Commuting - horrible songs you get stuck in your head

What is it about riding a bike that dredges these up from our subconscious?

I recently hit a new low with Meat Loaf's "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad". Let's hear yours. Ok... Maybe I don't want to actually hear them. :D

Well now I have marqueemoon in my head. But that's not a bad one.

The Thomas the Tank Engine theme. (You could probably guess that I have a two-year old son.)

Spongebob square pants theme song. I also have a 2 year old son.

Songs I have not heard in years tend to become stuck in my head. Only 3 seconds of the same song over and over. The last one was baby hit me one more time. UGH!

Rarely I actually get a song stuck that I actually like. The last one being Date With The Night by the yeah yeah yeahs.

Spam spam spam spam as sung by the vikings in the spam skit from Monty Python. That song always gets stuck in my head. It makes me laugh for the first few minutes, gets very old after an hour or more.

Meow, m'yow, m'yow, m'yow. . .
Meow, m'yow, m'yow, m'yow. . .
Meow, m'yow, m'yow, m'yow, M'YOW, m'yow, m'yow. . .

Wha? You don't like spam?

I love it! That's why I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, and spam!

Yesterday, I had "Take Me Home Tonight" by Eddie Money stuck in my head during my commute home.

Heard McArthur's Park today. Can't figure out what the heck it means and can't get it out of my mind. Stupid cake.

Admitting this may get my geek membership card upgraded to platinum level, but here are the most horrible songs that get stuck in my head.

(Sing 'em, you know 'em)

1 Badger, badger, badger, badger, mushROOM...

2 All your base - your base - base - base - are belong to us...

3 This is the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny...

Christmas songs. Always ******* Christmas songs. :mad:

Skida marinky dinky dink, skindamarinky doo,
I looooove yoooouuuu.

ad nauseum...

On a better day, its Jack Straw by the G'dead

"I wear my sunglasses at night". Gave me chills.

I couldn't get it out of my head until I started singing "Build a little birdhouse in your soul" out loud.

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire....

To the windowwwww... to the wall.

Well now I have marqueemoon in my head. But that's not a bad one.
All the time, at every red light:

"... hesitatin'...."

appropriately enough, "bicycle" by Queen

I once took a very long solo hike and made the mistake of taking along Sirens of Titan to read. In it, our hero gets a chip implanted in his head that helped him march when things got tough. The chip played a little ditty that mimicked a snare drum. . .

Rented a tent, a tent, a tent,
Rented a tent, a tent,
Rented a tent, a tent, a tent,
Rented a, Rented a tent.

I still can't walk long distances without that running in my head.

Curse you, Kurt Vonnegut!!!

Flight of the Valkyrie, Wagner

The Sesame Street Theme, now that Daylight Savings Time has me riding home in the daylight. "Sunny Days...chasing the clouds away" It's been funny this week because every day until today brought rain on my commute. Unfortunately, my kids are too old to be my excuse. :D

"of Lord, won't you buy me a mercadies bens..." by Janis Joplin. Usually manifests at about mile 80 of American century rides or during a tour day of heavy cranking!

that is easy.. the pee-wee herman song.... :)

Europe's "The Final Countdown"

"If I had Words..." from Babe.

Your red scarf matches your eyes
You close your cover before striking
Father had the ship-fitter blues
Loving you has made me bananas

Oh you burned your finger that evening
while my back was turned
I asked the waiter for iodine
But I dined alone

Your red scarf matches your eyes
You close your cover before striking
Father had the ship-fitter blues
Loving you has made me bananas

Sorry, I'm not going to read this thread. I have this problem often enough as it is, without reading a whole list of suggestions. Bad enough I got the Meatloaf one from reading the first post! :)

Was singing the "Dentist" song from Little Shop of Horrors yesterday, and just kept wanting to do the little three hop dance that Steve Martin does in the movie, but the other people in the lab were giving me funny looks so I quit.

(So be a dentist, you'll be a success)

"I Think I Love You!" by the Partridge Family. It's been stuck in there since I first heard it in 1970 and I can't get rid of it. Just saying the title to the song brings it back, from the very openning music chord:eek:

Thanks a lot guys, now I have to go beat myself until it goes away:eek: but it's always there...lurking...waiting for me to let my guard down. I'm sure that when I die, my last thoughts will be the openning to that stupid song!

Out damn spot! Lady Macbeth had it easy. She just had to cut off her hand.

Don't know the name, but the ACDC song that goes "knocking me out with those American thighs". Let's not talk about what I see to bring it to mind.

Don't know the name, but the ACDC song that goes "knocking me out with those American thighs". Let's not talk about what I see to bring it to mind.

YOU! Rocked me alllll niiiiight long!
Yeah YOU! Rocked me allll niiight long!

Ah, high school dances.....

I'm not sure what it's called, but it's the "Ma Na Ma Na" song from Sesame Street. I don't have kids, but I used to be a kid. :)

How about the song "Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro, can you tie 'em in a knot, can you tie 'em in a bow, can you throw 'em over your shoulder like a Continental soldier, do your earrrrrrs hannnnggg loooowwww?"

Sheesh! Two threads on the same page today with silly songs that get stuck in your head!

I don't usually get songs stuck in my head while riding, but I definintely do while backpacking! Once I had Tom Sawyer by Rush stuck in my head. Now if that isn't the weirdest song to get stuck in your head when you're in the High Sierra, then I don't know what is!

