# Songs you’ve played over and over and over again **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 21, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462 "2023-11-21T09:18:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/1 "2023-11-21T09:18:25Z")
What songs have you enjoyed so much that you’ve played them over and over and over again? My wife is out of town and I’m missing her right now, a great deal. So, I find myself listening to David Gates’ beautiful voice, with Bread, singing the song “If” repeatedly. Yes it’s a sappy song. But I’m hitting rewind again and again. And again. Have you done that? Ever? Some songs, I enjoy them so much that I’ll listen to them repeatedly. In past years I know that I’ve done that for: California Dreamin’ — The Mamas and The Papas Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress — The Hollies The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald — Gordon Lightfoot Hitch a Ride — Boston There are probably others, I’m sure of it. You? ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/2 "2023-11-21T10:15:44Z")
I’ve listened to Nightflyer by Allison Russell hundreds of times. I just love singing this song. It was a hard song to learn. It gives me delicious chills. It’s one of the few songs that I loved from the first time I ever heard it. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/3 "2023-11-21T10:23:18Z")
“Playing” in what sense? I can play Scott Joplin rags on piano, and I can play the flute parts of Van Morrison’s “Moondance” on flute. Actually, I can play a lot of flute parts in pop songs, and I play them over and over. I am so happy when I can hit that high Bb in “Nights in White Satin.” Especially in performance. I can, of course, play the radio and CDs, and I’m sure that you’re referring to those. Maybe you’d like to narrow the OP to “Songs you’ve played over and over again from recorded media”? ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/4 "2023-11-21T11:13:23Z")
“There’s Your Trouble” by The Dixie Chicks (their name on their first album). Love that album (_Wide Open Spaces_) from first song to last. But for some reason I just loved this little pop-country gem in particular, and I’d often play it two, three four times in a row, ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/5 "2023-11-21T11:17:48Z")
Whenever I fire up Spotify, I start with Caim’s [Rigged Voices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8h87wuORnM&ab_channel=Caim-Topic). It’s some kind of techno sea shanty (maybe) and it’s magnificent. I would really like to know the story behind this recording, but I can’t find anything. The artist is based in St. Petersburg, Russia. I never would have guessed. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/6 "2023-11-21T11:28:47Z")
Fun topic! I have a list of too many to name in a post like this but I’ll give you my Top Five: Pat Metheny’s “Au Lait” Neal Hefti’s “Repetition” Sinatra’s version of “Laura” ( I prefer the instrumental!) Shearing’s “Lullaby of Birdland” Boz Scaggs’ “Lowdown” I could easily list another 20 or so offhand, but I’ll stop with these. I really like three of your four! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/7 "2023-11-21T12:34:19Z")
_Saltarello_ and _As The Bell Rings The Maypole Spins_ - Dead Can Dance _Garlands_ and _Blue Bell Knoll_ by Cocteau Twins _Doomsday_ and _Ceilings_ by Lizzy McAlpine _Free Will At Ease_ and _Louder In Outer Space_ by Skating Polly _Don’t Be So Hard On Your Own Beauty_ - Yeule _Lucky_ - Lucie, Too _Clair_ and _Strawberry Wine_ - My Bloody Valentine _Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken_ and _Rattlesnakes_ - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions _Somebody That I Used To Know_ - Gotye feat. Kimbra currently : _Expert In A Dying Field_ - The Beths ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/8 "2023-11-21T13:59:16Z")
Back in Black by AC/DC. Whose your Daddy by Toby Keith. Beth by Kiss. ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/9 "2023-11-21T14:22:54Z")
In the Smooth Jazz genre I love: **DREAMS** by The Rippingtons ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/10 "2023-11-21T14:44:34Z")
Mine are much sappier than most of these lists! Fallin’ in Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank, Reynolds Don’t Pull Your Love - H, JF, R Never Been Any Reason - Head East Can’t Find My Way Home - Blind Faith Valerie - Steve Winwood If You Only Knew - Shinedown And lots more ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/11 "2023-11-21T15:55:02Z")
