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• Anything by ABBA, but especially "Take a Chance on Me." They all have fast, driving beats and light, simple lyrics that just ricochet around your brain.
  • "Take a Chance on Me" will never be the same after you put this particular imagery to it. And it becomes both an ear- and eye-worm.
  • Gimme Gimme Gimme, dangit.
    • The worst part about that song: I cannot possibly sing along with it when its stuck in my head. A guy as big as me singing "Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight" just draws strange looks.
  • "My my! At Waterloo Napoleon did surrender, oh yeah! And I have met my destiny in quite a sim'lar way... the history book on the shelf, is always repeating itseeeeeelf!!!" Dammit.
  • "YEEEEES, I've been broken-hearteeeed/Bluuuue since the day we parteeeed/Why-why diiiid I ever let you go?/Mamma Mia, now I really know/My-my, I could never let you go!"
  • "You can daaaaaaance, you can jiiiiive, having the time of your liiiifeeee, ooooh See that giiirl, watch that scene! Diggin' the Dancing Queeeeeeeennnn!"
  • Well I can dance with ya honey if ya think it's funny...
  • "I was sick and tired of everythiiiiiing, when I called you last night from Glaaaaas-gooooow. All I do is eat and sleep and siiiiiiing, wishin' every show was the laaaaast shooooow."
  • "Money money money/Must be funny/In the rich man's world"
  • "Don't go wasting your emotion/Lay all your love on me/Don't go sharing your devotion/Lay all your love on me"
  • I can't believe nobody's said "Mama Mia/Here I go again/My my/How can I resist you/Mama Mia/Does it show again/My my/Just how much I've missed you..."
• AC/DC's songs are easy to earworm, thanks to their repeating choruses.
  • In their own words, they've been doing the same song for the whole of their career. So the earworms can build up on each other.
  • "I'm on the HIGHWAY TO HELL! On the HIGHWAY TO HELL!"
  • "It's a LONG WAY to the TOP if you wanna ROCK AND ROLL..."
  • But WE'VE got the BIGGEST... BALLS OF THEM ALL!
  • Try getting the riff from "Back in Black" out of your head. You can't, can you?
  • T! N! T! It's dynamite!
  • IF YOU WANT BLOOD! YOU GOT IT!
  • YOU'VE BEEN... THUNDERSTRUCK!
• Amateur Transplants (numerous parodies by a pair of British medics) have loads. Very un-PC, plenty of f***'s, but annoyingly catchy.
  • London Underground
  • Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin
  • Never let a woman drive
  • Dorsal Horn Concerto (Mainly the tune, 'alf-inched from Mozart.)
  • The Drugs Song - yet another parody of the Major-General Song
• Anna Tsuchiya
  • I SHOOOOOOOUTTTTT IN THEEEEEEEE RAAAAAAINNNNN!
  • I NEEEEEED YOUR LOOOVE LIKE A BROKEN ROOOOOOSE!
  • GUN GUN LOVE!! GUN GUN KISS!!
  • The song "My Battle"~
• Ace of Base:
  • I saw the sign, and it opened up my mind. Now I can't get that damn song out of my mind.
  • All that she wants is another baby/She's gone tomorrow boy
  • Don't turn around, cause you're gonna see my heart breaking...
• Bryan Adams:
  • Summer of 69
  • Baby you're all that I want / When you're lyin' here in my arms / I'm findin' it hard to believe / We're in heaven ...
  • "Me and my baby in a 69..."
• Adele: "There's a fire staring in my heart..."
  • Never mind, I'll find someone like you.
  • "I set fire to the rain/ Watched in pour as I touched your face..." It just won't leave.
• Aerosmith: "Walk This Way", "Sweet Emotion", "(Dude) Looks Like a Lady" and "Cryin'", just for starters.
  • Every true Aerosmith fan has screamed profanities at "Hangman Jury."
    • It's at the point where seeing the word "Hangman" consistently makes me mumble something about lying on the track...
  • "Mama Kin", "Big Ten Inch Record", "Back in the Saddle", "Livin' on the Edge", as well.
• Looking for the Perfect Beat by Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force. Beat-beat-beat-beat... DO DO DO DO DO! SLAM* DO DO DO DO...'
