# What song do you like to listen to over and over and over and over ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785 "2003-04-01T20:47:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/1 "2003-04-01T20:47:19Z")
For several weeks I played Neil Young’s “Cowgirl in the Sand” on repeat. (I’m sure my neighbours loved it.) I still can’t listen to it without pressing Repeat at least once. Also I have a scratchy tape of Joni Mitchell singing “You Turn Me On (I’m a Radio)” that I will rewind again and again, and have done so since I originally got the tape seven or eight years ago. (It’s a live version that I can’t find on CD). Of course, there are always hit songs that people really dig when they’re popular (like that fucking Lisa Loeb song my roommate played constantly for a week, and then forgot about). I’m really wondering about the _old_ songs that keep making you reach for the Repeat button, years after everyone else has stopped listening. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/2 "2003-04-01T21:49:45Z")
I think we should include songs that are on “Repeat” with nary a CD player in sight. In other words, songs that go beyond “stuck in your head for a day or so” – you’ve sung them to yourself on and off for years! There’s a great stairwell at my work, great acoustics, never anyone in it. It often gets filled up with me singing “Marakesh Express”. Has since '96. At full volume. In various styles – one day Sinatra doing swing, next day Joanis doing the blues. And imagine Pavarotti: _Cleeeeeeear Morrooooccan Skiii-i-iiies…_ ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/3 "2003-04-01T21:58:34Z")
“Joanis” is somehow related to Janis (Joplin)… sorry. Hmm. And “Marakesh Express” is tangentially related to “Cowgirl in the Sand”… ---
**Author:** ![djxiii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6f9a4e/32.png) [@djxiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djxiii)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/4 "2003-04-01T22:20:24Z")
_This Ruined Puzzle by Dashboard Confessional_ is on heavy rotation for me right now as is _My Immortal by Evanescence_ from the Daredevil soundtrack. Yes… I am in a melancholy mood and wallowing in it with songs like these. ---
**Author:** ![Threadkiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@Threadkiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Threadkiller)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/5 "2003-04-01T22:37:36Z")
About anything by **Dire Straits** with a good instrumental. While writing my thesis I kept the CD player stuck on _Skateaway_, _Where do you think you’re going?_ And _On every street_. I switched to writing in the evenings after a few less-than-subtle death threats by the other grad students that shared the office. ---
**Author:** ![WillSantini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@WillSantini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillSantini)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/6 "2003-04-01T22:37:46Z")
_Hotel California_ and _Ring of Fire_, listening to their sweet sounds remind me of a better time. Sometimes I think I spend more money on the jukebox than on beer. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/7 "2003-04-01T23:55:34Z")
_Clocks_ by Coldplay and _Trouble_ by Lindsey Buckingham. The first choice is obvious–fairly new, VERY catchy tune, but the second one I have no good explanation for. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/8 "2003-04-02T00:38:37Z")
Songs I have listened to over and over: “Sweet Thing,” Van Morrison “Mother,” Tori Amos “Wish You Were Here,” Pink Floyd (when I need to cry) “Over the Hills and Far Away,” Led Zeppelin “What I Am,” Eminem ---
**Author:** ![Marsie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Marsie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marsie)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/9 "2003-04-02T01:07:10Z")
“The End of the Innocence”, “Sky High” by Jigsaw (Art Bell used to play it as bumper music), “Losing My Religion” and “Walk Away Rene.” But only when I’m alone. I play them over and over and over and well, you know. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/10 "2003-04-02T01:23:07Z")
I tend to not like repeating songs over and over etc., but I’ve got one that I consistently do this to : REM’s cover of “Wall of Death” . Works especially well considering the theme of the song, and that it begins, “Let me ride on the Wall of Death one more time …” ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/11 "2003-04-02T01:30:58Z")
Everything Hits at Once by Spoon Mass Romantic by New Pornographers So it Goes by Wes Cunningham I Sent You Up by Knife in the Water Have all been getting heavy repeat play here lately. ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/12 "2003-04-02T02:04:50Z")
I tend to do this with a new song every now and then… The three songs for this week are 1)_In My Place_ by Coldplay 2)_Crawling (Reanimation mix)_ by Linkin Park 3)_Live from Heart_ by Sa Trincha ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/13 "2003-04-02T02:09:32Z")
I listened to “Morning Train (9 to 5)” by Sheena Easton 20 times in a row once. I was (and still am, a bit) intrigued by the drum track, along with the keen vocal delivery by Ms. Easton and the background singers. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/14 "2003-04-02T02:14:45Z")
**Sam Stone** …by John Prine. _Sam Stone came home, To the wife and family After serving in the conflict overseas. And the time that he served, Had shattered all his nerves, And left a little shrapnel in his knees. But the morhpine eased the pain, And the grass grew round his brain, And gave him all the confidence he lacked, With a purple heart and a monkey on his back._ Particularly relevant today I think. ---
**Author:** ![Omorka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Omorka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omorka)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/15 "2003-04-02T03:35:44Z")
I once made up a whole compilation CD of things that I frequently got stuck in my head. Unfortunately, it appears to be at work. ☹ In particular, “House of Stone and Light” by Martin Page, “Moonlight Shadow” by Mike Oldfield, and TMBG’s “Ana Ng” were all on there, as well as a cover of “Voices Carry” by a local a cappella group. And now that I’ve thought about the compilation, the other twelve will all come 'round to haunt me over the next 24 hours . . . ---
**Author:** ![spartacist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@spartacist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spartacist)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/16 "2003-04-02T05:02:01Z")
Diamonds And Rust - Judas Priest. Joan Baez covered by a british metal band! Haunting and beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![stylize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@stylize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stylize)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/17 "2003-04-02T05:09:27Z")
Jackson Browne: The Pretender Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey, Caravan Art Garfunkel: All I Know ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/18 "2003-04-02T05:12:57Z")
I tend to cycle my repeats, ad I listen to entire CDs, rather than specific songs. One week, it’s the Evita soundtrack, the next, one of my Minstrels of Mayhem CDs. This week, I’ve been listening to Leo Kottke, and last week it was Diana Krall. I think the last single song I did this with was _Somos la Semilla_ by Ricky Martin because I was trying to memorize the words in Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/19 "2003-04-02T05:57:04Z")
I listened to Platinum Blonde’s _Standing In The Dark_ at least once a day for about 12 years. More recently, Jeff Healy’s _See The Light_ and Derek and the Dominoes’ _Layla_ have received heavy play. ---
**Author:** ![ghandi5569](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@ghandi5569](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghandi5569)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785/20 "2003-04-02T06:37:45Z")
Personal Jesus–both the Depeche Mode version and the Johnny Cash version. That song just makes me want to do bad things. Happy When It Rains by The Jesus And Mary Chain. Those are the current 2 songs. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-like-to-listen-to-over-and-over-and-over-and-over/165785.md?page=2)