When I like a song, I’ll often play it over and over until I know the lyrics by heart and can sing it (to myself; I wouldn’t do that to anyone else). Songs with clever lyrics and fairly simple melodies tend to grab me. It’s a very long list, but the ones that come immediately to mind this morning are: _Nightswimming_ and _Find The River_ (R.E.M) _John Wayne Gacy_ and _Casimir Pulaski Day_ (Sufjan Stevens) _Sisters Of Mercy_ (Leonard Cohen) _Divorce Song_ (Liz Phair) _I’ve Got A Match_ (They Might Be Giants) _I’m Your Moon_ (Jonathan Coulton) _St. Theresa_ (Joan Osborne) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/12 "2023-11-21T16:06:23Z")
Yep, sometimes I’ve gotten hooked on a song to the point I wanted to hear nothing else for a while, and would play them again…again…again…again. Off the top of my head, the songs that inspired brief obsessions: Hotel California, by The Eagles Drop Dead Legs, by Van Halen Empty Garden, by Elton John Snowblind, by Styx Wuthering Heights, by Kate Bush Changes, by Yes Shooting Shark, by Blue Oyster Cult Heart of Stone, by Cher Poison, by Alice Cooper ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/13 "2023-11-21T16:09:54Z")
I remember during my Hotel California jag, gushing to my mom, “Don’t you love this song?” and she wearily replied, “Julie, _nobody_ likes Hotel California.” I think what she meant was that the household was sick of hearing it, but at the time, I thought, “Whoa, I’m really the only one?” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/14 "2023-11-21T19:02:59Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > “Playing” in what sense? > [@Bullitt](#): > > My wife is out of town and I’m missing her right now, a great deal. So, I find myself listening to David Gates’ beautiful voice, with Bread, singing the song “If” repeatedly. Yes it’s a sappy song. But I’m hitting rewind again and again. And again. > > Have you done that? Ever? Seems pretty clear that the OP means listening to the same recording over and over again at one time. It’s been decades since I’ve listened to a song more than three or four times in a row. On the (very) short list there, I’ve got: Ship To Wreck - Florence + the Machine\* Havana - Camila Cabello Sedona - Houndmouth \*What does Rage Against the Machine have against these guys? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/15 "2023-11-21T19:07:50Z")
Well, there’s a lot of Eagles hate out there, which I don’t get, and Hotel California seems to be a particular target of that wrath, which I kinda do, because it’s been so overplayed. (I happen to still like it, but I will say that I hear it a lot despite never listening to ‘classic rock’ stations.) ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/16 "2023-11-21T19:17:00Z")
I got my copy of The Replacements’ _Tim: the Let it Bleed Edition_ over the weekend and there five or six different versions of “Can’t Hardly Wait” in the box set, and I could already happily listen to that song on repeat already. When I first heard Deacon Blue’s “Real Gone Kid” I listened to it a couple of times a day for a couple of weeks, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/17 "2023-11-21T19:36:42Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > > [@Spoons](#): > > > > “Playing” in what sense? > > > [@Bullitt](#): > > > > My wife is out of town and I’m missing her right now, a great deal. So, I find myself listening to David Gates’ beautiful voice, with Bread, singing the song “If” repeatedly. Yes it’s a sappy song. But I’m hitting rewind again and again. And again. > > > > Have you done that? Ever? > > Seems pretty clear that the OP means listening to the same recording over and over again at one time. Yep. Exactly. Thanks for clarifying. Thanks for clarifying. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/18 "2023-11-21T19:40:03Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I’ve listened to Nightflyer by Allison Russell hundreds of times. I just love singing this song. It was a hard song to learn. It gives me delicious chills. > > It’s one of the few songs that I loved from the first time I ever heard it. Dude (dudette?), that’s one beautiful song. Never heard it before. Song ➜ [https://youtu.be/RNJgwj8d9eo](https://youtu.be/RNJgwj8d9eo) Lyrics ➜ [lyrics Nightflyer by Allison Russell - Google Search](https://is.gd/JChzC3) (Safe link. I created it.) And now I’ve listened to it 4x in a row! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/19 "2023-11-21T22:09:08Z")
I remember listening to “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen maybe 15 times in a row when I was on a long drive. I particularly loved listening to the crescendo when they sing “about to oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-EXPLODE!!” ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462/20 "2023-11-21T22:09:25Z")
I’m a Dudette, isn’t it a beautiful song? I could not stop listening to it when I first bought it. Love it so much. Glad you liked it too! This is a reply to Bullitt. Hogarth snuck in between us. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-ve-played-over-and-over-and-over-again/993462.md?page=2)