# Song-melding **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177 "2018-01-22T03:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/101 "2018-02-08T17:53:28Z")
I’m rewatching the series “Justified”. For some reason, the ending of the [theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAffMSpW8KM) (at about the 24 second mark) makes me think of the end of the theme song from “The Jeffersons”, and it always morphs from one to the other in my head. Odd conflation, I know. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/102 "2018-02-10T00:58:15Z")
I have several of these — I just can’t think of them at the moment. I will start with this: My oven chimes out a descending major triad when food is cooked, and I always imagine it continuing as “Dixie.” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/103 "2018-02-10T11:33:47Z")
When I hear the Kinks’ “Wicked Anabella” in my head, about halfway through it morphs into their “Tired of Waiting.” Similar chords and melody in the chorus (or is it the middle eight?). Hey, stealing from yourself is okay. Bach did it many times. Also, though they’re not that similar musically, I hear the Beatles’ “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” morph into Jethro Tull’s “Cross-Eyed Mary,” plus some lyrics from the Rolling Stones’ “Play with Fire” (must be those London neighborhoods): _She can in through the bathroom window Protected by a silver spoon She’s the Robin Hood of Highgate Helps the poor man get along And now she gets her kicks in Stepmey Not in Knightsbridge any more_ ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/104 "2018-02-10T11:41:34Z")
One more, that I “heard” for years almost daily: The [Windows XP shut-down sound](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2jGy76v0Y) and the [Gary Numan song Cars](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw) (main riff/verse melody). The intervals for these four-note phrases aren’t exactly the same, but they’re very close, so I’d often have Cars stuck in my head for a few minutes after shutting down my laptop. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/105 "2018-02-10T23:11:28Z")
Bumped, mainly because I’m curious if anyone else has ever heard “Cars” in their head when shutting down their Windows XP computer! (see previous post) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/106 "2018-02-10T23:14:56Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Bumped, mainly because I’m curious if anyone else has ever heard “Cars” in their head when shutting down their Windows XP computer! (see previous post) I’ve never made the connection myself , but I can totally understand how you hear it. I suspect now whenever I hear the Windows XP shut down chime (which, admittedly, will probably be very rarely), I’ll think of “Cars.” This is similar to how I never connected “Fool in the Rain” by Led Zeppelin and “Misunderstanding” by Genesis before, but after reading an SD thread about it, I can’t help it. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/107 "2018-02-11T00:26:26Z")
Thanks! Yeah, it’s a thing well in the past for me, too. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/108 "2018-02-11T01:01:05Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Bumped, mainly because I’m curious if anyone else has ever heard “Cars” in their head when shutting down their Windows XP computer! (see previous post) Not I, but (the windows version at least of) Facebook had (and still sometimes has) a chime notifying me when I have a Notification, which often reminds me of the first note to [Clumsy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-96Il7d-ig) by Our Lady Peace. It’s within a few tones of it in frequency and is almost the same length and timbre. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/109 "2018-02-11T01:32:58Z")
Cool. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/110 "2018-02-11T11:41:06Z")
A Pit thread reminded me of one. Whenever I hear Abba’s _Fernando_ referenced I start to sing it, but I don’t actually know the words or melody, so I always start to sing “gonna take you by surprise, and make you realize, Fernando” to Amanda by Boston. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/111 "2018-02-12T12:55:31Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > These two have almost the same melody in the verse: Lady Madonna, and Sublimes What I Got. Or I should say there was a “consciousness of guilt” in the later song that he made sure it wasn’t identical. Yeah, I’ve started into “Lady Madonna” more than once while listening to “What I Got” on the radio. > [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > The Doors say [Hello, I Love You](https://youtu.be/8f1z-nHvt3c?t=11) to the Kinks, for [All Day, And All Of The Night"](https://youtu.be/fOGMRnKl5co?t=4) Don’t ask me how I missed this one, because now that you’ve mentioned it, it’s unmissable. 🙂 My contribution: near the end of Hozier’s “Take Me To Church” I keep on hearing part of the last verse with “Hotel California” lyrics, like this: _No masters or kings, as the ritual begins there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the master’s chamber, they gather for the feast they stab and stab with their steely knives but they just can’t kill the beast. A-a-amen, a-a-amen, a-a-amen._ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/112 "2018-02-13T16:59:39Z")
