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I've got it on repeat right now

19:24 / 25.03.06

There are plenty of classic old Marvin, Otis and temps songs that I can listen to all day, but the one song at the moment for me is Beautiful by Goldfrapp. It was a B side on Ride a White Horse I think, and I only know it becuase they played it in concert, but it is musical perfection.

So, firstly, what songs can you listen to all the time, anytime and why?

Secondly, anyone else know that Goldfrapp song? Opinions?

20:07 / 25.03.06

I'm deeply in love with 'First of the gang to die' by Morrissey. I find it energising, beautiful, and it touches me in the dusty crevices of my soul.

Never heard of the Goldfrapp song though.

Jawsus-son Starship

14:48 / 27.03.06

Listening to Morning Bride EP over and over and over and over.

And also the Modest Mouse album seems to be repeating on mine, and every other fucking cd system in the world.

P. Horus Rhacoid

16:49 / 27.03.06

I used to be all about listening to songs on repeat. The most I've probably gone in one stretch was last year when I listened to 'Academy Fight Song' by Mission of Burma something like 63 times in a row. There's something about the song that makes it endlessly repeatable- aside from it being really catchy, I think it has something to do with the way the guitars and bass (love love love Clint Conley's bass) mesh together into a curtain of sound that's simultaneously aggressive, angry, plaintive, and still not completely in-your-face. The song can fade into the background if it has to so it's not a chore to listen to over and over but the song benefits from close scrutiny too. One of my favorite music-listening moments happened during that stretch, at about iteration number 40 or so, when I suddenly noticed an entire layer of tape-loop manipulation that I had never realized was there. It was a great moment.

On a long car ride a few weeks ago my friends and I, dirty masochists that we are, decided to listen to 'Tubthumper' fifteen times in a row. Only fifteen, you say? That's not very many, you say? I assure you I was ready to stab an ice pick through my head by about number three because the song is just the same verse repeated over and over with almost no variation. There's a bit of a perverse edge to the line 'I get knocked down/ but I get up again' when taken in the context of hearing it 8 MILLION FUCKING TIMES IN A ROW. Chumbawumba, I'm sure you've heard this many, many times before, but I wish somebody would knock you down, and keep you there, preferably by means of blunt objects.

We listened to the 'Family Matters' theme for an hour, too, but that was better because it was fun to sing along to.

17:32 / 27.03.06

I'm currently switching between two songs off TV on the Radio's "OK Calculator"

"Me - I" and "Bicycles are Redhot".

Great stuff.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:45 / 27.03.06

Dead Can Dance's "The Host Of Seraphim". Although technically I lie- I can listen to it three times in a row, then I start worrying that any more will kill me. And it probably would.

One day I'll try it. But not today.

Really. It's the most beautiful piece of music ever recorded. It is to loveliness what "Ace Of Spades" is to rock.

One of them will kill me one day. Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:50 / 27.03.06

Although FWP's story does remind me of a night some fifteen years ago, at a friend's halls of residence, when we put five quid into the jukebox in the bar and selected Status Quo's Rockin' All Over The World fuck knows how many times, then left. A couple of members of our party were fucked enough to go back in there later. There was, inevitably, a fight.

18:59 / 27.03.06

There are three songs, that were featured in the tv series LOST, that I had on repeat for a couple of weeks:

Joe Purdy - Wash Away
Mama Cass - Make Your Own Kind Of Music
Damien Rice - Delicate

Not only do I like these songs very much. They also reminded me of the atmosphere of the series, which was very exciting at that time (~until episode 8 or 9 season 2). Especially the first song, with Hurley walking along the beach with his walkman as the sun sets.

P. Horus Rhacoid

19:55 / 27.03.06

Stoat, that in turn reminds me of a time 4 or 5 years ago when I and several of my friends were at an all-ages sports bar and we put 'Hero' by Enrique Iglesias on the jukebox a half-dozen times in a row. We did not, however, have the good sense to leave, choosing instead to serenade the other patrons with singing which made up for in spirit what it lacked in tonality. Eventually the bartender started skipping the song, so we waited for somebody to put something else on and then queued it up a couple more times. I think we managed to get through half the song before it got skipped again. At that point, deciding that (vocal talent notwithstanding) we were possibly not the most popular people in the place at the time, we left. On the way out I asked the bartender if I could have my dollar back since he had skipped the song so many times. He told me that if I didn't like it I could "get the fuck out and not come back."

Astonishingly, there were no illicit substances of any kind involved in this.

Jawsus-son Starship

21:21 / 27.03.06

Ohhh, bromheads cover of the new streets song is getting some major repeat play. its the b-side on the new streets single.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:57 / 27.03.06

FWP, we must go out drinking sometime. Someone else can sit by the jukebox, though.

uncle retrospective

06:19 / 28.03.06

I've been listening to Heartbeats by the Knife non stop, there's just something about Elctro Goth gets me and thats an amazing song.

