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• Cowboy Casanova by Carrie Underwood. I have had it in my head for the last week and can't get rid of it. It doesn't help that I love the song in question.
  • "Undo It" and "Good Girl" also qualify, being candy-coated, Shania Twain-esque up-tempo romps in the same vein.
• U2 have a few.
  • The intro riff of "Sunday Bloody Sunday".
  • Hello, hello...(Hola!)...We're at a place called Vertigo... (¿Como estas?)
    • Uno! Dos! Tres! Catorce!
  • It's a beautiul day!
  • A MOLE!/Diggin in a HOLE!/Diggin' in my soul now, goin' down, Ex-ca-vation!/I and I/In the sky/You make me feel like I can fly!/So high!/EL-E-VA-TION!
  • All because of You/Allllll because of You/All because of You/I am!
  • Get on your boots!...
    • LET ME IN THE SOUND
  • But I know I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight!
  • In the name of looooove, what more? In the name of love!
  • With or with out youuuuuu WITH OR WITH OUT YOUUU OOHH
  • If you walk away walk away, I'll walk away walk away. I will follow!
  • All is quiet, ON NEW YEAR'S DAY
  • But I stiiill haven't foooound what I'm looking foooor.......
  • One love...
  • it's alright alright it's ALRIGHT she moves in mysterious ways
  • I was booooooooooorn, I was boooooooooooorn, to be with you, in this space and time...
  • Give me one more chance, and you'll be satisfied...
• Keith Urban, "I Told You So". It's all in the Uilleann pipes and heavily-layered snare drums — check out the snare drum solo near the end.
• Uriah Heep - She came to me one morning, one lonely Sunday morning...
• Usher. That is all.
• Utada Hikaru:
  • Sanctuary
  • How dare you mention Utada Hikaru without mentioning Simple And Clean. That song has been stuck in this troper's head since it was first AIRED.
  • Heart Station
  • Prisoner Of Love
  • Come Back To Me
  • Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence FYI
  • Passion
• The Union Underground, so very much. Not complicated, just rockin':
  • Move to the music! Play the fuckin' music!
  • C'mon, c'mon! C'mon, get up, get up! South Texas Deathride, you motherfuck!
• "The Ugly Duckling": There once was an ugly duckling, with feathers all stubby and brown...etc!
• Ultravox. OHHHH, VIENNA!

V

• Videokids' Woodpeckers from space!! Ha-ha-ha-HA-ha!!
• You're just too good to be true.. Can't take my eyes off of you... (Frankie Valli, the version of the video is from 10 Things I Hate About You, sung by the late Heath Ledger)
• Van Halen:
  • "Jump"
  • "Panama"
  • "Girl. You really got me now. You got me so I don't know what I'm doing"
    • The Magic Roundabout even paid homage to that one, with Dylan doing an impromptu rock-out.
  • AIN'T TALKIN' 'BOUT LOVE! My love is rotten to the core!
• Tom's frickin Diner - Suzanne Vega. The remix version with all the "duh duh duh-duh, duh duh duh-duh, duh duh duh-duh duh duh-duh duhs"
• Veggie tales: "He needed first aid, in the first grade. First aaaaaid, in the first graaade. First aaaiiiiiid, in the first graaaaaaaaade.......... YOU COULD BUY A ZOO WITH ALL THE DOCTOR BILLS HE PAID!
• Velvet Revolver:
  • "Just Sixteen"
  • "YEAH! Here comes the water!"
  • "Roll over right! Keep it through the night! Right! Right! Keep it through the night!"
• Pretty much the whole of The Velvet Underground's Loaded. "Sweet Jane!"
  • I'm sticking with you/cos I'm made out of glue...
• Do You Wanna Fight Me? by Venus Hum. Good Lord, that song will STICK WITH YOU EVERWHERE!
  • Luckily, the lyrics are easy to learn and remember, so it usually won't drive you TOO bonkers...
    • Do you wanna fight me?/With your one good leg/And do you think you can beat me?/Why don't you wait until you get out of bed?
