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

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repeated with increasing echo and calliope noises as the protagonist struggles to keep eyes open, camera turns and twists, losing focus, the image begins to duplicate and revolve around itself as if in a kaleidoscope

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 8 July 2021 11:53 (two years ago) link

protagonist = Steven Toast obv

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 8 July 2021 11:53 (two years ago) link

are we human or are we dancer?
get along lonesome bulldog in spring

massaman gai (front tea for two), Sunday, 11 July 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link

I was just reminded of "Nobody's Fool" by Cinderella and when trying to remember it, it fused with "Screwing Yer Courage" by Team Dresch in my head: "I count the falling tears, they fall before my eyes/Just like so much corn in late July"

Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 19 July 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link

My boyfriend's back
And you're gonna be in trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don't worry
Be happy

making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 July 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link

Haha

Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 19 July 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link

lol

peace, man, Monday, 19 July 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link

The Devil went down to Georgia
and he stuck it up in the air
He said I sure do love this big brown beaver
and I wish I had myself a pair

epistantophus, Thursday, 22 July 2021 12:29 (two years ago) link

Woke up with that gem in my head, thanks brain

epistantophus, Thursday, 22 July 2021 12:29 (two years ago) link

omg

making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 July 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link

julee cruise "into the night" & the magmaesque funk vamp from the OG 1980s "She-Ra"

massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 5 August 2021 07:49 (two years ago) link

That time then and once again
I'm bouncing 'round the room
That time then and once again
...and all the Philly steaks you can eat

Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 5 August 2021 11:13 (two years ago) link

to be fair, you really can mentally put "and all the Philly steaks you can eat" at the end of pretty much any stanza in pop music

And I encourage everyone to do so

Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 5 August 2021 11:16 (two years ago) link

In the day, we sweat it out on the streets
Of a runaway American dream
At night, we ride through mansions of glory
...and all the Philly steaks you can eat

wankee hotel fuckstrot (peace, man), Thursday, 5 August 2021 11:18 (two years ago) link

bingo

Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 5 August 2021 11:32 (two years ago) link

Do you have the time
To listen to me whine
About nothing and everything all at once?
I am one of those
Melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it

TOUT TOUT POUR MA CHERIE, MA CHERIE
TOUT TOUT POUR MA CHERIE, MA CHERIE

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 6 August 2021 07:24 (two years ago) link

For some reason I hear just enough melodic similarity in "Hold Me Now" and "Here, There, and Everywhere" that I inadvertently mash these lyrics up:

You say I'm a dreamer, we're two of a kind
Both of us searching for some perfect world
We know we'll never find

Each one believing that love never dies
Watching their eyes
And hoping I'm always there

trial by wombat (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 6 August 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link

Don't turn around
Der Kommissar's in town
Can't touch this

trial by wombat (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 8 August 2021 21:43 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSO-E3VJ2jw

calstars, Sunday, 8 August 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbJzzzFN25g

calstars, Sunday, 8 August 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link

when you're sliding into first
and you feel something burst
Maybe it's the best thing for you
But it's the worst that could happen to me

making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 August 2021 01:23 (two years ago) link

Watched the Sparks movie and now have a medley of I Married Myself/Under The Table With Her/Tips For Teens bouncing around my head.

Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

I've been doing this with "Whoomp! There It Is" and "Boom Boom Boom" as of recent.

I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link

Robbery, assault and battery
Live together in perfect harmony

Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 23 September 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Tank fly, boss walk, jam nitty gritty
You're listening to the boy from the big bad city
This is jam hot
This is jam hot

Friends tell me I am crazy
That I'm wasting time with you
But the rhythm is gonna get ya

namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Monday, 8 November 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link

(Could also go in the songs that sound like each other thread)

namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Monday, 8 November 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link

I always like to pretend it's "The Griffin is gonna get ya". Much scarier

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 8 November 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link

lol

namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Monday, 8 November 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Not quite a mashup, but the words "Screaming Like a Baby" to the tune of "Treat Her Like a Lady."

