Songs that you can't listen to just once.

[J.B.]

There are certain songs that come up in my playlists that I can never listen to just one time. I keep hitting replay until I've had my fill. Sometimes I spend my 1/2 hour drive to work listening to the same song over and over. It could be that it's a very short song, or that it ignites my adrenaline or makes me feel nostalgic; whatever it may be, once is not enough. Anyway, here's my list; like to see yours.

Misfits - Last Caress
U2 - Promenade
U2 - Mothers Of The Disappeared
The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The House Is Rockin'
Eric Clapton - Behind The Sun
Foo Fighters - Walk
The Beatles - Golden Slumbers
Van Halen - 5150
David Bowie - Life On Mars?
David Bowie - Sound And Vision
The Cure - A Few Hours After This
Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
The Clash - The Card Cheat
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter
Yaz - Midnight
Julee Cruise - Mysteries Of Love
Nirvana - Sliver (Live Massachusetts)
Oingo Boingo - Not My Slave
Oingo Boingo - Private Life
INXS - Tiny Daggers

And the all-time replay King:

Squeeze - Vicky Verky

[boss]

Sara... 1979 live version Fleetwood Mac

[Blue Meanie]

Just started a list on my facebook page. I love music. Been putting together a list of my all-time favorite songs that I can listen to anytime and anywhere...I just love hearing them when they are on the radio. My top 10 is not in any particular order...I just LOVE hearing these songs. Well crafted produced songs as well as those songs that just you to a time and place. Here's the 1st of my top 10 that is in no order:

Probably THE GREATEST Harmonies in music...EVER!!!
'Suite Judy Blue Eyes' by Crosby, Stills, and Nash:

Gonna draw this out cause I am trying to find You Tube videos/music for the ones on my list

[Blue Meanie]

Again...some of the greatest harmonies ever recorded. Brian Wilson's arrangements are simply INCREDIBLE!! It's a shame he kind of lost his mind after the Beatles countered Pet Sounds with Sgt. Pepper. From the 'Pet Sounds' album...The Beach Boys 'God Only Knows':

[Mikey]

I have to replay this almost always forgotten ditty multiple times.

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[nvmbrsdoom5]

There's a bunch of songs that I occasionally have the replay-urge happen with from time to time. But the main one for me that I always play more than once is the song "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Great song, that has personal meaning for me. Another one that I almost always replay is "This Tornado Loves You" by Neko Case.

[Donkey Hoatie]

There's a bunch, but off the top of my head, it's "Dirty Feeling" by my 2nd-favorite musician of all time, Bob Schneider. There's a verse in there that hits me like a gut punch, every friggin' time.

Well, a year can come around,
Drag you right along the ground,
Like it's all just one dark night,
With no way into the light.
Well, I know exactly what that's like.

https://youtu.be/kQwgrefpMuc

A couple other great ones for me to hit on repeat:

"I'll Leave the Light On" by Colin Hay (or pretty much anything by Colin Hay). Hearing him play this song solo one night was probably the greatest thing I've ever heard. I've never heard anyone with just an acoustic guitar fill a room that much sound and beauty at once. It was jaw-dropping. You could have heard a pin drop after he was done. He just nodded sheepishly as the last note faded and said, "Yeah, I know. It's a little much."

"Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits

"This Time" by Chris Trapper

"Just Like Heaven" by The Cure

"Good Things" by The BoDeans

I'm just going to stop before I list 100 songs.

[HardyGirl]

Tough question to answer, b/c I have so many songs I just like playing over and over again. But today, I'll post this little goody:

[Earth 2 Chris]

Roy Orbison: "You've Got It" and "Mystery Girl"
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers : "Walls" (Circus Version) and "I Won't Back Down"
Monkees: "What Am I Doing Hanging Round" and "Papa Gene's Blues"
Eagles: "Take It To The Limit" and "In the City"
Johnny Cash: "Sunday Morning Coming Down" and "Delia's Gone"
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band: "Against the Wind" and "Like a Rock"
Jimmy Buffet: "Something About a Boat" and "Trip Around The Sun"

That's just off the top of my head.

Chris

[Mr.Marion]

I really dig this hidden gem. I think we had a thread about forgotten 80's songs.

if you remember Edwyn Collins had a hit in the mid-90's as well after fronting Orange Juice.

[emeraldknight47]

There's a bunch of songs that I occasionally have the replay-urge happen with from time to time. But the main one for me that I always play more than once is the song "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Great song, that has personal meaning for me. Another one that I almost always replay is "This Tornado Loves You" by Neko Case.

Loved hearing you mention a Neko Case song, nv; didn't know there were any other fans of hers here on the boards. Like you, "Tornado" always gets multiple listens as does "People Got A Lotta Nerve," "Prison Girls," "The Pharoahs," and "Red Tide." Still Neko, "Things That Scare Me," and "Deep Red Bells" are easily multiple listens.

Amongst others: "Champagne Supernova," "Band On The Run," "Live And Let Die," "Purple Rain," "Don't Fight It" by Kenny Loggins and Steve Perry, as well as "Danger Zone." "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane, "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring, pretty much almost any Genesis track, "Starrider" by Foreigner, "My Immortal" (the original version) by Evanescence, and almost the entire Cowboy Junkies Library!

[Blue Meanie]

A song that was ahead of it's time on so many levels. Truly a group effort with John Lennon providing the Psychedelic lyrics, Paul and Ringo providing the hypnotic trance like backbeat, George providing the backwards guitar that must have been really difficult to figure out how it works forwards as well as backwards, and George Martin's production to give John that felling that he was singing on top of the Himalayan mountains. Light years ahead of what would later become sampling, some 13 or 15 years later, Paul provides tape looped guitars that sound like seagulls in the song I give you 'Tomorrow Never Knows' by The Beatles:

[megomania]

I could listen to Herb Alpert's "Route 101" all day....

https://youtu.be/7GCLdCu2vm4

[Hedji]

I've never seen this movie, but I can't stop listening to this perfect John Williams cue:

[MIB41]

Nuff said...