I’m rewatching the series “Justified”. For some reason, the ending of the theme song (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.
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.”
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
One more, that I “heard” for years almost daily:
The Windows XP shut-down sound and the Gary Numan song Cars (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.
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.
Thanks! Yeah, it’s a thing well in the past for me, too.
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 by Our Lady Peace. It’s within a few tones of it in frequency and is almost the same length and timbre.
Cool.
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.
Yeah, I’ve started into “Lady Madonna” more than once while listening to “What I Got” on the radio.
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.
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.”
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.
::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.)
Awesome call! 
I must be having a cotton-in-ears moment, because with this:
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, this, this, this, this and this 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!
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
Evilly conjuring Holst, one of the greatest motherfucking metal bands of all time (and of planet Earth) - Nile - serve up the goods, duuuuuuuude.
Joe Walsh (just the first five notes, from :09 - :11) drunkenly trades chops with Jimmy Page, who’s playing the riff faster (and changing a note in there, as well as changing the notes’ emphases) just to fuck up Joe.
Yes! Now that I think about it.
The Minutemenget their sound more god-rocked out as they meld with Cheap Trick.
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…”).