Songs that start again from the beginning..

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Inspired by hearing Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" on holiday...

Where the song starts again and/or repeats the first verse and continues as if it never ends... (so fades..)

Actually, all his hits, "Summer (the first time)" and "Hello Summertime" did this too.

Add, Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" and "Baby Jump"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

First of May by the Bee Gees

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

Teardrop Explodes - Passionate Friend

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

Justin Timberlake - Nothin' Else

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

Erik Satie - Vexations

― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

ah, but the repeat has to follow the beginning almost precisely, as if it's endless (PashFren doesn't do that)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

Seaside Shuffle - Terry Dactyl & the Dinosaurs

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, so far 50% or more have been songs directly about the summer time...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Marquee Moon

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

Many Rivers to Cross

― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

ah now I always thought Marquee moon fitted this, but when it got issued on CD, it now has a fully rounded ending...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

... tho why they bothered doing that is a mystery

― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

There wasn't enough space on the original vinyl, supposedly.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

Eh? There was plenty of space!

― Diddyismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

KISS, "Black Diamond" and "Strutter"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Super_Collider - Under My Nose

― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Amazing that this topic should come up on the same day that the "Black Betty" thread is revived, 'cause that song does that very thing: Right after the first verse, at about the 45-second mark, there's an obvious tape edit, and then the entire top of the song, guitar solo and all, is played a second time. The band doesn't play it twice, mind you; I mean the very same 20-second bit of tape is spliced in. A completely bizarre anomaly that I've rarely encountered in any other pop single, at least until sampling technology became commonplace.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Junior Senior - Move your Feet

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Portishead 'Glory Box'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

If first you don't succeed try, try again
Step up to the mic and die again
This is the next lifetime and you wanna battle
Either you like reincarnation or the smell of carnations
The sample's the flesh and the beat's the skeleton
You got beef but there's worms in your Wellington
I'll put a hole in your skull and extract your skeleton
Oh my God, said a word twice, Vast Aire, I'm twice as nice
You get caught up, in my blade, might get diced
The flesh is dangerous here
Yo, hahaha, yo, it's Can O, yo
If first you don't succeed try, try again
Step up to the mic and die again
This is the next lifetime and you wanna battle...

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I don't hear that edit in "Black Betty" unless I'm already listening to an edit (Ram Jam, 2:28).

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

CCR's "Cotton Fields" seems to do this as well.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

The Auteurs - "My New French Girflriend"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Girlflrflrofflend dammit

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I know the edit he means, Pleas.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

That's right, the full version is closer to 4 minutes.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

"Prove My Love" Violent Femmes... "third verse/ same as the first"

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

"Keep On Dancing" by the Gentrys

starts up again after a false ending, but I'm not sure that it starts at the beginning.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

This far into the thread and no mention of Scritti Politti's "PAs" (which stops, and then completely starts over again and plays all the way through once more and the only thing added to it is an extra backing track from Green Gartside)? For shame.

If I remember right, the 12" version of Public Image Limited's "The Flowers of Romance" also starts all over again, but it's more chaotic and I think the vocals are extracted. Can anyone confirm this?

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

xp- I have never even heard of the Gartside track you mention, despite being alive when the Welsh waffler was still recording, before he was persuaded to retire after being hugely overpaid in error by the PRS. But you're probably right.

Doesn't 'Paranoid Android' by Radiohead fit this description pretty closely, being the same song played twice? (I don't actually own a copy, so it's likely I'm wrong)

― snotty moore, Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

That Sliding Doors one from the last Streets album.

― wombatX (wombatX), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

It's from 1979's 4 A-Sides EP when GG was still Communist and the band made loose/scratchy/fun reggae-inflected post-punk. It can be found on the wonderful compilation Early that came out back in February. He was persuaded to retire? Tell me about this.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Gang of Four's Natural's Not In It does something like this that I've always loved.

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

The "PA's" track is basically the track played twice. With endings.

The "Flowers of romance" 12" is the single version followed by the instrumental version.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 August 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

xp- He was accidently overpaid to the tune of several hundred thousand pounds sometime in the eighties and somehow lost his drive and commitment to making new music. Who have thought it?

― snotty moore, Friday, 19 August 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

"Milkshake", Kelis

― Andrew Arana (aarana), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Taco's "Puttin' on the Ritz" gives this a slant by closing with what sounds like an old Victrola playing the song again from the refrain, to fade.

― Joe McCombs, Friday, 19 August 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

>A completely bizarre anomaly that I've rarely encountered in any other pop single

Y. Bhekhirst "Hot In The Airport" (album version)

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Goin |Up The Country by Canned Heat. If you time the crossfade right on iTunes and loop te track, the harmonics chime on top of each other and THE SONG NEVER ENDS!

― A.C.M.E. (A.C.M.E.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

Like half the songs on the Junior Senior album do this, not just "Move Your Feet". It used to bother me.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

clash - wrong 'em boyo
elvis presley - milkcow blues boogie

― xhuxk, Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Goin |Up The Country by Canned Heat. If you time the crossfade right on iTunes and loop te track, the harmonics chime on top of each other and THE SONG NEVER ENDS!

-- A.C.M.E. (acm...), August 25th, 2005.

oh man! this is the party for me! can you find out the match-up specs, acme?

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Why would anyone not want "Goin' Up the Country" to end? It's unlistenable only one time through, I don't see how repetition helps things.

― Joe McCombs, Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

"What's Mine is Yours" - Sleater-Kinney

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Why would anyone not want "Goin' Up the Country" to end? It's unlistenable only one time through, I don't see how repetition helps things.

-- Joe McCombs (workin...), August 25th, 2005.

whaaaaa? i could listen to this song over and over. i mean, i guess its overused to accompany woodstock descriptions/footage, but i dunno; it just feels fun and joyful. and it has a flute, etc.

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

The flute is not a selling point. Better off with "On the Road Again" all told. Some Canned Heat songs do never end - what's the longest one, 45 minutes?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

"Honour One Fyre" by Denny Lethargy & The Vertigo Buddhas.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

canned heat forever!

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Flipper, "Brainwash."

― mike a, Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

the strokes - the end has no end

― jermaine (jnoble), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Can't Truss It.

Bass in your face
Not an eight track
Gettin’ it good to the wood
So the people
Give you some a dat
Reactin’ to the fax
That I kick and it stick
And it stay around
Pointin’ to the joint, put the buddha down . . .

(And then)

Once again
Bass in your face
Not an eight track
Gettin’ it good to the wood
So the people
Give you some a dat
Reactin’ to the fax
That I kick and it stick
And it stay around
Pointin’ to the joint, put the buddha down . . .

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

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