# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/41 "2002-12-12T06:29:38Z")
What’s worse than having a song stuck in your head is having two, that meet and produce a bastard offspring. Do you know what “Lost in the Supermarket” (The Clash) and “Sometimes wanna die” (Joydrop)sound like together? It sounds like this: I’m lost in the supermarket I can’t shop happily I I I I sometimes wanna die Which makes for the most melodramatic reaction to a problem during a shopping trip _ever_. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/42 "2002-12-12T06:37:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tabithina \* > \*\*_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] \*\* There’s…antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium… [sub]hee, hee, hee[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/43 "2002-12-12T06:48:26Z")
I have had a christmas song stuck in my head for quite a while now. I hate (most) christmas songs. I only know a couple of lines to this particular song, which makes it even worse. Yes, going around and around in a neverending loop for the past few days, has been “Well the weather outside is frightful, but the fires are so delightful, something something something, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.” And I HATE snow, too. God, only a few more weeks. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/44 "2002-12-12T07:09:16Z")
Would you believe…“Deep in the Heart,” by Xymox? That’s what I get for listening to 80s Alternative from Radio at AOL. ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/45 "2002-12-13T01:10:04Z")
Right now I have THREE songs stuck in my head at once: —that song on the radio (“he was a skater boy…” you know how that goes) —another song by Slipknot (can’t remember the title) —“Warning”, by Incubus The result of that comes out sounding like: he was a skater boy as in see you later boy how the hell did I get here! and he wasn’t right for her as she called out a warning don’t ever let life pass you skater boy Really wierd. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/46 "2002-12-13T02:08:19Z")
1. Theme from South Park (only I don’t know all the words, so there’s a lot of “blh-blh-blh” in it; 2. The “zoom zoom” song from the Mazda ads. I find the old “Goobers and Raisinettes” ad to be a drastic but effective intervention–it reliably knocks all other songs out of my head. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/47 "2002-12-13T05:50:19Z")
Right now it’s Authority Zero’s _One More Minute_, but thanks to **as\_u\_wish** , it’s threatening to be _It’s A Small World_. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/48 "2002-12-13T07:46:01Z")
**IThinkNot** , your slipknot song is “Wait and Bleed.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/49 "2002-12-13T14:28:54Z")
Whatever you do, do \*\* not \*\* think of “Sugar, Sugar” by the Archies. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/50 "2002-12-13T14:38:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alto \* > **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…"** Your first song is “Heartbeat, It’s a Love Beat” by Tony DeFranco and the DeFranco Family. The second is “Run, Joey, Run” and I’m not sure who that’s by. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713/51 "2002-12-13T18:29:21Z")
My students made me go to [this website](http://etrata.home.attbi.com/flash/banana.swf) and they come into class every day singing the song. ☹ One more week till Christmas break! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-accursd-song/141713.md?page=2)