# What songs will always be recursive for you?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 23, 2008, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-will-always-be-recursive-for-you/464808 "2008-09-23T08:12:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-will-always-be-recursive-for-you/464808/21 "2008-09-24T03:35:22Z")

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Hoobastank’s “The Reason” and Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”. They both got an insane amount of airplay, and they were two of my favorite songs.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-will-always-be-recursive-for-you/464808/22 "2008-09-24T12:16:35Z")

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> [@Lucky\_13](#):
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> The Verve Pipe’s “The Freshman” and Third Eye Blind’s “Semi-Charmed Life.” They came out at around the same time. I also associate those two songs with “Pole Sitter” by Harvey Danger.

I associate “Flagpole Sitta” with “Dammit” by Blink-182. It came out earlier in the year than the Harvey song, and indeed seemed to be entirely displaced by it. I was annoyed that if a radio station decided to play the instantly catchy, seeming “one hit wonder” type song, they’d play the slightly newer and inferior Flagpole Sitta.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-will-always-be-recursive-for-you/464808/23 "2008-09-24T17:14:19Z")

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> [@Scupper](#):
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> The 80s are very recursive for me.

Yep. In particular, Sade’s “Smooth Operator” and Wham’s “Careless Whisper”, as these were the two 45s my friend and I bought and replayed many times during a vacation in spring 1985. And “Bette Davis Eyes” and “Endless Love” as they battled it out for Kasey Kasem’s Top 40 top song of the year, both having spent nine weeks at number one.

> [@Lucky 13](#):
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> The Verve Pipe’s “The Freshman” and Third Eye Blind’s “Semi-Charmed Life.”

Yes, these two too.

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**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-will-always-be-recursive-for-you/464808/24 "2008-09-24T17:42:55Z")

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You mean associative or something, not recursive. A recursive song would be a song about itself. [Recursive Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recursive)

Sorry. :o

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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-will-always-be-recursive-for-you/464808/25 "2008-09-24T18:41:28Z")

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OK, then:

> [@](#):
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> Originally Posted by Edward Bear, 1973  
> It’s the last song I’ll ever write for you  
> It’s the last time that I’ll tell you  
> Just how much I really care  
> This is the last song I’ll ever sing for you  
> You’ll come looking for the light  
> And it won’t be there  
> But I love you  
> Oh yes I do  
> Yes I do

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