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

I am sure this happens to other people. Two songs stuck in your head, one interwoven with the other in a natural way. They are never cool songs on my case. Today it was "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" and "Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas" combined together.

Box of chocolates for me to eat,
Lots of coal making lots of heat
Warm face, warm hands, warm feet,
oh wouldn't it be lovely?
Ho ho, the mistletoe, hung where you can see
Somebody waits for you, kiss her once for me

The tempo of the Ives song was slowed to match the showtune's tempo. This happens to me all the time. Normally they are poppy, commercial song, or even jingles, not ones I really listen to on my own for fun. Once it was two v brief jingles together over and over, for hours – this will get stuck in my head again, but: "Don't you want a, want a Fanta? TV Funhouse! TV Funhouse!

So this is a thread for when this happens to you. Maybe you actually get a less ridiculous selection of tunes!

Yep the Odd Couple theme tune often swiftly sifts into the Imperial March from Star Wars for me, it sounds pretty good to be fair.

That is awesome!

This happens to me quite a lot, so that I'm babbling nonsense to myself as I cycle into work. I had a very odd one the other day where a Schumann song was mixed up in my head with Laurel and Hardy doing Trail of the Lonesome Pine - I think it was as much to do with how the Kathleen Ferrier recording sounded as the actual song.

I thought this was a weird thread but yesterday, I had this weird intertangling of George Harrison's "When We Was Fab" and the 70s-era SNL commercial for "Spud" beer

Earlier today I had a combination of The Eagles' Hotel California and Christopher Cross's Arthur's theme with bits of Any Dream Will Do from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat going through my head. It was horrendous.

I've had Miley Cyrus's Party in the U.S.A. stuck in my head, but my brain has interchanged the lyrics on the verses with Lita Ford's Kiss Me Deadly. Not sure how this has happened.

I often get an interflowing mixture of the instrumental themes from "Entertainment Tonight" and "Regis & Kathie Lee" stuck in my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZfBT2PNAFg&feature=related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ZODaEtRWw

Van Morrison's "Moondance" and the theme to the old Spiderman TV show....

Today it was the verses of "To the Pines, To the Pines" (as performed by Bascom Lamar Lunsford) with the chorus of "Goodnight, Irene" (as performed by leadbelly).

I used to have a three-song mashup that I couldn't get out of my head -- "Home on the Range," "White Christmas" and one that I can't remember anymore.

I feel bad that I forgot to capitalize Leadbelly's name but Bascom got 3x proper nouns. I have underlined the "l" on my monitor 3x to fix it. Hope that shows up for you guys.

Baaand on the run,

Baaand on the run,

....

Why can't-I-find a wo-man like that

Shaggy vs Fleetwood Mac

But she caught me on the counter (It wasn't me)
Saw me bangin' on the sofa (It wasn't me)
I even had her in the shower (It wasn't me)
She even caught me on camera
Aaaaahhhhhh.... I wanna be with you everywhere...

You know when I said: 'Yep the Odd Couple theme tune often swiftly sifts into the Imperial March from Star Wars for me' I was holding back...

I just realised it sometimes melts into an ambient breakdown consisting of the theme from Jurassic Park.

They're now pretty much the same track in my head, its like Double Dee and Steinski in here.

I used to get these a lot when they would play those commercials for "Hits of the 80s!!" comps, e.g:

kerr-ack that whip!
don't turn around, ah-oh
hold me now, whoaaa

I keep getting the verse lyrics from Common People mashed up with and sung along to the verses from Summer of '69 in my head.

She told me that her dad was loaded / bought it at the five and dime / she said fine, and in thirty seconds' time...

LONG nights! ImPOSSible odds!
And then I wonder why she sleeps with my FRIENDS!
The more you suffer, the more it shows you really CAAARE!

because I knooow there's somethin' goin' on

ahhahaa that's great!

The lyrics of "Washington Bullets" and the tune of "Come Dancing" -- get it out of my head!

http://legitmix.com/DJ_Earworm/artist/7084/SummerMash_%2713/mix/9604#preview
i am deeply deeply ambivalent about this business model

Uh.. What the..

lol no WAY that is going to fly

Earlier today I had a combination of The Eagles' Hotel California and Christopher Cross's Arthur's theme with bits of Any Dream Will Do from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat going through my head. It was horrendous.

What are the odds? My most frequent earworm mashup is "Paint It Black" mixed with the chorus from "Go Go Go Joseph."

It must be an Andrew Lloyd Webber thing...

And whenever I think of Bela Fleck's "Flight of the Cosmic Hippo" it inevitably leads into the second eight from "Stolen Moments."

Ha, I remember telling friends in hs that I experienced this (Slint - "Good Morning Captain" + The Cure - "Pictures of You" iirc) and no one could relate at all.

Is this love, is this love, is this love that I'm feeling?
I'm high on believin'
That you're in love with me

I keep getting "We Can't Stop" mixed up in my head with Jessie J's "Price Tag".

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

Do the Trouser Press
Do the Eye-Gouge

omg at marquee shack

I made a mashup but I don't have the skill or time to do it very well, it's awful and might ruin both songs for you for life. I'll post it tomorrow.

stoked

just one verse and chorus. apologies to your ears.

https://soundcloud.com/tom-ledger-856685563/marquee-shack

Mashup rough as guts, but the combo works better than it has any right to.

wowie. the first half of the chorus is my favorite part; that really clicks!

From the halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land, and sea
Una Paloma Blanca ….
I’m just a bird in the sky!

Raindrops are fallin' on my head
They keep fallin'

And may your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

I like the way they walk
And it's chill to hear them talk
And I can always make 'em smile
From White Castle to the Nile

... baby shark

Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
You got me wrapped around your finger
Do you have to, do you have to
Do you have to let it linger

the "ilx covers" record I want to hear most is "Now that's what I call Earworm Mashups!"

sorry, that post probably belongs at 'your terrible ideas'

Nah, it’s a gooder.

