Listening to the same song over and over several to many times in a row: C/D?

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Does anyone else do this? I'm not talking about tryning to learn or transcribe a solo, just rewinding because you want to hear it again. How many times in a row can you listen to the same song before it gets to be ridiculous?

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

My personal record is approximately 40 times - "It's A Sin" by the Pet Shop Boys on the day of its release.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

i love it when this happens. rihanna's 'umbrella' was the last - it was on loop for pretty much the entire weekend i first heard it.

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

Super classic when after that bout you have little-to-no desire to hear the song again. My last.fm indicates that I've listened to Simone Cristicchi's "Studentessa Universitaria" around 40 times, and I'm sure 39 of those were on the day I d/l'd it.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

When in certain moods I've been known to do things like this. I think my own record was about 25 or 30, with (I'm not ashamed to admit this) Beck's 'Cold Brains', my favourite song of all time aged 15-17.

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

The last time a song did this to me it was Helen Love's Debbie Loves Joey. I don't think I've listened to it in the last year and a half?

― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

I never do it. Might have done it in my youth, but it was a rare occasion then too.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

I never ever do this. Overuse of the repeat button is an indicator of pathological mentalism.

― ledge, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

doesn't happen enough. recently:
trentmoller remix of What Else is There
various margaret berger (esp Robot Song)
hadouken remix of Atlantis to Interzone

― Alan, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck a repeat button. Try doing it with a turn-table, as I did with Laurie Anderson's "O' Superman" for about five hours one day in my sordid youth.

x-post

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

i am doing this all the time. it's called loving a song to death. as usually you can kill almost any piece of music by listening to it on repeat. probably the first track i listened to ad infinitum was through hollow lands from eno's before and after science. i even copied it on one side of a c90 tape (those were the times) till the side was full so that i could play it for 45 minutes without having to press any buttons. somehow i never - until now - got enough of that ambientish instrumental. the ideal meditation music. which somehow never gets boring or annoying. i don't remember any other music where this has happened to me again.

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

I listened to Roscoe by Midlake 4 or 5 times in a row a few weeks ago. On my ipod, doing the dishes, slightly drunk.

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

Every once in a while I fall in love with a song and you can find me listing to that same song about twenty times in a row. Driving my friends crazy.

― Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

Pink Frost by the Chills.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

the Virginia Tech killer apparently listened to "Shine" by Candlebox over and over...

― henry s, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

Never do it. Even twice in a row is a rarity. Franz Ferdinand's "Do You Want To" springs to mind, newly bought, when drunk.

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

I'm with the never-do-this crowd. In fact, I never play the same album twice in one day and it's rare that I play one more than two days in a row (the recent Mint Chicks is the latest exception).

― Mr. Odd, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

I bring it up because I listened to Sonny Rollins vs. John Coltrane on "Tenor Madness" about 5 times in a row last night. That doesn't sound like much until you realize its a 12 minute song, so that's an hour.

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

long songs shouldn't count...that's practically like listening to an album side over and over...

― henry s, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm...interesting point, but maybe that's just a different intensity of OCD behavior.

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Once I spent 4 hours huddled beneath a blanket and listening to the theme from Terminator 2 following an unintentional but severe over-ingestion of Robitussin

I'm currently going through a phase where I loop Chuck Jones' "Buffies" as background noise, but that's not really a song.

A few weeks ago however, I played "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" from Bringing It All Back Home for about an hour. It kept sounding good and I didn't get tired of it.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

I like to play "I Put A Spell On You" over and over again on my tap player while I walk around the city. I also love playing "California Dreaming" repeatedly while I'm at work at my restaurant job.

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

tape. Damn.

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

How many times in a row can you listen to the same song before it gets to be ridiculous?

about 5, I think. Last one I listened to more than that was maybe 'promiscuous'. just last week I listened to that new Guns n' Roses(of all people) leak maybe 5 times but I don't do this very often. I can listen to the same album on repeat in my car for a whole week though

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/user/spin_me_round/

― Roz, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

"I also love playing "California Dreaming" repeatedly while I'm at work at my restaurant job."

