# Get Out Of My Head, Accurs'd Song! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 10, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713 "2002-12-10T05:04:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Minor\_Irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Minor\_Irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minor_Irritant)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/21 "2002-12-11T03:11:27Z")
Gah! Due to constant exposure to music seeping under my sister’s door, I have “Jenny From The Block” rattling around in my head like a tiny, drunken monkey. Curse you, brain! Maybe this icepick will teach you a lesson… ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/22 "2002-12-11T03:30:08Z")
> [@](#): > > from **IThinkNot** > P.S. How do you make a signature? At the top of the board, click on the “User CP” icon (user control panel), then click the “Edit Profile” link. ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/23 "2002-12-11T03:36:28Z")
Cool! Let’s see if it works----- ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/24 "2002-12-11T03:40:12Z")
Okay, let’s try it again---- (sorry for wasting board space, but-----) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/25 "2002-12-11T03:44:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by IThinkNot \* > \*\*Okay, let’s try it again---- > > (sorry for wasting board space, but-----) \*\* Make sure you check the “Show Signature” box below the text window. You should also make your test posts in the ATMB forum. ---
**Author:** ![taichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@taichi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taichi)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/26 "2002-12-11T04:16:42Z")
ooohhh Minor Irritant, I agree with you! ARGH! I HATE that damn “Jenny from The Block” song! I cannot understand why people think she is so talented! Have I missed something?! ---
**Author:** ![bunnymom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/27 "2002-12-11T04:48:17Z")
Months ago [Fark.com](http://Fark.com) ran a list of headlines from various news sources that could be sung to the tune of "Camptown Races’. By far the funniest and stickiest was “Man In Wheelchair Killed By Train” - doo-dah, doo dah… I catch myself singing it all the time. And for some strange reason, lately when I vacuum I start singing “Hitler has only got one ball,” and I can’t get it to go away. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/28 "2002-12-11T05:18:58Z")
I’ve been mentally working on our end-of-year “roast” night, and I’m working on a song called “A Doctor at the Moses Cone” (to the tune of “Cover of the Rolling Stone”). (Moses Cone is the name of my hospital.) This has, unfortunately, become stuck in my head. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/29 "2002-12-11T05:58:47Z")
Thanks a lot, bunnymom. The Hitler song always goes through my head for days once I think of it. Yesterday I made the mistake of going to the grocery store and had to live with “Have yourself a merry little Christmas” for the rest of the day. I hate 20th century carols. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/30 "2002-12-11T12:29:09Z")
I hate this song, but it’s on tv all the time!!! “Jenny from the block”… DAMN!!! AAARGHHH!!! GET OOOUUUUUUUTTT!! ---
**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/31 "2002-12-11T14:22:25Z")
“I run so far away, and I run I run so far away…gotta get away” Duran Duran saw the Grand Theft Auto Vice City commercial and cant get it out of my blasted head 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/32 "2002-12-11T14:36:39Z")
_ahem_ For the last week, I have had bits of Tom Lehrer’s song about the Periodic Table of Elements (sung to the tune of “I am the very model of a modern major general”) careening randomly around my hapless brain. I don’t dare type out _any_ of it. No…I do NOT. [sub]Help me…pleeeeeeease![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/33 "2002-12-11T14:36:52Z")
**flood** , I think that’s Flock of Seagulls. For me it’s the Lexx theme… “Yo, way oh…” ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/34 "2002-12-11T18:16:58Z")
Did you know the theme to the old Spiderman TV show goes well to the music from “Eidelweiss?” Spiderman, Eidelweiss, Does whatever a spider can. Try it. ---
**Author:** ![Bucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Bucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bucky)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/35 "2002-12-11T18:45:09Z")
I find that loudly singing tom Jones’ “What’s New, Pussycat,” replete with “who-o-o-o-h” action, will usually knock all other songs out of my head. Surprisingly, Pussycat won’t linger in the vaccum created. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/36 "2002-12-11T19:26:38Z")
**NE Texan** : You’re right - it’s A Flock of Seagulls who did “I Ran” (not “run”). As for the song currently stuck in my head: “Aerials” - System of a Down. Good song, at least. A few weeks ago, however, I had to watch Kenneth Branagh’s version of “Henry V” & subsequently got “Henry the Eighth” by, I think, Herman’s Hermits stuck in my head for the afternoon & evening. I wasn’t even _alive_ when that damn song came out! ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/37 "2002-12-11T20:00:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by photopat \* > \*\*Did you know the theme to the old Spiderman TV show goes well to the music from “Eidelweiss?” > > Spiderman, > Eidelweiss, > Does whatever a spider can. > > Try it. \*\* MY GOD! You’re right! :eek: My son has been singing “Spiderman” all week, so “Spidey-Eidelweiss” slipped effortlessly into my head, _dammit_! IIRC, _Amazing Grace_ can be sung to the tune of _Yellow Rose of Texas_. _evil grin_ ---
**Author:** ![Alto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Alto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alto)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/38 "2002-12-11T20:14:22Z")
25-30 years ago I had a teacher who let us bring in records and play them at lunch. There are two songs people used to play that are STILL stuck in my head, although I haven’t heard them since. One contained the lines"Listen to my heart pound/Listen to my love sound." The other was about a boy (Joey?) who was being chased by a shotgun wielding father while the daughter sang “Daddy please don’t. It wasn’t his fault. He meeeeans so much to me…” I’d rather hear even _Amazing Grace_, but I can’t make it fit _Yellow Rose of Texas_. Maybe you know another version? ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/39 "2002-12-11T20:23:58Z")
_Girls Just Wanna Have Fun_ here too. ☹ But at least it’s red and tastes like chocolate! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/40 "2002-12-11T20:42:05Z")
Amazing grace does work. Cool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713.md?page=3)