Ear Worm/Music/MNO

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""Ooh, baby, you couldn't have done a worse thing to me If you had taken an arrow and drove it right through me Oooooh...""
 * Machine Head and Imperium.
 * Marilyn Manson:
 * The beautiful people, the beautiful people...it's all relative to the size of your steeple. Dun DUNUNUNUN, Dun Dunununun, dununun.
 * We're all stars now...in the Dope Show
 * Maroon 5:
 * Harder to Breathe
 * "Moves Like Jagger"
 * She Will Be Loved
 * This Love
 * Dave Matthews Band: "Ants Marching"
 * Nicki Minaj:
 * Much oh "Your Love's" chrous just consists of "Your love, your love yeah..."
 * I'M THE BEST BITCH DOIN IT DOIN IT
 * BOOM BADOOM BOOM BOOM BADOOM BOOM WE GOT DAT SUPER BASS!!!!!
 * Michael Mitchell: I've got Canada in my pocket, a little bit of historyeeeeeeee. A penny and a nickel and a quarter and a dime mean a lot to you and meeeee.
 * Wheeeeeeere's your maaaaama gone? (Where's your mama gone?) Faaaaaar faaaar awaaaaaaayyy...Last night I heard my mama singin' a song, ooohh-weeeee, CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP! To make matters worse, I always unconsciously mash it up with "The Loco-Motion."
 * Madonna:
 * "Material Girl".
 * Most of her songs, actually. "Ray of Light" in particular, since it's been even in Windows XP commercials ("and I feel, like I just got home, and I feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel...")
 * Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.
 * No love for "Vogue?"
 * Marina and diamonds "Im not a robot,robot"
 * Manu Chao:
 * "Me gusta la manana, Me gustas tu, me gusta el viento, me gustas tu..."
 * "Mama was queen of the mambo, papa was was king of the kongo"
 * L'Hiver est La!
 * Marvin, I love you! Marvin, I love you! Remember, I'm programmed for yoooou! Oh my god, I think Marvin's woobie-ness just shot through the roof...
 * Marvin, Metal Man, as well. For some reason, the quietness and lack of any actual melody just makes it more catchy.
 * Bruno Mars, anyone?
 * When I see your face there's not a thing that I would change, 'cause you're amazing just the way you are...
 * "I'd catch a grenade for you... (yeah, yeah)"
 * "Today i don't feel like doing anything..."
 * Ricky Martin:
 * "The Cup of Life": "HERE WE GO! ALLEZ-ALLEZ-ALLEZ! GO GO GO! ALLEZ-ALLEZ-ALLEZ!"
 * "Upside, inside-out! She's livin' la vida loca!" Apparently, that song being an ear worm is why Rolling Stone considered it annoying.
 * Not when Antonio Banderas is singing it. Still catchy, though.
 * UN, DOS, TRES! Un pasito bailante María! (in Brazil, where it was a soap opera opening theme, it's even worse of an ear worm)
 * 1 word: Bang bang bang. (Uno dos tres, activate ear worm.)
 * Despite Stephen Colbert's rants, Mastgrr went ahead and remixed his interview with Lawrence Lessig to some great dance beats.
 * THE HILLSSSSSSSSS ARE ALIVEEEEEE...
 * A LOT of Mastodon songs file under this.
 * "WHITE! WHALE! HOLY! GRAIL!"
 * "Falling from grace, cause I've been away too long..."
 * Metro Station:
 * "Control": "I'm coming down, bring me up, take it off, let's just touch...I'M COMING DOWN, BRING ME UP..."
 * Shake It also qualifies.
 * Shake shake, shake shake-ah-shake it! It loops in my head over, and over, and over, and over again...
 * And I'd swim the ocean for you/Ocean for you/WHOAOAOAOA OH KELSEY
 * The Mighty Mighty Bosstones gave us "The Impression that I Get.", an ear worm which, for me, is triggered BY other Ear Worms.
 * The last hurrah, nah! I'd do it again! The Rascal King behind the bars or the one in front of them...
 * Malice Mizer, believe it or not, has turned out a few of these. Illuminati comes to mind. (I'm linking to an amv because the PV for it is Nightmare Fuel.) Just try to get that carnival-style organ bit out of your head.
