful British actor whose affiliation with the company was kept vague. i think i'd always figured he was like ColoneL Sanders, or possibly Captain D.

I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 26 September 2021 17:31 (four years ago)

lol wow. I never ate there either - just walked by one in the mall many times as a then fish-hating youth.

oh wow he was Constable Jones in Mary Poppins!

Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 September 2021 18:28 (four years ago)

I think it’s “Got it bad, got it bad…” etc though admitttedly Roth’s accent makes it sound kinda funny

Josefa, Sunday, 26 September 2021 18:34 (four years ago)

it is, but I misheard it as "made" the first time and have never entirely shaken it.

I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 26 September 2021 19:29 (four years ago)

I wanna take you to a fig bar! Fig bar! Fig bar!

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 2 October 2021 15:10 (four years ago)

Morrissey is a Racist = Sheena is a Punk Rocker

bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Saturday, 2 October 2021 22:33 (four years ago)

I've just seen Perry Anderson's name on the homepage and sung it to the tune of 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)' by Metallica.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 16:28 (four years ago)

“I’m in the Meal Deal” to the tune of We’re in the Money or, sometimes I’m Every Woman.

Alba, Friday, 8 October 2021 02:14 (four years ago)

Haha

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 8 October 2021 09:17 (four years ago)

To the tune of ZZ Top's 'Velcro Fly"

"Do the Remko Scha"

licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 8 October 2021 17:01 (four years ago)

MERV-13 to the tune of "Dancing Queen"

sarahell, Friday, 8 October 2021 17:35 (four years ago)

two weeks pass...

"kwisatz haderach" to the tune of "get back, honky cat"

I also have a stove box in the garage with everything written in english/spanish/french; whenever I see 'estufa' I hear guy picciotto singing it at the beginning of 'exit only'

joygoat, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:42 (four years ago)

Fettucine

Allo
Aalo-o-o-
Sunt eu picasso...

(from the Numa Numa yay song)

kinder, Monday, 8 November 2021 19:41 (four years ago)

Whenever I see an album by Julian Bream, classical guitarist:

Julian Bream
Bream boat queen
Queen of all my dreams

war mice (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 14 November 2021 04:21 (four years ago)

Wamsutta

Wamsutta, wamsutta, bam a lam
Wamsutta, wamsutta, bam a lam

sarahell, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 03:40 (four years ago)

one month passes...

Hot takes -> "Hot Freaks", GBV

Circle Sky Pilot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:46 (four years ago)

three weeks pass...

gaslighting -> “Nightclubbing”

Presenting the Fabulous Redettes Featuring James (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 January 2022 12:30 (four years ago)

Things that I say to the tune of “Eminence Front,” Part I pic.twitter.com/i7tA37rpwY

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 29, 2022

west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 29 January 2022 04:22 (four years ago)

Not the same thing, but when I think of PJ Harvey's line "Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water" I follow it with "Come Mr tallyman, tally me banana."

nickn, Saturday, 29 January 2022 07:50 (four years ago)

Brisk Money
Put your Filas on

Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 January 2022 21:47 (four years ago)

"Bomb calorimeter" makes me hum "Ein Keloheinu."

Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Sunday, 30 January 2022 13:06 (four years ago)

whenever i cook white rice the first thing i hear is lou reed shouting "WHITE RICE" like the intro to white light.

maelin, Sunday, 30 January 2022 17:37 (four years ago)

Verizon admonishments to pay online -- "your bill is just a click away" --->> chorus of Gimme Shelter

sarahell, Monday, 31 January 2022 05:52 (four years ago)

I can Creames Fartpoop
if I can't hold you tonight

he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 February 2022 14:38 (four years ago)

I will too often find myself wandering around the apartment singing "I don't know where my phone is...." to the tune of that Nelly Furtado songs, which is double bad 'cos now I can't find my phone and I'm singing a Nelly Furtado song........
― m0stlyClean, Thursday, September 3, 2020 6:31 PM

oh see mine is "I want to know where phone is, I want you to show me" dunno if that's worse
― sarahell, Friday, September 4, 2020 7:15 AM

"Where is my phone" for me is sung to the tune of "Where is my Mind?"
― tater totalitarian (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, September 4, 2020 8:41 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

No no guys, it's to the tune of 'Where is the Love?'
― emil.y, Friday, September 4, 2020 8:52 AM

Today I found myself doing a Dylan / "Tight Connection" thing: "Has anybody SEEN my phone? Has anybody seen MY phone?..."

False Pretenses Lad (morrisp), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:59 (four years ago)

I sing "Here I go again on my phone" to the tune of Whitesnake a lot

frogbs, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 22:09 (four years ago)

I’ve been known to say to myself “Got phone… in pocket,” à la the Pretenders’ “Brass in Pocket” (which feels like an extremely dorky thing to do).

False Pretenses Lad (morrisp), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 22:23 (four years ago)

Cuz I've got one phone in my pocket
And the other one is giving a peace sign

imam and apple pie (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 February 2022 13:40 (four years ago)

Dem party bullshit always makes me hear the Doors:

She's a

*BOMP!* *BOMP!*

Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

― how's life, Monday, July 25, 2016 6:12 AM (five years ago)

i actually think of this on a semi-regular basis ... so today, to that same Doors song ...

she's a

BOMP! BOMP!

genderqueer lesbian frog

sarahell, Sunday, 13 February 2022 05:13 (four years ago)

one month passes...

Ritorna, Madonna

to Whiney's favorite .... Kokomo

the new Fujiya Miyagi

sarahell, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:56 (four years ago)

That ain't no Portrait of a Lady
No portrait of your baby, your woman, your friend
That ain't no Portrait of a Lady, no way
But maybe it's a way for us to end

Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 March 2022 19:56 (four years ago)

this is the POWER OF THE DOG (to the tune of this is the rhythm of the night)

mia wasikowska, mia mia wasikowska (to the tune of mr. dobbalina)

na (NA), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 17:41 (four years ago)

You can find me In the Cut

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 18:02 (four years ago)

one month passes...

leche de coco to the first 5 notes of the funkytown melody

circles, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 02:57 (three years ago)

Oooh, I love the way you love the way you love me
There's nowhere else I'd rather be (la-di-la-di-liee-eee-eeeye)
Oooh, to feel the way I feel with your arms around me
I only wish that you could see-eeee The Spy Who Loved Me (Loved me)
Woah-ooh-oh-oooh-oh, The Spy Who Loved Me

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 12:52 (three years ago)

three months pass...