• Afroman: "Mah room is still messed up, and I know why. (Why, man?) Because I got high, because I got high, because I got hi-igh. La da dad da...."
• For some reason, most things by Christina Aguilera but especially "Genie in a Bottle" have a tendency to do this for me.
  • "Gonna get rowdy! Gonna get a little unruly!"
• Alice in Chains:
  • "Man in the Box" is a great song but it is impossible to get out of your head. That opening guitar riff makes it worse.
  • FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED MY EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYES!
  • I feel so alone, gonna end up a big ol' pile of them bones...
  • Yeah, here comes the roooosterrr...yeEAAAH!
  • Into the flood agaiinnnnnnnnn, same old trip it was back theennnnn! So I made a big mistake, try to see it once my waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy-ayyyyyy-yay!
  • Somebody CHECK MY BRAIN!!
• Name a song by The Alan Parsons Project.
• "Big Green Tractor" by Jason Aldean. "I can take you for a ride on my big green tractor / We can go slow or make it go faster..."
• Hero by All Insane Kids is often stuck in my head. As well as Caught in a Dream.
• All Time Low:
  • I FEEL LIKE DANCIN' TONIGHT!
  • "Break Your Little Heart": watch you take the fall, laughing all the way to the hospital...
  • I got your picture, I'm coming with you...
• Allstar Weekend:
  • "I've come down with loooove, got bit by the buuuug..."
  • "I wanna beeeeeee, a rock star, a superhero..."
  • "Party like it's not! party like it's not, like it's not your birthday...
• Tori Amos:
  • "Talula". Was once stuck in my head for six continuous months.
  • Devoted Toriphiles will get any and every Tori Amos song stuck in their head.
  • Okay kiddies, sing it with me now: Never was a cornflake girl, thought that was a good solution, hanging with the raisin girls...
  • "You better know, you better know, you better know-oh-ohh, I'm at your door, I'm at your door, I'm at your doh-oh-ohr..."
  • Hello, Mister Ze-bur-rah, can I have your sweater 'cause it's cold, cold, cold in my hole, hole, hole... JEEZ.
• The demo Howard Wulkan is Bald by Anal Cunt.
  • WHO'S THAT BALD GUY WALKIN' DOWN THE STREET? HAY IT'S HOWAAARRRDDD.
  • I LIT YOUR! I LIT YOUR! I LIT YOUR! BABY ON FIRE!!!
• Animal Collective:
  • "My Girls". Surreal yet catchy ambient synth accompanies a simple rhythm and some truly sublime vocal harmonies for one hell of a catchy tune.
  • "Open up your open up your open up your throat..."
  • One word: "Bonefish."
  • "Rabbit or Habit, Rabbit or rib..."
• An Cafe has too many to be legal-- as far as I am concerned. Among others, and to the chagrin of his not-so-inner Grammar Nazi, he is occasionally gripped with the urge to break out screaming...
  • Tiramisu nyappy poppo! Poppo nyappy tiramisu!
  • L.O.V.E.! Nyappy!
  • Funky fresh days! Funky fresh days! Funky fresh days! Funky fresh days is myself!
• Adam Ant: BOOOOOOOOTS, BOOOOOOOOTS
• Stop The Rock by Apollo 440. CAN'T STOP THE ROCK! CAN'T STOP THE ROCK!
• Anything by Aqua.
  • "Barbie Girl". I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world! Life in plastic, it's fantastic! You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere... Imagination, life is your creation... (now I feel like a tropedoser)
    • Mattel's use of this song in actual Barbie commercials doesn't help matters.
    • Neither did Sailor Moon Abridged.
    • Chicken Man Edition.
  • "Candyman".
  • "Doctor Jones". Doctor Jones, Doctor Jones, callin' Doctor Jones, Doctor Jones, Doctor Jones, get up now...
  • We are the cartoon heroes/Whoa-o/We are the ones who're gonna last forever/Whoa-o/We came out of a crazy mind/ And walked out on a piece of paper You love it; admit it.
• Arcade Fire: Sleeping is giving in, no matter what the time is... sleeping is giving in, so lift your heavy eyelids!
  • Nearly everything on their first album, but especially "Rebellion (Lies)". Thankfully it's badass enough to avoid being annoying.