 * I once looked at the top played list on my iPod and was actually surprised that Illuminati occupied the top slot. I was not surprised, however, that Beast of Blood (the first song anyone ever hears by them anymore) occupied the second place slot.
 * "Heaven Knows" by Nana Mizuki. "(Heaven knoooowwws) itsuka negai (Heaven knoooooows) kanau youni inoru kantan na koto janai itsumo soredemo."
 * Manfred Mann:
 * "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"
 * Don't forget his covers of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light" and Bob Dylan's "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)"
 * Barry Manilow:
 * "Copacabana"
 * Among my friends, "Copacabana" is famed as the one thing that will get an earworm *out* of your head without getting stuck itself.
 * "At the Star Wars! Star Wars Cantina! The weirdest creatures you've ever seen-a!"
 * "Oh, Mandy, oh, you came and you gave without taking, and I sent you away! Oh, Mandy, oh, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking, and I need you today..."
 * Parts of "Looks Like We Made It" were stuck in my head off and on from when I was around 5 until I found out who wrote it. in 9th grade.
 * Maximum the Hormone:
 * CHU CHU LOVELY MUNI MUNI MURA MURA PURIN PURIN BORO NURURURERORERO!
 * If you have heard Paul McCartney's hits when they were hits, they may sneak back into your brain every so often.

"My sister Sue, and me were doing stunts with electric trains She said she'd do my dishes so I handed her the reigns (handed her the reigns) And she engineered a collision steered by a hand-eye protege As my train set started burning, I heard my sister say: Look straight at the coming disaster"
 * "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" is a more classic McCartney example: "Haaaaands/ Across the water! (water) / Heeeeeads / Across the sky!"
 * "You think that people would've had enough of Silly Love Songs/ But I look around me and I see/ It isn't so..."
 * "Take it away/ Wanna hear you play/ Till the lights go down..."
 * "Everybody's gonna dance tonight..."
 * "Band on the run..."
 * "Oh Mull of Kintyre / Oh mist rolling in from, the sea..."
 * "Simply having a wonderful Christmastime..." This one has gotten stuck in my head out of season.
 * I've always had trouble with "We All Stand Together" especially when my dear friend had it as a ring tone.
 * "Say, say, say, what you waaaant, but doooon't plaaaay gaaaames with my affeeection..."
 * "Woah woah woah woah/Woah woah woah woah/ My love does it good..."
 * "Ah mater/Want Jet to always love me..."
 * "Oh, no one ever left alive in 1985 will ever do..."
 * So, so many of McFly's songs:
 * Doo doo doodoo doooo DOO!
 * I THINK I'M GONNA LOSE IT LOSE IT LOSE IT
 * Here's another song for the raaaaadiooooo!
 * (LIES) The devil has his eye on you girl (LIES) When you start talkin' I'll start walkin' LIES LIES LIES
 * The McCoys: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG ON SLOOPY, SLOOPY HANG ON!
 * Tim McGraw offers a very catchy chorus in two of his songs:
 * "Last Dollar (Fly Away)": "One, two, three, like a bird I sing / 'Cause you've given me the most beautiful set of wings..." It helps that the song starts out cold with the chorus.
 * "Felt Good on My Lips": "Ooh ooh ooh ah, wanna go crazy / You can go crazy too". Who says arena-rock choruses don't work in country music?
 * Pick any Meat Loaf song:
 * For example: LIKE A BAT OUT OF HELL I'LL BE GONE WHEN THE MORNING CALLS!.
 * Anything by Steinman. Bonus points since these songs cannot be sung softly. I was once howling "IIIIII WANT MY MONEY BACK! Life is a lemon" while walking down the street.
 * Let me sleep on it, baby baby let me sleep on it!
 * Several songs from Hang Cool Teddy Bear. Running Away From Me has one of the catchiest choruses on that album.
 * Megadeth:
 * "Peace Sells". I finished up a Rock Band session with my friends, and discovered that the whole group still had the opening bassline stuck in their heads. "Dun-dundun dun dun dun dun dundun..."
 * It might not be their best effort but the damn song sticks deep into your head giving you Insomnia-nia-nia-nia-nia.
