Everybody has them, everybody complains about them. What song do you have stuck in your head, by who (if known), and why is it in your head (if you know)? Don't hesitate to (cyber)sing it, it's not like we can really judge your singing voice anyways I have Mrs. Robinson, by Simon and Garfunkel stuck in my head, don't know why "and here's to you mrs. robinson, heaven holds a place for those who pray, yay yay yay, yay yay yay"165 responses total.
I have lotsa songs in my head. Some Liz Phair songs. And the goofy songs they have on MTVs "Sifl and Olly Show".
I tend to get the 'Medical Love Song' and 'The Philosopher's Song' in my head, or Fred Astaire...its' all quite surreal
I've recently been torn between my old stand-by--the Smurf's theme song--and "My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus" (Jimmy Buffett)
gus sang that to me today... :)
Most times it'll be awful songs. They stick to me like glue and can spoil my day. As a remedy I'll keep singing it untill my colleagues are ailed by the same torment, then I feel better, haha. e.g.: - Barbie girl - I'm horny, horny, horny, horny (ok, nice beat, admitted) etc.
I've been listening to Garth Brooks all summer. Whenever I think of "Friends in Low Places", from his 2nd album (No Fences) the chorus runs through my head for the rest of the day. I've got friends in low places where the whiskey drowns, and the beer chases my blues away and I'll be okay I'm not big on social graces, Think I'll slip on down to the oasis Oh, I've got friends, in low places
"Fish Below the Ice" by Shriekback. Everything they sung was catchy;
it's a good thing they haven't been around for a decade or so. :)
that one horrible song by Offspring... "La la, la la la, la la....."
I have a song that's in Japanese in my head so I'm not sure what it's name is or who it's by.
For weeks a while back I had the jingle "Jesus Loves Me, Yes I know" stuck in my head. That was weird because I'm not Christian, I wasn't brought up on that song, and I wasn't aware of having heard it recently. In self defense I changed the lyrics. ;)
right now it's "Turn that Heartbeats over" steely dan
I occasionally fall victim to "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again" myself.. Last night the Talking Heads' "The Great Curve" finally dislodged the song that's been stuck in my head since the Magnetic Fields concert I saw Sunday night. I'm not sure I'm better off -- "The Great Curve" has got a pretty odd rhythm and it's hard to concentrate with it going on in the background..
recently, it's been cordelia's dad...and today it was bits of Flood
Today it has been La Vie Boheme from Rent, driving me up the wall! "..to faggots lezzies dykes, cross dressers too, to me! to me! to you and you you and you1 to people living with living with not dying from disease. Let thee among us without sin be the first to comdemn!...La vie Boheme.."
A guitar riff from "Pushit" by Tool, mostly. I'm about to put radiohead in my CD player. I look forward to months of "Hail to the Victors" in my head starting somewhat soon.
Get "The Zoo" by the Scorpions stuck in your head once. Had that happen, and for three weeks I couldn't get anything done.
Thanks to last night's South Park, "In The Ghetto" has taken residence in my head and shows no signs of vacating. I'm glad none of my cubeneighbors heard. And speaking of last night's South Park, I'll never be able to hear "I'm a Believer" the same way again.
Heh that was funny... Oddly enough an old song by Weird Al Yankovic, mocking infomercials, was "Mr. Popeil".... "It slices! It dices! Look at that tomato!" That, and the World Music song on Sifl & Olly. "Yoya,yayayayayayoooya!"
oops! now it is "Brooklyn" another one by Steely Dan
Once I had a Dutch song from a lady 'comedian' (but that's too much credit for her) about her having a parrot stuck in my head for weeks on a vacation. It went from that to the state I couldn't get to sleep because of it. I suffered a lot (grin).
Got a 19 Wheels song stuck in my head. I'm pretty bad at remembering songs until I've heard them 10 or more times, so I was really happy yesterday when an anime theme I'd been trying to remember suddenly popped into my head.
The "Josephine - flying machine - up we go" song from Titanic. How embarrassing.
yesterday...for like six hours: "Suck on my salty chocolate balls. Put `em in your mouth" over and over and over and over....sometimes I think I have to stop waching that show...
