--Whenever I'm in a convenience store and see Tillamook County Smokers beef jerky, I sing "Tillamook County Smokers" it in my head to the tune of Michael Jackson's "You Wanna Be Starting Something"
--Neurot band US Christmas has a CD on my desk called Eat The Low Dogs which I've spent the better part of a year singing to the tune of Bubba Sparxxx's "Take The Load Off"
― uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 30 November 2008 01:14 (nine years ago) Permalink
shit, i was just thinking about this a couple hours ago. my brother said something that happened to be a song lyric I liked and i started singing it. forget now
― k3vin k., Sunday, 30 November 2008 01:17 (nine years ago) Permalink
Because of an old "Mary Tyler Moore Show" episode, I am incapable of hearing the name Anna Maria Alberghetti without breaking into "Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi honey..."
My Mom is very good at finding an appropriate song with very little prompting. I stopped testing her after I fed her the word "asparagus" and she sang it to the tune of some old song called "The Pair of Us."
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 30 November 2008 01:54 (nine years ago) Permalink
Temple Of The Dog: Hunger Strike
I'm doing laundry....doin' lauundraaaaaayyyayayayayaya
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 30 November 2008 02:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
haha, i do this all the time. must think... a similar phenomenon is when, apparently out of nowhere, you get a melody stuck in your head, and then realize that the lyrics to that song are what you were thinking/talking about.
― poortheatre, Sunday, 30 November 2008 02:23 (nine years ago) Permalink
oh man, this happened to me the other day. for better or worse it was 'dat nigga delmarrrr!' to the melody of 'that girl is poison' by bell biv devoe. i'm sorry ilx
― 6335, Sunday, 30 November 2008 03:41 (nine years ago) Permalink
ahahahaha
― uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 30 November 2008 05:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
I think I'm going to be stuck with "I'm doin' laundryyyyy" from now on, thanks...
I'm sure I have tons of these, but can't remember any of them, so I'm glad there's this thread now.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 30 November 2008 21:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
Two trucking companies who work in the Rock n' Roll touring business always start me singing their names to the tune of Eton Rifles:'Redburn Trans-fer"and"Edwin Shir-ley"
― sonofstan, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
"Cheese and crackers" to the tune of "Shaved Women" by Crass. Try it out!
― Ivan, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:31 (nine years ago) Permalink
There was a Charlie Brooker article some time ago in which he said that every time Robert Mugabe was mentioned, his name started going around Brooker's head to the tune of Eleanore Rigby. The same thing has started happening to me since I read the article.
― chap, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:33 (nine years ago) Permalink
zydrunas ilgauskas gets sung to "hakuna matata" in my head(i can't remember whether i thought it up on my own or not, but google finds some other people doing the same thing)
― circles, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
this isn't really the same thing cuz it isn't a phrase i saw, but i just heard it today on the radio, so: whenever i hear "jet" by paul macca and wings i always sing "jet! ooohhhooohoohoohhoo, RALPH NADEEEEEER, JAMES SPADER!"
been doing that for years. i can't even remember what the real words are.
― scott seward, Sunday, 30 November 2008 22:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
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 (nine years ago) Permalink
This happens to me all the time. Sometimes I'm not even sure I'm conscious of it.
― jaymc, Monday, 1 December 2008 01:32 (nine years ago) Permalink
To the tune of Tina Turner's "Steamy Windows" : "Skidby Windmill".
― Me and Ruth Lorenzo, Rollin' in the Benzo (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 December 2008 01:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
"The sharif don't like itLock the TaskbarLock the Taskbar"
― adamj, Monday, 1 December 2008 07:19 (nine years ago) Permalink
thread is everything i wanted it to be and more.
― uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 December 2008 07:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
Lock the taskbar is hilarious and also reminds me of a couple of years ago in school when we were told to use only sans-serif fonts in our drawings. After a pause, my studiomate Casey declares: "SER-IF: don't like it! ROCK the caption."
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 December 2008 07:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
The shower in my last house had embossed directions for unscrewing the head:<-- REMOVE | REFIT -->ensuring Sepultura's "Refuse/Resist" was always in my head while showering, even for a couple of years after moving out.
― ..··¨ rush ~°~ push ~°~ ca$h ¨··.. (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 1 December 2008 10:35 (nine years ago) Permalink
LOL my bf just told me he does exactly this one too!
