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Woah, Boney M. A name I never expected to see on this forum.

Salut Tim! You bring back memories of the Tanx childhood! Tralala lala!

I once left "In on the killtaker" in my car stereo for about 9 months...the same thing happen with "Liar" and "Goat." I don't drive that much, but still...

tmidgett wrote:I have played various parts of the Anthology of American Folk Music over and over again.

Think we talked about this before, but I actually have trouble playing even one of those discs all the way through, without replaying several songs. It's just this incredible onslaught of primordial brilliance. Each song is like a perfectly realized nightmare. Taken in toto, it's like God describing a people's collective dream-life.

Difficult to talk about this record without resorting to hyperbole and overstatement.

JRLP/DT have a few songs like that- I'm thinking about 'Razorback' and his cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Our Mother the Mountain". 'Lamplighter' and the 'Pink Frost' cover from Customs are good ones, too.

That bit on Fugazi's 'Cassavetes' where it breaks down, used to play that one incessantly.

FMajcinek wrote:Think we talked about this before, but I actually have trouble playing even one of those discs all the way through, without replaying several songs. It's just this incredible onslaught of primordial brilliance. Each song is like a perfectly realized nightmare. Taken in toto, it's like God describing a people's collective dream-life.

Difficult to talk about this record without resorting to hyperbole and overstatement.

Could not agree more.

This past weekend, I heard one of my favorite Anthology tracks, Mississippi John Hurt's "Frankie," in my local cafe.

Mississippi John Hurt's calm graceful voice, combined with the ridiculously brilliant guitar playing he's doing...goddamn. It is so easy to see why people like Harry Smith and John Fahey, great artists in their own right, devoted their lives to these spectral beings.

Angus Jung wrote:This past weekend, I heard one of my favorite Anthology tracks, Mississippi John Hurt's "Frankie," in my local cafe.

Mississippi John Hurt's calm graceful voice, combined with the ridiculously brilliant guitar playing he's doing...goddamn. It is so easy to see why people like Harry Smith and John Fahey, great artists in their own right, devoted their lives to these spectral beings.

Some of the best acoustic guitar playing.

Is there anything else of his in this league? I have only ever heard stuff from when he was a 'dignified bluesman,' which is by nature not as good.

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And I have the 'Welcome back Cotter' theme in my head and thats starting to hurt. -Bastards, are ruining my childhood memories by attaching them to some f'n product.

And another with the JRLP/DT. Most recently, "North and Annie-O," "When Will We Bury You?" and "Right Now." In the past, "Razorback," "At El Paso," and "Hope's Hit."

SKWM: "Dead Air" in particular gets this treatment, I think because it's a perfect ultra-short pop tune. It's like SKWM's "Outdoor Miner."

Dylan/Band from the Tree with Roots version of the Basement Tapes: "Ol' Roisen the Beau," "Tiny Montgomery," "I'm Not There," "All You Have to Do Is Dream (take 2)."

Sun Kil Moon's "Glenn Tipton," "Salvador Sanchez," and "Gentle Moon" have all gotten the replay treatment.

Jorge Ben's "Ponta De Lanca Africano"

Aphex Twin's "Jynweythek," "Nanou2," and "Iz-Us"

Autechre, "Eutow," "Bronchusevenmx24," "Rae," "444"

Papa M's "Up North Kids" and "Arundel"

Steve Reich's "Music for a Large Ensemble"

Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" (the song)

Dirty Three, "I Really Should've Gone Out Last Night"

And I'm sure more as I think of 'em.

Repeat offenders:

"Cops and Robbers" by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show (I listened to this song seven times--though not consecutively--the night I got the 45 in the mail)

"Lookin' In" by Bobbie Gentry (This song once made me cry twice in a row)

"Lend Us a Quid" by Humble Pie (I rarely listen to this song once)

"Rock and Roll Damnation" by AC/DC (I'll often listen to this song 3 or 4 times in a row upon first getting out on the highway)

"Some Say (I Got Devil)" by Melanie

These, however, are exceptions--it took me quite a while to think of them. It seems to me that listening to a song on repeat is something women do much more than men do. I know lots of women who say they'll put a song on repeat for an hour (or who made tapers back in the day of one song repeated over and over), but not so many men make mention of this. Am I right?

I am currently infatuated with Buckcherry's "Lit Up".

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