Was your life story turned into a movie called "Chungking Express"?

― chris.steffen, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

I'm actually listening to Cave In's "Down the Drain" on loop right now.

Last week, I did it with Necrophagist's "Stabwound." Others include Tomahawk's "Capt. Midnight" and "Search and Destroy." There's more, but those are the ones that come to mind.

― chris.steffen, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

i did this with "shooter" the other day, after hearing about it on the 2006 tracks thread, probably 10 non-consecutive times in one day.

― negotiable, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

I listened to Machine's "There But For The Grace Of God Go I" repeatedly for at least an hour the day I bought it. This was the 7" single version (which replaced "no blacks, no jews, and no gays" with "where only upper class people stay") so it was only about 3 minutes long. 3 minutes over and over during an hour-plus block = many, many no "no blacks, no jews, and no gays."

For years it was the first song I heard every year because I would play it exactly at midnight at my new year's eve parties. But because we were giving each other happy new year hugs, I'd have to play it again so we could dance to it.

Never got ridiculous even to this day. Here, I'll prove it to you by playing it AGAIN right now. "Aye yi yi yi yi yi yi yi YIII!"

Spike Lee likes it too.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

i did this with "shooter" the other day

What's "Shooter?"

― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

I've only done this once for "State of Shock" by the Ex and Tom Cora. It was somewhere along 14 times in a row. I still love the hell out of that song.

― Ivan, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

What's "Shooter?"

2006 tracks thread

― negotiable, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57560#unread

― negotiable, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

I'm always happy to do this because it means it's a really really, really good song.

Some examples:

Full Disclosure: Fugazi
Bowling Green: Neko Case
Mississippi: Bob Dylan
Suffer For Fashion: Of Montreal

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

wordy rappinghood by tom tom club

― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

last time I did this was a couple weeks ago. Dead Prez - "Hip Hop" a dozen times in the middle of the night because it perfectly captures the feeling of being bleary-eyed, fighting fatigue with adrenaline, too paranoid to sleep.

only other notable incident that springs to mind right now is "Zurich Is Stained" on repeat for the entire 45 minutes or so that it took to mow the lawn. I was probably 14.

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

I played the original 'knockin on heaven's door' 15 times in a row last weekend. it was like i had never heard it before.

― Billy Pilgrim, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

only other notable incident that springs to mind right now is "Zurich Is Stained" on repeat for the entire 45 minutes or so that it took to mow the lawn. I was probably 14.

haha, yea, with shorter songs it's understandable. I think I've listened to the Breeders' "Doe" 30+ times in a sitting.. once i listened to neil young's "On the Beach" 7 or 8 consecutive times. that's a long one, too.

i might also have done this with "master of none" from the Beach House record. and DEFINITELY the last song on The Knife's Silent Shout. oh yea, that was excessive.

― poortheatre, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

I was going to start a similar thread just a coupla days ago! "Songs so nice, ya gotta play 'em twice" or some such. Because, yeah, there are certain songs (usually fairly short, frequently instrumental) that I almost always play twice - one listening just won't do it. It's like the song has to straddle the fine line between "immensely satisfying" and "just short of satisfying". Some examples I can think of are "Machine Gun" (Commodores), "Mississippi Queen" (Mountain), Funkadelic's "Loose Booty" and potentially anything at all from Singles Going Steady.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

classic
right now, aerosmith "sick as a dog"
so satisfying

― sleep, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

also rtx "speed to roam"

― sleep, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

I can feel it coming in the air tonight, and tomorrow night, and the next morning, and at lunch, and dinner, and

― lfam, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

I just did this with "Machine Gun," too.

