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

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

Prozzak - Sucks to Be You -> No Doubt - Underneath It All

You need to know I finally understand
And I gotta get in touch with you now
But I can't
I wish I could have made you happy
Happy!
HAPPY!
Cos underneat' it all
You are me real prince charmin'
Like the 'eat from the fire
You were always burnin'

they just played Nirvana's version of 'Man Who Sold The World' on the radio and as the final chord rang out I half expected Kurt to sing 'Only love...' just like Louis Armstrong does at the end of 'All The Time In The World'

Oops up side your head
I said get down on it
Oops up side your head
I said get down on it
Just because you don't believe that I wanna dance
By standing on the wall
Get your back up off the wall

Unbreak my heart
Say you love me again
Undo the hurt that you caused
When you walked out the door
Oh how I want to break free!

Unbreak my heart
Say you love me again
Uncry these tears that I cried
You're so self satisfied
I don't need you
God knows, God knows I want to break freee

woke up with a new one this morning:

Eighteen wheels and a do-zen roses/
Don't you know me, I'm your native son

this is from watching Better Call Saul and reading Alfred's blog on the Pretenders but

I don't wanna talk
About things we've gone through
Though it's hurting me
Now it's history
I've played all my cards
And that's what you've done too
Nothing you confess
Can make me love you less

The winner takes it all...

Then of course because of Steps it ends up as One for Sorrow, then unleashes a Steps megamix

Julian Lennon's 'Saltwater' and Wings' 'Live and Let Die'

We climb the highest mountain
We'll make the desert bloom
We're so ingenious we can walk the moon
But when I hear of how the forests have died
Say live and let die

Listen - I am either insane or this works perfectly - https://soundcloud.com/james-errington-769931947/saltwater-live-and-let-die

Hope I'm not ruining Saltwater for anyone!

The Wire theme song (S1) & Danzig "I'm the One"
The Wire theme song (S2) & 3rd Bass "Flippin off the Wall Like Lucille Ball"

OH THANKS A LOT FETTER

My addled brain always sings "I come from the land of the ice and snow / With the jigsaw jazz and the get-fresh flow"

― fetter, Wednesday, June 5, 2019 3:29 AM

that's amazing

"I'm Still Standing," but with the opening couplet replaced by "Let me tell y'all what it's like / bein' male, middle class and white" subbed in from Ben Folds's "Rockin' the Suburbs."

The Wire theme song (S2) & 3rd Bass "Flippin off the Wall Like Lucille Ball"

― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, June 5, 2019 5:24 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is an actual sample, though

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