About five years ago I made a mental decision to document all of the songs that get stuck in my head. This might be hard for some people to understand, but when I get something in my head, it usually takes a couple of days for it to wash out, and there’s no telling how it’s going to get in there in the first place: it could be playing on the loudspeaker at the grocery store, it could be used in an Instagram reel, or it could be something that just pops in there. I was curious the other day and decided to make a list of all of the earworm songs I’ve made note of on this site, which was a lot more than I thought it was, 88 in total to date. There are only a few I’m embarrassed by, but typically I’m not in charge of these things.
- Never Enough, The Cure
- Wire, U2
- Regret, New Order
- World (Price of Love), New Order
- Angel, Massive Attack
- Geek Stink Breath, Green Day
- Heavy Metal Suicide, Ringo Deathstarr
- Iris, Goo Goo Dolls
- Fu Manchu, Mongoose
- She Drives Me Crazy, Fine Young Cannibals
- Falling Hard, Crystal Method
- Ladytron, Destroy Everything You Touch
- Dark Neccessities, Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Lights Out, Royal Blood
- Phantogram’s Howling at the Moon
- I’d Really Love to See You Tonight, England Dan & John Ford Coley
- Auto Pilot, Queens of the Stone Age
- Hands All Over, Soundgarden
- Outshined, Soundgarden
- Burden In My Hand, Soundgarden,
- Something’s Always Wrong, Toad the Wet Sprocket
- Light Design, Turnstile
- Never Enough, Turnstile
- Wires, Red Fang
- Blue Light, David Gilmour
- True Widow, Theurgist
- Dreams, Beck
- Daymom, Drop Nineteens
- You Can’t Quit Me Baby, Queens of the Stone Age
- Pull Me Under, Dream Theater
- Apocalypse, Cigarettes After Sex
- A View to a Kill, Duran Duran
- Love Spreads, The Stone Roses
- Then She Did…, Jane’s Addiction
- How to Handle a Rope, Queens of the Stone Age
- Young Americans, David Bowie
- Tristessa, Smashing Pumpkins
- Mexican Moon, Concrete Blonde
- Eurotrash Girl, Cracker
- Spring and Summer, Fall, Blonde Redhead
- Atlas, Battles
- Armageddon It, Def Leppard
- ill peach, BLOOM
- This Conversation is Getting Boring, Acopia
- Beautiful Disaster, 311
- Inertia Creeps, Massive Attack
- My People, The Beaches
- Dirty Movies, Van Halen
- Cemeteries of London, Coldplay
- Council Skies, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
- She Sells Sanctuary, The Cult
- Afterlife, Arcade Fire
- Welcome to the Pleasuredome, Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- Valerie Loves Me, Material Issue
- World Impact, Drug Church
- Sometimes, My Bloody Valentine
- Need You Tonight, INXS
- Golden Brown, The Stranglers
- No Time To Die, Billie Eilish
- Ocean Size, Jane’s Addiction
- Giant Peach, Wolf Alice
- Brushed, Quicksand
- Nothing to See, Miya Folick
- Maria También, Khruangbin
- Fight Test, The Flaming Lips
- SWEET75, Sleigh Bells
- Shotgun, Soccer Mommy
- New York, Richard Ashcroft
- My Own Worst Enemy, Lit
- Lies, Chvrches
- Glamour Profession, Steely Dan
- Guilt, Ringo Deathstarr
- Around the World, Daft Punk
- Music Sounds Better With You, Stardust
- Japan, Tycho
- Don’t Waste My Time, Sault
- Cosmonauts, Quicksand
- Valerie Loves Me, Material Issue
- Two Urns, Windhand
- Party in the USA, Miley Cyrus
- Falling Hard, The Crystal Method
- Sometimes, My Bloody Valentine
- Cure for Pain, Morphine
- You Made It, DJ Shadow
- Here’s What’s left, RJD2
- Saturdays, Cut Copy
- Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime, Beck
- One Too Many Mornings, Chemical Brothers