"The Story of a Canceled Teen" to the tune of "Owner of a Lonely Heart"

sarahell, Monday, 22 August 2022 00:10 (three years ago)

I sing “I’ve been learning to troll” to the opening line of “Mama Mia”

Ward Fowler, Monday, 22 August 2022 06:03 (three years ago)

three weeks pass...

I know when that hotline bling
It can only mean one thing
Diarrhea

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:42 (three years ago)

Goodbye, Suzy Creamcheese
Who could hang a name on you?

an incomprehensible borefest full of elves (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 23:45 (three years ago)

Ask any Honda owner who's often left alone all by herself

brimstead, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 23:59 (three years ago)

When I walk my dog, he likes to kick and scrape with his back paws after he, well, poops. Which is a problem if I'm on somebody's lawn. And then one day I had a certain playlist on. So now in these situations, I like to croon quietly to myself--

No diggity (I got to bag it up)

gucci meme (theStalePrince), Thursday, 15 September 2022 01:49 (three years ago)

(reading laundry care instructions)

“Tumble dry LOW, LOW, LOW, LOW…”

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Low_fr_tp.JPG

mosh pit insurance agent (morrisp), Thursday, 15 September 2022 02:17 (three years ago)

Every time my partner says "darling", I think (and sometimes say) "we're up against it." Which is a problem, because darling is my partner's go-to when addressing me.

The thing is, I don't even like 'Major Leagues' that much. But it's lodged in my head somehow.

The Ghost Club, Thursday, 15 September 2022 06:26 (three years ago)

A friend was obsessed with switching out love for lunch: Lunch Will Keep Us Togwether, Lunch Will Tear Us Apart, The Greatest Lunch of All, Stop in the Name of Lunch, When a Man Lunches a Woman....

― mottdeterre, Wednesday, December 3, 2008 9:23 PM

A big lunch one for me is "break for lunch" => Break 4 Love by Raze

Alba, Friday, 16 September 2022 12:20 (three years ago)

Can’t remember if I posted these above, but I do the same thing with “Armenia” for “America” (God Bless Armenia, etc) and — the coup de grace — “asshole” for “angel”:

JUST CALL ME ASSHOLE
OF THE MORNING, ASSHOLE!

an incomprehensible borefest full of elves (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 16 September 2022 14:26 (three years ago)

https://xkcd.com/2665/

the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 16 September 2022 16:55 (three years ago)

one month passes...

"time blindness" to the chorus of "Sky Pilot"

sarahell, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:53 (three years ago)

An ADHD anthem for the ages.

an incomprehensible borefest full of elves (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 10 November 2022 01:55 (three years ago)

Did we do “Musk” -> “Tusk” yet?

Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 00:14 (three years ago)

Hard to see this on the shelf without a Dead Boys tune running thru my head:

https://www.cvs.com/bizcontent/merchandising/productimages/high_res/50428637289.jpg

"Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 00:19 (three years ago)

Lol

Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 00:20 (three years ago)

Haha!

Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 01:59 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

listening to steve reich's "six marimbas" and i can't stop hearing the "from broke to having brokers" line from nelly's "country grammar" repeating ad infinitum

budo jeru, Friday, 9 December 2022 00:11 (three years ago)

Bruschetta with anchovies
He's not strange
He just wants to live his life this way

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Friday, 9 December 2022 01:25 (three years ago)

When ironing a shirt:

I’m gonna put on my ironed shirt
and chase Satan out of earth

Siegbran, Friday, 9 December 2022 01:33 (three years ago)

Root killer

Wider than a mile

an incomprehensible borefest full of elves (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 9 December 2022 02:16 (three years ago)

"Beef Bourgignon" to 'Carol of the bells'

― kinder, Friday, 8 January 2021 23:02 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is getting more ingrained as I get older.

New ones:
Scrubbin' the potatoes - to the Donna Summer - I Feel Love intro

Not strictly what this thread describes but I listened to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road quite a lot and the lyrics 'Your temperament's wrong for the priesthood - and teaching would suit you still less' - from the Dentist song in Little Shop of Horrors - just jump right in there, every time (at the 'Maybe you'll get a replacement - there's plenty like me to be found' bit).

kinder, Sunday, 11 December 2022 19:19 (three years ago)

Colonel Gaddafi is on his way
Colonel Gaddafi is here to stay

houdini said, Sunday, 11 December 2022 19:46 (three years ago)

It took me a few seconds to recall what the original song was.

Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 December 2022 19:51 (three years ago)

Oh yo, it was Grendel
Yo, he worked at Red Lobster but I didn’t remendel

Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 December 2022 14:38 (three years ago)

POOOOOOOOOOLLL!

Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 December 2022 15:24 (three years ago)

Linen by linen, by linen, by linen
I keep holding on

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 22:45 (three years ago)

Lol

A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 December 2022 17:42 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

When making the bed: Clean sheets, on the bed! (Discharge "Free Speech for the Dumb")

New York Review of Wooks (swim), Saturday, 7 January 2023 22:10 (three years ago)

clothing brand "Reb Dolls" --> Tom Waits' "Rain Dogs"

sarahell, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 08:45 (three years ago)

https://www.dstny.se/app/uploads/captcha-norobot.png

... not yet a woman!

got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 22 January 2023 19:11 (three years ago)

Ha ha, brilliant

Alba, Sunday, 22 January 2023 19:14 (three years ago)

milk is chillin'
giz is chillin'
BONESAW IS READY

POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 January 2023 21:13 (three years ago)

“Oooh ohh” in Heart of Glass is “mmm Danone” for me, a yoghurt jingle.

houdini said, Monday, 23 January 2023 14:51 (three years ago)

Playing in my brain's radio this morning:

Will Smith: "I'm goin' to New Jersey" (backup singer): "Welcome to New Jersey"

feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 23 January 2023 18:53 (three years ago)

If done up in a ludicrously parodic Joisey accent by local radio talent, that could have made a good bumper for NJ FM stations in the late 90s.

