tracks you have played on repeat for like an hour

sonic youth - pacific coast highway
the sonics - louie louie
se rogie - do me justice

new order - age of consent
ghostface - be easy
roy orbison - in dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkVT2NwiAgY

aphex twin - polynomial c

daft punk - human after all

prince - creep (radiohead cover)
sally shapiro - miracle (bogdan irkuk remix)
beck - cold brains
spratleys japs - fanny
catherine wheel - for dreaming

most recently

van der graaf generator - afterwards

all of these tracks evince a consistent mood which it is hard 2 escape from and sometimes u never want to leave

lindstrom - i feel space
spacemen 3 - walkin with jesus

the knife - heartbeats (one music session)

Most recently was Moog Cookbo0ok's cover of "Even Flow," it was mystifying.

knife track i did this with was neverland iirc

not the greatest on that album by a long shot but very insistent

ohhh have done this with fever ray - i'm not done (easily best track on the album)

i have never done this -- pretty sure hearing any song more than twice in the space of an hour would make me start to hate it

ok maybe 'seven' is just as good but IND is a place I like to be xp

I once downloaded the incidental music from ABC World News Tonight in 1978, and listened to that for hours. The song is only a minute long, too. It kind of reminded me of Goblin, but more exciting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsVFZ0F8Gmc

these tracks either seem to have insistent/thudding/motorik/etc recurring motifs or just a key change/chorus/half-second of sublimity

ime

like the 'everything is a-a-a-alllright' part in 'i can change'

squarepusher - iambic 9 poetry

This got a lot of repeat play, too, when I found it for download. "Heavy Action" aka the Monday Night Football theme. ABC is good with the thrilling instrumental themes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIxeOvClzR4

This is also a JAM – I found a clip of a girls' school orchestra playing it once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByKu8BwT5K4

The first time I heard Madrugada Eterna (the first time I heard anything off Chill-Out), I listened to it like 8 times in a row (and it's an 8+ minute song)

Polmo Polpo's Kiss Me Again and Again, I listened to for like an hour and a half when I first heard it. It's absolutely brilliant.

just a key change/chorus/half-second of sublimity

def

all the trax I mentioned have moments - timbres, melodies or shifts - that tend towards the indescribable - maybe if they're ever fully worked-out they'll lose their magic

Actually, I got the madrugada Eterna stats wrong, It's 6 minutes, but I think I listened to it 13 or so times.

I alternated the slow version of "Hello It's Me" by the Nazz and the faster Something/Anything? version by Rundgren solo for a couple of hours once this year.

pretty sure hearing any song more than twice in the space of an hour would make me start to hate it

loved both versions more and more as they played on -- the only reason I stopped was I had to leave the house for an appointment.

brodyquest

"Heavy Action" aka the Monday Night Football theme is aight

gilbert and sullivan - three little maids from school
la dusseldorf - cha cha 2000

squarepusher - iambic 9 poetry

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tommib/roygbiv/flim/eutow/etc

feel like there's some kind of build and release with a lot of these tracks

the knife track I mentioned, I listen to it just for that single arpeggio variation during the last repeat of the chorus

aka nakachivan otm

gilbert and sullivan - three little maids from school

Awesome! I was on an "I Am So Proud" kick recently on the G&S front.

did a timestretched edit of that a few weeks ago

http://www.mediafire.com/?a4nz37t4gdr5vkg

God, I remember when I first heard Iambic 9 poetry. I probably listened to it for at least half an hour straight. I think I may have even went out to buy the album the next day (?)

hmm

Soul Limbo - Booker T & The MGs
Raised By Wolves - Voxtrot
A Rollerskating Jam Called Saturdays - De la Soul

Lots more probably.

Lauara Branigan's "Self Control"

White Noise Sound's "There Is No Tomorrow" - was really hooked on the song's arrangement/production and couldn't let go.

november rain
xtal

OMG I did this with "Self Control" too one day about 5 years ago! I live among the creatures of the night!

lj otm upthread...could listen to Prince's "Creep" all day in the right frame of mind...

