Head Songs

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

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

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 :) 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

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.

OMG! Now this is a funny thread!! Me n my son were just talking about this the other day!!! (specifically the douc-e song!) :lol:
Thanks for the smile Frogman,
Ang

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

:lol:
Ang

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.

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".

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.

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.

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

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.

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!!

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.

OMG...That's that song that goes "WAH, WAH WAH WAH WAH.." "going where the sun keeps shinin'...Through the pourin' rain..Goin' where the weather suits my clothes..bankin' over a northeast wind and sailing on a summer breeze...skipping over the ocean like a song!"

Oh wow..

I know the song...only as a Jimmy Buffett remake...It is one of my favorites..Now I am going to have to go out to the jeep and get it.....

LOL! I know it as a Buffet remake too!! It's right after "schoolboy heart". That's the only reason I know it so well..

Yes, it is.... Guess you would be a parrott head???

finsfan, yes, and something about "echos in my mind". I haven't heard the Buffet version. You guys must be Parrot Heads. The "whoa whoa whoa whoa", might be from a different Harry Nielson song. A rather "heavy" tune from the late 60s or early 70s. I don't recall the title to that either, but hear it on oldies stations every now and then.

Everybody's Talkin' At Me was the name of the song. It was done by Harry Nilsson.
How about "I can see clearly now the rain has gone, I can see all popsicles in my way?" Instead of obstacles.

I am for sure a Parrothead!! I have seen Mr. Buffet 7 times in concert..Once in Detroit, twice in Cinci, once in Jones Beach, and three times in Florida.

Ok..Help me out..Does the Corey Hart song "sunglasses at night" say..."You got in bed with the guy in shades, oh no!"

Parrotheads! Woo hoo! I can remember singing the volcano song in elementary school. Pretty fitting since all that Iran stuff was happening at the time and we sang the line in the song "Don't want to land on no ayatolla..." And "don't want to land on no 3 mile island. Don't want to see my skin aglow." I remember when that 3-mile island thing happened. I know...I'm old. I graduated high school in 1990, so do the math. But, about messing up song lyrics, I used to mess up Journey. That line that goes "You make me weak. I want to die." I used to think he was saying "You make me eat. I'm on a diet." LOL!

LMAO!!! I'm old too..I graduated 1991.

You know the song "when the bullet hits the bone"? I used to think it said "pissed off on the borderline"

Thank you both..Sweedish and Fins... I AM OLD...I graduated HS in...I am not telling but put it this way I was in college while you were graduating HS....now that is OLD. So I guess I have been a Parrotthead longer....

Oh, thank God! I was reading this and everyone is calling themselves "old" and graduating in 1990 and 1991. I was like "Ummm......" :shock: Hell, I'm not saying when I graduated either! LOL! Now I feel REALLY old! So, thank you, roxy! And, I was a major Parrot Head at one time (now I have nightmares). Saw old Jimmy at a lake concert in Kentucky. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Okay, almost as good as when I saw Ozzy Osbourne and Metallica (God, I can't even spell it anymore!) in concert together in high school. Okay, now do you know I'm old? LOL!

I am with you sister..I think we are close in age..and I still love Ozzy....I have quite an eccletic taste in music. I like pretty much everything..except polka.

Polka? Oh Lordy! Now, I like a lot. Almost everything. Depends on my mood. And I can two-step like you wouldn't believe (nightmares again!). Yet I can bang my head with the best of them! :wink:

Oh hell Cannr u need a road trip south and come hear some zydeco and cut a rug! (showing MY age now)
And i'm not saying when i graduated but in 91 i had already graduated college and had my last son, the baby! :shock:
Ang

Well, ang, us "old" people can just throw down and two-step and show the "young'uns" up! :wink:

Gee...you old people that graduated in the 90's..I wish I could say that...I have a daughter that graduated then. A son that graduated in '99 and a another daughter that graduated in '02! Now that's old but I love music especially groups like Fleetwood Mac...and songs such as "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow!" Now that'll take you back!

Thanks frogpatch. I also misspelled his name (I'm not really a fan of his). That album of his from the early 70s just stuck in my head called "Nilsson Schmilsson".

