I never commute while listening to my MP3 player, so that leaves me the songs that randomly come up in my head. Usually I’ll sing or hum them while riding. But today I had 2 songs that were stuck in my head.
1. Madonna’s Papa Don’t Preach
The second one was this song/video I saw yesterday while perusing Youtube…Ugh, it’s gotta be the worst song ever and I can’t get it out of my head!!!
What was frustrating about having these songs stuck in my head was the fact that I’d start signing it out loud then I’d realize it and so I stop. But a few pedal strokes down the road, I’m singing it again!!!!
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HAHAHAHA…i had a horrible song stuck in my head this morning on my commute to work this morning..i stopped in a local gas station to grab some morning snacks…i came out of the store as a car was pulling up w/ their windows rolled down BLASTING “she ain’t gonna tie me down…” the rest of the way to work i have that chorus looping over and over again in my head…
haha, I now I have Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance…RA RA RA….aye.
GREAT!!! now if i get lady G stuck in my head….
If I have a song stuck in my head I make it a point to start singing Mr. Roboto by Styx. That pretty much usurps anything that might be stuck in my head at the time
Does anyone know all the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody? That in itself is a feat to sing without missing any words.
Sometimes that Music from the Film the Seven Year Itch Starring The Beautiful Marilyn Monroe goes through my Head By Rackmaninoff. It is very handy on Long Trips for Eating up the Miles and you End up Humming it out Loud.
It is Harsh loud Strident Piano Music but it has a Hypnotic Effect. I dont know whether it could be called Great Music but I like it anyway.
Duh de Duh de duh de Duh De Duh Duh De Duh and so on, Sorry I am trying my best here. If anyone of you have seen the Picture you will know what I mean.
The other one is Raindrops keep falling on my Head from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Starring Paul Newman and Fay Dunaway,and he does a Horizontal Balancing Act on a Rod Braked Old Style Bicycle and then gives Fay Dunaway a Ride on the Crossbar.
Another one is Melow Yellow by Donovan.
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Mine is “A Shooting Star (Is Not a Star)” by They Might be Giants. It seems almost made for biking or walking or other things that happen sort of rhythmically. Of course, it’s stuck in my head right now, so apparently it’s *also* made for sitting on yer ass in front of the computer.
Today it was “Cover of the Rolling Stone” by Dr. Hook for me.
Anything I hear from passing cars immediately gets stuck in my head…or really bad commercial jingles, kids’ songs (hits from The Backyardigans lately), sappy love songs from the 70s, etc. It’s a disease…and I also have an internal database of lyrics to thousands of terrible songs that randomly spits up something truly horrible (Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, etc.)
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I’m just a poor boy (Poor boy)
I need no sympathy
Because I’m easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn’t really matter to me, to me
Mama just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he’s dead
Mama, life has just begun
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooh
Didn’t mean to make you cry
If I’m not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body’s aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody
I’ve got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooooooh (Anyway the wind blows)
I don’t want to die
Sometimes wish I’d never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o-o
I’m just a poor boy nobody loves me
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
Let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go
Let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go
Let me go (Will not let you go)
Let me go (Will not let you go) (Never, never, never, never)
Let me go, o, o, o, o
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
(Oh mama mia, mama mia) Mama Mia, let me go
Beelzebub has the devil put aside for me, for me, for me!
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh, baby, can’t do this to me, baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
(Oooh yeah, Oooh yeah)
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows…
Don’t Stop Believing and My Girl. I have no idea why on the second one. It just pops in there almost every ride.
I feel your pain. Every time I ride into work I’ll get one riff stuck in my head, not even an entire song, and I’ll be stuck humming it for the next 40 minutes. Drives me nuts.
I can indeed verify that it is “Cold in the D” having rode through the “D” all freaking winter.
Enjoyed reading the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody, I sometimes spontaneously break into that song but can only remember bits and pieces of it. I should just memorize the whole thing.
Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads plays in my head often while cycling. And the theme song to the 1960′s TV series Flipper. LOL
I do not wear headphones when riding the street, so i make race car sounds in my head, and maybe sometimes out loud. I do get some funny looks when i slam on the brakes.
Lately, with all the hockey hoo-hah in Chicago, I’ve been listening to The Hanson Brothers a lot. Not the “mmmbop” kids, but the awesome Vancouver hockey punk band. They have a song called “My Game,” and it gets stuck in my head a lot when I’m biking and have to overtake the lane, and I change the lyrics to “It’s my lane!”
I remember when I rode that I would do the noises from the 80′s version of Knight Rider. I would even sound out the ‘whew whew.’ You know, KITS red trail light going back and forth.
Arrrrgh! Make it stop! Make it stop!!
I had The Time Warp from the Rocky Horror Picture Show stuck in my head during an entire commute last week. I think my pelvis was hurting and there’s a line in that song about “the pelvic thrust”. Go figure.
Today I had “It’s Raining Men!” by the Pointer Sisters, which was timely since it was misty out on my bike ride. Yesterday I saw a guy sitting in his car singing VERY LOUDLY and enthusiastically to Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance”. I also started singing “Poisoning Pigeons In the Park” by Tom Lehrer when I passed by a flock of the flying rats today.
Hmm. I guess most of the songs that pop up in my head have a theme. A tricky ride around some emergency vehicles on a Sunday morning brought up “Jesus Loves the Little Children”.
I hope the sound of the World Cup vuvuzela trumpets don’t affect my rides as the month goes on. I may go nuts making a crazed buzzing noise.
Just sing the first couple of bars and make up something else to follow. Do that once or twice and the next time it pops up your brain won’t know which way to finish. Result – one dead earworm!
This plagues me! Always random, like songs from school growing up. Recently, the Filet of Fish song. Give me back that Filet of Fish, give me that fish…constant loop for the entire 11 miles there.
Never thought anyone else had this problem, as all of my friends and family listen to the same songs over and over and never seem to be bothered. I can simply think of a work and a song will be in my head. A horrible thing to have to live with; it has ruled my life and it stinks. Always wondered how musicians can go on tour and sing the same songs over and over and over again and still be sane.