Squeeze - Letting Go
Marina & The Diamonds - Shampain

Marina & The Diamonds - Shampain

Yup.

My Squeeze entry in this thread would probably be Take Me I'm Yours, because I'm not terribly original.

Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine
Senza Fine - Mike Patton
Just A Man - Faith No More
Come Back - Pearl Jam

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Bryan Ferry
Disco Pope - The Prats
Mine Is In Yours - Mouse On Mars
Do I Love You - Chris Clarke
Your Blessings - Handsomeboy Technique

More to come

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPEhIoKeTg0

pixies - dig for fire
the negro problem - peter jennings
m83 - skin of the night

Gassenhauer - Carl Orff
Pyjamarama - Roxy Music
Fragile - Wire
I Want More - Can
Negated - Unwound
MKUltra - Unwound
For Your Entertainment - Unwound
Totality - Unwound

Lotsa Unwound. Really. Lots.

I'm pretty sure I mentioned it in one Thin Lizzy thread or another.

Thin Lizzy - Emerald

My Squeeze entry in this thread would probably be Take Me I'm Yours, because I'm not terribly original.

I have a Squeeze entry as well! The one, the only, the unbeatable If I Didn't Love You

Ooh Thin Lizzy yeah - Cowboy Song was mine

I Can't Let Go - Bettye Swann
Dracula Mountain - Lightning Bolt
The Way Things Go - The Octopus Project
I Believe In Miracles - The Jackson Sisters
Boys Are Boys And Girls Are Choice - The Monks
I Can't Let Go - Evie Sands

I Can't Let Go - Bettye Swann

What the heck am I thinking?

It was "I'm Lonely For You".

Mary J's "Therapy" and Deej Loaf's (yeah i know) "Try Me" back to back, over and over

Maria - Blondie

portishead - it's a fire

the version of dummy I grew up with didn't have this on, it's beautiful

This Laghonia track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ods6I_y_E

The dueling guitars just push the hell out of this song, my brain can't get enough.

When this news story broke. Hadn't heard this song before. Now I'll never unhear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0PEeyFcRRU

I realize it's probably not cool to appropriate such (laudable) anger for the purposes of schadenfreude... but he really is a horrible person.

XD

tory cockendery

nothing like a bit of the old sleaford mods to capture the spirit of the wastelands of britain under the dominion of tory twuntery though

The Breeders-Lime House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da7wLJcuCLw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfuzWOcFaIQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EmjgRnTZJU

I always feel like this track has mysteries in it I can't quite unlock. I have listened to it on repeat many times in my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFVdlb0vjf8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5VbvdwsYIU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eoVqoazXdk
I had this on multiple repeat the other day, it is old shit that still beautifully evokes the after hours theme.

erik satie, vexations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mqO-xsRyTM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzy2dgEUOhY

2008 remix what the fuck

here we go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2CIiES_xxk

Think I'm gonna save up for a saxophone

The Telescopes - Tesla Death Ray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg8oWjFoETY

(I'm afraid I've ruined it for myself through overexposure)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2L8dCcv6Io

Legowelt - Comanchee's Revenge. Replace hour in the title with day.

Ooh, cheers for making me see if someone had re-uploaded the original video for "Comanchee's Revenge" that used Carrie footage from ~3-4 years ago; someone put it up last month:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM2AnitUOKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA9NNq_6N-w

^^^ George Michael's 'Monkey'. When this came out in 1988 I was 14 and made a mix tape to play in my knock-off Argos 'walkman' when I went on a mostly tedious one week summer holiday to Norfolk with my parents - this track was one of the highlights.

I'm gonna be listening to different versions of "New Speedway Boogie" by the Grateful Dead for a while. See you on the other side.

