kevin:

I’m consistently most productive when there is a song I can listen to on repeat over and over. The problem is it’s rare to find a song I can do this with, so similar instances are few and far between. For the record the 55 play count is just from today, and it’s this song.

Yes, we had this exact conversation late Saturday night (coincidentally, ‘Fireflies’ was being played during the discussion; also can you believe frontman Adam Young claims to not have made any connection to The Postal Service and them? /tangent) and I talked about once listening to “The Skin of Your Yellow Country Teeth” for 8 hours on repeat nonstop as I finished writing my thesis. Other songs for me that I have listened on repeat, in the last couple years, that I can recall at the moment (a by no means complete list) also includes:

• Love in This Club

• Just Like Me

• Whatever You Like

• I’m Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend To Dance

• Clark Gable

• Wasted and Ready

For me, it’s the rhythm, driving beat, that keeps me on task.