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Music that you listen to on repeat

We probably all have a few that we know or hear and instantly have to identify to hear again.

I profess no musical prowess, so it's nothing technical that wows me, just the sheer pleasure of the sound

Some of those currently on my re-play list are 

Piano Man, Billy Joel

Take me to Church, Hosier

Empire States of Mind Alicia Keys

Adagio for Strings, Barber

Suggestions for wider listening please?

 

I've got stuck listening to Black Hole by Griff and 4th Day Prayer by Allison Russell on repeat quite a lot recently...

The former is a really catchy upbeat broken heart song and the latter is a very moving backbeat broken life song.

 

Your prefer Alicia Key's fùcking masterpiece diluted by that 🔔 end? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR fookING MIND?

Anastacia - One Day In Your Life and Not That Kind. Anything by the Sprock Goddess tbf

The Wedding Present - Kennedy 

Ride - OX4

 

Also I can listen to The Best is Yet to Come by Mike and the Mechanics quite a lot. 

I would have that as compulsory sarcastic walk off music at the end of everyboddy's  360* review if possible.

Buzz.16 Nov 21 20:58

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Your prefer Alicia Key's fùcking masterpiece diluted by that 🔔 end? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR fookING MIND?

 

Well we agree on something, courtesy of Alicia, but I cant warm to your suggestions.

 

They help me understand why Addagio for Strings isnt for you. What do you take to help you listen to that Wedding Present shite? After 30 seconds I need a paracetamol

Did I say Adagio for Strings wasn't for me? Nope. On the contrary. I suppose like many of those born in the 70s first intro to it was it's use in Platoon. Utterly transfixed from that moment. 

If only one:

Arthur McBride - Andy Irvine

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Then in no particular order:

You Ain't the Problem - Michael Kiwanuka

Thinking Bout You - Frank Ocean

Cello Concerto in E Minor (Adagio) - Elgar

Psycho Killer - Talking Heads

Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys

Queen Bitch - David Bowie

Freed From Desire - Gala

Incredible - General Levy

 

LISTEN TO THEM, PRODIGAL, LISTEN TO THEM AND UNDERSTAND THEM

If we can do whole albums-

taylor swift - evermore/folklore

meshell ndegeocello - bitter / plantation lullabies / the Nina Simone covers one

billy Joel - an innocent man

Tracy Chapman - the first album

tricky - maxinquaye

Fosco, I fear I will never quite understand Arthur McBride and the next two don't do it for me either, but simply watching never mind listening to Sheku Kanneh-Mason was fascinating.

 

64 million watches for Psycho Killer, but it will only be the one for me.

 

I fear the issue is that i want to simply listen. I'm not convinced I need to understand, especially general levy

 

 

Prisencolinensinainciusol.

This is what I was waiting for. Even the youtube comments are worth reading.

It reminds me of that classic'

'I know a song that will get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves'.

For something different,  try Brian McBride, overture for other halfs.

Was the most repeated piece of music in the weird and wonderful Adam Curtis series "can't get you out of my head".

Keith Jarrett, Koln Concert Part 1

Alanis Morrissette, Perfect 

Snow Patrol, Just Say Yes

Max Richter, Four Seasons Remixed, track 2

Lene Marlin, The Way We Are

The Coronas and Gabrielle Aplin, Lost in the Thick of It

The Blaze, Octavian, Somewhere

Jon Hopkins, Luminous Spaces

I listened to folklore and evermore a fair amount over the last year too.

I've had the compete Haydn symphonies on my daily playlist for the past four years. It will take me longer to listen to them properly than he took writing them. 

Mole5, thank you. I'm working through those and it's an easy on the ear start.

SirW, yes, on another day definitely Coldplay.

I think there's a correlation between angry people and the 'noise' they need to listen to.

Some of the suggestions above I had to turn off within seconds.

Laz, Coldplay isn't actually bad, just very very anodyne.

Border Song by Aretha Franklin.

Dylan, Just Like a Woman

Alan Parsons, Prime Time

S Club Party (can't remember the name of the band)

I - like any self-respecting and, dare I say it, successful lawyer - have a degree of OCD

When I buy a new album I listen to it relentlessly until I am generally familiar with the material

I am currently listening a lot to Bruckner's 9th and Miles Davies' In a Silent Way (the one immediately before Bitches Brew), but I don't think either is of the kind that people would put on a loop

Once I am familiar with an album I will often skip the songs I like the most - I want them to stay fresh and enjoyable for longer 

The albums that I am familiar with that I have listened to the most in recent times (gym, car, out and about walking) are Honey by Robyn and the latest Tame Impala album (can't remember the title) 

  • Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera.
  • Iron Maiden - Hallowed be thy Name.
  • Morbid Angel - Visions from the Dark Side.
  • Venom - In League with Satan.
  • Gary Glitter - Rock n Roll Part 2.
  • Saxon - Dragon's Lair.
  • Slayer - Behind the Crooked Cross.

Some... thought-provoking choices on show here.  Agree with some, intrigued by some others, laughing at a few.

For myself:

  • The first time I stumbled across Mr Jones by the Counting Crows I listened to it about 10 times on the bounce.  Not quite in that same bracket now for me, but still very much repeatable.
  • Spirit of Radio by Rush - about 4 songs in 1.
  • Still not bored of Know Your Enemy by Rage Against the Machine.  (Most of that album is on regular rotation, tbf, but especially that track.)
  • Comeback Kid (That's My Dog) by Brett Dennen gets a repeat (and a big grin) every time.
  • Dancing by Kylie Minogue.  Just cos.
  • Disorder by Slayer and Ice-T when I need to vent or wig out a bit - just keeps building.

