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  • The B-52s:
    • Love Shack. That is all.
    • Roaaaam If you want toooooo~
    • It was a rock lobsteeeeer
    • YOU'RE LIVING IN YOUR OWN PRIVATE IDAHO!
    • SHE CAME FROM PLANET CLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIRE!
    • We're in the baseeeeeeemennnntttt!
    • TOOOOOOPAAAAAAAAZ
    • Mesopotamia!
  • Suga Suga by Baby Bash
    • Also, there's Cyclone
  • Minuet in G by Bach, although it actually was not written by him
  • Backstreet Boys:
    • "Tell my whyyyyyyyy (ain't nothin' but a heartache), Tell me whyyyyyyy (ain't nothing but a mistake), Tell me whyyyy (I never wanna hear you say)... I want it that way!"
    • "'Cos without you all I'm going to be is...INCOMPLEEEETE!" Made all the worse because I mentally associated it with a girl I liked.
    • "Everybody... YEEEEEEEAHHHHHH! Rock your body... YEEEEEEEAHHHHHH!"
    • "AND THAT MAKES YOU LARGER THAN LIFE!!"
    • "Quit playing games with my heart"
  • Bad Religion's Big Bang
    • If you share these beliefs you know I wish you well, but there's no room left in heaven and there's sure no room in hell.
  • A certain song by Dan Balan: "They call me crazy looooooooop..."
  • Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy", also seen in the credits of the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III of 1993: Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh... Jungle Life...
  • Bambee: Sweet little bumblebee/I know what you want from me
  • The Bangles:
  • Baracuda: "Ass Up". "Put your ass in the air, put your ass up in the air. Put your ass in the air, put your ass up in the air. Put your ass in the air, put your ass up in the air. Put your ass in the air, move around like you don't care." Repeat for three minutes, set to a catchy techno beat, and you get this. It's easily Mondegreened as "Put giraffes in the air," which means you can also have a visual that won't leave your head.
  • A recent example, Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce. Just by saying the name, you've started thinking about the main hook...and now you're going to be humming it all day!
  • Sara Bareilles:
    • I'm not going to write you a love song ... 'cuz you ask for it ... 'cuz you need one ...
    • "Love you're all I ever could need, only one good thing worth trying to be..."
    • "Who died? Who made you king of anything?"
  • Basshunter has a way of driving you crazy via catchy technobeats.
    • And then there's his song about DotA, which can be understood and sung along to whether or not you know any Swedish.
  • Battles: 'Atlas' "People won't be people when they hear this sound..."
    • I see your Atlas and raise you 'Tonto'
  • Harry Belafonte "DAAAAAAAAAAAY-OH! DAAAAAAAY AY AY OH! A daylight come, and Me wan' go home..."
  • Then there's any song that fades out with multiple repetitions of a line that is already slightly or very catchy, as Barenaked Ladies' Who Needs Sleep (also see Hey Jude, above).
  • Toni Basil: "Oh Mickey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, Hey Mickey! Hey Mickey!"
    • For the record, Mickey is my most favoritest song ever.
  • The Beach Boys had too many of these to count:
    • "Inside, outside, USA..."
    • "She's real fine, my 409..."
    • "And she'll have fun, fun, fun 'til her daddy takes the T-bird away..."
    • "Help me Rhonda, help help me Rhonda..."
    • "I wish they all could be California..."
    • "Ba, ba, baaaaa, ba bobber Ann..."
    • "I'm pickin' up good vibrations..."
    • "God only knows what I'd be without you..."
    • "Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?"
  • "If I scratch your back, you need to scratch mine, you need to get yours, I need to get mine..."
  • Beastie Boys:
    • "So whatcha whatcha whatcha want?"
    • Great, thanks for mentioning the Beasties. Now I've got "Sabotage" stuck in my head.
    • You got to fight! For your right! TO PAAAAAAAAARTY!
    • No! Sleep! TILL BROOKLYN!!
    • INTERGALACTIC PLANETARY. PLANETARY INTERGALACTIC....