got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Monday, 23 January 2023 20:05 (three years ago)

I used to wake up in the morning, I used to feel so bad
I got so sick of having sleepless nights, I went and told my dad
He said, "Son, now here's some little something,"
And stuck it on my wall
And now my nights ain't quite so lonely
In fact I, I don't feel bad at all (I don't feel bad at all)

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0632/3191/8308/products/143966683450-0.jpg

got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 13:53 (three years ago)

Beef lasagne
Beef lasagne
Beef lasagne to the king (of kings)
Beef lasagne
Beef lasagne
Beef lasagne to the king!

the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Thursday, 26 January 2023 11:51 (three years ago)

Goes hand in hand with my 'beef bourgignon' to 'Carol of the bells'

kinder, Thursday, 26 January 2023 12:31 (three years ago)

lol "my beef bourgignon" is now in my head to "Felix Navidad"

sarahell, Monday, 30 January 2023 21:06 (three years ago)

Feliz not Felix

sarahell, Monday, 30 January 2023 21:06 (three years ago)

Felisa me muero!

And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 January 2023 21:47 (three years ago)

Earlier, in the next room, boxes of Girl Scout cookies were being counted for distribution. I heard the phrase "Two Trefoils..." – and sang out, "...and a microphooooone!"

I was very proud of this. #DaddestOfDads

degenerative AI (morrisp), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 02:59 (three years ago)

I don't want my pizza burnin

frogbs, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 22:52 (three years ago)

when I was in 6th grade choir they made us sing 'intro' songs, usually existing melodies with lyrics changed to be about facts about us, and one duo chose "Do You Love Me?" as their melody but sang "Do you know me? No I don't! Do you know me? No I don't! Do you know me? Now you're in my class!" and that's still how I hear it to this day because I remember only the most inane shit from childhood.

I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 23:50 (three years ago)

mostly happens to me with thread titles now

"I HATE Steely Dan" -> The Spongetones' "My Girl Maryanne"

"Elon Musk" -> Throwing Muses' "Ellen West" ("dancing on his graaaave")

also:
Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?
Worse than it used to be
Worse than it used to be

fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Thursday, 9 February 2023 02:26 (three years ago)

also happens a lot with names in mailboxes, but I can't share those :(

fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Thursday, 9 February 2023 02:27 (three years ago)

"I HATE Steely Dan"
Put another coin in the jukebox baby

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 9 February 2023 06:31 (three years ago)

not that i see this phrase often or ever but i think of it in song form allll the time now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxeviDp2ja4

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 February 2023 07:00 (three years ago)

with my current bobbins and my current bobbins
(I'm pulling on the pin)

fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Sunday, 12 February 2023 19:22 (three years ago)

We watched WAKANDA FOREVER last night and I started singing the title to the refrain of Shakira’s “Whenever, Wherever” and now I can’t stop.

a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 12 February 2023 21:52 (three years ago)

haha!

waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 February 2023 21:55 (three years ago)

this week my brain started singing the title to a beefheart track to the music of george gershwin:

You say pachuco, I say cadaver

budo jeru, Thursday, 16 February 2023 01:26 (three years ago)

We watched WAKANDA FOREVER last night and I started singing the title to the refrain of Shakira’s “Whenever, Wherever” and now I can’t stop.

I get that movie title in my head to the "fiesta forever" line in "All Night Long" by Lionel Ritchie

sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2023 17:22 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd2vyZAQAco

POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 February 2023 17:38 (three years ago)

Every time I see mention of nepo babies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1DQkzRirm8

Alba, Thursday, 23 February 2023 13:17 (three years ago)

to ATCQ's "What?"

What is a Honda without an Element?

pretty much every time i see one.

budo jeru, Monday, 27 February 2023 01:27 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Just saw a March Madness score update of a game featuring Utah State, and of course my brain was all "U-U-U-Utah State!"

henry s, Thursday, 16 March 2023 19:47 (three years ago)

haha

young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 March 2023 20:12 (three years ago)

one month passes...

"Asimov" to the tune of "Avalon."

The Titus Andromedon Strain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 22:08 (two years ago)

two new ones:

Kitten on a Roomba (i know, i know, it's serious)

and

Night Sweats to "Night Shift" by Siouxsie & the Banshees

sarahell, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 23:17 (two years ago)

also there is now one of these near where I live and that song got in my head and I wasn't sure why and now I remember it is from this thread:

Korean fried chicken joint Bonchon leads to the following from soul coughing:

Move aside, and let the mango through
You gotta take the elevator to the mezzanine
Chicken Bonchon Chicken Bonchon Chicken Bonchon

― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 8:50 AM (nine years ago)

sarahell, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 23:29 (two years ago)

"Pilates" to the tune of "Volare" by Gipsy Kings

Rolling Coastal Black Midi New Roads (dog latin), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:37 (two years ago)

"Do we like Juana Molina?"

Getting caught in the rain
Making love after midnight
In the dunes on the Cape

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:32 (two years ago)

Lol

Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2023 01:37 (two years ago)

But came to post:
Jobim, Jobim
Jobim, Jobim
I’m beggin’ of you, please don’t take my man

Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2023 01:38 (two years ago)

And I wish I, wish I knew the right words
How To Blow Up A Pipeline, walk out of this place

got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 May 2023 13:04 (two years ago)

Devolder --> Debaser

sarahell, Friday, 12 May 2023 15:29 (two years ago)

If you like Peter Coyote

And getting caught in the rain

gelatinous cubist (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 23:57 (two years ago)

Heh

Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 May 2023 00:13 (two years ago)

It also works with Pia Zadora, but for some reason I think it's funnier with Peter Coyote.

Better still: "if you like John Quincy Adams / in the dunes on the Cape"

gelatinous cubist (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 15 May 2023 00:37 (two years ago)

If you like Fillipo Lippi

And some Renaissance art

gelatinous cubist (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 15 May 2023 00:40 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

not the perfect thread for this but can''t think of a better one. i can't be the only person who has this bike computer and can't get on his bike without getting caetano veloso songs stuck in his head. this has been going on for like 15 years now...

https://content.mtbr.com/channels/mtbreview/images/products/large/product_425988_45370.jpg

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 16:05 (two years ago)

Yesterday: “glass bottom boat” to the tune of Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls.”

