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)

While walking around Atlanta doing an architecture tour recently I somehow got architect-developer John Portman tied up with "Four Horsemen" by the Clash. Have pretty much not been able to shake it since.

he just built an atrium as big as the sun
john portmaaaaaaan

hahaha exactly

Silk sleep mask!
Poet and a prophet
Silk sleep mask!
Taught me how to off it

almost feel like this is too obvious not to have come up already, but whenever an application says "do you really want to exit?" it's always, always culture club

Maybe not in the spirit of things since they're both names, but "Vin Diesel" is always to the tune of "Ben Weasel" as performed by The Queers.

More RHCP lately when I'm feeding my cat:

My talking leaf speaks of
A TENDER BEEF FEAST

My wife has a real good one for the John Denver classic...

Toothpaste on my shoulder looks like bird pop

"Boricua College" to the theme of "Eureeka's Castle."

"Homi Bhabha" ~ "Floridada"

Roger Corman's wretched Teenage Cave Man has forever transformed the way I hear/sing the climax of "Baba O'Riley."

"Take your card and your cash will follow" En Vogue style.

hahaha

you're crumbelievable

i remember back in 2007 learning from a teenager that they only knew "unbelievable" thanks to the kraft "crumbelievable" commercial. that kid is now working on a ph.d.

maybe this is deliberate but I was cleaning out my oven the other day using a well known oven cleaner and immediately started singing 'That's what my heart yearns for now/Oven Priiiide'

"Take your card and your cash will follow" En Vogue style.
― thomasintrouble, Sunday, 17 July 2016 01:33 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, me too every time

"Pictures of chickens

chickens, oh! chickens"

No idea why.

Pictures of lily is terrible for this for me. Generally hearing 'pictures of' something-two-syllabled, which happens surprisingly often.

For some reason, I always sing "Two cheeseburgers and a microphone" during where it's at

"I've been waiting for delivered food" to Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You"

Whenever I have to clock into my work's logging system: "clock in noooowwww honey, clock in nowwww!"

thanks to my stupid ass workplace playlist:

all the other kids with pumped up kicks say CLEVELAND ROCKS! CLEVELAND ROCKS!

maybe this is deliberate but I was cleaning out my oven the other day using a well known oven cleaner and immediately started singing 'That's what my heart yearns for now/Oven Priiiide'

haha, when I was a kid, I used to sing "thats what my stomach yearns for now/sauce on piiiieeee".

But then again I used to change the lyrics to everything, such as Echo and the Bunnymen's "put on a decent record" to the tune of "bring on the dancing horses"

Dem party bullshit always makes me hear the Doors:

She's a

*BOMP!* *BOMP!*

Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

domo arigato, D0m P4ssantino

it's the little old lady, D0m P4ssantino

http://i.imgur.com/j3YK5xm.jpg

D0menico P4ssantino
P4ssantino, that is where I'll be
D0menico P4ssantino with me

another one bites the dust?

it's time to catch the bus

(At about 1:20 mins) The chorus of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzhUp8mWgs

to the tune of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSMmxyGeEb4

Take that, Creed

was washing fever-sweaty bedclothes yesterday while singing "the secret life of ammonia"

The Winston Wolf/Harvey Keitel Direct Line advert where the guy has a bathroom leak that he's tried and failed to fix.

Keitel: "So, you've got an uncontrollable leak?"
Me: "I've got an uncontrollable leak
He's got an uncontrollable leak
I've got an uncontrollable
It's got style, it's got class
So strong, I can't let it pass
I gotta tell you all about it
I gotta scream and shout it"
Mrs aldo: "Shut the fuck up"
Me: "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah"
Mrs aldo: "I'm leaving"

This morning:
"Anti-matter? (Shattered)"

"Pepperidge Farm" >>> "Paper In Fire"

My kid has a book called "i dreamt I was a dinosaur" that has lines like "here is sammy stegosauraus busy foraging for food / he likes kay camarosaurus but she's in a grumpy mood" and it's impossible for me to read it without it sounding like the Nails "88 lines about 44 women"

Also just now, at the laundromat (in what must be a spiritual successor to "I'm Doin' Laundry" upthread):

Add the bleach! Add the bleach!
Get out those fuckin' stains!

Trump towers just a sign of the power
Of loving you, oh baby

Most days I have cause to sing...

I'm ah kitty in a box,

I'm ah kitty in a caaaaaaaardbooooard box

leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain
leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain

How does it feel to be
out of the pineapple
pizza?

So not gonna happen
So!
Not gonna happen
So not gonna happen
Anymore...

Infuriatingly, this prompt, when I'm stepping away from the desk for lunch

http://cwtuning.com/imgs/ImageTips/eng/Win_7/DisableLockWorkstation.png

gets mashed up with "Rock This Town" by the Stray Cats: "We're gonna lock this computer/lock it inside out/etc."

Whenever I see the words Pop Secret, I always prefix them with a 'gimme gimme' in my head.

Jasper Johns,
What's that flower you have on

My mom was visiting and made one of her old standby vegetarian recipes. Once again I found myself singing "couscous tacos" to the tune of "Zoot Suit Riot."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbA01F6_gns

Graham Lambkin - The Personality

i usually think of the Davy Crockett song ("king of the wild frontier") when i hear the cello here.

lol @ "gimme gimme pop secret"

pretty firmly linked to Arrested Development in my mind but that's great

I now have the phrase "take a knee" going through my head to the tune of "take on me" and I need it to stop.

Kind of the reverse of this scenario, but a thing that's been happening a lot lately is 1) I hear a two-syllable word or phrase, 2) I then sing '(two-syllable word/phrase), baby (two-syllable word/phrase)' to the tune of 'Love Shack'. Like I say, this is happening a lot. Maybe I should see a neurologist.

Shana Tova to the tune of Cuyahoga by R.E.M.