Keep listening to this and watching the singers weird, wannabe David Byrne facial ticks.

https://youtu.be/zPFl78eCKt4?t=1m7s

Plone - Summer Plays Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAhXlg2WehA

feeling so fucking twee right now it's disgusting

awwww i love this.

in fact apropos of this thread, i've added it to this playlist i've been procrastinating with all afternoon https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/65CvMj6XGWrbuPBOO033Wy

I'll have to check that out -- the stuff I recognize is right up my alley (I've never heard that Freescha track but I've been listening to their first album a lot lately)

girls - hellhole ratrace
grimes - realiti (demo)
the 1975 - someone else
jai paul - str8 outta mumbai
bill evans - peace piece

Ghostpoet - live leave

With the release of Pink Floyd The Early Years, and using only officially-released versions (no bootlegs), you can listen to:

*105 minutes/5 different versions of "Echoes"
*86 minutes/4 versions of "Atom Heart Mother"
*64 minutes/10 versions of "Careful With That Axe Eugene" (including versions titled "Murderotic Woman," "Beset by Creatures of the Deep" and "Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up")
*64 minutes/6 versions of "A Saucerful of Secrets" (including versions titled "The Journey: The End of the Beginning" and "The Massed Gadgets of Hercules")
*49 minutes/5 versions of "Interstellar Overdrive"
*48 minutes/6 versions of "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"

brian eno an ending (an ascent) 45 min version

Brian Eno's "Through Hollow Lands". Around 1980 I had it taped on one side of a C90 tape as many times as possible. That's only 45 minutes so I am cheating a little here. I listened to it for meditation purposes. Probably I have never come closer to satori ;- That track for me is perfect to clean my brain of those weird things people usually call thoughts.

Mitski, "Your Best American Girl"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPcShAWp8IE

WANG DANG A DING DING DANG DIGGA DIGGA DIGGA DANG DIGGA DIGGA DIGGA DANG UH UH BOP BOP JERK JERK JERK

that's great!

I do this a lot with catchy pop songs and until i burn myself out on em. "Blue" Gene Tyranny - Next Time might Be Your Time, Honeybus - I Can't let Maggie Go to name two.

I listened to the fearless vampire killers theme for an hour or two last week and not sick of it yet.

Brian Eno's "Through Hollow Lands". Around 1980 I had it taped on one side of a C90 tape as many times as possible. That's only 45 minutes so I am cheating a little here. I listened to it for meditation purposes. Probably I have never come closer to satori ;- That track for me is perfect to clean my brain of those weird things people usually call thoughts.

Secret Cities: "Bad Trip"
Todd Rundgren: "Couldn't I Just Tell You"
The Tammys: "Egyptian Shumba"
Penguin Cafe Orchestra: "The Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away and It Doesn't Matter"
Genesis: "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight"
Seong-Jin Cho: "Clair de lune" (Debussy) - my favorite rendition and I've heard tons
Arthur Russell: "Instrumentals Volume 2, Part 1"
Nick Lowe: "Cruel to Be Kind"
Unrest: "Hydro" (33 min version - I can't remember how many times I played it in a row, but it was definitely more than twice)
God Help The Girl: "Come Monday Night"

What a great thread.

Coming to mind for me, from different points in my life:

Phosphorescent - Song for Zula
Califone - The Orchids (I see that someone else mentioned the Psychic TV original upthread)
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Spoon - Don’t You Evah
OutKast - Spottieottiedopalicious
Dr John - Walk on Gilded Splinters
Van Morrison - Madame George

and most recently

The Pointer Sisters - Automatic

I remember a childhood friend telling a story about doing this all night with Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

I also once spent a whole week holed up in a cabin while working on my dissertation, listening to nothing but Julia Holter - Ekstasis and Terry Riley’s Lisbon Concert (full albums).

Apparently I'm not the only person who's done this with Tatsuro Yamashita's My Baby Queen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLrRe92usw8

Tonight while driving home, I listened to "What's So Funny About Peace Love & Understanding" over and over again. Got misty-eyed.

Rachel Stevens, 'Some Girls'.

Mahogany - 'Lynn Minmay', on more than one hour-long occasion

Todd Rundgren: “Couldn’t I Just Tell You”

^thats definitely been one for me

the sisters of mercy - afterhours
fluke - reeferendrum
neil young - words (that long rehearsal version)