# Songs That Have Caused You to Press the "Repeat" Button Over and Over Again **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218 "2005-03-25T16:04:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/81 "2005-03-28T01:35:55Z")
**Don’t Pull Your Love Out on Me Baby** by – I’ve forgotten. And the first **George Strait Greatest Hits** – wore out the tape. This was in the days before CDs. Played it over and over and over, the whole thing. And **Crazy Little Thing Called Love**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/82 "2005-03-30T02:16:31Z")
Off the top of my head… **Blinded by the light** (long version) – Manfred Mann **In My Life** – Beatles **One** – U2 and this little-known Janis Joplin gem called **Little Girl Blue** ---
**Author:** ![Yamirskoonir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/83 "2005-03-30T06:23:14Z")
“Hyperballad” (the Brodsky Quartet version) - Bjork “Paranoid Andriod” - Radiohead “Holiday” - Green Day “Walking Contradiciton” - Green Day “Hitchin’ Ride” - Green Day “Midnight Radio” - John Camerion Mitchell in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” “Exquisite Corpse” - John Camerion Mitchell in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” “Watch Your Tone” - Skankin’ Pickle “Pick Up Lines” - Dance Hall Crashers “Ruby Soho” - Rancid And oh so many more but I have to go now! ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/84 "2005-03-30T07:52:33Z")
Elvis Presley Blues - Gillian Welch and of course Rio - Duran Duran MiM ---
**Author:** ![thebenn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@thebenn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thebenn)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/85 "2005-03-30T12:20:35Z")
“Fragile” by Sting “One” by U2 ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/86 "2005-03-30T13:59:09Z")
One memorable night I had just met some folks who had just bought some incredible new speakers (Polk SDA-1’s) and we kept repeating (and turning up) “Red Rain” by **Peter Gabriel** until the Cops showed up. Aaaahhh memories Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/87 "2005-03-30T14:54:51Z")
Good og, I don’t even think I own but a handful of these songs, and only a couple out of those I do own I would listen to more then once and that being Croce’s I’ve Got a Name. And while I love my Iron Maiden I don’t tend to listen to many of their songs more then once, though it does depend on my mood. my list: The Wake of Magellan - Savatage Radar Love, Long Blond Animal - Golden Earring Business As Usual - Gary Moore I don’t do it much since I don’t want people to think I’m crazy and now I can’t remember all the ones I do like to listen to more then once. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/88 "2005-03-30T15:37:25Z")
With me, this mostly happens with **They Might Be Giants** , so I’ll give them their own special section: “Birdhouse in Your Soul” “Istanbul, Not Constantinople” “Ana Ng” “Kiss Me, Son of God” “They’ll Need a Crane” “Shoehorn with Teeth” “Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal” “Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Heat” “Don’t Let’s Start” “Rhythm Section Want Ad” “James K. Polk” “The Spiraling Shape” “Monsters of Mud” “Museum of Idiots” “The Edison Museum” “Illinois” **(John Linnell)** “South Carolina” **(John Linnell)** “Maine” **(John Linnell)** “The Devil Went Down to Newport” **(Mono Puff)** Others: “Walkin’” **Paul Kantner, Grace Slick & David Freiberg** “Fast Buck Freddie” **Jefferson Starship** “Skateboard” **Jefferson Starship** “Lightning Rose” **Jefferson Starship** “Lilith’s Song” **Paul Kantner** “Birthday” **The Sugar Cubes** “Gepetto” **Belly** “Peekaboo” **Siouxie and the Banshees** “That’s Good” **Devo** “Devo Has Feelings Too” **Devo** “Auto Mowdown” **Devo** “Space Junk” **Devo** “Parallels” **Yes** “Machine Messiah” **Yes** “Le Poinçonneur des lilas” **Serge Gainsbourg** “Samba de uma Nota Sol” **João Gilberto** “Aguas de Março” **João Gilberto** “Hoedown” **Aaron Copeland** “St. Paul’s Suite” **Gustav Holst** “Nothing but Flowers” **Talking Heads** “Play-Doh Woman” **Jazzin’ Hell** Okay, that’s enough. Please pardon my enthusiasm. ---
**Author:** ![lukaspriest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lukaspriest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lukaspriest)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/89 "2005-03-30T18:06:01Z")
Dido - Don’t Leave Home 311 - Lovesong Sarah Mclachlan - Fallen Crash Test Dummies - Mmm mmm mmm AFI - Leaving Song Pt 2, Girls Not Grey, Silver and Cold The Cure - Just Like Heaven, Lovesong Tool - Stinkfist A Perfect Circle - The Hollow Floater - Independence Day Muse - Hysteria ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/90 "2005-03-30T19:29:24Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Hell, when I was a teenager ( and this is a very very bizarre one ), I played my 45 of “The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald” relentlessly. Something about that song got under my skin. It can do that. A friend and I heard it for the first time when we were in college. We were on our way to a movie or somesuch when it came on the radio. He pulled off into a parking lot, and we sat there and shivered through the rest of it. We went straight to a music store from there and dug through stuff until we found a copy, then listened to it over and over. I still play it two or three times in a row, sometimes. Some other occasional repeaters: “The Selkie” – Amberhawke (Linda King-Burdge) “The Ballad of Cathain” – Grant Lee Phillips (from the “Witchblade” TV series) “We Want a Rock” – They Might Be Giants “UHF” – Weird Al (What?) “Sultans of Swing” – Dire Straits “Zoot Suit Riot” – Cherry Popping Daddies “House of Bamboo” – Southern Culture on the Skids “The Mummers’ Dance” – Loreena McKennet “One Night in Bangkok” – Murray Head “One Piece at a Time” – Johnny Cash “I Love Rock and Roll” – Joan Jett There are others, but I think that’s a representative sample. What it represents, though, I’m not sure. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/91 "2005-03-30T22:58:27Z")
