'Extra' songs on iPhone

Synching my iPhone 5 with my iTunes today I noticed that I was starting to run out of memory. I wondered why so I checked each item in the memory status bar and it was telling me I had far more songs than I remembered. I double checked this against what the phone was telling me and there were 150 more songs (and 3.58GB more memory usage) than there should be. I unchecked all my music; albums, artists, playlists etc, so when I look in Music on the phone there is absolutely nothing there, but the memory status bar in iTunes when I plug it into my Mac tells me there is 150 songs on the phone. The 2 pictures below show the current situation:
So the question is, what's going on here and how do I get rid of these 'extra' songs and free up the space they're using?

There is corrupted data on your phone.  You need to restore in iTunes and resync your music.  The corrupted data may be getting into the backup, and you may have to restore as new,
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