    • CHECK-CH-CHECK-CHECK-CHECK-CH-CHECK IT OUT!
    • MAKE SOME NOISE IF YOU'RE WITH ME!
    • GIRLS!
  • The Beatles:
    • We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine...
    • I hear a different version which her boyfriend wrote: "We all live in a yellow submarine, we hate the stupid thing, we wanna paint it green..."
      • By extension, any of a bazillion songs that use the same highly versatile tune with different lyrics. Football (soccer) fans are fond of this - the official anthem of the Polish club Lech Poznan is one such example of many.
      • "We're all stuck in a Russian submarine, Russian submarine, Russian submarine..." (In reference to the Kursk disaster.)
    • "All you need is love (dunhdadadada)/All you need is love (dunhdadadada)/All you need is love, love/Love is all you need."
    • "Na, na na nanana na, nanana na, Hey Jude..." (repeat indefinitely)
      • I hum that in the hallways at school every single day.
      • What's even worse is when it starts switching between that and Komm, süßer Tod.
    • For Te Chameleon, The Beatles' Lady Madonna to be the worst ear worm he has ever encountered. Ever.
      • Any song by The Beatles is likely to get stuck in your head, when you really think about it. Here's another one. And another one. And. . . another. . one.
      • The opening from that sounded to my ears remarkably similar to the Dr. Mario theme, and I now wonder if that's where Nintendo got it from. Of course, upon realizing this I had to go listen to it again - or more specifically this terribly sad version - and almost cried upon doing so.
    • "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on..." It would be bad enough if it was just that, but I get stuck with those words set to the tune of The Offspring's "Why Don't You Get A Job?" Doubly catchy!
      • This is the only thing keeping Ob-la-di Ob-la-da from getting stuck in my head - it morphs into "Why Don't You Get A Job".
    • "Bang-bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head/Bang-bang, Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead..."
    • I am the egg man... they are the egg man... Compounded by this being by far their weirdest song, and being covered by at least four other bands. I'm just waiting for Dream Theater to cover it.
    • C'MONC'MONC'MONC'MON BABY NOW (come on baby) TWIST AND SHO-UT! (twist and shout) oooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
    • HEY LA! HEY BA HELLO AH! WOO HOO! HEY LA HEY BA HELLO AH! HEY LA!
    • LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS! LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS! LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS! AHH!
    • I'd like to be/Under the sea/In an octopus's garden in the shade...
    • "When I find myself in times of trouble/Mother Mary comes to me/Speaking words of wisdom/Let it be"
    • Michelle and Paperback Writer
    • Let's face it; you could probably count the number of Beatles songs which aren't Ear Worms on one hand, and still have a few fingers and a thumb left over.
  • Natasha Bedingfield:
    • "I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine, I got a love that I love and it's all mine"...
    • "Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can do it for you..."
    • "I'll be your A-N-G-E-L!"
  • From the Bee Gees:
  • Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
    • Don't forget Eroica or the Pastoral Symphony either. Or how about BOBBA-BA-BAAAAHM?
  • Lou Bega: "A little bit of Monica in my life... "
  • Ben Lee: PLEEEEEASE BABY PLEEASE
  • Bell Biv Devoe: That girl is POOOOOOISOOOOOOON!
  • Benny Benassi's "Satisfaction"
  • Dierks Bentley: "5-1-5-0, somebody call the po-po…"
  • Beyoncé:
    • "Baby I could see your halo, you know you're my saving grace..."
    • "ALL MY SINGLE LADIES! (All my single ladies!)/ALL MY SINGLE LADIES! (All my single ladies!)"
    • "Ohh Boy you looking like you like what you see/ Won't you come over check up on it..."
    • "You must not know 'bout me, you must not know 'bout me!"
      • "To the left, to the left..."
    • "A sweet dream or beautiful nightmare?"
  • Justin Bieber:
    • And I was like baby, baby, baby oh...
    • I will never say never! I will fight till forever!
