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Todd, “Can’t Get Her Out Of My Mind” (1979)

It’s a clever ploy to write a song about romantic obsession and make it catchy as all hell — the person stuck in the songwriter’s head becomes the music stuck in the listener’s. Decades before Kylie Minogue pulled off that trick, a teenager named Todd did the same thing, crafting this hummable, triumphant, and sweet homemade number. Little is known about Todd (including even his last name) or his private-press LP “With Love… From Me To You” beyond a short entry in the Acid Archives, but this song, as charming and sincere as Daniel Johnston’s best, endures.

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