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Guest · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:53 am Subject: Head Songs

I am driving to work and I have this song in my head and I can't get rid of it. I do not know how it got there. Has that ever happened to you? The worst part is it is not a song that I really like and I don't know the words so I find myself making them up. This particular time the song is "True" by Spandau Ballet. It came out in the 80s I think. I am singing to myself "I bought a chicken from a girl" when I look it up on Google it is "I bought a ticket for the world."
How many people thought that the words in Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann were "wrapped up like a douc_e" when it really was "revved up like a deuce?" So what song lyrics have you been messing up all your life on purpose or without realizing it.

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:00 pm Subject:

Usually it's something silly like "The Chicken Dance".

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:01 pm Subject:

I still contend the chorus for Prince's "Little Red Corvette" is "Leave the rent, come back".

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:05 pm Subject:

Oh heavens yes! if you have a little one and watch teh same show over and over every day you're sure to have a head song Smile

I almost get sick to my tummy when I hear the backyardigans theme song because we watch them so often! I even wake up during the night with these songs in my head...oh well

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:06 pm Subject:

I worked with an Hispanic guy who thought "More than a woman" was bald headed woman. He use to sing, "Bald headed woman, bald headed woman to me."
This was my thread by the way. I was not signed in.

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:09 pm Subject:

OMG! Now this is a funny thread!! Me n my son were just talking about this the other day!!! (specifically the douc-e song!) Laughing

Thanks for the smile Frogman,
Ang

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:51 pm Subject:

LOL!! I always thought Billy Idol's "eyes without a face" was "how's about a date?"

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:52 pm Subject:

Ang

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:44 pm Subject:

Actually Blinded by the Light was written by Bruce Springsteen, and Manfred Mann was doing a cover version. "I bought a ticket for the world" I believe is from that song by Spandau Ballet (their only hit).

For me, "Saturday Afternoon" by Keith West -- I doubt if anyone here has heard of him or the group Tomorrow that he was in.

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:22 pm Subject:

I hate that Spandau Ballet song..It's on every damn 80's compilation that ever was.

You know what song always gets stuck in my head? Huey Lewis and the News, "stuck with you".

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:10 am Subject:

I don't like Spandau Ballet either. I was living in the U.K. at the time of this "hit". I was watching TV with a friend when they interviewed the singer. He went on about how everyone was now into clothes and the "image" LOL. I remember my friend saying, "yeah, well look at that get-up he's wearing".

I like Huey Lewis too. Another song which haunts me every now and then is Thin Lizzy's "Whiskey in the Jar" (originally a traditional Irish song) by the original group of Phil Lynott on Bass/vocals, Eric Bell guitar, and Brian Downey drums. This dates from about 1973 I think.

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:50 am Subject:

Ok on a totally different note...When my son is trying to get to me he sings the lime in the coke u nut commercial...and then I can't get the jingle out of my head and wil sit there four hours with it playing in my head....Usually, whatever song is playing on the radio when my alarm goes off in the morning is what plays in my head all day.

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:19 am Subject:

This is actually Spandau's biggest hit. It is a little different from their actual sound and kind of pigeon holed them as soft rock.

youtube.com/watch?v=UYb83KM4at4

They were more poppy:

youtube.com/watch?v=gSq8ZBdSxNU

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:45 pm Subject:

Roxy, that "lime in the coconut" was actually a hit by Harry Neilson in the early 70s, (a notorious drinker) and friend of John Lennon. He had quite a number of hits, including the theme tune of "The Midnight Cowboy" (Gentle on My Mind ?)

I don't know about Spandau, that was the -only- song I ever heard of theirs.

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:00 pm Subject:

Law Student, thanks for the info. I am going to search for the song burn it and play it over and over and over for my son since he thinks it is so funny. Paybacks..oh I love it!!

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:24 pm Subject:

LOL I know what you mean, it might be one of the world's most annoying songs.

I was wrong, The Midnight Cowboy theme song wasn't Gentle on My Mind. It was the one which starts, "everyone is talking at me, I don't hear a word they're saying...". Can't remember the title. It was written and sung by Neilson, and quite another big hit for him. I think this was 1969.

One bit of movie trivia about The Midnight Cowboy (starring Dustin Hoffmann and Jon Voight): The producers wanted to use Bob Dylan and his song "Lay Lady Lay" as the theme tune, but he exercised his mechanical rights to the song and wouldn't let them.

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