If you were like me as a child, you could listen to the same record many, many times in a row.
What is the song you think you've listened to the most times in your life? (Mr. Anonymous wants to know! Don't disappoint Mr. Anonymous.)
As a kid I must've listened to ABC by the Jackson 5 hundreds of times. I still like it.
Present day, as an ipod wearer, I had to think about what is the song on the ipod I'm most likely to just flip to while I'm the bus, just because I always feel like listening to it. This may be a surprise, but it's Sweet Child o' Mine. I don't think I've ever worn my ipod without listening to it at least once. It's such a great song.
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That's because Axl's hair reminds you of a warm, safe place where as a child you'd hi-iy-ide.
Oh - this was my question and I should answer it. Pre-14, it's probably a tie between YO YO by The Osmonds and THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO by the Beatles (the first song I considered my "favorite"song). 14-18, probably something by the Rolling Stones. I'd guess ONE MORE TRY, THE SPIDER AND THE FLY, PAINT IT, BLACK or BROWN SUGAR (followed by SWAY - you can't play it without letting SWAY come on after it). 18-21: ORGASM ADDICT, THE DAY THE WORLD TURNED DAY-GLO, STAY FREE, ANARCHY IN THE UK or GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. After 21: LAST DANCE by the Mekons, LIFE ON MARS? by Bowie, WON'T YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHEN MY LIGHT TURNS GREEN? by Dexys Midnight Runner.
Oh - and hundreds more.
This "hundreds more" feels like a bit of a cheat. Just sayin'.
Yikes!...I honestly don't think I can answer this question. As a kid, I had an older brother and we had lots of 45s and K-Tel albums. I'm not sure one was played more than the other. I would love to say "Eres Tu", but I know that's not true!..Even as a highschool teenager, my tastes varied from one year to another (Grade 7 and 8: Disco; Grade 9: B-52's; Grade 10: Blondie & Bowie; Grade 11: Plasmatics) Although it is safe to say that in Grade 10 and 11, my Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack got the most wear...As a CEGEP, University student, couldn't tell you either...although, I know that whenever I played BowWowWow's "Sexy Eiffel Tower", as soon as it ended I had to play it again, maybe twice...I still do that with this song whenever I play it, but cannot guarantee that it is the song I have played the most...You'll have to put me down as a "how the hell should I know!"
JAW fan
Just thought of another: Sally MacLennane. God, I played that one a lot. Ask our neighbours on Sherbrooke St.
Oh I know I'm cheating. So let's just say YO YO has to be it - for better or worse.
And I have indeed played it the past year at least once.
It's that tone-arm-being-up-on-the-record-player-so-it-plays-over-and-over that makes it the most played song in my life.
JAW brings up a good side question - what song or songs do you have to play more than once? The first one that comes to mind is REUTERS by Wire. I don't think I ever played that song without picking up the needle and playing it again once it ended. Also at the time I remember doing the same thing with EMI by the Sex Pistols.
When I was in that same apt. on Sherbrooke it was the side-opener on that same album. I used to play The Sick Bed Of Cuchulain again and again.
True anecdote; ordering a pizza once from Kent Pizzeria, when I gave my address the person on the line paused and said "Oh - you live in the apartment that plays the Pogues all the time". She turned out to live right next door.
How weird - we're probably an anecdote she tells at parties about these pscycho neighbors she used to have that played the Pogues over and over again.
to get an instant hit of happy: toots and the maytals doing country roads take me home
and as a kid hunched over my little record player in the basement w/a 45 of billy preston's nothing from nothing going around and around endlessly
Funny thing about the Pogues in that apt is that the record player was in the front of the apartment so I had to blast it if I was in the kitchen in back, but it never occurred to me until the pizza-delivery incident that I was playing it that loud. Ooops.
This is an impossible question to answer – as the ‘repeat’ song changes almost weekly. I listened to a lot of Glen Campbell when I was a kid – later standouts include: Husker Du – ‘Turn on the News’, Jesus & Mary Chain – ‘Just like Honey’, Go Go’s – ‘Vacation’, My Bloody Valentine – ‘To Here Knows When’. However, if I have to pick one it is ‘This is England’ by the Clash … a bitter ode to Thatcherism that still startles and disturbs over 20 years later. As for the Osmonds, I’ll take ‘Puppy Love’ over ‘Yo Yo’ any day.
JD
JW’s picks: Boney M – ‘Daddy Cool’, REM – ‘Superman’, The Fall – 'Cruisers Creek’, New Order – ‘Blue Monday’ ... and assorted Cure 12”s
Glen Campbell? Cool. I loved Galveston and Wichita Lineman when I was a kid. I still Galveston is a great, great song.
but glen had scary hair
In the last ten years? "Like Lovers Do" by Lloyd Cole and Neil Finn's "She Will Have Her Way."
In the last two years? Mel Tillis' "I Ain't Never" sung by Pam Tillis and Buddy and Julie Millers' "I Need You."
Maybe those aren't the songs I've heard the most, actually, but they're the songs that I realize halfway through I need to play again.
Hey, I just found out I'm lying. According to itunes, the two songs I've played the most (since I've had itunes) are "Lyla" by Oasis and "Crystal" by New Order.
But it doesn't count what I play in the car.
In the car, I only play "Yo Yo."
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