General Cycling Discussion - Most annoying song that got suck in your head during a ride

Today during a quick high paced ride to get ready for a race on Sunday Weird Al's "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" got suck in my head, I haven't heard that song in years! That was the only thing in my head the entire ride, it was killing me, and I knew maybe 10 words. I tried everything to get it out of my head, talked to myself, tried to think of any other song, even started repeating license plate numbers that passed me, but it kept coming back! I usually have a good fast paced angry song that keeps the ride fast in my head, not today, I just had "Our temple's had fair share of rabbis in the past, but most of them..." AHHHHHH!

What has been the most annoying song that you've had in your head during a ride?

BTW if on your next ride this song pops into your head because you read this, I'm very sorry.

-Middi-zon

Lately, I would have to say that it was "Old McDonald Had a Farm". The other day I got stuck in Atlanta traffic with my niece so we started singing that song and making up silly animal names and silly animal sounds to go with them. It was a lot of fun. But, then I hopped on the bike and that song kept popping back into my head...I made the best of it by making up silly animal names for the cars and even sillier sounds for the drivers. Sure the people in the neighborhood thought it odd for me to make those sounds as I rode past their houses, but that's OK because I don't live here!

wheels on the bus go round and round.... round and round... round and round.... :D :D :D :mad: :mad: ;)

"It's a small world after all"
This makes road rage legal.

A song by the Aussie band - Divinals - Pleasure and Pain.

It's very appropriate on long rides with the chorus, "It's a fine line between pleasure and pain, you've done it once, you can do it again, whatever you did, don't try to explain, it's a fine, fine line between pleasure and pain."

I don't really mind it being in my head because it's sort of my theme song on long rides.

I hate it when your mobile phone tune gets stuck in your mind.

I couldn't say where it came from but one time riding through Boca I started humming a Frank Zappa tune 'Jewish Princess'off of "Sheik Yerbouti" you know the one that goes( I want a blank little Jewish Princess With blank blank blank ).You can be creative filling in the blanks though Frank was pretty creative himself.My favorite line may be(A horny little Jewish Princess With a garlic aroma that could level Tacoma)though that may just be because its one of the few lines suitable for printing.

"Push the little daisies (and make them come up)" by Ween. Extraordinarily painfull after a while........

Toronto Tonto's, BY Max Webster. I had the opening lyric stuck in my head on a trip downtown.

And I quote:" Bonjour aux amie de malheur, nous sommes fous!"

Probibly one of the weirdest songs recorded along with Hocus Pocus, by Focus.

But If you are trying to get any song out of your head, I find Jingle Bells works.

But then again, only the "Smurf Song" can remove "Jingle Bells"

Jingle bell rock from a dancing santa we had at christmas. After listening to it for 2 weeks over and over again the song stuck in my head until late february.

MONKEES' THEME SONG
The Monkees


Here we come
Walking down the street
we get the funniest looks from
everyone we meet.

Hey, hey we're the Monkees,
and people say we monkey around.
But we're too busy singing,
to put anybody down.

We go wherever we want to,
do what we like to do.
We don't have time to get restless,
There's always something new.

Hey, hey we're the Monkees,
and people say we monkey around.
But we're too busy singing,
to put anybody down.

We're just trying to be friendly,
come watch us sing and play.
We're the young generation,
and we got something to say.

Hey, hey we're the Monkees,
You never know where we'll be found.
So you'd better get ready,
We may be coming to your town.

Hey, hey we're the Monkees,
and people say we monkey around.
But we're too busy singing,
to put anybody down.

With a 3 month old baby at home, I am sure that it won't be too long before "Fruit Salad" (yummy yummy!) sung by The Wiggles will be too pervasive to chase out of my mind!

At least the Sponge Bob Square Pants theme song is less annoying!

Rob

Recently, I had "the banana splits song" stuck in my head. Also, I found myself singing aloud, "Mama looka booboo!" OFten it's sort of nonsense songs like that.

It's a tie between "Seasons in the Sun" by terri Jacks and
"Billy Don't Be a Hero" by ??
Gino

I've heard this phenomenon refered to as "tune cooties". :lol:

I frequently repeat "Sister Christian" by Night Ranger. I don't know why, but it happens.

I ride the trails with headphones on so I don't get anything but the song playing in my head stuck there. :)

The bloody theme from the TV series Night Rider!!!!!!!! Arghhhhh!!!! It creaps up when I least expect it, and stays there!!!

