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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 Dale Press on -
I have two:
Zip City - Drive-By Truckers
Rocks Off - Rolling Stones
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Permalink Reply by Dirk on -
Hank III doing Johnny Paycheck's "I'm the Only Hell My Momma Ever Raised"
Gillian Welch's "Daniel Had the Keys to the Kingdom" (don't know if that's the O-fficial title--she plays it live)
Michelle Shocked: "Soldier's Joy" and "Weaving Way"
Waylon's "Are You Sure Hank Done it this Way"
Hacienda Brothers' "If I'm Gonna Sink I Might as Well Go to the Bottom"
and currently stuck in my head, Emily Bonn's "Lazy Gal" and "Big Apple"
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Permalink Reply by Elle Kristian on -
I have quite a few, being a Dylan fanatic I'll start with his:
Like A Rolling Stone (the live 1966 version)
Simple Twist of Fate (1975 live version with Scarlet Rivera)
One More Cup of Coffee
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Moonshiner
Desolation Row
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Other honorable mentions:
Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley's cover)
Tiny Dancer-By Elton John
Time by Tom Waits
Hotel California (The Eagles)
Bach Cello Suite No. 1
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Permalink Reply by Will on
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The Deans instrumental Mr. Hyde has been known to go on for over an hour in Live shows...........When i saw this it nearly blew my mind.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MEUBhPlB-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RffZJOFAPM
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Permalink Reply by mdeanmusic on
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Bob Dylan - "Times They Are A-Changin'"
Stevie Ray Vaughn version of Hendrix' "Little Wing"
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Permalink Reply by Forest Rodgers on -
She once lived here-George Jones
Good year for the Roses-George Jones
Whistlers & Jugglers-Waylon
In Dreams-Roy Orbison
The dream goes on forever-Todd Rundgren
any song by Emmylou
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Permalink Reply by Sam Hammond on
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Van Morrison's Summertime in England - but I only have to listen to it three times to make it an hour.
John Prine - One Red Rose
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Permalink Reply by Forest Rodgers on
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Ah ..speaking of Van the Man..."Into the Mystic", & "Crazy Love"...
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Permalink Reply by steviedal on -
I could happily listen to any track from Astral Weeks , Veedon Fleece and Common One for an hour , in fact , since i'm off work this week , i may well do !
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