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)

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!

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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".

"Lock the taskbar" wins this thread for me

Was totally thinking about that one today!

I was in mamroneck a couple weeks ago and couldn't stop singing it to the tune of the manah manah song from the muppets

Whenever my kid puts X-Men: Evolution in the DVD player, I sing Tracy Chapman.

"Don't you know, they're talking 'bout X-Men: Evolution?"

i'm so glad i finally returned The Night Porter, because every time i would see the netflix envelope i would sing it to REM's "Nightswimming"

also the movie sucks

In another thread, someone posted a paragraph by Roger Ebert that ended in "How cool is that?" and my mind immediately went to Rivers singing that song from Weezer's Pinkerton album.

er, this thread is about something slightly different, something that I do all the time but can't think of any examples of right now.

There's a convenience store around the corner called "United Foodland" which always triggers Huey Smith & the Clowns' "We Like Birdland."

UUUUU NITE, FOOD LAND!
U-NITE-FOOD-LAND!

a (north american) toilet flush always brings the GI Joe theme to mind.... "Gee-Eye..." on the pull, "Joooooee" on release, "a real american hero...." during the drain. hmmmmm

'Love On A Farmboy's Wages' over 'Love In Elevator'

An

All through Avatar references to Eywa triggered Hey Ya.

hahaha

lol recently with my nephew Omar - Oma-Oma-ma, gaga ooh la-la...

drives me crazy.

'Baked beans and grated cheese' to Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)

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This town, and a woman named Teresa Rentaria, both crop up anytime my family watches The Wizard of Oz.

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Roll 'em up and twist 'em up
A high tuck a-haw

cereal first what the fuck

― i ben b bag all by myself (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, January 18, 2010 11:08 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Coca-Cola came and bought it for billions, what the fuck?

....what the fuck?

to the left, to the left

STILL

I occasionally annoy friends when during a lull in a conversation someone says "so....." and I break out into "a needle pulling thread!"
It doesn't help that almost no one I know has seen the Sound of Music.

When I hear "Love's Train" by ConFunkShun:

Sometimes heart strings can be broken
You've just have to keep on hopin'

I sing:

"Sir Too Short comin' straight from Oakland"

I get repeated collection agency calls for one Carlos Molina, despite having actually called and told some people in an office somewhere that I am not Carlos Molina and that I have no idea who he is. Anyway, I have taken to singing (to the tune of "Carlos Dominguez"): Carlos Molina, an unhappy man. . .

I'm really tempted to tell one of these callers that I killed Carlos Molina, burned his corpse, and buried it on the West Mesa here in Albuquerque, because he wouldn't pay back the money he owed me.

So I got up and strolled over to the other side of the cantina
I asked the guy, Why you so fly? he said, Funky Carlos Molina

Lipps, Inc.

I realize that when I see those Coin Star vending machines that turn your loose change into cash vouchers I sing Suede's "Film Star" but with, you know, Coin Star.

juuust the tuomas, we can make it if we trhy-yeee, juuust the tuomas, you and i

i just sing all sorts of different things to the tune of eleanor rigby.

Not singing, but, there is an architect named Winka Dubbeldam, and every time I see her last name on anything my brain immediately goes: Lisa needs braces!

when I see Joe Biden I have to sing "want Joe Biden, need Joe Biden" a la TI's "Whatever You Like"

Lex you say "STILL" like it's not going to be forever associated for the rest of our lives

Lately when I'm getting ready for work and making sure I've got my keys, wallet, etc. I hear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btkDt0zEGAQ
as "check your pockets"

I still do the Lock the Taskbar one whenever I see it on my screen.

Also sing Papa Don't Preach as "papadums please, I need my curry cheap" (I blame the ex for that one).

we are the sons of no one
keggers of yore

Some good ones here: Lyrics You Purposefully Liek to Sing Incorrectly

thanks for ruining a bunch of songs for me guys!

Came up with a couple of these in med school. The one I remember is from Mary Poppins:

Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis
Even though the sound of it is simply quite atrocious...

You got the body
Now you want my soul
Don't even think about it
Geir Hongro

this is normally streets...

Walking Down Ella Street (yes, the kirsty maccoll song about 'ull)
Come back to Cranbrook (/Chestnut/Princes/etc) Avenue