Worst: "Harper Valley PTA," best: "C'mon Let's Go" by Ritchie Valens.

many men, and "hey shortie its your birthday, my five year old son Miguel would sing this and it will get stuck in my subconcious mind, and I will shake my head to the tempo.....

strange how this always happen on ur bike riding but a song that get stuck in my head is Bryan Adams Summer of '69!

Just lately it's been Salmon Hater's "6.66". Annoying because I only know the chorus:

"six point six six... is one hundredth... of the number... of the beast!"

For those who don't know, Salmon Hater are a rather obscure fish-metal band from Glenelg.

That song by No Doubt - goes "Hey baby, Hey Baby, Hey"

That song makes me want to shoot myself, or dive in front of the oncoming Mack truck!

Originally posted by chrisk
That song by No Doubt - goes "Hey baby, Hey Baby, Hey"

That song makes me want to shoot myself, or dive in front of the oncoming Mack truck!

I've had that one too! I feel your pain.

-Middi-zon

I'd tell you, but then it would get stuck in yours:D

Originally posted by hillyman
I'd tell you, but then it would get stuck in yours:D Go on - we're tough enough.

I had "Bigmouth Strikes Again" by The Smiths stuck in my head while on a cycling tour and I couldn't remember all of the lyrics and it drove me round the bend!


"Push the little daisies (and make them come up)" by Ween. Extraordinarily painfull after a while........

I had Ween’s “HIV/AIDS” song from Chocolate and Cheese etched on my brain while I was working on an infectious disease project.

Ah yes, the Spongebob Squarepants theme..........

Captain: Are you ready kids?

Kids: Aye Aye Captain.

Captain: I can't hear you.

Kids: Aye Aye Captain

Captain: OHHHHHHH

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!

Captain: Absorbent and yellow and pourous is he!

Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!

Captain: If nautical nonsense be something you wish,

Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!

Captain: Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish!

Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!

Captain: Ready?

Captain and Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob SquarePants,
SpongeBob SquarePants!

Captain: SpongeBob SquarePaaaaannttss!!!

Captain: HA HA HA HA !!!!

I'd have to say it was "Blister In the Sun" by the Violent Femmes. Second place goes to "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie.

Heck, Alice's Restaurant will last you half of your ride!!

I'd like my lobotomy now, if you don't mind.;)

Dr. Dre and Snoop dog. Sometimes I find myself rapping while riding, spittin' rymes about ho's, tangaray(sp?) and chronic. After all, we don't love these ho's, I'm out the do'(door) :D

Yo, Phatman! You got me straight trippin', boo!:D :D

holla!

There's a german phrase 'ohrwurm' or 'earworm', that describes this phenomenon, but I like the cooties one too, LOL.

I wouldn't say it's annoying. Usually the music stuck in my head is what I was listening to before hitting the trail. And I always listen to loud music before I hit the trail. Deftones, Tool, Slipknot, etc. Today I had "Opiate" by Tool stuck in my head :D

Originally posted by poululla
The bloody theme from the TV series Night Rider!!!!!!!! Arghhhhh!!!! It creaps up when I least expect it, and stays there!!!

I use that for my mobile phone's ringtone when it's in "car" profile (plugged into the handsfree kit).

Originally posted by Middi-zon

What has been the most annoying song that you've had in your head during a ride?

While not the most annoying song to have ever gone through my head it was the most memorable of such experiences. .. On a particularly long ride about 12 years ago, out in the middle of nowhere somewhere in Iowa, REM's "Stand" kept playing over and over in my head... for about 120 miles.

I believe that there was a study that found
over 1/2 of the male population of the U.S.
aged 35 thru 65 have In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida running through
their heads at any one given time.
The ones that get stuck in my head are:

The turning away - Pink Floyd (not bad).

"aint that just the way that life goes down down down ..."
(I have NO idea who sings it, its just THERE).

Queen of my castle - wamdu project

and the worst is that Disney song, yeah THAT one
someone mentioned it before and I had to go
hit my thumb with a hammer to get it out!

Marty

A couple of others that get stuck in my head and are welcome there: "Shooting Star" by Cris Williamson and when riding at night, Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightnin'"

The theme song to "Sponge Bob Square Pants"...argh!!!!