 * "Just like the Pied Piper, led rats through the streets, we dance like marionettes, swaying to the Symphony...of Destruction!"
 * Dahler Mehndi:
 * "Tunak Tunak Tun". Not to mention the crazy dance that goes with it!
 * Scratch that, anything by Dahler Mehndi.
 * While we're in Memetic Mutation crazy indians, "Indian George Michael" and "Indian Michael Jackson".
 * Melon Kinenbi's This is Unmei is one helluvan earworm, especially around the Jan Jan Ja-AAAAAAH! It's stuck in my head now!
 * Men At Work:
 * "Can't you see that it's late at night? I'm very tired, and I'm not feeling right.
 * "Land Down Under": So catchy that it actually drove up sales of Vegemite when it first came out.
 * I can't get to sleep/I think about the implications...
 * Up the road..., up to school you go..
 * Metallica:
 * "Seek and Destroy". a LOT of ear worm potential, even before the lyrics start.
 * GIMME FUEL! GIMME FIRE! GIMME THAT WHICH I DESIRE!!!
 * EXIT LIGHT! ENTER NIGHT!
 * BETTER THAN YOOOOOUUUUU... better than yoooouuuu... BETTER THAN YOOOOUUUUUUU!!! MUCH BETTER!!!
 * NEVER FREE, NEVER ME, SO I DUB THEE UNFORGIVEN!
 * WHEN IT COMES TO BE THAT THE SOOTHING LIGHT AT THE END OF YOUR TUNNEL WAS JUST A FREIGHT TRAIN COMING YOUR WAY!
 * BOW DOWN TO THE PHANTOM LLLLOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRDDD!!!
 * Anywhere I roam, where I lay my head is home...
 * FRANTIC TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK...
 * The Low Man's Lyric. Depressing? Makes you suspect Hetfield needs a shrink? Yup. One sings it in on rainy nights anyway.
 * "MASTER OF PUPPETS I'M PULLING YOUR STRINGS!"
 * "FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, TIME MARCHES ON!"
 * The riff is even catchier.
 * "FLASH BEFORE MY EYES, NOW IT'S TIME TO DIE!"
 * "MUSHA RAIN DUM A DOO DUM A DA! WHACK FOR MY DADDY, OH!"
 * "HERE I AM, ON THE ROAD AGAIN!"
 * "THEN IT'S TIME I DISAPPEAR! HA!"
 * "WAITING FOR THE ONE, THE DAY THAT NEVER COMES!"
 * "CYANIDE, LIVING DEAD INSIDE!"
 * "CAUSE WE HUNT YOU DOWN WITHOUT MERCY!"
 * "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats. You can dance if you want to...
 * We can leave your friends behind. ... 'cause your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, then they're no friends of mine! Ah, dammit.
 * Not
 * That song wasn't as safe as they said it was...
 * Metro Station: Now if she does it like this, will you do it like that?/Now if she touches like this, will you touch her right back?/Now if she moves like this, will you move her like that?/Come on, shake shake, shake shake, a-shake it!
 * M-Flo loves Chara / Love to Live By
 * M.I.A.:
 * "I fly like paper, get high like planes..."
 * It doesn't help that every line in each verse is repeated before going on to the second part of the verse, which is repeated...it never ends!
 * "All I wanna do is BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG and a CLICK CA-CHING and take your money..."
 * M.I.A.'s discography is full of these, but "URAQT" is a particularly bad one. DIT-DIT-DIT ON YOUR MO-BILE PHONE
 * From George Michael:
 * "Cause I gotta have faith, I gotta have faith, faith, faith, ..."
 * And Limp Bizkit's cover is equally sticky.
 * Not to mention "Last Christmas", at least in Sweden where it actually it's fairly popular to sing in Lucia processions and at the start of Christmas Break.
 * FREEDOM! FREEDOM! You've got to give them what you take!
 * "I'm never gonna dance again.."
 * Midnight Oil. How can we dance when our Earth is turning/How do we sleep while our beds are burning...
 * Most of Mika's songs, Grace Kelly, Big Girls, and We Are Golden.
 * ESPECIALLY the song Love Today. "Everybody's gonna love today, love today, love today! Everybody's gonna love today... Any way you want to any way you've got to love love ME! Love love ME! love LOVE!"
