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It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)

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Re: It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)

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Post by copperx »

pawsforthought wrote: post #56
bigiain wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Can't abide hearing the same stuff repeatedly. It depends. Sometimes I'm doing "critical listening" and I'll repeat the same song many times carefully examining the interplay between instruments, vocals, effects, rhythms, whatever - and intentionally re listening to it over and over so I can concentrate on one specific interplay each time through. Sometimes I'm just drowning out next doors power tools of vacuum cle…

The thought alone of playing Dark Side Of The Moon on shuffle makes me shudder. Why anyone would butcher albums that way is beyond me. Even my own playlists (of electronic music, which doesn’t tend to be released as albums) very quickly attain a ‘canonical’ order to my own ear. It’s jarring when the anticipation of the next track is disrupted.

While I agree and feel the same jarring effect when listening to songs outside their album context, I've accepted that as the past of commercial music. The present and future lies on listening to singles.

Re: It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)

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Post by tsimionescu »

Transfinity wrote: post #17

Semi professional musician here. Repetition goes way beyond what the author mentions: - Most music is highly repetitive, often recycling 2 or 3 short segments (chorus, verse) with minor variations to fill out a whole song. Coltrane is known for his avant-garde composition, and even he repeats (often on a much smaller scale than a pop tune). - The work of being a musician is repetitive. Learning (memorizing) songs tak…

> Most music is highly repetitive, often recycling 2 or 3 short segments (chorus, verse) with minor variations to fill out a whole song. Coltrane is known for his avant-garde composition, and even he repeats (often on a much smaller scale than a pop tune).

I'll note that a pop music current that has, I think, even less repetition than someone like Coltrane was the Progressive Rock genre, especially the originals in the early 1970s. Bands like Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant - they were all producing 10-20 minute songs that used repetition sparingly, instead of relying on a typical verse-chorus-verse structure. Not exclusively, mind, but each had quite a few, typically as centerpieces of their albums.

Re: It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)

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Post by senorqa »

Back in the day, together with my friend we played this trance tune on repeat for straight 5 days at the office :) both of us remember of this till this day and occasionally I play it for 10 or 15 times on repeat to honour that week :) James Holden & Julie Thompson (Nothing 93 returning mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD8cRAjFB1w

Re: It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)

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Post by creativenolo »

NonNefarious wrote: post #57

Sadly, the enjoyment of popular music has been so decimated by dynamic compression that I rarely repeat a song mastered (or, heaven forbid, "remastered") since the mid-'90s. What should be very catchy music is now a fatiguing wall of noise that you just don't want assaulting your eardrums any more.

I often wondered what the term / production technique was, and "dynamic compression" it is.

Makes me think of Oasis records from the early 90s that were mastered to be the loudest sounding songs on the pub jukebox, and they were, then.

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Post by ehnto »

joebob42 wrote: post #48

I'm terrified of this. I've no idea why, but if I hear a song too many times in a couple day period I have a night of fever dreaming where I wake up over and over again to the song in my head. It's like my brain has over conditioned the pathway for that song and as soon as it starts trying to dream it falls into it and the dream breaks and I wake up. It happens to me a couple times a year and when I hear any of the s…

I hope you never have to work retail, they often have the same approved songs on repeat all day.

I worked at a gym, and to this day, there are songs I don't even like that pop up in my head. 3 years of hearing them every day just about drove me spare.

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Post by frosted-flakes »

hiccuphippo wrote: post #60

And then there's this. People making 10 hour long videos of the same song on repeat: https://youtu.be/4T0QUdQu7RY https://youtu.be/xm3YgoEiEDc It must be a challenge or something.

I don't know why these exist, because YouTube does have a loop function.

Re: It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)

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Post by jmiskovic »

I'm opposite; more than one hearing of same song per day and something inside gets triggered. Books, movies, shows, I need to wait something like two years before I can enjoy them again. My mind for some reason dislikes repetition. For background music I put on chill-hop which has a lot repetition inside individual songs but the live stream doesn't repeat tracks.

I've noticed than my enjoyment in any song peaks at around 3rd or 4th listening. After that I can enjoy a (good) song for hundred more times but it will never exceed that feeling of familiarity combined with freshness.

I tried putting the "Impressions" track on loop for 20 mins. It's a great melody and quite engaging listen, but I was distracted each time the song jarringly looped back to beginning.

Re: It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)

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Post by rmbyrro »

jmiskovic wrote: post #78

I'm opposite; more than one hearing of same song per day and something inside gets triggered. Books, movies, shows, I need to wait something like two years before I can enjoy them again. My mind for some reason dislikes repetition. For background music I put on chill-hop which has a lot repetition inside individual songs but the live stream doesn't repeat tracks. I've noticed than my enjoyment in any song peaks at ar…

The dopamine release diminishes the more you repeate.

People who enjoy repetition (in this context) are maybe doing that more as a calm or focus mediator, rather than pleasure.

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Post by qikInNdOutReply »

jmiskovic wrote: post #78

I'm opposite; more than one hearing of same song per day and something inside gets triggered. Books, movies, shows, I need to wait something like two years before I can enjoy them again. My mind for some reason dislikes repetition. For background music I put on chill-hop which has a lot repetition inside individual songs but the live stream doesn't repeat tracks. I've noticed than my enjoyment in any song peaks at ar…

This would indicate that your pattern storage and recognition of songs lasts up too two years. Given a songs "unique" data density, and your listening habbits, we could computate the storage capacity of music in your brain, until brain internal compression degrades the recognition to nil.

Lets find out how many terrabytes of you are made of this. Who m i to disagree, i travell the world and the 7 seas..

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