― inhibitionist, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

I played "Funeral" about six times on a perfect Friday dusk/night whilst drunk and getting drunker. It was a glorious experience but I can't play it but once every three or four months because of it. It's kind of like trying to responsibly huff paint thinner--you can binge one time, maybe a few nights out of the year, but you know that you can't do it as much as you really want because that shit will really fuck you up permanently.

― earinfections, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

i might also have done this with "master of none" from the Beach House

this I could do. I'm sorry I didn't nominate it for best 2006 tracks, though I might not have even voted for it

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

I sort of do this, usually give it a little break like go away and get coffee or something and play the same thing again. Been doing it with Juicy this week.

― jim, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

the only time I did this recently was with Mott The Hoople's "Honaloochie Boogie" and it was only, like, 5 times. Classic.

― will, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

most recently, i listened to "23" by blonde redhead (just the song, not the entire album) the day it hit the web about 10-12 times in a row -- absolutely brilliant song.

― stephen, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

I've been listening to Common's "(A Film Called) Pimp" a lot today.

After I took my last final I alternated between "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin To Fuck Wit" and "Resurrection" for like 45 minutes.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

I've done this with Perfect Exceeder...and am still doing it. I'm not even close to getting tired of the song, and it was released about five months ago.

I did it with "Jetstream" by New Order a LOT not too long ago, although I mixed it up with the remixes a bit. And recently I got an extended mix of "Some Girls" by Rachel Stevens and you better believe I played that maybe 10 times in a row (on the first day).

― musically, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

dud when it's someone else doing it and you're within earshot. classic when it's 'speed to roam' by RTX and you're cruising up a canyon in a convertible on a sunny summer afternoon

― 6335, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

I did this for the first time in ages on Monday with Electrelane's Cut And Run. And now I'm doing it with their The Greater Good.

When Mama Cass's Make Your Own Kind Of Music featured through the first episode of Lost season 2, I listened to that over and over in that way where you want to kind of toy with being mentally ill.

I did it with the electric Anthology version of And I Love Her ten years ago or so, when I was in love with someone I thought I couldn't have.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

The Greater Times, rather.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

wait, I just realized that I am constantly doing this in my car. but that's usually just so I can 'practice' singing along, so not quite the same thing I guess.

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

A couple of weeks ago my friend and I were both absolutely miserable. He sent me "All the Umbrellas in London" by the Magnetic Fields and I listened to it on loop for about an hour. That was the first I'd done that in a long time.

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

Classic, but I always do it with unlikely songs, which is how I end up with You're So Vain malingering at the top of my last.fm

― stet, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

Dud. Sometimes I listen to Pet Sounds maybe two or three times on a single day though.

― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

What illness is Carly Simon feigning??

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

I listened to Roscoe by Midlake 4 or 5 times in a row a few weeks ago. On my ipod, doing the dishes, slightly drunk.

so did I! also, today, "Golden Skans" the entire length of my bus ride to work. I might not need to hear it again for a while.

― Morley Timmons, Thursday, 10 May 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

lol You're So Vain

― Surmounter, Thursday, 10 May 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

popularity is a disease

― stet, Thursday, 10 May 2007 02:20 (eighteen years ago)

As for instant-replaying a song dozens of times as opposed to just once, I've done that in the past (intoxicants frequently a factor) but hardly ever anymore. Altho just a coupla months ago I played "I Feel Love" for like 45 minutes.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 10 May 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

i do this all the time. if you can't obsess over a song, what the hell's the point?

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 10 May 2007 03:31 (eighteen years ago)

Pink Frost by the Chills.

Done that one!

Hadn't done this in many months and started again with High and Dry and on to other songs on the Bends.

otm about dud when in ear-shot. But classic points for

-intricacies revealed
-imperfections standing out (at the end of the day i like to think I'm closer to reality!)
-getting to hear the intro right after the ending, and turning the experience into this weird endless cycle where you can pop in and out of focus and enjoy whatever part your catching.

Overall, classic.

