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

― .\ /. (dayo), Sunday, 5 December 2010 01:46 (8 minutes ago)

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".

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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBRkyfH_6AM

Hot Chocolate, "Every 1's A Winner"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtV0oA-O7Wg

"you never fail to satisfy" - you fucking know it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb6PJxprRME

Robert Palmer - Johnny & Mary

KUU!- impossible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBSmR7fhNsk

Glen Campbell, 'Rhinestone Cowboy'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kAU3B9Pi_U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhSEsm9Cntk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wtj59opWKg

I was coming here to post “Rhinestone Cowboy”! My kids love it. My in-reserve karaoke song, if ever asked.

pretty sure i have done this with Wichita Lineman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvjkcZxO1HM

and this, which is also from Bob's Burgers

good synergy

I did this with Prince’s “black sweat” when it came out

that’s a hell of a sentence if you remove the quotes :-/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQT-_IdbToA

two days ago, couldn't get enough of it

My favorite song ever

Hot Chocolate score again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUY9Y9RFiHY
GIVING IT TO ME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upjywP401Pw
Aïda Samb • Baadola

Spiritualized - Feel so Sad

snooks eaglin - CC rider

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

Alice Low - 'Show Business'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myRBpeTo_-M

I slated it on the Songs heard while shoppin' thread but Lulu's cover of 'The Man Who Sold The World' is actually pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyFAnA9oPRE

Neal Trix - Zero Transfer

I can't stop listening to "St. Marie Under Canon" by Cornershop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf85qHidhRM

Girl Ray - Hold Tight has been on repeat today and my daughter seems to love it too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF7OndUB6ss

Saffron Slumber & ZH - this infinite night

Ecco2k - AAA POWERLINE

I’m obsessed about the tone of those drums and the whole vibe of this one in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O4cvfaAsUM
Sue me if I play (this song for) too long.

Accidentally getting too high and listening to “The Hunter” for 60+ minutes until I fell asleep was pretty rad.

My latest addition to this thread is that my 3-year-old will dance to Daft Punk “Around the World” for pretty damn close to a full hour. I’m excited to use some of the funky tracks upthread for inspiration to add to her repertoire…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UQPCWHSzPM

don’t know what’s come over me in the past few days but i checked and i listened to slowdive’s “Machine Gun” 16 times in a row yesterday lmfao

Ned would approve, I think

Commodores’ “Machine Gun” also a good nominee for this thread, though it’s pretty short iirc. Might need 25 plays to hit an hour

damn good choice

just did this with the original 7 inch version of jens lekman's "maple leaves"

both sides the tweed - dick gaughan

travelling through the north over the tweed into scotland. for some reason this fused with a sense of an immensity of squandered potential across the UK. of industry and political energy, intellectual advancement, education and artistic adventure, pissed down the drain in national fits of nostalgia, rural and landed regression, general small mindedness, conservatism with any sized c you fancy, probably with an unt somewhere at the end of it.

the idealism dick gaughan’s song, while not entirely free of some of the regressive tendencies above, was jibing nicely with alasdair gray’s motto “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation”.

so i listened to it five or six times in a row into and out of berwick.

perhaps worth noting this song originally came to me in Will Oldham’s Idea and Deed at the end of Joya, where “both sides the Tweed” becomes a more philosophical exhortation to civic unity and achievement.

There is a third, entirely fictitious, version of this song - a figment of some misreading or misprision of mine: Berwickshire Tweed - where the same civic unity and liberty - is created through the industry of the weaving of tweed wool. in berwick. as if it were some sort of material expression of that conversion from personal liberty to civic emancipation, that’s the theme of the song.