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  • Talking Heads:
  • T-ara:
  • "All the Things She Said" by T.A.T.U.
  • Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.
  • "My Girl," by The Temptations. Insanely catchy. Thank goodness it's a good song...
  • Pick a Tenacious D song.
    • How about "Spiderman" or "He Flies", neither of which have been given a real release yet... and "He Flies" was my favorite from the old TV Show.
    • And the interesting thing about the song we played that night is it didn't actually sound anything like this song! This is just a tribute, you've got to believe...
    • A long-ass fuckin' time ago in a town called Kickapoo/There lived a humble family, religious through and through/But yea, there was a black sheep/and he knew just what to do...
    • I DOOOO NOT NEEEED A MICROPHOONE!!!!
    • The guitar riff from "The Metal". It will never leave, IT WILL NEVER LEAVE!
  • Where oh where should we begin with the catalog of They Might Be Giants.
    • The one, the only, the classic: "Birdhouse In Your Soul." I heard this song without even knowing who They Might Be Giants were, and STILL found myself humming this infuriatingly catchy melody for weeks afterwards.
    • "Don't don't don't let's start, I've got a weak heart, and I don't get around how you get around..."
    • Many of the songlets in the "Fingertips" ensemble have the potential to run on infinite loop in your head—even worse since they're so short. "Please pass the milk, please!" "Mysteeeerious whisper!"
      • The worst one, the one that you'll want to sing but the one that will get the weirdest looks: "I'm having a heart attack..."
    • Particle Man...doing the things a particle can...When he goes into the water, does he get wet or does the water get him instead?
    • Many of their covers are Ear Worms too.
      • Its best and most persistent Ear Worm, however, is Istanbul [not Constantinople]: "...was once Constantinople, it's been a long time gone, Constantinople...old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can't say: I guess people just liked it better that way...why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks'!
      • The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace...
    • A bit personal, but I I typically get the opening riff to "Ana Ng" stuck in my head. There's one other that gets caught in my head frequently... if you can't guess it by looking, you wouldn't know it.
    • You're not the Boss of me, now. You're not the Boss of me, now, and You're not. so. big. Life is unfair...
    • You know how children's songs are often insanely catchy? TMBG wrote "Never Go to Work", buried innocuously in a kid's video podcast: "On Monday, I never go to work/On Tuesday,I stay at home...". Just try to avoid humming it when you get up at the start of the week.
    • And I am a snake head eating the head on the opposite siiiiiide/ I palindrome I. (Man-o-nam)I palindrome I.
    • "It's for this experimental film, that nobody knows about but which..."
    • "The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas." Ugh. For cruel, complicated reasons I once had that song blasted at me over and over again for almost an hour, and to this day it remains pleasurable and painful at the same time.
    • Call me Dr Ear Worm...good morning, how are you, I'm Dr Worm.
    • "I'm having a wonderful time, but I'd rather be whistling in the dark."
    • This troper's son is a big fan of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse which features this theme and "Hot Dog". "M I C K E Y M O U S E" is still in my head at work later in the day.
    • Timothy Mc Sweeney, Timothy Mc Sweeney! He puts the pen to paper and he writes things down! Timothy Mc Sweeney, Timothy Mc Sweeney! He puts the pen to paper and he gets things done!
    • "The Statue Got Me High," "Purple Toupee," "The Guitar," "She's an Angel," "Your Racist Friend"... there are so many!
    • How about "Thunderbird"? "I know, I know, I said that I would quit/All right, I promise, no more after this/You don't know how I've tried/To forget what it was like..."
    • This troper's teacher showed my math class a song by them called "Older". Every. Single. Kid. was singing "You're older then you've ever been, and now your even older..." by the end of the class.
    • "We're The Mesopotamians; Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh..."
  • Third Eye Blind:
  • Three Weird Sisters: Song of Fey Cross. You can't listen to it just once if you like Fantasy or folk music at all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zv_gNtnj9E
  • Sirozine pirozine (Сирожине пирожине) by ТІК. You probably don't even speak Ukrainian, and it still won't leave your head. Hell, one in every three of their songs is an Ear Worm.
