Song Stuck in Your Head? You're Not Alone

Reuters ^ | Monday, Feb 24, 2003 | Alison McCook

[CounterCounterCulture]

Now if it was "STOMP STOMP STOMP, STOP STOMP STOMP", then it would really drive me crazy.

That reminds me of another one.

STOMP STOMP CLAP...STOMP STOMP CLAP... (repeat until spoken lyrics kick in)

Heard at many arenas back in the day...

[Marauder]

Has anyone mentioned any of the ghastly efforts from the 50s?
Tan Shoes with Pink Shoelaces
Itsy Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini
Mr. Lee
I'm Mr. Blue

[CounterCounterCulture]

Please tell me it's not: S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night!

CLAP-CLAP, CLAP-CLAP-CLAP ... CLAP-CLAP-CLAP ... CLAP-CLAP

Oooo, no, but that's another good clap song that belongs on this thread. :-)

[CounterCounterCulture]

Think I missed a CLAP in there somewhere (3rd "line"?)

[speedy]

And also "Me and my Arrow."

[speedy]

It was a one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater.

[BubbaBasher]

Alright, I guess the third STOMP should have been a CLAP. Someone in the barracks used to play that at 1:00AM. There were lots of marks on his door from my baseball bat.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

'John Jacob JingleHeimerSchmidt...'
'His name is my name, too...'
'Whenever we go out...'
'The people always shout...'
'THERE GOES JOHN JACOB JINGLEHEIMERSCHMIDT!'

[BubbaBasher]

Didn't "Locomotion" by Grand Funk Railroad start something like that? They were so off key too.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Let me throw a few more out there...

GENIUS OF LOVE - Tom Tom Club
TURNING JAPANESE - The Vapors
POP MUSIC - M
VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR - the Buggles
VALLEY GIRL - Moon Unit & Frank Zappa
COME ON EILEEN - Dexys Midnight Runners

[speedy]

Hey T, are you back? I'm not through torturing you with Bread songs yet -- thought of a few more -- "Is there someone you know -- you're loving them so -- but taking them all for granted. Then you lose them one day, someone takes them away" blah blah blah "I would give everything I own." Sorry.

[speedy]

Other early MTV stuff -- "Salt In My Tears" by Martin Briley and "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" by Todd Rundgren. And of course "Safety Dance" and "Our House."

[CounterCounterCulture]

Didn't "Locomotion" by Grand Funk Railroad start something like that? They were so off key too.

I can't remember now...I've got the Kylie "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" Minogue version of Locomotion stuck in my head. Isn't it ironic? Don'tcha think? ...(great, now I got Alanis Morissette in my head too)

[speedy]

They were often off-key -- also in "I'm Your Captain."

[speedy]

You got your dead skunk in the middle of the road.

[Fresh Wind]

Please Mr. Custer, I don't want to go...

[BubbaBasher]

Of course none of Alanis' versus were examples of irony. What's ironic about a fly in your Chardonay?

[BubbaBasher]

Well they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles and they ran through the bushs where a rabbit wouldn't go, they ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch em' down the Missippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

[CounterCounterCulture]

I know. Made it all that much worse.

[speedy]

Yes, very politically incorrect -- "There's a redskin waitin' out there, fixin' to part my hair." Just like "Speedy Gonzales." Guess the same for this one -- "On the banks of the river, lived Running Bear, young Indian brave"