I don't even know what show that is but let me know so I can stop watching, too.. I once shared an apartment with a friend with whom I had a running battle to inflict maximum "song-stuck-in-your-head" damage. I had a strong edge, he was peculiarly vulnerable to Jimi Hendrix's "Dolly Dagger" -- I could hum a few bars and stop and without any volition he'd pick up right where I left off. Unfortunately, he didn't have a weapon of such potency to use against me; the best he could come up with was to leave various Elvis Costello songs on repeat in the CD player while I slept.
Nothing stuck in my head. I'm listening to "Electioneering" by Radiohead.
The song that has been stuck in my head for the last several months the most is the theme for ReBoot 3.1.3 "Firewall". There are about four people on Grex that this will make any sense to.
Right now it's "You Suck" by the Murmurs... gotta find a new one... ,
Reboot's actually back?! Cool beans! Well, me, right now, the song is Babel, by Gabriel Yacoub. I find myself singing oublie babel at the weirdest times (and I'm sure I'm butchering the French, because I don't speak it, but it still has a hold on me!)
re 24: that would be South Park
"fame and fortune" from that rudolph xmas special... the duet with rudolph and hermie, the elf who wants to be a dentist.
Right now "Hero" by Mariah Carey is stuck in my head :P But that's ok, it's my fav song :)
"H," Tool. CDROM CD players are soooo useful.
Reboot! Reboot! Reboot! Reboot!
shutdown -r now
re #33: Shouldn't that be "sync; sync; reboot"?
The Reboot in question is a computer-animated cartoon that I have exposed four Grexers to. (That I know of, there ay be others I just don't remember). Marcus is (obviously) one of these.
I wish Reboot would come back to TV. It was well done, and I enjoyed the animation. Perhaps it will be on Cartoon Network one of these days.
It was kind of thin on the plot lines, but very heavy on the puns, and
sure beat that new Transformers show for computer-aided animation.
I've had the Monty Python theme in my head all morning. (I can't remember it's real name, some march I think). I'll complain to the minister of silly songs.
The Liberty Bell March, by Sousa. What people think is a quintessentially British show has a wholly American theme.
RE #39 & #40 And the last note of the Sousa march that doubles as the Monty Python theme is a foot coming down and squishing whatever is over it.
Re#37: ReBoot season 3 was broadcast in Canada, it is not likely to appear on any US-based service without a bit of editing. Its' riddled with dual-mode humor, but US censors will not consider that lines like "You guys should try logging off, it relieves tension." will not be interpreted the same way by all people, and snip,snip! "Which fate is his master? Which path will he choose? Success or disaster? To win or to lose?" - from ReBoot 3.1.3 "Firewall"
Actually, you've got a couple of things backward, Bear. The last note of the Sousa march is a B-flat; the last note of the first section, is an F. Sousa never put a squishing sound there. The Pythons get credit/blame for that. And how is it possible that a foot can come down and squish something that is over it? I've tried it here, at my desk, and while the stuff under my foot is in for some damage, the stuff over it is pretty safe. What's going through my head? Amazin' Blue's rendition of "My One And Only Love". DAMN do I like that thick chord at the end.
RE #43 Thanks for the additional info, eieio, especially my error on the position of the foot in the "Monty Python" introduction.
I WANT reboot back on the air in the US
Some crazy spanish song I hear in the alternative bookstore.
Some little thing from the "Video Girl AI" amine soundtrack.
re#45: I just (literally) found out that you are going to get your wish, the bad news is that you must tolerate having your intelligence insulted the whole time. It's to be on Cartoon Network starting in January. (So much for filling the holes in season 1.)
Some Soundgarden I was listening to on my trip home is in my head.
re#48: if it still has the computer jokes then I'll be okay as long as they don't mess it up like Sailor Moon.
Currently stuck in my head is "Louisiana Rag" by Charles Daniels circa 1905. It is probably not stuck in too many other people's heads these days.
"Fell on black days" by someone or another... kinda gives me a creepy feeling (last time I listened to that song it got to the part where they repeat "...fell on...black days" then I got rear ended and rolled my car...that was like 3 years ago.....)
