Ear Worm/Music/GHI

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  • Edvard Grieg's piece In the Hall of the Mountain King is one of those tunes everyone can recognize, but nobody can identify.
  • Gamma Ray: Noooow I knooooow there's a beeeeeeeetter waaaay, let my heeeeaaart ride out for a beeeetter daaaay..." Michael Kiske on vocals seals the deal.
  • Gala: Come, come, come into my life... nobody loves me, nobody loves me enough...
  • Paro, Nakso, Mikono, Syro kai Folegandro. Kriti, Rodo, Ko kai Santorini~ God damn you, Galana. It's even worse since the only words you really can understand if you're not linguistic are Kriti and sleeping bag.
  • Cee-Lo Green's Fuck You is most definitely an Ear Worm.
  • A lot of stuff by Gackt. Most notably, Vanilla, and his latest release, Ghost. I have had the latter on repeat since the song came out (which was nine days ago as of when this was written).
    • I see your Vanilla and Ghost, and raise you U+ K, Redemption, Illness Illusion, Kono Daremo Inai Heya De, and Orenji no Taiyou.
    • Oh, and now also Koakuma Heaven. Dear god it's catchy...
  • Everyone has their own songs; I have Cherry Lips by Garbage stuck in my head.
    • First encounter with that song was this one. Hard to be an ear worm when you're laughing to hard.
    • "I would die for you, I would die for you, I've been dying just to feel you by my side..." #1 Crush is one addictive song... Damn you, Garbage.
    • "I'm only happy when it rains, I'm only happy when it's complicated..."
  • Genesis: "She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah, she reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart..."
  • Curse you, Genki Rockets, and your ever catchy "Heavenly Star"! This troper and her sister jokingly refer to it as "No More Ear Worm" after listening to it during a pre-livestream of No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
  • Girls Aloud. I'm just a love machine, feeding my fantasy, give me a kiss or three...
  • "Centerfold" by the J Geils Band (Or Captain Jack if you're a DDR fan). Not even the whole song--just the "nah nah nah nana nah" part.
    • "My blood runs cold/ My memories have just been sold! / (na na nananana) My angel is a centerfold..."
      • What makes it worse is that it predicts that it'll be stuck in your head. Why do you think someone's whistling the aforementioned part at the very end?
    • "Fright Night, who's it going to be tonight, lock your doors and windows tight, soon you'll all belive i'm right."
    • I've been through diamonds! I've been through minks! I've been through it all! ...LOVE STINKS.
  • Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll, Part Two" arguably manages to be one of these...despite having no lyrics whatsoever except "Hey!"
    • Which was remixed very successfully as Doctorin' the TARDIS ten years later. Its arguably even catchier than the original. Even now, I can't hear the original Rock and Roll Part II without wanting to sing "Doctor Whoooooo HEY Doctor Who, Doctor Whooooo BOSH BOSH The TARDIS" over the top of it.
  • The Go-Gos: "Vacation" ...vacation, all I ever wanted...
    • "Our Lips Are Sealed"
      • "We Got the Beat"
  • So many Goldfrapp songs.
  • Selena Gomez:
  • Gorillaz: "I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad, I got sunshine in a bag, I'm useless, but not for long, the future is comin' on Its comin on it's comin on" Sorry, I'm a 2000s kid.
    • This troper was hiking in the Grand Canyon and could not get this or Clint Eastwood out of her head. For four days. FOUR DAYS.
    • Windmill, windmill for the land, Turn forever hand in hand... AAARRRGGHHH.
    • The song is not the same when we're all played out, played out, all played oooouuuut!
    • M1A1! Thousand miles an hour! Gorillaz got the bass drum! Gorillaz say I want some, some!
    • She turned my dad on, she turned my dad on, dad on, dad on!!!
    • Go get the cool, get the cool shoe shine...
    • It's coming up, it's coming up, it's dare. (OOOH!)
    • "Kids With Guns"
  • Gotye: "Now you're just somebody that I used to know..."
    • "We walk the plank with our eyes wide open, we..."
  • I'm just pulling on a line, on a line ... Oh, I'm just pulling on a line. I'm just pulling on a line, on a line ... and sometimes it pulls on me. Curse you, Great Lake Swimmers. Curse you.
  • From Green Day:
    • "Sometimes I give myself the creeps, sometimes my mind plays tricks on me..."
    • "Do you know the enemy? Do you know your enemy? Well, gotta know the enemy, whoa ay (whoa ay whoa ay!)"
    • The opening of "Brain Stew".
    • Gloooria! Viva la Glooorrriiia!
    • My shadow's the only one that walks beside me, my shallow heart's the only thing that's beating...
    • One... Twenty-one guns!
    • Don't wanna be an AMERICAN IDIOT!
    • 'Cause you know where I'll be found...WHEN I COME AROUND..."
    • Red alert is the color of your paper valentines, intertwined on this moment passing by...
    • 'Cause I wanna be the minority! I don't need your authority!
    • Castaway, goin' at it alone/Castaway, now I'm on my own...
    • "There's something unpredictable/ But in the end is right/ I hope you had the time of your life..."
    • "City of the damned, lost children with dirty faces today..."
    • "The world owes me, so fuck you."
    • "I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies..."
    • "I'm not fucking around!"
    • "A fire burns today of blasphemy and genocide..."
    • "Bite my lip and close my eyes! Take me away to paradise!"
    • "Pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes!"
    • "Seventeen and strung out on confusions..."
    • "I'n on a roll! No self-control!"
    • "It's not over till you're underground..."
  • Guns N' Roses:
    • "Sweet Child o' Mine". Hell, you just need the opening licks...
    • "Welcome to the jungle, watch you break into your - shananananana - knees, knees!"
    • "Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty!"
    • "I'm on a Nightrain, bottoms up! I'm on a Nightrain, fill my cup!"
    • "We've been dancing, with Mr. Brownstone!"
    • "Just a little patience, yeah, yeah..."
    • "I used to love her, but I had to kill her..."
    • "Better" is, arguably, though Your Mileage May Vary for that one (and the rest of Chinese Democracy).
    • Cornshucker, Real buttfuckah!
  • Gunther: Oh, you touchin' my tra la la...
  • "Voodoo" by Godsmack, the earworm to zombify other earworms. That it's a rhythmic infinite chant definitely helps.
    • "I'm doing the best I ever did..."
    • "I'm alive, for you I'm awake..."
    • "I! STAND ALONE!"
    • "Straight out of line, I can't find a reason..."
    • "Speak the truth, or make your peace some other way..."
    • "Shine Down, don't take it away from me, no..."
    • "I, am realizing, that everybody's lost there simple ways..."
    • "Good times, bad times, you know I've had my share..."
    • "I'm feeling okay with my whiskey hangover..."
    • "And so, you tell me I, can't take my chances, but I told you one too many times, that you were crying like a bitch!"
    • "Love, Hate, Sex, Pain, it's complicating me sometimes..."
  • GWAR: "-died, and they died, and they died, and they died..."
  • Selena Gomez And The Scene
  • Lesley Gore: "Sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows..."
  • Ellie Goulding: "You shine the lights that stop me, I turn to stone..."

