Have you ever had two songs overlay each other on your mental soundtrack?

Interesting. Never heard of that. You’re a strange and interesting dude, stu.

But nope. I guess I’m just a one soundtrack kinda guy.

It happens to me too, but not as often as you, and I’m very aware of it. It usually happens when I’m trying to remember a song, and then my desperate brain just picks up whaterver sounds right and fills in the gaps. It’s sort of like a scavenger hunt.

I tried to fuse “Enter Sandman” by Metallica with its Motorhead version in my head after I heard Motorhead’s version for the first time. I like both the singers’ voices. Pity they didn’t sing this one together, at least I don’t know they did. The Metallica’s singer (don’t know his name) has that powerful, clear voice, and Lemmy from Motorhead had that rough, “bark sounding” voice. My mind tells me they would be a nice duo, but since Lemmy’s dead, we’ll never hear them singing together, sadly. Here are their versions of “Enter Sandman” [1] [2].

The 999 song Homicide always has a guitar riff from Pushing To Hard whenever I sing it in my head.

Bump into each other, yes. Play simultaneously or overlaying as countermelodies, like an aural double exposure, no.

Like A Virgin…Jesus loves me this I know…

Yep, although with provocation. I listen to Pandora and have built a number of stations based on the jazz genre. On occasion, a particular group will do their cover of a chart I particularly like and after the track is done, I’ll often “replay” both the original and the just heard cover.

Three of the common ones.
>Peter Gunn Theme
>Song for My Father
>Take 5

Not so frequent
>Bopicity
>Riders on the Storm 02’L has one helluva cover)
>Cantaloupe Island (Hugh Masagala does one with Herbie Hancock on piano…)

Not sure if it counts for overlap but many of the songs that embed themselves in my head seem to morph into the last eight notes of Innagaddadavida

Thanks, all. I’ve been beached for a while.
A friend gave me a laptop this week, but another move of house looms.

The Secret Sisters have kept me alive.