D'Vim D'Vaar and Teddy's fast and slow chase music from "Ann Arbor Crimestopper".
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I believe "Black Days" is by Soundgarden. Senna will correct me if I'm wrong. ;-) I always get "Cruel Sun" by Rusted Root stuck in my head because it's very lucid and flowing...almost hypnotic. In my head now (and has been since last night thanks to my cruel manager) is Barely Man-Enough's "Copa Cabana"
..We wil meet without fail on the Northern mail, the cat of the railway train!!!!!! (Arg! Cats! Skimbleshanks...the railway cat...)
'Lay your leg over me do' and 'tom tom the piper's son'
"Big Gun" by Ice-T from the "Tank Girl" soundtrack. I haven't even listened to that disc in months...
Sarah is correct. Fell On Black Days is track number 3 on Superunkown, by Soundgarden. I'm listening to "Flood" by Tool at the moment.
Speaking of Tool, I always get "Aenima" stuck in my head. Not that that's a bad thing, but it's hard to get rid of it!!!
I had 'there's a little black bug' but I kept getting i wrong, and singing 'duck' and then Old Maui, and then a song from Guys and Dolls that starts 'you promise me this you promise me that , you give me a kiss and you're grabbing your hat..' and then there was another onem but I forgot what it was..
Shonen Knife's attempt at "Daydream Believer".
I was listening to Tool earlier. Now it's some Everlast on the radio... good sounding band.
some songs from a few of Gilbert and Sulivan's Operetas like the list song and when the forman berrs the steel.
(oh oh! Pirates of Penzance! Tarantara tarantara...) I think have "Sell Out" in my head right now. I don't know, I have ringing in my ears from standing next to 4 snare drums for way too long..
Laura Anderson. Mostly the line "In heaven, you get it all back" which may not even be correct.
re65 (and snare drums)
...you covered up the most beautiful part of the song...
All day today I had "Cherokee People" stuck in my head. It's funny, because I've only heard that song about 1 time.
ok, this is a partial list from yesterday, about a 12 hrs stretch from 9-9 Summertime Blues Wake up little Susie Refrain Audacious Tar (pinnafore) Poor wand'ring one, Is ther enot one maiden here..(pirates of Penzance) Zoot Suit Riot Good Rockin' Daddy Merci a la cuisine (french camp song) Jump jive and wail Walk right in Somewhere beyond the sea (the song after walk right in on teh RCR cd) Gipsey Davey (cordelia's dad version) after these 12 songs..someone put a cd in and it was better for a while..but then I got the song from Strictly Ballroom when tehyre dancing in front of the coke sign and a few more..it was very silly..and you wonder why Im so distracted
The one line from "Trial by Jury" that I just can't shake... "Is this the court of the Exchequer? Be firm, be firm, my pecker."
"Right about now, the funk's yo brother"... try having that stuck in your head all friggin day
I *have*, but I always thought it was, "Right about now...the funk soul brother." =)
Well, I had that stck in my head.. but I am not sure its soul or yo... oh well!
Ok it's this disco song see, and it sounds like soul sort of but it's not and I don't know who sings it or the title! It has something to do with a train, and the chorus is "Leave your worries behind...", it's some group with excellent harmony... I would go ballistic to get this song on CD.
re 74: "Love Train" by The O'Jays.
Look for 70's collections (it was popular in January, 1973)
or The O'Jays greatest hits.
((Summer Agora #138 now linked as Music #151...
my apologies for not linking when the item was smaller.))
I have "Double Dutch Bus" by oh-I-can't-remember-bruin-help-me stuck in my head.
But there's already an item like this in music.... And my own musical machinations are reverberating in my head at the moment.
I think it's time to make the floor burn. Anyone know what this song is? That line has been playing over and over in my head for the past 3 months!
Re Tpryan(some where up there) And that was? Oh I had the song with the liune "I can' even save myself" in my head today, but now I'm listening to a CD so I don't have anythingin my head. Which is not unusual..)
re#68 what, you don't like that song going through your head all day long?
re 75 Thanks Tim... but are you sure you aren't thinking of the song where it goes "People all over the world, join hands, start a love train, a love train"?
