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"musical train wreck"
 
   So I don't know if this happens to many other people, but I have this thing where sometimes two unrelated snippets of music will sort of boxcar together in my head, in a way that was never intended but which makes total musical sense. The usual combo I use to describe the phenomenon is between "16 Candles" by The Crests and The Police's "Every Breath You Take":

You're only sixteen
But you're my teenage queen
My poor heart aches
With every step you take

Well, I was sitting and woolgathering about random things earlier, during a lull in a training session for work, and I stumbled across another one:

Deutschland, Deutschland über alles
Über alles in der Welt,
'Tis the season to be jolly,
Brüderlich zussamenhält.
Don we now our gay apparel,
Falala lalala la la la
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles
Falalalala lala la la

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  RE: musical train wreck Peter Eng Dec-08-17 1
     RE: musical train wreck mdg1 Dec-09-17 3
  RE: musical train wreck SpottedKitty Dec-09-17 2
  RE: musical train wreck Gryphonadmin Nov-30-23 4
     RE: musical train wreck Sofaspud Nov-30-23 5
  RE: musical train wreck ImpulsiveAlexia Dec-03-23 6

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Peter Eng
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Dec-08-17, 10:18 PM (EST)
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1. "RE: musical train wreck"
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   >So I don't know if this happens to many other people, but I have this
>thing where sometimes two unrelated snippets of music will sort of
>boxcar together in my head, in a way that was never intended but which
>makes total musical sense.

Oh, there's a lot of people who do that. Usually it's in the form of mashing the lyrics into a different song ("Call Me Maybe" to the tune of "Head Like A Hole" is one of my personal favorites), but this happens too.

When I'm especially bored, I start riffling through things that scan to the theme to Gilligan's Island and jumping songs from line to line.

>
>Deutschland, Deutschland über alles
>Über alles in der Welt,
>'Tis the season to be jolly,
>Brüderlich zussamenhält.
>Don we now our gay apparel,
>Falala lalala la la la
>Deutschland, Deutschland über alles
>Falalalala lala la la
>

This is a thing of beauty.

Peter Eng
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3. "RE: musical train wreck"
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   There are a surprising number of things that can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose Of Texas"...

Including most Emily Dickinson poems.

Mario


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2. "RE: musical train wreck"
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   >Deutschland, Deutschland über alles
>Falalalala lala la la

<snrk>

I think that actually beats one I picked up from an old filk tape; a cheerful vampire song, using the same tune as that carol, then in the last line it segues into the tune of Song Of The Volga Boatmen.

And it works. (If you can stop laughing soon enough to re-start breathing...)

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4. "RE: musical train wreck"
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   >So I don't know if this happens to many other people, but I have this
>thing where sometimes two unrelated snippets of music will sort of
>boxcar together in my head, in a way that was never intended but which
>makes total musical sense. The usual combo I use to describe the
>phenomenon is between "16 Candles" by The Crests and The Police's
>"Every Breath You Take":
>
>You're only sixteen
>But you're my teenage queen
>My poor heart aches
>With every step you take

I just randomly discovered another one that I'll probably never be able to un-hear now:

Oh lawdy mama, those Friday nights
When Susie wore her dresses tight
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The Day the Music Died

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5. "RE: musical train wreck"
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   If you actively like this sort of thing, there's a channel that more or less does this deliberately.

A couple of my favorites:

https://youtu.be/dYMTOXzlEQM
https://youtu.be/tcUB-3lud60

--sofaspud
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6. "RE: musical train wreck"
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   >So I don't know if this happens to many other people,

My brain tries to shove together bits of Elton John's "Crocodile Rock" with Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World", an endeavor partially enabled and partially complicated by the fact that the lyrics that exist in my head don't quite match up with those out here in the real world.

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said,
But the biggest kick I ever got was a thing called the Crocodile Rock
Something something around the bar (?)
Something something something something
Wel, Crocodile Rock is what it's called
when something something something river (???)
I never knew what he was on at the time, (?!?)
But I helped him drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine.

-IA. There's also my version of 99 Red Balloons where all the lyrics are out of order... or maybe it's just most of them.

(shake shake shake
shake shake shake
shake your paranoia
shake your paranoia)


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