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)

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."

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.

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

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

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.

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’.

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

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

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"

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

ahahaha

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

"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!"

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.

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?

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

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

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

(there are probably better ways to fill that in)

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.

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.

"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.

WHAT

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....

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

I feel the lunch, baby

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

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

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."

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

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."

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

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"

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

hahaha nautica

bendy truly gets the spirit of this thread

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.

WIth Michael PARKINSOn, liza goddard, and LIonel blaiR

to the tune of happy house by juan Mclean

"I drowned a girl and I liked it"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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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..."

Temple Of The Dog: Hunger Strike

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

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this will never leave my head ever

should I give up?
or should just keep making playlists?
even if it leads nowhere

I can't be the only one who gets "Cindy Lee, foi passe-ar, etc" in my head every time I read their name.

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"...

Wild red arugula = simply irresistible

lol

Mexican oregano to the tune of Mexican Radio

It's great on barbecued iguana.

Orca Bay = Enola Gay by OMD

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

Oh also:

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
If I could smile I'd let you know

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!"

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."

Partiful…. to Northern Boys “Party Time”

It’s Partiful, get your musk out
Do you want to share pics with the Fascist State?

If I ever read the name Swami Chinmayananda, it becomes the opening bass hook of "Under Pressure"

Me looking at trendy pizzas: God, what have you done? I'm a hot honey girl and I dance at the club

Just realized you can sub "cowabunga" for "hallelujah."

major instant improvement to a great many songs

https://64.media.tumblr.com/b98bba8e4dbd08fb16882b2a697761d4/c5d10ff24acf2100-fb/s1280x1920/0e847bcc2324c964ebac05ba1b0623392d86a666.pnj

Break-fast, burr-i-tos
Breakfast burritos everywhere

- XTC, Generals and Majors

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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F85CAz1uzHI

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/New_Canada_Dry_US_Logo_2024.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQy0MSchVnM

I’m embarrassed to admit that my brain reads the thread title “Hands off Iran!” In the cadence of “Come on Eileen” every single time I see it. Then I get the song stuck in my head for the rest of the day. I wasn’t going to say anything because it seems incredibly flippant, but it’s the sad truth.

for me it turns into "Bandz A Make Her Dance," with some syllables conjured to fill the gaps, so I share your struggle.

"Canada Dry" is a great one. Tho for me their own 1990s "barbershop quartet" jingle has a lock on the name.

Hands off Iran for me is MIA Bad Girls

Hands off
Iran
Hegseth
Screw it Well
(X3)

Email validator —-> John the Revelator

i sing the title of the new bts album (arirang) to the tune of the kinks' "harry rag"

And I just got an ad for … Tillamook County Smokers … which I now sing to the OP song by Michael Jackson

One of the people who gives things regularly on my fb Buy Nothing group lists each give as a "N Madison porch grab," which I can't help but read as in Springsteen's "10th Avenue Freeze Out."

BEAN SALAD
OOH BABY BEAN SALAD
I'M YOUR BEANS AND
I'M YOUR SALAD
I'M BEAN SALAD

Hantavirus Cruise Ship
Jellybean Boom
It’s the end of the world as we know it ….

I happened to say the phrase "dress sneaker" today and it came out to the tune of REM's "Daysleeper."