You’re gonna hate me…
Child's Play x2 | February 24But I just couldn’t pass up an opportunity to pass along my misery. See, a couple of days ago, I posted on my blog that I could NOT get the song “Horse With No Name” out of my head (Sing it with me… “I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name. It felt good to be out of the rain…”).
My regular readers, being the kind twisted souls that they are, decided to help me get this song out of my head by suggesting other songs that might add to help with my problem.
For instance, Sarah very nicely supplied the lyrics to “It’s A Small World”, Becky supplied the lyrics to “Summer Lovin’” from Grease, Kemp decided I needed a good dose of “Oh, Mandy” by the immortal Barry Manilow at which Susan decided that one Barry Manilow song stuck in my head wasn’t enough so she gave me the lyrics to “Copa Cabana.” Deanna mentioned some Elmo song but my kids aren’t old enough to have yet been seduced by the sultry sounds of Elmo (Thank. God.) so I didn’t know what she was talking about. However, she did provide some amusing parody lyrics about Star Wars to the tune of Copa Cabana that I had not heard before. See, my readers are always looking out for me!
So, now that I have all of these songs dancing around my head (it’s not a pretty sight when I morph from A Horse With No Name into Copa Cabana), let’s continue this as we head into the weekend.
What songs do you hate to get stuck in your head?
The silly midi-sounding ‘go go power rangers’ melody. 7and8 have just discovered this turd of the tube, and guess what - they love it. This took the place of the Scooby-doo song, which isn’t so bad (the old school song before batman and robin started showing up). Eminem seems to be able to vanqish any tune, but the wife gets upset when she is greated by “I just settled all my lawsuits. F*#K-you DEBBIE!”. Maybe I shouldn’t sing out loud while doing the dishes.
Lately I’ve had the song that Prudence the Music Genie sings on “Jack’s Big Music Show” sticking in my head.
Keeping on that theme, back when I was much cooler, I would get “Dear Prudence” stuck in my head a lot.
Whenever I read this site, I spend the next half hour with the Godfather theme in my head.
There’s no end to the voices in my head: from “Thomas the Tank Engine” to “Hey! What a wonderful was to say….”(Arthur) to “Come on and Zoom Come on and Zoom….”
It goes on and on.
When I start losing it I deliberately re-program a classical piece that I know by heart.
“Fruit Salad” by the Wiggles
you will never get “Sussudio” out of your head. ever. the song is scientifically engineered to stick in your brain until you are forced dig it out with an ice pick. “Su-su-ssudio! Whoa-oh-oh!” phil collins is an evil genius. he must be feared and respected. and then destroyed.
“There’s a girl that’s been on my mind, all the time! S-s-s-ssudio!”
The other night the Husband and the BoyChild were singing, “the wheels of the bus go round and round, round and round, the wheels of the bus go round and round all through the town.” I had dreams that night about that damned bus!
oh, this is nothing…nothing at all. My husband and I watched a “Weeds” marathon on “On Demand,” and if you have previously not known torture, then you just try getting the song “Little Boxes” out of your head. Just try it. I dare you! http://dailyrefill.blogs.com/daily/files/01_little_boxes.mp3
Are you man enough?
Everytime that I am flipping through the channels and come across the movie, ‘That Thing You Do.’ I have that damned insipid tune on my mind for days.
The ‘Ooga Chaka’ song (’I can’t fight this feelin’).
For it to really stick, and never go away, and be accompanied by the most disturbing visuals EVER, see the interpretation offered here - http://badladies.blogspot.com/2006/02/decline-of-western-civilization.html (Do not - DO NOT - view lightly; this one doesn’t rinse out easily)
I now compulsively sing this song to my daughter, and shudder a little every time that I do.
“I wish that I had Jesse’s Girl, where can I find a woman like that?”
That one always sticks with me.
Damn, I had to turn on my iTunes as I read through all these just to get “Horse with no name” out of my head….
Sesame Street is on right now, so I have a bad feeling that “Elmo’s World” is coming back for me… If you don’t know what this song is, Matthew, count yourself blessed. I’m not sure when Elmo took over Sesame Street as the red, furry dictator, but he’s sure not giving up control anytime soon.
