Songs That Have Caused You to Press the "Repeat" Button Over and Over Again

Most repeated?

Another World - Beborn Beton
Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails
Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode
Kathy’s Song - Apoptygma Berzerk
Kein Zuruch - Wolfsheim
Call the Ships to Port - Covenant
Jet Boy, Jet Girl - The Damned
Ich Bin Ein Auslander - Pop Will Eat Itself
She’s in Parties - Bauhaus
Cities in Dust Siouxsie and the Banshees
Du Hast - Rammstein
Moonage Daydream -David Bowie

I have lots more than these, but here you go.

*Churchill’s Speech (Intro) * - Iron MaidenLive After Death

(This one’s my favorite song by this group.) *Rime of the Ancient Mariner * - Iron Maiden “Live After Death”

*Die With Your Boots On * - Iron Maiden “Live After Death” (disc 2)

Clairvoyant - Iron MaidenSeventh Son of a Seventh Son

Prophecy - Iron Maiden “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son”

*Blackened * - Metallica…And Justice For All

*…And Justice for All * - Metallica “…And Justice For All”

Concerto For Two Trumpets In C Major PV 75 (1st Mvt.) - **Antonio Vivaldi ** (You can listen to a bit of it here.)

Suite From Anna Magdalena Notebook: Minuet in G Major - (Bach) performed by Wendy/Walter CarlosSwitched On Bach

Also Sheep May Safely Graze from that album.

I like the non-synthesized performances of those pieces too. You can listen to Suite From Anna Magdalena Notebook: Minuet in G Major here.

Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall - Paul SimonPaul Simon Songbook

Tongues of Kali - Martyn BennetBothy Culture” (You can watch his video here.)

The Rythm Thief - Sparks (You can see their video here.)

Bathtime in Clerkenwell - (The Real) Tuesday WeldI Lucifer” They have a flash video that I believe is also for sale, you can watch the short here at Shockwave. (I don’t like the album version of this song as much as the “short” version.)

Coin Operated Boy - **The Dresden Dolls ** “The Dresden Dolls” (You can hear the whole song and watch their video on Yahoo Launch, all video links on this post are from Launch, with one exception.)

Forest [Tree Mix] - The CureMixed Up

Walk [Everything Mix] - The Cure “Mixed Up”

Caterpillar [Flicker Mix] - The Cure “Mixed Up”

In Between Days [Shiver Mix] - The Cure “Mixed Up”

*To Wish Impossible Things * - The CureWish

Doing the Unstuck - The Cure “Wish”

*Same Deep Water as You * - The CureDisentegration

*Prayers for Rain * - The Cure “Disentegration”

Burn - The Cure “The Crow Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

It Can’t Rain All the Time - Jane Siberry “The Crow Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”

I do this a lot. Lately I can’t stop playing “We’re All In This Together” by Ben Lee. It’s gorgeous, and so addictive.

Two that really stick out for me in the last couple of years are “Your Cover’s Blown” by Belle & Sebastian, and “Silent Sigh” by Badly Drawn Boy. I spent hours and hours just hitting the back button as soon as they were finished, and they still managed to amaze me every single time.

I go through obsessive loops with all kinds of music. I work well listening to ambient or electronica or happy hardcore, so that tends to get looped a lot. Right now I’m listening to the electronic music of Eloy Fritsch. (Available by legal download from http://www.musicexpress.com.br/)

I do this rather often, so I’ll also go with those currantly which are on repeat, some even as I type this…

Nymphetamine- Cradle of Filth
Stickin’ in My Eye- NOFX
Iron Tusk-Mastodon
Vermillion (pt 1) Slipknot
Decendants-World’s on Heroin
Bad Religion- Nerve
Dropkick Murphy’s- Rocky Road to Dublin

Many, many songs are like those listed above, but I hardly can remember them now. Back when music was legal to download, this happened to me more than it does now that I buy CDs. Anyway, starting from my first, I’ll recount the best I can.

