# What songs hypnotize you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555 "2008-10-18T20:42:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Comfy\_Chair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@The\_Comfy\_Chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Comfy_Chair)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555/41 "2008-10-20T10:03:49Z")
> [@Tabby\_Cat](#): > > Huh. I figured I wouldn’t be the first, but… > [http://www.leekspin.com/](http://www.leekspin.com/) This tune has now been permanently fused to my poor brain. I’m gonna miss sleep. ---
**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555/42 "2008-10-20T18:49:50Z")
Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” entrances me, as does _Mercy Me_’s “I Can Only Imagine.” [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S70gwFcSK9k](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S70gwFcSK9k) I love this song. Love, Phil ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555/43 "2008-10-21T12:11:02Z")
Bumped because I found a song that fits the OP, but mostly because of the name of the band: [Krokodil](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz0Pr-s4mfc&feature=related) doing a song called Lady of Attraction from the album called _an invisible world revealed_. Very psychedelic. I’ve wondered for a while if the poster named **Krokodil** is aware that a German prog-rock band is named after him/her. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555/44 "2008-10-21T13:47:59Z")
What was that (sort of) popular song in the mid-90’s that incorporated Gregorian chanting? That one. I’d be much obliged if someone would tell me the name… ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555/45 "2008-10-21T17:09:52Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > What was that (sort of) popular song in the mid-90’s that incorporated Gregorian chanting? That one. > > I’d be much obliged if someone would tell me the name… Was it [Return to Innocence](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JpJjsHgYHA)? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555/46 "2008-10-21T17:57:43Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > What was that (sort of) popular song in the mid-90’s that incorporated Gregorian chanting? That one. > > I’d be much obliged if someone would tell me the name… Yeah, it was probably Enigma. ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555/47 "2008-10-21T18:07:45Z")
As already mentioned, several by Enigma and Floyd’s Comfortably Numb. Several by Depeche Mode but especially Clean. Several songs from Cure’s Disintegration album. (Same Deep Water, Pictures of You, Last Dance, Lullaby, Fascination Street.) Prince’s Sometimes It Snows In April. Ben E. King’s Stand By Me…within three notes. Tori Amos’s Little Earthquakes. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555/48 "2008-10-21T20:52:37Z")
Thanks **Stauderhorse** - actually it was Sadeness by Enigma. But I couldn’t remember the name of the group until you posted! ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555/49 "2008-10-21T21:08:57Z")
“Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd “Veni, Veni Emmanuel” by Mannheim Steamroller The “Cosmos” theme from Vangelis’ Heaven & Hell album. Some dude on iTunes gives instructions for isolating this segment of the album. “It Doesn’t Matter” by Allison Kraus ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555/50 "2008-10-21T21:53:41Z")
_Birthday_ by the Sugarcubes. If I heard Bjork sing that live I would probably faint, literally. Several songs by _The Warlocks_ (neo-pyschedelia with a bit of a Cure hook now and then). They don’t hypnotize me at home but rather in concert, where I can feel melting into the music and atmosphere that I don’t with punk concerts. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555/51 "2008-10-22T00:00:21Z")
Definitely [Maranatha (Come Lord)](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SFXHF2/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk2?ie=UTF8&qid=1224633498&sr=8-6) by Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy. I just put that track on repeat. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555/52 "2008-10-22T01:02:09Z")
Robert Miles’ [Children](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCYST35gSvU) > [@Student\_Driver](#): > > A number of DJs have done mixes that can put me into a trance. I’ve been relistening to Sandra Collins’ “Cream” for a few years now, and it still knocks my brain waves down a notch. I just listened to this today. DJ mixes can be good for this. I’ll throw out Sasha’s “Involver”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-hypnotize-you/468555.md?page=2)