# What's been stuck in your head? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2000, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450 "2000-12-07T08:05:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/21 "2000-12-07T19:48:45Z")
**Stem** , by Hayden I bought a rose to give to you A windy day, the pettles flew From the stem onto the street I tried to catch them with my feet I got to your door, you looked to see Through the peep-hole right at me You let me in and I just froze I gave you a stem, that was a rose Was a rose, was a rose ---
**Author:** ![RonA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@RonA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RonA)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/22 "2000-12-07T19:54:44Z")
It alternates between ‘Lil Bow Wow (“Bow wow wow, Yippie yo yippie yay. Where my dogs at”), Shaggy ("Picture this, we were both butt naked, bangin’ on the bathroom floor. How could I forget that I had given her an extra key. All the time she was standin’ there, she never took her eyes off me."), and Ludacris (“I wanna li-li-li-lick you from your head to your toes. And I wanna move from the bed down to the down to the to the flo’. I wanna _ah, ah_. You make it so good I don’t wanna leave, but I gotta kn-kn-kn-know what’s your fantasy”). OK, so I don’t have great taste in music. What can I say? ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/23 "2000-12-07T19:58:59Z")
::prays zyzzyva doesn’t grace this thread, he’s always got very “stickable” songs in his head that he feels compelled to share:: And thanks to a thread that was here a while back, Copacabana went through my head waaaaay too often for a week or so… ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/24 "2000-12-07T20:23:02Z")
Pishaw. What I wouldn’t give to have a song for adults bouncing around my skull. For the last four days I have been humming Raffi’s “Down By the Bay” at work. Come on, everybody sing if you know the words! Down by the bay Where the watermelons grow Back to my home I dare not go For if I do My mother will say Did you ever see a Bear Combing his hair Down by the bay… ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/25 "2000-12-07T20:25:57Z")
Everytime I read a thread with “Istanbul” by TMBG mentioned in it, that song gets stuck in my head for days. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/26 "2000-12-07T20:28:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by porcupine \* > \*\*That damn “there’s a hole in the bucket” since someone started a MPSIMS thread about it a few days ago. I’m in hell. \*\* Yeah, and thanks to that fargin Rudolph thread over in GQ I’ve got _Lavender’s Blue (Dilly Dilly)_ crowding my cranium. Damn that _100 Greatest Kids Songs_ CD. I must concentrate on another song… _Do They Know It’s Christmas Time At All?_ Not that record, not THAT record!!! ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/27 "2000-12-08T01:51:09Z")
It’s been the theme from Battlestar Galactaca for weeks now. Mostly the horns at the beginning. It’s probably been more than 10 years since I’ve actually heard it. I cannot imagine what it was that started me on this one, I just woke up one day and there it was. ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/28 "2000-12-08T01:54:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RonA \* > \*\*Shaggy ("Picture this, we were both butt naked, bangin’ on the bathroom floor. How could I forget that I had given her an extra key. All the time she was standin’ there, she never took her eyes off me) > \*\* Dude! I heard this song on the radio, once, two weeks ago, and it’s been stuck in my head ever since. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/29 "2000-12-08T02:20:17Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve got sunshiiiiine on a cloudy day. > When it’s cold outsiiiiiiide, I’ve got the month of May. > IIIIIII guess yoouuuuuu saaaaaay, > What could make me feeeeel this way? > Myyyyy girl > Talkin’ 'bout, my girl. I’ve _always_ got that song stuck in my head! > [@](#): > > Ludacris (“I wanna li-li-li-lick you from your head to your toes. And I wanna move from the bed down to the down to the to the flo’. I wanna _ah, ah_. You make it so good I don’t wanna leave, but I gotta kn-kn-kn-know what’s your fantasy”). I love that song! I’ve been hearing “Sorry Miss Jackson” by Outkast (one of my favorite rappers) a lot lately, but the only part I ever remember is where he goes, “For-ever? For-ever, ever, for-ever, ever, ever?” and his voice gets really high. Now that’s annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/30 "2000-12-08T02:22:21Z")
