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  • DJ Snake's "Turn Down For What", courtesy of Lil' Jon. The only lyrics are "FIRE UP THAT LOUD, ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOTS" and the Title Drop, both of which are repeated numerous times.
  • I got soul, but I'm not a soldier. I got soul, but I'm not a soldier. I got soul, but I'm not a soldier.
  • MGMT's Kids from Oracular Spectacular repeats the chorus six times. The song only has two verses.
  • "We got repetition in the music and we're never gonna lose it..."
  • The Dollyrots's "Rock Control" goes on for a while. "Oh just try to scream along / This is not rock & roll / It's rock control / Oh just try to scream along / This is not rock & roll / It's rock control / Oh just try to scream along / This is not rock & roll / It's rock control..."
  • Iron Maiden's "The Angel and The Gambler" ends with ten repetitions of the chorus. In the same album, "Don't Look to the Eyes of a Stranger".
  • Feed the fire. Break your vision. Throw your fists up. Come on with me. Feed the fire. Break your vision. Throw your fists up. Come on with me. Feed the fire. Break your vision. Throw your fists up. Come on with me. Feed the fire. Break your vision. Throw your fists up. Come on with me. Feed the fire. Break your vision. Throw your fists up. Come on with me. Feed the fire. Break your vision. Throw your fists up. Come on with me. Feed the fire. Break your vision. Throw your fists up. Come on with me. Feed the fire. Break your vision. Throw your fists up. Come on with me.
  • "I gotta feeling / That tonight is gonna be a good night / That tonight's gonna be a good good night / That tonight's gonna be a good good night / That tonight's gonna be a good good night / That tonight's gonna be a good good night / That tonight's gonna be a good good night / That tonight's gonna be a good good night / That tonight's gonna be a good good night / That tonight's gonna be a good good night / That tonight's gonna be a good good night / That tonight's gonna be a good good night / That tonight's gonna be a good good night…
    • Imma Be, Imma Be, Imma Imma Imma Be / Imma Be, Imma Be, Imma Imma Imma Be / Imma Be, Imma Be, Imma Imma Imma Be ... (repeat ad nauseum; Todd in the Shadows pointed out the Title Drop happens 106 times, and that by the time he finished his review he would have listened to the phrase "Infinity times five times")
  • Brazilian band Los Pirata has the song "Nada". The lyrics are roughly:
    Nada, nada, nada, nada, nada, nada, nada, nada, nada, nada, nada... en mi corazón! ("nothing in my heart")
  • In Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine": "I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know..."
    • That was a Throw It In!, oddly enough: Withers couldn't think of a way to transition between the verse and chorus, so he went for repetition.
  • We all know, yeah we all know, we all know, we all know, we all know we all know we all know we all know we all know, we all know, we all know, we all know. (Genesis, "Who Dunnit?")
  • Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks"
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
    You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
  • Several examples from The Beatles:
    • The last three minutes and seven seconds of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is the same six-note guitar riff. Over and over again. Until of course, the riff cuts off in the middle.
    • "Number nine, number nine, number nine..."
    • Both "Wild Honey Pie" and "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?", which are short bursts of looping lyrics.
    • "Blue Jay Way" has a lot of "Please don't be long" and "don't be long" in it!
    • The secret "Inner Groove" track, if played as originally intended, will be this. Good thing auto-return was invented...
    • Na na na na na na na, na na na na, hey Jude...
    • The last part of "Tomorrow Never Knows". Of the beginning, of the beginning, of the beginning...
    • "The End" has "Love You" a total of twenty-four times, but it doesn't count because the guitar solo changes.
  • Many Armand Van Helden songs, eg "The Funk Phenomena", "The Ultraphunkula", and "The Witch Doktor", as well as his remixes, such as those of Tori Amos' "Professional Widow" and CJ Bolland's "Sugar is Sweeter".
  • Daft Punk's "Around The World" (whose only lyric is the title!), "Phoenix", "Get Lucky" etc. A lot of electronic music is based around repetition; it's just that Daft Punk is one of the few well-known acts that incorporates lyrics into theirs.
  • They Might Be Giants's "Ana Ng": "Everything sticks like a broken record, everything sticks like a broken record, everything sticks..." Lampshade, anyone?
    • Even after the lyrics break out of the loop, the notes for "a broken record" repeat one more time for good measure.
  • The MK remix of Nightcrawlers - "Push The Feeling On" chops up the vocals from the original and reassembles them into a Scatting loop. "Ir, their lives again ir, their lives to pull us" ad nauseam. It's a wonder this version was more popular.
  • There's actually an entire song that was built on this very trope: "This is the song that doesn't end/Yes it goes on and on my friend/Some people started singing it not knowing what it was/And they'll continue singing it forever just because/This is the song that doesn't end..."
    • And the Animaniacs version: "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves. Everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves. And this is how it go-o-oes."