  • Don't forget Wake Up, Neighborhood #1, and Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)!
• Anything by Architecture in Helsinki, but particularly anything from the In Case We Die album. Grrrr, Nevereverdid...
  • "IT! IS! FIVE!"
  • Bring the beep back! Beep beep beep beep beep beep, beep beep beep beep beep beep...
• Louis Armstrong: "IT DON'T MEAN A THAAAAAANG IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING."
• A Taste of Honey's Boogie Oogie Oogie (1978) has especially potent Ear Worm capacity, as much in the instrumentation/riffs as in the lyrics. Even in the 2000s.
  • I tend not to have much interest in 1970s disco, but I am painfully glued to the 7-minute extended version of this song such that it's a permanent feature of my house genre playlist.
  • Also, there's there remake of "Sukiyaki."
• A-ha: Taaaaaake oooooon meeeee! Take! On Me!
  • The keyboard thing at the beginning and then in the middle is even more of an Ear Worm. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da!
• Angelspit. My God, Angelspit... just about every goddamn song they've done is an Ear Worm.
  • "The doctor is IN-SANE!"
• Rick Astley:
  • "Never gonna give you up,never gonna let you down..."
  • On top of that: "Take me to your heart, never let me go, if you knew what I'm feeling, you would not say no..."
  • "Whenvea ya need some-body to love! I give my love to you..."
  • "Together forever and never to part..."
    • I liked that song in middle school. My parents didn't. My mom is seriously threatening to play it when I get married. Thanks, Mom, for Rickrolling my wedding.
• Avenged Sevenfold: SHE'S A DWELLING PLACE FOR DEEEEMONS, SHE'S A PLACE FOR EVERY UGLY SPIRIT, EVERY FILTHY BIRD...
  • And on that note, Seize the Day. The whole song. Epic.
  • CAN'T YOU HELP ME AS I'M STARTING TO BURN...
  • STRENGTH OF THE WORLD!...
  • I'M NOT INSANE, I'M NOT INSANE!
  • I DON'T BELONG HERE, WE'VE GOTTA MOVE ON DEAR...
  • (Insert sound effect of a girl screaming)
  • 'CAUSE I REALLY ALWAYS KNEW THAT MY LITTLE CRIME...
  • YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN, THE PRICE OF EVIL...
  • BUT YOU CAN'T WIN THIS FIGHT!
  • GOD SAVE US! GOD SAVE US ALL! GOD HATES US! GOD HATES US ALL!
  • Not that I could, or that I would, let it burn, under my skin. Let it BURN!
  • How do I live, without the ones I love...
• Ai Otsuka's Sakuranbo …atashi sakuranbo!.
• ATC's All around the world (la la la la la la la la). What? You don't know it? Don't!
  • My heart beats like a drum, dam dam dam... It's a shame that ATC never managed to get that popular (well, Around the World is known by many,, but most of them don't know who actually sing it), as practically all of their songs are either Ear Worms or beautifully vocalized.
• Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. Spanish Flea is the worst offender, but most everything they do will storm your head & then dig in like it was Mt. Suribachi...
• The A*Teens cover of Can't Help Falling In Love With You.
  • Upside down, bouncing off the ceiling. Inside out, stranger to this feeling. Got no clue what I should do. I'll go crazy if I can't get next to you...
  • I get a high whenever you're around...
• Really? No Avalanches?

B

• 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:
  • "Eternal Flame": Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling, do you feel my heart beating...?
  • "ah oh way oh... walk like an Egyptian..."
  • Oh, gosh, "Manic Monday" always gets me. Oddly enough, it's usually on Tuesdays.
• 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).
  • One Week by Barenaked Ladies. It took weeks of this song getting overplayed on the radio before everyone actually figured out the lyrics, but they can all still sing the song word for word when it gets stuck in their head again even though it's pretty old. College humor even did a parody song about it just to get it stuck in everyones heads again.
    • Enid we never really knew each other anyway
      • Everybody get in line...
• 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:
  • Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! STAYIN' ALIIIIIIIII-IIIIIII-IIIIIII-IIIVE...
  • YOU SHOULD BE DANCIN', YEAH!
