# Music that has unremovable associations for you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277 "2018-05-16T12:00:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/21 "2018-05-16T18:45:00Z")
_Apocalypse Now,_ if nothing else, introduced “Ride of the Valkyries” to most of my generation. Mind you, most of the guy were too busy gizzing off to the Swell Battle Scenes. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/22 "2018-05-16T18:48:31Z")
I associate “Yakety Sax” with Benny Hill. That is not a bad thing. One day, I realized that one of Benny’s other signature tunes is a speeded-up version of Beethoven’s “Für Elise”. That’s a little weird. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/23 "2018-05-16T19:09:58Z")
I can’t hear “Kalinka” without a hockey game. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/24 "2018-05-16T19:25:02Z")
Some more sports-related ones, for me: “[Sirius](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBQalkIeE7s),” by the Alan Parsons Project (an instrumental which segues into “Eye in the Sky”) is linked to the Chicago Bulls – they used it during player introductions during the Michael Jordan / championship era (and, as far as I know, they still do). “[Kiss Him Goodbye](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsaTElBljOE),” by Steam, is linked to the Chicago White Sox, who’ve played the chorus of the song since the 1970s when the opposing team removes a pitcher. “[Chelsea Dagger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEXHeTcxQy4),” by the Fratellis, is linked to the Chicago Blackhawks, as it’s been their “goal song” for the past decade or so. “[Bang the Drum All Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO17hN-YvBc),” by Todd Rundgren, is linked to the Green Bay Packers, as, since the late '80s, they play the opening of it when they score a touchdown. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/25 "2018-05-16T19:27:51Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > For a certain segment of the population, hearing “Ecstacy of Gold” (from _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_ soundtrack) means Metallica is about to take the stage. And the theme to “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” for The Ramones. Didn’t know that Metallica stole that idea. I probably did at one time (saw them twice) but it’s no longer in my memory banks. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/26 "2018-05-16T19:33:48Z")
Another one I remembered: “[Every 1’s a Winner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SFFRaIUisY),” by Hot Chocolate, always makes me think of the TV game show “Family Feud.” When the song was popular in the late '70s, one of the local TV stations in Green Bay used the song in an ad they produced, to promote the syndicated version of that show. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/27 "2018-05-16T21:18:42Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > We have an ice hockey team that plays at the War Memorial and the lights are dimmed and they come out onto the rink to ‘Hells Bells’ by AC/DC 😛 I believe newly-selected HOF reliever [Trevor Hoffman did it first.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDNabNK13A) ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/28 "2018-05-16T22:01:10Z")
Stealers Wheel’s only hit, “Stuck in the Middle with You” is always going to be associated with Reservoir Dogs. Wikipedia lists a number of other media creations that pay homage to the song being used in the particular scene that it’s in. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/29 "2018-05-16T22:07:09Z")
Recently the song that I had always thought was called Ragtime and had always assumed was written as the theme song for _The Sting_ was played by a player piano in _Westworld_. With some googling I found that it was really called [_The Entertainer_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entertainer_(rag)) and was written in 1902. It’ll always be [the theme for _The Sting_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WxfjWnuEno) to me, though. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/30 "2018-05-16T22:17:56Z")
This may venture into TMI territory, but the entire album of Dan Gibson’s “Celtic Awakening” reminds me of being in the shower with my most recent girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/31 "2018-05-17T00:09:52Z")
Any time I hear a slide whistle I think of a penis getting erect. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/32 "2018-05-17T00:38:10Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > Stealers Wheel’s only hit, “Stuck in the Middle with You” is always going to be associated with Reservoir Dogs. Wikipedia lists a number of other media creations that pay homage to the song being used in the particular scene that it’s in. That’s the first one that occurred to me, too. “Three Blind Mice” also makes me think of The Three Stooges. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/33 "2018-05-17T00:49:44Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > Any time I hear a slide whistle I think of a penis getting erect. _“Is that a Slide Whistle in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”_ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/34 "2018-05-17T00:50:12Z")
“Mr. Sandman” and _Halloween_. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/35 "2018-05-17T02:51:53Z")
[Baroque Hoedown](https://youtu.be/Ax00vnsZPKE?t=10) by [Perrey and Kingsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrey_and_Kingsley) is the theme song of Disneyland’s **Main Street Electrical Parade** (1972) and later parades. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/36 "2018-05-17T03:00:57Z")
When I was in junior high school (grades 7, 8, 9) the 3-minute time between periods was indicated by the playing of top-40 radio on the public address system. I didn’t listen to popular music at that age, so all my knowledge of that musical era (1981-1984) is in three minute bursts. There are lots of songs that bring me eight back to hustling from one class to another on junior high. I can’t name them all but the most memorable one for whatever reason is Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature.” ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/37 "2018-05-17T03:16:44Z")
“I Only Have Eyes for You” by the Flamingos is linked to the episode of Buffy by the same name. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/38 "2018-05-17T03:34:42Z")
The Toreador song from Carmen will always be the [Palm Dairy Products](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi1sScXLThg) song to me first, and the Gilligan’s Island Hamlet [“Neither a borrower nor a lender be”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXId5jOTxdg) song second. The song “Lavender” by Marillion will always remind me of [Angus Deayton from “Nighty Night”.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Enosz7WCQ) ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/39 "2018-05-17T04:15:25Z")
Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DurycX6nee8/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHwBIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgYihUMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAdjYqDMxWveCZY3NQcfOGa8BX5zg "Elvis - Último Especial de TV (Intro 2001, CC Rider)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DurycX6nee8) ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277/40 "2018-05-17T06:29:33Z")
I was required to memorize Verdi’s “La Donne e Mobile” in college for a class. All I remember now is the first verse. After that, my mind automatically switches to Voyager’s EMH singing the rest. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TKAL_219oH8/hqdefault.jpg "Voyager's EMH - La donna e mobile") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAL_219oH8) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-has-unremovable-associations-for-you/814277.md?page=3)