 

fook em and their law -Prodigy 

Angel of destruction- The The

on the turning away - Pink Floyd

Somewhere down the crazy river-RobbieRobertson

Ч.П.Х. - Leningrad

La Mer - Julio Igelesias

Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar -Meccano (Spanish version of the Human league)

 

 

Think it all depends on your mood.

Rage against the machine if you’re in the mood to mosh and shout obscenities - very cathartic.

Cranberries for a good, melodic sing a long

Beautiful South (Woman in the Wall) to consider how horrific domestic abuse is but with such a presentable face to the public

Enya for beautiful background music

Guns’n’Roses/Bon Jovi/Billy Joel for fun

Probably the main single I could listen to on repeat is Kiss from a Rose by Seal.

Elgar - Nimrod

Avicii - The Nights 

Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter 

Redbone - Come and get your love

Carley Ray Jepsen - Call me maybe

Saints-Saens - Aquarium

Metallica - Enter Sandman

Swedish House Mafia - Don’t you worry child 

Public Enemy - Harder than you think

Holst - Jupiter 

ABBA. - The Day Before You Came

also in the superb cover versions by Blancmange and Steven Wilson

EWF - September 

Clifford T Ward - Up In The World

 

 

 

Utopia (In Game 3) and other classic Amiga soundtracks by Barry Leitch - great ambient music, backing tracks for life.

Aisha, Star of the East’s Give Me Fire, known in Britain pretty much solely as the Football Cliches theme tune - a bouncing bit of Siberian disco - has the energy required to accelerate the Lazettee through their rambunctious getting dressed for school routine.

Oh and last night I listened to the Gremlins tune on repeat while cooking asian fusion.

At present:

Taylor's Evermore, Folklore and Red in full.

Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher and Stranger In The Alps in full.

I could put the entire blink 182 discography on shuffle and have that playing for hours and hours.

Albums:

Grace by Jeff Buckley

Protection by Massive Attack

Dummy by Portishead

Songs:

Probably Me by Sting and Eric Clapton

It Could Happen To You by Robert Palmer

Most things by Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald

 

Goldfrapp - Crystalline Green

Sia - Cheap Thrills

Garth Brooks - Friends in Low places

Gossip - cover of Careless Whisper

Nina Simone - Sinnerman

Jake Fior & Peter Doherty - For Lovers

Interesting to see what I was listening to 2 years ago! Still play some of the same regularly, others less so. I’ve recently added Sails’ favourite Teardrop.

Some of the other new ones for me:

Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy cover (was played at our wedding ceremony, so a nice reminder)

the author - Luz

Somewhere - The Blaze feat. Octavian

The Moments I’m Missing - Ranji & Whitenoise etc 

Due Tramonti - Ludovico Einaudi, Marco Decimo

P.S. You Rock My World - Eels

Quite eclectic..

I don’t usually listen to the same songs or albums on repeat in a literal sense, but I have listened to Kacey Musgrave’s Silver Lining and Bruno Mars’ Locked out of Heaven multiple times in a row in recent times

I am much more likely to listen to something on repeat (to use the wording from the OP) if I have had a drink or two

I have also watched the live version from Stockholm in the late 80s or v early 90s of Gary Moore’s Empty Rooms numerous times in a row, but that’s more for the main guitar solo and the outro solo (both of which are, I think, superb) than the song itself 

 

Have been listening to Bando GZ and his sister.

On relistens over time, Ella and Louis.  Just last night was dancing with Mrs D to lots of that on the beach.  By which I mean she danced, I swayed.

BB King Live at Cook County Jail srsly listen to How blue can you get.
Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues Singers

Depends on mood but a lot of jazz with whisky

Classical when working/red.

He's a pirate - Zimmer/Badelt

Flying theme (E.T.) - J. Williams

All night long - J. Collier

Spanish harlem - Aretha Franklin

Easy - the Commodores

Lazy - D. Byrne

the Sensual world - Kate Bush

When love comes to town - B.B.King/U2

Best of my Love - The Émotions 

Daydreaming - Aretha Frankin

Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin

You’re thé One - DJ Khalid/ Bieber

Nimrod - Elgar 

It depends on my mood, oftentimes it’s 

The Man with the Child in his Eyes by Kate Bush

Who will Sing Me Lullabies? by Kate Rusby

Days by Kirsty MacColl

But more and more it’s 

Songs of Love by the Divine Comedy

Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles

Flowers in the Window by Travis

Quick correction to Posco

Arthur McBride is Paul Brady with Andy Irvine and yes, I will listen to this song endlessly

There are currently three songs I listen to endlessly

Jeff Beck & Imelda May "Walking in the sand"

Rory Gallagher "Follow Me"

The Stunning "Heads are gonna roll"

Elvis Costello: Psycho, also I've been wrong before, Riot Act, Party girl.

Tori Amos: Abnormally attracted to sin

Tears for fears: God's mistake, Year of the knife, Fish out of water

Supertramp: School followed by Bloody well right

Paul McCartney: Monkberry Moon Delight

Elton John: Curtains

Frank Sinatra: I've got you under my skin

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