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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:30 AM
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Anybody get an odd, old, unpopular song chronically stuck in your head?
Edited on Fri Feb-25-05 02:25 AM by undisclosedlocation
THERE'S a subject line that's a ticket straight for the archives!

Anyway, the one that always gets stuck in my head, for reasons that bewilder me utterly, is "Pandora's Box" by Procol Harum, the followup to "Conquistador," but vastly less successful. It got played for about two weeks, I didn't even like it noticeably and I'm reasonably certain that I haven't heard it in at least 30 years, and yet... it always comes back to me. Must be the bass line.

Anyone else have this experience, or am I the only brain-damaged one? (Or as a backup question: Does anybody else remember this song?)

Edit: Tried to clarify the subject line
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:33 AM
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1. I get weird songs stuck in my head all of the time
It can be brutal.
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:34 AM
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2. "Cest La Vie" by Robbie Nevil..
Has been going thru my mind the past couple of days...what ever happened to him?
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coloradodem2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:37 AM
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3. Did that come out in the mid 80's?
Sounds familiar.
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:39 AM
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6. 85, I think....
A guy i used to work w/ sang that song all the time......off-key, of course..
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WildClarySage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:37 AM
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4. nothing he didn't deserve
for giving us all such a horrible earworm.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:48 PM
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15. I fondly remember that song.
And that's not a bad earworm. :-)
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:37 AM
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5. A Bicycle Built for Two
Drives me nuts when it happens.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:43 PM
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11. That was a big hit...
admittedly, in the 19th century.:)
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:41 AM
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7. Gimme Dat Ding by the Pipkins...
ugh!
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:56 PM
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26. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Gimme Dat Ding!
Give here, Give it here, OH!
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Sufi Marmot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:56 AM
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8. "Sausalito Summernight" by Diesel...
Also, "Nicole" by Point Blank. Two obscure songs from my childhood that have never gone away and pop up in my brain at random intervals...

-SM
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:29 PM
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18. Is that the one about "blowing $80 on repair"?
I didn't even know who sang it. It just was part of the the great soundtrack of my long-gone youth.
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Sufi Marmot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:01 PM
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21. Yes...
You said "forget about the airline,
let's take the car and save the fare."
We blew a gasket on the Grapevine
and eighty dollars on repairs

Full lyrics here.

It's a great road trip song :-)

-SM
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:01 AM
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9. My daughter sings "I'm too Sexy" all the time.
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Scooter24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:16 AM
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10. Toto- Africa
Edited on Fri Feb-25-05 02:16 AM by Scooter24
all day today! :P

Hmm, not sure if this counts as old or unpopular, but it's stuck in my head.
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:45 PM
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12. "It's Impossible"
Just this past week, this song has been popping into my head. I don't even know who sings it.
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:47 PM
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13. Aqua - enough said
back in high school

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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:47 PM
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14. Down in the Boondocks
For some reason, whenever I hear it on the radio it sticks with me for a few days. :scared:
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SCDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:02 PM
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16. The theme song to the Facts of Life
I hate that song but for some reason a lot of mornings I wake up and that is the song I'll be singing in the shower. Maybe it's the spirit of Charlotte Rae trying to convert me or something!
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:03 PM
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17. Two 1968 songs that are so obscure that even Google won't bring
them up:

Oscar Crunch has Gone to Join the Zoo

"Oscar Crunch has gone to join the zoo/(Zoo! Zoo! Zoo!)/He's gonna make it with the kangaroo (Roo! Roo! Roo!)/ He has tried to infiltrate/(something something something) and through the gate..."

and

The Countess
"It's snowing in Cleveland, it's pouring in Maine, and the people of New Jersey don't even know her name..."
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Phentex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:36 PM
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19. Everyday People...oooh sha sha.....
It's in there right now. UGH!
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NeoTraitors Donating Member (351 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 01:41 PM
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20. 'Your kiss is on my list' by Hall
and Oates. Please make it stop!
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Atlas Mugged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:47 PM
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24. Oh - I got one even worse than that...
...and, curiously, by the same group:

BOOM shakalaka BOOM shakalaka BOOM shakalaka

From 'Let Me Take You Higher', I think. Get it stuck in my head all the damned time, and I've not heard it in YEARS.

Oh, and "Grazin' in the grass is a gas baby can you dig it".
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:09 PM
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22. Reach Out in the Darkness,
By Friend and Lover. I hate that song.
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:18 PM
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23. During my first exam in law school I got the Flash Gordon song in
my head. You know "Flash...ahaaa..savior of the universe...."

I swear that threw my whole law school career for aloop.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:52 PM
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25. Today it's: I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE
ALL YOU OTHER BROTHA'S CAN'T DENY..

I'm sure you all know the rest :D
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:57 PM
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27. "What did you learn in School Today Little Boy" by Tom Paxton
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 03:02 PM
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28. Franco american commercial jingle
from many years ago
Beefaroni Beefagetti they're both so good.
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