Don Mclean - Castles in the Air ; It just worked for me. Also, my first song-on-repeat that I can recall.
Postal Service - Many off of “Give Up,” namely The District Sleeps Alone Tonight.
Tilly and the Wall - Many off of “Wild Like Children,” namely Fell Down the Stairs, Night of the Living Dead, and Ice Storm Big Gust and You.
Elf Power - The Winter is Coming
Bright Eyes - The Movement of a Hand ; First song I heard from them and found his voice rather intriguing in an Issac from MM way.
Modest Mouse - Styrofoam Boats, Float On, Wild Packs of Family Dogs, etc
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Beat Happening - Our Secret
CVB and TMBG - Too many to remember, probably all I have heard from them.
The Unicorns - Jellybones, Sea Ghost
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and the entire album, for that matter. Out of all the music I have listened to over the years, this is the only one that I play multiple times every week, for several years counting.
The Shins - Gone for Good
Pete Seeger - The Union Song
Grape Digging Sharon Fruit - Peppermint John
Drive By Truckers - Zoloft
The Who - A Quick One While He’s Away (Live at Rolling Stone’s Animal Circus, no less.)
James Kochalka Superstar - Monkey v. Robot
Breeders - Huffer, Off you
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
Sparklehorse - More Yellow Birds, Piano Fire
Beck - Loser

Yes, I know the horse is just about beaten stiff. You should, however, see an actual list of mine - an unabridged version, if you will.

Only one in recent memory: Slaughterama by GWAR.

I was on the usual long road trip home for Christmas and I had set my Neuros to play all songs alphabetically. Slaughterama was on a CD I ripped, but hadn’t listened to. It took me completely by surprise, and frankly disturbed me a tad. So, naturally, I had to listen to it a few more times.

Today’s song is Coin Operated Boy by the Dresden Dolls.

Past songs:
I’ve Been High by REM - the live, acoustic version released on The Panel Vol. 3.
Hurt and, prior to that, One (cover of the U2 song) by Johnny Cash
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town by Pearl Jam
The Way by Fastball
Saltwater by Julian Lennon (when it was new and I was in my early teens - I killed it by falling asleep listening to it on repeat. Now I can’t stand to hear it).
Fitter, Happier, Paranoid Android and Karma Police by Radiohead, all at various disconnected times
Take This Bottle by Faith No More - it was my “I’ve ruined my life” song back when I believed that.
Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots, my most favourite song ever.

Lately, Puffy Ami Yumi’s version of Joining a Fanclub.

In the past…the list is too long to bother with.

Egads, what a great song! The part at the end of the bridge section is unbelievable. My air drums get a great workout whenever this is on.

The rest of the album is great too. “Good Day” and “Girl Anachronism” have both done their own share of damage to my repeat button.

Let’s see…

Amon Tobin - Get Your Snack On
Throwing Muses -Call Me
Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin (but pretty much anything by this man!)
Interpol -Obstacle 2
Jane’s Addiction -Jane Sez
Cat Power - Speak For Me
Doves -Break Me Gently
New Order -Thieves Like Us
Modest Mouse -Interstate 8
The Black Keys -Set You Free
The Sex Pistols -Submission
Yeah Yeah Yeahs -Maps
The Smiths -Frankly Mr. Shankly
Alpha -Lipstick From The Asylum
Belle and Sebastian -I Don’t Love Anyone
David Bowie -Rebel Rebel
Billie Holiday -I Cover The Waterfront
Edith Piaf -Fais-moi valser
Garbage -Vow
Fred Astaire -Night and Day
PJ Harvey -Beautiful Feeling
Siouxsie and the Banshees -Christine
The Cure -The Perfect Girl
Spoon -The Way We Get By
The The -Uncertain Smile
Miles Davis -Blue in Green
Sigur Ros -Agaetis Byrjun
Hooverphonic -Renaissance Affair
Kate Bush -Running Up That Hill
Franz Ferdinand -The Dark of the Matinee
Superchunk -Never Too Young To Smoke
The Clash -Straight to Hell

There are more…but that should keep y’all busy :smiley:

Hmmm…at the moment they would have to be:

Jump-Van Halen
I’m Your Man-Wham
You Never Even Called Me by my Name-David Alan Coe
Time to say goodbye-Andrea Botticelli and Sara Brightman
157 Riverside Avenue-REO Speedwagon
Keep on Rollin’-REO Speedwagon
Gypsy-Fleetwood Mac
In the Arms of the Angels-Sara MClaughlin

If it were possible to just burn straight through a CD for having repeated a track so many times, it would have been for “A Quick One” - definitely one of the best songs to sing and yell along to.

