At breakfast yesterday with my husband (okay, I'll admit it: we had "breakfast" at 12:30 p.m. and it was pizza), we were listening to the classic rock music pumped over the restaurant's sound system and talking about songs that would be fun to play.
We got on the topic of Rod Stewart and he brought up, "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy." We agreed that neither of us would ever be able to hear it again without thinking of Mike Myers' rendition of the song in "So I Married An Axe Murder," complete with bagpipe solo.
Which, of course, reminded me that I can no longer hear "Come Sail Away" by Styx without thinking of Eric Cartman from South Park singing it:
So what songs can you think of that are inextricably linked in your mind to a silly version that came out later?
Both are classics.
Posted by: twitter.com/Sarcasmom | November 02, 2009 at 07:06 AM
I can't think of Michael Jackson's "Bad" without hearing and seeing Weird Al's "Fat". Does that count?
Posted by: staying afloat | November 02, 2009 at 08:12 AM
Anything sung by The Dan Band.
Posted by: CW | November 02, 2009 at 08:30 AM
I found a mashup of Kanye's Gold Digger and Cake's Mahna Mahna that pretty much blows the original Gold Digger out of the water, and I can only listen to the mashup. I could listen to that mashup a millllllion times and never get tired of it!
Posted by: Kim | November 02, 2009 at 09:20 AM
"Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult...makes me think of Will Farrell and Christopher Walken..."I need more cowbell!"
Posted by: Lisa! | November 02, 2009 at 09:32 AM