If anyone wants to hear the Star Wars parody of “Copacabana”, here’s the link (both the song link and the lyrics are on the site):
http://members.aol.com/manitsas/cantina.html
Crap, now here comes the “Number of the Day” song. NOOOOOOO!
Oops I Did It Again…
Have fun!
Waterloo - I was defeated, you won the war
Waterloo - promise to love you for ever more
Waterloo - couldn’t escape if I wanted to
Waterloo - knowing my fate is to be with you
(Whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Waterloo - finally facing my waterloo . . .
You’re welcome!
my wife has been playing the song, “Bad Day” over and over and over….it’s stuck in there…but only the chorus!!!! Grrr.
“You had a bad day…..”
- Jon
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They’re playing “My Humps” non-stop at my gym (here’s a link to those wonderful lyrics: http://www.letrascanciones.org/black-eyed-peas/monkey-business/my-humps.php). I don’t even have to actually have it stuck in my head to be tormented by it. But then it does get stuck in my head, and I just have to start drinking.
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring banana phone. . . . .
I hate Raffi.
I once had the theme song from “Pinky and the Brain” stuck in my head. For three days. But I didn’t know all the words. That bothered me more than having the song stuck in my head, so i had to find a website that had the words to remember them all.
I’ve found the best way to get a song out of my head is to pass it to someone else. You know, “hey, you know what song I have in my head? ‘phenomenon! do-do-doo-do-do” Usually, as the person starts cursing at me, the song leaves my head. It’s like a drive by songing. Hee!
Damm you, all I had to do was read this post and now I have It’s a small world stuck in my head again. Thanks Matthew.
For me it’s always the songs that I only know two lines from, and I end up repeating those same. two. lines. over and over again.
I think I had “Gimme Some Lovin’” stuck in my head for three months once. Lately it’s been the “Da da da-da da daaa” line from some Jack Johnson song….repeating….and repeating…and repeating…
For me, it’s Linkin Park’s “Crawling” — “Crawling in my skin / Consuming all I feel / Fear is how I fall / Confusing what is real…”. I wake up with it running through my mind, morning after morning. And then it switches to “One Step Closer”, which really does express some of those parenting moments.
HA! I was totally going to post about this tomorrow but you beat me to it. Today I’m stuck with Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne” (met my old lover in the grocery store…) thanks to some commenter who clearly hates me. Before that it was “Doctor, doctor, give me the news I got a (beat) bad case of lovin you” which Nate sings as “I’ve got a bad case of lovin Jews.”
That d@mn “hand in my pocket, hand in my pocket, hand in my POCKet” commerical.
a girl i work with always goes around trying to get annoying songs in our heads and unfortunately, it works.
“my bologna has a first name, its O-S-C-A-R…”
i hate her sometimes. really.
For me it’s “Bob the builder, can we fix it? YES WE CAN!” I find even having dropped the little guy off at preschool I forget to turn off the CD and there I am singing with Bob on my way to work.
“When I think about you I touch myself.” It’s a pretty bad song to have stuck in your head, but is appears to be my song of choice under stressful situations–so I just go for it.
Oh god … here we go:
“Hey now, you’re a rock star, get your game on, go play … ” whatever that stupid F’ING song is. Damn them for putting it in Shrek!!!!
And I’m with ya on the Bob the Builder thing… shoot me in the head. (Now I’m going to have “shoot me in the ass” by the immortal Wesley Willis stuck in my head).
I recommend JAZZ. A little Ella in the morning some Al Jarreau, in the afternoon and Michael Franks in the evening. If that doesn’t work then try Frank Zappa or Sinatra does the trick too.
I listen to Jungle and Drum and bass a lot (i DJ in clubs) so rather than a tune i just get 16 beats of a tune in my head, going around and around and around…..
Head, shoulders, knees & toes… knees & toes.
Freaking Wiggles. Why didn’t I think of that first?
the theme song to Maggie and the Ferocious Beast….good lord, help us all!
(don’t get me started on the friggin’ Mazda “zoom zoom” or the Vonage “woo hooo, woo hoo hoo” either!)
Thanks!