Day 1 fan (morrisp), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 17:35 (two years ago)

One for the Canadians in the house, occasioned by my daughter’s purchase of some sour peach-favoured gummy donut-shaped candies:

Peach rings and pretty things
Let’s just see what tomorrow brings

The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 2 June 2023 16:50 (two years ago)

A post-pedicure soundtrack: Rage Against the Machine, "Feet Now In The Dryer."

got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:24 (two years ago)

This one is not "inexplicable" but if I see the name France Joli I'm definitely singing it to the tune of her big hit "Come to Me," as in

France Joli
When you're all alone and feeling down
France Joli
When there's nobody else around

Josefa, Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:37 (two years ago)

From the internet group "Wild Green Memes For Ecological Fiends"

https://i.imgur.com/cgAzkdu.jpg

Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:37 (two years ago)

Muskeg Memes For Alice In Chains Fiends

Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:38 (two years ago)

France Joli, for me, harks to the early 80s Enjoli commercial jingle:

I can bring home the bacon
France Joli
Fry it up in a pan
France Joli
And never let you forget you're a man

Cause I'm a woman
France Joli

pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:58 (two years ago)

lol I remember that commercial... was surprised years later to hear the Peggy Lee version and realize it was a real song

Josefa, Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:22 (two years ago)

I looked it up on YouTube and it is actually late 70s.

(Insert usual "Why the fuck do I have a perfume commercial from 1979 permanently lodged in my head, and I don't know where I put my car keys yesterday?" rant here)

pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:37 (two years ago)

lol I remember that commercial... was surprised years later to hear the Peggy Lee version and realize it was a real song

Written by Leiber and Stoller, no?

CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:42 (two years ago)

Also done by Raquel Welch on The Muppet Show- as a duet with Miss Piggy!

CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:46 (two years ago)

Did someone say 70s?

CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:46 (two years ago)

Periodic reminder that Miss Piggy was originally named Miss Piggy Lee, as a parody of you know who

Josefa, Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:48 (two years ago)

Almost forgot that Raquel Welch also did it as a duet with Cher on The Cher Show!

CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:49 (two years ago)

Man, those 70s really were exactly as remembered, weren’t they?

Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 June 2023 16:13 (two years ago)

As 70s as a bead curtain, my dude

pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:02 (two years ago)

Nice callback! #onethread

Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 June 2023 23:11 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Portaloo, couldn’t escape if I wanted to… pic.twitter.com/OkpduBQLVZ

— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) July 5, 2023

Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Saturday, 8 July 2023 15:52 (two years ago)

Just texted my DnD group:

"I left my coffee with the orange lid "

And now it's

https://open.spotify.com/track/27HGiBpgclRBmkAmxNFa5v?si=qGc4pnnXSleegg0n4mm-Wg

Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Monday, 10 July 2023 17:37 (two years ago)

(I Dream of Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair)

Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Monday, 10 July 2023 17:37 (two years ago)

Don't let the days go by

Listerine

Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 01:51 (two years ago)

From the internet group "Wild Green Memes For Ecological Fiends"

― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Thursday, June 15, 2023 10:37 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

dog latin, thanks for tipping me off to that facebook group. It's a treasure trove.

peace, man, Monday, 17 July 2023 13:33 (two years ago)

"Just Be Good To Me" = "bear say hi to me"

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 14:01 (two years ago)

three months pass...

Bacta tank, alright!

Kim, Friday, 17 November 2023 15:55 (two years ago)

“Don’t save, I know what you’re sayin’…”

brimstead, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:22 (two years ago)

My cat’s treats are called Feline Greenies, which I always say to the tune of “Feelin’ Groovy".

blatherskite, Friday, 24 November 2023 14:52 (two years ago)

Funky Winkerbean to the tune of "from the tambourine" from Abba's Dancing Queen.

peace, man, Thursday, 30 November 2023 13:53 (two years ago)

omg

not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:28 (two years ago)

Bryan Adams's "Please Forgive Me" entered my head yesterday and wouldn't leave for hours.

but then inexplicably my brain made it a more mush-mouthed version that sounded like "Please Zbigniew, I know not what I do", so now that's all I can hear.

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:10 (two years ago)

Denny Laine is in my ears and in my eyes

; Powell (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:18 (two years ago)

There's a chair store called Lovesac that I can't help singing (internally of course) like the B-52s' "Love Shack" whenever I see it.

nickn, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:33 (two years ago)

It's called what now

The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 20:23 (two years ago)

Chairstore called Lovesac could definately be a Primus lyric

bendy, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 20:44 (two years ago)

i had a look in the red cross shop in my lunch break and got super excited that they had loads of jeans in my size so giddy with excitement i tried a bunch on and bought them.
i only realized later that one pair are women's jeans (flies the other way round=exactly how i circumnavigate, yo)´- now when i wear them i sing "in my women's jeans" to the tune of susanne vega's "in my book of dreams" bustin up da gender stereotypes in alla dey faces
word

massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 15 December 2023 13:38 (two years ago)

I'm Steve McQueen
I'm Martin Sheen
I'm Jimmy Dean
I'm women's jeans

CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 December 2023 16:13 (two years ago)

I can't see the name Hayden Panettiere without thinking of the Beastie Boys:

Intergalactic, Panettiere, Panettiere, Intergalactic

jonder, Thursday, 21 December 2023 00:26 (two years ago)

I have to ask how often you see the name Hayden Panettiere!

This field is required (morrisp), Thursday, 21 December 2023 00:52 (two years ago)

Is that how you lot are pronouncing Pannettiere?

...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Thursday, 21 December 2023 10:39 (two years ago)

dog latin: for the purposes of this thread, yes. In a representative democracy, we reach a consensus on how to mangle the pronunciation of furrin words, and abide by that decision. My country, right or wrong.

morrisp: according to my attorneys, I don't have to answer that.

jonder, Thursday, 21 December 2023 14:37 (two years ago)

Lately when I feed my cats I find myself singing "foooood for caaaaats" to the tune of the Squeeze song "Cool for Cats."

This is in addition to the longstanding mental association with the old Far Side CAT FUD cartoon.