  • David Bowie: The end of "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family", which closes out the album with nothing but "Brotbrotbrotbrotbrotbrotbrotbrotbrotbrotbrotbrotbrotbrotbrotbrotbrot". It was a technical gaffe that Bowie liked enough to leave in, and the effect was replicated in later live performances.
    • And don't forget "Little Wonder"
      Sending me so far away, so far away, so far away, so far away, so far away, so far away, so far away, so far away, so far away, so far away, so far away, so, so far away, so far away, so far away, so far away, so, so far away
  • Linkin Park's "Little Things Give You Away" and "Hands Held High" both have the last chorus repeated for over a minute...
  • Deep Purple had a tendency of sounding like this back in the old days. Especially during songs like "Black Night", "Hush" or "Smoke On The Water", where they could easily keep the same riff going for over 10 minutes and just jamming to that...
  • The Who's The Who Sell Out end groove is an almost endless repeat of "Trackrecordstrackrecordstrackrecords", the name of their British label.
  • Pick a Rage Against the Machine song, any Rage Against the Machine song... ("Killing in the Name of" has downright two repeated phrases, "You better do what they told ya!" and "FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO AS YOU TELL ME!)
  • Some artists do/did this intentionally on vinyl editions of their album by ending their albums with a locked groove, which causes a part of a song to repeat indefinitely until the listener stops the record if their turntable lacks an auto-stop/return mechanism. As a couple of examples, Pink Floyd did this on Atom Heart Mother, looping the end of "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" with the sound of dripping tap water. The infinity symbol of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's first album F♯A♯∞, comes from the infinite loop at the end of the second side of the disc.
    • Beck's "A Western Harvest By Moonlight" has an infinite runout groove entitled "Styrofoam Chicken (Quality Time)" that is only about a second long, but is looped forever. The only way to stop is to literally lift the needle off the record.
    • The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ends with Studio Chatter. It's quite disturbing.
    • Heaven 17's debut, Penthouse and Pavement, ends its last track, "We're Going To Live for a Very Long Time", with an infinite loop of the lyric "for a very long time".
  • Vocaloid Miku's song "Wide Knowledge of the Late, Madness". Watashi watashi watashi watashi watashi...
  • Nirvana's most glorious example is "Sliver" (49 repetitions of "Grandma take me Home! Grandma take me home!"). But many of their songs feature repeated phrases - most times, increasing the shrieking on each one.
    • Kurt Cobain seemed to love this trope. He used it regularly from his early work right up until his last song "You Know You're Right".
  • Marilyn Manson: "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed..."
  • One of the S4 League soundtracks has a funky remix of "Super Sonic". It goes something like this:
    Go let's go let's go let's SUPASO
    Go let's go let's go let's SUPASO
    Go let's go let's go let's SUPASO
    Go let's go let's go let's SUPERSONIC
    SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC
    SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC SUPERSONIC
  • The John Lennon song "John Sinclair" has the line:
    What else can the judges do?
    Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
    gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
    gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
    gotta, gotta, gotta set him free
  • The intro track of Orbital's second album:
    There is the theory of the Moebius, a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop, where time becomes a loop, where time becomes a loop, where time becomes a loop...
    • The outro track does likewise with "Input translation (Output rotation)."
    • At the beginning and end of "Planet of the Shapes" from the same album, "Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day. Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day. Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day. Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day."
  • Da da da-da da da "Feel good ...". They do like this trope and looped their lyrics at least over a half of their early albums.
    • WHITE LIGHT! Du dum, du dum, du dum, du dum WHITE LIGHT! Du dum, du dum, du dum, du dum WHITE LIGHT...
    • Welcome to the Plastic Beach. Welcome to the Plastic Beach. Welcome to the Plastic Beach. Welcome to the Plastic Beach.
    • A notable example is "Clint Eastwood", which ends with almost a full minute of 'My future is coming on, is coming on, is coming on, is coming on, is coming on, is coming on..' repeated over and over.
  • Metric has an interesting take with "Hustle Rose"
    Behold the fishnet slut tonight
    Hustle Rose goes from limb to limb
    Fingertip to painted lip she sways her way up to him
    Says, "Now that your wallet is all lit up
    Now that your wallet is all lit up
    Now that your wallet is all lit up
    Now that your wallet is all lit up
    Now that your wallet is all lit up
    Now that your wallet is all lit up
    Now that your wallet is all lit up
    Now that your wallet is all lit up
    Now that your wallet is all lit up
    You're gonna wanna wear it out?"
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Give It Away," from their album Blood Sugar Sex Magik. It repeats the title no less than 68 times during the entire song, yet it's considered their Signature Song (alongside "Under the Bridge," from the same album).
  • Fatboy Slim:
    • What Fatboy Slim is doing In Heaven.
    • "The Rockafeller Skank", in addition to the repeated "Funk Soul Brother" sample throughout the song, ends with "rararararararararararararararara..." to fool the listener into thinking the CD is skipping.
