Sometimes I wonder why some songs are huge hits and other songs are ignored.  It just doesn’t make sense why Float On by Modest Mouse goes Top 40 and Autoclave by The Mountain Goats (see below) doesn’t.  They seem equally catchy to me.  I suppose it has something to do with marketing and dumb luck.

Anyway, here are a bunch of songs that are guaranteed to stick in your head, if only you would give them a chance (you heartless bastards).

1.  Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart - Against Me!

“No, you don’t have to fight to stay in control of the situation.”

2.  Dreaming of You - The Coral

“I still need you, but I don’t want you now.”

3.  Autoclave - The Mountain Goats

“I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam, and no one in her right mind would make her home my home”

4.  Lovedust - Luna

“I’m bad with faces, and worse with names”

5.  Bored to Hear Your Heart Still Breaks - Tullycraft

“We know. We know. Know. We know, know, we know, we know, we know, we know.”

6. Only You and I - Tim

“We could go the distance.  We could go down in flames.”

7. Peace and Hate - The Submarines

“Breaking down could not be cured by breaking up”

8.  Never Believe - Elf Power

“And it’s crumbling down and it’s rotting away and you’re wanting to leave but you’ll never escape”

9. Energy - Apples in Stereo

“It’s gonna be alright.”

10. I Never Thought I Could Feel This Way for a Boy - The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir

“I only want to be loved by everyone at the end of the day.”

11. Please Stand Up - British Sea Power

“It seemed as if the streets had melted.”

12.  Hey Now Now - The Cloud Room

“Cut it up and slip it back in.”

13. Amsterdam - Jon Dee Graham

“The most beautiful girls in the world on bikes.  The most beautiful men in the world on bikes.  The most beautiful kids in the world on bikes.”

14.  This Modern Love - Bloc Party

“I wil be yours.  I’ll pay for you anytime.”

15.  Me and Mia - Ted Leo / Pharmacists

“Fighting for the smallest goal: to gain a little self-control”

16.  Batman and Robin - Course and the Impossible

“Unlike Laurel and Hardy, it turns out you’re not the life of the party.”

17.  Secret Meeting - The National

“Didn’t anybody tell you how to gracefully disappear in a room.”

18.  Parentheses - The Blow

“Something in the deli aisle makes you cry.”

19.  Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living) - Eels

“Do you know what it’s like to fall on the floor and cry your guts out ’til you got no more”

20. For the Price of a Cup of Tea - Belle & Sebastian

“For the price of a night with me, you’d be the village joke.”

21.  Beige Stationwagon - Canada

“He should have kissed his wife like only a husband could.”

22. We All Go Down Together -The Decemberists

“You wept but your soul was willing.”

23.  Black Cab - Jens Lenkman

“Oh no, god damn, I missed the last tram.  I killed a party again.  God damn, god damn.”

24.  Parade - Pretty Girls Make Graves

No quote here — just know it is the catchiest song ever about organizing a strike.

25.  I Wish That I Could See You Soon - Herman Dune

“Now that I am across the sea I wonder if you will wait for me or if you’ll find a new boy to spoon.”

Then again, maybe the problem is in the lyrics.  Who knows?  So, what catchy songs do you have that I’ve never heard of?  Toss ‘em my way.