But the two don't really work together. I don't sing "fuuuuud for caaats." It's definitely "foooood for caaaaats."

CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 1 January 2024 12:39 (two years ago)

one month passes...

“James Webb, James Webb”

Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 February 2024 21:06 (two years ago)

When I see the Belvita line of breakfast crackers/cookies I have to sing it (internally) as is done for "Candida" in the Tony Orlando song.

nickn, Thursday, 1 February 2024 21:11 (two years ago)

Good one!

Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 00:00 (two years ago)

My place o' employment includes a Microbiology lab which tests for pathogens including candida albicans, so I'm well versed in Tony Orlando & Dawn running through my head.

Hideous Lump, Friday, 2 February 2024 02:37 (two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Probably more for the misheard lyrics but
Kids - MGMT
"Control yourself, take only what you need from it"

I'm never sure what the lyrics are but I hear 'cheese, Gromit' in there every time

kinder, Friday, 23 February 2024 19:29 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Chairstore called Lovesac could definately be a Primus lyric


this made me laugh harder than it should have thank you.

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 10 March 2024 00:22 (two years ago)

I might have already said this one but whenever I see bacon in the supermarket it's PSB "How can you expect to be... bacon, seriously?"

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Sunday, 10 March 2024 11:47 (two years ago)

“Great Wealth Transfer” —> Billy Bragg’s waiting for the Great Leap Forward… #classtraitor

sarahell, Monday, 18 March 2024 21:08 (two years ago)

If you were in middle school around the same time I was, maybe you will also hear this in a voice from a certain Miami bass song (track 3… IYKYK):

https://i.imgur.com/Y57kPQt_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grand

let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 05:11 (two years ago)

one month passes...

change your heart
look around you
change your heart
it will astound you
i need your loving
like the sunshine
vampire: the masquerade -- bloodlines

difficult listening hour, Saturday, 11 May 2024 19:20 (one year ago)

^^^^^^
I don't know what Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines is but that's one of my favourite songs and those are the lyrics

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Sunday, 12 May 2024 01:32 (one year ago)

Haha!

kinder, Monday, 13 May 2024 09:50 (one year ago)

Every time I'm tempted to watch any way past season one of this show, it's:

Whip it into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Try True Detective,
It's not too late
To watch it, watch it good

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Monday, 13 May 2024 10:13 (one year ago)

2 minutes in the microwave
Dear Jessie see the roses
Raining on the live parade

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 20:00 (one year ago)

*love

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 20:01 (one year ago)

From SNA:

Haruomi Hosono

What a wonderful phrase

Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 May 2024 18:44 (one year ago)

means no FPs for the rest of your days

Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 May 2024 20:02 (one year ago)

Whenever the disease is mentioned:
Her name was Lola
she had Ebola

Siegbran, Monday, 27 May 2024 15:25 (one year ago)

one month passes...

New film The Bikeriders, to the tune of "Back Stabbers" by the O'Jays.

not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 29 June 2024 16:52 (one year ago)

lol

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 June 2024 20:24 (one year ago)

one month passes...

Mrs HD: Ugh, this pre-shredded cheese is just like rubber.

Me: *laughs uproariously*

Mrs HD (wearily): What now?

Me (sings): RUBBER CHEESE
Makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine of my miii-iiiind

It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 11 August 2024 17:19 (one year ago)

rolling "Trump is gonna win" containment thread

"Trump is gonna win, he'll bring his next of kin" to the tune of "There Goes the Neighborhood" by The Busboys ("the whites are movin' in, they'll bring their next of kin").

nickn, Sunday, 11 August 2024 19:28 (one year ago)

there's a song from the musical Parade about Leo Frank, the person wrongfully accused of murdering Mary Phagan, and his big number is "I Never Touched That Girl", but all I can hear him singing today is "I never fucked that couch"

if this site were a food it would have NO nutritional value!!!!!!! (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 August 2024 18:18 (one year ago)

one month passes...

The film Demonlover, and "Easy Lover" by Philip Bailey & Phil Collins.

the last visible dot (Doctor Casino), Friday, 20 September 2024 19:17 (one year ago)

The Nature Valley breakfast bar Oats 'N Dark Chocolate variety to the tune of "Knights In White Satin."

nickn, Friday, 20 September 2024 20:35 (one year ago)

lol

budo jeru, Monday, 23 September 2024 03:05 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

I went down to the Saint Coldstone Creamery

two turntables and a slide trombone (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 October 2024 08:51 (one year ago)

three weeks pass...

me and my friend being abject children saw the word 'diarrhea' written somewhere when we were in NOLA last week and started singing

MR DIARRHEA
MR BOB DIARRHEA

Kurt Dandruff (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 November 2024 14:50 (one year ago)

Patagonia! Patagonia! What makes your fleece vests so soft!?

Theracane Gratifaction (bendy), Friday, 1 November 2024 14:54 (one year ago)

See, it happened again: There was a headline on Cleveland.com reading "Surgery remove's Ohio snake's toxic, swollen venom gland" and I was all "toxic swollen venom gland, doo dah, doo dah . . ."

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Eliza D.), Thursday, November 6, 2014 3:13 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I realize that most of us are focusing on a lot of other things this morning, but a few weeks ago, I realized that we were coming up on the 10th anniversary of this post. Eliza, every time I think about venomous snakes (which is fairly often), I think of your song and I thank you for it.

peace, man, Wednesday, 6 November 2024 12:48 (one year ago)

Whenever Tears For Fears get to the bridge of “Everybody Wants To Rule The World (“There's a room where the light won't find you / Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down”) I will never not sing to myself, instead: “D-d-d-danger, what’s behind you? / There’s a stranger out to find you”

the trombone just keeps getting bigger (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 8 November 2024 03:58 (one year ago)

Lady
Portrait of a lady
You'll make that girl go crazy
If you don't portrait of a lady

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 8 November 2024 08:44 (one year ago)

fgti, I've thought the same thing!

peace, man, Friday, 8 November 2024 13:00 (one year ago)

Really? It’s an uncanny resemblance imo! Glad I’m not the only one

the trombone just keeps getting bigger (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 8 November 2024 14:50 (one year ago)

Someone on twitter posted about singing Kier Starmer to the tune of Snow's Informer and and now every time I see his name, I hum it in my head.

husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 8 November 2024 15:18 (one year ago)

I like that Patagonia one...

