Tank Park Salute (Billy Bragg) – It’s just so profoundly moving I can’t listen to it just once. So Many Soldiers by Ian Brown, because it talks about street soldiers, young guys, addicts dying in prison like some I know… (Marco Lo-Fi) I listened to this song on the Stranglers last album lots of times in a row because it fitted the stage of my life I was going through precisely and came at a time when I needed it (Robin Murray) Is it just we need repetition in the music or is it an autistic trait? Sometimes it is the actual lyrical content specifically. They are like hymns or prayers – there is a spiritual element to them. These particular songs have an existential yearning in them somehow. It’s more than just personal taste and love of the particular song I think. (One of several choices included…) Sunday Morning by Velvet Underground – Why? Because there’s something inside of them which somehow answers a question I’m asking but I can’t quite get hold of the answer. There are just SO many! (Michelle Brigandage )
Gus OMFG, so true! In fact lots of VU songs…. What Goes On (the Live 1969 version) too by the Velvet Underground – Because 9 minutes isn’t long enough, I want it to last half an hour.
Subterraneans by Flesh 4 Lulu (is my prime example of a song I always listen to at least twice in a row) Why? Because I don’t want it to end. Oddly, two bands were mentioned by various people: Buzzcocks and the Velvet Underground. The same as addiction to alcohol or cigs is going back to that first drink or smoke. So perhaps compulsive listening is our mind going back to our youth and that first buzz. Songs like Bear Cage, Requiem, Mannequin and Boredom have so many individual elements to go back to and focus on. Out of every ‘punk era’ recording I find it the wittiest and the song that reminds me most of that era (old school phones) … And, of course, the best, most brilliant joke of all is the two note guitar solo… simply genius. It was just so exciting (Michelle Brigandage)īuzzcocks Boredom. When Spiral Scratch arrived by post direct from New Hormones It was played non stop all afternoon and the next day… the same goes for New Rose and Anarchy. I must’ve played it about 20 times in a row, flipping over to the B-side Did You No Wrong and back again.
When God Save The Queen 7″ came out, a schoolfriend brought it into school and I borrowed it overnight. It may go back to the late seventies, when we were teenage punks and the seven inch vinyl single was the main way music was consumed.īack in time when you could only afford to buy one single at a time, each one was played endlessly until you could afford the next one. Why do we do it? Isn’t it a teenage thing? Are there psychological reasons for it? I asked for examples and possible reasons from my online chums.įrom my extensive investigations I conclude that it is quite common – at least amongst us music obsessives and people of a delicate but punk-inspired artistic disposition.
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