10:36 / 28.03.06

I once made a tape, one side of which was just Quicksand's cover of 'How Soon Is Now?' repeated over and over.

11:52 / 28.03.06

at the age of 16 i made a tape with led zeppelin 2 on one side and led zeppelin 4 on the other, two years later it had crumbled to dust due to excessive repeat listenings.

ten years later ...

'we want your soul' by adam freeland
ominous breakbeaty techno tune from a couple of years ago.
unusually for that kind of music, it has real personality, a message to convey (as well as kickass beats®)

Mon Oncle Ignatius

21:03 / 28.03.06

I'm another sucker for Morning Bride on loop play - and as I've said elsewhere, just wait until you hear the recorded version of "Blue Eyed Boy" - that's a song I can sing over and over in my mind, out loud on the street, (embarassingly, but not too loudly I hope) along with the band, or put on repeat play for a long time. A song which has both saved and wracked me emotionally over and again, that one. One to savour just how stunning a piece of writing and performance it is.

Ever since I heard Bauhaus' version of "Severance" at the Brixton Academy the other month I've been sticking it on repeat play. I'm with Stoatie on "Host Of Seraphim" and its utter world-shrinking loveliness, but Peter Murphy takes the haunting enuui of the Dead Can Dance original of "Severance" and makes it soar until I absolutely have to hear it over once more - because where his passionate singing takes me is so unbearably beautiful I can't let it pass by just once, but have to be immersed.

Around the same time I downloaded "Little Honda" by Yo La Tengo - a nifty celebration of cheap motorcycling with a wonderful chorus -

First gear, it's all right
Second gear, hang on tight
Third gear, ain't I right
Faster, it's all right

Coupled with a great No-wave/Motorik groove and as soon as it's done I want to play it again. I've never even been on a motorbike, but it makes me want to ride one.

Then there was the time when Stoatie and I played Skinny Puppy's "Assimilate" eleven times in a row at a party. We had the room to ourselves after about the third or so time.

00:01 / 29.03.06

My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath

Yeah, i only just listened to it today, and it was one of those, man i missed the boat on this band by 20 years. D'oh!

16:36 / 29.03.06

For the past two days I have listened to "The Prime of Horace Andy" at least 20 times...and the cut "True Love Shines Bright" even more. His beautiful voice over the chugging roots reggae actually makes me feel stoned. A bit dangerous at work but at least I am mellow.

I have also been listening repeatedly to "Flat Foot Hustling" by Dillenger from Niney the Observer's Microphone Attack collection... Crucial, indeed.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:14 / 29.03.06

The first four songs on the New Pornographers' "Electric Version." Oh my god, it's so good. It's like an aural orgasm. I just want to squeal loudly every time I hear them but that would make people in the cars in front, behind, and next to me worry.

08:37 / 30.03.06

Mmothra, I find that I can listen to certain reggae tracks again and again. At the moment it's this (click "Listen to Marlon" and when it has finished click it again and so on) which is just so immensely catchy. I think it was a huge hit all over the Caribbean and you couldn't go anywhere without hearing it blaring out of bars, taxis and shops.

08:44 / 30.03.06

Offtopic, Mmothra's post reminded me - I have a flamenco compilations CD at home with a track featuring a female singer from, I think, the 1960s who sounds uncannily like Horace Andy. I don't put that on repeat because hearing Horace Andy do flamenco is just too weird.

11:01 / 05.04.06

Thanks to Math and Tango--I'm all flattered.

'Wuthering Heights'has always been a big repeater for me...

Mon Oncle Ignatius

11:57 / 06.04.06

'Wuthering Heights'has always been a big repeater for me...

And I've still not heard the karaoke version of it yet.

I used to put Sacemen 3's "Dreamweapon" on loop overnight (or day) on headphones when recovering after a particularly lysergic happening to soothe me to sleep. In fact, just for the hell of it I'd put it on while sleeping, and I would ccasionally drift into semi-dream, semi-consciousnes to the sound of the drones.

Another sleeping repeater is Robert Rich's very ambient but not at all new-agey DVD Somnium which is one 7 hour long track (with no video), designed for dreaming to. I have yet to listen to it all the way through while awake, but at just-audible level while sleeping it certainly has some interesting effects on one's dreams. As it's not always gentle or soothing, the dynamics can be quite effective.

He has also performed sleep concerts where the audience lies down in a big room while he improvises music to them.