Obviously, the Cars’ “Just What I Needed” swiped the opening guitar riff from “Yummy Yummy Yummy” by the Ohio Express. But the rest of the song sure feels like “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/113 "2018-02-13T18:27:23Z")
I don’t get that song confused with any other song but sometimes during the chorus I think it’s by the Police since the entire chorus (beat, rhythm, singing melody) sounds like them and the lyrics of the chorus fit the Police’s lyrics about trudging along being insane and trapped more than they fit the Cars more happy-go-lucky lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/114 "2018-02-15T05:11:26Z")
::still agog this has gone more than a couple posts:: (and, at that, much props to folks with great melds, which, yes, is becoming a tiresome phrase, but I’ll stick to my guns on using it still.) > [@astorian](#): > > Obviously, the Cars’ “Just What I Needed” swiped the opening guitar riff from “Yummy Yummy Yummy” by the Ohio Express. Awesome call! 😛 I must be having a cotton-in-ears moment, because with this: > [@astorian](#): > > But the rest of the song sure feels like “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” Is it where Ohio’s vox goes: “ooh love I love it soooooooooooo” matching with the Beatles’ “I get hiiiiiiiigh”?😕 Could you point what parts or instrumentation that makes you Vulcan Mind Meld\* those two? One of the lamer melds, (because these riffs are _soooooo_ basic), now I’m seriously thinking of looking into some kind of editing program that can somehow:confused: work off the youtube platform in order to meld [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siMFORx8uO8), [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nKO-ADYx-M), [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFqXFE8OSG4), [this](https://youtu.be/edsage8Q7hM?t=1731), [this](https://youtu.be/m0KQnu22sFc?t=492) and [this](https://youtu.be/z0FI2TLkWms?t=1858) in unholy togetherness. (end of luddite rant) I’m definitely not trying to go for an identical meld, there, as much as a sort of “warped-meld”, that, edited together, would be a truly wonderful, brain-damaging thing.🙂 \*Maybe my best typo ever? I originally typed Vulcan Mind **Med**. Now _there’s_ an acid/ecstasy/MDMA/horse tranquilizer name! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/115 "2018-02-15T05:22:16Z")
Missed edit window: Those last melds drifted quite a ways from the original meld, making for not really the best of edits, there, perhaps.:o ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/116 "2018-02-16T03:20:42Z")
Evilly conjuring [Holst,](https://youtu.be/Isic2Z2e2xs?t=86) one of the greatest motherfucking metal bands of all time (and of planet Earth) - Nile - serve up [the goods, duuuuuuuude.](https://youtu.be/IwcRXbVC4k8?t=199) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/117 "2018-02-20T05:02:36Z")
[Joe Walsh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXWvKDSwvls) (just the first five notes, from :09 - :11) drunkenly trades chops with [Jimmy Page](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8e6VZTDBvs), who’s playing the riff faster (_and_ changing a note in there, as well as changing the notes’ emphases) just to fuck up Joe. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/118 "2018-02-20T07:05:27Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I can’t keep “Frankenstein” and “Cheap Sunglasses” separate in my head sometimes. Yes! Now that I think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/119 "2018-02-24T05:25:10Z")
[The Minutemen](https://youtu.be/4TvTJACasJg?t=65)get their sound more god-rocked out as they meld with [Cheap Trick.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sAm5UCJ9vA) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177/120 "2018-02-24T21:09:05Z")
The other day I heard the Moody Blues’ “Tuesday Afternoon,” and the galumphing riff from the Beatles’ “I Dig a Pony” inserted itself (in my mind) during the refrain (“Tuesday afternoon…” =“All I want is you…”). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-melding/807177.md?page=7)