What songs have you listend to over and over again...even at one sitting...because "there's something about them, and what do you think that something is.

These types of questions always introduce me to new amazing songs that I've never heard...so include some obscure ones too (though I didn't do that lol)

I'll start - the most recent for me is 1. "Lost on You" by LP. I don't really know exactly what it is about this song that makes me listen to it at least 3 times whenever I play it the first time.

Older songs that were in this category included:
2. the Eagles song "Take It Easy" (and many others of their songs), and
3. recalling one from my childhood - Come Softly by the Fleetwoods

If I had to guess - I'd say the beauty of the voices, very strong arrangements, and strong lyrics.

But there are songs without exceptional voices that I've also played more than once at one sitting...Sultans of Swing (of course it HAS to be the guitar in that one), White Rabbit (the weird phrygian key, Grace's voice, and the trippy lyrics), Dononvan's Hurdy Gurdy Man (another trippy song - love the tremolo on the voice - maybe there's a pattern here), and Mac the Knife (really easy, catchy melody and 'old timey' feel - and the Satch's voice again).

So for me - I guess the combination of vocal, arrangement/production, and strong lyrics combo - but hey - most of the songs I like fall in this category, yet only a few dozen stand out as frequent repeaters...who knows what draws us so closely to a small group of particular songs ?