    • Now you're throwing frantic punches at the rate of slow/If you break in half then you could let it go/You're 80 pounds of wreckage in a mason jar/You're a bit combustible don't break...
• Vertical Horizon:
  • "You're a god, and I am not, and I just thought that you were wrong..."
  • "He's everything you want, he's everything you need..."
• By Vitamin C: As we go on... we remember... So cheesy. So overdone. SO CATCHY!
• Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, especially the first movement of Spring.
• Village People
  • How have we gotten this far without mentioning "Y.M.C.A."?
  • "They want you! They want you! They want you as a new recruit!" Also, the clapping to said lyrics makes "In the Navy" very ear wormy.
• Violent Femmes:
  • When I'm walkin', I strut my stuff, I am so strung out! I'm high as a kite, I just might stop to check you out! Let me go on like a blister in the sun, let me go on, like a blister in the sun!
  • Do you like American music?
• VNV Nation Perpetual. LET THERE BE, LET THERE ALWAYS BE, NEVERENDING LIGHT!
• "Now the sons of the Prophet are brave men and bold, and quite unaccustomed to fear..."
• No love for any Vocaloid songs I see...
  • Daughter of Evil (and all its series, fanversions, and whatsoever, including parodies), Alice Human Sacrifice (which possibly makes a meta-reference in Kaito's part), I Wish They'd Just Die (SHINE BA II NO NI), Cantarella (both versions)... And these are only the creepy ones. Not to mention World is Mine (Kaito's version too), Love is War (awesome Kaito version, as well as a Sweet Ann one, called Love is Brainwash), Breathe (despite being a bit less popular, like most Gakupo songs), Toeto, The Gambler... AND MAGNET. OH MY GOD. FREAKING MAGNET. That because I didn't mention the yaoi versions for Magnet, Dreaming Little Bird and Cantarella, as they're personal taste. Oh, and there are more... but the list would be a bit long.
  • We Are Pop Candy, PoPiPo. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
  • PANSU NUGERU MON PANSU NUGERU MON NEE!!!!!
  • ITSUDEMO I LOVE YOU, KIMINITEKU KISS ME...
  • JAPANESE NINJA NUMBA ONE!
  • Creepy Toast.
  • MERUTO, tokete shimaisou...
  • "Kokoro". Both versions. If you're in a downer mood, you do NOT want either stuck in your head.
  • Kaito's cover of Take On Me. This Troper can't bloody get it out of her head.
  • Megurine Luka's Just Be Friends.. FULL. STOP.
    • Luka's secret is extremly catchy, even if noone has any idea what its about...
  • KA-KU YU-U GO RO NI SA...
  • Vocaloid Lily's song demo is pretty damn catchy, too.
  • Len's "Paradichlorobenzene" and Rin's "Antichlorobenzene" are earworms when played separately or together as a duet.
  • SPICE!. Nigakute hot-na spice / Kimi dake ni ima ageru yo / Muchuu ni saseru boku no taste o / Karada juu de...kanjite!
  • Also the song Dark Woods Circus. That wonderful creepy awesome chord this troper can't get out of her head. But it's so awesome that this troper loves it even more when it gets stuck in her head.
  • Maguro Tabetai ("I want to eat tuna"), a catchy and cute song in which Luka sings about different kinds of tuna.
  • "Ore No Roadroller Da!", by Rin and Len. "Kiiroi buttoi roodororaa, kiiroi buttoi roodororaa..."
  • If it's sung by a Vocaloid, it's automatically an Ear Worm. Any song, any cover, it's an earworm.
    • Yeah, it's probably better that we stated that. Unless we want a new, separate page for Vocaloid Ear Worms?
• Voltaire:
  • When You're Evil
  • Pick ANY song by Voltaire. Headless Waltz, Anastasia, Land of the Dead, Vampire Club - The latter being hilarious as well as catchy.
    • Goodnight Demon-Slayer is not only catchy, but oh man is it so sweet! I will sing it to my children. Every single night.