    • And when you're mine in the world, there's gonna be one less lonely girl!
    • Me+you... I'm a tell you one time...
    • His song with Sean Kingston: "Shawty is a eenie meenie miney mo lover, Shawty is a eenie meenie miney mo lover, Shawty is a eenie meenie miney mo lover!" And on and on and on... This troper only heard that gorram song once and she can't get it out of her head. She feels sorry for said Shawty.
    • I need somebody to LOOOOVEE!!
  • Big & Rich's "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)." Actually, the whole first album is Crowning Music of Awesome meets Ear Worm, but "Save a Horse" in particular.
  • The Birthday Massacre- I had the chorus to Happy Birthday stuck in my head for a few days, and the opening to To Die For as well.
  • Bizet's Carmen, particularly the Overture.
  • Rebecca Black: FRIDAY FRIDAY GETTIN' DOWN ON FRIDAY
    • "Partying, partying. Yeah! Fun, fun, fun, fun." Repeat until craziness sets in.
    • Some of the parodies can be worse. Gang Fight might be the worst of them.
    • Actually, this troper thinks that the "Fried Egg" parody and Bob Dylan "cover" are the most annoying.
    • Her new song, My Moment, is an obvious take that to all her haters, but it's not an earworm to the extent that "Friday" is.
  • The first lines of the song Mary by the french band Black Bomb A. Oh Mary, Sweet Mary!
  • "Strike It Up" by Black Box. "bum bum bum bumbum bum bum bum badabum yeah DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE!"
    • I had it stuck in my head most of high school, but especially 9th grade (1991-1992) and 11th grade (1993-1994). I played it so many times that I wore the tape out -- and certain members of my family still want to kill me for that, too.
  • The only band as bad as the Pussycat Dolls in Ear Worming are The Black Eyed Peas.
    • I got a feeling, that tonight's gonna be a good night. That tonight's gonna be a good, good night for feeling...
      • "Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it.."
    • "Boom Boom Pow"
    • "Meet me halfway / right on the border..."
    • PUMP IT/LOUDER!
    • "Let's get retarded it started, ha! Let's get retarded it started in here!"
    • "Imma be, imma be, imma imma imma be..."
    • No no no noooo, don't phunk with my heaaaart / I wonder if I take you home, will you still be in love, baby? In love, baby?"
    • My hump, my hump my hump, my hump my hump my hump, my lovely lady lump!
    • "I've, had, the time of my life..."
    • "I'm addicted and I just can't get enough..."
    • "People killin', People dyin', children hurt and hear them cryin'."
  • "Rebel+ Motorcycle+ Club/_/Berlin Berlin" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: "I'm fightin' just to breathe as I get back on my knees/And say 'Help me somebody! Help me somebody!'"
  • Black Sabbath:
  • From Newgrounds: blarsa's "Garden Party".
  • Blind Guardian's "The Soulforged": 'AND FROM THE FLAMES, AS CHANCE WOULD HAVE IT! THE SOULFORGED WILL COME INTO LIIIIIIGHT! AND FROM THE FLAMES, AS CHANCE WOULD HAVE IT! THE SOULFORGED, THE STAINLESS, WILL RIIIIIIIIISE!"
  • Blink-182:
    • "I took her out/It was a Friday night/I wore cologne/To get the feeling right/We started making out/And she took off my pants/But then I turned on the TV..."
    • Forever and ever, let's make this last forever!
    • "Say it ain't so, I will not go, turn the lights off, carry me home!"
      • "Na-Na, Na-Na, Na-Na, Na-Na-Na-Na, Na-Na, Na-Na, Na-Na, Na-Na-Na-Na..."
    • "I fell in love with the girl at the rock show..."
  • Bloc Party.
    • "Banquet".
    • The solo for Trojan Horse.
    • "Are you hoping for a miracle?"
  • Blondie:
  • Bloodhound Gang:
    • "You and me babe ain't nothing but mammals so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel (get horny now!) DA DA DA DA DADADADA..."
