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)

(there are probably better ways to fill that in)

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.

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.

"Doug" substituted for the word "love":

Can You Feel The Doug Tonight?
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Doug
Doug Will Tear Us Apart
Now That We've Found Doug
etc.

WHAT

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....

^^LOL esp. "when a man lunches a woman"

I feel the lunch, baby

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

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

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."

as i was shutting my work computer down for the day - 'the server shut down' to the tune of 'the final countdown'

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."

There Will be Blood, sung to the tune of "She Will be Loved"

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"

There's a coffee chain here called "Cup o Joe" which I have stuck together with "Poppa Joe" by the Sweet.

hahaha nautica

bendy truly gets the spirit of this thread

Run fast as you can.
You can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man.

To the tune of Iron Man. Whenever i see hear anything ginger related.

WIth Michael PARKINSOn, liza goddard, and LIonel blaiR

to the tune of happy house by juan Mclean

"I drowned a girl and I liked it"

Looking at medicines that declare "Pain Reliever / Fever Reducer," I flash on Keith Murray saying "Panty raider / party exciter!" on "Special Delivery."

"I could drink a quesadilla, darling
and I would still be on my feet..."

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

whenever i read the shampoo & face wash bottles in the shower, i start singing "ex-fo-li-aaa-aation, is makin' me scrape."

burrito = "Amoeba" by the Adolescents - Burr - ee -TO! Burr - ee - TO!

and another - 70s artist Blinky Palermo to the tune of "Bitchin' Camaro" by the Dead Milkmen.

Everytime I see a Blu-Ray disc or player, I sing "blu-ray" to the tune of:

if blu-ray technology catches on, I'm screwed!

Congrats Whiney, I am totally going to start doing that in my head now. Man, I haven't heard U-Way in forever.

Actually they were kind of dumb not to license the song!

('they' meaning the blu-ray people, not the Youngbloodz)

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, December 3, 2008 4:39 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

At one old job we had a regular customer named Wei Ding (we had to pull the customer's charge accounts from the filing cabinet, so people's names were well-known). This guy came in all the time with large, elaborate orders.... and one day right after he left it clicked in my head: "So tired... Tired of Wei Ding..."

Temple Of The Dog: Hunger Strike

I'm doing laundry....doin' lauundraaaaaayyyayayayayaya

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, November 30, 2008 2:09 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark

this will never leave my head ever

Clothes are on the table, the dryer's cookiiiiiiin'

last night I dreamed about this thread. in my dream I posted that I always hear 'Gilgamesh' to the tune of "Silver Bells". that doesn't actually happen to me, but now I think it probably will.

ahhhon mind steelin shirts from the mouth of the dryeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

Whenever "Rosemary's Baby" is mentioned I start singing, to the tune of Jackson Browne's "Somebody's Baby," "It's got to be Rosemary's Baby, oh yeah, it's got to be Rosemary's Baby, cause she's so fine...she's gonna be Rosemary's Baby oh yeahhhh"

Like the very nature of these things, it's pretty obnoxious to other ears prob

The city of Bangalore = "Albacore" by Palomar.

A record store I frequented in my teens had a Papa John Creach poster in the back, which name now and forever sparks a Madonna tune in my head:

Papa John Creach
I'm in trouble deep...

Surprised Papa John's Pizza hasn't picked it up to promote a deep-dish pie. Put it down with "Blu-Ray!"

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!

http://www.whataboutclients.com/archives/Beavis_and_Butt-head.gif

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".

I'm Steve McQueen
I'm Martin Sheen
I'm Jimmy Dean
I'm women's jeans

I can't see the name Hayden Panettiere without thinking of the Beastie Boys:

Intergalactic, Panettiere, Panettiere, Intergalactic

I have to ask how often you see the name Hayden Panettiere!

Is that how you lot are pronouncing Pannettiere?

dog latin: for the purposes of this thread, yes. In a representative democracy, we reach a consensus on how to mangle the pronunciation of furrin words, and abide by that decision. My country, right or wrong.

morrisp: according to my attorneys, I don't have to answer that.

Lately when I feed my cats I find myself singing "foooood for caaaaats" to the tune of the Squeeze song "Cool for Cats."

This is in addition to the longstanding mental association with the old Far Side CAT FUD cartoon.

But the two don't really work together. I don't sing "fuuuuud for caaats." It's definitely "foooood for caaaaats."

“James Webb, James Webb”

When I see the Belvita line of breakfast crackers/cookies I have to sing it (internally) as is done for "Candida" in the Tony Orlando song.

Good one!

My place o' employment includes a Microbiology lab which tests for pathogens including candida albicans, so I'm well versed in Tony Orlando & Dawn running through my head.

Probably more for the misheard lyrics but
Kids - MGMT
"Control yourself, take only what you need from it"

I'm never sure what the lyrics are but I hear 'cheese, Gromit' in there every time

Chairstore called Lovesac could definately be a Primus lyric

I might have already said this one but whenever I see bacon in the supermarket it's PSB "How can you expect to be... bacon, seriously?"

“Great Wealth Transfer” —> Billy Bragg’s waiting for the Great Leap Forward… #classtraitor

If you were in middle school around the same time I was, maybe you will also hear this in a voice from a certain Miami bass song (track 3… IYKYK):

https://i.imgur.com/Y57kPQt_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grand