_I’ve been slandered Libeled I’ve heard words I never read in the Bible But I’m one step ahead of a shoeshine Two steps ahead of the county line And I’m trying to keep my customers satisfied Satisfied…_ I have no idea why. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/31 "2000-12-08T03:29:25Z")
_You’re getting closer to pushing me off of life’s little ledge Cause I’m a loser and sooner or later you know I’ll be dead You’re getting closer to holding me up and taking a fall Cause I’m a loser Yeah I’m a loserrrrrrrrrrrrrrr_ All week. All god damn week. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/32 "2000-12-08T03:43:05Z")
I hate to admit this, but … it’s the theme song to _Moesha_. I don’t watch the show, but it comes on after something else, and I usually hear the theme song from another room. I have no idea what the lyrics are, but it goes something like … “Mo-sha-va … eee-sha-va” Repeat about ten or fifteen times. I don’t get it either. ---
**Author:** ![SouprChckn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@SouprChckn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouprChckn)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/33 "2000-12-08T04:16:16Z")
Well mine isn’t a song per se but equally as catchy. I think it came from a Simpsons episode. I seem to remember it came from a TV fake-Barney (the purple dinosaur, not the drunk) character. He just repeats the phrase “2 + 2 is 4.” The voice and the fact that repeating it gets funnier and funnier is pretty good. Try saying it yourself (in a dumb voice, obviously) and you’ll see why its so great. Maybe… ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/34 "2000-12-08T04:40:37Z")
The following songs have been alternating in my head: (1) There’s a Hole in the Bucket (2) The Lion Sleeps Tonight (3) Slow As Christmas and (4) Take Me Home, Country Road (people at work torment me by mentioning West Virginia specifically to put this song in my head) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/35 "2000-12-08T04:54:28Z")
Didn’t have anything stuck in my head until I read #3 from Kat’s list. Now the Nylon’s rendition of it is swirling about my mush melon and won’t go away. ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/36 "2000-12-08T05:24:40Z")
The etoys commercial song. Then again, that’s probably because I downloaded the full song off Napster and I listened to it in a loop for hours… ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/37 "2000-12-08T07:15:50Z")
For the holidays, “Jingle Bell Rock”. It’s not so bad at first. Heck, it even gets you in that festive holiday mood, wanting to go about decking the halls and such. About thirty minutes later it begins to get on your nerves. Couple of hours and you’re frantically humming “Don’t Worry Be Happy” to get your mind off of it. By the end of the day you’re ready to strangle Santa and barbecue his reindeer. (Mmmmmm. . . venison. . .) ---
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/38 "2000-12-09T01:25:09Z")
Hmm I’ve had “Be Quiet and Drive” by Deftones in my head for about a week… mostly because ::hijack imminent:: A WEEK AGO I SAW THEM LIVE WITH INCUBUS AND TAPROOT!! God was that a beautiful concert. Poor sk8rixtx missed it ☹ [sub]Ouch, damnit, that hurt! Fine, fine, I’ll shut up![/sub] Anyway I don’t mind, cause I like that song. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fire\_me\_up](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c67d28/32.png) [@fire\_me\_up](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fire_me_up)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/39 "2000-12-10T03:43:03Z")
They’ve been running that dumb song from **Annie** , **It’s a Hard-Knock Life** in TV ads, sometimes 3 times in one show. Agggh! ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2000, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450/40 "2000-12-10T04:08:05Z")
My nine-year-old son likes to listen to oldies sometimes, and he was singing: “Who put the bop in the bop shu bop shu bop? Who put the ding in the rama lama ding dong? Who was that man? I’d like to shake his hand– he made my baby fall in love with me.” It’s sheer torment to have _that_ little ditty playing endlessly in one’s head. AAAAAAAAAAAAggghhhhh! I can’t seem to rid myself of it.:eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-been-stuck-in-your-head/44450.md?page=3)