    • "Foxtrot... Uniform... Charlie... Kilo!"
    • The really NSFW "The Ballad of Chasey Lain".
    • {{[http|//www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKhN0gh0kjY "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire"}}
    • "The lap dance is so much better when the stripper is crying..."
  • Bloody Beetroots & Steve Aoki's WARP 1.9: "One! Two! WHOOP! WHOOP!"
  • Bloody Red Shoes' "It's Getting Boring By The Sea".
    • "Let's consider/a change of scenery/it's getting boring/by the sea/pictures/pictures/pictures!"
    • "I was some one better I wish/I was someone better I wish"
  • Pick a song by Blue Oyster Cult. ANY song.
    • With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound he pulls the spitting high tension wires down!
    • I'm burnin' I'm burning' I'm burning for you!
    • Seasons don't fear the reaper. Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain...
    • Four doors at the Four Winds Bar... two doors locked, and windows barred...
    • And the joke's on youuuuuuuuuu, and the joke's on youuuuuuuuuuuu, and the joke's on youuuuuuuuuu, and the joke-
    • Oh noooooo! They say he's got to go! GO GO GODZILLA!
    • ASTRONOMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! A STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR...
  • "Hook" by Blues Traveler is actually about this (hence the title), and of course aims for this trope by borrowing one of the oldest earworms in the book, the chord progression from Pachelbel's Canon in D.
    • But yoooooouuuuuu, why you wanna give me a run-around..."
  • The Blue Hearts: LINDA LINDAAAAAAAAAAAA LINDA LINDA LINDAAAA
  • Blur:
  • Boa: "I'll eat you up! Your love, your loooove..."
  • "Rah, rah, Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine!" (Boney M)
  • Boston:
    • More Than A Feeling. You'll definitely remember that guitar riff.
    • Also, there's "Amanda."
    • "People living in competition; all I want is to have my peace of mind"
  • David Bowie:
    • This is Ground Control to Major Tom.
    • "Rebel rebel, you've torn your dress, rebel rebel, your face is a mess..."
      • "What kind of magic spell to use? Slime, snails, or puppy dog tails?"
    • It's a god-awful small affair...
      • "Sailors fighting in the dance hall! Oh man, look at those cavemen go! It's the freakiest show!
    • "Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie!"
    • Cat People (Putting Out Fire), It'll stick in your head for a thousand years...
      • ...Nothin's gonna touch you in these golden years...
      • And I've been putting out fire... with gasoLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE
    • So don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket... Down in Suffragette City!
      • Ohhhh WHAM BAM THANK YOU MAAM!
    • Cha-cha-cha changes! Turn and face the strange. Cha-cha-changes!
    • There's a Starman waiting in the sky...
    • Ooooh-bop dodododododo fa fa fa fashion - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPV Tb DA 8 d SM
    • His songs from Labyrinth are probably his biggest earworms, especially Magic Dance.
    • And finally, what's possibly Bowie's catchiest earworm: Lucy Can't Dance...to the noise but she knows what the noise can do...Dadada-da, da da da DADADA!
  • Bowling for Soup. "Val Kilmer". 'Cause the big screen's calling, final casting call! It's your big shot baby, you're the next big star of another stupid movie 'bout a guy with a broken heart...
    • "There was Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana..."
    • The whole damn world is just as obsessed with who's the best dressed and who's havin' sex!
    • No hablo ingles!
  • "Hey There Cthulhu", by Eben Brooks and Allison Lonsdale. An Earworm if ever there was one. . Can be heard here. Iä! Iä! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!
  • On Our Own, Bobby Brown's song written for Ghostbusters II. "Well I guess we're gonna have to take control, ah ah ah ahahahh..."
  • Anything, anything by Japanese duo Brief & Trunks. Just search up 'ブリーフ&トランクス' on YouTube and say goodbye to mental silence.