 * Joni Mitchell:
 * The Circle Game
 * Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi". Pick any recording of it (it's a popular cover song). The first episode of the TV show Now and Again used samples of the chorus as background music in pivotal scenes ("don't know what you got til it's gone"), which is part of the reason the show has managed to stick in the minds of fans, years later.
 * "Helllllp me, I think I'm falling/in love with youuuuu..."
 * K-pop group Miss A has Bad Girl Good Girl, Breathe, Goodbye Baby and Love Alone.
 * Mindless Self Indulgence:
 * "Faggot". I'VE, BEEN DENIED, ALL THE BEST, ULTRASEX.
 * "Straight to Video".
 * 'Two Hookers (live)'. That is all.
 * Bitches love me cuz they know that I can ROCK!
 * Kylie Minogue:
 * The appropriately titled Can't Get You Outta My Head.
 * They just played Can't Get You Outta My Head on TV. I have never heard the song before but God dammit.
 * To say nothing of her cover of Locomotion, which has been intermittantly stuck in my head for about a decade now.
 * I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky...
 * How does it feel in my aaaaaaaaaaarms?
 * You got it, you got it / You're WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW!
 * "Make me feel like I can make it real / You got me hooked / Gettin' me on the floor / Like a drug, like a drug!"
 * Come, come, come into my world...
 * "Get outta my way / Got no more to say / He's taking your place / Get outta my way!"
 * "Ohhhhhhh / I'm fierce / And I'm feelin' mighty / I'm a golden girl / I'm an Aphrodite / Alright! / Alright! / Yeah, yeah, yeah!"
 * Can you feel me on your stereo?
 * The Monkees: "Fine man, crazy man, they can't see/Sound of the sunset, sound of the sea..."
 * What about Daydream Believer? I haven't heard that one in years, but it still gets randomly stuck in my head...
 * From The Moody Blues, we have Tuesday Afternoon, Nights in White Satin and The Actor.
 * Motion City Soundtrack - "Everything is Alright" Tell me that you're alright/Yeah, everything is alright./Oh please, tell me that your alright/Yeah, everything is alright.
 * Motley Crue:
 * "HE'S THE ONE THEY CALL DR. FEELGOOD! HE'S THE ONE THAT MAKES YOU FEEL ALRIGHT!"
 * "Girls, Girls, Girls!"
 * "Ooh, Yeah, Kickstart my Heart!"
 * "SHOUT! SHOUT! SHOUT! SHOUT AT THE DEVIL!"
 * From Muse:
 * "Starlight"
 * "Hysteria"
 * "Time Is Running Out".
 * "Knights of Cydonia"
 * "...my PLUG IN BAYBEEEEEEEEEEEE..." The guitar riff is especially earwormy...
 * "Uprising."
 * Also, there's "Supermassive Black Hole", "Resistance," "Undisclosed Desires," and "Neutron Star Collision."
 * Little Lion Man, The Cave, and Winter Winds by Mumford and Sons. At least it's Crowning Music of Awesome.
 * King of Spain by Moxy Fruvous. Remember that slower pizza's more luscious, 'cause the King of Spain never rushes!
 * I occasionally hum a tune or barely-contextually belt out a line of one of their songs, to the chagrin of friends who have no interest in fantastic obscure Canadian folkapella. Some of their lines are beautiful instead of funny, though, such as Horseshoes:


 * Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
 * Queen of the Night, from Mozart's The Magic Flute. Making it much worse is that you don't possibly have a hope of singing along unless you're an absurdly high-voiced soprano or sucking helium, yet you'll want to.
 * The Misfits were quite good at making you sing horrifying lyrics over and over again.
 * Ever hear Skulls? go ahead and click, if you want to sing about chopping little girls head's off all day...
 * HATEBREEDERS WHOOAAAHOOOO!
 * Well, I got somethin to say/I killed a baby today/And it doesn't matter much to me/as long as it's dead.
 * With just a touch of my burning hand, send my Astro Zombies to rape the land! Prime directive: EXTERMINATE THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE!
 * The Cha-Cha Slide by Mr. C The Slide Man. Try and fail not to do the dance along with the music!
 * Jason Mraz:
 * If you gots the poison, I gots the remedy...
