# Damned Song Is Driving Me Nuts! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162 "2004-08-23T22:52:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/1 "2004-08-23T22:52:44Z")
“One of these things is not like the other…” That has been ringing in my mind _ **all day** _. And I keep thinking of a man, a chimp and a gorilla. What is ringing in your mind? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/2 "2004-08-23T23:07:56Z")
I want a girl with a short skirt and a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong jacket. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/3 "2004-08-23T23:20:30Z")
Not today, but the last time it happened it was the Triplets of Belleville theme. The irritating thing was that since it’s in French, I couldn’t make out the words, either during the movie or when it was running through my head. I mean, my head didn’t even have the decency to make up fake words for me. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/4 "2004-08-23T23:42:00Z")
I’ve got the song “Hold Me Now” by the Polyphonic Spree rattling in my brain. This is _not_ a good thing. Robin ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/5 "2004-08-24T00:32:32Z")
Due to a post over in my thread on puns, I had “Chatanooga Choo Choo” in my head for hours. Thankfully, that has been replaced by another song. I was just looking at the listing for a Bryan Adams album, and now I have the chorus of “Cuts Like A Knife” stuck in my head. “Na na na, na na na na na, na na…” Help! ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/6 "2004-08-24T00:50:52Z")
Magical Trevor ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/7 "2004-08-24T00:57:24Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > Due to a post over in my thread on puns, I had “Chatanooga Choo Choo” in my head for hours. Thankfully, that has been replaced by another song. I was just looking at the listing for a Bryan Adams album, and now I have the chorus of “Cuts Like A Knife” stuck in my head. > > “Na na na, na na na na na, na na…” > Help! Pardon me, boy, is [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=244109) the thread you meant to link to? 😉 My worst song-in-the-head experience is post #7 over there. Damn, that was a great number! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/8 "2004-08-24T01:08:10Z")
The song “He Needs Me” by Harry Nilsson and sung by Shelley Duvall, from Robert Altman’s **Popeye** (1980) – and currently plugged in a commercial, playing throughout the Olympics coverage, featuring a bevy of assorted tennis nymphets playing like a Williams sister. I knew I’d heard it before, but couldn’t place it, and it was driving me nuts. Finally I Googled “He needs me, he needs me, he needs me…” and darned if it didn’t come right up! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/9 "2004-08-24T01:57:19Z")
I had finally driven out “Milkshake” by Kelis, but then some fool mentioned again and now it’s going to be stuck in my head for another few weeks. Even my sure-fire technique of driving out a song – humming “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega over and over again – hasn’t worked. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/10 "2004-08-24T02:31:18Z")
I just can’t fit Yes, I believe it’s time for us to quit When we meet again Introduced as friends Please don’t let on that you knew me when I was hungry and it was your world. Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do You make love just like a woman, yes, you do Then you ache just like a woman But you break just like a little girl. “Just Like a Woman” by Bob Dylan So everytime somebody mentions a song stuck in your head, this one leaps into mine and hangs around for a few months. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/11 "2004-08-24T02:44:42Z")
That’s really sad, **John Carter**. I’ll give you a song to replace it. Let me think… Summer of '73…stuck in line at Disney World…I can just make it out…YES! “It’s a small world after all…” (That will teach you to complain about a Dylan song.) ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/12 "2004-08-24T03:52:15Z")
Yesterday, “Shout It Out Loud” by KISS for no apparent reason. Today, Toto’s “Rosanna” thanks to train station insisting on pumping 80s hits over the PA non-stop (not always a bad thing). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/13 "2004-08-24T03:54:29Z")
:eek: :eek: :eek: “It’s a small world after all…” :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/14 "2004-08-24T04:22:32Z")
That was pure evil. Not quite as evil as a certain song sung by strange little green men in a movie about a candy manufacturer. That one’s evil and creepy and makes me go all stabbity stab stab. And please do not mention it by name or quote it, unless you wish to be the object of my stabbity stab stab. :mad: Right now I have the Olympic theme (can’t remember it’s actual title), which tends to happen on a daily basis right now but was made worse when some people at work decided to keep humming it. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/15 "2004-08-24T04:55:34Z")
You people think you have it bad? Just wait till you get that horrible kiddie song about the @#_$#_ Titanic stuck in your head. Ever wanted to slam your head against the wall until you were unconscious? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/16 "2004-08-24T05:13:55Z")
[quote] **KRC** : Ever wanted to slam your head against the wall until you were unconscious? [quote] Ooooh! That made me remember “You Light Up My Life” by Debby Boone. Ooooh! Nooooo! ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/17 "2004-08-24T05:58:50Z")
Into the woods, I have to go. I hate to leave; I have to, though. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/18 "2004-08-24T12:31:28Z")
> [@Tiramisu](#): > > That was pure evil. Not quite as evil as a certain song sung by strange little green men in a movie about a candy manufacturer. That one’s evil and creepy and makes me go all stabbity stab stab. And please do not mention it by name or quote it, unless you wish to be the object of my stabbity stab stab. > :mad: You mean little ORANGE men? From Loompa Land? Making observations and spreading wisdom about the Human Condition? How \*did \* that song go? Something like: Boom-pa, Boom-pa, Boopity-boo…Hmm, can anyone help me out here? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/19 "2004-08-24T12:50:05Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > You mean little ORANGE men? From Loompa Land? Making observations and spreading wisdom about the Human Condition? How \*did \* that song go? Something like: > > Boom-pa, Boom-pa, Boopity-boo…Hmm, can anyone help me out here? 😃 _sigh_ Inigo, how could you? Were they orange? Well, something must of been green, like their hair or overalls? Anyway, I try to block any thought of that song and the singers out of my head so details might be a little fuzzy. However, you quoted the song (badly), so … _My name is Tiramisu, you quoted the song, prepare to be stabbitied._ ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162/20 "2004-08-24T13:25:11Z")
Rhapsody in Blue. Damn Gershwin. And there aren’t even any words just ba-ba-ba… BWAHHHHHHH ba-ba-be-bahhh-ba-ba-bwahhh-ba-be-da-de-ba (da da di da. da. da da de da de da duhhhhhhhh) Sigh. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-song-is-driving-me-nuts/261162.md?page=2)