I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Friday, 24 December 2021 02:35 (two years ago) link

Donny Hathaway - This Christmas, but the jazzy turnaround after the chorus drops straight into the theme from Taxi.

This has been plaguing me all week

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Friday, 24 December 2021 11:07 (two years ago) link

I can hear it!

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 24 December 2021 11:28 (two years ago) link

Yesterday it was these two songs: Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Vanessa From Queens / the Boo Radleys - Charles Bukowski Is Dead. They must be in roughly the same key and tempo because I started thinking of one and then the middle eighth from the other kind of interrupted it. Not sure which one though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2G0gA5k4JM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw9utPi16pQ

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 24 December 2021 11:33 (two years ago) link

two months pass...

One song only--this is the only thread for earworms.

I was subbing for a music teacher two days last week, and she had a number of YouTube clips lined up for singing and for boomwhackers. One of the singing clips for half the classes was Bruno Mars "Count on Me" Nice song, please, please leave me alone.

clemenza, Saturday, 12 March 2022 21:58 (two years ago) link

i wanna to live with a cinnamon girl
live in a big white house
in the forest

budo jeru, Friday, 18 March 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

"The Night Chicago Died" by "Paper Lace" and......"Dangerous Jade" from Evita

In the heat of a summer night
In the land of the dollar bill
When the town of Chicago died
And they talk about it still

The evidence suggests
They have other interests
If it's her who's using him
He's exceptionally dim

Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 April 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

The Flaming Lips and the Chi-Lites:

From this moment on
Blaring like a trumpet
Tell me have you seen her?

The confidence of knowing!
Tell me have you seen her?
Struggle to believe it's so

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link

Sweet Georgia Brown into Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas...

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link

Yes “Roundabout” and The Miracles “Love Machine”… they have similar opening licks, just before the vocals, which makes them very swappable in the head.

mike t-diva, Thursday, 2 June 2022 07:44 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

Metallica and Joe Esposito

Down in the depths of my fiery home
The summons bell will chime

Try to believe, though the going gets rough
That you gotta hang tough to make it

peace, man, Saturday, 18 June 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link

three months pass...

A Chorus Line's "Dance Ten, Looks Three" and Ice Cube's "When Will They Shoot?"

Tits and ass won't get you jobs
Unless they're yours

Didn't cost a fortune neither
Didn't hit Da Lench Mob either

stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 October 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link

my kid was singing "who let the dogs out?" very slowly and now "who let the dogs out / who who who" has replaced "i read the news today, oh boy" from a day in the life

joygoat, Thursday, 13 October 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link

lol

stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 October 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link

i see i already mentioned my weird twin peaks/locomotion hang-up, which was in my head for years. i am so glad that time is over.

another one that lasted years on end was Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash" with Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue". just one part, over and over:

"Splish splash, I was taking a bath / and then we'll take it higher"

i have no idea how this happened but it drove me insane

Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 October 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link

Hahaha I love it

stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 October 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link

Bring me a higher bath

stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 October 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link

Every time I hear “Waterloo Sunset” the lyrics from “Eleanor Rigby” try to horn themselves into the melody:

Look at him wor-king
Darning his socks in
The night when there’s no - one there

Father Mac-KEN-zie
Wiping the dirt from
His hands as he walks - from the graaave

an incomprehensible borefest full of elves (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 15 October 2022 06:41 (one year ago) link

Got my occasional "I've been walking in the rain just to get on purpose..." over 'Touched By The Hand Of God' again this morning

nashwan, Saturday, 15 October 2022 10:41 (one year ago) link

lol at "Waterloo Rigby"

We Have Never Been Secondary Modern (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 October 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link

I get "What is Life" -- "Bang a Gong (Get it On)" a lot.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link

Bang a Gong

Baby don't hurt me

the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link


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