Do you have words or phrases that trigger songs in your head?

[EinsteinsHund]

@Nobody

I’m 43 and I don’t get the reference.

Lemme guess: the Skip James song I’m So Glad, as made famous by Cream on their first album. I know because I’m just as weirdly wired as E-DUB and I have the same kind of earworms ;).

[Ponch8]

Many recycle bins remind me of Beck.

Bottles and cans
And just clap your hands
And just clap your hands.

Where it’s at!

[Hey_Hey_Paula]

Before I retired I was a legal secretary. Every single flippin’ time I typed “Dear Sir or Madam” my brain had to fill it in with “will you read my book it took me years to write, will you take a look”.

Paaaaaperbaaaaaack Wriiiiiiter…

[Nobody]

@EinsteinsHund

Lemme guess: the Skip James song I’m So Glad, as made famous by Cream on their first album. I know because I’m just as weirdly wired as E-DUB and I have the same kind of earworms ;).

Cool, thanks.

[Shoeless]

With the Olympics going on this week, I’m surprised nobody has mentioned “Copacabana” yet.

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

I’m warning you in advance: this ain’t pretty–

I actually use a certain phrase quite often in speaking, and then the obvious happens.

“Well, the first thing you know…”

[Soylent_Juicy]

I always end up singing the Weird Al version of songs.

[Guest-starring_Id]

@burpo_the_wonder_mutt

I’m warning you in advance: this ain’t pretty–

I actually use a certain phrase quite often in speaking, and then the obvious happens.

“Well, the first thing you know…”

I’m kinda stumped on that one.

If I hear any of the following words…

babble
bicker
brouhaha
balderdash
ballyhoo
chit-chat
duologue

…King Crimson’s “Elephant Talk” comes to mind.

[epolo]

I must think the Horn of Africa is quite earthquake prone because whenever I hear the name of one particular country there I can’t help but sing “shake shake shake, shake shake shake, shake -----”.
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[Periwinkle]

Whenever I start a sentence with “Should I stay”, I always want to continue with “…or should I go”, instead of “at the Marriott” or whatever else I intended.

Whenever I say “Jump!” to one of the dogs, I usually hear Van Halen start up in my head. Sometimes the Pointer Sisters.

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

@E-DUB

I tend to go with the “almost, but not quite” thing. Once a co-worker remarked on it being a crappy day. I said: “Oh, Crappy Day”.

Another time a different co-worker said: “I’m so mad.” Pause. “I’m so mad.”
Another office joker and I both chimed in with “I’m mad, I’m mad, I’m mad.”

She was too young to get the reference but a few others within earshot started laughing.

“Oh, Crappy Day,” by the Edwin Hawkins Singers? Available on every K-Tel, Ronco, etc. record from the '70s?

@Nobody

Whenever Rachel Maddow says, “Watch this space,” then “Six Underground” starts playing in my head.

Watch this space
I’m open…to falling from grace

Also, when I think of the order of the seasons I just think of the part of “You’ve Got a Friend” sung by James Taylor where he names them in order.

“…in Pennsylvania.” State slogan/song some years back.

@Eddie The Horrible

I’m kinda stumped on that one.

<snip> “…old Jed’s a millionaire. The kinfolk said, ‘Jed, change yer underwear.’”

Any time after 6:45 (AM or PM), if someone asks what time it is: Almost seven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge mountains… .

[Guest-starring_Id]

@Periwinkle

Whenever I start a sentence with “Should I stay”, I always want to continue with “…or should I go”, instead of “at the Marriott” or whatever else I intended.

Whenever I say “Jump!” to one of the dogs, I usually hear Van Halen start up in my head. Sometimes the Pointer Sisters.

yes to both.

@burpo_the_wonder_mutt

<snip> “…old Jed’s a millionaire. The kinfolk said, ‘Jed, change yer underwear.’”

ah I see
un-pretty indeed
(and I’m more or less from that time, too, and still didn’t get it)

[EinsteinsHund]

Ok, I got one more. Right now, I’m watching a program about super novae, and an astronomer said ‘We are stardust’. Instantly I added (and I do it every time I merely hear the word ‘stardust’):

(billion year old carbon)
We are golden
(caught in the devil’s bargain)
And we got to get ourselves
Back to the ga-a-a-a-rden. (doo-doop, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo doo-dop…)

[EinsteinsHund]

O my, I have a run. This time, someone on the astronomy program mentioned gamma rays, and Bam!: “If I Were A Gamma Ray, A Gamma Gamma, Gamma Ray Made Of Pure Existence”

[Guest-starring_Id]

@EinsteinsHund

O my, I have a run. This time, someone on the astronomy program mentioned gamma rays, and Bam!: “If I Were A Gamma Ray, A Gamma Gamma, Gamma Ray Made Of Pure Existence”

ha, when I hear gamma, I think:

@ 6:22… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qK_gO965xU

Also, I think of our good friend Carol if I hear the phrase “it’s too late…”

If I hear “I’ll be there”, I’ll either think of Greg Lake going “I’ll be there, l’ll be there, I will be there”, or I’ll try to get all falsetto and attempt the 3 y.o. (j/k) Micheal Jackson version.

[Jennshark]

When I’m given a phone number that starts with an “8” or I’m called my (forbidden) diminutive . . .

Any guesses?

Jenny, I got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny, don’t change your number
867-5309

"8675309

[gigi]

The “In My Humble Opinion” forum name triggers “In My Simple Humble Neighborhood” from Carole King’s Really Rosie.

Also, when I have to pee I sing “I gotta pee, I gotta go” to the tune of John Denver’s “I want to live / I want to grow
I want to see / I want to know
I want to share what I can give
I want to be / I want to live”

And since I hate the heat, “It’s too hot (too hot) oh so hot, lady!”

Just the tip of the iceberg, I’m afraid.

[Guest-starring_Id]

If I hear fresh I’ll start singing “She’s fresh, fresh…exciting!..Fresh as a sum-mers breeze!”

I can’t hear the phrase “in the long run” without thinking of the Eagles.

and for a non-musical one, do I really need to say who I’m referencing if I mention the word “pilgrim”?

or some old fogey extra who mentions “plastics”?

[Guest-starring_Id]

To give my 537th favourite band some love - three offerings from Heart…

barricuda - you know what song that’ll bring up.

even it up

never

[scabpicker]

Every time I hear “The politics of…”, I mentally complete it with DANCING. So, I’ve been building a hatred of that phrase for decades.