Baobab Branches and Plastic

14:36 / 10.04.06

Hmm WINTER by Tori Amos... for some reason this song is really 'now' for me.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:03 / 10.04.06

Mono- there's a guy at my work (I'm sure you can guess who, especially if I say he has an unnatural interest in owls- the birds, not the band) who listens to your singles constantly- in fact, he's been borrowing my copy of the latest one all week because Ms Tickletooth has his copy.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:11 / 10.04.06

Then there was the time when Stoatie and I played Skinny Puppy's "Assimilate" eleven times in a row at a party. We had the room to ourselves after about the third or so time.

Yup. Best room-clearer other than Jorg Buttgereit's classic movie Nekromantik 2. Both at once DEFINITELY wins you the stereo within twenty minutes.

At the moment my repeat track is by...

...erm

...can I post this under a different name, by any chance?

It's Ghost Love Score by Nightwish.

It's all lovely to begin with, then gets all epic, then all epic Western, then suddenly goes all "beginning of Bambi" then rips your heart out.

Sorry and all. It just is.

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

09:46 / 22.04.06

I've been listening to Pendulum's (an electro group from Perth, rather than a something or other group from France - this has been causing some confusion of late) last album, Hold Your Colour, because the intro is awesome, track two (Slam) is also awesome, track four (Fasten Your Seatbelts) is awesome, track eight (Tarantula) is really, really, really awesome (I need more adjectives, but I think my brain has melted), and all the other tracks are pretty good. The album as a whole has some kind of sci-fi narrative to it, which is not really very important but kind of ties it all together, and there's a guy who sounds a little like Johnny Depp's Hunter S Thompson saying "Is this bass really strong enough?" in track 2 which gets me every time.

So, I suppose that's really an album rather than a song, but I could listen to Tarantula many times over.

11:40 / 22.04.06

Can't stop lisening to the fantastic Lily Allen (Daughter of Keith- but don't let that put you off!). Her track "LDN", which has had a lil' radio play and been plugged by popbitch (the prestige!) is pure summery genius.
Check it out at her myspace page here:

LDN

12:02 / 22.04.06

Frog, I'm perplexed by your description of Hold Your Colour. As far as I can see - looking at Amazon - Pendulum are not what I'd call electro, but rather Drum and Bass. Do you guys use terms differently over there, or do you think the album is better described as electro.
I'm genuinely interested.

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

04:12 / 23.04.06

You're right, it is a DNB record, I guess, but there's a lot more dub-ish rhythm stuff than what I'd associate with DNB.

That said, I've got no idea about a lot of the divisions in electronic music (and was using 'electro' as shorthand for electronic, not as a genre), don't have the faintest idea what the difference between house and hardcore is, for instance, and didn't even know electro was a genre until just now. This despite listening to electronic music of various forms since I was a tiny little critter.

Um. I'll start a thread about Pendulum in a while, with some tracks for the downloading, if I can make my cdripping machine work, and not blue-screen me to death.

05:24 / 23.04.06

Shit Luck by Modest Mouse

I didn't like them the first time I heard them. But I've grown to like this band over these past few months because my friend, a compulsive mix cd maker, kept putting modest mouse songs in the mixes. They are currently my favourite band and I can listen to their music over and over, especially during road trips.

08:42 / 23.04.06

Well, not sure if this counts but since last night I have watchhed this video about 10 times, in part because of the opening track - "Keeps on Burning" - Burning Bush, a northern classic.

The video is pure magic.

Baobab Branches and Plastic

09:03 / 24.04.06

Willin by Little Feat.

I love trucker country! It takes me back to my Smokey and the Bandit Tasmanian childhood (wow - the sound of my own childhood just scared me!).

written by Lowell George
© Abraham Music

I been warped by the rain, driven by the snow
I'm drunk and dirty, don't you know
But I'm still willin'

Out on the road late last night
I'd see my pretty Alice in every headlight
Alice, Dallas Alice

And I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonopah
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the backroads so I wouldn't get weighed
And if you give me weed, whites and wine
And you show me a sign
And I'll be willin' to be movin'

And I've been kicked by the wind, robbed by the sleet
Had my head stove in but I'm still on my feet
And I'm still willin'

And I smuggled some smokes and folks from Mexico
Baked by the sun every time I go to Mexico
Ah but I'm still...

And I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonopah
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the backroads so I wouldn't get weighed
And if you give me weed, whites and wine
And you show me a sign
And I'll be willin' to be movin'

11:24 / 24.04.06

Coil's 'Love's Secret Domain' has been on constant repeat since Threshold House finally re-released it as a download thing. The version of Teenage Lightning with the flamenco guitar is pure balearic trippiness again and again.

That and the new Aphex Twin compilation which has made me want to take loads of drugs and dance all night to the mashness...except I can't and have to work, so I just listen to it and dream instead.