    • Many of his songs, such as "Ya Mama" and "Slash Dot Dash".
    • "Just Another Groove" from Norman Cook's early project The Mighty Dub Katz: "I think that we should get back together -gether -gether -gether -gether -gether -gether -gether -gether -gether -gether..."
  • Devo:
    • "Are we not men?" "We are Devo!" "Are we not men?" "We are Devo!" "Are we not men?" "We are Devo!" "Are we not men?" "We are Devo!" "We must repeat!" "D-E-V-O!" "We must repeat!" "D-E-V-O!" "We must repeat!" "D-E-V-O!" "We must..." Best part? They once managed to keep this one going for about a half hour at a live show. But that point the whole audience was just about ready to storm the scene and beat them senseless.
    • Referencing The Rolling Stones: "And I'm trying to make some girl, who tells me baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby..."
  • Zac Brown Band, "Free": - "No, we don't have a lot of money / No, we don't have a lot of money / No, we don't have a lot of money / No, we don't have a lot of money / No, we don't have a lot of money / No, we don't have a lot of money / No, we don't have a lot of money..."
  • Milli Vanilli is the Trope Codifier of this: it was a skipping CD that instantly destroyed their lip-syncing career. Girl you know it's- Girl you know it's- Girl you know it's- Girl you know it's-
  • On KISS Alive II, the song "Shout It Out Loud" ends with fans chanting "We Want Kiss!" over and over. Listen closely and you can tell the chant is a tape loop.
  • These New Puritans. In practically every song they have written, at least one lyric is repeated at least four times.
  • Michael W. Smith's "Let It Rain" from his Worship album almost falls into this trope with the single repeated line "let it rain, let it rain, open the floodgates of heaven", with the exception of a spoken interlude taken from Psalm 97:1-6.
  • Another worship song: "Set a fire down in my soul that I can't contain, that I can't control. I want more of You, God. I want more of You, God." That's it for the whole song.
  • "This is the story of a young heart, this is the story of a young heart,..."
  • The Sisters of Mercy "Heartland", "This Corrosion", and "
  • An instrumental example: "The Guilty" from DJMAX Technika 2. TAN TAN TAN! TAN TAN TAN! TAN TAN TAN! TAN TAN TAN!
  • "Barack Obama" by Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles was the first verse of "LSF" by Kasabian scored for strings and percussion with the lyrics replaced with the words "Barack Obama" repeated over and over. He would challenge both guests and the people that worked on the show to sing along to this. When he released his album The Parody Album, this song was included, except it had been re-scored for full orchestra. Oh, and the album version isn't just the first verse. It's the full track. That's three minutes singing nothing but "Barack Obama".
  • "Na na-na-na-na na-na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na na-na-na-na"
    • My Chemical Romance's aptly-titled "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)" opens by repeating the syllable "na" forty-three times.
  • The Police do this all the time. I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing, I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing...
    I'll send an SOS to the world, I'll send an SOS to the world, I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle, message in a bottle...
    Sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.S, sending out an S.O.— blue.
  • 850 Double Pumper Holley, 850 Double Pumper Holley, 850 Double Pumper Holley...
  • TV on the Radio does this at the end of a song appropriately titled "Repetition".
  • In "Whip My Hair", Willow Smith repeats the phrase "I whip my hair back and forth" 70 times.
  • Radiohead's "Sit Down, Stand Up" ends with Thom Yorke singing the phrase "The raindrops" 46 times in a row.
  • "WHEN IT'S TIME TO PARTY WE WILL ALWAYS PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD! PARTY HARD!"
  • Electric Six's "Nuclear War (On The Dance Floor)" features the line "You're a pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty girl!". The lyric is a Shout-Out to "Beast of Burden" by The Rolling Stones, but it feels more repetitive than the equivalent section of the Stones song, since the music starts looping along with the lyrics, until the word "girl" comes in.
  • The final minute and a half of Mr. Bungle's "My Ass Is On Fire" (not counting a Spoken Word in Music coda) is Mike Patton screaming "Redundant!" in increasingly screechy tones. "Egg" does much the same with "there's no place like home"
  • B-B-Big Sean, b-boy how big is you? Gimme all yo money and gimme all yo residuals then slap it on my ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass ass
  • Why does my heart feel so bad? Why does my soul feel so bad? Why does my heart feel so bad? Why does my soul feel so bad? Why does my heart feel so bad? Why does my soul feel so bad?
  • The Buzzcocks' "I Believe" spends its final three minutes on Pete Shelley repeatedly singing "There is no love in this world anymore!" in an increasingly agitated manner.
  • Parry Gripp does this a lot. Often his songs contain no other lyrics than one word or phrase repeated again and again.
  • Van Morrison was a frequent user.