Well, I thought that's what we were thinking of. Any more clues?
Meanwhile, I've got that Tori Amos song 'God' stuck in my head.
No... argh. It's relatively long. Sorta hard to decipher lyrics. Chorus is Something like "Leave your worries behind, rain, shine, all the time, we're gonna have a good time tonight". (The "rain,shine, all the time" part is harmonized) Sounds similar to the song "Boogie Nights". As for stuck in my head, the song "Institutionalized" by Suicidal Tendencies is bouncing about. I love it! "Mom, why don't you get me a Pepsi?". No song could encapsulate my high school years better.
Right now the line, "Send a salami to a boy in the army", from a World War II song is resounding my head. Can't stop singing it or hearing it. Go know.
I can't get that song (it's in French so I don't know the name) that Sister Genevieve sings in _Agnes of God_ out of my head. I can hear the first two lines, but I'm not even going to attempt to spell them out. =)
re 66: If you mean:
Remember, Mommy,
I'm off to get a commie,
So send me a salami,
And try to smile somehow.
It's actually from a World War III song.
Pioneer's mildly silly fight song, I don't know the words, is playing itself through my head at regular intervals.
I still know my high school fight song, my college fight song, AND the alma mater. <bg> Of course, all of these things are required for marching band.
Re 88: That's from "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)" by Tom Lehrer. You can find info on him, and the lyrics to all his songs on his page at: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/5758/
ah, the joys of a truly twisted childhood..
Re #85: Institutionalized is a *great* song ("after I went to your churches,
and your schools . . . ."). Its one of my favorite covers that my band does!
Heh. I love Hail to the Victors.
BUT THEY JUST KEEP BUGGING ME! THEY JUST KEEP BUGGING ME!! .... doesn't matter, I'll probably get hit by a car anyway. (Bees' parents had gotten so paraniod-- with enough reason, she admits-- that the aspirins were kept under lock and key. Bees busted out laughing when they asked her if she was sniffing glue. I wasn't.)
Gee, and I actually typed that in from the Tom Lehrer song book.
A Hannibals song, off the "This Midwestern" CD. (Side note: The Hannibals were an E. Lansing band which issued 3 CDs, then finally morphed into the current 19 Wheels with some member changes. I recently found copies of the other two CDs at Encore, Yeah! Plus which they sold them to me for $1 each, since they were dirty.)
graceland by paul simon
Runaround, by Rickie Lee Jones. Not to be confused with the song of the same name, and just as obnoxiously catchy, by Blues Traveller.
I'm listening to Korn right now...
venice is sinking
"Hudson Hiogh, down the field, Never yield aside your shield. March on to victory for Hudson High!" See! I remember my high school fight song too.
My wife gets "One Week" by Bare Naked Ladies stuck in my head by playing their new CD.
Oh my GOD - that was Gaylord's too! "Gaylord High, down the field, never yield raise high your shield...march on to victory for Gaylord High (in the maize and blue) oh, Gaylord High, we're for you, here for you to cheer for you, we have no fear for you oh, Gaylord High. Go blue go!" Was that yours also, only with your school's name and colors replaced?!? =) I find that hilarious... I can't "Behind the Wheel" by Depeche Mode out of my head.
I had bits of the song-we-did-a-piece to..and..something else I've forgotten..ok, dance in the hall ouf the mountain king (I'm not even going to attempt the german)
Now I've got aBjork song stuck in my head. Could be much, much worse. ;)
My head's a mess... I've been up since noon monday, it's 4:30 on tuesday.. I couldn't even think in philosophy. I mean, really. Reading was a challenge, the letter were swing dancing.
Poignant Plecostomus, _2000 Polish Ghosts_. I just got their new album :)
is it any good?
RE#104 -- My brother went to Gaylord, class of 93 or 94, and oddly enough that fight song sounds quite similar to my alma maters Mt. Pleasant Sr. High.
So this is just the generic high school fight song, then? I went to a high school where people tended to be more into peace than into fighting, so we dind't have a fight song. I think there was a school song that some parent who was convinced that the school needed a song had written at some point, but nobody knew it. The school colors were the rainbow, but it took me a few years to find that out.