  • Timbaland pretty much is this trope.
  • Tina Turner's 'River Deep, Mountain High'. Times it by ten when it's sung by the Glee cast.
  • Ting Tings:
    • Ahem. THAT'S NOT MY NAME! THAT'S NOT MY NAME! THAT'S NOT MY NAME! THAT'S NOT MY NAME! THEY CALL ME HELL! THEY CALL ME STACEY!...
    • The drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums...
    • I ain't freakin', I ain't fakin' this...
  • Anyone who was a raver in the 90's will certainly remember having Tiny Tot - Discoland stuck in their heads for a while, particularly that "heeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" hook.
  • "Big in Japan" by Tokia.
  • In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight!
    • it's by The Tokens, and the title is The Lion Sleeps Tonight or if you're listening to the older version by Solomon Linda, it's called Mbube. I put it here because The Tokens' Version is the most famous one in the West.
  • "It's okay to be gay". Tomboy's annoyingly catchy song is probably not safe for work but is quite the Earworm.
  • Surfin' Bird by The Trashmen. "Well everybody's heard, about the bird..."
  • Tommy Tutone. "Jenny, I got your number/I need to make you mine/Jenny, I got your number/867-5309..."
  • Tool:
  • Toto: "It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you! I bless the rains down in Africa..." That Chuck episode didn't help, either.
  • Touch and Go: * I've noticed you around... I find you very attractive... Would you go to bed with me?
  • Toy Box: "I am a superstar with a big big house and a big big car. I am a superstar and I don't care who you are."
  • Train:
    • "Drops of Jupiter": Now that she's back in the atmosphere/with drops of Jupiter in her hair/She acts like summer and walks like rain/reminds me that there's a time to change yeah/Since her return from her stay on the moon/she listens like Spring and she talks like June yeah....
    • HEY SOUL SISTER/AIN'T THAT MISTER MISTER ON THE RADIO
    • IF I'M ADDICTED TO LOVING YOU, AND YOU'RE ADDICTED TO MY LOVE TOO, WE CAN BE THEM TWO BIRDS OF A FEATHEEEEER THAT FLOCK TOGETHEEEER
    • "Well, she wants to be the queen! Then she thinks about her scene!"
    • "And AAAAAAAAH-Ay-I'm, calling all angeee-els!"
  • Trey Songz: Bottoms up, bottoms up, what's in your cup, got a couple bottles but a couple ain't enough...
  • Tool: Shine ON FOREVER, SHINE ON BENEVOLENT SON! SHINE DOWN UPON THE SEVERED, SHINE UNTIL THE TWO BECOME ONE!
  • Da Da Da! (by Trio)
  • Turisas, a folk-metal band, did a cover of the Disco song Rasputin by Boney M... It is one of the oddest mashups of genres ever (metal, folk AND disco? You'd never think it could possibly work) but it is just so damn catchy, especially the chorus RA-RA-RASPUTIN, Lover of the Russian queen....
  • A large number of Shania Twain songs: "Any Man of Mine," "Honey, I'm Home," "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!" and "Up!" in particular are some of the biggest for this troper.
  • The Tweets: It's cruel to even mention it but... The Birdie Song (or Chicken Dance, if you prefer).
    • I can attest to this with gusto. This song has been in my head since I were four years old. Anytime there's a lull in conversation I can be heard humming it. I'm considering suicide, if my friends don't kill me first.
    • I third this, especially since it was pretty much the only song played at the Wurstfest she attended last year.
  • LOLLI LOLLI LOLLI LOLLI LET ME SEE YOU POP THAT BODY (by Three 6 Mafia).
  • The The have a few examples:
  • Tommy James and the Shondells' most famous song, Crimson & Clover. Or is it just because of the ending where it sounds broken?
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