  • MORE THAN A WOMAAAAAAAAAN!
  • TRAGEDY! WHEN THE FEELING'S GONE AND YOU CAN'T GO ON IT'S A TRAGEDY!
• 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.
  • Red Stars, Good Night and Kill The Lights are also particularly bad offenders in the Ear Worm department.
  • 1, 2, 3, 4, underneath the cellar floor, 5, 6, 7, 8, lover will, suffocate. 1, 2, 3, 4, underneath the cellar floor. 5, 6, 7, 8, lover will, suffocate.
  • "You cut so deep, my belief is gooooonnnneeeeee! My belief is goooooonnnnnneeeee, my belief is!"
  • Romance is breaking every heart in two, casting shadows in a pale shade of blue.
• 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:
  • I AM IRON MAN Der ner ner ner ner ner ner ner! Yes, in fact, the entire male population of my high school did play that song for a week on air guitars and real guitars alike, why do you ask?
    • It's even more ear-wormy when Snagglepuss sings it (starts at 0:46, probably Not Safe For Work).
  • Speaking of Black Sabbath, don't forget "Paranoid" and "War Pigs"
• 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:
  • "Heart of Glass"
  • "Rapture"
  • ONE WAY OR ANOTHER/I'M GONNA FIND YOU/I'M GONNA GETCHA GETCHA GETCHA GETCHA~
  • Don't forget "Call Me" and "The Tide is High."
• 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:
  • "Girls who are boys, who like boys to be girls, who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys!"
  • "WOO-HOO! When I feel heavy metal!"
  • "There's no other way, there's no other way.. All that you can do is watch them play..
• Boa: "I'll eat you up! Your love, your loooove..."
• "Rah, rah, Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine!" (Boney M)
  • Now in GLORIOUS VIKING FOLK METAL http://youtu.be/JLo02AquUCs
• 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.
  • And when nicki Minaj and will.i.am sample it...
• 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

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• God damn it, this song has been in my head for days! And I'm American!
  • Brits have got the monarchy, the U.S has the money, but I know that you wanna be Canadian~
    • Read more: https://web.archive.org/web/20130121192604/http://www.channelapa.com/2009/06/canadian-please.html#ixzz16YewNF4y
• Not many songs get stuck in my head until I'm sick of them, but Colbie Caillat's "Bubbly" did. You may not recognize the extremely generic title, but you've almost certainly heard the song - it starts in your toes, and it crinkles your nose...
  • Also, check out "Realize" and "Fallin' for You"
• YOU ALL LOSE. This song is the Royal Flush to your Three -of-a kind. (yes it is in Borderlands why do you ask?)
  • Many songs by this band has the potential to be EarWorms. "Lotus", "Drones in the Valley", "Soil to the Sun", "Back Against the Wall", and "Tiny Little Robots" could all qualify as well.
• CAKE:
  • "Never There"
  • He's going the distance! He's going the speed...
  • "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" too.
  • Frank Sinatra.
• Caramell:
  • Caramelldansen is pretty damn catchy.
  • There's also an English version, although the Swedish original is probably a little catchier for an English speaker.
    • "Dance to the beat, clap your hands together..."
  • I work at a Halloween store (blame it on a personal Broke Episode). One of the many awful duties we can get stuck on is going out in costume and waving to traffic. Of course, owning a pair of very good speakers, I instead hooked up my iPod and began dancing Caramelldansen. In full Jason Voorhees costume. At a busy intersection. You know it's gone viral when random passersby walk up and JOIN YOU.
  • I occasionally get a non existent version by The Residents in the style of The Third Reich N Roll. If you ever heard that record, you'll know what I mean.
  • It's so catchy, we have a whole trope related to it: Caramelldansen Vid.
• The Cardigans: Love me, love me. Say that you love me...
  • "I'm losing my favorite game..." (also a possible case of "Grand Theft Auto" Effect)
• HUNGRY EYYYYYYYES I FEEL THE MAGIC BETWEEN YOU AND IIIIIII
• Carolina Liar. "Show Me What I'm Looking For". This has been stuck in my head for the better part of a week now. I can't make it stop. It's slowly driving me nuts. I have to mute that stupid Overstock dot com commercial every time it comes on for fear of the earworm resurfacing.