Oh my goodness! Was your brother's name Jamie? I was class of 94.
last night I had "The Dope Show" stuck in my head, which is really sad, cause I hate that whole freakin album <toking grumbles something about sell-outs and walks away shaking his head>
<birdy laughs at Joe> I can't get "Pop Goes the Weasel" by 3rd Bass out of my head. That song came out about eight years ago to make fun of Vanilla Ice.
RE#112 - That's my brother!
re#111 really? I was told CHS's colors were black and gold... re#109 yeah, it's really cool. I'll make you a copy if you want... re#114 augh! It seems to be contagious!
Re #115 - Wow...small world =) I remember CHS's graduation tassels being rainbow colors...
When I was at CHS the colors were black and red (anarchist's colors). I remember lobbying for "clear" however, as I thought it would make for interesting athletic/cheerleader outfits in the event CHS ever got teams.
Heh...clear is a good one.. RE#117 -- It is indeed. :-)
Yeah, the tassels are rainbow colors, Sarah, but a year or two ago the yearbooks were black and gold, and I was told that that was because they were the 'school colors'.
When I was there the yearbooks were a different color every year. The tassles were rainbow, and one of the teachers who had been there forever claimed that the school colors were the rainbow, although I don't remember which teacher. I'm not sure I heard that from more than once source. I never heard that contradicted, but the subject never came up. It's quite possible that what some of us here was told was wrong, or that the school colors have changed over the years, or that since nobody felt that school colors were worth discussing, they were whatever anybody wanted to say they were. According to Tom Dodd, grey and clear were the colors of Earthworks, a school that merged with Community in the late '70s. Tom said they had a school flag that was a grey piece of cloth with a hole in it.
<laughs> That sounds like Tom. I'd never heard that one, though.
At a Halloween party on Friday afternoon, there was a sing-along of "Here Comes Suzy Snowflake". Since then, I have been going bonkers trying to get that song out of my mind.
<giggle>
It's 3 days since I went to Rocky Horror, and I _still_ can't get the Time Warp out of my head.
re 125: Try singing The Time Warp to "Yellow Rose of Texas"
THE TIME WARP
(from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show")
Words and Music by Richard O'Brien
It's astounding, time is fleeting, and a madness takes it's toll,
But listen not much longer, I've got to keep control,
I remember don' the Time Warp, I'd drink those moments when,
The blackness would hit, the void would call,
Let's do the Time Warp again.
It's just a jump to the left and a ste~ep to the right,
You put yer hands upon yer hips and you bring yer knees in tight,
Bu~ut it's the pelvic thrust that'l dri~ive you insane,
Let's do the Time Warp, let's do the Time Warp again!
Let's do the Time Warp, let's do the Time Warp again!
It's just a jump to the left and a ste~ep to the right,
You put yer hands upon yer hips and you bring yer knees in tight,
Bu~ut it's the pelvic thrust that'l dri~ive you insane,
Let's do the Time Warp, let's do the Time Warp again!
Let's do the Time Warp, let's do the Time Warp again!
<birdy dances around the room and sings Magenta and Columbia's lyrics since they weren't posted> ;-)
I've currently had Red Hot CHili Peppers "Under the Bridge" stuck in my head since I got up. (wow, that is one clumsy sentence I just typed. Maybe I need some tea)
They were playing "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2 at least once an hour at work, along with "Buddy Holly" by Weezer every half hour, so those two are alternating. UGH. I have to go to sleep!
I could dream to "Sunday Bloody Sunday," actually..and then remember "The Drowning Man"..but that Weezer tune is meant for the morning. I can actually turn songs on and off in my head, and when someone mentions a song it can get fixed in my head, too. "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is bouncing around somewhat in my head with the other aforementioned songs.
We've been working on Rutter's Gloria (First performed in Omaha, USA) in my choir, and I keep getting snippets of that stuck in my head. Not that I mind, of course.
After a mention of REM's _monster_ in a previous item, I've got "What's the frequency Kenneth" stuck in my head.
