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

omg

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

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

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

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

bingo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Robbery, assault and battery
Live together in perfect harmony

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

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

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

lol

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

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

I can hear it!

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

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.

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

lol

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

Hahaha I love it

Bring me a higher bath

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

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

lol at "Waterloo Rigby"

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

Bang a Gong

Baby don't hurt me

Lol

This morning my ADHD ear worms have decided it’s perfectly normal to loop the old Club Biscuit advert song combined with SFA ‘Rings Around The World’

“If you like
a lot of chocolate on your
RINGS AROUND THE WORLD”

It has been hours, send help

RINGS AROUND THE WORLD and I-I-I
I can't find my chocolate

This was actually in a show I watched but it remains in my head:
Crash test dummies: Mmm mmm mm mmm
Mmmm mmm mmm mmm
Video games

I think there are a ton of these on the original Video Games thread though, including the unforgettable 'kickin' in the front seat, sitting in the back seat, video games'.

I was listening to my 80s playlist and Kiss’ deeply cheesy “Forever” morphed into Heart’s “What About Love?” (In my head not in the playlist bc I had it on shuffle)
I was curious if they had the same songwriter and learned the Heart song is a cover!! News to me.

I didn't know that either. mostly cos their hits were largely being written by professional songwriters then and it sounds so much like those songs I didn't realize a band wrote it. interesting!

(I have a soft spot for those Heart ballads, as generic as they were, mostly cos Ann Wilson could make any material sound good)

me too, I have "will you be there in the morning" on my car playlist at the moment!

I do not like either of these songs, but Tony Orlando and Dawn’s “Knock Three Times” morphs into Styx’s “Lady” thusly:

“Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me
Once on the pipe
And my troubles all fade…”

No he don't give a fuck about anybody else
When I think about you I touch myself