  • Oh, Voltaire... am I ever going to get Dead Girls, BRAINS!, or Hell in a Handbasket out of my head? Probably not....
  • Or Ex Lover's Lover. Bonus points for going shopping with a similarly afflicted friend and finding yourself among the potatoes, singing in perfect harmony about doing unspeakable things to corpses.
  • Alchemy Mondays.
  • DEATH, DEATH, DEVIL DEVIL DEVIL DEVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL SONGS...
  • Coin Operated Goi, his Affectionate Parody of the Dresden Dolls
• Despite its serious subject matter, "Shasta" by Vienna Teng is incredibly catchy. So far, so good...

W

• "Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses. Yes, as a Christmas song, it only gets radio play a couple months out of the year, but it's still liable to suddenly pop in your head for no good reason in, say, mid-July. And of course the same band gave us the equally earwormy "I Know What Boys Like".
  • After working in a retail establishment where this song was played between two and four times a day for the entire month of December, I no longer fear Hell.
    • Nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah... nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah...
• Tom Waits:
  • "I Like My Town...with a little drop of, poison"
  • We sail tonight for Singapore, we're all as mad as hatters here...
  • Well the moon is broken, and the sky is cracked. Come on up to the house...
  • Faalliinn' doooooooooooooooown....
  • I'll see you tonight on a downtown train
• Boom Boom Acka lacka Boom Boom, from Was (Not Was). I heard it once. Now it's whenever my mind goes blank. (Try meditating with that song in your head.)
• War:
  • "All. My. Friends. Know the low rider. Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah waaaah!"
  • So, we all agree that "Low Rider" is infinitely more awesome than "Why Can't We Be Friends?"
    • War's Ear Worms are pretty potent in general. If keyboardist Lonnie Jordan is to be believed, Bob Marley himself found the horn riff from "Slippin' into Darkness" so catchy he turned it into the main hook for "Get Up, Stand Up."
    • Interestingly, this Troper uses "Low Rider" as a cure for OTHER Ear Worms.
    • Also, "The Cisco Kid... waaaaas a frieeened of miii-iine..."
• Eleven Saints by Jason Webley. Man oh man, what's that guy got in his hand/ it's a egg, it's a spoon, it's a snapshot of the moon~
• We The Kings:
  • We'll write a song/That turns out the lights/When both boy and girl start suddenly shaking inside
  • Run, baby, run...
• Weezer matches their simple, catchy tunes and rocking choruses to some memorable videos, creating very persistent Ear Worms.
  • "Pork and Beans" is the strongest yet, because its video references a hurricane of other memes off YouTube. I have had nothing else in my head for five days.
  • What's with these HOM-ies dissing my girl? Why do they got-ta front? (doo-dee-doo-dee-doooo) What did we Ev-er do to these guys, that made them SO vi-o-lent?
  • Like father, stepfather, the son is drowning in the flooooooooooooooooooood...
  • "Lying on the floor! Lying on the floor, I've come undone!"
  • On an island in the sun, we'll playing and having fun...
  • I'm a troublemaker, never been a faker, I don't got the patience to keep it on the up. KEEP IT ON THE UP!
  • You got your big G's, I've got my hash pipe!
  • Beverly Hills! That's where I want to be!
  • Giiirl, if you're wondering if I want you to... I want you to...
  • The intro to Dope Nose, anyone? OH-oh! OH-oh OH-oh-oh! OH-oh OH-oh-oh! Oh, oh, oh!
• Ooh, West End town in a dead end world/The East End boys and the West End girls... bum-bum-bum, badum-badum...
• "Weird Al" Yankovic:
  • "Hey, everyone, listen up! Your attention, if you please!"
  • "Put your head in the microwave and give yourself a tan..."
  • "Doooon't download this so-ong!"
  • "You can use your ESP to learn to play guitar! Midnight Star, I wanna know, I wanna know!"
  • "I was driving on the freeway in the fast lane with a rabid wolverine in my underwear when suddenly..."