    • "You breathe in you breathe out you breathe in you breathe out you breathe in you breathe out..."
    • "The love that loves to love to love that loves to love that loves to love..."
    • "Dry your eyes your eyes your eyes your eyes..."
  • The John Hartford song "Don't Leave Your Records In The Sun" mimics the result perfectly: "They just won't play just won't play just won't play just won't play just won't play just won't play just won't play just won't play..."
  • The Avalanches: "Etoh". The titular vocal sample is repeated through much of the song in different pitches. Despite that, it still manages to be a pretty good song.
  • George Harrison's version of "Got My Mind Set on You", which led to the "Weird Al" Yankovic parody "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long."
  • Andy Kaufman performs "I Trusted You."
  • Billy Joel uses some of this on the last line before each chorus in "Movin' Out". Thankfully the song only has three verses.
    Yeah, but workin' too hard can give you a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack. You oughta know by know, you oughta know by now.
  • The Dresden Dolls' "Coin Operated Boy" mimics an actual broken record in one of the verses "And I'll never be alone, and I'll never let him go, and I'll never be alone-go - and I'll never be alone-go - and I'll never be alone-go - and I'll never be alone-go..." Amanda Palmer does that in concert too, in a way that's fitting for a song about an automaton.
  • "Feliz Navidad". Dear god, "Feliz Navidad". The entire song is composed of sixteen words repeated ad nauseam.
  • The Shudder To Think song "X-French Tee Shirt" ends with the sentence "Hold back the road that goes so that the others may too that you let me in just to pour me down their mouths" repeated nine times before it fades.
  • John Mayer: "Say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to say, say what you need to say..." One gets the feeling that the reason the girl he's singing it to isn't saying whatever it is she needs to say is that he won't shut up long enough to let her.
  • The last part of "Low Rider" by War..
    Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip, with me... take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip, with me.
  • The outro of Blur's song "Peach" is meant to replicate the effect of a broken record. "Da daaa, da daaa, da daaa..."
    • "Jets" has six words: "Jets are like comets at sunset." Over and over. For six and a half minutes.
  • Nine Inch Nails uses this trope in spades in "Copy Of A". Basically the first line of every verse is a broken record. "I am just a copy of a copy of a copy [...] assembled into something into something into something [...] I am just a shadow of a shadow of a shadow [...] I am just an echo of an echo of an echo..."
  • Vicious Pink's cover of "Great Balls of Fire" skips on the last note as if the record were scratched.
  • J-Electro act 80kidz gives us: "This Is My Shit, This Is My Shit, This Is My Shit..."
  • Lorde: "...and she'll send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out, send... the call out..." at the beginning of "Team".
  • Down Low's minimalist song "You Don't … How We Do" appears to be little more than a single measure that is repeated for a few minutes. At least one critic preferred it over the fan favorites.
  • Jerrod Niemann (Covered Up Sonia Dada), "Lover, Lover": Nearly half the song is "Lover, lover, lover, you don't treat me no good no more." Some of it is an ostinato sung (by mutliple vocal tracks, all Jerrod) under a different verse.
  • Nicki Minaj's "You A Stupid Hoe." Those are the only lyrics in the refrain, repeated ad nauseum.
  • Oneohtrix Point Never's Eccojams album (under the pseudonym Chuck Person) consists of sections of songs (often slowed down) being looped over and over again, such as "A7", a loop of Aphrodite's Child's "The Four Horsemen". Due to the looped sample-based nature of Vaporwave, many songs can sound like this if lyrics are involved, some even sounding like literal broken records, e.g. Macintosh Plus's "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー", the genre's Trope Codifier, is basically a series of slowed-down broken record loops sampled from Diana Ross's "It's Your Move".
  • Fall Out Boy's “Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On a Bad Bet”: Head like a steel trap/Wish I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't/I don't...
  • Chumbawamba's song "Ugh! Your Ugly Houses" just repeats "Ugh your ugly houses look so" throughout the entire thing.
  • Want a French example? Veteran rockeur Johnny Hallyday's 1980s hit "Je t'attends" penned by Jean Jacques Goldman:
    Je t'attends, je t'attends, je t'attends, je t'attends,
    Je t'attends, je t'attends, je t'attends, je t'attends,
    Tout le temps, tout le temps, tout le temps, chaque instant,
    Je t'attends, je t'attends, je t'attends
    Depuis si longtemps.

    (I've been waiting for you, I've been waiting for you, I've been waiting for you, I've been waiting for you, I've been waiting for you, I've been waiting for you, I've been waiting for you, I've been waiting for you, all the time, all the time, all the time, each moment, I've been waiting for you, I've been waiting for you, I've been waiting for you, for such a long long time!)
  • Phoenix's "Long Distance Call": "It's never been like that, it's never been like that, it's never been like that, it's never been like that, it's never been like that, it's never been like that, it's never been like that, it's never been like, I know!"