― Trayce, Monday, 1 December 2008 10:39 (nine years ago) Permalink
My brain can't keep track of the Cure's "Wild Mood Swings" vs Stabbing Westward's "Violent Mood Swings". And since the Stabbing Westward tune came out before the Cure's album did, at any mention of the second I hear the melody of the first.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 1 December 2008 11:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
I used to make-up the car adverts for a local newspaper. Every week I’d have a complicated ad which would take 3 or 4 hours for a company called ‘Portland Carriage’ - everytime I’d have Frank Sinatra in my head singing it to the tune ‘Love and Marriage’.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 1 December 2008 13:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
The car dealership near my parents house - Aylesbury Honda - always gets their name sung to the tune of 'Help me Rhonda'
― NickB, Monday, 1 December 2008 13:32 (nine years ago) Permalink
Chaka, Chaka, ChakaChicken & wafflesChicken & wafflesChicken & wafflesChicken & waffles
Chicken & wafflesLet me rock youLet me rock youChicken & wafflesLet me rock youThat's all I wanna doChicken & wafflesLet me rock youLet me rock youChicken & wafflesLet me rock you'Cause I feel for youChicken & waffles
― Snop Snitchin, Monday, 1 December 2008 14:42 (nine years ago) Permalink
This could be ILM's highest earworm risk thread yet. My version of "I'm doin' laundryyyyy" when I'm checking tags to split up the colds and warms: "I'll tumble dry ya"
― dad a, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:45 (nine years ago) Permalink
Also stuck in my head, ever since record store coworkers tried to help a customer seeking "that Bob Marley song, Pajamas," leaving them mystified until she sang it for them:
PajamasPajamasI'm in pajamas with youPajamas pajamas pajamas pajamas pajamas pajamas pajamasAnd I hope you like pajamas tooOh-oh-oh
― dad a, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:50 (nine years ago) Permalink
ahahaha
― uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 December 2008 16:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
omg "I'll tumble dry ya" - laundry is never going to be the same!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 December 2008 16:37 (nine years ago) Permalink
Takes me back to my college days, where, stumblinginto yet another cheap-ass mixer, my friends and I would break out into:
"I forgot my wallet...Oh fuck, it's a cash bar!Fuck, it's a cash bar!"
― mottdeterre, Monday, 1 December 2008 19:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
Until recently my local corner shop was called Akbar's, and every time I went there I would sing "Akbar's! I wanna take you to Akbar's!" (to the tune of 'Gay Bar', obviously). I do have loads more of these, but usually don't remember them aside from when I do it.
More annoyingly, I've found that whenever someone says "yes" in a certain manner, I have to finish it with "the rhythm the rebel". It is driving me insane.
― emil.y, Monday, 1 December 2008 20:44 (nine years ago) Permalink
Argh, "yes, the rhythm the rubbish, without a pause I'm taking out the garbage" went through my head for about a decade whenever I did the trash. What is it about chores that makes them such a breeding ground for these singsongs?
― dad a, Monday, 1 December 2008 20:50 (nine years ago) Permalink
Any street name of the form 2 syllable word + avenue gets 'and I'm caught one more time up on duh-duh avenue' sung to it
― sonofstan, Monday, 1 December 2008 22:49 (nine years ago) Permalink
On seeing a chinchilla in a city farm: "Chinchilla! Who got the keys to my bima?"
― chap, Monday, 1 December 2008 23:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
Shih Tzu, that's how we act when we team up.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 00:05 (nine years ago) Permalink
(there are probably better ways to fill that in)
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 00:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
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.
― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 02:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
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.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 09:50 (nine years ago) Permalink
"Doug" substituted for the word "love":
Can You Feel The Doug Tonight?Ain't Talkin' 'Bout DougDoug Will Tear Us ApartNow That We've Found Dougetc.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:15 (nine years ago) Permalink
WHAT
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
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....
― mottdeterre, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:23 (nine years ago) Permalink
^^LOL esp. "when a man lunches a woman"
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
I feel the lunch, baby
― mottdeterre, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
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
― Edward III, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
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, 3 December 2008 21:39 (nine years ago) Permalink
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."
― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 4 December 2008 07:44 (nine years ago) Permalink
as i was shutting my work computer down for the day - 'the server shut down' to the tune of 'the final countdown'
― 6335, Thursday, 4 December 2008 07:54 (nine years ago) Permalink
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."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 7 December 2008 05:44 (nine years ago) Permalink
There Will be Blood, sung to the tune of "She Will be Loved"
― reggaeton shark (salsa shark), Sunday, 7 December 2008 17:25 (nine years ago) Permalink
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"
― bendy, Friday, 26 December 2008 01:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
At some point, I started hearing Iggy's shouted chorus in 'Down in the Street' as 'DEWALT! DEWALT!' and now my brain always tries to turn the song into a commercial for power tools.
