Songs you could listen to forever?

I'll make a full list tomorrow but first an example :)

Jacqueline Taieb - le coeur au bout des doigts

60's french pop with a stunning horn section. Very sexy.

noone?

I have lots of answers and none at the same time. That is, there are dozens of songs I can listen to for days on end without getting tired of them, but eventually, I'll hit a wall and need a long separation so I can appreciate them again with "fresh ears," so to speak.

Ex. A for me is The New Pornographers' Sing Me Spanish Techno.

My answers to this are completely different from my favorite songs.

Fr'instance, Adventures in Solitude by the New Pornographers I could and have listened to for hours on end, but it's not even close to one of my favorites.

Alternately, the climax of Marquee Moon is one of my favorite musical moments ever, but I can listen to that maybe twice a week at most.

xpost Huh, would ya look at that.

Well perhaps it's too much asking for a daily song, true, I'm not always on the mood for many of my favorite songs as well.

Then I must reformulate the question: Which songs are you least likely to skip when listening to music? The soundtrack part remains I think, forget about the daily thing I said, I know realize it was a ridiculous request, but if they were to make a movie about your life which soundtrack would you choose?

Ashamed to admit I've never heard of the New Pornographers before, seeing both of you mentioned I will take a listen asap.

Here are a few of the songs I love, mind you I'm not even close to be a music critic, so forgive me if my opinions on the songs seem inane:

Norman Greenbaum - spirit in the sky

One of my favorite radio hits from the 70's, great guitar riff and best use of rattlesnake percussion ever. I also remember hearing it was one of John Lennon's favorite songs as well.

Nina Simone - my baby just cares for me

There's some sort of vocal stretch she does from 2:42 through 2:52 that showcases her incredible vocal range and makes me lose my breath everytime I hear it. There are many more Nina Simone songs I'm always happy to hear but this is by far my favorite.

Tommy Roe - Sweet Pea

Reminds me when I was young although I don't recall hearing it at all on my childhood. The drum break fits perfectly in this and the song is very sweet without being annoying.

Marshall Crenshaw - You're my favorite waste of time

A lo-fi masterpiece, just as with sweet pea I always get a sort of idyllic childhood regression when I hear it.

David Bowie - Letter to Hermione

I'm not too much of a Bowie fan, but this song out of his debut touches me like few songs can. A very sincere, simple and melancholic post-breakup song that hits the right spots. A shame it's not that wellknown.

The Undertones - Teenage kicks

A charmful ode to young lust. Have to agree with John Peel calling it the best pop song of all times.

Can - I'm so green

I love Damo Suzuki. The contagious bounciness of 'im so green' gets me everytime.

Nick Drake - Pink moon

I fail to make any sense out of the lyrics of this song but I can never skip it, there's something so simple and beautiful about it.

Red House Painters - all mixed up

My favorite cover, the original cars version doesn't get even close to the subtle power and beauty Kozelek gives to the song.

Jackson C. Frank - Blues run the game

A song about world-weariness wisdom and depression. What itches me the most is noticing no trace of bitterness or anger on Jackson's voice, making the delivery of the title line very heartbreaking.

Radiohead - fake plastic trees

Such a well-addressed ache. Thom's voice sounds incredibly anxious and impotent, like a lost child. Although I love it I have trouble listening to it in its entirety without feeling a knot in my throat.

Claude Debussy - clair de lune

Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does. Perhaps my favorite song of all time and also the only song I know how to play in piano.

Well those are mine. Don't know if knowing my socio-demographic is useful to draw any conclusions on my music taste but I'm a single 22-year old spanish woman.

Stabat Mater - Giovanni Batista Pergolesi

Dolorosa by name, dolorosa by nature. Stable, balanced, understated yet poignant beyond belief.

Elton John - Part Time Love
because you, me, and everybody needs a part time love

"Good Life" - Inner City

The soundtrack to the best day of your entire life.

Instead of New Pornographers' outdated baroque pop, you could try listening to Spanish techno. Or Chilean. Some of Villalobos' songs really do last forever.

isnt 'sing me spanish techno' something of a perfect example of a song theyd play repeatedly in top secret cia dungeons to drive prisoners insane? i mean, its a good tune, but howd you like to hear 'listening to one song/for too long!' looped over to infinity?

Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.
Warms the cockles of my heart, this song does.

Did I got it wrong, stephen? English is not my primary language :P

"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" by Darlene Love
It goes to the place where there is only feeling.

Sultans of Swing!

Moka - you got that phrase right, it's just a very odd one to hear anon-native English speaker use! Or even a native English speaker from anywhere but a certain region of England!

But in answer to the question, I guess I have to consider the songs I have listened to most in my life, and list them?

Blind by Embrace
The Rock by Delakota
This Is Music by The Verve
The Girl With The Sun In Her Head by Orbital
John Cope by Talk Talk
Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell
I Want To Take You Higher by Sly & The Family Stone
Baby You're A Rich Man by The Beatles
Fools Gold by The Stone Roses
Eye Know by De La Soul
Heroes by David Bowie

I don't think there are many others that come within orbit of number of plays of those ones, even though there are other songs I feel I "love" more than some of them.

Bloody hell, Delakota. I'd forgotten all about them. Their first couple of singles were really good.

1. The Calvary Cross - Richard Thompson
Painful and ambiguous. And the guitar at the start, too!
2. Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard - KLF
Makes me rave my tits off (quietly, but) every time.
3. 100,000 Fireflies - Magnetic Fields
Why do we keep shrieking, when we mean soft things?

no such song (and record) exist (that i could listren to forever)

The Reflections - Just Like Romeo & Juliet continues to weather

most Magnetic Fields songs I like are songs that I tend to listen to on loop over & over again when I first encounter them - "All the Umbrellas in London," "I Thought You Were My Boyfriend," "Born on a Train," "When You Were My Baby," "Old Orchard Beach," "California Girls"...

also the Chameleons - "Second Skin" is my favorite song of all time and I regularly listen to it over and over again without being any less amazed and entranced by it

"Holidays" by the Desperate Bicycles.
An infectious melody imbued with thoughtful, empathic, and poetic lyrics.

...ooh, the guitar part just came on in E2-E4...

i can't do this. albums are a completely different story but songs no. NO.

Leigh-on-Sea by Bad Dream Fancy Dress

Grateful Dead w/ Branford Marsalis 3/29/90, Eyes of the World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43hZ0HJqFo

my girl - madness.

my first record, and so i guess it kicks in a massive memory flood whenever i hear it. but i genuinely can listen to this every day and still get a massive pleasure rush.

dead end street - lou rawls

something about the narration intro, the way the music/tension builds and builds, which after 20 years of listening, still sends a chill up my spine.

daily listening to these records is sometimes a necessity for me.

Tom Waits - Alice

Forgot about that one. Sensuous midnight jazz feel and violently beautiful lyrics.

Sultans of Swing!

-- Jena, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 03:48 (Yesterday) Link

yesssssssssssssssss!

i actually once listened to Sultans of Swing for like 3 hours. I just forgot I had put it on (repeat) and didn't notice it anymore.

as for songs I could listen to forever hmm though. Maybe a Bruce Springsteen song.. or (slightly related) "Street Hassle" by Lou Reed.

"Reflections in a Crystal Wind" by Mimi and Richard Farina.

I could listen to the La Monte Young song forever.

Desperados under the eaves!

I love those lyrics. "---and if california slips into the ocean as the mystics and statistics say it will. I predict this motel will be standing, until I've payed my bills"

"Love Hurts" by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. Heartbreaking and honest.

The Replacements - Alex Chilton

I'm in love with that song.
(I've just noticed I've been listening very frequently to this one for the past 3 years)

"Vapour Trail" by Ride is the only one that has proven the test of time. I guess I'll check back in a couple years with "Good Girl/Carrots" by Panda Bear, and for "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" by Of Montreal.

