I wonder if anybody ever committed suicide due to earworms. I can sure understand if they have. I get it bad, so bad that I’ve built up an extensive library of successive antidotes to earworms, each of which became the new earworm. I’ll leave an example here, Dissidenten’s Sahara Elektrik, which I was stuck with for three months. It’s very beautiful (IMO) in a very quirky way. I listened to about three seconds of it just now, to confirm sound quality, that’s all I dared risk.
This affliction would be bad enough to make me do drugs, if not for … but I digress…
The Chicken Dance!
You are the dancing queen
Young and sweet
Only seventeen
Dancing queen
Feel the beat of the tambourine
You can dance
You can jive
Having the time of your life
See that girl
Watch that scene
Digging the dancing queen
Blue Oyster Cult’s Don’t Fear the Reaper, or anyone’s version of Istanbul (Not Constantinople)…
This is the song that never ends,
Yes it goes on and on my friends,
Some people started singing it,
Not knowing what it was,
And now they’ll be forever signging it,
forever just because…
This is the song that never ends,
Yes it goes on and on my friends,
Some people started singing it,
Not knowing what it was,
And they’ll continue singing it,
forever just because…
Damn you!
Mahna Mahna…
And IIIIII will always love YYYYYOOOOUUUUU
Legen . . . dary!
Single Ladies has been getting me lately.
Someone posted Caramelldansenin one of these threads a year or two ago, and I have to agree, it is devlish. Not only amazingly catchy, but in Swedish, so I can’t sing in hopes of exorcising it.
It’s also become one of my daughter’s favorite songs.
Right now I’ve got Why Does the Sun Shine, which is sticky but not unpleasant.
The cow kicked Nelly in the belly last night
The cow kicked Nelly in the belly last night
The cow kicked Nelly in the belly last night
The doctor said everything’ll be all right
Second verse, same as the first
A little bit louder and a whole lot worse…
I was directed to this song in another thread nearly a month ago.
It’s still living with me.
Every single day.
I just had an A-Ha moment…
Oh, hell…! I might as well go get started on making Christmas presents for next year now. 
Most of my persistent earworms are instrumental, like Spyro Gyra’s Morning Dance, for example.
If I hear it while I’m out shopping at the grocery store, it will be with me for hours. At least it’s cheerful.
MrSquishy, I’m Your’s is insanely catchy. My son did a cover of it at a recent performance, and both his and the original version by Jason Mraz run through my head pretty often.
Tom’s Diner. The glass-parking-lot nuke of earworms.
Same here! I had never even HEARD of this song, and now it creeps up on me a LOT!
Wow, turns out the Megan Mullally I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter ad is snipped from an I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter music video
That was the first thing I thought of too
Amateurs.
The Name Game beats all the above. (The link may not be right, at work, so not checking the video search results, just took the most likely-looking one. Plus, no way do I want to be infected with that particular earworm merely to contribute to this thread, it’s very potent.)
A comedian had a riff about how potent an earworm it is, you think you have it out of your head, and then just the slightest word will set it off again. You could be at the store:
“Hey, thanks!” Thanks, bo banks …
Dammit! Dammit, bo bammmit …
stop, stop bo bop …
I do believe I have won.
I like this little song! Can anyone tell me who it is?
[bassline]do do do do do do do do[/bassline]
[lead]DO DO DO DO[/lead]
She was more like a beauty queen
From a movie scene
I said don’t mind but what do you mean,
I am the one?
Who would dance on the floor in a round?
(and here we go…)