# Quick, sing something else: songs that get stuck in your head **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 2, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132 "2004-10-02T01:37:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_world_s_most_deadliest)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/21 "2004-10-02T20:11:19Z")
> [@Krisfer the Cat](#): > > Tie me kangaroo down boys, tie me kangaroo down… > > God dammit thats ALL of the song I know! My husband gets me with that one every time. That’s all of the song we know, too. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/22 "2004-10-02T20:34:44Z")
> [@The world's most deadliest...](#): > > My husband gets me with that one every time. That’s all of the song we know, too. [The whole song](http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7332), courtesy of The Mudcat Cafe. ---
**Author:** ![The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_world_s_most_deadliest)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/23 "2004-10-02T20:37:49Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > [The whole song](http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7332), courtesy of The Mudcat Cafe. Sweet. I knew the first _four_ lines, not just the first two. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/24 "2004-10-02T20:41:11Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Maroon 5’s “She Will Be Loved”. :eek: I can think of worse songs to have to endure but I’m a bit biased as the song makes me think of a specific person whom I like very much. To each their own, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/25 "2004-10-02T22:43:56Z")
Hey, I like the song–and it also reminds me of someone special–it just plays constantly in my head. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/26 "2004-10-02T23:26:47Z")
Well dang it. Thanks to the 80s one hit wonder thread I know have **Video Killed the Radio Star** bouncing around my cranium… ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/27 "2004-10-02T23:45:34Z")
There’s so much that we share That it’s time we’re aware It’s a small world after all. \<\< Game Over \>\> ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/28 "2004-10-03T00:22:31Z")
Geez, what song doesn’t get stuck in my head? Most persistent one lately was “Milkshake” by Kelis. ::shudder:: The all-time champion is “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega. I’ve given up trying to drive it out, ever, so now whenever I get a different song stuck in my head I just keep humming “Tom’s Diner” until the other one goes away. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/29 "2004-10-03T00:29:13Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > Geez, what song doesn’t get stuck in my head? Most persistent one lately was “Milkshake” by Kelis. ::shudder:: > > The all-time champion is “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega. I’ve given up trying to drive it out, ever, so now whenever I get a different song stuck in my head I just keep humming “Tom’s Diner” until the other one goes away. Da da dada da da dada da da dada da da dada… You are truly hellish for mentioning that song. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/30 "2004-10-03T01:02:44Z")
You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille Four hungry children And the crops in the field . . . If a particularly annoying song is in my head, that usually drives it out. And at least it makes me chuckle, since my (somewhat deaf as a child) friend confided she used to sing “Four hundred children and the crap in the field.” Kind of reminds you that things could always be worse. For those of you with young children: Quack quack quack quack quack, cock-a-doodle-doo Quack quack quack quack quack, cock-a-doodle-doo Quack quack quack a-doodley-doo, doodley-doo I learned all the words to this posthaste, so I could sing it through and banish it. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/31 "2004-10-03T01:05:17Z")
Oompa loompa doompadee do… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/32 "2004-10-03T01:28:44Z")
Lately I’ve had several Ramones songs in my head. Damn they’re catchy. Sheena is…a punk rocker, Sheena is… Sheena is a punk rocker now-ow-ow-ow-ow! ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/33 "2004-10-03T01:51:06Z")
“Coward of the County” by Kenny Rogers. Usually upon waking. Ugh ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/34 "2004-10-03T02:01:06Z")
I can’t open this at this computer (blocked) but I think this is the Kenya song, and if so [www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/29/](http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/29/) has been stuck in my head for several days. Come to Kenya we got Lions (bu da bum da bum)… ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/35 "2004-10-03T02:08:57Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > Of course, there’s one person who I can do this to at whim, by simply saying “Superman and Green Lantern” No, at least two. Thanks, **E-Sabbath**. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/36 "2004-10-03T03:06:31Z")
Like a Virgin always gets me. The Andy Griffith Show whistling is also catchy…and I’ve never even SEEN that show. And Bewitched, too. ---
**Author:** ![The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_world_s_most_deadliest)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/37 "2004-10-03T03:19:43Z")
Another repeat offender on my list just popped back in my skull to say hi. Weird Al’s “Polka Your Eyes Out”. Most specifically, I’ll get stuck on this section: > [@Bel Biv DeVoe via Weird Al](#): > > Do me baby, (ah-oo) > do me baby, (ah-oo) > you can do me in the morning, you can do me in the night > you can do me when you wanna do me > _yodeling_ Yodiddle-ay yee-hooooo! _crash!_ And thus into Metallica, Digital Underground, ending with “I’ll be your ice, ice, baby”, big finish, and right back into the Bel Biv DeVoe part. A never ending cycle of torture to those around me, because how could you _not_ sing along? Again and again and again… I know its not the most universal song to get stuck in one’s head, but hear me now: Weird Al is one catchy tunesmith. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/38 "2004-10-03T03:50:09Z")
This happens to me all the time. I think the longest was for about a month and it was _Nelly Furtado’s_ “I’m Like A Bird”. I was waaaaaay too obsessed over it. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/39 "2004-10-03T04:00:38Z")
> [@](#): > > **Annie X-mas** : Once at work three of us were sitting in total silence and we all spontaneously started singing “We all need somebody to lean on…” It was so weird. A friend and I were walking down the street together back in the 1950’s and started singing, “The evening breeze caressed the trees _Tenderly_…” at exactly the same time but in totally different keys. It’s not something you forget even after fifty years. Twenty years later I married a man whose mother had been a friend of Rosemary Clooney who had made that song popular. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132/40 "2004-10-03T04:03:55Z")
Ever since I saw today that Billy Joel has married a 23 year old – a woman who wasn’t born when the album _The Stranger_ was released – the lyrics “Don’t go changing to try an please me…” keep running through my mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sing-something-else-songs-that-get-stuck-in-your-head/267132.md?page=3)