― Faisal Shennib, Thursday, 10 May 2007 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

I did this one night with side 4 of Bowie's Stage -- listened to it about four times in a row intentionally with the record player set on auto-repeat, then fell asleep and "listened" to it subliminally about a dozen more times until I woke up the next morning and took the record off.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Today, Hag's "The Lonesome Fugitive," for basically my entire last hour at the office.

― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Friday, 20 February 2009 23:38 (sixteen years ago)

Most recently, "Barrytown" by Steely Dan, and Bowie's "Moonage Daydream" (Arnold Corns version).

― snoball, Friday, 20 February 2009 23:42 (sixteen years ago)

Never done this, I think I should start.

― ledge, Friday, 20 February 2009 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

iTunes is one hell of an enabler.

― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Friday, 20 February 2009 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

i do this. much more frequent when the last one awake, drunk, listening on headphones after a long long night.

― vaginary & western (jjjusten), Friday, 20 February 2009 23:47 (sixteen years ago)

Oh God. For some reason I've been playing Teardrop Explodes' "Reward" a few times a day for the past week or something.

― DavidM, Friday, 20 February 2009 23:49 (sixteen years ago)

I did this a few months ago with 2 versions of "Hello It's Me" -- the slower Nazz version and then the faster Rundgren solo version, back and forth over and over for a couple of hours.

― WmC, Friday, 20 February 2009 23:54 (sixteen years ago)

in the next week (starting tomorrow), i will listen to 'temple of love (extended version)' by sisters of mercy at least 1000 times. i will monitor the play count in itunes

― Bob Six, Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:06 (sixteen years ago)

I keep endlessly skipping back to the start of the chorus of TVotR's Halfway Home, I think I could seriously listen to it forever.

But yeah, I do this kind of shit all the time. I should have more restraint cos I wear out songs/bits of songs I love pretty quick.

― chap, Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:08 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah that's basically my worry.

― ledge, Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:09 (sixteen years ago)

Wait, was Andi the one who wanted or feared or anyway had some serious issues to deal with about sex with ghosts?

― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:12 (sixteen years ago)

But it's kind of ok, because you get so sick of something you never want to hear again, forget about it, then it comes up on shuffle maybe a year later and you're like 'actually this is pretty fucking great!' Then the cycle begins anew.

xpost

― chap, Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:13 (sixteen years ago)

I used to think people who did this were mentally deficient in some way. Now I don't trust people who say they never do this.

― The Blood Is Black (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:17 (sixteen years ago)

Gosh, one has to stay on one's toes to stay on your good side.

― chap, Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:22 (sixteen years ago)

I'm lonely but I can't afford the luxury of having one I love to come along...

― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:38 (sixteen years ago)

Whenever I do this, it's usually some old song I'm already pretty familiar with, which I just go mad for all of the sudden. Somebody mentioned "Hello It's Me" upthread, to which I'd add "Couldn't I Just Tell You" and "Dust in the Wind" from the same album.

The most recent one was the Squeeze non-LP cut "This Road," which IMO is one of the 10 best things they ever recorded.

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 21 February 2009 02:54 (sixteen years ago)

Classic. And I love when it's really long and or repetitive, I've found. I remember The first time I heard Polmo Polpo's 20+ minute re edit of Kiss Me Again, and listened to it like 6 times in a row. Hardly do you get stuff as quality as that, though.

Similar instance with Endless House by Sebastian Meissner and Ekkehard Ehlers, also spending like 2 hours with it in one night.

Sadly in the unending conveyor belt of music to plow through, and personally having sensitive ears, it's a rare treasure to do this.

― mehlt, Saturday, 21 February 2009 04:24 (sixteen years ago)

This is how I took in the ILX top 50 a couple of weeks back. Very classic experience.

I do it all the time, come to think. I'm kind of amazed that some people don't do this ever. Some records it kills, others stick, a very few invite multiple repeat sessions - 'Atomic' is the last I can remember of those

― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 21 February 2009 10:17 (sixteen years ago)

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