I'm always a little bit sad when The Sparks' Number One Song in Heaven ends.

the Kingsmen - Louie Louie
the Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Nirvana - Negative Creep
the Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
the Beatles - She Said She Said
Son House - Empire State Express
Public Enemy - Bring The Noise
the Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
the White Stripes - Cannon

Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
Ray Charles - What'd I Say
Modest Mouse - Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want)
the Underdogs - Love's Gone Bad
Jimi Hendrix - Fire
the DOORS - The Soft Parade
Pavement - Conduit For Sale
Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown

Cat Power - Still In Love
the Allman Brothers Band - Please Call Home
Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Martha & the Vandellas - I Promise To Wait My Love
the Clash - Rudie Can't Fail
PRINCE - Kiss
the CURE - Close To Me
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf
Palace - More Brother Rides
Nina Simone - Ooh Child

Pixies - Vamos
Joy Division - No Love Lost
the Flaming Lips - Unconsciously Screamin'
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
PJ Harvey - Sheela Na Gig
Freddie Scott - Are You Lonely For Me baby
Laurie Anderson - O Superman (For Massenett)
James Brown - Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud
the Brian Jonestown Massacre - Oh Lord
Elvis Costello - Pump It Up

Ike & Tina Turner - I Idolize You
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
BECK - Forcefield
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
Indigo Girls - Prince Of Darkness
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Ugly Casanova - Smoke Like Ribbons
Fine Young Cannibals - Blue
caP'n Jazz - Oh Messy Life

Mercury Rev - Downs Are Feminine Balloons
De La Soul - The Magic Number
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
WEEN - Awesome Sound
the Groupies - Primitive
Humble Pie - 30 Days In The Hole
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
the Sweet - Fox On The Run
the Monkees - I’m a Believer
Bikini Kill - In Accordance To Natural Law

Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
Built To Spill - Car
X - Johnny Hit And Run Pauline
Guided By Voices - A Salty Salute
the Specials - Concrete Jungle
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
the Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Fugazi - Waiting Room
Bob Dylan - Ballad Of A Thin Man
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come

Jackson 5 - ABC
the Polyphonic Spree - Section 7 (Hangin' Around)
the Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing
the Monks - Complication
Stereolab - Laissez Faire
The Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
Roxanne Shante - Have A Nice Day
Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)
Talib Kweli - Get By
Linda Jones - What Can I Do (Without You)

Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
the English Beat - I Confess
Electric President - Insomnia
Silver Jews - Advice To The Graduate
Sufjan Stevens - Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie
Thievery Corporation – Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes
L.L. Cool J - Radio
Silver Apples - A Pox On You
Run-D.M.C. - Hit It Run

Free Kitten - The Boasta
AC/DC - Problem Child
Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Honor Role - Listening To Sally
Yes - Close To The Edge
Howlin' Wolf - Little Red Rooster
the Bob Seager System - Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man
? and the Mysterians - 96 Tears

Curtis Mayfield - Little Child Runnin Wild.

kirsty maccoll "they don't know"
ll cool j "mama said knock you out"
alhaji k. frimpong "kyenkyen bi adi mawu"

kirsty cool "mawu said knock you out"
ll frimpong k. "kyenkyen bi adi they"
alhaji maccoll j "mama don't know"

War, "Low Rider" - the most unstoppable groove evah
Donna Summer, "I Feel Love" - 9 times out of 10, right after playing this song, I immediately play it a second time right after it fades

TV on the Radio - staring at the sun

This song is all about the sexual tension. Tunde filling up space with several metaphors about sex while an expanding wall of sound threatens to fall over your head at any moment and yet... the climax never arrives. It's all dry sex. I find it exquisitely frustrating. No need to fix anything. Just clean up and go home.

Life on Mars - i first heard it at a very young age, loved it then and still think it's absolute perfection

stevie nicks - edge of seventeen!!!!!

"Manhattan" as sung by Ella Fitzgerald in one of the songbooks

Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode would be seriously painful.

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i seem to have been listening to Terry Callier's Ordinary Joe for the past 3 years without once tiring of it

Fr'instance, Adventures in Solitude by the New Pornographers I could and have listened to for hours on end, but it's not even close to one of my favorites.

I concur with the first part but not the second. The chorus of that song represents the teleportation to a sense of infinity within the inner utopia of the bladder.