 * "But I won't he-si-tate no more, no more, it can-not wait, I'm yours..."
 * Münchener Freiheit (those guys who did the incredibly catchy Keeping The Dream Alive) tend to turn out songs which are earworms, even to those (such as me) who don't understand a word of German. Nearly all the songs on Fantasie/Fantasy and Definitive Collection are earworms, including their cover of Bob Dylan's Baby Blue (in German).
 * I had the chorus stuck in my head for six years. It did not help not knowing the language it was in. Listened to it three times in a row when I finally learnt its name. Still have it stuck, but know at least I can sing along.
 * Mungo Jerry: "In the summertime when the weather is hot, you can chase right up and touch the sky..." An example of an awesome Ear Worm.
 * My Chemical Romance:
 * Blood. That is all. (I once found myself teaching it to my entire summer camp after singing it one too many times in public. * twitchy twitch* )
 * ...Give them blood, blood, gallons of the stuff, give them all that they can drink and it will never be enough, so give them blood, blood, blllooooooOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHDDDDDD... *gasp*...I'M THE KINDA HUMAN WRECKAGE THATCHA LOVE!
 * Anyone who's played Guitar Hero 2 will agree with me that Dead is an even bigger ear worm, and those that have played Burnout 3 will say I'm Not Okay (I Promise) is even bigger than that.
 * You're deeeeeeead!!! We heard the news that you're de-e-ead! No one ever had much nice to say! Think I never liked you anyway...
 * "Helena"..."So long and goodnight..."
 * I see that and raise you a "Teenagers"
 * WHEN I WAS
 * Don't you even START.
 * A YOUNG BOY... MY FATHER... TOOK ME INTO THE CITY... TO SEEEE A MARCHING BAAAAAAAAND...
 * I'll let the F1 coverage speak for itself... here.
 * HE SAID "SON... WHEN... YOU GROW UP... WOULD YOU BE... THE SAVIOR OF THE BROKEN... THE BEATEN... AND THE DAMNED?"
 * "At the end of the world, or the last thing I see, you are never comin' home..."
 * I wouldn't front the scene if you paid me! I'm just the way that the doctor made me!
 * Haaaaleluuuujah LOCK AND LOAD
 * 'Mama, we all go to hell...'
 * SO RAISE YOUR GLASS HIGH FOR TOMORROW WE DIE
 * You're so cool, you're so cool, so cool!
 * We allllllll wanna party when the funeral ends! Ba ba ba, ba ba ba...
 * From the recent trailer for Danger Days: NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA...
 * DESTROYA DESTROYA DESTROYA DESTROYA
 * CLEAN ME OFF! I'M SO DIRTY BABE! The kind of dirty where the water never cleans off the clothes...
 * Gravity...don't mean too much to me...
 * THIS AIN'T A PARTY, GET OFF THE DANCE FLOOR, YOU WANT THE GET DOWN, HERE COMES THE GANG WAR!
 * "Sing it for the boys, sing it for the girls"
 * Are you ready for a firefight? 'Cause the devil's got your number tonight...
 * I wonder if it is possible to listen to Shikenkan Baby, Itoshii Hito, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD, Jibun Kakumei, or Papamama Nozomare nu Baby by Miyavi without singing or humming them later. All of the above will either cause you to start frantically reciting choruses over and over or loudly singing deceptively victorious-sounding tunes as you walk down the street.
 * Massive Attack, especially the music riffs for 'Angel' and 'Teardrop'.
 * MONKEEY VER-SUS ROOOBOT. Very, very hard to stop singing this out loud.
 * Matt and Kim's "Daylight" can be brought on my random mentioning of the band's name and will stick around for days, during which point frequent bouts of smiling are common, until it causes death. Yes, that's right, indie pop shall be the death of you.
 * Also, there's "Cameras"
 * Lapfox Trax: Three words: DUM DUM DIDAY.
 * Pretty much everything under Mayhem is this. You're getting at least one song digitally engraved into you brain. Guaranteed!
 * The Medic Droid: Kick off your stilettos,kick off your stilettos, and fuck me in the back seat, FUCK ME IN THE BACK SEAT~
 * The Move: "Flowers in the Rain", "Fire Brigade", "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" etc.
