"The Candyman." All Things Considered did a piece on the song virus/ear worm phenomenon and cited this song, which led to tons and tons of listener mail complaining about having caught said earworm.
"Pure Imagination."
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Remember the medal ceremony theme from the original Star Wars?
While the original opening theme is sure catchy, the song from the Mos Eisley Cantina is even more so.
If you think the original version of the Imperial March is an earworm, try the Kuricorder Quartet's cover. (And yes, those are indeed the people behind the Azumanga Daioh soundtrack.)
While probably not its actual origin, the taunt song from Remember The Titans gets stuck in many people's heads. Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye.
It's called "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." It's treated as a Chorus-Only Song for earworm purposes, but the verses aren't bad.
Imagine Me & You ends the movie with the same song (which is actually titledHappy Together), making it an almost sure thing for you to be singing that song for the next two hours or more.
Allow me to introduce myself — The name's Worm. Ear Worm. Not to mention the various title themes, especially "Another Way to Die". Love it or hate it, you will not get that opening guitar riff out of your head for at least a week.
Thanks to Wall E, a whole new generation will go around humming "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" inanely. "And we won't come home until we've kissed the giiirrrrll!"
When you're standing in front of Cinderella Castle in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, sometimes they will play an instrumental version of this song. A bright, cheery, whistly tune.
Also the Buy 'n' Large theme, although that was probably completely intentional.
"It Only Takes A Moment" is kind of one too, though it's a less peppy song.
A MOOOOOOMEEEEENT TOOOO BEEEE LOOOOVEEEED!!
Also the song that plays over the end credits: Peter Gabriel's Down to Earth.
Also, a particular part of Italian Spiderman 's music (it's the part where the long-haired guy is looked really wide-eyed at a knocked out/dead girl that had been killed by Captain Maximum.
Also from the Pythons, every song from Meaning of Life. Especially the intro song, the penis song (which is horribly difficult not to sing at work when you get bored and remember the all the words), and Every Sperm is Sacred. But the worst offender of this trope is the Galaxy song
There's another song of the same name. Gets stuck just as easily.
There's a Mandarin dialect Hokkien song that's hit earworm status by keeping with the premise of If I Were A Rich Man. The refrain translates into "If I had a million dollars" then goes on to talk about flying to America, or Japan, just to eat sushi...
For that matter, Psycho Strings themselves are an earworm.
Dun dun dun dun DUN dun dun dun Dun dun dun dun DUN dun dun dun Dun dun dun dun DUN dun duuun dun. Dramatic Pause. — "Future Markets"
"Would you believe in the burden of sin? There's power in the blooood! Power in the blooood! Would you o'er evil a victory win? There's wonderful power in the blood! There is poooower, poooower, wonder-working power, in the bloooooood! Of the laaaaaamb! There is pooooower, pooooower, wonder-working power, in the bloooood! Of the laaaaaamb!"
Single Mom's part of "We Started This Op'ra Shit".
"Needle Into a Bug" and anything Nathan sings, especially "Let The Monster Rise" and "Legal Assassin".
"SEVENTEEN, and I'm freer than sixteen!"
"Gold. It makes the world go round...". Also, "Zydrate anatomy", "Mark it Up", "We started this Op'ra Shit" and "Night Surgeon". "Cause The grave medic uses no anesthetic/ninety days delincuent gets you repo treatment/I'm the masked horror/on your street corner"
"How much of it's genetics? How much of it is fate? How much of it depends on the choices that we make?"
Say you bought a heart or new corneas/But never managed to square away your debts/He won't bother to write or to phone you/He'll just RIP THE STILL BEATING HEART FROM YOUR CHEST!
"Maggots, VERMEN! You want the world for nothing! Mua ha ha ha ha I'll keep those vultures guessing!
"IIIIIII REEEEEMMMMMMEEEEEEEMMMMMMBBBBBBBBBEEEERRRRRRRR! Remember what you did to Marni!"
GRAAAAAAAAAVEEEEEESSS.
"AH would you like comment sir?" & " AT THE OPERA TONIGHT!" & "FROM MY WINDOW.
I CAN SEE THE WORLD FROM THERE.
NAME THE STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS.
COUNT THE CARS AND WATCH THE SEASONS"
Just a spoonful of sugar will help the medicine go down!
Kill the earworm/STEP IN TIME/Kill the earworm/STEP IN TIME/Nary a reason/Nary a rhyme/Kill the earworm/STEP IN TIME!
Though not a peppy song, "Feed the Birds" is awfully haunting.
I love to laugh! Loud and long and clear! I love to laugh! It's getting worse every year!
Ohhhh, It's a jolly holiday with Mary...
"Let's go fly a kite!" Best ending theme ever!
"Portabello road/ Portabello road/ Street where the riches of ages are stowed/ anything and everything a chap can unload is sold of the barrow in Portabello road/ you'll find what you want in the portabello road"
Substitutiary locomotion/It's the power that's far beyond the wildest notion/It's a weird so feared, yet wonderful to see/Substitutiary locomotion come to me. Treguna Mekoides and Tracorum Satis Dee!
Eglantine, Eglantine/oh how you shine! Your lot and my lot/ have got to combine! Eglantine, Eglantine...
When you rush around in hopeless circles/Searching everywhere for something true/You're at the age of not believing/When all the make-believe is through...
The theme from The Bodyguard. And Iiiiiiii will always love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
My Heart Will Go On from Titanic, it goes on and on and on and on.
Strangers... waiting... Up and down the boulevard... Sorry.
Danny Elfman's main titles for Spider-Man are part of his insidious plot to take up residence in your brain forever. Especially that madness at the beginning with the cellos.
Quite a lot of the stuff Elfman composes could count as an ear worm to some degree...
If that wasn't bad enough, it's the background theme in the Halloween Town Kingdom Hearts level. Good luck trying to get it out of your head after that...
Or for that matter, Bette Midler's cover of "I Put A Spell On You".
Michael Giacchino's score for the new Star Trek movie has a grade-A Ear Worm for a ((BROKEN))main theme. It doesn't help that it's played every five minutes. Lucky thing it's awesome.
A lot of Giacchino's music tends to have this effect. Just go listen to any of the themes from the Speed Racer movie. Any of them. Especially "Casa Cristo" and the revamped main theme.
From Ghost (previously a hit for Herman's Hermits in the 1960s and Harry Champion in the 1910s), "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am":
Second verse same as the first!
Xanadu... both the title song and "Magic". Oh! And "Don't Walk Away"... Wait! Also "I'm Alive"... And "All Over the World"... Oh! And "Dancin'"... Oh! And...
The sex sketch comedy film Can I Do It Till I Need Glasses? has a theme song that will stick in your head for hours, maybe even days, and the worst part is that it's one you definitely do not want to get caught singing.
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I'm not sure this goes under Film, but... Try watching a Richard Simmons "Sweatin' to the oldies" 1, 2, 3, or broadway and not get at least *one* stuck in your head! "Breaking up is hard to do-" NO MORE!!!
The Shawshank Redemption has the music that plays when the police are coming to get Captain Hadley and Warden Norton.
