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)

(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

― 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..."

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

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

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.

ahhhon mind steelin shirts from the mouth of the dryeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

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

The city of Bangalore = "Albacore" by Palomar.

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...

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

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!

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

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.

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

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"

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"

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

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.

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.

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

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."