What's your default tune?

[petula dusty]

Ever catch yourself whistling or humming and realise it's always the same tune? I don't mean something current you've just heard on the radio or TV but something that just comes out without you thinking about it.

Mine is Campdown Ladies. I find myself humming/whistling it if I need a quick tune to distract the baby or when I'm washing up or whatever. I don't even particularly like the fucking song and the only time I've ever really heard it is on Blazing Saddles which I haven't watched for months.

So do you have a default tune and do you find it comforting or hugely irritating?

[Banana Woofwoof]

Sanford and Son theme tune.  Don't ask.  It's also my pretend porn tune.

[Neville Chamberlain]

The US national anthem for some reason. I find it hugely comforting.

[the midnight watch baboon]

'Private Emotion' by Ricky Martin, or 'Don't Tread on Me' by Metallica. Natural musical bedfellows.

[thugler]

Also don't tread on me by metallica. And don't eat the yellow snow by Zappa.

[samadriel]

For many years, it was the intro to '46 & 2' by Tool; these days it's... that Christmas carol, you know, "Deck the halls with boughs of holly / fala lala la, lala la la".  I think this may have arisen from the steady upward curve of bald-faced right-wing lunacy post-9/11.  ie, after being exposed to, say, a paragraph of Michelle Malkin's inanity, the tune materialises in my head: "Youuuu're an ut-ter fuck-ing dip-shit / fala lala la, lala la la..."

I dunno what started that one; maybe I heard a bigot singing a Christmas carol.

[buttgammon]

I always hum 'Help The Aged' by Pulp, but in my mind, the lyrics are changed to a version about bacteria, so the chorus goes:

"In the meantime we try.
Try to forget it's fucking salmonella.
No big deal clostridium difficile
Funny how it's MRSA.
When did you first realise?
It's time you used a disinfectant baby.
Teach you stuff although he's looking rough.
Funny how it's MRSA."

[samadriel]

For many years, it was the intro to '46 & 2' by Tool; these days it's... that carol, you know, "Deck the halls with boughs of holly / fala lala la, lala la la".  I think this may have arisen from the steady upward curve of bald-faced right-wing lunacy post-9/11.  ie, after being exposed to, say, a paragraph of Michelle Malkin's inanity, the tune materialises in my head: "Youuuu're an ut-ter fuck-ing dip-shit / fala lala la, lala la la..."

I dunno what started that one; maybe I heard a bigot singing a Christmas carol.

[buttgammon]

I know!

[danielsan]

For some reason, I always find myself humming "jumping jumping" by Destiny's Child. I don't know for the life of me why! I haven't heard it in years and I didnt especially like it when I did, but I always find myself singing it. That, and "Don't be so mean to your hair" from that shampoo advert - can't even remember which one. Which would be bad enough if I wasn't a bloke, and bald, but I am!

[buttgammon]

For some reason, I always find myself humming "jumping jumping" by Destiny's Child. I don't know for the life of me why! I haven't heard it in years and I didnt especially like it when I did, but I always find myself singing it.

That's a disease and I suffer from it too! It was ages ago when it was released and I never even liked it at the time and I don't like it now but I can never get it out of my head - it often soundtracks my dreams (and no, those dreams don't involve Beyonce in any way, shape or form - honest).
Ironically, the other song I don't actually like that still infiltrates the inside of my head like a plague which afflicts me is Kylie's "I Just Can't Get You Out of My Head". Aaaaagggggggghhhhhh!!!!!! The song! Again! Noooooooo!!!!!!

[mook]

"I can't stand the rain."  That's my peeing tune whenever I'm stood at a urinal and can't quite get the flow going. If I start singing it in my head when I get to. "Bringing back sweet memories" I'm pissing like a racehorse. Try it, it works.

[Identity Crisis Ahoy!]

Tonight's The Night by Neil and the Youngs.

[Captain Crunch]

Beavis & Butthead riffing like 'Iron Man' or the music from The Odd Couple but I'm not really one for doing stuff out loud.

Incidentally, does anyone else plant tunes in their workmate's heads?  'Close to You' is almost foolproof, hum it in a lift or something and sit back as it gets wedged in their head ALL DAY.  What fun.

[danielsan]

For some reason, I always find myself humming "jumping jumping" by Destiny's Child. I don't know for the life of me why! I haven't heard it in years and I didnt especially like it when I did, but I always find myself singing it.

That's a disease and I suffer from it too! It was ages ago when it was released and I never even liked it at the time and I don't like it now but I can never get it out of my head - it often soundtracks my dreams (and no, those dreams don't involve Beyonce in any way, shape or form - honest).

Haha - good. Glad I'm not the only one. Altogether now!!:

Ladies leave your man at home
The club is full of ballers and their pockets full grown
And all you fellas leave your girl with her friends
Cause it's eleven thirty and the club is jumpin', jumpin'

[duckorange]

A bit obscure, but: Long Time Comin' by The Delays.  

I've customised it so that I'm singing it to myself when I feed the fishs in the morning, and then it gets stuck in my head.

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

Boorrnnn Freee, as free as the wind blows....

[Famous Mortimer]

"We Will Fall" by the Stooges, as my calling upon the fates for a bit of good fortune.

[non capisco]

When I let out a big yawn and I'm on my own I always extend it to either 'Rhapsody In Blue' or the theme from 'Coronation Street'.

[mook]

When I let out a big yawn and I'm on my own I always extend it to either 'Rhapsody In Blue' or the theme from 'Coronation Street'.

An ex of mine used to play the clarinet. Having no musical talent myself I used to love listening to her play and marvel at her skill. One of the pieces I used to ask her to play was 'Rhapsody In Blue' after about the tenth time of me asking her to play it she would segue into the corrie theme, the cow.


I't's not you is it Kate?

[non capisco]

Yes it is me, and I'm going over all your old posts to seek out other references to myself.

(Not really)


You can also segue it into the theme from 'Johnny Briggs'.

[Emma Raducanu]

Bom Chicka Wah Wah

[Cardinal Tit Storm]

Back In Nagasaki. I think I've got Hugh Laurie to thank for that, the bastard.

[Melody Lee]

Mine's 'The Wombling Song'. I sometimes embrace the thoughtless singing or humming by singing it in a full-on swing voice...

'Uncle Bulgaria... HEY! He can remember the days when he wasn't BE-hind the Times... HmHmmmm... With his map of the world...'

C'mon. Rock n ROLL!

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[Marvin]

For years whenever my mind went blank it would just fill the space by playing the start of Celebrity Skin by Hole, god knows why, but it was in my head for at least 3 years, then one day it went.

[ccbaxter]

The theme tune to "Wizbit". Incessantly. Yes, getting on for 20 years later. Fucksake.

[Catalogue Trousers]

I frequently find myself humming/singing the "la la la la la la la" bit from the theme to the marvellous cartoon Catscratch. Really annoys Mrs Trousers and Von Trousers, though, so I try to keep it in check.

My immediate boss at work has the habit of whistling that "almost like Somewhere Over Tne Rainbow" piece that Tom kept whistling in The Good Life. He's a wonderful bloke, but I do find that extremely irritating.

[petula dusty]

My ex used to whistle that and he also used to vocalise drum solos - a bit like a crap Bobby McFerrin.

A bloke who worked in my office used to whistle mobile ringtones and if a mobile rang he would immediately imitate it over and over. Highly annoying.

[mothman]

I've been trying to cobble together a Battlestar Galactica-related gag about humming "All Along The Watchtower," but with no success.

[trotsky assortment]

Usually something by Warren Zevon.