Ear Worm/Music/DEF

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  • Daft Punk:
    • "Around the world, around the woooorld..."
    • Actually, let's just get it over with and say Daft Punk period.
    • Work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stronger.
      • The Daft Hands video makes it even better. Fast fingers! So fast!
      • Kanye West's sampling of it, followed (for me at least) by it being overplayed everywhere for a whole summer (my work had a radio playing the pop-station for all of summer 2008, and "Stronger" was played at least once an hour for months) made this even worse.
    • I hate to do this to you all, but ONE. MORE. TIME.
    • BUY IT USE IT BREAK IT FIX IT TRASH IT CHANGE IT MELT UPGRADE IT...
  • "My Problem" from Dance Hall Crashers. If you heard the song before and deny it, YOU'RE LYING
  • "Flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger. "I'M NOT SICK, BUT I'M NOT WELL!"
    • This song may not be an earworm for me, but it's got a lot of good memories attached to it, so I never fail to sing it at the top of my lungs whenever it comes on the radio.
  • Danzig: "Mother, tell your children not to walk my way..."
  • DaRude: SANDSTORM.
  • The Darkness: "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" and "Get Your Hands Off My Woman".
  • Dead or Alive: "You spin me right round baby, right round like a record, baby" (was also subject to Memetic Mutation on the Meatspin site. No, I am not going to link to it. Google it yourself, if you dare. More benignly, Spinzaku also got it as his "theme").
  • Def Leppard is pretty much made of this trope. Examples include: "Rock of Ages", "Foolin'", "Bringing on the Heartbreak", "Pour Some Sugar on Me", "Photograph". I could go on for days.
  • How about "Sweet Lullaby" by Deep Forest? "Saso saso ato aro aro..." And the sample by Mauro Picotto in Komodo isn't much better - "save a soul, save a love for a better life..." Do NOT listen to any version of these songs unless you want to find yourself humming the melody at inopportune moments.
  • Deep Purple, "Smoke on the Water".
  • Jason Derulo:
  • Depeche Mode:
  • Dethklok has quite a few:
    • "Go Into the Water"
    • "Thunderhorse"
    • "Dethharmonic"
    • " I jacked off in a doctor's face..."
    • "It tastes like coffee/'cause I had some effing coffee/before I comes down here/to say"
  • My Looney Bun is Fine Benny Lava... (Kalluri Vaanil by Prabhu Deva A.K.A. Benny Lava, to see why go to Mondegreen or Gag Sub)
  • Devo: Now whip it! Into shape! Shape it up! Get straight! Go forward! Move ahead! Try to detect it! It's not too late! To whip it! Whip it good!
  • Come On, Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners. "Too-rye-ay!"
    • That one even lampshades this. One of the lyrics is "you'll hum this tune forever".
    • Save Ferris's version ups the tempo and bounciness and makes it even more fun and, thus, even more of an ear worm.
  • Dethkloks Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle
  • King Diamond: GRANDMA WHAT WAS IT LIIIIIIKE?!? TO BE ON THE HOLIDAY SIIIIIITE?!?
  • Dimmu Borgir, "Blood Hunger Doctrine" - or at least, the beginning part used in this awesome trailer. Daaaaa-dadadaaaa-daaaa-dadadadada...
  • Dido's "Two Times" dodo dodo do, do dodo dodo do do dodo dodo do three times...
  • Dire Straits:
    • "Walk Of Life".
    • The Epic Riff of "Sultans of Swing".
    • 'Money for Nothing' is worse. It's an AWESOME song, and I still overdose on it sometimes...
  • A veteran earworm from Disney Theme Parks - "There's so much * that we share, that it's time we're aware, it's a small world after all..."
    • NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT!
    • Reputedly, scientists made "It's a Small World" as an experiment on catchy tunes. I knew scientists were mad.
    • I can definitely attest to the catchiness of that song, having had it stuck in my head on and off for the last decade after going on the "It's a small world" ride at Disneyland. It just keeps coming back.
    • I believe that its horrifying catchiness was best described by a park employee when she went there - "Don't see 'It's a Small World' unless you want to slit your wrists."
      • In Disneyland, "It's A Small World" is referred to among employees as "The Asylum".
    • Listen to it here, if you dare!
      • And here's a remix from Dance Dance Revolution Disney Mix.
    • The earworminess was parodied (perhaps a little too well) by The Simpsons. "Duff Beer for me, Duff Beer for you, I'll have a Duff, you have one too!" (repeat ad nauseum)
      • According to the DVD commentary, that song originally had two verses, but was shortened to one to make it more annoying (and hence make the gag funnier).
      • I've spent the last 18 years trying to get that song out of my head...thank you very much.
        • It's a Small World's" earworminess was also parodied, briefly, on Family Guy when Stewie wandered away from Peter and was chained to the exhibit.
    • * Another Disney World song that will never leave your head is the Welcome medly, especially the first part.
  • The Distillers were HORRIBLE about this. ( but were no doubt a great band!)
    • I STILL have Coral Fang stuck in my head...
    • How about City of Angels?
    • Ever hear Word Comes Tumblin' Down? You'll be singing it in your Afterlife
    • It's the opening riff and first verse from For Tonight Your Only Here To Know for me. It's just...So awesome...
