rewind the track

Not that often. I did that a lot more when I was younger. I think the record has to be for Life in a Glass House, which was the only song on my winamp playlist for 3 consecutive days. On repeat. While I was for hours and hours every day. That was pretty recent, of course. Who's pathetic?

When I was in high school I listened to "Lithium" on repeat like all night when some friends and I were going without sleep. I'm not usually that excessive - a dozen repeats in a row for a song every once in a long while. Last year I listened to Bill Evans' "NYC's No Lark" for three or four hours, and all of Music for 18 Musicians for a few days straight.

Most recent repeated song(s): tracks 2-3 on Niun Niggung.

I'm more of an album-repeater myself, but there's this one snippet of Morrissey's live version of "Suedehead" on Beethoven Was Deaf during which he lets loose (and it sounds like an accident) the most RIDICULOUSLY AMAZING AND AWKWARD SOUNDING "ooohh!" I've ever had the pleasure of hearing. I can't even describe it; he sounds like he's getting ready to fall off the stage, and it makes the song absolutely priceless. I rewound and relistened to this one snippet probably 6 or 7 times today--my girlfriend and I were about to die laughing. Seriously, you MUST download this song and listen for it. The "ooohh!" occurs at about 2 minutes 15 seconds; you can thank me later...

Heavy rotation - Daft Punk live in Ibiza with Sneak - I can't speak highly enough of this and often shut the windows when listening, in case I throw myself out. There's a twenty five minute sequence that comes out of Kraftwerk's Numbers, very poorly, but I'm sure this glitch just forced them into the playing a their default/beloved set, where they take us back through Masters At Work / Body and Soul territory. This particular night, it's in-credible - (highlight - cutting-up Jocelyn Brown with Alan Braxe's Vertigo, spangly diva house vs twisted acid pulses). I've played individual tracks up to twenty times a day, in between every other track, there's too many to list. But, of note:
Two years ago -Zzap's - More bounce to the Ounce
Four years ago - Timber - Grantby

Funny 'Life In A Glass House' should be mentioned - I don't go for repeat playing much but I must have listened to 'Paranoid Android' about twenty times when I first got it, just to work out what the hell was going on. On a related note, heard Amnesiac all the way through for the first time yesterday and I might make an effort NEVER to hear it again.

We call those songs "Carolanne"s after the Boo Radleys song with the chorus repeating that girl's name over and over. In a car roadtrip one time, we played it something like 50 times in a row. (don't know the exact number, but we played nothing but it the entire drive to Vermont, which was probably an hour an a half.)

I don't know, maybe there's something obsessive compulsive in the urge to do it, but I frequently just hit on songs that I must hear over and over until I have intuitively grasped every nook and cranny of their psyche. It doesn't even have to be a new song, either, sometimes a song you know well can just encapsulate a mood so well that it must be repeated. This can be a few times, or it can be an hour or two of solid repetition.

Some others include "High Cool" by Blur, "Atomic" by Blondie, "The Banana Splitz Theme Song", "Why Don't You Smile Now?" by Spiritualized, "Mr Brownstone" by GNR... a pretty varied bunch, but all of them just took over my brain for 20+ times repeats.

My sister would tape a song from the radio, and listen and rewind over and over and over. The song would be all she would listen for 3 months. Then she'd latch on to a different song and repeat the process. You can imagine what happened when she got a CD player... she'd fall asleep in her room with the song on "repeat". I'd stay awake in the next room, trying not to go crazy listening to the damn song repeating all night.

She still does it to this day. I was at her house a few months back, the day that she and her boyfriend had just bought a Vengaboys CD, and even though they played it almost the whole time I was there, it never made it past the 2nd song.

this morning, on the path train, i listened to "welcome to the jungle" three times in a row. yesterday on my way TO the path train, i listened to the beach boys' "sail on sailor" four times in a row.

several years ago, when i had just taped "no diggity" off the radio, my first time hearing it, i probably played it 20 or so times in a row.

when i was 17 and sooo depressed (as opposed to now 26 and just depressed) I listened to GNR's November Rain 24 times in a row...I really don't know if it helped.

Through ages 15-17, if I discovered a song I loved I would play it ad nauseum, at least 5 times in a row. I think that's probably just due to the obsessive nature of teenage girls.

I never do that now, because it spoils it for me to hear something I like too many times. It takes some of the magic away and make it less special when the song is played over and over again.

I often make playlists with 8 or 9 or 10 tracks on and play them all day. It's been a while since I had the must....hit....rewind experience, though. "Digital Love", I think. Even with records that completely blow me away on 1st listen (cf other thread) I tend to want to wait a bit rather than, as Nicole says, spoil the magic.

There really is a Radiohead backlash building, isn't there? Heh.

The only two tracks that I've been seriously addicted to in the last month or so have been Daft Punk's "Face to Face" and the second track on Luomo's Vocal City. I once went through a week of having listened to Boards of Canada's "Everything You Do Is a Balloon" at least 30 times, and there's a song on the third disc of the first Trojan Dub box set that really did it to me for a while. Can't remember what it was or who it was by -- something about insects.

I listened to "With Or Without You" four-five-six times in a row this morning. I'm not in a good position right now.

I can be terribly impatient and hit the rewind button before some songs even end. Not with individual songs I specifically choose, but sometimes if I'm listening to an album and am just not ready to let go of a certain track. Pathetic, I know. Most recent examples: "Digital Love," Roxy Music's "If There is Something," Kraftwerk's "Neon Lights," and Orange Juice's "Tender Object." Hmm, all of them on albums I really like as a whole, too.

