Song in your head during practice?

I usually do equations based on either the distance to go, the number of laps left or the time. Factoring things into prime numbers is a favorite as is looking for patterns of relative primes. The bad side effect is that I sometimes get lost in the numbers, miscount laps and keep going past the end. For that reason, I prefer not to lead the lane unless the person in the lane next to me is of about equal ability and I can just watch what they do. Songs: "Help I'm a Rock" - Frank Zappa "Sweet Jane" inc guitar intro - Lou Reed "Deus Irae" - from Mozart's D-minor Requiem "Our House" - Madness Cuts from "Rubber Soul" - Beatles The two song you don't want to get in your head are the Theme from the Beverly Hillbillies and Avil Lavigne's "Skater Boy." Harder to get rid of than a crack addiction. -LBJ

AC/DC usually does the trick for me... For Those About to Rock is an excellent choice.

Anything by The Beach Boys.:D

Usually I'm stuck with whatever the last song I heard as I was driving to the pool. Lately I've been trying to go with stuff that was a little more "angy"... a little Eminem (Lose Yourself) or maybe some Alanis Morisette. The fast pounding beat helps me keep a pretty consistent rhythm in the water.

Hey, that's a really interesting question... i usually start playing songs through my head if i'm swimming anything more than 200 metres, i start to completely loose focus, usually just playing the last song i heard. Thats y i hate long distance swimming, i'm much more of a sprinter, so i only keep very well focused for the 50m, 100m, and 200m max! anything longer than that for me is just a waste of time. but then again, i'm good at wat i do.. :)

When I used to swim by myself, plodding along, lap after lap, I had songs going through my mind all the time. I could even pray the rosary while I was swimming:) Now that I've started Masters swimming, I don't ever sing songs in my head. It is so much nicer having a coach and not boring in the least. Another thing I've noticed is I hardly ever miss a practice and when I was lap swimming by myself it was very easy to talk myself out of showing up.

No songs, but if I am the lane leader and we swim anything longer than a 200, I have to recite "the poem" Per length: 1 is fun 2 is for you 3 is for me 4 I adore 5 comes alive 6 is a fix 7 is heaven 8 is great (really great? oh yeah, great. 8 is great) 9 is fine, simply divine 10 I win (10 pronounced with Texas accent "tin") 11 is heaven again 12 I delve (all I can come up with???) (repeat as needed)

There was an interesting segment on NPR this afternoon about what they called "stuck songs" - songs that keep going round and round in your head. They had a top ten list of stuck songs. One of them was "It's a Small World" and another was "YMCA". They said that one way to get rid of a stuck song was to replace it with another. After listening to the list I found that "Small World" seemed to be getting entrenched in my head, so I quickly replaced it with YMCA. #1 on the list was your own personal stuck song. I sing in a church choir and will often find that something we sing on Sunday morning will get stuck in my head.

Originally posted by Kim Tarnower you probabaly only know these lines: "Guitarzan! He's a guitar man!" Oh, I can remember more of it than that: "On Saturday night they need some excitement/Jane gets right and the monkey gets tight and their voices unite in the pale moonlight and it sounds all right/Yeah, it's dynamite/Let's hear it/Right n-n-n-n-n-ow!" Then Jane starts wailing "Bay-bay" while Tarzan yodels and the monkey makes, well, monkey sounds. I am embarrassed to admit that this song is permanently embedded in my brain. Along with the lyrics to another Ray Stevens classic, "The Streak" ("Don't look Ethel!").

I don't recall old Georg Friederich composing a Death March in music history but he did compose The Water Music Suite. Perhaps that would be more appropriate? :D