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sticking with my party lines (favorite bands)

Pinback - Gray-Machine
King Creosote - Counseling
Red Red Meat - Airstream Driver, Sad Cadillac
Guided By Voices - Smothered in Hugs
The Sea and Cake - One Bedroom (Don't ask me why)
Archer Prewitt - Over The Line
Kraftwerk - Computer Love
Nada Surf - Fruit Fly
Hall and Oates - Method of Modern Love
Genesis - Back in N.Y.C. (the weird electro voice part gets less annoying after a while
Quasi - All The Same
Robert Wyatt - The Age of Self
Jethro Tull - Summerday Sands (I can't pick my favorite slow Tull song off the top of my head right now)
Jim O'Rourke - Fuzzy Sun
Belle and Sebastian - This is Just a Modern Rock Song, ...

Beach Boys - 'Til I Die

agree with me? I could throw in radiohead - pyramid song, morning bell, and knives out as well

There are so many of these for me but the one I think of immediately is "But Not Tonight" by Depeche Mode.

Many years have not dimmed The Cure's A Forest so far for me

I think I could listen to "Rough Gem" by Islands for a long time

Lindsay Lohan Bossy. it's too bad to spoil, and too good to loathe.

"Forty Dollars" by the Twilight Singers

"Mississippi" by Bob Dylan

I have had Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell, Outdoor Miner by Wire and The 'Fall In a Hole' recording of Backdrop by The Fall on repeat for most of today. Not sure I could listen to them forever. Not sure I could listen to Anything for ever, but, today has been one of my favourite recent days.

anything by radiohead

Even Stupid car?

Or My Iron Lung?

Packt Like Socks in a Crushd Tin Box?

Wow, you guys are on a roll.

"Ambulance Blues", Neil Young

The composition of the song is incredible. I guess it's possible to interpret the thread question a few different ways. One way is to think of songs that you could listen to every day of your life FOREVER. Another is to think of a song that could go on forever, as one long play. I think "Ambulance Blues" is a decent example for that category. The verses, choruses, bridges, and solos fit together so neatly that it seems unfair to have to drop an ending in there.

good call on "Ambulance Blues", and that crazy long ass song on the first Neil Young album too, that thing feels sort of infinitely extendable

today, I'd say
"He Loved Him Madly" Miles Davis
"Bel Air" Can
"Belfast" Orbital
"Soliloquy for Lilith" Nurse With Wound
"I Don't Stand a Ghost of A Chance with You" Chet Baker
"In C" Terry Riley
"All That I've Got Is You" Ghostface Killah
"Beholding the Throne of Might" Darkthrone
"Contort Yourself" The Contortions
"Heard It All Before" Sunshine Anderson

awesome song, i listend to it probably more or less 100 times, but i cant listen to it forever.
xpost

I Might Be Sock?

(xps)

atm tho:

"Glass" - Sagittarius
"H in New England" - Max Richter
"You and Me" - Sutherland Brothers
"You're So Good to Me" - Beach Boys
"What Will Tomorrow Bring" - Jakob Olausson
"R.O.D." - The Fall

Drew's list is excellent.

Florian Meindl - 8 Bit Romance Radio Slave Deepest Space Remix

lasts 19 minutes, would be OK with 19 days

"Soliloquy for Lilith" Nurse With Wound

Which part?

I have so many of these. The ones that come to mind right now are:

? and the Mysterians - 96 Tears
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Bikini Kill - Carnival and Rebel Girl
Rolling Stones - Get Off of My Cloud
New Order - Ceremony
Luna - California (All the Way)
Depeche Mode - But Not Tonight
The Grass Roots - Midnight Confessions
Thelma Houston - Don't Leave me This Way
Supremes - The Happening
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love?
The Jam - That's Entertainment
The Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection
Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea
Pixies - River Euphrates
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Of Montreal - So Begins our Alabee

There are many more too . . .

Pet Shop Boys - You Were Always on my Mind

Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine and I've got Dreams to Remember

Orange Juice - Rip it Up
Squeeze - Another Nail in my Heart

Prince - When You Were Mine.

Squeeze - Up the Junction

ok, done.

