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)

Lol, good one

Dear Evan Hansen to the tune of Kaleidoscope's "Dear Nellie Goodrich." Makes it way more tolerable to hear about Dear Evan Hansen.

Been playing Lego and I have a.... Brick Separator

(Smooth Operator, obviously)

When I'm feeling stressed I start singing "im gonna get stressed / and de-pressed" to Roxette's 'Dressed For Success'

It started with Holloway Road, which of course is v close to "Holiday Road", but now my brain has been doing this for every sign with "road" on it in London, no matter how tortured the meter. Halp!

I used to walk by Harriet Street in Pittsburgh all the time in the early 90s, and it seemed like it should be the hook of some wet indie song, perhaps obliquely about getting your 7" put out by Harriet Records, "I want to live on Harriet Street". There's also Sarah Street in another part of town, but that didn't inspire the same jangly guitar sounds in my head.

Chic - "Dance, Dance, Dance (Gyoza, Gyoza, Gyoza)" (when I'm making gyoza)

sometimes people on Twitter write "get in the bin" and I imagine it sung to the tune of Sparks' "Get In The Swing"

When I'm feeling stressed I start singing "im gonna get stressed / and de-pressed" to Roxette's 'Dressed For Success'

Nice. When I'm exceptionally stressed it's "TIME TO HAVE STRESS!!!" to Mad Cobra's "Flex (Time to Have Sex)".

When taking the trash out on a rainy night (or when finding that someone else is throwing something out that would've been a great find if it wasn't already soaked): "sometimes it rains on trash night" to "Sometimes it Snows in April".

Upon returning home and being met at the door by my cat: "Cat! / Savior of the universe! / Cat! / She'll save every one of us!" to Queen's "Flash".

When I sing the diarrhea song I always replace "feel something burst" with "feel like Fred Durst"

oh no

(fred schneider voice) we can be heroes, just for one DAY

— blaine capatch (@blainecapatch) September 22, 2021

One of my facebook friends just posted, "I wish I knew why I was on this plane," and my brain has been singing the beginning of "Half Past France" ever since.

There is a meme going around with a picture of Billy Idol that says "It's a nice day for a... light sweater" and the ln "It's a nice day for a... CARDIGAAAAN."

And I would just like to say thT I approve of this meme and I am incorporating these into my lifestyle

Because I am sheep

Baaa

Baa

"I wish I knew why I was on this plane,"

"No one said that this jet was easy / did that no one ever take a jet this hard?" to Jawbreaker's "Ashtray Monument".

The Elton song Are You Ready for Lunch? is popular in my brain.

I've had the Four Tops' 'Bernadette' stuck in my head for like the last day and a half except at some point it morphed into 'Burn To Death' so that's what I just keep hearing over and over now

xp, "Ready for Lunch" is a Bad Company jam.

lol i picked up "Burn to Death" off a misheard-lyrics site circa 2005 and it absolutely defines the song to me. terrifying.

lol, yeah, I hope it hasn't permanently ruined the song for me (e.g. that thing where I can't not hear Falco sing 'hot potatoes, hot potatoes').

Van Halen's "Hot for Treacher" is an all time favorite, the well known classic about Roth's fetish for fish n chips

Whenever these are around, I sing the name like the Pixies’ “Caribou”:

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Van Halen's "Hot for Treacher" is an all time favorite, the well known classic about Roth's fetish for fish n chips

lol i'm just going to take it all the way to being a boastful metaphor concerning his rock-star success: "I've got it made, I've got it made, I've got it made - I'm Arthur Treacher." sort of an "i think i'm Big Meech, Larry Hoover" type thing, but fast-food fish-n-chip related.

surprised to learn there is exactly one Arthur Treacher's establishment left. also that "Arthur Treacher" was a successful British actor whose affiliation with the company was kept vague. i think i'd always figured he was like ColoneL Sanders, or possibly Captain D.

lol wow. I never ate there either - just walked by one in the mall many times as a then fish-hating youth.

oh wow he was Constable Jones in Mary Poppins!

I think it’s “Got it bad, got it bad…” etc though admitttedly Roth’s accent makes it sound kinda funny

it is, but I misheard it as "made" the first time and have never entirely shaken it.

I wanna take you to a fig bar! Fig bar! Fig bar!

Morrissey is a Racist = Sheena is a Punk Rocker

I've just seen Perry Anderson's name on the homepage and sung it to the tune of 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)' by Metallica.

“I’m in the Meal Deal” to the tune of We’re in the Money or, sometimes I’m Every Woman.

Haha

To the tune of ZZ Top's 'Velcro Fly"

"Do the Remko Scha"

MERV-13 to the tune of "Dancing Queen"

"kwisatz haderach" to the tune of "get back, honky cat"

I also have a stove box in the garage with everything written in english/spanish/french; whenever I see 'estufa' I hear guy picciotto singing it at the beginning of 'exit only'

Fettucine

Allo
Aalo-o-o-
Sunt eu picasso...

(from the Numa Numa yay song)

Whenever I see an album by Julian Bream, classical guitarist:

Julian Bream
Bream boat queen
Queen of all my dreams

Wamsutta

Wamsutta, wamsutta, bam a lam
Wamsutta, wamsutta, bam a lam

Hot takes -> "Hot Freaks", GBV

gaslighting -> “Nightclubbing”

Things that I say to the tune of “Eminence Front,” Part I pic.twitter.com/i7tA37rpwY

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 29, 2022

Not the same thing, but when I think of PJ Harvey's line "Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water" I follow it with "Come Mr tallyman, tally me banana."

Brisk Money
Put your Filas on

"Bomb calorimeter" makes me hum "Ein Keloheinu."

whenever i cook white rice the first thing i hear is lou reed shouting "WHITE RICE" like the intro to white light.

Verizon admonishments to pay online -- "your bill is just a click away" --->> chorus of Gimme Shelter

I can Creames Fartpoop
if I can't hold you tonight

I will too often find myself wandering around the apartment singing "I don't know where my phone is...." to the tune of that Nelly Furtado songs, which is double bad 'cos now I can't find my phone and I'm singing a Nelly Furtado song........
― m0stlyClean, Thursday, September 3, 2020 6:31 PM

oh see mine is "I want to know where phone is, I want you to show me" dunno if that's worse
― sarahell, Friday, September 4, 2020 7:15 AM

"Where is my phone" for me is sung to the tune of "Where is my Mind?"
― tater totalitarian (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, September 4, 2020 8:41 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

No no guys, it's to the tune of 'Where is the Love?'
― emil.y, Friday, September 4, 2020 8:52 AM

Today I found myself doing a Dylan / "Tight Connection" thing: "Has anybody SEEN my phone? Has anybody seen MY phone?..."

I sing "Here I go again on my phone" to the tune of Whitesnake a lot

I’ve been known to say to myself “Got phone… in pocket,” à la the Pretenders’ “Brass in Pocket” (which feels like an extremely dorky thing to do).