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 8 November 2024 15:32 (one year ago)

Whenever Tears For Fears get to the bridge of “Everybody Wants To Rule The World (“There's a room where the light won't find you / Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down”) I will never not sing to myself, instead: “D-d-d-danger, what’s behind you? / There’s a stranger out to find you”

― the trombone just keeps getting bigger (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 8 November 2024 03:58 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

YES!

Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Friday, 8 November 2024 15:43 (one year ago)

“Great Wealth Transfer” —> Billy Bragg’s waiting for the Great Leap Forward… #classtraitor


Still … maybe soon I will come up with more lyrics

sarahell, Friday, 8 November 2024 17:27 (one year ago)

Back in November 2023 I went to see Wings of Desire at the cinema - it was on at the BFI Southbank, not sure why, mid-way through a Powell and Pressburger season.

It was wonderful, and also really sad because essentially all of the main cast have since passed away, but whenever I think of it I immediately think of this track from Doom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJzveo6IBsU

Because you can sing "wings, wings of desire, wings of desire, wings of desire" along with it. That film would be so much better if they took out the soppy cello music and added some kick-ass MIDI metal music.

The actual romance in the final third doesn't work but the rest of the film is great. Also, if you've ever considered visiting Berlin with a black and white film camera, Wings of Desire will push you over the edge.

Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 8 November 2024 19:24 (one year ago)

Led Zeppelin: SO NOW YOU BETTER STOP
And eats a banana yeah / Cos you'll never stop the one they call DUCKULA, COUNT DUCKULA HEHEHE

Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Friday, 8 November 2024 21:15 (one year ago)

Every time I come across the new Tory leader’s name my brain helpfully starts looping around “She wasn’t Badenoch, Kemi” to the tune of Toni Braxton - He Wasn’t Man Enough for me.

pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Friday, 8 November 2024 21:30 (one year ago)

one month passes...

not infrequently someone asks me to do something, and I reply, "I sure can"

immediately my brain queues up and begins playing "Ashokan Farewell," theme song to Ken Burns' Civil War

doctor is there something wrong with me

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 10 December 2024 19:31 (one year ago)

this is an instrumental tune. it does not feature the word "Ashokan" being spoken or sung

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 10 December 2024 19:32 (one year ago)

Not really what the thread's about but every time I see something related to Venom, I do a gibberish version of the Eminem chorus in my head like

Venommmm, erreee enem, Venom memenemenemenemen

*The Anime\(*^β^*)/ Ring (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 December 2024 19:22 (one year ago)

Someone on Twitter pointed out that it's an absolutely insane chorus and it stuck with me

*The Anime\(*^β^*)/ Ring (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 December 2024 19:23 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

Timothee Chalamet, to the tune of "sur le pont d'Avignon"

― Lily Dale, Monday, January 11, 2021 9:05 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

looks like it's been almost 4 years since this post, and I haven't been able to hear it any other way since. Lily Dale, are you still afflicted? Or once you pass the virus to someone else do the gods give you reprieve

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 26 December 2024 20:35 (one year ago)

Huh. I sing Timothee Chalamet to the tune of Lenny Kravitz singing "I want to get away."

meow mix-a-lot (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 27 December 2024 23:51 (one year ago)

I sing Chalamet to myself to the tune of that Patti Smith song with the phrase "Hey Salome, Hey Venus." I'm not even sure what song it is (first album, I think).

nickn, Saturday, 28 December 2024 00:32 (one year ago)

omg YMP that's incredible

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 28 December 2024 02:24 (one year ago)

recently started singing “humpty dumpty, did you sit on the wall?/humpty dumpty, did you have a great fall?” to the tune of ozzy’s “mr. crowley”

now TAYNE i can get into (voodoo chili), Saturday, 28 December 2024 02:38 (one year ago)

I hear Timothee Chalamet as the "It's just a shot away / It's just a shot away" part from Gimme Shelter

Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Saturday, 28 December 2024 15:03 (one year ago)

oh I forget the first name and sing Chalamet to Bryan Ferry’s Avalon

sarahell, Saturday, 28 December 2024 15:05 (one year ago)

Huh. I sing Timothee Chalamet to the tune of Lenny Kravitz singing "I want to get away."


I took my kids to the skating rink today and this came on! You can be damn sure I was crooning your variation, (albeit to myself under my breath… I take enough grief from them for singing along with proper lyrics without touching on alternates/parodies)

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 28 December 2024 23:27 (one year ago)

belated reply: I do still have this! I think I'm permanently stuck with it at this point.

Lily Dale, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 01:05 (one year ago)

Perhaps I’ve said this before, but “white people”-> “Hot Pockets”

Morley Timmons, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 01:58 (one year ago)

singing "Kid Charlemagne" is something i have done when i have seen Timothee Chalamet's name.

scott seward, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 14:47 (one year ago)

i just posted this yesterday on ilm:

i STILL can't see his name without singing to myself: "MJ Lenderman/Cripplin' mankind..."

its just a thing my brain does to try and make me insane. its been going on for months now...

scott seward, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 14:48 (one year ago)

i have a really annoying thing where any 4 syllable word/phrase/name makes me sing "Love Rollercoaster" to myself.

i'll be driving along and see a building and just start singing "HONG KONG DIM SUM...of love...".

and i will sing that for days...

my brain shows me no mercy.

scott seward, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 14:53 (one year ago)

My main traps remain "Girlfriend in a Coma" and "Camptown Races."

Denzel starred in Training Day, doo-dah, doo-dah.

Chipmunk with a backpack I kmow, I know, it's serious.

meow mix-a-lot (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 January 2025 16:35 (one year ago)

Nosferatu
Why don't you come to your senses?
You've been out ridin' fences for so long now

meow mix-a-lot (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 January 2025 16:51 (one year ago)

Haha I've been singing Nosferatu to the tune of Paparazzi

Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 January 2025 19:00 (one year ago)

eagles nosferatu is gold

my go-to is "Love Shack" for even the most tenuous off-rhyme

stepdad baaaabyyyy
brown hat baby!