 * Miracle of Sound: Gavin Dunne has admitted that he spends a lot of time writing the "hook" to each song.
 * My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's Smile, Smile, Smile.

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 * N.W.A.: "Straight Outta Compton, crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube from the crew called Niggaz Wit Attitude, when I'm called off, I got a sawed-off, squeeze the trigger, and bodies get hauled off..."
 * Napoleon XIV:
 * They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!!!
 * Ho-Ho Hee-Hee, to the FUNNY FARM! Where LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL ALL THE TIME!!!
 * One, two, three. Here we go - BEDLAM, BEDLAM, HO HO HO!!
 * And a more Nightmare Fuel - ish example from the song "The Place Where the Nuts Hunt the Squirrels:
 * "They're trying to drive me sane...heehee...They're trying to drive me sane...hoho...They're trying to drive me sane...hahaa...They're trying to drive me sane...heehee...They're trying to drive me sane...hoho... THEY'RE TRYING TO DRIVE ME SANE!"
 * Namie Amuro
 * Fast Car
 * Copy That
 * Dr. & WILD!
 * I GET- I GET- I GET- GET A FEELING!
 * Step, Step into the floor[[ Shake, Shake on the floor] Bounce, Bounce!, Bounce, Bounce]
 * Tonight I taste you I wanna taste you
 * I'll be your wonder womaaaaaaaan!
 * From Nelly:
 * "It's gettin' hot in here! (Uh-huh!)/So take off all your clothes!"
 * I was thinkin' 'bout her, thinkin' 'bout me, thinkin' 'bout us, what we're gonna be? Open my eyes... IT WAS ONLY JUST A DREAM!!!
 * "99 Luftballons" by Nena
 * Possibly made even more infectious by putting Goldfinger's English cover of it on the soundtrack to the North American version of Gran Turismo 3.
 * I fell in love with the song when I first heard it on the Rocket Power tv movie "Race Across New Zealand." Then I found the original and I'm the only one of my friends who know it. I can still sing nearly the whole thing, word for word, because it's ALWAYS STUCK in my head.
 * I haven't listened to the song in at least a year, yet I can still remember all the lyrics. In German. Which I don't speak. And wouldn't know how to write properly. That's impressive. Luckily there are enough other ear worms eating my brain that it isn't terribly intrusive.
 * I just can't stop listening to every single version of that song that's out there!
 * I listen to the Japanese version ALL THE TIME!
 * There's even a Harry Potter parody (in English).
 * Weeeek by NewS. GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD! it also doesn't help that the dance for this song is a memetic mutation
 * Newsboys:
 * Go up to anybody who was into Christian popular music in the 90's and say, "SHINE!"
 * Issabella was a belly dancer with a kleptomaniac's restraint
 * Olivia Newton-John has "Let Me Be There" and "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)", an interesting variant where the bass backing vocal on the chorus manages to be a bigger ear worm than the melody.
 * Jerrod Niemann, Lover, Lover. "Ohh, lover, lover lover, you don't treat me no good no more~ Ohh, lover, lover lover..." It's one of those songs that just kinda... sits there in your head and plays a specific part over and over again.
 * Nightcore: DUM DADI DO - DUM DUM DI DO DI DUM - DUM DADI DO - DUM DUM DI DO DI DUM... AAAAGHHH!
 * For that matter, any nightcored (vocal song), ranging from 'No Cover Song', 'My Girl' , etc. to 'G-Get Up And Dance'.
 * Nightwish mostly just goes for completely over-the-top Epic Rocking, but a few of their songs still manage to worm their way into your head and not let go:
 * "How blind can you be/ don't you see/ you chose the long road/ but we'll be waiting. BYE, BYE, BEAUTIFUL!"
 * The chorus to Erämaan Viimeinen. Most Nightwish fans know it by its instrumental name, Last of the Wilds, however it originally had lyrics. In Finnish. As soon as you learn the words, it will not leave your head. For hours.
 * "Master! Apprentice! Heart born, seventh seeker! Warrior! Disciple! In me, the Wishmaster!"
 * That's what they're really saying?
 * I WISH I HAD AN ANGEL FOR ONE MOMENT OF LOVE/I WISH I HAD YOUR ANGEL TONIGHT!
