3 songs you can listen to over and over (and over and over)

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Re: 3 songs you can listen to over and over (and over and over)

Post by jakeisjake » Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:23 pm

Maggieo wrote:
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Yazoo!

Only You
man, i love that song.

it is one i've listened to many times through the years...and now, again, today.

i watched this one...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHISaPkPagU

i thought how neat it must be for them to have their song played by an orchestra!
If I was a byrd, I'd be mighty sore every time they shut the door and I don't think I'd sing...

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Re: 3 songs you can listen to over and over (and over and over)

Post by Tafarel » Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:29 pm

https://youtu.be/En4ij91PHF0 Cotton Mather - Camp Hill Rail Operator

https://youtu.be/5CKelpRQxfc Sparklehorse - Painbirds

https://youtu.be/NWql_-85A8c Felt - The World is as Soft as Lace
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Re: 3 songs you can listen to over and over (and over and over)

Post by jakeisjake » Sun Jan 27, 2019 5:57 pm

two songs i've listened to over and over tonight are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXkN3nJyWE]

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO5dcW0P75M
If I was a byrd, I'd be mighty sore every time they shut the door and I don't think I'd sing...

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Re: 3 songs you can listen to over and over (and over and over)

Post by Domm » Sun Jan 27, 2019 10:52 pm

For a long while I'm always happy to hear these 3 tunes

Pedro the lion...almost there

Mineral.....if I could

Otis Redding dreams to remember

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Post by eskmsaul » Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:19 am

Carole King - You've Got a Friend
Todd Rundgren - A Dream Goes on Forever
Fiona Apple - Never Is a Promise

There's so many, it's almost impossible to choose just three.

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Post by mynameisjonas » Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:10 am

I have a very long list of songs I never tire of, so I'll just pick the first 3 that come to mind:

U.S. Maple - Hey King
U.S. Maple - Letter to ZZ Top
U.S. Maple - Home-made Stuff

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Post by Telemnemonics » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:57 am

If listen to over and over means back to back without a day or more in between listenings, there are a few Coltrane tunes that I've done that with and could again. Some Eric Dolphy as well and also Mingus at Carnegie Hall.

I actually kept RHCP Californication in my trucks CD player for a while 12 or so years ago, and listened to it most every day, though skipping half the tracks. Tunes that stood repeating include: Scar Tissue, Californication, Otherside, Emit Remmus, This Velvet Glove.
. Road music is a whole different beast from home music, and I do not use (or endorse) background music at all.
Also had a friemds compilation CD of Lennon Beatles tunes I listened to in my truck quite a bit when I was first dating my wife, but there it was a sort of connection music, different from house or road music, but a subset of road music.
For background music there's always a song playing in my head, or at least the rhythmic vestiges of a song.
Keeps me sane, might be kinda like being on the spectrum.

It's funny I've tried to cross over and listen to Coltrane while driving and it never sticks.
Can't listen to Coltrane when the in laws are visiting either.
It's all or nothing with the Coltrane I prefer.
Some of his old stuff with Miles might be fine with house guests, but I don't even buy that stuff.

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Post by Slowdave » Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:07 am

Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes
Disorder - Joy Division
Gut Feeling- Devo

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Post by bubba899 » Thu Feb 07, 2019 4:12 pm

So many, but three that immediately spring to mind for some reason.

Last Night - The Strokes
Girlfriend - Ty Segall
Hocus Pocus - Focus

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Re: 3 songs you can listen to over and over (and over and over)

Post by marqueemoon » Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:12 am

Alvvays - Plimsoll Punks
The Meters - Cissy Strut
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)

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Post by echobaseone » Fri Feb 08, 2019 9:41 am

Spiritualized- Feel So Sad
British Sea Power- No Lucifer
The Who- Substitute

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Re: 3 songs you can listen to over and over (and over and over)

Post by Larry Mal » Sat Feb 09, 2019 10:21 pm

Man, there's like a thousand songs I could listen to over and over, but these are some that I've been listening to over and over for years, and have been recently as well.

I'm a huge Sly and the Family Stone fan, always have been- I know they aren't cool these days, but I've always loved them. This song, Runnin' Away is one of my favorites, and it's a sad song from a band that is often thought of as kind of one dimensional. At this point Sly is starting to collapse into drugs and madness, and I'm not sure who he thinks he's addressing in this song, but it really sounds like him giving a warning to himself. Even better, the woman playing the trumpet (Cynthia) is using her instrument as an almost vocal counterpoint to what Sly is singing about, as if she's talking to a person she loves (she had a kid with the guy) with her instrument, and she gets the last word in at the end... it's just a very vocal, very human line of music that lasts only a little bit, and has never quit amazing me. If you had an instrument and only a few notes and a little time to communicate to someone you loved who you saw destroying themselves, it would sound something like this, I've always thought.

And then this tune... I like power pop, and I like rock and roll, and I think this is about as well constructed pop song as has ever been done, frankly. It's sensitive and bold and charming and hopeful and I know it's weird that an old man like me would like it so much, but shit, if a song can conjure up an innocence in the past that didn't really exist then I would say that the Rubinoos with "I Want To Be Your Boyfriend" is as good as it can be. I liked it when I was young, and wished I could be as bold and hopeful as this song is, then I got older, and I actually became a little bit of that. Maybe this song helped.

So, I can still remember the first time I heard this song, I had gone out to buy some CDs and drinking and when I got back home, I was playing them, and most of them were bullshit. Then all of a sudden I had this song on- it's the second song on the album- and I remember looking at my CD player and all of a sudden realizing that music I had always suspected existed did, in fact, actually exist. There it was, all of a sudden, the Stooges with " Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell" and I just loved it. Gender bending cover, bold and unashamed sexuality (which only increased on the next song on the album), brash and dumb lyrics that kicked off with "All right!" I had a new way of thinking about sex presented to me, and I sat there and listened to Raw Power over and over and over again until I had absorbed it.
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Re: 3 songs you can listen to over and over (and over and over)

Post by Maggieo » Sun Feb 10, 2019 9:51 am

Three more? Sure!

Wire- Three Girl Rhumba

Talking Heads- Found A Job (live, 1978)

Spoon- The Beast And Dragon Adored (live on ACL)
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