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Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Wednesday, 27th May 2009
Adam & Joe recently covered songs you sing with words altered to fit your situation.
Their "trail" - is that the right word? - featured "I just don't know what to do with my shelf" and a sunbathing song "I'd like to know where you put the lotion".
I liked "Lock the Taskbar" best. Curiously enough, when looking to empty the catch tank under my bonnet last weekend, I noticed myself humming first "Pull up to the bumper baby" and then "Bosh the catch tank, bosh the catch tank"...
Clearly, of 6Music listeners, it's not just me. Any more of yours?
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It's a long way to the shop if you want a sasauge roll.
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It's a long way to the shop if you want a sasauge roll.Β
excuse a silly question, what's the tune?
I opened the lid thingy at the frnr of the car today and discovered what I sing is "DROP the catch tank, DROP the catch tank".
It's isn't really hinged but it makes a better song!
And get overtaken by a Sunday biker in bright new leathers on a blind bend and you're singing the Manics' "Motorcycle looniness"...
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How I wish I could edit my post. "front" spelt frnr? It looks like a record label! D'oh! *sinks into ground*
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To my surprise, I heard Adam & Joe just now continuing the feature, so it would possibly be inappropriate to have a thread here with better examples.
Alternatively, they could ever read any of my mails out!
On my way to the station, walking on the pavement on the right-hand side of the road, I often see a Netherlands-registered car parked on the other side.
So I whistle "Pass the Dutchie on the left-hand side..."
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Now I think you're making them up Tolhurst
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I really do sing/ whistle these - the problem is noticing it. And why. And what the words are.
But yes, I do make them up myself!
Another contributor today was saying "get your socks off, get your socks off baby" - I thought that was one of mine TBH!
I was just getting some oil for the shredder (luckily I'm not a big Turtles fan*) and found myself singing "I was going...round and round...my own small gar-age...must have seen roaches ninety-four" (scansion not being critical for these ditties)
*(though there IS a Raphael Road which I can't pass without singing "he's the leader of the gang!")
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I used to sing 'Lock the taskbar' to myself when I was on an ECDL course!
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I hadn't realised it was that well-known: (can I post a link to a YouTube video?)
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This isn't supposed to be a name-drop, but I live in Sydney.
That's not a bad first line is it?
Anyway down south from here is a place called Gerringong (pronounced Jerring-gong). For no apparent reason, whenever I see the name, I think:
"Get it on, bang a gong, Gerringong"
Maybe you have to be there... or here.
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Just returned from a week away, and noticed the following:
(while packing)
"In the avenues and alleyways" (Tony Christie) (I was planning my route to the station)
(lugging my heavy bag to the station)
"Sisters are doing it for themselves" (Eurythmics) (I had no idea why, so went through the lyrics in my head - only to realise they include the phrase "there was a time") (i.e. when I used to move this much stuff easily )
(lugging the bag up the stairs to the platform)
REM's "Great Beyond" - "I'm lugging a heavy bag up the stairs"...
(on the platform)
Madness's "Ghost Train" - "waiting for the train that never comes"
then
Beatles "Here comes the train..." (it's all right etc.)
At Waterloo: "Going Underground"
In plane on take-off "Maximum Acceleration" (ultravox)
On way back "They've gone underground" (a Tube strike)
(looking for a big open bit of the train at Waterloo to sit in with my case) "This big area inside" (Then Jericho)
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two more from today:
Leaving home having set the burglar alarm:
(think Tiffany, forget grammar)
"I've set the alarm now
There doesn't seem to be any crooks around"
Shopping in Otherbrandsareavailable-o's:
(last three things on list were Gin, Beans and Magnums. Just passed through Beer Wine and Spirits...)
(to tune of Young, Gifted and Black)
"Beans, Magnums and Gin"...."I got the Gin..."
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I can't be the only one who, when asked if they'd like Cashback at a key point of a retail transaction, has to struggle not to say
"To the days when the nights were young".
This is down to the work of Leee Johnnnn and his barely dressed cohorts.
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"Cashback!"
back to the days when I had some funds?
Don't worry, it's just an illusion...
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, in reply to message 13.
Posted by stonelephant (U11708853) on Wednesday, 17th June 2009
Hear hear to the "Cashback!" thought Gid.
Funnily enough I heard "Just an Illusion" playing in a department store on Tuesday.
Recovered though
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I know a bloke called Mr. Panyanides.
So I'm humming "panyanides (bossa nova)
panyanides (bossa nova)
panyanides (bossa nova)
panyanides all night long"...
or something...
is that Outkast? It's not Lionel Ritchie or AC/DC...
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, in reply to message 16.
Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Wednesday, 24th June 2009
Don't know about Cash back, but I'm led to believe they're bringing Sexy back: I've been waiting for their call, maybe my phone is on the blink again.
This is dangerously close to a Misheard Lyrics thread, let's not go there.
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This is dangerously close to a Misheard Lyrics thread, let's not go there.Β
I believe it is actually quite close to a thread about Django Django.
The difference is, Misheard Lyrics is when you hear the song and think it's something else.
Natasha's unrepeatable(?) (here?) take on what the "robot" voice is saying on the Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic" would be a case in point.
