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German has a word for everything, like ohrwurm. Translated literally as "earworm" in English, it's the word for songs that get stuck in your head and won't go away. What earworm of a song do you most dread burrowing into your head? Submitted By willard41 View other answers

Most painful for me is the Beatle's "Yellow Submarine" - one, it's pretty catchy, two, it's so popular that it'll even enter my mind without prompting, and three, it drives me up the wall.

The flip side: I love it when 10,000 Maniac's "Planned Obsolescence" or Maxïmo Park's "Apply Some Pressure" gets loaded in the mental sound buffer. Actually, on the whole, songs I like earworm much more often for me, and for the joy those bring me I'll gladly take the risks.