“Growing On Me” by The Darkness

"Growing On Me" was the Darkness's second single, out on 16 June 2003 from their debut album Permission to Land, slotted between "Get Your Hands off My Woman" and "I Believe in a Thing Called Love". All four wrote it: Justin Hawkins on lead vocals and guitar, Dan Hawkins on guitar, Frankie Poullain on bass and Ed Graham on drums, with Pedro Ferreira producing, engineering and mixing. It's gleefully overblown hard rock with the riffs buffed to a chrome shine, and it got the British band to number 11 at home.

The title set tongues wagging about pubic lice, which Hawkins laughed off: the song, he insisted, is about a woman you'll never fully figure out but love too much for that to matter. The video is gloriously daft, starting with a pterodactyl trying to mate with a spaceship that then drops off the four band members as children.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.