Songs you could listen to forever?

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.
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I Might Be Sock?

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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.