An Earworm "House Party"

A playlist of songs about houses and homes, as chosen by you, the wormheads.

While I continue to work out the finishing touches on a brand-new essay, I thought I’d share a playlist of 17 songs as suggested in the comments of last week’s Madness’ “Our House” post.

There are certainly countless more tunes about houses that ought to be added, so feel free to let me know in the comments the ones that have been missed.

The playlist is a Spotify playlist, with YouTube links below. I’m including standout live versions of these songs in the videos (except for two, which I didn’t find any videos that weren’t of subpar quality), so check ‘em out!

No notes on the songs, just fantastic music covering the past 60-ish years.

1. The Animals - House of the Rising Sun

(Thanks to

Charles in San Francisco

, the first to suggest this classic!)

2. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Our House

3. Steely Dan - Home at Last

(Thanks to

Miter

for this pick!)

4. Madness - Our House

5. The Cure - In Your House

(Thanks to

Mark Nash

for this pick!)

6. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Happy House

7. X - In This House That I Call Home

8. Talking Heads - Burning Down the House

9. Madness - House of Fun

(Thanks to

Bryan Padrick

for this suggestion!)

10. X - Burning House of Love

11. Blur - Country House

12. LCD Soundsystem — Daft Punk is Playing at My House

13. Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

14. Coheed and Cambria — Welcome Home

15. Wolverine - A House of Plague

(Thanks to

Matt Thompson

who writes

Critical Hit Parader

for this suggestion!)

16. Wynton Marsalis - In this House, On This Morning

(This is one I discovered in my “house hunting” — so good!)

17. Califone - Spider’s House

(Thanks to my friend Wil Hendricks for this suggestion!)

• If you have other suggestions for tunes for this playlist, leave them in the comments and I’ll add them in later. Consider this playlist “our house.”