  • "I Touch Myself" by the Divinyls. ...Shut up.
  • "Dixie". What makes it even worse is that due to its associations with The Confederacy, one dare not sing it, lest you be Mistaken for Racist.
  • Doop, by Doop.
  • Carl Douglas: Everybody was KUNG FU FIGHT-TII-ING, nananana nana na na na!
    • Also, check out Jack Black's cover for Kung Fu Panda.
  • I looked up "Through The Fire And Flames" due to it being on the That One Boss trope. 6 weeks later and it hasn't left my head yet...
    • You think that is an Ear Worm? You don't know Dragonforce ear worms until you listen to Black Winter Night, Once in a Lifetime, and Operation Ground and Pound.
    • MY SOUL AND MY SPIRIT WILL GO OOOOOOOON FOR ALL OF ETERNITYYYYY!
    • This Troper would add "Fury of the Storm" to this list. Heck, a good deal of Dragon Force (video game) music could likely qualify.
  • Dr. Bombay:
    • "I like my sitar, I like my sitar, I play the sitar, sitar, wherever I go, o-o-oh!"
    • "I love to drive the taxi, I like it very much. Even though I have no liscense, I always find the clutch." Calcutta will stay with you forever.
    • Dr Bombay falls under the category of "Annoyingly Catchy Indian". His music will never leave.
    • Some of Dr Bombay's (aka Jonny Jakobsen) work as Dr MacDoo (a faux Scot) and much of his work as Carlito (a faux Mexican) also refuse to leave the brain once heard, as following some of the related suggestions at the My Sitar video will prove.
  • The Dream Academy: A HEY A MA MA MA! (Later That Night) A HEY A MA MA MA HEY-EY-EY-EY-YA! "Life in a Northern Town" A HEY MA MA MA MA!
  • Dschinghis Khan:
  • Hilary Duff (Lizzie McGuire): "Wake up, wake up, on a Saturday night. Could be New York, maybe Hollywood and Vine..."
  • Duffy:
    • I had "Rain On Your Parade" stuck in my head for ages for a long time, so I got the song, and I have to say there is something strangely soothing about an extremely blonde Welsh woman belting out how she's gonna keep on rainin', rainin', rainin' over you.
    • Of course, there's also "Mercy."
  • Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower" can repeat itself over, and over, and over again, especially if you've been watching too much Battlestar Galactica.
  • Doobie Brothers:
    • I have had "China Grove" stuck in his head for months. Not that I'm complaining...
    • "Without love, where would you be now? Without loooooooooooooo-"
    • WHOA LISTEN TO THE MUSIC/WHOA LISTEN TO THE MUSIC/WHOA LISTEN TO THE MUSIC ALL THE TIME
    • I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland, pretty mama come and take me by the hand...
  • The Dead Kennedys:
  • I'm a little surprised that no one's mentioned 'Country Roads, Take Me Home' by John Denver, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert. It's a beautiful song, though it took hearing it in Whisper of the Heart to realize that... I, an American, began to like (some) American country music because I heard it in a Japanese Anime... that's what you call ironic.
  • Pretty much every Doctor Steel song. Subservience has never been so damn catchy.
  • Celine Dion. Titanic's theme. NEAAAAAR, FAAAAAR, WHEREVER YOU ARRRREEE....
  • Dyza Boys bring you "Nekeca" all the way from the Czech Republic.
  • The Dillinger Escape Plan's song "Unretrofied." IIIIIIIIIIIIIII'll just faaaake it in the eeeeeeeend...
  • Dream Theater has some of this in songs such as "Octavarium" (from 12:16 13:49) and "Metropolis, pt. 1" (starting at 5:57).
  • Dane Rumble with his, "how could you be so cruel to me?" Ironic really.
  • Name a Disturbed album, and chances you'll find at least three good Ear Worms. Examples include Stupify, Pain Redefined, and The Night.
    • "Get up, come on, get down with the sickness!"
    • "Livin' isn't just hard enough..."
    • "I am stricken and I can't let you go!"
    • "All that you want is to criticize..."
    • "This is the world we live in..."
    • "A sinner tonight, yeah, yeah!"
    • "Give your soul to me, for eternity!"
    • "Indestructible! Determination that is incorruptible!"
    • "Still, we ravage the world that we love!"
    • "For the animal's soul is mine..."
  • The horrifyingly catchy "Barbra Streisand" by Duck Sauce. I just left the link here, if you find yourself on the brink of gibbering madness after it loops in your brain for the 3000th time, don't blame me...
    • How about the song it samples, "Gotta Go Home" by Boney M? Sure, it's not as simple, but it most certainly IS infectiously catchy.
    • In a similar vein of sampling, "Who The F**k is Wikileaks?" from the "Boney M Goes Club" album.
  • Oh gawd, this troper's Russian partner is indirectly responsible for the brain-stick that is "Про Васю" by Дюна ("About Vasya" by Dyuna/Dune). Doesn't help that it has this cheesetastic post-Soviet cartoon video.
  • You say party I say disco, disco disco party party. Disco. Party. Disco. Party.


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