    • Similarly, "S.O.S. In Bel Air" goes, "Can't cross the line but you can't stop trying and you can't cross the line but you can't stop trying and you can't cross the line but you can't stop trying and you can't cross the line but you can't stop trying, can't cross the line but you can't stop trying and you can't cross the line but you can't stop trying and you can't cross the line but you can't stop trying and you can't cross the line but you can't stop trying..." It even spills over and overlaps with the chorus.
    • From the chorus of "Countdown:" "We're sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, we're sick for the big sun / We rumble and trip, trip, trip, trip, trip, trip, trip, I realize that too."
  • Mew's "The Zookeeper's Boy": "Are you my lady, are you my lady, are you, are you? My lady, are you, my lady are you, my lady are you, are you? My lady, are you, my lady are you, my lady are you, are you? My lady, are you, my lady are you, my lady are you, are you? My lady, are you, my lady are you, my lady are you, are you? My lady, are you, my lady are you, my lady are you, are you..."
  • "Everybody Loves Saturday Night." Made ten times worse by the fact that the lyrics repeat in multiple languages.
    Ev'rybody loves Saturday night.
    Ev'rybody loves Saturday night.
    Ev'rybody, ev'rybody, ev'rybody. ev'rybody,
    Ev'rybody loves Saturday night.
  • Pagan Muzak by industrial music pioneer NON is entirely built on this. It consists of a 7-inch, single sided record with 17 locked grooves that play loops of noise indefinitely.
  • "Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)" by Steam. The bridge-turned-final-chorus repeats the line "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye" at least 16 times (it fades in, and then out) over the course of two minutes out of the just-over-four-minute song. And The Other Wiki claims there's another version of the song that clocks in at six minutes and twenty seconds...
  • The New Pornographers have three songs that end in a similar fashion, "The Bleeding Heart Show" ("We have arrived... too late to play... the bleeding heart show"), "Testament to Youth in Verse" ("The bells ring no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no"), and "You Tell Me Where" ("You tell me where to be; I'll be there"). One review even compared "The Bleeding Heart Show" to "Hey Jude" in this respect.
  • Anthologies of children's songs can be particularly egregious offenders. So you've got 2-3 minutes of song to fill, but your verse is only 10 seconds long? No problem, just sing it again, and again, and again... No need for alternate verses or even variations in the music. Then repeat the process with more songs until your disc (or worse, multi-disc set) is full.
  • From the interlude in the Silencer song, "Slow Kill in the Cold": "I...I...I got blood on my hands...I...I...I got blood on my hands...I...I...I got blood on my hands". It even has a broken record scratch sound effect in between each time.
  • Mike Doughty seems to never tire of this. Pick any random Soul Coughing song and it's almost guaranteed to have a line or two repeated a ton of times. For example, the ending of "Houston" repeats "roller boogie motherfucker" twelve times while Fading into the Next Song.
  • The rock band Oasis have many songs that end with the lyrics repeating. This was especially the case on their album What's the Story (Morning Glory), for example: "Hello. Hello." "I think I got a feeling I'm lost inside! "Fade Away!." "You know what some might say." "Hey Now"
  • "We Found Love" by Calvin Harris and Rihanna:
    We found love in a hopeless place. We found love in a hooooopeless plaaaaaace. We found love in a hopeless place. We found love in a hoooopeless plaaaaaace.
  • The Smiths' "Panic" repeats "Hang the DJ" thirty-one times.
  • Scooter's "Space Cowboy:
    I'm the Cowboy. The Space Cowboy. I'm the Cowboy. The Space Cowboy. I'm the Cowboy. The Space Cowboy. I'm the Cowboy. The Space Cowboy. I'm the Cowboy. The Space Cowboy. I'm the Cowboy. The Space Cowboy. I'm the Cowboy. The Space Cowboy. I'm the Cowboy. The Space Cowboy.
  • Peter Presta & Little Carlos feat. Miss Honey Dijon: "Queen, I said 'Hello'. Queen, I said 'Hello?'. Queen, I said 'Helleo'. Queen, I said 'Hellio'. Queen, I said 'Hellooo?'."
  • Josh Wink's "Are You There?", "Don't Laugh" (one mix of which is an infinite loop on a locked groove), "How's Your Evening So Far?", etc.
  • Future Perfect's "Protect and Survive" ends with the repetition of the line "Like a sudden burst of energy".
  • The coda of Whigfield's "Saturday Night" just repeats the title over and over, occasionally alternating with "It's party time".
  • K. C. and the Sunshine Band have two notorious ones from the Disco era. "That's the Way I Like It" (uh huh, uh huh) and "(Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty" are not much more than the titles repeated over and over again for five minutes in the first case, three in the second.
