# Songs that are too repetitive **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325 "2011-04-14T03:13:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/21 "2011-04-14T12:35:00Z")
Sweat Dream are made of these… Here Comes The Rain Again… Fly Robin Fly, Up Up To The Sky… ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/22 "2011-04-14T12:35:04Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > There’s a band called The Smithereens. > > They had some modest success - biggest song was probably “Only a Memory”. I agree except I would go with “A Girl Like You” as their most repetitive/popular song.🙂 Next week I’m playing a gig with a childrens choir and they’ve chosen to sing the Jack Johnson version of Ben Harper’s “With My Own Two Hands”. The song is sooooooo repetitive the kids are losing their minds. The song is basically “I can \, with my own two hands”: repeat several hundred times.😃 ETA: Of course, there’s the Justin Bieber classic that should remain unnamed. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/23 "2011-04-14T13:11:05Z")
“I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred. “A Shot In the Arm” by Wilco. “Macarena.” ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/24 "2011-04-14T13:16:30Z")
I’ll nominate KC and the Sunshine Band for “That’s the Way (I Like It).” Uh-huh uh-huh. Some of Fatboy Slim’s songs simply repeat a short phrase over and over. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/25 "2011-04-14T13:20:49Z")
Daft Punk’s “Around the World”. F\*\*k, I hated that song. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/26 "2011-04-14T13:26:52Z")
Oh, fucking come on people. Nobody has mentioned It’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all. It’s a small world after all. It’s a small, small world. For ignoring the obvious, what-should-have-been-post-number-one-or-two-at-the-latest, you are all sentenced to hearing that earworm for the rest of the day!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/27 "2011-04-14T13:30:18Z")
Back in the late 1980s when I was stuck working in a place where they played the local pop music pap, I once counted the number of times that Debbie Gibson (Deborah nowadays) said “Shake your Love”. It was something like 46. In contrast George Harrison only repeated the same phrase 26 times. And then there’s the third song on the second side of Lou Reed’s “Metal machine Music”. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/28 "2011-04-14T13:31:12Z")
Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down you’re rockin’ the boat. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/29 "2011-04-14T13:34:43Z")
Cream: I’m so glad, I’m so glad I’m glad, I’m glad, I’m glad I’m so glad, I’m so glad I’m glad, I’m glad, I’m glad ☹ Grand Funk Railroad: I’m getting closer to my home, I’m getting closer to my home, etc. Unfortunately he starts singing this while he is still approximately a hundred miles from his home. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/30 "2011-04-14T13:41:46Z")
_Bop to the Drummer_, Chrome Safari ---
**Author:** ![WreckingCrew](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wreckingcrew/32/4080_2.png) [@WreckingCrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WreckingCrew)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/31 "2011-04-14T13:56:15Z")
> [@multimediac17](#): > > ‘Hey Jude’. Those endless "na"s are just too much, I love the song but rarely sit through it until the end. Try the Wilson Pickett version. It cuts off about 3 minutes of “nas” and has Duane Allman on guitar. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/32 "2011-04-14T14:24:09Z")
Natalie merchant- “thank you, thank you, thank you” ad nauseam ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/33 "2011-04-14T15:27:48Z")
This is the song that never ends, It just goes on and on my friend, Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, And they’ll continue singing it forever just because _[[edited for copyright and to preserve sanity]]_ OK I’ll stop now ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/34 "2011-04-14T15:30:20Z")
Almost every Gospel song played at my father’s church. They frequently consist of two or three lines, endlessly repeated. “Yes, my lord I say Yes! Yes, my Lord, I say yes! My Lord, My Jesus, I know you’ll fight my battles! Yes, my Lord I say yes!” This’ll go on for 5 to 10 minutes or till someone’s eardrum shatters, whichever happens second. ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/35 "2011-04-14T15:33:13Z")
[Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down. Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down. Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down. … Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down. Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down. Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down. … … . . . Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down. . Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down. Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down. Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down. … Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down.]([- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGl5Q6OH_1I)) ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/36 "2011-04-14T15:33:22Z")
number 9, number 9, number 9… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/37 "2011-04-14T15:50:26Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > This is the song that never ends, > It just goes on and on my friend, > Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, > And they’ll continue singing it forever just because > > _[[edited for copyright and to preserve sanity]]_ > > OK I’ll stop now Remember, even repetitive lyrics can be copywritten. And I was amazed to find out this song was written and copywrited in 1988! The SDMB frowns on too much quoting of lyrics; our collective sanities frown on too much quoting of repetitive lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/38 "2011-04-14T15:53:09Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > Say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to- SHUT UP ALREADY AND I’LL SAY IT, DAMN YOU! I read this about an hour ago, and thought, “Good answer!” However, it’s been stuck in my head ever since and I’m getting irritable. At least I know all the damn words. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/39 "2011-04-14T15:56:03Z")
100 bottles of beer on the wall. 100 bottles of beer. Take one down and pass it around. Ninety-nine bottles of beer. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325/40 "2011-04-14T15:56:28Z")
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody. By the Human Beinz, featured in Kill Bill. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-too-repetitive/578325.md?page=3)