Earworm mashups: the thread for having multiple songs stuck in your head

Look in my eyes
There must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is wasted time
I'm the cult of personality

Well, now some will call me Joe (dee diddily)
Some will call me Moe (dee deedily)
But that's the way I like it baby, I don't wanna live forever

my brain has spent the last 48 hours bouncing back and forth between "What a Fool Believes" and Migos "Chinatown" and it's getting kind of old tbh

Yesterday I got the lyrics to "Life During Wartime" jammed up with the melody for "Mr Roboto":

We dress like students!
We dress like housewives!
Or in a suit and a tie....
I've changed my hairstyle!
So many times now!
Don't know what I look like...
WHAT I LOOK LIIIIIIIIIIKE
WHAT I LOOK LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!

Noticed the other day that 'Girlfriend In a Coma' is remarkably similar to KC & the Sunshine Band's 'Give It Up'

Today my brain is tormenting itself with Manfred Mann's "5,4,3,2,1" over the top of Shiba San's - Okay. On loop. All day. Argh.

somehow i've nonsensically mashed the hooks from I Choose You and Close to You

we
are the crystal gems
we always save the day

and i think my spaceship knows which way to go

I've had a terrible one that pops into my head every morning when I turn on the light in the bathroom to get ready to take a shower. It starts out with (and I have no idea why I still remember this song) the chorus of Trace Adkins' "Every Light in the House", but it morphs into "Drops of Jupiter" somewhere along the way. It's awful.

every now and then i get something that swings between songs: ohia's 'just be simple' and kid rock's 'only god knows why'

here's a nightmare i've had
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/06/broken-record-syndrome-my-life-with-chronic-earworm

i had the verse melody of kylie minogue's "locomotion" and the theme song to twin peaks in my head for waaaaaaaay too long back in 2011-12ish? i thought i was going insane.

Alice Cooper "Levity Ball" and Jesus & Mary Chain "Snakedriver" is a not unpleasant one.

Also Nick Lowe "And So it Goes" into Steely Dan "Reelin' in the Years"

A simple prop
To occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love
FIYAAAAAAAAAHHHHH...
Smoke she is a-rising!
Fiyah, yeah, smoke on the horizon
Smokestack lightning.

The main riff in REM's "Shiny Happy People" + the end of the first line of Petula Clark's "Downtown".

that article about the extreme earworm guy feels awfully familiar.

The main riff in REM's "Shiny Happy People" + the end of the first line of Petula Clark's "Downtown".

― mike t-diva, Thursday, May 7, 2015 6:58 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a great one, in my head anyway

I'm not sure how the Young Marble Giants and Frozen got mashed up in my head, but I'm not entirely displeased with the result:

do you wanna build a snowman
look a dealer in the eye
do you wanna build a snowman
won't you try?

(to the tune of 'Credit in the Straight World' and in Alison Statton's voice)

this is really, really stuck in my head:

https://soundcloud.com/neilcic/smooth

i had the verse melody of kylie minogue's "locomotion" and the theme song to twin peaks in my head for waaaaaaaay too long back in 2011-12ish? i thought i was going insane.

― Karl Malone, Thursday, May 7, 2015 3:46 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://usvsth3m.com/post/51798212888/uncovered-the-haunting-long-lost-alternate-version-of

multiple xps to clouds: yep. Although the first thing I mashed up with that was sufjan stevens Mistress Witch of McClure

we
are the crystal gems
we always save the day
When my sister picks a fight
With the Alexander boy

also @unreg, that's great. I'm not sure I'll be able to unhear that.

where do old folks go when then die?
they don't go to heaven where the angels fly
can i take you to a restaurant that's got glass tables?
you can watch yourself while you are eating

haha yes

nice

lmao

almost invariably get two songs stuck in my head cycling into work. they're fairly arbitrary, not rly mashups. this morning Carolina chocolate drops and the everly brothers:

Well, tell me little baby do you think you're too sweet to die
WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE jfc shut up already

Woah-oh, we're halfway there,
OO-OOH, heaven is a place on earth!
Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear
You make heaven a place on earth!

Said this elsewhere but Squeeze 'If I Didn't Love You' and Hum 'Ms Lazarus' is the one I always get, it's a lovely one too

This has been in my head since like 1995:

Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage/

Then I wonder why she sleeps with my friends!

Don't Look Back / Killing Me Softly mash up happens every time i listen to either song now.

like, the boston song? always leads me to "free ride." kinda intense for "killing me softly"!

no, sorry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp8aIBXxMis
almost certainly intentional but very effective

that SP/Offspring one is amazing.

I still get "Why Don't You Get A Job" by the Offspring and "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da" mashed together in my head. The choruses are practically identical.

The lyric of "You're The One That I Want" over the tune to "Midnight Rider."

I remember
The thirty-five sweet goodbyes
You drive us wild, we'll drive you crazy
It was still September
When your daddy was quite surprised
You drive us wild, we'll drive you crazy
I was
Smokin' with the boys upstairs when I
Heard about the whole affair
I... Wanna rock and roll all night
And party every day

Told her that I came from Detroit City
And I played guitar in a long hair rock 'n' roll band
She asked me why the singer's name was Alice
I said, listen here, baby, you really wouldn't understand

It's the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues

Now Jack he is a banker
And Jane she is a clerk...