  • The only lyrics of Blue Amazon's "No Other Love" are "There's- There's- There's- There's- There's no other love, no other love. There's no other love. There's no other love, no other love. There's no other love." From the same album, "Searching" has "the ground, the ground, the ground, the ground" and "searching, searching, searching, searching, searching, searching, searching...".
  • The last chorus of Xeno & Oaklander's "Palms" repeats "Symphony, by the sea. Tympanies and mythology." ad nauseam.
  • Cabin Crew's "Star to Fall", Sunset Strippers' "Falling Stars", and Mylo's "In My Arms" all sample the chorus of Boy Meets Girl's "Waiting for a Star to Fall" in this fashion.
  • Covenant:
    • "Shelter" loops a distorted sample of a nuclear bomb explosion throughout the song, following the intro that repeats the voice clip "The atom bomb explodes again!" many times.
    • "The Men" consists almost entirely of "Sheep among wolves/We are the men/Silent and strong/Beautiful eyes" repeated.
    • "Worlds Collide" similarly has a single repeating sentence for its lyrics.
  • Eric Prydz - "Call on Me" (Sampled Up from Steve Winwood - "Valerie"):
    Call on me, call me/Call on me, call me/Call on me, call me/Call on me, I'm the same boy I used to be (repeat)
  • Similarly, "So Much Love to Give" by Together (and the subsequent, more successful remix by the Freeloaders) takes a single line from "Love's Such a Wonderful Thing" by the Real Thing ("I've got so much love to give") and loops it endlessly over a dance beat, occasionally letting the sample finish with "...to you."
  • Lenny B.'s 11-minute dance remix of Jessica Simpson's "Where You Are" repeats the coda lyric "I still believe (x2)/ That I soon will be /Where you are" for most of the latter 5 minutes.
  • The breakdown of Trouser Enthusiast's "Sweet Release" repeats "Release me/ Release me/ And let me breathe again/ Release me/ Release me/ And let me live again" several times before breaking back into the chorus.
  • Darryl Rhoades and the Hahavishnu Orchestra made a deliberate send-up called "This Song is Boring." Guess what the lyrics are.
  • Lady Gaga's "Million Reasons" starts off repeating "Give me a million reasons" at the beginning, then later in the song repeats "One good" in the line "Give me one good reason to stay" to the point where you want to remove the needle (and forget that it's a CD).
  • Cece Peniston's "We Got A Love Thang," anyone? Constant repetition of the line "We got a love" and an endless stream of "yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah," ad nauseum.
  • "Rumour has it(ooooh). Rumour has it(ooooh). Rumour has it(ooooh). Rumour has it(ooooh). Rumour has it(ooooh). Rumour has it(ooooh)."(Adele)
  • George Kranz's lone hit "Din Daa Daa" is made of this trope: "Din Daa Daa, do do do. (Bah) Din Daa Daa, do do. Din Daa Daa, do do do. (Bah) Din Daa Daa, do do.Din Daa Daa, do do do. (Bah) Din Daa Daa, do do. Din Daa Daa, do do do. (Bah) Din Daa Daa, do do. (Bash!)Dum dum dum dum baedow. (Bash!)Dum dum dum dum baedow. (Bash!)Dum dum dum dum baedow.(Bash!)Dum dum dum dum baedow.(Bash!)Dum dum dum dum baedow. (Bash!)Dum dum dum dum baedow. (Bash!)Dum dum dum dum baedow.", etc.
  • The lyrics to CRW's "I Feel Love" (not to be confused with the Donna Summer hit) consist solely of the title repeated.
  • Lina Santiago's sole hit "Feels so Good (Show Me Your Love)" mostly alternates between repeating the title and the subtitle.
  • "Theme from S'Express" by S'Express has "I got the hots for you, boop boop b-boop bep b-bep ah ah," rinse and repeat.
  • M:G's "Aphrodisiac" has at least two long stretches of repeating the title.
  • The end of Tupac Shakur's "Tradin' War Stories" has him repeat the chorus until fade-out.
  • "Ladies' Night" by Kool & The Gang ends with a long repeat and fade of "This is your night, tonight. Everything's gonna be all right".
  • Planet Soul's only notable hit song, "Set U Free", opens with "Set you free, set you free, set you free, set you free, set you free, set you free, set you free, set you free. Come into my Planet Soul. Come into my Planet Soul. Come into my Planet Soul. Come into my Planet Soul." Then during the slowdown, "Do it to me now. Do it to me now. Do it to me now. Do it to me now. Ecstasy. Ecstasy. Ecstasy. Ecstasy."
  • The second half of Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke" is almost nothing but "You can feel it all over, you can feel it all over, people" ad nauseam.
  • The Tamperer featuring Maya:
    • "Feel It" has "What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her? What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her? What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her? What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?"
    • "If you buy this record, your life will be better, your life will be better, your life will be better. If you buy this record, your life will be better, if you buy, if you buy, if you buy. Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fabulous."
