Repetune - Songs in our head
The songs that get stuck in our heads.
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- John Lennon - Instant Karma
Listen to 30 seconds In honor of the man’s birthday (he would have been 67 today), Repetune offers a Lennon tune. It’s probably one of his more famous, and hey, it doesn’t have the word “Yoko” in the title, so it’s a pretty good selection. Is it an earworm? Hell yeah. Practically every song Lennon wrote is [...]
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:20:31 +0000 - Lucinda Williams - Lake Charles
“You are the music while the music lasts.” - T.S. Eliot Enveloped in the dampness of early morning evergreens, parked on a service road somewhere in the hills southwest of San Jose, California, I arose from partial sleep in the shotgun seat of a delivery truck, and Lake Charles was playing from a boombox wedged between the windshield and [...]
Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:07:55 +0000 - Daft Punk - Da Funk
I was hesitant to orginally write about this track, but decided it had to be discussed because this song is not only a repetune, but repetitive. And though one tends to call repetition annoying in music, in dance music it is commonplace, and in electronic music, it is practically definition. For 5:28, the same basic riff [...]
Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:11:20 +0000 - Oasis - Live Forever
Considered early on as Beatles rip-offs, the Gallaghers, turn to another rock band of note, The Rolling Stones, with Live Forever. The lyric “May the good Lord shine a light on you,” from Shine a Light, became Maybe I don’t really want to know. which opens the song. In an issue of Blender, Creation Records boss refers [...]
Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:08:10 +0000 - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Ice Cream Man (live)
Listen to the first 48 seconds Speaking of songs with compositional links to the 1950s, tonight I turn attention to a piece of music that utilizes the time-tested C-A-F-G melodic progression. The differentiation is this - as with Holiday Road, this song was released much after the era of its inspiration - 1977, to be exact. [...]
Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:52:48 +0000 - Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road
Listen to the first 30 seconds Great road songs create the illusion of motion and being hardwired to a culture that lives and dies by the automobile. For me, Steppenwolf recreates 1975. The Ronettes take it a decade further back. Holiday Road, a song written in 1983, achieves the distinction of placing me in suburban 1958. Somehow, [...]
Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:45:38 +0000 - Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street is to the air saxophone as Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water is to the air guitar. Undoubtedly, there are more than a few songs featuring saxaphones, but none of them have ever made me want to play the air saxophone. This is no small feat, I imagine. Although I have many [...]
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:09:21 +0000 - Manu Chao - Bongo Bong
Listen to the first 30 seconds It starts innocuously enough. An electronic chime, similar to the one used to alert Kmart shoppers of the hour’s great deal, peals staccato to announce the beginning of a bar of music. Repeated roughly 88 times during the song, that chime becomes the very bane of my ears, creating an environment in which [...]
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:04:29 +0000 - Sparks - This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us
Listen to the first 30 seconds This song has the honor of being the first song honored, or dishonored as the case may be, on this site. This song manages to pop into my head during drives, more than anything. I have a 90 minute commute and the song matches the scenery far more than it [...]
Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:35:03 +0000
