Today's Earworm

[JayGeeKay]

Blanco Brown - The Git Up

[Benjm]

MC Duke - I'm Riffin

[danielmak]

Too obvious, but here are three powerpop gems from 20/20. I listed in order of preference for me, but if you want some Jam/Elvis Costello vibes, skip to the third song.

"Yellow Pills"

"Cherie"

"Nuclear Boy"

[Toby Gymshorts]

Wizzard - See My Baby Jive

Fuck's SAKE. Make it stop.

[Kevin S]

Has Guinea Pig Olympics been mentioned yet?

[danielmak]

Sharon Van Etten, "Seventeen"

It's a big song in the same way that Arcade Fire makes some songs that feel big.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Prince and the New Power Generation - Diamonds and Pearls

[Satchmo Distel]

Diamonds and Pearls has one of the most glorious leaps into the chorus ever written. Wonderful.

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson. So many hooks, so gorgeous:

Shout by Tears For Fears has become a belated favourite: "In violent times, you shouldn't have to sell your soul"

Led Zeppelin - All My Love:

[Toby Gymshorts]

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

[Toby Gymshorts]

Out Run Soundtrack - Splash Wave

The best video game tune ever written. Don't @ me.

[Nocturnal Submission]

The only song I have literally never got bored of listening to, even when I've had it on permanent rotation:

[danielmak]

Here's one to go with TG's posting of "White Rabbit." I had no idea The Monkees did this song. I thought it was by someone else or maybe I heard a cover in the past (looking for a cover is my next move after posting this). Definitely more of a psych/garage vibe than I normally associate with The Monkees.

[Amor de Cosmos]

The meds are doing strange things to my early morning REM these days. I had this at 5:00am and it wouldn't leave.

[Amor de Cosmos]

And the night before I was 13 again.

[danielmak]

To follow AdC's Cricketts' post: Waylon Jennings was supposed to be on the flight that killed Buddy Holly, but Jennings gave up his seat to another band member who was sick and looking to avoid a long bus trip.

[Amor de Cosmos]

I've a strange obsession with PF Sloan (shared with a long time friend) I've no idea why. Jimmy Webb clearly shares it, so this is a frequent early morning shower song.

[Gangster Octopus]

Some git had The Wheels On The Bus on Desert Island Discs this morning, just before I left for work...

[Amor de Cosmos]

Oh God. It''ll take a couple of weeks to shift. Row, Row, Row Your Boat is even worse.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Easiest way to shift an earworm is just sing a verse or two of suicide is painless. and you're ready to go on with your day. Guaranteed to even shift "Life is a rollercoaster" or anything.

Some great songs on here. Diamonds and Pearls is great. Prince just wrote so many great songs that are essentially, "You're the only girl for me, the only girl for me and my two female assistants, and my backing singer and a lot of my band."

[Mumpo]

You'll never know, you'll never know...

[Amor de Cosmos]

(see the mundane photography thread)

[Jon]

This song has been going round my head for most of the past week. I had always wondered what that line "got the city on lockdown" meant.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Supergrass - I'd Like To Know

[Toby Gymshorts]

The guitar wig out at the end of that is possibly my favourite minute or so in all of music. The way it resolves back into major at the end for the uplift.....I wish I'd written that.

Gaz Coombes is a guitar god, there are no two ways about it.

[Sean of the Shed]