  • Cheech & Chong's "Basketball Jones" from Los Cochinos has "Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones, oh baby, ooh ooh ooh" repeated over and over.
  • Bizarre Inc.'s 1992 house hit "I'm Gonna Get You" predominantly repeats either "Why waste your time? You know you're gonna be mine. You know you're gonna be mine. You know you're gonna be mine." or "I'm gonna get you, baby. I'm gonna get you, yes I am!".
  • "No, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, there's No Limit!", repeat. (2 Unlimited)
  • A 50s cowboy songs album's rendition of "Buffalo Gals" did it for comedic effect.
    Buffalo gals buffalo gals buffalo gals
    Nope, the record ain't stuck.
  • The chorus of "Dancing in the Sky" by Shanya is nothing but repetitions of the line "Now I just think you're dancing in the sky".
  • "The Emergence" by Protonic Storm AKA Krzyszstof Radomski ends with a simulated Repetitive Audio Glitch before the Fade Out.
  • Rob Zombie's "Dragula (Hot Rod Herman Remix)" has "I can never die. I can never die. I can never die., I can never die. I can never die. I can never die. I can never die. Iiiiiii caaaaaan neeeeeeeever diiiiiiiiiiiiiiie".
  • Dead or Alive's "Something in My House": "I! I! I-I-I-I-I! I! I! I-I-I-I-I! I! Am! Being! Haunted!"
  • "Absurd" by Fluke: "Anybody with a heart votes 'Love'. Anybody with a heart votes 'Love'. Anybody with a heart votes 'Love'. Anybody with a heart votes 'Love'. Anybody with a heart votes 'Love'. Anybody with a heart votes 'Love'."
  • "I wanna wanna wanna wanna wanna wanna wanna wanna wanna wanna wanna wanna Leave You Far Behind", by Lunatic Calm.
  • Caravan's "Jack and Jill" has a part with "fell... fell... fell..." repeated. To add to it, the instrumental backing repeats on a heavily syncopated beat, giving the section an unusual rhythm not unlike an actual broken record.
  • Soft Machine have "We Did It Again", with the repetitive nature of the song implied by the title– though contrary to the title, the repeated (and only) lyric is "I did it again".
  • Nearly all of Apollo 440's songs exhibit this trope, e.g. "Can't stop. The rock. Can't stop the rock... Come get down and dirty baby. Come get down and dirty baby..."
  • Falco invoked this in the chorus of "Rock Me Amadeus".
  • Metallica's "All Within My Hands" closes out the St. Anger album out with James Hetfield shouting, "Kill!" about 38 times in a row.
  • Cedric Gervais' "Do It Tonight" has the refrain "Baby, we can do it, take the time, do it right, we can do it, baby / Do it tonight / baby, we can do it, take the time, do it right, we can do it, baby" repeated over and over so much it will make your head a-splode.
  • "Versace" by Migos, in its entirety. This is the chorus:
    Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace
    Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace
    Versace Versace, Versace Versace, Versace
    Versace Versace, Versace Versace, Versace
    Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace
    Versace Versace, Versace Versace, Versace
    Versace Versace, Versace Versace, Versace
    Versace Versace, Versace Versace
    • They also say "Versace" numerous times throughout the verses - in total, they say it 163 times in the song!
  • Altered Images' "Happy Birthday" ends by repeating the title sixteen times.
  • The titular finale track of Freaky Chakra's Blacklight Fantasy album ends with the Album Title Drop("This is a Blacklight Fantasy") repeated ad nauseam along with a Fake-Out Fade-Out. Said album also has "Fascist Funk"("This. Is. the Force. Of Future. Funk. This. Is. The. Force. Of Fascist. Funk.") and "Living in the Future"("I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't think so.").
  • Public Image Ltd.'s "This Is Not a Love Song" repeats the title 23 times throughout the lyrics.
  • Chocolate Milk's "Blue Jeans" repeats the title 66 times throughout.
  • Mariya Takeuchi's "Plastic Love" is a traditional verse/chorus structure repeated twice in the first five minutes, until the title kicks in, and the new chorus closes out the song seven times in the remaining two minutes. It helps in an otherwise Japanese track that it's sung in English.
    I'm just playing games,
    I know that's plastic love
    Dance to the plastic beat,
    Another morning comes...
  • The Isley Brothers' "Shout" repeats the line "(Shout) a little bit softer now" 17 times in a row, followed by repeating "(Shout) a little bit louder now" 12 times.
  • The Playmates' "While the Record Goes Around" begins with "When the rec-(click) when the rec-(click) when the rec-(click) when the record goes around", imitating a broken record. The same "skipping" line is repeated near the end, then the song fades out with "around (click) around (click) around (click)". This fits the narrative of the song, which is about a couple dancing while the same song plays over and over (presumably on an auto-changing record player):
    That same old song keeps on playin'
    Over and over and over I know
    I guess I should change it
    But I just can't let you go
  • Color Theory's "In Space, No One Can Hear You Cry" fades out on a repetition of the line "accept you".