I have a couple of themes going on in my head right now. I have the opening theme from DNA2 (Blurry Eyes) and a rendition of 'My Little Buttercup,' which was sung in 'The 3 Amigos,' only THIS version of it is sung by Jason (Timex) ACK!!! My little buttercup, has the sweeeetest smiiile. Oh little buttercup, won't you stay a whiiiile....you and I will settle down in a cottage built for twwwwoooo ooooohhhhhh DEAR little buttercup, SWEET little buttercup, iiiiiii looooove yooooouuuu! Of course, Jason rocks, so I'll let it slide =P
I've got the baseline from Pink Floyd's "Money" thumping through my head.
Good song, and it's soo fun listening to it synched to the _Wizard of Oz_
After constant radio play, that Emenem song is stuck in my head. Now I REALLY think it's overplayed.
Oh, you mean "My Name Is Slim Shady"? Funny, they didn't play it much where I was, although I know it's been in heavy rotation on MTV for a while.
And the problem with MTV is that they tend to play the same order of songs over the course of a few days. For a while, i couldn't turn on the TV without catching part of the video as soon as I turned it to MTV. Fortunately, that only lasted a week. Don't get me wrong. I love the video, but it's been played to death.
Right now it's "You are" from the Broadway Musical _Miss Saigon_ No, I've never seen it. We watched a video about the making of the first production while I was in my "Intro to Theatre" class.
Now it's "Back Where I Started" from the musical Chess.
"Pop goes the weasel"
Re #141: Are you referring to the classic child's song or that silly 3rd Bass song?
Wow, I didn't know anyone actually remembered that rap.
I reach for obscurity.
Ah, but do you ever truely grasp it? <Sorry, I couldn't help myself> Uhm, I've got "Oh, baby I love your way..." that song in my head, since somebody brought it up in an earlier item.
resp 142: The former Blondie's _Maria_
I've got stir it up - b. marley in my head. I taught myself the bass line on my guitar this evening. It's rockin.
thanks, knucklehead!
Queen -- "Another One Bites The Dust." A lot of Queen hits really have a way of getting stuck in my brain, so snippets of other tunes may float into my head if I think of one. (But then again, I watched the VH1 Legends special on the group about 3 times)
Now I have Weird Al's "Another One Rides the Bus" going through my head. Before that, it was Robbie William's "Millenium."
RE #149 "Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen was also the theme song for the Detroit Lions in the 1980 football season (although the Lions, as usual, were the ones who really bit the dust!)
The Lions "bite" period . . . .
It's more or less a historical fact. When was the last time they ever came close to winning the Super Bowl..the 50's? I certainly don't remember seeing them in the list of winners..
RE #153 The Detroit Lions last won the NFL Championship in 1957, ten years before Super Bowl I.
I have "Cracklin Rose" stuck in my head, because it was on the radio when my alarm went off this morning. I also for periods of time today had "Little old lady from Pasadena" stuck in my head. It's a decent song, although I prefer the Capitol Steps (Political Parody) version "Middle aged lady named Janet Reno"
For some god-awful reason, I have the "Toast" song from the Bob & Tom show stuck in my head. I love the French toast part.
Something from NIN's "The Fragile" has been stuck in my head most of the morning.
hmm...over here in France they have this R&B/Rap artist by the name of "Yannrick". he does this really catchy re-make of Frankie Valli's "Oh what a night" song, in French (Ces soirees la)... Way cool!!!! =) I'm not sure about in the States but over here another popular song (in english) is "One more time" by a group called "Daft Punk"...its kinda a Techno/dance song.
RE #158 The song in question (by Frankie Valli with the Four Seasons) was "December 1963 (Oh What A Night)," which was a #1 hit in 1975-76 and re-released in the mid-1990's, when it became a Top 20 hit.
Daft Punk have some following in the U.S., though they're undoubtedly bigger in Europe..
Haven't heard "One More Time".. but then I just have their self-titled album..
Mostly just lots of bluegrass at the moment, along with lots of my dad's brass band music and one of the ragtime CDs I got him for his birthday.
john hartford: the speed of the old long bow
the opening theme to Card Captor Sakura
Led Zepplin, "Fool in the Rain". The band I'm in rehearsed it Wednesday and it's still stuck in there. Could be much, much worse, I guess.
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