• "Prison Bitch" by Rodney Carrington. Just try to listen to it without it getting stuck in your head.
• Cascada:
  • "Ready for Love"
  • Speaking of Cascada: 'CAUSE EVERY TIME WE TOUCH, I GET THIS FEELING, AND EVERY TIME WE KISS I SWEAR I COULD FLYYYYY
  • WOAH, O WOAH! EVACUATE THE DANCEFLOOR! WOAH, O WOAH, IM INFECTED BY THE SOUND! WOAH O WOAH, STOP THIS BEAT IS KILLING ME!
  • PYRO PYRO MANIA MUH MUH MUH-MANIA
  • WHO THE *BLEEP* IS VIP???!
• "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire. "DEY SEE ME ROLLIN', DEY HATIN..."
  • And of course, Weird Al's take called "White and Nerdy".
• The Champs "Da-na-na-na-nuh-nuh-nuht" - Tequila...
  • I'm doing the Pee-Wee dance now!
• Gene Chandler: "Duke, duke, duke, duke of Earl, duke, duke, duke of Earl..."
• Harry Chapin: "Oh, the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon. When you coming home, dad? I don't know when, but we'll get together then...
  • There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon, The place that I eat everyday at noon, They can feed you cat and you'll never know, Once they wrap it up in dough, boys, They fry it real crisp in dough.
  • Also, there was Ugly Kid Joe's cover of the song.
• Cheap Trick:
  • "Mommy's alright, daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird".
  • "I want you to want me, I need you to need me, I'd love you to love me".
  • "The dream police, they live inside of my head. The dream police, they come to me in my bed".
• Cheech and Chong: "MAMA TALKIN TO ME, TRYNTA TELL ME HOW TO LIVE, DUNNANA DUNNANA DA DA DA"
• Many songs by Cheer Up Charlie Daniels qualify, but the kicker has to be 'Yeast Infection'.
• Indeed the original Charlie Daniels band gave us... "* Mad Violin* The devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin' for a soul to steal..."
• Cher:
  • 'Cause I'm strong enough To live without you Strong enough And I've quit crying long enough Now I'm strong enough to know You've gotta go There's no more to say So save your breath and walk away No matter what I hear you say I'm strong enough to know You've gotta go
  • "Believe". Oh God, Believe.
  • "Half-Breed" and "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves"
• Eurobeat musician Cherry, aka Leslie Parrish, Vanessa, Linda Ross, among other names.
  • "Yesterday": Yesterday / I had a dream of you / I gave you / a-nother way / But I belong to you...
  • "Too Cool to Fall in Love": Too cool to fall in love / with another girl / Too mature about meee~ / Too cool to mess around / with the love you found / Too much in love with me!
• Chic: OHHHHHHHH, FREAK OUT! Le Freak! Ces't Chic!
  • Don't forget about "Good Times!"
• Name a song by Ch!pz. And they get bonus points for being downright obnoxious.
  • Captain Hook, Captain Hook (and Peter Pan)/ Captain Hook, Captain Hook (in Neverland)
  • Gimme One Two Three!
• The Chordettes:
  • "Lollipop"
  • But what about "Mr. Sandman"?
• Desmond Child. He writes them
• Chumbawumba Chumbawamba: "I GET KNOCKED DOWN! BUT I GET UP AGAIN! YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN!"
• "Red" by Canadian artist Moe Clark. "Red is the color that we grow, Red is the force of our sorrow..."
• Peter Cincotti, "Angel Town".
• Alex Clare, "Too Close", otherwise known as the Internet Explorer 9 song.
• Kelly Clarkson:
  • "Miss Independent"
  • "Since U Been Gone"
  • "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"
• The Clash:
  • "Rock the Casbah" (Or Mustapha Dance) and "Should I Stay or Should I Go".
  • Spanish Bombs! Yo te quiero, oh mi corazón ...
  • WHITE, RIOT! I WANNA RIOT! WHITE, RIOT! A RIOT OF MY OWN.
  • London Calling, to the UNDERWORRRRLD!