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My Girlfriend: I can't believe you spent my iTunes money on something called Frog Machine.
Me: It had to be done.

    • Speaking of Infected Mushroom, Meduzz. The part with the strings (4:42). Incidentally, it's also awesome.
    • I'M BECOMING INSANE INSANE INSANE INSANE INSANE I'M BECOMING INSANE INSANE INSANE INSANE INSANE
  • From Iron Maiden:
    • "Run to the Hills"
    • "The Number of the Beast"
    • Try listening to "The Nomad" and not having either the chorus or the Eastern-sounding riff out of your head.
    • "Fear of the dark, fear of the dark..."
    • TWO! MINUTES! TO MIIIIDNIIIIIIIGHT!
    • EL DORADO COME AND PLAY
    • "From Here to Eternity". It's widely derided by fans for its Motley Crue-esque sound, but you can't deny it's catchy ("HELL! Ain't a bad place! HELL IS FROM HERE TO ETERNITY!).
  • Islands, Rough Gem; try not to whistle it all day.
  • What about Iggy Pop's Passenger? "I am a passenger, and I ride and ride..." Really tough to get it out of one's head.
    • While we're in Iggy and The Stooges, "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "Search and Destroy," "Lust for Life," and "Nightclubbing."
  • Iyaz's "Replay" (a song about earworms - and love - at that); even worse if you listen to its "Polka Face" re-arrangement.

"Shawty's like a melody in my head, that I can't keep out, got me singin' like, na na na na everyday, it's like my iPod stuck on replay, replay-ay-ay-ay...

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  1. ↑ The "artist" in the video is Adolf Hitler, but the singer is Patrick Hernandez
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