  • Remember Steve? That guy from Blue's Clues? He's put out an indie rock album now. His song "Mighty Little Man" is extremely potent. "Nobody else is stronger than I am / Yesterday I moved a mountain / I'd like to be your hero..."
  • I have had The Butthole Surfer's Pepper stuck in my head for, uh... 13 years.
  • Breaking Benjamin:
    • 'Breath'. There's a reason it was at #1 on the rock charts for seven weeks in a row.
    • 'Blow Me Away', particularly for anyone who ever played Halo 2.
    • "Something's getting in the way, something's just about to break!"
      • I'm still trying to find my place IN THE DIARY OF JANE!
    • "I will not bow, I will not break, I will shut the world away!"
    • "I can feel you falling awayyyy..."
    • "After the lights go out on you!"
  • Pretty much all of Luke Bryan's "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)", but especially the "Country girl, shake it for me, girl, shake it for me, girl, shake it for me..." It almost sounds like a disco song.
  • The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star. Gosh dang that is a catchy song.
  • If you've ever heard the beginning of the song Pirates by Bullets and Octane, it won't leave your head.
  • Buju Banton: DRIVER DON'T STOP AT ALL DROP DIS ARIZONA ROUND A ALBA MALL
  • Billy Talent: FALLEN LEAVES, FALLEN LEAVES, FALLEN LEAVES ON THE GROUND!
  • Laura Bell Bundy's "Giddy On Up" has a ridiculously catchy chorus: "Love, love, you let me down / Makin' this too easy / Love, love, you let mm down / Think you should be leavin' / Love, love, you let me down, let me down / Mm-hmm,but you won't string me along / You better be movin' on / Giddy on up, giddy on out..."
  • Alexandra Burke's "What Happens On the Dancefloor," helped by the Title-Only Chorus, and featuring Cobra Starship, who are notorious for their earworm-ridden songs.
  • How about Kate Bush? "Heath-CLIFF! It's meeeeee, your Cathyyyyyyy, come home now!" It's ten times worse if you're reading the book, by the way.
  • Bullet for My Valentine
    • When I see your face my HEARTS BURST INTO FIRE
    • You/were told/to run away.../Soak/the place/and light the flaaame.../Pay/the price/for Your Betrayal...
    • YOUR TEARS DON'T FALL THEY CRASH AROUND ME


C

Well it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me
 And if the wind is right you can sail away and fight tranquility
Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see
Believe me
It's not far to never never land, no reason to pretend

And if the wind is right you can find the joy of innocence again

Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see

Believe me

Sailing takes me away to where I always heard it could be

Just a dream and the wind to carry me, and soon I will be free

  • Taio Cruz:
    • "Break Your Heart". The remix with Ludacris. "I'm only gonna break-break your break-break your heart..."
    • One word: Dynamite.
      • One word might trigger it, but nine words will: "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes..."
  • Culture Club: " Karma karma karma karma karma Comma comma comma comma comma chameleon, you come and go, you come and go..."
    • "Do you really want to hurt me?"
  • Billy Currington's "Love Done Gone". Listen to it just once and the trumpet/backing vocal riff ("Ba-ba-da, ba-da-ba / Ba-ba-da, ba-da-ba...") will be stuck in your head forever.
  • "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus.
  • Miley Cyrus:
    • "Party in the USA," is an insidious ear worm. It's even worse if you hate the song.
    • Anything by Miley Cyrus / Hannah Montana, particularly "He Could Be the One." It doesn't help that I hate her music with a burning anger.
    • Her recent song Who Owns My Heart is one too.
    • Fly on the Wall seems to be an under-appreciated one of these.
  • For me, it's "What The Fuck Is Wrong With You" by Combichrist. Hell, everything by Combichrist is this for me! It's just...just...just listen.
    • "Hey, you, what the fuck is wrong with you?" That's the chorus, and it's repeated so many times in the song. What's the problem there? IT WON'T GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
    • "If We Were A Movie." It doesn't hurt that the song is full of tropes, either ;)
  • Captain Dan: Ship 2 Ship among others.
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