I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless but not for long
The future is coming on

Finally, someone let me out of my cage
On a playground is where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school

ha I think about 50% of my earworms descend into that

That is the only rap song my son knows for some reason and he's always wandering around the house singing it.

Well, if you feel something heavy on your fishing hook
If you see a funny face in your comic book
Baby, it'll be me and I'll be looking for you

If you hear a thought calling out in the night
If you see somebody hanging from a lamp post bright
Baby, it'll be me and I'll be looking for you

Oh can't you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every breath you take

I'm living in the 21st century doing something mean to it
Dogs don't like the smell of your children
Lead asbestos lead asbestos lead asbestos lead asbestos lead as-21ST CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN

once in every lifetime
comes a love like this
i need you and you need me
oh my darling can't you see
o'er the red, white and blue
all the funny things you do
america, america, this is you

hahahah there was some other song recently that was leading me directly to that theme song but aggggh what was it?!

*opening bassline fr "papa was a rolling stone"*
*AY Ay ay! ozzy from "crazy train"*

indiana jones theme, a team theme

"Everybody Plays the Fool" and "Irreplaceable":

Ohhhhhh, heaven on earth is all you see
You're out of touch with reality
In the closet that's my stuff, yes
If I bought it please don't touch

Axel F - Crazy Frog version
Fireball - Pitbull

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqgVXSvwGo

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

Clint Eastwood

(To the tune of “Man! I Feel Like a Woman”)

I’m in the corner
Watching you kiss her
Oh-wah-uh-oh
I’m right over he-ar
Why can’t you see me?
Oh-wah-uh-oh

singing the lyrics to the chorus of .38 special's "hold on loosely" to the chorus of "nightcall" from the movie drive

this insta account is this thread come to life, ruining all songs for me.
https://www.instagram.com/there_i_ruined_it?igsh=bDA1bml0d2xzN3Vz

Somehow my head started mixing up the "Turn his TV off! Turn his TV off!" chorus from the latter half of Kendrick Lamar's TV Off, with the "Gotta Catch em all! Gotta Catch em all!" chant from the original Pokerap.

Astro black mythology
Astro black cosmology
Astro black science book
Astro black the French I took

Gaga/Tears For Fears:
Abracadabra, amor oo na na, worn-out places, worn-out faces...

Oh yeah for sure

kissing the pink & dog faced hermans "in the last film i ever saw, she was triangular, her head was a pinhead, and her cream cheeks cream"
chappell roan & nomeansno "HOTTOGO, all i hear is pushes and grunts, all I see are cocks and cunts and cocks and cunts and cocks and cunts and...."
the darkness & god is my co-pilot "said i could be the man, said i could be the man, said if we ever married, that i could be the man, so put your aaaaaaaaarms around me, your dinner lady arms"

i was just thinking about the temptation's with eddie kendricks on lead doing "just like heaven" using the production style from "wish it would rain."

the one that made me scream she said (ahhh!)

The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
No, no no no, he’s outside looking in

You're born too late, I was born too soon
But every time I look at that ugly moon
It reminds me of …
FEED THE WOOO-ORLD
LET THEM KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME

I got a BAD ONE that woke me up in the middle of the night and i have no idea where it came from: Gloria Estefan x KISS

And I don't want to lose you now
Gonna get through somehow
If you want me I'll be around
Forever...Foreeeever
It's foreeeeeever
This time I know it there's no doubt in my mind
Foreeeeeeever
Until my life is through, girl I'll be lovin you forever
Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhh
And I don't want to lose you now....

AD INFINITUM

They say that time is a healer
And now my wounds are not the same
I rang the bell with my heart in my mouth
I had to hear what he'd say

He sat me down to talk to me
He looked me straight in the eye
He said
What about
Breakfast at Tiffany's
I said I think I remember the film and
As I recall I think we both kinda liked it
And he said you're no son, you're no son of mine

Recently can't stop dropping Roger Troutman's talkbox vocal from 'California Love' over Eddie Chacon's 'Let The Devil In'.

stairway to heaven and the pirates of the caribbean feem choon

Can’t remember if I’ve posted this before. Apologies if so.

The lyrics to “Egg Man” by the Beastie Boys, but it’s sung by 4 Non Blondes to the tune of their hit. This periodically gets lodged in my head for days.

“And so I looked out the window and I seen his bald head
Went to the fridge and I pulled out an egg
And I say
What’s goin’ on?”

This is the last worthless evening
that you'll have to spend
No ordinary boy, no ordinary boy is gonna do
I want a rider that's cool

Seeds that were silent all burst into bloom & decay
Children look up all they hear is sky blue bells ringing

"see emily play" and "beware of the blob"

1: detectorists theme tune, beautiful south's rotterdam, green day's time of your life
2: charlie xcx ss26, butthole surfers creep in the cellar