TO all of you who have kids; I know what its like to get songs from veggie tales, the wiggles,spongebob squarepants & scooby doo all stuck in my head at the same time. BELIEVE ME IT CAN MAKE YOU GO FASTER!!!!!!

This is an evil thread. I'm sure to get at least one of these stuck in my head.

It wasn't on a ride but this morning's run with the dog featured "I Walk the Line" by Johnny Cash.

Barney "I love you, you love me, we're a happy family...."

I HATE BARNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!

What get's me is that I don't have kids, I'm never even around kids. But for some reason everytime I get on my road bike I hear that freaking song!!!!!

I have to laugh at threadend. The Monkeys Theme is the song I get stuck in my head while I'm on the tractor. I think my worst cycling experience was with "Oom bop" or whatever it is by that group that I have purposely forgotten the name to.
Fortunately, I don't have a cell phone, but I pity the fool who gets a cell phone jingle stuck in their head.

Originally posted by caloso
This is an evil thread. I'm sure to get at least one of these stuck in my head.

It wasn't on a ride but this morning's run with the dog featured "I Walk the Line" by Johnny Cash.

I'm actually a fan of Johnny Cash. The band Live does a creepy, killer cover of "I Walk the Line." It's on a tribute compilation CD called "Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records" with a bunch of other good covers.

Last ride I think it was "Baby Love" that started playing on my mental jukebox and would NOT STOP!!! :crash:

Originally posted by RegularGuy
I'm actually a fan of Johnny Cash. The band Live does a creepy, killer cover of "I Walk the Line." It's on a tribute compilation CD called "Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records" with a bunch of other good covers.


This sounds like a great disc. I may have to head over to Amazon and pick this up. (Maybe this thread isn't so evil after all.)

I got "I've Been Workin' on the Railroad" stuck in my head on a long offroad hillclimb. AAAAARRRGGGHHHH:eek:

It's a great song and one that I usually enjoy, but we did a Century about a year ago when it got into my head and I just couldn't get it out...

Jimmy Buffett - I Will Play For Gumbo
From - Beach House On the Moon

I don't smoke, I don't shoot smack
But I got a spicy monkey riding on my back
Don't eat beignets, too much sugar and dough
But I will play for gumbo
Hey, I will play for gumbo

It started at my Grandma's kitchen by the sea
She warned me when she told me "son the first one's free"
It hit me like a rock or some Taikwondo
Cause I will play for gumbo
Oh, yeah, I will play for gumbo

A piece of French bread with which to wipe my bowl
Good for the body, good for the soul
It's a little like religion and a lot like sex
You should never know when you're gonna get it next

At midnight in the Quarter or noon in Thibadeaux
I will play for gumbo
Yes, I will play for gumbo

I'm not talking quesadillas or a dozen Krispy Kremes
Or a pile of caviar, that's a rich man's dream
No banana split or filet of pompano
No, I will play for gumbo
Yeah, I will play for gumbo

A piece of French bread with which to wipe my bowl
Good for the body, good for the soul
It's a little like religion and a lot like sex
You should never know when you're gonna get it next

It could be it's that sausage or those pretty pink shrimp
Or that popcorn rice that makes me blow up like a blimp
Maybe it's that voodoo from Marie Laveaux
But I will play for gumbo
Hey, I will play for gumbo

The sauce boss does his cookin' on the stage
Stirrin' and a singing for his nightly wage
Sweating and a frettin' from his head to his toe
Playin' and swayin' with the gumbo
Prayin' and buffetin' with the gumbo

A piece of French bread with which to wipe my bowl
Good for the body, good for the soul
It's a little like religion and a lot like sex
You should never know when you're gonna get it next

At midnight in the Quarter or noon in Thibadeaux
I will play for gumbo
Hey, I will play for gumbo

I will play for gumbo
I will play for gumbo

It was 'My Sharona' ( the Knack) once....would NOT go away. Another time, on a slow and peaceful ride through the woods, it was 'Reunited' (Peaches and Herb). And these are songs I have not heard for ages!

:rolleyes:

"Can you tell me how to get--how to get to Sesame Street?"

:D

(Just kidding, I like kids' shows. :thumbup: )

Livngood,

I usually have a Buffett song rollin through my
brain.
Check the Sig and the custom user text.
without fail, when I'm diving I end up singing
"A Pirate Looks at 40" through my 2nd stage.

Marty