\>The Way You Dream - 1 Giant Leap feat. Michael Stipe \>Cornershop, Brimful of Asha (the ‘Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow’ song) Ohhhhhh good heavens. I overplayed those songs for MONTHS and I still love 'em. Also, over the years and lately: Moonchild - Cibo Matto Natural Blues - Moby Moondance - Van Morrison D’yer Maker - Led Zeppelin Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack Carmelita - Dwight Yoakam White Girl - X Drive - Melissa Ferrick (aka “Lesbian Viagra”) Blue Trane & Equinox - St. John Coltrane Sabor a Mi - Los Lobos Karoon Na Yad Magar - Najma Challa - Panjabi MC & Gurdas Mann Syncronicity 2 - Police More Than This - Roxy Music TKO - Teddy Pendegrass Crocodile Rock - Elton John ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Cooper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@Agent\_Cooper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Cooper)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/92 "2005-03-31T01:10:55Z")
so many good ones already mentioned. i’d second quite a few, but these stand out: NIN - something i can never have smashing pumpkins - soma or mayonaisse, or for that matter the whole damn album ‘siamese dream’ tori amos - usually complete albums on repeat and above all … can’t belive this is 91 posts in and nobody else has listed … Otis Redding - Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/93 "2005-03-31T01:51:55Z")
Most recently, _The Air That I Breathe_ by The Hollies. Others I can remember \*Au Fond du Temple Saint \* from Bizet’s Pearl Fishers (with the incomparable Nicolai Gedda). When I was young and in love, I had _Hard To Say I’m Sorry_ (Chicago) on an “endless” cassette tape. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/94 "2005-03-31T01:56:06Z")
> [@Tenar](#): > > and (when I was a very morbid kid) > the almost unbearable “Seasons in the Sun” by Terry Jacks At least you have _some_ taste. My daughter refuses to believe that anyone sang this before her precious Westlife. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/95 "2005-03-31T02:23:59Z")
“Bang Bang” - Dispatch “The Kids Aren’t Alright” - Offspring “Staring At the Sun” - Offspring “Bullet the Blue Sky” - U2 “Lady Marmalade” - Various girly singers “Mrs. Potter’s Lullabye” - Counting Crows “Bring the Night On” - Eve 6 “Jolly Mon Sing” - Jimmy Buffet The Allegro part of the Spring movement of “Four Season” - Vivaldi The Offspring’s entire ‘Americana’ album. There are many others I can’t think of right now, much to my roommate’s dismay. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/96 "2005-04-03T05:35:59Z")
Right now, it’s “I’m okay” (by My Chemical Romance). Other songs I’ve played over and over: Live–All Over You, I Alone, Lightning Crashes Pearl Jam–Release, Black, Nothingman, Garden, Corduroy, Rear View Mirror Fuel–Shimmer, Hemmorhage (In My Hand) U2–With or Without You, Heartland, All I Want Is You, One, New Years Day, October, and almost everything on The Unforgettable Fire, especially 4th of July, Promenade, A Sort of Homecoming, and MLK Temple of the Dog–Hungerstrike Breaking Benjamin–Cold Stone Temple Pilots–Wicked Garden, Plush, Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart Soundgarden–Spoonman, Fell on Black Days Nickelback–Breathe Alice in Chains–Would Remy Zero–Save Me Matchbox 20–Long Day ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/97 "2005-04-03T05:49:47Z")
I almost forgot Wire (also on The Unforgettable Fire). 'Scuse me, I gotta go listen to some music! ---
**Author:** ![dearissues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dearissues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dearissues)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/98 "2005-04-03T11:33:22Z")
There are so many songs that I do this with… “Sexy Sadie” and “While my Guitar Gently Weeps” - The Beatles “Go Now” - The Moody Blues “30 Days in the Hole” - Humble Pie “19th Nervous Breakdown”, “Brown Sugar”, and “Miss You” - The Rolling Stones “Slow Motion” - Third Eye Blind “No Sugar Tonight” - The Guess Who (almost) anything by Aerosmith “Dazed and Confused”, “Houses of the Holy”, and “What is and What Should Never Be” - Led Zeppelin I could go on forever. ---
**Author:** ![dearissues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dearissues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dearissues)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/99 "2005-04-03T11:42:27Z")
[QUOTE=Sunshine and Smiles] > [@continuity eror](#): > > “Baby, Can You Dig Your Man?” by Self > QUOTE] > > Isn’t this Larry’s song in The Stand? Did Stephen King take it from Self, or did Self take it from Stephen King? > 😕 > > ~S&S I was wondering the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/100 "2005-04-03T12:03:15Z")
I haven’t read the whole thread, but somehow I doubt anyone has posted: “Let me tell you about her” Elvis Costello [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218.md?page=6)