Galveston oh Galveston
Travellin' and livin' off the land
Galveston oh Galveston
How I love being a free man

I remember to this day
The bright red Georgia clay
And how it stuck to the tires after the summer rain
And I dream of the things I'll do
With a subway token and a dollar tucked inside my shoe
There'll be a load of compromisin'
On the road to my horizon
But I'm gonna be where the lights are shinin' on me

Which leads me to think there must be a Galveston/Rhinestone Cowboy one

The first mate he got drunk
And broke in the Cap'n's trunk
The constable had to come and take him away
Now I'll never forget the day
We motored stately into big L.A.
The lights of the city put settlin' down in my brain

I am just a Dog Named Boo Stan account at this point

Used to be my homie
used to be my ace
now I wanna slap the taste out your mouth
N**** bow down to the Row
fuckin me, now I'm fuckin you lil hoe

I need you by me
to guide me
to hold me
to scold me
cos when i'm bad i'm so so bad

so let's dance the last dance
tonight

now understand this my N*** Dre can't be touched
Luke's bendin' over cos Luke's gettin fucked
Will you be my Mr. Right?
Can you fill my appetite?
I can't be sure that you're the one for me
All that I ask is that you dance with me

That B52's bootleg upthread sent me off on a B52's acapella ripping fest via moises.ai. So it turns out that 'Party Out Of Bounds' works far too well with M-Beat ft General Levy - Incredible. Thought I may as well post here as its this threads fault these 2 exist:

https://soundcloud.com/user-101843311-553307970/sets/levy-meets-the-52s-uptown

Apologies all in advance

I believe you're doing me wrong and now I know
(she can't help it, the girl can't help it)
I believe you're doing me wrong and now I know
(she can't help it, the girl can't help it)
the harder I work the faster my money goes
(she can't help it, the girl can't help it)

I never thought I could feel this way
And I got to say that I just don't get it.
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelings gone
And I just can't get it back.

I decided long ago
Never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I'll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity

OMG I have not opened this thread recently. Everything about the TV-52s mashup had me laughing until I cried. Kudos, Ledge.

And art with Verlaine and Co. riding in the Chrysler was the icing on the cake.

I can't hear 'The Last Man on Earth' by Wolf Alice without my brain simultaneously playing Wake Up by Arcade Fire. Can anyone do an irl mashup of these please? (I'm not a huge fan of the Arcade Fire song but it's like an itch that needs scratching). The 'ahhh' bits of Wolf Alice segue into the shouty bits 'we're just a million little gods' of Wake Up.

At every verse-end of "Chosen to Deserve" by Wednesday, it feels about to turn into

AAAAND
if you tolerate this
then your children will be next

Heeeeeeeyyy sexy lady,
And fire in the sky

ehaha

Wow

Well, there are worse things
Than staring at the water on a Sunday
Here in status symbol land

This summer I hear the drummin'
I shoulda learned to play them drums

Les poisson
Les poisson
Hee hee hee
Haw haw haw

(To the tune of Seasons in the Sun)

*poissons

Sublime 'What I Got' X Aretha Franklin 'Think'

I got a dalmatian, and I can still get high
I can play the guitar like a motherfuckin' riot
cause freedom (freedom)
stands for freedom (freedom)
oh freedom
yeah freedom

I've got the acappella of Machadaynu over the Danny Tenaglia remix of Depeche Mode's I Feel Loved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwyuB8QKzBI

Call me the angel of the morning, angel
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, angel
Just call me Angel of the morning, angel
YOU KNOW YOU’VE GOT IT!
If it makes you feel goo-ood

idk if there's an actual thread, but one of my friends just posted a mash-up of "Barbie Girl" and "A Cruel Angel's Thesis". it's, uh. a thing.

machadaynu over danny tanaglia's "I Feel Loved" is in my head now tho.

'Blurred Lines' but it's 'Ball Tongue' by Korn

I had to learn "Put Your Hand in the Hand" for my Dad's memorial and I said in advance I would be using a music stand with the words as I'm bad at memorizing lyrics, especially when nerves get involved, but mostly I had the chorus memorized.

but now for whatever reason I can't remember part of the chorus and in my head it goes "Put your hand in the hand of the one who killed the mother". like the latter part is clearly from another song but I don't know what one, lol.

will xpost this to songs that sound the same but...

1992 Drop Nineteens "Kick The Tragedy"
2002 Chemical Brothers "Star Guitar"

You know I looked out the window and I seen his bald head
And I ran to the fridge and I pulled out an egg
And I say
What’s going on?
And I say
AY-YAY-YAY-YAYAG
AY-YAY-YAY-YAYAG
EGG!
WHAT’S GOING ON?

I have listened to too much Little Shop of Horrors OST

Cheer up, Sleepy Jean, oh, what can it mean?
To a daydream believer and an
Ironing Machine

Hey man, look at that hair
Hey man, check out those shoes
She looks like she stepped out of the middle of somebody's blues

Sufragette City/Rip Her to Shreds

"through being cool" and "green-eyed lady"

I currently have a mix of the following all smooshed together, like fibres of a rope: the opening baggy bass line of Waiting Room by Fugazi, the 'ambition makes you look pretty ugly' section of Paranoid Android and, uh, the Octonauts theme tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUV0m-uNaA

(from around 12 seconds)

I posted this in another thread, but I cannot get away from morphing "She Blinded Me With Science" into "Owner of a Lonely Heart" in my head.

That’s legit. Would listen.

Haha that Octonauts theme is straight ripped from Radiohead