 * At one point, this troper had the chorus from The Escapist stuck in his head for days.
 * Oh how I wish for soothing rain/All I wish is to dream again/My loving heart lost in the dark/For hope I'd give my everything
 * One thousand one/nights unseen/The philosopher/And the queen
 * Harry Nilsson's "Coconut": You put the lime in the Coconut and drink 'em both up, you put the lime in the Coconut and drink 'em both up, put the lime in the Coconut, call the doctor, woke 'em up, said DOC-TAH! ...
 * Nirvana:
 * Load up on guns, BRING your friends. It's fun to lose, and to pretend.
 * Acting stupid, is contagious! Here we are now, entertain us!
 * As an old memoria, memoriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiia...
 * HEY! WAIT! I GOT A NEW COMPLAINT!
 * Grandma take me home! Grandma take me home!
 * From that same album: Up, up up and down, turn turn turn around...
 * You're in a laundry room!!
 * Also: Kiss, kiss Molly's lips!
 * Rape Me!
 * I catch myself singing the chorus of Nirvana's "In Bloom" embarrassingly often. Kurt Cobain, you twisted bastard.
 * Pennyroyal tea, the catchiest song about abortion ever.
 * Haru Mamburu by Russian band Nogu Svelo!. Don't know Russian? That's okay, it's not in Russian either.
 * Notorious B.I.G.:
 * "Biggie Biggie Biggie, can't you see/Sometimes your words just hypnotize me..."
 * I love it when you call me big pop-pa, throw your hands in the ay-er, if youse a true play-yer.
 * *NSYNC:
 * Bye Bye Bye
 * It's Gonna Be Me
 * It's tearing up my heart, when I'm with you...
 * Neutral Milk Hotel:
 * When you were young you were the king of carrot flowers...

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 * "Elvira" by The Oak Ridge Boys. By the end of the song, I guarantee you'll be singing "giddy up ba oom papa oom papa mow mow" in the deepest voice you can muster.
 * Oasis:
 * "And maybeeeeeeeee...you're gonna be the one that saves meeeeeeeee....and after aaaaaaaaaall...you're my wonderwaaaaaaaaaall..."
 * Th 50s lounge singer version is even worse/better.
 * Someday you will find me, caught beneath the landsliiiiiiide, in a champagne supernova in the skyyyyyyyy...
 * And sooooooooooooooooooooo Sally can waaaaaaaait...
 * I need to be myself... * guitar* I can't be no one else...
 * Go let it out, go let it in...
 * I'm all into the blinding light, come in, come out tonight...
 * The summer sun, it blows my mind, fallin' down on all that I ever know...
 * The Offspring:
 * "Why Don't You Get A Job" (already mentioned in the Beatles entry), "Self Esteem," "Come Out and Play" (YOU GOTTA KEEP 'EM SEPARATED!), "All I Want" (double for Crazy Taxi players), and "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)".
 * "With a thousand lies and a good disguise, hit 'em right between the eyes, hit 'em right between the eyes..."
 * It's even worse if you have the "Dance, fuckers, dance" line stuck in your head, because then you can't sing it aloud without getting funny looks.
 * This is one of the few songs where the radio edit actually works. Sing it right and it remains nicely rhythmic and doesn't sound like anything's missing.
 * What about their song "One Fine Day"? That's one another that'll grow on you over time.
 * I BELIEVE IT'S MY GOD-GIVEN RIGHT! TO DESTROY EVERYTHING IN MY SIGHT!
 * I WANT YOU ALL TATTOOED, I WANT YOU BAD, BAD, BAD! COMPLICATED, X-RATED...
 * I'M NOT THE ONE WHO ACTED LIKE A HOE, WHY MUST I BE THE ONE WHO HAS TO KNOW?
 * HEY, MAN, YOU DISRESPECTING ME? TAKE HIM OUT (YOU GOTTA KEEP EM SEPARATED)
 * YAH YAH YAH YAH YAH, IT'S ALL I WANT!
 * AND IT FEELS, AND IT FEELS LIKE HEAVEN IS SO FAR AWAY...
 * I WILL SHUT MY EYES, IT HAMMERS IN MY HEAD
 * IF WE DON'T MAKE IT ALIVE, IT'S A HELL OF A GOOD DAY TO DIE...