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 2 January 2025 15:57 (one year ago)

one month passes...

“Nano Bible Jewelry “ to Karl’s Disco,Weiner Haven

sarahell, Sunday, 9 February 2025 05:57 (one year ago)

"the cassette played.. PUPcorn"

https://image.chewy.com/is/image/catalog/237862_MAIN._AC_SL600_V1673015100_.jpg

brimstead, Friday, 14 February 2025 22:27 (one year ago)

sports bra, the sports bra, the sports brather sports, brother sports, brother sport, brother sport, brother sport, brother sport

Clock DVLA (NickB), Friday, 14 February 2025 22:57 (one year ago)

^^ yes i'm still doing this in 2025 jfc

Clock DVLA (NickB), Friday, 14 February 2025 22:57 (one year ago)

There is a Mr Show sketch where there is a sports bra song … are you familiar?

sarahell, Saturday, 15 February 2025 00:11 (one year ago)

no i don't know that!

Clock DVLA (NickB), Saturday, 15 February 2025 01:27 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5y7I4yWAYQ

sarahell, Saturday, 15 February 2025 03:21 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

Carrie Coon to the tune of “Caribou” by the Pixies

bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Sunday, 2 March 2025 14:59 (one year ago)

i see that and will raise you "New Age Girl" by Deadeye Dick

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 2 March 2025 15:07 (one year ago)

Ha ha holy shit

bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Sunday, 2 March 2025 15:22 (one year ago)

Two years ago while on holiday in Sri Lanka, I was woken after a night of drinking by the resort bar playing the absolute cheesiest compilation of reggae covers of pop songs from around 30 years ago.

Alcohol aftermath gives me insomnia sometimes, and I went to bed that night with that version of Westlife's corny ballad "My Love" going round and round in my head. By 4am it was plaguing me so badly, I was cursing the song and the band and the world itself for letting it come to fruition.

This week I've been working with a client called Coast-To-Coast, and because of the line in the song that uses this phrase, it's back in my head and it's been lodged even harder than before

the wedding preset (dog latin), Sunday, 2 March 2025 15:57 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

Wine mom

There's no need to feel down

I said

Wine mom

Pick yourself off the ground

at your swervice (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 March 2025 22:33 (one year ago)

No melody, but this brand of dark green dog turd bags has a helpful little sticker near the end of the roll that informs you "three bags left", which always puts Nick Drakes Five Leaves Left right into my mind's eye.

Theracane Gratifaction (bendy), Monday, 24 March 2025 13:50 (one year ago)

Lmaooo I have expressed this exact same sentiment

The Mikest Whitest monologue ever (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 24 March 2025 13:52 (one year ago)

Over the weekend, I was wandering the parking lot of a big box store, muttering “Where is my car…?” to the tune of “Where Is My Mind.”

whisper of milk (morrisp), Monday, 24 March 2025 14:11 (one year ago)

lol we use those dog bags, don't know the Nick Drake reference but my brain is now spooling up Busta Rhymes repeatedly warning us "There's only five years left!" at the end of "Everything Remains Raw."

Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 March 2025 15:44 (one year ago)

Dog bags and rolling papers in the Predator scene doing a handshake over "only three left".

a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 24 March 2025 15:45 (one year ago)

getting some frozen mango out of the freezer for the kids... F R O Z E N M A N G O to the tune of fire in cairo

birming man (ledge), Friday, 28 March 2025 09:37 (one year ago)

Yes!

peace, man, Saturday, 29 March 2025 22:58 (one year ago)

No need to ask
Hawley-Smoot operator
Smoot
Operator

I pity the foo fighter (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 6 April 2025 23:18 (one year ago)

TVP!
It's my favourite protein
(Coz it's nice and shiny
And completely waterproof)

Etherwave, Monday, 7 April 2025 05:24 (one year ago)

Xp thanks … now I am singing “tax the penguins” to the tune of Rock the Casbah

sarahell, Monday, 7 April 2025 06:14 (one year ago)

My mom was visiting and made one of her old standby vegetarian recipes. Once again I found myself singing "couscous tacos" to the tune of "Zoot Suit Riot."

― geoffreyess, Tuesday, September 19, 2017 6:44 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I made some couscous today to go with my lunch, and found myself humming "Don't mess with my couscous... don't mess with my couscous..."

If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be trunc (SlimAndSlam), Thursday, 10 April 2025 16:12 (eleven months ago)

It’s not a perfect match but whenever I drive past the Estudillo Drive exit I think “ess ess ess stu dio!!”

brimstead, Thursday, 10 April 2025 16:13 (eleven months ago)

also works well for the radical Italian architectural collective Superstudio!

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 April 2025 20:12 (eleven months ago)

Xp — lol same actually… but I can’t remember the last time I was over there.

sarahell, Saturday, 12 April 2025 17:00 (eleven months ago)

three weeks pass...

"gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?” to the tune of junkyman by rancid

doe on a hill (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 8 May 2025 02:43 (ten months ago)

I always hear it to Ice Cube, Korea Wants a Word With You by Skankin' Pickle! Funny about the 1990s Bay Area ska-punk connection.

peace, man, Thursday, 8 May 2025 11:11 (ten months ago)

hearing it to Wynonna Judd's "Girls with guitars"

Neanderthal, Thursday, 8 May 2025 13:40 (ten months ago)

It scans to Uptown Girl by Billy Joel

sarahell, Friday, 9 May 2025 05:46 (ten months ago)

Is she really going out with him?

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 9 May 2025 08:38 (ten months ago)

Gawker dudes,
Tell me what the fuck is wrong with you?
The music is just starting
Night is falling, and I am calling
Gawker dudes

Doctor Casino, Friday, 9 May 2025 11:14 (ten months ago)

The phrase “fictional K-pop band” came up at work… I immediately heard it to the tune of this

A Single Block of Aluminum (morrisp), Thursday, 15 May 2025 02:15 (ten months ago)

I've been singing the phrase "pink pony club" to the tune of "red solo cup" in my head for a while and I hate myself for it.

nickn, Thursday, 15 May 2025 16:11 (ten months ago)

For some reason I saw MTV Veejay Martha Quinn mentioned online and plate o shrimp style keep putting her name in Pink Floyd's "Vera," as in "Does anybody here remember Martha Quinn."