― Winky Carrothers (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:10 (nine months ago) Permalink
Or I guess I should say, for the purposes of this thread, that I always find myself singing 'Down in the Street' when I use my drill.
― Winky Carrothers (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:12 (nine months ago) Permalink
When I use my drill I invariably sing "I... found... my... DRILL, on Blueberry Hill."
― what if a much of a which of a wind (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:47 (nine months ago) Permalink
Possibly influenced or reinforced by this cartoon:
https://framasphere.org/camo/9d84d67542bd86d9be33cb145fbb502e527a101b/68747470733a2f2f732d6d656469612d63616368652d616b302e70696e696d672e636f6d2f353634782f64622f30622f65632f64623062656336363238353962313539633538646161346238666638636532332e6a7067
― what if a much of a which of a wind (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:49 (nine months ago) Permalink
It keeps coming back to this:
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― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:17 AM (eight years ago)
Fujiya, Miyagi, oooh i wanna take ya
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:17 AM (eight years ago)
My drill is a Makita, so I sing, Makita, Miyagi, ooh i'm gonna drill ya ... to the tune of Kokomo
― sarahell, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 15:59 (nine months ago) Permalink
At work a few years back we were ordering a lot of Wagamama’s when working late. To this day, their Amai Udon makes me go “amai udon - amai - amai udon” to the bridge melody of Livin’ Joy’s Dreamer.
― bamboohouses, Thursday, 2 November 2017 09:03 (nine months ago) Permalink
haha, I'm now gonna be doing this too
― kinder, Thursday, 2 November 2017 12:54 (nine months ago) Permalink
You can probably guess what song materialized as I wrote 'November rent' on the Memo line of the check.
― Vas the deferens? (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 November 2017 13:50 (nine months ago) Permalink
http://youtu.be/JBy_M4hVHag
― kinder, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:21 (nine months ago) Permalink
Getting a rental car at the Denver airport today, there were four traffic islands between lanes where you had to wait for shuttle buses, labeled island 1-4. I’ve had “island number three, that is what we are” in my head since.
― joygoat, Friday, 3 November 2017 23:42 (nine months ago) Permalink
agh I just read a tweet about Denver airport then read this thread
― kinder, Saturday, 4 November 2017 00:01 (nine months ago) Permalink
Upland bog But to get there is an uphill slog
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 4 November 2017 21:01 (nine months ago) Permalink
Casual Pants --> American Band
― sarahell, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 22:16 (nine months ago) Permalink
Moist (vreeeeeeet)Towelette (vrooooot)
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Thursday, 16 November 2017 09:52 (nine months ago) Permalink
"Fried Egg I'm In Love" to the Cure song
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 16 November 2017 12:10 (nine months ago) Permalink
Also my cat is called Moey so we sing
"I can call you Moey,and Moey when you call me, you can call MIAOW"
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 16 November 2017 12:15 (nine months ago) Permalink
lol
― how's life, Thursday, 16 November 2017 14:10 (nine months ago) Permalink
Bloomberg has this little 2-factor authentication gadget for their terminal, the B-B-B-B-B Unit!. Four five years on, still in my head.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 16 November 2017 15:00 (nine months ago) Permalink
awwwwww call MIAOW! <3
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 November 2017 21:58 (nine months ago) Permalink
Related:
I've spent a good chunk of today going
"I'M PORTER RIIIIICKS! REEEEEE!"
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 17:38 (eight months ago) Permalink
I'm in the target market for that comment, and lol
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:23 (eight months ago) Permalink
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
RELATED:To the tune of Carly Simon's "Anticipation" --> EX FO LI AAAAATION - IS MAKIN' ME FLAKE.
― ian, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 19:27 (eight months ago) Permalink
for the past month or so:
"roy moore, juan peron, toscanini, dacron"
― Stupor Fly, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 01:37 (seven months ago) Permalink
To 'Vogue'?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 21 December 2017 00:26 (seven months ago) Permalink
This doesn't really work for this thread, but just walked into The Strand Bookstore and started mentally singing Roxy Music's "Do The Strand."