I’m really into the ‘permanent repeat’ thing, though I try not to do out around other people. Thank gawd for the iPod and CD players in cars - I can sing along to my heart’s content. :slight_smile:

In kinda chronological order (or what comes to mind)…
Cracker, Eurotrash Girl (Hidden track 69, heh heh heh)
REM - What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?, Tongue, Radio Free Europe (man I loved that song)
All sorts of Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees, Sulk, Black Star, Electioneering, Karma Police, How Can You Be Sure?
Belly - Slow Dog and Feed the Tree
Beck - still a popular repeater - Nitemare Hippy Girl, Beercan, Fuckin’ with My Head

Fiona Apple, Shadowboxer, Sleep to Dream (soundtrack to my first boyfriend/ breakup)
Cornershop, Brimful of Asha (the ‘Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow’ song)
Verve - Bittersweet Sympony (LOVED this - listened to it all the time in Spain)
Doves - There Goes the Fear
Flogging Molly - most anything - great for getting revved up for studying for big exams

In the past couple months…
Jimmy Cliff, Pressure Drop
Mint Royale, Show Me (I know, I know, just take away my snob card now)
Ismael Lo, Tadieu Bone (This is the song from All About My Mother when the camera soars over Barcelona and Manuela finds Agrado, and I have no idea what he’s singing about)
Jarabe de Palo, Dos días en la vida, Perro apaleado, Duerme conmigo
Komeda, Blossom
Aterciopelados, Baracunata
Flaming Lips, Fight Test

After careful consideration, I’ve decided to use the “Artist – Title” format, without bolding. Anyway, here’s my list:

Static-X - Ostegolation
A Perfect Circle - Rose
Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh, Comely
Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers, Part 3 (I surgically removed part 2)
Shadows Fall - Crushing Belial
David Byrne – The Accident
Blondie – Rapture
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
William Shatner - Common People (So sue me)
The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life
Led Zepplin - Misty Mountain Hop
Fear Factory – Cyberwaste
Placebo - Bigmouth Strikes Again
Static-X – Bled for days

According to iTunes, my favorites are as follows

All is Full of Love—Bjork (137 plays)
Going to Hell—Tiger Lillies (115 plays)
“Rock Shop”—From the Robocop soundtrack (109 plays)
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space—John Coxon, & Co. (95 plays)
Not Gonna Get Us—Tatu (84 plays)
Main theme from “The Last Valley” (80 plays)

By my figuring, I’ve spent almost 11 hours listening to that one Bjork song over the last two years.

Oh my.

Rock Lobster - the B52s
I Might Be Wrong; The National Anthem - Radiohead
Professional Widow; Cornflake Girl - Tori
I couldn’t even keep track of how many Allman Brothers songs. Dreams has to be number one. Recently I’d list their covers of I Walk on Gilded Splinters and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.

Err, sorry to burst your bubble, but that’s nothing. :stuck_out_tongue:
My last song obsession, “Jenny Place Your Bets” by Dolorean, I listened to on repeat on my car cd player on the way to and from work, and put it on repeat - all by itself - on my computer playlist at work. With a 45 minute commute each way, and an 8 hour work day, that’s 9 1/2 hours of listening to that one song in one day. And I continue to listen to it in playlists and cd mixes, and sometimes still on repeat for a few hours at a time.

I do have to be careful I don’t o.d. on songs I love, but I have a fairly high tolerance for repeat, and when I get obsessed, I have to listen over and over and over. I can only do this with sad songs, which are always my favorite songs anyway.

I’ve done this with many songs over the years, but the most recent few are:
Jenny Place Your Bets - Dolorean
The Way You Dream - 1 Giant Leap feat. Michael Stipe
Mirrorball - Everything But the Girl
Somebody Hurt You - A Girl Called Eddy
It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference - Alison Krauss & Union Station (and that’s only the most recent in a line of many Alison Krauss songs - with and without Union Station - which have I’ve put on infinite repeat)

Tori Amos: Blood Roses & Girl

Cocteau Twins: Cherry Coloured Funk & Spanglemaker

Deftones: Change

Alice in Chains: Down in a Hole

System of a Down: Toxicity

Bjork: Hunter

Kate Bush: Cloudbusting

Since Fiona Apple’s newest CD leaked, I’ve had that on constantly.

Monkey Chews, cazzle, have you seen The Dresden Dolls video yet? I think it’s well made, and fits the song. It’s linked in my previous post on this topic. :wink:

Love the video! Can’t think why the idea of checking out the video hadn’t occurred to me yet but when I saw your post a lightbulb came on and I went to check it out. That infuriating website refused to show me the video, apparently because it detected that I was on an Australian IP address. After mucking around there for a while, I went to the official Dresden Dolls website and downloaded the large version of the clip to my computer. Now that I have my precious and can play it whenever I like without streaming it, I say ya boo sucks to Launch.