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What song can you listen to for an hour?
Several years ago a college radio DJ friend started playing Nelson Riddle's instrumental title theme to the television show Route 66 over and over and over again. On the third or fourth repetition the phone line started blinking, and after a few more repeats he answered the phone. The listener said "I was calling to complain, but while I was waiting for you to answer the phone I noticed my foot was tapping, so never mind."
A couple of years later I found The Exotic Trilogy, a CD on which three pillars of Exotica, "Quiet Village," "Taboo" and "Caravan," are repeated in seven cycles of three. I subsequently found a second volume with seven more versions of each song, and discovered that the CDs sprang from an 18-hour live performance given under the KB Zed banner, and tagged as "irritainment."
More recently I've taken to setting my car's CD player on repeat and listening to a single song for an hour's drive. I first did this as a way to learn all the lyrics to Spike Priggen's "Every Broken Heart," and a few months later got stuck on The Rockin' Berries' cover of the Tokens' "The Water is Over My Head." A few other songs have managed to entertain me for the better part of an hour, but not many really stand up to 15 or 20 repetitions.
So the question to you: what song can you listen to on repeat for an hour or longer?
A couple of years later I found The Exotic Trilogy, a CD on which three pillars of Exotica, "Quiet Village," "Taboo" and "Caravan," are repeated in seven cycles of three. I subsequently found a second volume with seven more versions of each song, and discovered that the CDs sprang from an 18-hour live performance given under the KB Zed banner, and tagged as "irritainment."
More recently I've taken to setting my car's CD player on repeat and listening to a single song for an hour's drive. I first did this as a way to learn all the lyrics to Spike Priggen's "Every Broken Heart," and a few months later got stuck on The Rockin' Berries' cover of the Tokens' "The Water is Over My Head." A few other songs have managed to entertain me for the better part of an hour, but not many really stand up to 15 or 20 repetitions.
So the question to you: what song can you listen to on repeat for an hour or longer?
Tags: Exotica, Irritainment, Nelson Riddle
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Permalink Reply by Truersound on -
Choctaw Bingo, definitely
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Permalink Reply by Ron Frankl on -
Windfall - Son Volt
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Permalink Reply by Chad Hensley on
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Knott on -
Walking on Hell's Roof - The Waco Brothers
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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Coulthard on -
I have played this song for over an hour on repeat too - love it, love it
But the song I've done this with more than any other has to be "Here I Am" - Steve Earle
Both will be played at my funeral ;)
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Permalink Reply by Scott Emmons on -
If He Can't Have You - Whiskeytown
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Permalink Reply by Jackson Rodgers on -
A few come to mind:
-"Pilgrim," Steve Earle
-"I Know I'm Not Wrong," Fleetwood Mac
-"Beyond the Great Divide," Marty Stuart
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Permalink Reply by eric holmes on -
Oddly enough, that Fleetwood Mac song came to my mind even before seeing your post.
In the NoDepression category, I'd go with:
"Blue"-- Jayhawks
"Moonshiner"--Uncle Tupelo
"Cowgirl in the Sand"--Neil Young (which is cheating because the run time is almost an hour)
Outside of the genre:
"Goin' Down South"--RL Burnside
Guilty pleasure:
"Sweet Talkin' Woman"--ELO
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Permalink Reply by marie on
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Here are some current tunes I could listen to for an hour (I apparently have issues choosing just one..of anything):
Bell X1- The Great Defector
John Doe-Golden Gate
Rhett Miller- If It's Not Love; Hospital Wings; I Believe She Is Lying... oh hell! pretty much anything he writes for himself or the Old 97's!
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Permalink Reply by declan culliton on -
Sam Baker 'Thursday' from the 'Mercy' album
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