I listen to songs over and over when I'm trying to figure them out. Outside of that, certain Neptunes produced tracks have lately got me listening over & over. The new Busta Rhymes track, "What It Is" and the old ODB Track "Got Your Money" are both astoundingly addictive, given that they keep the same beat throughout anyway.

All the time! Sometimes like 8-10 times in a row when its new. Its especially easy to do with MP3s because I usually only get like one or two new songs per band and if I really like one, I play it into the ground. BUt I like doing it in the car though too.

My most recent and recurring flare-ups: GBV - "My Valuable Bull Hunting Knife" (single version)

Jack Drag - "Wow, Dig the No Scene"

Go-Gos - "Unforgiven"

Superchunk - "1000 Pounds"

Magnetic Fields - "Deep Sea Diving Suit"

Swervedriver - "Never Lose that Feeling"

This new Colin Hay song called "Beautiful World", which is almost cheesy but I've always liked his voice and he puts down probablly the first *successful* (as in not dorky) rhyming of the words "car" and "far" in song. Men at Work were ace in my book.

Spoon - "Anything You Want"

O shit, I shouldn't forget Kraftwerk's "Computer Love".

Hmm...I'm thinking about this and for the life of me I do not have an answer! I just can't recall ever doing this in recent years -- maybe if I need to reconsider something for my reviewing work, but that's about it. I think I like impacts to just happen and then to go back and revisit them later.

or maybe you just don't have the TIME. surely everyone recalls the picture and, most of all, the racks.

Often, but the occasion that stands out (for what it led to) is "The Call" by the Backstreet Boys.

I once listened to Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Pelvis by Barry Adamson 87 times in a row. No, I'm not making that up. I started counting "officially" around ten times because I wondered how long it'd be before I got sick of it. I never actually did, but I got a phone call so I had to turn it off to hear the caller.

The last time I did this...well, I was FORCED to listen to I Got Erection by Turbonegro about 10,000 times in a row a few weekends ago but I wasn't really listening. I listened to Your Disco Needs You by Kylie about three times in a row the other night. At work today I've heard Lady Marmalade by A Whole Pile Of Skank Hos about 70 times but that's because that's the only song on the Moulin Rouge soundtrack my coworker plays. Last night I listened to You Love Us about 3 times but my roommate seems to think whenever I put on my headphones and listen to the Manics quietly to let her sleep, it's some German guy sneaking into the apartment, so I stopped.

I kinda like to listen to songs over and over. It's a test of wills, my mind telling me not to get sick of a song versus my heart trying to get sick of a song. Mind usually wins, unless it's like One More Time which I got way sick of like 3 weeks ago but now it's okay again because I stopped listening to it.

Oh, and since we've been like really sensitive about this lately, I'd like to point out that I use the term "Skank Ho" in a complimentary manner. Seriously.

Like a few others, I tend to be an album-repeater more than a song repeater, but the last time I kept a single song on repeat, it was Soft Boys' "I Wanna Destroy You", right after the reissue came out.

i find i tend to listen to 'the year of driving langorously' off of the lucksmiths new album three or four times each time i listen to that record. it is handy that it is the last song. marty donald, he's clever.

Today, 'I Can Feel It' by Sloan. At least 10, but not all at once. Maybe in batches of 3.

Who says we don't all use "Skank Ho" in a complimentary manner? Seriously. The only songs I listened to today were "Rocket Queen" and "Mystery", "Is This Real?", and "Tragedy" by the Wipers, over and over. Then I wrote about them. It's an article on weakness and caring. Have I mentioned lately how much I hate myself and want to die?

Tuesday afternoon, at least 15 times: Loose Joints, "Tell You Today".

Coming Clean, by Hakan Lidbo, at least fifteen times today. Timbaland's remix of All Saints' "Lady Marmalade" another fifteen, and another fifteen of We're All Bourgeois Now as covered by The Manics.

yesterday, i listened to "he's a rebel" about 8 times in a row. i never noticed how much david johansen was influenced, vocally, by darlene love until just then.

I can say with certainty that there are some of us who, while blazingly drunk in front of many people who are basically strangers, do not use the term "skank ho" or any variation on it as a compliment. But still, I'd rather be a skank ho than a priss, because apparently when everyone at Dillard's discovered I was a skank ho reading through my Cosmo quiz, they liked me better, not that I found out about this til 3 years later.

Kurupt - Ride with us . I have to listen to it more than once, otherwise it sounds like the fresh prince.

When I do song-poem reviews on my site, I'll often listen to it a dozen times in a row or more, especially since I usually play it on repeat while I type my review. I'm sure I've probably made the two-dozen mark at least once. Also, at work I recently listened to Satie's "Vexations" something like 50-60 times in a row. It's not 840 times, but what can you do.

As for doing it purely for enjoyment -- i.e. "it was so good/infectious/whatever, I want to listen to it again already" -- I'm usually more likely to do that with albums, but there are a few singles that've made me do it, though almost never more than 3 or 4 times in a row. In the past year or so, "Danger! High Voltage!" got a few consecutive listens, as did Pinback's "Tripoli". I think I might've spun the Korean Children's Choir doing "Up, Up and Away" a few times in a row, too, and I know I played Shooby Taylor's "Stout-Hearted Men" a bunch of times when I first heard it.

I'll listen to my own music on repeat when I'm working on or have just finished a track, but of course that's a different sort of thing.

"song-poem reviews" = "a song-poem review"

revive

i will eventually work up to listening to vexations 840 times in a row!

this is a bad habit of mine--i listen to the same song, obsessively, for weeks or months on end, until i wear the song out completely. recently i've been in a 'i can only listen to singles no albums please' mode...increasingly i can only listen to big hip-hop hits, old rave anthems, and recent techno/house tunes over and over and over again...someone help!! my attention span is one millisecond approximately