Songs with awesome beginnings that are so awesome that they repeat completely in the middle

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For example, in "Sabotage," the beginning is pretty great--and then halfway through the song the whole thing starts over, presumably because they realized that the beginning was the best part and they might as well include it twice.

I know there are a ton of songs that do this, but I can't think of any others.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not just that it sounds the same--there is actually a near-silence, followed by a build-up exactly like the one at the song's beginning.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, not *exactly* the same, but it's the same idea at any rate

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

This is like a really tough family feud question: "Name a song whose opening repeats again in the middle."

"Sabotage" is the number-one answer... what other songs do that?

Oh wait, I got one. The glorious cheerleading spell-a-thon that opens the Magnetic Fields's "Washington, D.C." It happens again midway thru.

― jeremiah (jeremiah), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Does Your Mother Know" is, well, not the only ABBA song to do that.

― Pangolino again, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Paperback Writer" ?

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Still Life - "People in Black"

― todd (todd), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Harder they come" Jimmy Cliff etc...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Does the Ramones' "Judy is a Punk" count?

"Second verse: same as the first"

― Ben Dot (1977), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

not 100% sure about this one but

Crazy Train

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Like Love," the disco classic by Norma Jean, yeah?

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Duh! Shady Lane by Pavement! The song completely restarts.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, totally! "Shady Lane!" I'd forgotten about that one.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Light My Fire"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Does "Paranoid" count?

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

'Yours is No Disgrace', Yes

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

S!
A!
T-U-R!
D-A-Y!

NIGHT!

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the Dismemberment Plan's 'You Are Invited' does this- could be wrong.

― cdwill, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ever download two mp3s of the same song that have the same filename, but different bitrates? Once or twice I don't notice until I was halfway through an album and really displeased with how "repetitive" or "dragged out" all the songs are.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthrax

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I downloaded "Run" by SnowPatrol about a year before the single came out. Did not realise it was looped as a spoiler. Thought it a bit mantra like (1st 2 lines repeated for 4 mins)

Scritti Politti "P.A's" is basically the one song played twice. Yeah?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Pavement - Fame Throwa

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 30 January 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

David Bowie - Diamond Dogs

I nominate we call this break with re-intro 'caesura.'

― Heidy-Ho (Heidy-Ho), Sunday, 30 January 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

For Against, 'Clandestine High Holy'

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Sunday, 30 January 2005 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Muse "Citizen Erased"

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Monday, 31 January 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Duh. "Long Cool Woman" by The Hollies.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Scritti Politti "P.A's" is basically the one song played twice. Yeah?
Exactly, because the song's so good that they repeated the entirety of it after it stopped and then Green added his own backup vocal!

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Monday, 4 April 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mamma Mia" obviously

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"fear of a black planet" - public enemy (i think it repeats itself three times)

― Priti Batta (priti), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Owner of a Lonely Heart" people

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The Snivelling Shits' "I Can't Come" (well, one version of it)

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The Upper Crust's "Highfalutin'"

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ted Nugent "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang"
Kiss "Deuce"
Kiss "I Want You"
Kiss "Watchin' You"
Blue Oyster Cult "Don't Fear the Reaper"

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, in the Nugent one the intro reappears at the END. but it's great!

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin (does this count, for repeating the first verse with a 'so' rather than a 'when'?)

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Halen "Hang 'em High"
Van Halen "Everybody Wants Some"
Van Halen "You're No Good"
Van Halen "Beautiful Girls"
Van Halen "And the Cradle Will Rock"
Van Halen "Dirty Movies" (OK, the SECOND half [actually the third third] of the intro reappears)
Van Halen "Girl Gone Bad"
Van Halen "Jump"

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sister Golden Hair" by America
"Old Days" by Chicago?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"Leave Them All Behind" - Ride

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait a minute. Not really, but close.

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

teardrop explodes - passionate friend

― idontposttoilm, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Steely Dan, "Josie"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Does "TV Eye" count? The last 30 seconds repeats the intro...

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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