Also works great with Bob Dylan "you'll not see nothing like the Martha Quinn."

zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 May 2025 03:56 (ten months ago)

one month passes...

I have been watching documentaries about financial crises and crime and Michael Millken was profiled and now I see “Junk Bond King” and sing it to
“Junkyard King” by the Birthday Party

sarahell, Sunday, 29 June 2025 18:15 (nine months ago)

a little weird, but whenever i see a really stereotypical (aka racist), contemporary painting of Jesus, i sing to myself "BIG WHITE JESUS" to the tune of Foreigner's "Juke Box Hero" lmfao.

czech hunter biden's laptop (the table is the table), Wednesday, 2 July 2025 01:43 (nine months ago)

Lol … those paintings to me elicit the phrase “Deep Purple Jesus” (in re resemblance to the singer of the band) — to “Smoke on the Water”

sarahell, Wednesday, 2 July 2025 04:55 (nine months ago)

I recently learned there is a single small piece of hardware of a helicopter which, if it fails, brings the whole thing crashing to the ground, likely killing everyone. It is called the Jesus Nut.

I don't yet have a single melody for this phrase yet but I have tried it with a verse of "Tiny Dancer."

Jesus Nut, out on the strut...

psychopompatus (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 July 2025 11:37 (nine months ago)

Cowboy on a longboard I know, I know, it’s serious

dentist looking too comfortable singing the blues (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 14 July 2025 04:40 (eight months ago)

three weeks pass...

For the past few days “Elizabeth Cady Stanton” to the tune of MJ’s Wanna Be Starting Something

sarahell, Saturday, 9 August 2025 01:59 (seven months ago)

There in the frozen fruit section of Costco today....Smoothie Cubes.

Whoah Smoothie Cubes....Whoah Smoothie Cubes....

kornrulez6969, Saturday, 9 August 2025 22:50 (seven months ago)

Popular public health blogger Katelyn Jetelina — a.k.a. "Your Local Epidemiologist." I subscribe to her newsletter, and every time I see her name I hear it to Steve Miller's "big ol' jet airliner" — Ka-te-lyn Jet-e-lina. (I imagine Jetelina is pronounced jet-e-LEE-na, but I see it as jet-e-LYE-na.)

paper plans (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 10 August 2025 01:04 (seven months ago)

Whenever I see "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" I immediately think of the catchy call-and-response riff on "Ali Baba" by John Holt:

Pitts-burgh! (Pitts-burgh)
Pennsylvain-ee-yuh (Pennsylvain-ee-yuh)

henry s, Sunday, 10 August 2025 16:39 (seven months ago)

My printer told me to replace two cartridges. Which? Black and cyan.

Instantly: "little ditty, 'bout black and cyaaaan..."

je ne sequoia (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 11 August 2025 17:49 (seven months ago)

should I give up?
or should just keep making playlists?
even if it leads nowhere

Siegbran, Tuesday, 12 August 2025 13:57 (seven months ago)

I can't be the only one who gets "Cindy Lee, foi passe-ar, etc" in my head every time I read their name.

Liquid Plejades, Tuesday, 12 August 2025 19:50 (seven months ago)

two months pass...

Yesterday morning, unfortunately, it was "bug in my coffee" to the tune of "drugs in my pocket"...

...this somehow morphed into a mashup with AC/DC's "big balls"...

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 12 October 2025 02:02 (five months ago)

Wild red arugula = simply irresistible

sarahell, Friday, 17 October 2025 14:40 (five months ago)

lol

Hiphoptimus Rhyme (Doctor Casino), Friday, 17 October 2025 19:15 (five months ago)

three weeks pass...

Mexican oregano to the tune of Mexican Radio

bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Monday, 10 November 2025 19:49 (four months ago)

It's great on barbecued iguana.

nickn, Monday, 10 November 2025 20:10 (four months ago)

Orca Bay = Enola Gay by OMD

sarahell, Monday, 10 November 2025 22:33 (four months ago)

two weeks pass...

in the cinema corner:

Wake Up Dead Man, I think I got something to sayyyy to you

and

Even I'll adore ya, my Bugonia

Hiphoptimus Rhyme (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 November 2025 14:07 (four months ago)

Oh also:

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
If I could smile I'd let you know

Hiphoptimus Rhyme (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 26 November 2025 14:39 (four months ago)

There are so many phrases that pop up that I sing to the melody/rhythm of "Babylon Sisters."

"Turkey Day Stuffing ... shake it!"

"Comey Charge Thrown Out ... shake it!"

"Hockey game hat-trick ... shake it!"

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 November 2025 14:43 (four months ago)

Not a song, but when I see "trilobite" I can't help pronouncing it (to myself) like Jimmy Walker's catch phrase "dy-no-MITE."

nickn, Wednesday, 26 November 2025 18:20 (four months ago)

Partiful…. to Northern Boys “Party Time”

It’s Partiful, get your musk out
Do you want to share pics with the Fascist State?

sarahell, Thursday, 27 November 2025 19:13 (four months ago)

If I ever read the name Swami Chinmayananda, it becomes the opening bass hook of "Under Pressure"

Vinnie, Sunday, 7 December 2025 13:56 (four months ago)

four weeks pass...

Me looking at trendy pizzas: God, what have you done? I'm a hot honey girl and I dance at the club

kinder, Tuesday, 6 January 2026 19:14 (three months ago)

Just realized you can sub "cowabunga" for "hallelujah."

calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 17 January 2026 20:08 (two months ago)

major instant improvement to a great many songs

Hiphoptimus Rhyme (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 17 January 2026 20:47 (two months ago)

two months pass...

Break-fast, burr-i-tos
Breakfast burritos everywhere

- XTC, Generals and Majors

peace, man, Monday, 30 March 2026 11:59 (one week ago)

Looked at that Turtles one above, had the song in my head, went to the kitchen and saw a .... malted bloomer
malted bloomer
malted blooo oo oo ooo oo oo merrrr
(it's bread btw)

kinder, Monday, 30 March 2026 17:21 (one week ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F85CAz1uzHI

a burrito, my gazebo (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 30 March 2026 17:43 (one week ago)


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