Ok..Here's one that's never gonna get out of my head..On my way to work this morning I heard "sister Golden hair surprise". I'm still singing it. Please get something else in there.

Isn't that the song by the group America? It has been too long since I've heard it. I did hear their "Ventura Highway" on the radio the other day though. Just to the opposite of this thread there are a few song which fall into that catagory "don't care if I ever hear again" because of constant play since their release. For me it is Freebird, Stairway to Heaven, most of the Rolling Stones early songs, most songs by Boston, etc.

Current song stuck in my head, "I Want to be Sedated" by the Ramones. (I didn't know that they'd covered "What a Wonderful World", the old Louis Armstrong number, until I heard in in a TV ad recently).

I really love the Ramones! I am only 33, a little young, but I have a brother who is ten years older that taught me the joy of The Ramones and Zappa.

The songs I never want to hear again..I agree 100% with Freebird. I also detest all Aerosmith. And...I'm probably going to get nailed to the wall for this one...I HATE Jimmy Hendrix.

When I got married ten years ago, we picked an oldie from the 70's for our first dance, it's our song.. Remember "babe" by the Climax Blues Bland.."as my head was spinning 'round..I gazed into your eyes..And thought ooooooh, I got you!"

FINS! That's un-American to HATE Jimmy! :shock:
Also how can anyone NOT like Stairway to Heaven?!!?
:lol:
But then again i also like Freebird! ha ha
Ang

oh Ang..I think Jimmy is just a bunch of NOISE!!! I can't do screaming guitars! :twisted:

Now how can u NOT like this Jimi??
youtube.com/watch?v=A4AU7oK-xMQ
;)
Ang

I liked Aerosmith, until they discovered ballads. They went from rock and roll to being a lounge act. There was an excellent documentary on PBS about the Ramones a year or two back. But, all the original members are dead now, except the dummer. The singer and guitar player to cancer, and the bass player to an overdose.

I was lucky enough to go to a Zappa concert once. Really, about 90% of what he did was jazz.

Hate jimmy? OMG! :shock:

Fins, when we first started dating the climax blues band song was the song my hubby dedicated on the radio to me. We danced to Unchained Melody at our wedding...not my choice I was just happy hubby was interested enough to choose a song.

Oh, how romantic! Unchained Melody as your first dance. Oh..... That is wonderful. Honestly, I blocked out my wedding dance. LOL! Couldn't even tell you the song we danced to! How sad is that? :lol:

I do not think that is sad...I wish I had no memory of the song that was playing when I came home and found my fiance in bed with my room mate and best friend....Paradise by the Dashboard Light.

OMG! :shock: As soon as I catch my breath from laughing my butt off - Let me just say I am soooo sorry! And I love that song! Now every time I hear it, I'm going to think of that JERK! Huh.... still can't remember our "first dance". Oh, why try? It's blocked out for a reason! :wink:

I look back now and think how appropriate the song was in a metaphoric way...It would have been better if I had caught them in a car with that playing.

Another running through my head lately is the album by Spirit, "The Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus". I don't have the CD, but the LP has a CD quality production, even though this was in the late 60s.

Another of the tunes I don't care to ever hear again, --anything from the Frampton Comes Alive album, especially "Do You Feel Like We Do". Actually I like his recent works better, and they haven't been driven into the ground.

Songs I never tire of, any Beatles, early Robin Trower, the Ramones, original Yes, and original Genesis (with Peter Gabriel on vocals).

Oh WOW Rox! How terrible!! :(
But as they say, 'everythign happens for a reason'... ended up being a good thing for u!
:D
Ang

Oh yeah!!! I love a man in uniform but the Army fatigues far beat the sh#@ brown of UPS.. :lol: Anyway, I heard through the grape vine she caught him with someone else and they are divorced now. Karma!

LOL! I'm sorry, roxy! I'm not laughing AT you, my friend! I'm just cracking up at this IDIOT who did this to you! Look what he missed out on? However, you now have a good guy, kids, dog, etc. This one was obviously an idiot. And the part about Army fatigues beat out sh** brown UPS just has me ROLLING! :lol:

Yea obviously he hasn't changed much Rox so after all it was a blessing to u!!!
Sometimes when bad things happen to us we can't see the good that actually comes from it for a long time!!
:D
Ang