Do you sing songs while riding?

capedoc

capedoc

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When i ride by myself, i get random theme songs stuck in my head. I actually sing them over and over and over for hours.

On my last few rides I sang Scooby Dooby Doo theme song for 3.5 hours, Popeye the Sailer Man for 2 hours and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for 2 hours…


Am I crazee? or do any of you do this too?
 
I always do this. I don't usually sing them, they're just looping in my head over and over again. Any crappy song that happens to pop up will stick, it's hardly ever a good one.

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Sometimes to distract myself during a race when I cant wear headphones.....Like a song the I know all of the words too and ill try to sing it all the way though...bam..2,3,4 minutes gone.
 
i get songs stuck in my head all the time - but just pieces of the songs. it happens a lot to me, but when i am riding its pretty much always happens. even when i am with a group.

i read an article a while ago about "earworms" (songs that loop in your head). there are actually scientists who are studying why it happens. i don't think there was a solid outcome. one group blamed it on being OCD.
 
clarkenstein said:
i get songs stuck in my head all the time - but just pieces of the songs. it happens a lot to me, but when i am riding its pretty much always happens. even when i am with a group.

i read an article a while ago about "earworms" (songs that loop in your head). there are actually scientists who are studying why it happens. i don't think there was a solid outcome. one group blamed it on being OCD.
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I only get pieces of songs stuck in my head too. Usually just the chorus part. And it repeats over and over. I think it starts when my breathing settles in to a rhythm then BAM, my breathing sounds like a melody. And it's usually an annoying melody .
 
capedoc said:
I only get pieces of songs stuck in my head too. Usually just the chorus part. And it repeats over and over. I think it starts when my breathing settles in to a rhythm then BAM, my breathing sounds like a melody. And it's usually an annoying melody .
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like britney spears toxic. but every once in a blue moon i'll get something like a janes addiction song stuck in my head, and for that, i am thankful.

i don't really ever listen to lyrics of songs (seriously still dont know the lyrics of songs i have listened to for decades) so i can't even sing them. sometimes i just make up words or sing what i think they are saying... i think its the instrumentalist in me.

either way not being able to actually sing the song doesn't help get it out of your head any faster. i actually think it hurts the cause.
 
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clarkenstein said:
i don't really ever listen to lyrics of songs (seriously still dont know the lyrics of songs i have listened to for decades) so i can't even sing them. sometimes i just make up words or sing what i think they are saying... i think its the instrumentalist in me.
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You and I are very much alike. I can care less for lyrics. Half the time I can't understand them anyway, even with music I like. I'm much more interested in hearing the sounds instruments make than some one singing. Vocals and lyrics don't do it for me. A nasty drum fill, wicked bass line, sick guitar riff does.

I did a century and had Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again looping in my brain for 6 hours.
 
yeah, it always seems to be 1 song per ride that gets lodged in my brain.

I too have gone on 4+ hour rides and have a 10 second snippet of a song stuck on repeat in my brain. over-and-over-and-over-and over-and....

and sometimes its not a song I want in my brain... e.g., some Katy Perry (or similar) crap that gets lodged in there and cant get out.

but usually its a song that I do like and should be too embarrassed to admit that I dont mind being stuck on repeat (eg., "Summer Breeze" by Seals and Crofts or "Easy" by the Commodores).

so, just know, that if you see me in the woods it is very likely that I have some "70s Gold" playing in my head. dont know why my brain decides to go there so frequently.
 
Yesterday while riding in the rain I started singing a Kidsongs song. I don't know where the hell it came from, but it helped me through the ride.

"Our friend Sean loves Hot cakes, Hot cakes,
Our friend Sean loves Syrup, too."

Normally I sing songs in my head, but yesterday I was belting it
 
Death or Glory by the clash seems to get stuck in my head during races and I try to sing it


This year at the waywayanda race I sung hot rod lincoln for the entire sitting bear section.
 
clarkenstein said:
like britney spears toxic. but every once in a blue moon i'll get something like a janes addiction song stuck in my head, and for that, i am thankful.
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Yeah those are the moments to cherish

capedoc said:
I did a century and had Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again looping in my brain for 6 hours.
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Consider yourself lucky. I first heard "what does the fox say" the day before my latest century, that was a joy!
 
they don't get stuck, but can cycle back depending on the situation or cadence.

downhill on the mtb or road - bush/machine head,
also works for snowboarding.
mostly the intro, and drums. the reminder to breath doesn't hurt!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er1bwzZCik0

can kill an hour trying to remember the preamble (its like 5 lines)
(singing it from schoolhouse rock - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30OyU4O80i4) - seems we've had our posterity come up in a couple
threads lately....this, of course, leads to other schoolhouse tunes (conjunction junction, i'm just a bill, and lolly&the adverbs)

dumping all the lyrics to the 1980s would free up mucho grey matter to be put to better use. like all the different bottom brackets?
 
Not until I read this thread... thanks. Tonight's ride it was the last song I heard on the way home from work: "Can't stop the.. spell eater.... I am the... spell eater". Fortunately I can nail the high notes...🙄
 
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