― Burru Men Meet Burryman ina Wicker Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 December 2017 00:40 (seven months ago) Permalink
There's some (unused) boxes of LED wire at work, and I can't pass them without it triggering "LED, LED wire, stay close to meeee"
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 December 2017 15:56 (seven months ago) Permalink
Now singing “Sweet Baby James” to the tune of “Sweet Lady Jane.”
― Steely Rodin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 December 2017 13:53 (seven months ago) Permalink
And, of course, this: Songs That Reference Carry On Films Somehow
― Steely Rodin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 December 2017 13:55 (seven months ago) Permalink
Call me by blondie
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 23 December 2017 23:08 (seven months ago) Permalink
LeFrak Center (ice skating rink) in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Aaaaaah... Frak out!LeFrak... c'est chac!
― Josefa, Saturday, 30 December 2017 19:47 (seven months ago) Permalink
one day when I was reading the rimming thread I thought of the song by Spanky and Our Gang and now forever, "I'd Like to Get to Know You" goes...
well Id like to lick your buttholeif I could
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 31 December 2017 16:56 (seven months ago) Permalink
I like Wolves In The Throne Room but I always end up singing their name in my head to the song Bernard sings in Black Books "cows in the morning 1-2-3 upland at them with a STICK!"
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 12:34 (six months ago) Permalink
inexplicably, for a few weeks off and on i've had the saw-the-video-once Limp Bizkit comeback failure "Gold Cobra" stuck in my head, except the chorus is
Golan and Globus they're golden,They're golden, so golden, y'allGolan-Globus
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:43 (five months ago) Permalink
http://imgur.com/RQT4Us2l.png
These are your orders, seems like it's do it or dieSo please read them closelyWhen you've learnt them be sure that you eat them up
― mick signals, Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:29 (four months ago) Permalink
Was in the pub the other night singing along to The Killers' classic "I'm Norman Whiteside"
― bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:47 (four months ago) Permalink
By Order of the Fire Chief I know, I knowIt's serious
― how's life, Monday, 23 April 2018 11:37 (three months ago) Permalink
In a local grocery this weekend I spotted some large yellow courgettes, with a the name written on a tag in front of them. I must have looked at the tag for a split second.. Cue my brain singing 'large yellow courgettes' to the tune of Raspberry Beret at me for 3 days straight.
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Monday, 23 April 2018 11:42 (three months ago) Permalink
Not to the tune of “Little Red Corvette”(?)
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 23 April 2018 12:46 (three months ago) Permalink
― how's life, Monday, 23 April 2018 12:51 (three months ago) Permalink
Thanks, I now have a B side for my unshakeable brainworm.
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Monday, 23 April 2018 18:30 (three months ago) Permalink
lately been hearing Jack Kirby to the sound of David Lowery singing Jack Ruby.
― how's life, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:37 (two months ago) Permalink
"total goat rodeo" » "rollin' down Rodeo"
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 15:11 (two months ago) Permalink
Maria Butina and the jingle for Maria Christina wine. Happens every time.
https://youtu.be/eUWlyLKXEeU
― dinnerboat, Sunday, 22 July 2018 03:15 (three weeks ago) Permalink
I was visiting our local water park a few weeks ago when I spotted an older guy with a Psychopathic Records Hatchet Man tattoo. Wouldn't you know it, Bob Marley was playing over their sound system at the time. Since then, I've had
He was a Juggalo grandpaAt Six Flags America
stuck in my head.
― how's life, Monday, 23 July 2018 16:41 (three weeks ago) Permalink
^This is not quite the right thread for that post, but it was the best I could find.
― how's life, Monday, 23 July 2018 16:44 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Every time I see a package of “Baby Arugula” in the grocery store I get Raffi’s “Baby Beluga” stuck in my head. Am I doing this right?
― stillHera, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 02:03 (three weeks ago) Permalink
A friend brought a six pack of these to a BBQ the other day and I've been screeching the name to myself in a Brian Johnson voice sincehttps://untappd.akamaized.net/photos/2018_07_07/bde3196677c33356204e07e97d1b7e52_640x640.jpg
― joygoat, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 02:24 (three weeks ago) Permalink
He was a Juggalo grandpaAt Six Flags AmericaThis is v funny, and I don’t want you to think it is going unappreciated
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 02:59 (three weeks ago) Permalink
^^^
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 04:47 (three weeks ago) Permalink
yes, very good
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 07:43 (three weeks ago) Permalink