My brother pointed this out about 20 years ago, and I haven’t been able to listen to them since. Well I do like some of their songs, but I’m not going to purchase any of their stuff.
came in to say the Byrds Turn, Turn, Turn; however, while listening to it on y/t I counted ‘only’ 5 stanzas, one being instrumental. I could’ve sworn it was at least 7 or 8…
Just heard this one tonight. I actually shut the damn song off because it got so freaking annoying. It seriously repeats the same line for what seems like the last four minutes of the song.
Get your sexy on
Go ahead, be gone with it
[Repeat 6 times]
When Wycleff Jean first told me he would be Gone 'Til November I was like: “Oh, sorry to hear that. I’ll really miss you.” Then he just kept telling me the same damn thing over and over. By the end I was yelling: “You Fuck! I get it already. You know what, don’t come back.”
There are more words than just that. But mainly, the instrumentals of that song are ingenious. One of the better pop songs of that year (1999) which was basically the last gasp of good pop music on the mainstream radio.
Give it a careful listen - there is a surprising amount of interesting melodic, harmonic and rhythmic stuff going on behind the vocals (the lyrics are pretty horrible.) All of the good things about the song, like most R&B and rap songs, are the work of geeks in the studio, not the main act, who are totally uncredited and unrecognized.
My nomination is I Want To Get Away by the hack Lenny Kravitz, one of the most repetitive and worst songs of that time period.
Oh, thank you. Now I’m going to have
Behind the wall of sleep
Behind the wall of sleep
Behind the wall of sleep
stuck in my head all night long.
Eh, I’ve always loved the Smithereens and their repetition doesn’t ruin their songs for me.
Anyway, I’d better decide if I should stay or go.
To be fair, that’s not really George’s fault. As Weird Al pointed out in his version, “I never wrote the lyrics” (that is, somebody else wrote the song).
George did, however, set the bar remarkably high with The Beatles and his song Blue Jay Way, in which he repeats the same phrase 42 times. The phrase? “Don’t be long”.
Annie Are You OK?
Are You OK Annie?
I’m fine. Why do you ask?
By my count, Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats uses the non-word “Jellicle” 77 times, the line “Jellicle songs for jellicle cats” 19 times, and the words “cat” or “cats” 49 times. Beat that!
Doesnt Phil Collins “sing” “just one more night” something like 52 times? That the number floating around in my head.
I think to be fair about comparing songs for most repetitive you also need to take in the consideration the length of the song and how many other non-repetative words are in there. Anybody here really good with songs and spreadsheets?
Dylan’s Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 uses “They’ll stone you” five times in each of the five verses, a total of 25 times. Maybe Dylan should have written two much verses to reflect the title a little bit.
You’ve Been Hit By
You’ve Been Hit By
A Smooth Criminal
HIJACK RANT: Someone posted “Annie are you OK?” in the thread about my broken arm. Seeing it repeated in this thread made me google it.
I am so fucking glad I never heard that song, and so fucking glad the singer is dead. I never liked Michael Jackson, and this song makes me want to murder him.
That’s what I like about you
That’s what I like about you
That’s what I like about you
I can win this thread with the worst song ever played on the radio:
Even when they’re as repetitive as this, we don’t want you posting lyrics in full.
Thanks,
twickster, Cafe Society moderator
Rage Against the Washing Machine, “Killing in the name”.
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was