# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/101 "2005-04-03T16:29:34Z")
I know it is a bit different, but I pretty much ignore my TV during the days when I am at home and put in DVDs, right now I have in Lichspielhaus - a collection of Rammstein videos, making of videos and concert footage. I will actually admit to putting ‘Stripped’ on repeat for both the tonal quality of the vocals [_not_ the clean smooth depeche mode vocals, but softer and rougher, almost velvet] and the Leni Riefenstahl footage from her movie about the Olympics. Fanfreakingtastic choice of footage showing amazing athletes, manipulated by using short clips and repeating/freezing/blending and running backwards and forewards. Phenomenal video and nothing like the tanzmetal and pyro they are normally thought of as using. I also have been known to put the scene of ‘Hawaiian Rollercoaster’ from Lilo and stitch on repeat for an hour…something about the sounds resonates [also the one with the hawaiian name that I cant remember at this moment, I love the sounds of that one also.] Pure songwise, [Michaeleska by Wolgemut](http://www.wolgemut.net/recordings.html) [Milkman, Keep those bottles quiet, Georgia Gibbs version](http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=16&q=http://ubl.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,78314,00.html&e=9888) this disk kicks ass! have been hitting my player fairly frequently [i love ms media and using my other computer as a jukebox=)] ---
**Author:** ![SpiceTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@SpiceTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpiceTea)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/102 "2005-04-03T18:00:19Z")
“Love”- Petra “Forever”- PFR “I Know You Now” & “This Is My Declaration” - 4Him “Love You With My Life” - Bryan Duncan “Someone Like You” - Russell Watson “Thank You” - Ray Boltz “Cannot Say Enough” & “Here Am I” - Mercy Me “A Medio Vivir” the album by Ricky Martin “Vuelve” the album by Ricky Martin These are just a few of the songs that have captured my heart and soul in the past and continue to move me. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/103 "2005-04-03T18:15:29Z")
Recently I just bought “Sometimes you can’t make it on your own” by U2 on iTunes and I love it. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/104 "2005-04-03T19:51:06Z")
I do this all the time. Lately it’s **Jesus of Suburbia**. Recently I’ve done it with **Lose my Breath** by Destiny’s Child and **Since You Been Gone** by Kelly Clarkson (although I think that’s only because I was going through a breakup). I also seem to do it with every single Britney Spears releases. Looking at my iTunes top 25 most played, you don’t even want to know how much I’ve listened to **Everytime** (dance remix), **My Prerogative** , **Toxic** , **Baby, One More Time** , **Oops, I did it Again** , etc. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218/105 "2005-04-03T22:20:23Z")
Generally, songs that get the repeat treatment from me contain great lyrics and complex melodies. These are the ones that I’ve hit the repeat button on recently: “Across the Antheap” XTC – from their Oranges and Lemons album. Imagine a dump truck unloading trumpets, drums, jackhammers, screams, honking horns and it still sounds melodic. It’s a frantic song with Andy spitting lines about a mad world where “jets and temples form a chord like screeching gulls / accompanied by truncheons beating time on human skulls.” The images come so fast and so vividly that this would make a fantastic video. Great track from one of my favorite albums. “New Frontier” and “Walk Between the Raindrops” Donald Fagan from The Nightfly album. “Raindrops” is an unabashedly romantic song – the Manhatten Transfer could cover it. “New Frontier” makes me nostalgic for the early '60s that never happened. Cool tunes in the old school way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-have-caused-you-to-press-the-repeat-button-over-and-over-again/296218.md?page=5)