 * SHIT IS FUCKED UP!
 * I CAN'T GET MY HEAD AROUND YOU!
 * I'VE GOT A BAD HABIT!
 * CHANCES THROOOOOWN! NOTHING'S FREEEEEEEEEEE!
 * ME AND MY OLD LADY, SUCK EACH OTHER DRY, DRY! (Heck, almost all of their songs are ear worms!)
 * Can you stay strong? Can you go on? Kristy are you doing OK?
 * Ohio Express: Yummy yummy yummy I got love in my tummy and I feel like a-lovin' you!
 * Ohio Players
 * "Love Rollercoaster".
 * "Fire".
 * Oingo Boingo
 * Little Girls. "I love little girls, they make me feel so... good!"
 * It's even more disturbing to hear Patrick Stewart singing that song. Thank you very much, American Dad.
 * "I was struck by lightning..." * sax* "walking down the street..."
 * Despite the Creator Backlash against it, "Weird Science" is pretty darn catchy.
 * "Only a Lad", thanks to Guitar Hero Rocks the 80s.
 * OK Go - "Here It Goes Again" * That song with the music video of the band members dancing on treadmills. "Here it goes here it goes here it goes again, oh hear it goes again, I shoulda known shoulda known shoulda known again, oh here it goes again!" You can see the video here.
 *  Let it go, this too shall pass..
 * and those eight notes (you know the ones) that keep repeating throughout the entire thing...
 * One Direction:
 * "YOU DON'T KNOW YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL!"
 * "YOU'VE GOT THAT ONE THING!"
 * In fact, their whole first album is basically a huge, incessant earworm.
 * OutKast:
 * "Mrs. Jackson" will plague you with its chorus, the catchiest part of the song and coincidentally the only part that sticks in your head. Although sometimes instead it may just be a loop of "Forever... Forever ever? Forever ever?" lodged in your brain, well, forever.
 * "Hey Ya!" is even worse.
 * Shake it like a corduroy ninja! (I witnessed the birth of that mondegreen.)
 * "Ain't no thang like a chicken wang"
 * POWER MUSIC, ELECTRIC REVIVAL...
 * Operation Ivy:
 * "All I know is that I don't know, all I know is that I don't know NOTHING!"
 * "More, than just another crowd!"
 * Owl City:
 * "Fireflies": "YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE YOUR EYES, IF TEN MILLION FIREFLIES..."
 * "CUZ I'D GET A THOUSAND HUUUGS FROM TEN THOUSAND LIGHTNING BUUUGS..."
 * "I'D LIKE TO MAKE MYSELF BELIEEEEEEEVE..."
 * "HELLO SEATTLE, I AM A MOUNTAINEER..."
 * "WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO MAKE OR BREAK THIS HINT OF LOVEEEEE? ONLY TIMEEEE ONLY TIIIMMEEEEE"
 * Ozzy Osbourne:
 * Lightning Strikes
 * Don't forget "Crazy Train" and "No More Tears".
 * Who can we get on the case? We need PEEEEEERRYYYY MAAAAAAAAASOOOON...
 * Let me hear you SCREAM LIKE YA WANT IT! Let me hear you YELL LIKE YA MEAN IT!
 * All my life, I've been over the top, I don't know what I'm doing, all I know is I don't wanna stop!
 * Listen in awe and you'll hear him... BARK AT THE MOON!
 * "Mama, I'm comin...hoooooooooome..."
 * Emily Osment:
 * "'Cause you are the only one who gets me, hurts me, feels me knows me...
 * "Got me, got me love, got me love, got me lovesick...
 * I don't think about it, dooooon't think about it..."
 * Her Fight Or Flight album is one earworm after another.
 * Damn you, Germans! With your Octoberfest you lull us in a false sense of security... JUST TO STRIKE WITH MUSIC THAT YOU WILL NEVER FORGET! ...Anton, Anton, Anton, Anton, Anton!
 * Heeey, hey baby! UH! AH! I want to knooooow...
 * Mike Oldfield, anyone? Come on, I know you're all hearing the opening riff from Tubular Bells now.
 * Anything recorded by Odyssey Music is major Ear Worm Material.