Songs that are too repetitive

Cafe Society
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Sweat Dream are made of these…

Here Comes The Rain Again…

Fly Robin Fly, Up Up To The Sky…

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I agree except I would go with “A Girl Like You” as their most repetitive/popular song.:slight_smile:

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 <insert anything>, with my own two hands”: repeat several hundred times.:smiley:

ETA: Of course, there’s the Justin Bieber classic that should remain unnamed.

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“I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred.
“A Shot In the Arm” by Wilco.
“Macarena.”

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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.

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Daft Punk’s “Around the World”. F**k, I hated that song.

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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!:smiley:

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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”.

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Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down you’re rockin’ the boat.

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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
:frowning:

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.

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Bop to the Drummer, Chrome Safari

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Try the Wilson Pickett version. It cuts off about 3 minutes of “nas” and has Duane Allman on guitar.

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Natalie merchant- “thank you, thank you, thank you” ad nauseam

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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

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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.

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[Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down.
Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down.
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Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down.
Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down.
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Whoa! Heaven let your light shine down.](- YouTube)

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number 9, number 9, number 9…

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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.

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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.

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100 bottles of beer on the wall.
100 bottles of beer.
Take one down and pass it around.
Ninety-nine bottles of beer.

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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.