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 ?
Prokofiev's concert suits, Romeo & Juliet, Stone Flower, and a few others
A few of Shastakovitch's symphonies, especially 4 $ 7.
I could go on and on.
Although I really enjoy most genres of music, rock, blues, jazz, Latin American, Caribbean, and so on, I find the things I can listen to the most and still find something new to experience is a nice symphony, and not all of them, just the ones that hit my heart.
One of my 'can't get enough of it' songs is Bob Segar's Against the Wind. Just love everything about that song. From the lyrical craftsmanship to the melody to the individual musicianship on the tracks. The piano and guitars, the groove, the fact that it doesn't conform to the the 3.5 minute radio length format.
It's the great progression and the lyrics for me primarily. I also love the way it builds and (to me at least) can loop back onto itself, making multiple listens work. Two or three times is normal, but that's only because I'm crying by the end. Weird, I know. I've never been a working musician, but besides that little fantasy a lot of his audience might harbor, I take the lyrics in as symbolic of many things about my own life's history which were likely never intended but nevertheless are true for me.
Ian Anderson's lyrics are about at the top end of my tolerance, sometimes, for deep poeticism. I prefer simpler songs that can be heard and felt deeper than they read (see above). But your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick. Maybe that refers to lyric-writers too, at times. So Ian's attitude and world-weariness hits me in the gut. Musically, it is like a symphony. From the simple guitar and voice, it goes through many changes, each one of a vastly different feel and power. And, again, it loops back onto itself very nicely to make another spin seem natural. I never hear it the same way twice.
If forced to pick a third, you've already named Sultans of Swing. It's ot just the guitar, but the whole story/arc of the song.
Good question. Seems like I've just been waiting for someone to ask it.
The songs I listen to over and over are because they take me somewhere. Can't really explain it...some forgotten memory, a smell, a feeling, a time gone by... I'm a romantic at heart, so that plays into my selections. But I don't have to be on a desert island with these songs to enjoy them over and over again. When they pop up on the playlist, I often hit rewind.
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
Reminiscing - Little River Band
You Can Have Me Anytime - Boz Scaggs
You Can Have Me Anytime - Maynard Ferguson
I Will Play A Rhapsody - Burton Cummings
It Won't Be Long - Chase
Beginnings - Chicago
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So many songs. Hard to choose. The last time it happened where I played one over and over back to back was Magnificent, She Says by the British Band Elbow
I fell in love with the sound of Guy Garvey’s voice and the band that day and wondered how it is that they are not the biggest band in the world and nearly unknown in the US.
I fell in love with the sound of Guy Garvey’s voice and the band that day and wondered how it is that they are not the biggest band in the world and nearly unknown in the US.
The Crush of Love by Joe Satriani. No lyrics. He sings the song with his guitar. To me this song expresses what the title says yet leaves the interpretation open to either a crush of passion or a hurtful, heartbreak crush.
I'll also add Boston Don't Look Back album. This stuff distracts me from anything else going on at the time. In fact, the louder I crank it up in my car the more I start to sound just like Brad Delp. Yeah right about the level where I can't hear myself much at all is usually where my best Brad Delp impression begins. Plus just about anything from Bad Company. Under the right conditions I sound just like Paul Rogers too.
Julie London "Cry Me a River" (partly because of Barney Kessel's opening and but also HER VOICE makes me want to drink a whole fifth of scotch! Ditto Etta)
Mcclean's - "American Pie"
Eagles "Hotel California"
Doors "Riders on the Storm"
Trower's "Bridge of Sighs" and "Too Rolling Stoned"
Actually I have about a dozen more - because they fix me in a certain place, at a certain time, with a certain mindset - they are like smells that can trigger intense feelings of being in a another time and place.
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Grand Funk Railroad, first song on their first album: +++ Time Machine +++ Don Brewer's drumming with all the flams is what makes the song special to me. All that sound and a three man band.
Pacific Gas & Electric, one hit wonder: +++ Are You Ready +++ Absolutely mind blowing guitar solo pushing sustain as close as possible to feedback. The bass drum popped the 15" woofer I connected to my eight track! Despite the sound, another three man band. One story I read is the background girl singer was brought in after she was heard singing along with the song while the band was listening to playback with the building door open to let out some of the heat build up.
SuperTramp +++ Goodbye Stranger +++ A sonic masterpiece. Great song with a wonderful arrangement but the production is what makes the song because it's pure ear candy. Love the idea of saving the guitar solo to the end and then fading out the solo to end with the guitar player wailing. How inventive is that?
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Despite the sound, another three man band. One story I read is the background girl singer was brought in after she was heard singing along with the song while the band was listening to playback with the building door open to let out some of the heat build up.
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