• Stephen "the Clerkenwell Kid" Coates' songs, specially when animated by Alex Budovsky: "Bathtime in Clerkenwell" and "Last time in Clerkenwell". Abap-Boo Pudup Boop-Poo...
• Cobra Starship:
  • "I came here to make you dance tonight! I don't care if I'm a guilty pleasure for you!"
  • This won't hurt more than a pinch, so just pull a drink, let's talk it over...
  • Yeah you're a - Hot mess and I'm fallin' for you, and I'm like- HOT DAMN- let me make you my boo~!
  • I MAKE EM' GOOD GIRLS GO BAAAD!
  • "OH! I'M READY FOR IT! (COME ON BRIIINNNG IIIITTT) OH! I'M READY FOR IT!"
  • YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO...(NANANANA)
• "In the Flame of Error" by Coheed and Cambria "Oh save me from defeat again! (This is war)"
  • Wait a minute, little back porch lady..
• Phil Collins songs. Much, much catchier than you think. You can wear my hat, you can have my coat... (Bonus for the song also being hilarious.)
• The Commodores / Faith No More: "I'm easy, I'm easy like sunday morning..."
  • "She's a brick house..."
• Conjure One - "Centre of the Sun" Young girl in the market/Music to the men/When the men leave/Her eyes are red/When her eyes are closed again she sees the dark market of above.../ And she sings/'They say the most horrible things/But I hear violins,/ when I close my eyes/I am at the center of the sun/And I cannot be hurt/By anything this wicked world has done' I will begin randomly singing it. It's just... damn beautiful.
• Any song by Alice Cooper.
  • SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER!.
  • I WANNA TASTE YOU BUT YOUR LIPS ARE VENOMOUS POI-SOOOOOOOOOOON!!!
  • "I'm EIGHTEEN..."
• Pretty much everything by Jonathan Coulton.
  • I Feel Fantastic. Great song to listen to, practically impossible to sing along with.
  • "Code Monkey".
  • "Re: Your Brains" is something you can easily listen to on loop.
  • Tom Cruise is so in love with Katie...
  • ...you're a Rorschach Test on fire, you're a day-glo pterodactyl. The song's about maths, believe it or not, and the video is a zoom into the Mandelbrot Set.
  • "Chiron Beta Prime" is not only a great Anti-Christmas Song, but quite the Ear Worm, too.
  • "Creepy Doll" is what you get when you cross-breed Nightmare Fuel with an Ear Worm.
  • "Gambler's Prayer" for me. It's not as intense as a lot of the others, but it hits a lot of her adolescent power fantasy/megalomaniac daydreams.
  • Baby, someone is crazy, and it's you...
  • I'll probably be some kind of scientist, bulding inventions in my space lab in space...
  • This was a triumph...
  • Goodbye my only friend. Oh, did you think I meant you?
• Miranda Cosgrove has a few of them too:
  • "It's raining sunshine, it's raining sunshiiiiiiine!"
  • "When I'm Kissin' You my senses come alive..."
  • "Everybody's dancin' dancing crazy and we never stop, we never stop..."
  • And of course, her first one: "Leave it all to me, leave it all to meeee, just leave it all to me..."
  • "All I want is everything, does that make sense? DOES THAT MAKE ME, HIGH MAINTENENCE?" Sigh. This troper's sister blasts that song day and night.
• Patrick Cowley's "Menergy", partly due to its appearance in The Ballad of Gay Tony, specifically in the "Meet Tony Prince" trailer.
• The Cranberries: In your heaaaaaaaad, in your heeeeeeead, ZOMBIE, ZOMBIE, ZOMBIE-eh-eh-eh...
  • Do you have to? Do you have to? Do you have to let it linger?
    • oh my life, is changing every day, in every possible way, and oh my dreams are very quiet it seems
• Christopher Cross:
  • "Sailing" swiftly becomes an Ear Worm even before the lyrics start. It was also a Stealth Parody of what was becoming the "yacht rock" genre, which in 1979 was still something of an informal term.

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.
  • The "Weird Al" Yankovic parody is even more earworm-y.
• Miley Cyrus:
  • "Party in the USA," is an insidious ear worm. It's even worse if you hate the song.
    • "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody Party in the CIA is no better in the Ear Worm department, but at least it's more bearable.
  • 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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