The Scent of the Old Ocean by Those Who Ride With Giants. Specifically the little recurring guitar riff with four quick descending notes, a repeat of the lowest one, and then a slide back up

It’s a weird one. Brief background: in a D&D Spelljammer campaign I’m playing a character who’s a plasmoid, a sort of intelligent ooze. Every once in a while she expresses frustration with the fact that the other members of her party insist on having bones since they get in the way of so many potential solutions to the problems we encounter in our adventures.

I recently generated some songs to try further pushing her anti-skeleton agenda, Embrace the Flow and Hey, Be Slime Tonight, and they’re both firmly lodged in my head now.

Stupid bones.

Botfly larva

The Gilmore Girls theme song. My wife had never seen it before. Now she has.

Wild City by The Pretty Reckless has been stuck in my head all week!

Great balls of fire.

Because I have watched ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Maverick’ recently.

Kira Wiley — “Caterpillar Caterpillar”

I have a 7mo baby who craves entertainment.

I keep making up lyrics to the theme from Ponyo.

As a teen I hated “They’re taking the hobbits to Isengard” and of course like all immature teens, my friends, kept on singing it or playing it. And then one day I used it to dislodge another earworm and ever since it is now my power earworm, able to dislodge any other song before fading away.

So tell me, where is Gandalf? For I much desire to speak with him…

I know an earworm typically consists of a song, but what is really plaguing me is those laugh tracks people add to reels because my wife watches them 6 hours a day.

LIGHTYEARS by Dirt Monkey

Part of why it’s so catchy for me is how it samples Suzanne Vega’s hit Tom’s Diner.

My Little Buttercup from 3 Amigos

I sing this to myself every time I see one on the road: https://youtu.be/U-i4RTUpKGY

Also this: https://youtu.be/S0ximxe4XtU

Why yes, I do like juvenile internet garbage. How could you tell?

Love is Embarrassing by Olivia Rodrigo and That’s So True by Gracie Abrams

Eminence Front by The Who