"Under the Bridge" by the Chili Peppers. Yeah, they get shit on. I don’t know, you can look at any band—now that I’m babbling, I think there’s a big trend in music today. I don’t want to say popular music across the board—maybe I do—but at every level, from stadium country music all the way to Pitchfork darlings, whatever the hip shit is, I feel like cats by and large do play it very safe. I’m not knocking anyone, but whatever the stylistic confines are of the day, I feel like everyone is damn sure they don’t fuckin’ step outside the parameters.

There’s several bands that are still in it who existed before that trend, and in my mind as a fan are just completely untouched by it. To me, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are just one of those bands. I’m not saying there’s stuff you can’t dis them for. I mean sure, even Christie Brinkley takes a stinky shit every once in awhile.

even Christie Brinkley takes a stinky shit every once in awhile.

There's some bumper-sticker wisdom right derre.

At the moment:

• The Replacements -- Skyway
• Neil Young -- See The Sky About To Rain
• Wilco -- Handshake Drugs
• Bill Evans -- Waltz for Debby (Take 2)
• Al Green -- Belle
• Billy Idol -- Blue Highway
• The Clientele -- Losing Haringey
• The Slickers -- Johnny Too Bad
• Spirit of Israel -- Daniel
• Mohammed Rafi -- Jaan Pehechaan Ho
• Terence Trent D'Arby -- Sign Your Name
• Gavin Bryars/Philip Jeck/Alter Ego -- The Sinking Of The Titanic
• Miles Davis -- Shhh/Peaceful
• Lewis Taylor -- Hide Your Heart Away
• The Beach Boys -- God Only Knows
• The Beach Boys -- Sail On Sailor
• George McCrae -- I Get Lifted
• Ghostface Killah -- Walk Around
• Super Furry Animals -- The Very Best Of Neil Diamond

I couldn't sleep and laid in bed thinking of a few others.

Primal Scream - Movin' on Up
Happy Mondays - Step On
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

Turns out there are a lot of songs I could listen to over and over again without getting sick of them. And I do.

"Aikea-Guinea" by the Cocteau Twins could be on repeat for eternity. And you know it probably is in Heaven.

"She Sells Sanctuary" by The Cult
"Eighties" by Killing Joke
"(I'm) Stranded" by The Saints
"Nostalgia" by Buzzcocks
"In the Evening" by Led Zeppelin
"Sumerhead" by the Cocteau Twins
"Spellbound" by Siouxsie & the Banshees
"Public Image" by PiL
"To Hell with Poverty" by Gang of Four
"Down on the Street" by the Stooges
"Five Minutes" by the Stranglers
"Transmission" by Joy Division
"Computer World" by Kraftwerk
"Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" by Traffic
"Life's What You Make It" by Talk Talk
"Living Through Another Cuba" by XTC
"Uncontrollable Urge" by Devo
"Listening to the Higsons" by Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians
"Double Vegetation" by Julian Cope
"Over the Wall" by Echo & the Bunnymen
"The Prophet's Song" by Queen

... oh and a pile more.

My answers to this are completely different from my favorite songs.

Fr'instance, Adventures in Solitude by the New Pornographers I could and have listened to for hours on end, but it's not even close to one of my favorites.

Alternately, the climax of Marquee Moon is one of my favorite musical moments ever, but I can listen to that maybe twice a week at most.

― en i see kay, Monday, 30 June 2008 21:41 (10 months ago)

This thread should be about favorites that are songs you can listen to forever. BTW, I just made a playlist of 30 or so songs I have never heard before. Great thread.

Antonio Carlos Jobim and Elis Regina - Aguas de Março

Can't remember who it was suggested summer breeze by Isley brothers should go on forever but it's very true

feel like ive been listening to this forever

at least a few times a day on avg for the past year and a bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXHd4E-YBx0

"Computer Love" by Kraftwerk

https://soundcloud.com/leheron_idletones/1-04-spectrums

Graham Lambkin - Spectrums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBG1Qwl-zdU

Semi-obsessed with this song the last few months. Surprised there aren't any covers.

I always wished Hum's "Stars" was a 20 minute song. I could listen to this song anytime, anywhere.