The theme from the old Andy Griffith show.....Sometimes I catch myself humming it without realizing it.

"The Rockefeller Skank"

(Right about now! The Funk Soul Brotha, check it now! The Funk Soul Brotha!)

I'm not sure what it's called, but it's the "Ma Na Ma Na" song from Sesame Street. I don't have kids, but I used to be a kid. :)

Hahaha...+1

Well, one week, for most of the week, I had the Dead Kennedy's "Too Drunk To F***" stuck in my head. It's pretty good to set your cadence to, if you are in a hurry.

Lately, it's been the Hello! Project shuffle group Odoru 11's song "Shiawase Kyouryuu Ondo," (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gs_01jjzVZc) which is a pop take on the Ondo style of music. It is, like a lot of J-pop, super-upbeat and catchy.

stairway to heaven.


not really, i just had to say it before someone else did.

so far this week:
"girls of porn" by mr. bungle
"take it easy (love nothing)" by bright eyes
"grounds for divorce" by wolf parade
"my time" by jane's addiction , especially.

"well the rain came, i said hey buddy, well buddy the street is a snakeskin -- all fronts and no backs -- i belong out there walkin' [should be 'riding' -ed] nobody's stopping to bother me -- they hide -- under -- the ceiling is cryin' all over me!"

How about the song "Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro, can you tie 'em in a knot, can you tie 'em in a bow, can you throw 'em over your shoulder like a Continental soldier, do your earrrrrrs hannnnggg loooowwww?"

Sheesh! Two threads on the same page today with silly songs that get stuck in your head!

I don't usually get songs stuck in my head while riding, but I definintely do while backpacking! Once I had Tom Sawyer by Rush stuck in my head. Now if that isn't the weirdest song to get stuck in your head when you're in the High Sierra, then I don't know what is!

Wasn't that song done to the tune of Turkey in the Straw?

"I'm so ronery" and "America, f*** yeah" from Team America, World Police.

Fine to hum in public but don't start singing them!

Lately, it's been the Hello! Project shuffle group Odoru 11's song "Shiawase Kyouryuu Ondo," (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gs_01jjzVZc) which is a pop take on the Ondo style of music. It is, like a lot of J-pop, super-upbeat and catchy.

Gaah! I just watched the video... that *has* to take the prize for worst song to get stuck in your head. Even worse than a particularly terrible specimen of early-80s synth Canto-pop that I've had in my head for the past week.

It sounds a lot like "Yellow Submarine Ondo" off a compilation called "The Exotic Beatles" I found more than ten years ago. Same idea, I suppose

The song that often pops into my head is the theme song from "My Friend Totoro"
"To-toro, To-to-ro......"
Steve.

How about the song "Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro, can you tie 'em in a knot, can you tie 'em in a bow, can you throw 'em over your shoulder like a Continental soldier, do your earrrrrrs hannnnggg loooowwww?"

Sheesh! Two threads on the same page today with silly songs that get stuck in your head!

I don't usually get songs stuck in my head while riding, but I definintely do while backpacking! Once I had Tom Sawyer by Rush stuck in my head. Now if that isn't the weirdest song to get stuck in your head when you're in the High Sierra, then I don't know what is!

There are separate male and female versions of that song using different parts of their anatomy:D

Flight of the Valkyrie, Wagner

Oh yes, "Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit"

has every one forgotten the worst one by far??? (No, not The Cockroach that Ate Cincinatti"). Maybe it is too horrible to refer to, to see those evil words. There is a ride in the original Disneyland where costumed children sing the same song over and over and over and over . . . For Americans it is THE definative horrible song that gets stuck in your head.

Oh yes, "Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit"

has every one forgotten the worst one by far??? (No, not The Cockroach that Ate Cincinatti"). Maybe it is too horrible to refer to, to see those evil words. There is a ride in the original Disneyland where costumed children sing the same song over and over and over and over . . . For Americans it is THE definative horrible song that gets stuck in your head.

Are you referring to It's a Small World?

"Hollaback Girl" - Gwen Stefani :mad:

This is a serious saftey hazard. Now that the weather is getting better, more cars are driving with their windows down and that creates an opportunity for their music to infect me as they drive by. All it takes is just a few seconds of sound for the effects to start. The worst song has to be "Brandy". Oh come on... you know it. "You're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be..." See what I me. You can't get it out of your head now. It's stuck there for the rest of the day. There is nothing you can do about it. Next you will subconciously start to hum it, then sing a few words in public and then it spreads like a virus. But it's too late, you are already infected. "Finest silver from the north of Spain..." Please, what's the antidote song for that.

Heard McArthur's Park today. Can't figure out what the heck it means and can't get it out of my mind. Stupid cake.

Heh. I always wondered about that. Why was the cake outside? And why the emotional attachment to a recipe you didn't bother to write down? I always hear Jerry Seinfeld's voice in my head when I hear that song: "What's with the cake??"

On a recent commute to work I was at an intersection waiting for a green and an Abba song suddenly swooped in unbidden. I don't even remember which one now. I remember I was looking at a trunk monkey IPod billboard when it happened. What Abba and a trunk monkey have in common I do not know.

Ooh! Ooh! And once it was The Archies' "Sugar Sugar"! I win!