These things should be called "Mala-pop-isms" but I thought that one up after starting this thread. Adam & Joe are *still* continuing the feature but have called it something else.
A mala-pop-ism: Where you are thinking of some words first and then up pops a tune from nowhere to set the words to - you know what the words are. That's the difference.
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Here's a new one.
Washing the front of the car, Grace Jones' "Pull Up to the Bumper" occurred to me - an obvious one.
But what about
"Com-Sat* Peanut Butter for the fire brigade - (Com-Sat Peanut Butter)..."
Heard myself singing that and remembered that peanut butter is great for detailing bumpers...
* NB Other brands are available because, although the jingle is real (though it refers to "the whole brigade"), that name is made up...
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I used to sing Al Stewart's 'Time Passages' to myself when a former boss got on about 'time management'!
Another boss worked for a theatre company called 'Crag Rats', so I'd be thinking 'Crag Rats, I've had a few...' to the tune of My Way all the way home.
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My mum knew someone at her workplace with the unfortunate name of Gary Gator.
Of course, I would break into 'See you later, Gary Gator' to the tune of 'See You Later, Alligator'!
My sister had the Madness 'Take It Or Leave It' movie where Suggs sings this. She also had the Complete Madness singles collection, and whenever the movie 'The House Of Mirth' is on telly, I'm singing 'Welcome to the house of mirth, now I've come of age..'
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I used to sing Al Stewart's 'Time Passages' to myself when a former boss got on about 'time management'!Β
When asked about time management, I normally find I am thinking "I can't see the lines I used to think I could read between" (Brian Eno)
or
"Time and motion (motion carried)" from King's Lead Hat. (I bet that song title is actually an anagram of Brian Eno's secret identity, mild-mannered aerodynamics guru "Adrian Newey"!)
Doing the car again - a beautiful modern 5-door MG in the tradition of the first 1924 cars by MG's founder Cecil Kimber - I found myself humming the Field Mice and " 'Cess' Kimber's not so far away"(!)
I'm sure Mr. Kimber will forgive the familiarity...
and it's July this week! September's NOT so far away!
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Today's hot/ Wimbledon one I noticed:
"Centre court's on the horizon"
(92 Fahrenheit Degrees, Siouxsie & The Banshees)
(just discovered that that "new" Siouxsie track is in fact 23 years old...) (so for non-fossils, the original lyric is "Snakey thoughts", at least partly...)
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...or when my dad is dishing out the ice cream?
"ooh he's here again
The man with the spoon in his hand..."
(well, it's an excuse to think of Kate Bush...)
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Going round Asothershopsareavailableda today, singing a plaintive ballad (female vocal) "Orange juice and Flora are quite yummy on a sunny Saturday....didn't it really blow my mind, here it comes...."
By the power of using the word "lyrics" to google I have established it is Roxette's "Milk and toast and honey". A shopping list in itself...
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Q Why is Tolhurst singing the Wombats' "Moving to New York"? Can't he sleep?
A He had to rack his brains on this one. Basically, he saw his first orange plastic Chinese tat of the year last week (Hallowe'en buckets) and has been subconsciously going "it's like Christmas came early..."
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I was at a seminar in Manchester, and one of the speakers kept going on about 'CIOs'. So I constantly thought, 'Old MacDonald had a farm, C-I-E-I-O..'
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Watching the planes land at the airport today I found myself humming Curiosity Killed the Cat, um, "they're waiting for, the final bump, to get their belts undone, then up they jump"...I realised it was the "straight back down to earth" which had done it.
Fortunately, I had not subconsciously remembered the Primitives "hit the ground"... oh well, la la la la, la la la la LAAA...
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, in reply to message 28.
Posted by aviddiva (U13145965) on Saturday, 26th September 2009
As 'The Two Towers' was on TV tonight I was singing 'I get by with a little help from the Ents...' when Treebeard picks up Merry & Pip!
Blame another website that featured new words to existing songs based on the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. And the hype around the Beatles remasters.
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And now thanks to Peep Show, I've had 'Come Mr. Taliban, tally me banana', to the tune of the Banana Boat Song, rattling round my head!
Shin beef in supermarkets also has me singing 'better watch out for the shin beef' to the tune of the Stranglers' 'Skin Deep'!
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And now thanks to Peep Show, I've had 'Come Mr. Taliban, tally me banana', to the tune of the Banana Boat Song, rattling round my head!Β
just thank your lucky stars that your version of "Teddy Bears' Picnic" doesn't go "At six o'clock Osama bin Laden will blow you up quite dead"...
Shin beef in supermarkets also has me singing 'better watch out for the shin beef' to the tune of the Stranglers' 'Skin Deep'!Β
I always sing that song in a Cockney baritone "you'd better watch out for the skin 'eads!" (C) Steve Wright, I believe...
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Blame my mum's thing about Elvis Presley for this one - whenever the advertising agency Young & Rubicam are mentioned in a magazine, I think of 'Young & Beautiful', as in 'You're so Young and Rubicam...'
Re:Teddy Bears' Picnic. The comedian Omad Djalili used to sing to the tune of 'Ally's Tartan Army', 'and we'll really shake 'em up when we blow ourselves up...'
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