  • The polka medleys. All of them. Take bits and pieces from a whole bunch of songs that are already earwormy in and of themselves, and add infectiously peppy accordion music. The combination is lethal.
  • Never had a date, that you couldn't inflate... and you smell repulsive too...
  • That's your horoscope for today! Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah! That's your horoscope for today!
  • VIRUS ALERT!. Hoo boy. Also prone to Memetic Mutation, as people have actually made clip shows to the tune of it, using sources such as Kingdom Hearts (the Tron-themed level, naturally) and Ed Edd N Eddy.
  • I lost on Jeopardy, BABY! Oohoohooh... (I ask you, why would my sister think that's good music to DANCE TO?!)
  • Don't you tell me you're full. Just Eat It...
  • It's Christmas at Ground Zero. The button has been pressed. The radio just let us know that this is not a test.
  • Jurassic Park is frightening in the dark, all the dinosaurs are ruuuuunning wild...
  • Well, everybody (everybody) everybody (everybody) everybody in the world really hates my ringtone!
  • HEY HEY DO THAT HEBREW THING!!
  • Try the rye or the kaizer or the wheat or the white, maybe I can suggest an appetizer?
  • We've been spending most our lives living in an Amish Paradise...
  • Like a surgeon, HEY! Cuttin' for the very first time...
  • They see me mow-inng mah front lawwwwn...
  • Everything you know is wrong! Black is white, up is down and short is long!
  • So we head out the front door, open the garage door, then we open the car doors, then we get in those car doors, put my key in the ignition, and then I turn it sideways, then we fasten our seatbelts, as we pull out the driveway, and we drive to the drive-thru, heading off to the drive-thru, we're approaching the drive-thru, getting close to the drive-thru, almost there at the drive-thru, now we're here at the drive-thru, here in line at the drive-thru, did I mention the drive-thru?
  • I'm a tooooour guide, on the Jungle Cruise ride, Skipper Dan is my na-ame...
• Kanye West:
  • Now I ain't sayin' she a gold digger, but she ain't messin' with no broke- broke- ah....
  • Now that don't kill me can only make me stronger
  • As I recall, I know you love to show off but I never thought that you would take it this far. What do I know? Flashing lights, lights.
  • Now keep your love locked down, your love locked down Now keep your love locked down. You lose.
• Wham!: "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
• Your Woman by White Town. It strikes me as odd that a song about a girl ditching a guy because he's an idiot (the song is sung by a male, and the most common theory about the gender switch in the lyrics is that he's sarcastically reading a Dear John letter) can become so catchy... to a man.
• "SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE! (THAT CIGARETTE)" by Tex Williams. also know as that catchy song at the start of Thank You for Smoking
• Amy Winehouse: "They tried to make me go to rehab, I said no, no, no..."
• The German a cappella group Wiseguys has a song entitled "Ohrwurm" about one of these songs. The song itself doubles as one.
• The Who:
  • "TEENAGE WASTELAND, IT'S ONLY TEENAGE WASTELAND, TEENAGE WASTELAND, IT'S ONLY TEENAGE WASTELAND, THEY'RE ALL WASTED!"
    • The organ and violin riffs are almost as catchy as the main melody.
  • People try to put us down (talkin' bout' my generation!)
  • Whooooo are you?
  • That deaf, dumb, and blind kid/Sure plays a mean pinball!
  • Love, rain o'er me
  • Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday...
• This remix by Waldoman. It's so random, it's impossible to put a sample of it on the page... But it WILL follow you.
• Wonder Girls:
  • Tell me, tell me, t-t-t-t-t-tell me~
  • "I want nobody nobody but you" * clap* clap* * clap* "I want nobody nobody but you" * clap* clap* * clap* ...
• The Wombats:
  • "Tales of girls and boys and marsupials..."
  • "I'm back in Liverpool/and everything seems the same/but I worked somethin' out last night/that changed this little boy's brain"
  • "Carrots help us see much better in the dark, don't talk to girls/they'll break your heart..
  • Short skirts, long hair, my hormones flying everywhere!