# A truly annoying phenomenon: stuck music squared **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-truly-annoying-phenomenon-stuck-music-squared/74188 "2001-07-30T02:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-truly-annoying-phenomenon-stuck-music-squared/74188/1 "2001-07-30T02:36:57Z")
I get this occasionally, where I get not one, but _two_ songs stuck in my head simultaneously. With the lyrics and/or melody from one morphing into the other and back again, with never enough from either to finish a refrain, much less a song. Just now, I had “Head over heels” by the Go-gos(?) and some song from a seventies stadium rock band and the only line I could remember from it was “Seems to me”. Over and over and over… AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! [Edited by Eutychus55 on 07-30-2001 at 04:17 AM] ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-truly-annoying-phenomenon-stuck-music-squared/74188/2 "2001-07-30T02:48:31Z")
That line “Seems to me” was from a James Gang song, wasn’t it? It…seems to me ( 😉 ) that I heard it just the other day on the radio. ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-truly-annoying-phenomenon-stuck-music-squared/74188/3 "2001-07-30T03:41:38Z")
Yep, with Smokin’ Joe Walsh on vocals. ---
**Author:** ![mdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@mdf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdf)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-truly-annoying-phenomenon-stuck-music-squared/74188/4 "2001-07-30T04:36:00Z")
Well, I finally found the song - the line “Seems to me…” is from Walk Away - on a Joe Walsh album called “You Can’t Argue With A Sick Mind”, not James Gang. Now it’s stuck in _my_ head, but if ya gotta have a song stuck, it might as well be a good one. -mdf ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-truly-annoying-phenomenon-stuck-music-squared/74188/5 "2001-07-30T04:42:19Z")
Dang, that was on a solo album? I always thought it was James Gang material. Oh, well, at least I knew the lead singer off the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![frock75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@frock75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frock75)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-truly-annoying-phenomenon-stuck-music-squared/74188/6 "2001-07-30T04:45:19Z")
Whenever I have a song stuck in my head and I forget the lyrics, I always segue into “Doo, doo, doo. Looking out my back door” Don’t ask me why. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-truly-annoying-phenomenon-stuck-music-squared/74188/7 "2001-07-30T09:24:52Z")
On the day John Lee Hooker died, a local college station was playing some tribute music, but the DJ accidentally put on two records simultaneously and left to shoot a game of pool or something. I’m a big 'ol fan, but sometimes twice as much of a good thing is pretty lousy. On another note, I occasionally find myself singing some Primus song and morphing into another, and sometimes even morphing into some Metallica song. Lots of similarities in funky time signatures, keys, and breaks. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-truly-annoying-phenomenon-stuck-music-squared/74188/8 "2001-07-30T09:35:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bill H. \* > \*\*On another note, I occasionally find myself singing some Primus song and morphing into another, and sometimes even morphing into some Metallica song. Lots of similarities in funky time signatures, keys, and breaks. \*\* And it’s a wonder that Metallica didn’t sign up Les Claypool when he auditioned to replace Cliff Burton, huh?