10 Songs We’ve Put On Repeat
It’s the mysterious second click of the repeat button in iTunes that can at times trigger outrage, but sometimes… we peak around the corner to see if anyone is within an earshot. Why? Because we’re about to put a song on single song repeat, and we’re kinda embarrassed by it.
Most people are embarrassed by it at least, but the AssaultBLOG team has decided to come clean, (really, uncomfortably clean) and spill the beans on songs they’ve put on repeat for hours on end.
Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling (Third World Timmy)
You know you tell your friends you can’t stand this song, but we alllllll know you listen to it every morning. At least I do. Don’t judge.
Papa Roach – Last Resort (Third World Timmy)
I remember the first time I heard this song and caught a glimpse of the video on MTV. I honestly thought it was Blink182 and sort of dismissed it–but to my own personal dismay I couldn’t get enough of it. I booted up Winamp, dialed up my 56k modem in to what I believe was search.warez.com at the time, and put this song on repeat, for at least 4 hours.
Kelly Clarkson – Since You Been Gone (Mr. 51%)
She’s a good singer, and I especially enjoy A Day To Remember’s heavy metal cover of this song. It almost makes me forget altogether that I like a song by a girl who doesn’t write her own songs and won a reality tv show.
[Any number of Kelly Clarkson songs...I started with 'Since You Been Gone' but once i got the CD I would isolate every single track for weeks at a time until I memorized the lyrics. (Oswald Hobbes IV)]
Wow, that’s embarrassing–but I share the sentiments about Since You Been Gone.
[The above was written by Timmy, so I take no part in it.... Except the part about rockin' my ass off to this song. Shit's so good. I even sing it in falsetto for effect. (Mr. 51%)]
Nelly Furtado – I Am Like A Bird (Mr. 51%)
It’s remarkable how blatantly feminine the normally manly Mr. 51%’s musical tastes are–at least when it comes to songs he decides to listen to for hours on end that is.
[Again, Tim putting words in my mouth. In fact, I recall several a car trips in the 10th grade, when Tim and I would go to Oberweis Dairy rocking out to this FANTASTIC tune. This chick amazes me...at least on this song. The others can suck it. (Mr. 51%)]
[I"m going to back Mr. 51% up here. When we were in high school, one of our friends worked at the local Wal-Mart retail center and he would periodically hook us up with schwag. While I always used the opportunity to go home with cool shit (such as a "Bring It On" DVD and the second Soulfly CD), TWTimmy boosted a copy of Nelly Furtado's debut record so he could bang this song while cruising Algonquin and the surrounding townships in his Dodge Intrepid. Consider yourself outed, dog! (OH4)]
Coolio – Gangster’s Paradise (Oswald Hobbes IV)
Definitely. Gangsta.
[I get a lot of shit for this one from my lady friend - I liked to team this up on a playlist with Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and put that playlist on repeat while I got ready in the morning when I lived in North Dakota. This is how I would get myself psyched up enough to attend Saturday morning staff meetings when it was -40 with the wind chill. That's how pumped up you will get. You will not feel the weather; when Coolio is spitting game this tight directly into your tender earhole, weather does not exist. (OH4)]
Toto – Africa (Oswald Hobbes IV)
Best sung during karaoke, with four drunken fraternity brothers.
[I was never in a fraternity or anything like that, but I did get into this song while four burly drunk dudes were serenading Third World Timmy's Halloween party with it a few years ago. It's such a gentle, sensitive song, but it's got that epic feel to it - you can't help but hole up with a bottle of Black Velvet whiskey and a pack of Kool Milds in your grandfather's study and just let the crystalline melody wash over you for hours on end. (OH4)]
Thin Lizzy – Whiskey in the Jar (Oswald Hobbes IV)
This one’s not really “embarrassing,” per se, but a little weird.
[For the record, I got no use for Metallica's cover of this; the original is way more intense. This was never a track suited for Metallica's ham-fisted approach; listen to the gentle sprays of guitar at the beginning, the liquid central riff, Phil Lynott's cracked and vulnerable singing. This is a masterpiece of precision, both technical and emotional. To this day I have no idea what the fuck it means, but that's okay, because I feel the meaning in my heart-penis. (OH4)]
Everclear – Everything to Everyone (Oswald Hobbes IV)
Also, the entire “Sparkle and Fade” album.
[I used to call Q101 twenty times an hour requesting Everclear songs. I could not get enough. Then I turned twelve. (OH4)]
New Radicals – Get What You Give (Oswald Hobbes IV)
..Or whatever that one song was, it was in the commercial for every movie in 1999.
[This was my jam freshman year of school, and then I got really heavily into gangsta rap and the concept of "emotion" became really passe. I downloaded the entire album a year ago while I was really drunk and, guess what? It's an underrated classic on par with the first Gin Blossoms record. (OH4)]
Fall Out Boy – Carpal Tunnel of Love (Oswald Hobbes IV)
It’s like my favorite song.
The Raveonettes – Love in a Trashcan (Mr. 51%)
[I was working at an O'Reilly's Auto Parts in Texas when I first heard this sweet tune. Mrs. 51% always threatens to withhold boo-tay when I listen to this one on repeat, but I CAN'T HELP THAT IT'S AWESOME!!!! Besides, she can't resist this. Noone can. (Mr. 51%)]
Richard Harris – Macarthur Park (Mr. 51%)
This song is horrible. The lyrics are horrible. But I have over 5 versions on my iTunes and they are all in my “Most Played” list… maybe I should shut up now?
[I prefer the "Weird" Al version, and it's not just because I'm huge, totally unapologetic "Jurassic Park" fan. But can we also get some love for Donna Summer's discofied cover? Because that also rocks. And how are the lyrics horrible? Leaving a cake out in the rain is, I'm sure, a great metaphor for something. (OH4)]
Mr. 51% guilty pleasure honorable mentions are Rick Astley, Weird Al, Tori Amos, Vengaboys, and The Veronica’s.
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