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Do you have a "theme song" to things that you do regularly? A song that you can't keep from entering your head when you do a particular thing?

An easy-to-understand example for me is when raking leaves, I think of "Raking Up Leaves" by Max Eider.

But less-obvious answers ... it used to be that whenever I ran, I thought of "Living Through Another Cu-u-u ... BA!" The subject of thee song had no relevance, but the rhythm just worked...

But it's the more obvious answers that will probably be amusing... "Watching the Clothes Go Round" etc...

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

when I was miserable with Minneapolis, my theme song was Ivy's "Get Out of the City"

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

lately it's been pere ubu's "non-alignment pact." i'm not quite sure what this sez about me.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

For some reason, whenever I walk out my front door, "We're Desperate" by X pops into my head.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

The "Logical Progression" album is the sound of me going to NYC for the first time alone.
"Enjoy the Silence" was ALWAYS the last song on my old radio show.
"See No Evil" (Television) is the song that I associate with getting off of work at my olde job. After serving coffee to annoying people all morning, I would put Marquee Moon on and walk very fast in the DC summer weather.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Lately that song by? about? R Kelly that goes "molester, molester" keeps going through my mind. Also there's a woman I work with who hums that Crash Test Dummies Song all_day_long. She has been voted most likely to come in with a machinegun and opem fire by my co- workers.

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I do have quite a few ludicrously persistent 'random triggers' a bit like this. The earliest and least mystifying one is the mental spectre of the Peanuts comic character Schroeder that always comes to mind whenever I hear 'My Sharona'. The second one is that my imaginary soundtrack to all the Cloud City sequences in Star Wars E.S.B. is 'Gemini Dream' so yes, when I hear the Moody Blues I inexplicably think of Lando. The last one is a bit more obscure - whenever I hear that one song about being kept in the dark (or something like that) that was on the Arcadia album, I always associate it with the Young Sherlock Holmes movie that was out at approximately the same time. All three of these work pretty much without fail.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 00:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Every time - and I mean, *literally* every time - I hear the word "incomprehensible" I think of ABBA's "Lay All Your Love On Me" - mainly cos I can't think of another song with that word in it.

Sorry, that's really lame...

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 03:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I lived in North Carolina for 6 months earlier this year and the only CD I took with me was Royal Trux's Thank You, so I associate that with almost every thing that happened during that time.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 18 September 2002 04:44 (twenty-three years ago)

'watcha drinkin?' by husker du seems to be the one that follows me around. it's just that the sound gets progressively fuzzier as the years pass.

― angelo (angelo), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 06:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"Once Around the Block" by Badly Drawn Boy always makes me think of the day I passed my GCSEs, because it was all that was on the radio at the time.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 06:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"I lived in North Carolina for 6 months earlier this year and the only CD I took with me was Royal Trux's Thank You"

Christ, must have been a long 6 months.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Everytime someone offers me tea, or I make tea, or I drink tea, or I talk about Chris T-T, I get The Tea Song stuck in my head. To the point where I've even got Suzy singing it.

― kate, Wednesday, 18 September 2002 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

This past week was Yom Kippur. All day long, I had the Canibus lyric
"go to Yom Kippur and beg for God to forgive us" going through my head.

― Mike Appelstein (mike a), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't get on a plane without hearing the Replacement's "Waitress in the Sky" in my head, even -- especially -- when I'm flying business class.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been known to work on and off as a barman in the last few years. Closing time is always "Empty Glasses" by the Amps, even though I've only heard the song about three times 5 years ago.

― dog latin, Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

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