  • "I Am Electro" by The Funk Lab repeats its Title Drop 17 times during the mid-track break. This section is absent from the edit used in Need for Speed: High Stakes, though.
  • Stereophonics' "Dakota" ends by repeating "So take a look at me now" 17 times.
  • The Human Beinz's "Nobody But Me" repeats "no" 60 times and "nobody" 30 times.
  • In the Psychedelic Dub remix of Byron Stingily's "Sing a Song", the vocals consist entirely of a guy repeating the words "Psychedelic flowers" alongside a girl saying "Electric" and a sample of the "Bah" vocal from the aforementioned "Din Daa Daa".
  • John Pearn & Michael Gray, who go by many aliases:
    • In Sex-O-Sonique's "I Thought It Was You", sampling the Herbie Hancock song of the same name, the Title Drop is the only lyric, apart from a couple dialogue clips sampled from The Sweeney.
    • Most Full Intention remixes, including Ultra Nate's "Free" and Duke's "So In Love With You", repeat a filtered vocal snippet for a long portion of the intro and/or breakdown, with a counter-vocal looped on top.
  • Urban Cookie Collective's "The Key, the Secret" is four lines of actual lyrics interspersed with a great deal of repetition of "ah ah ah", "ha a ha" and "yeah".
  • The lengthy spoken word intro to The Bonzo Dog Band's "Shirt" concludes with Viv Stanshall saying,
    Well, I think we're going to have to leave it there and I'm going to take you right away straight over to the Earls Court Olympia to watch the shirt event. I'll repeat that…the shirt event. I'll repeat that…the shirt event. I'll repeat that…the shirt event. I'll repeat that…the shirt event
  • Waylon Jennings, "If Ole Hank Could Only See Us Now":
    We spend two hundred thousand dollars makin' compact discs
    And the record never scratch and never break
    —ver break
    —ver break
    —ver break
    —ver break...
  • Modest Mouse's second album closes with "Styrofoam Boots / It's All Nice On Ice, Alright", which repeats the latter part of its title for about 4 minutes.
    • The album before it has "Head South", which repeats its title 42 times (counting background vocals).
    • "Parting of the Sensory" crosses this over with Madness Mantra. "Someday you will die and somehow something's gonna steal your carbon, hey, someday you will die and somehow something's gonna steal your carbon, hey hey hey-"
  • The refrain of Simone Jay's "Wanna B Like A Man" consists of the repeated Scatting hook "Dun dun dun/Ha-yea/Dun dun dun/Ha-yea/Dun dun dun/Ha-yea/Wanna be like a man". The club remix likewise repeats "Cause this is not a one-night love/This is not a one-night love/This is not a one-night love affair!".
  • The Plastic Ono Band's "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For a Hand In the Snow)", the B-side of "Give Peace a Chance," starts with Yoko sounding like a car engine trying to turn over followed by no other lyric except "Don't worry" repeated over and over.
  • Meat Loaf and Cher's "Dead Ringer for Love" ends by repeating "Dead ringer for love (dead ringer)" 12 times.
  • Deacon Blue's "Dignity":
    Set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, yeah
    Set it up again, set it up again, set it up again, set it up again
    Set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, set it up, yeah
    Set it up again, set it up again, set it up again, set it up again
  • Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" starts right off repeating "All the single ladies" over and over that the listener wonders if they'll ever get to the verses. It's the refrain, so it must be endured again.
  • Tears for Fears: Most of the lyrics to "Listen" are repetitions of the chorus "Cumpleaños chica, no hay que preocuparse."
  • In something of an inversion, there have been many cases of repeating the same two notes through a particular line (or lines) of lyrics, which is only saved by the change in chords (the first line of each verse of The Beatles' "I Am The Walrus" comes to mind), but more recently pop stars have been going through some thirty non-stop words and/or syllables on the same note. The refrain of Katy Perry's "Never Really Over" and the bridge from Gwen Stefani's "The Sweet Life" are noted offenders of this.
    • America's "A Horse With No Name" seems to use a total of four different notes on the verses and refrain alone.
  • The ending of Wiseblood's "Motorslug" repeats the orchestra hit riff for a minute and a half, sounding like the record is actually stuck. To further troll the listener, the B-Side, "Death Rape 2000", is nothing but a loop of said riff for another 7 1/2 minutes.
  • When Surf Mesa's "ILY" isn't sampling the bridge from "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," it's nothing more than a dance club ready broken record hung up on the same words "I love you" on the same note.
  • Groove Armada's "I See You Baby" is almost entirely repetitions of "I see you baby shaking that ass".
  • One section in the Vocaloid song It's dark! consists of this:note 
    Buying 72,000 birds on Amazon Prime
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
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    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s cool!
    That’s pretty cool!
  • The Monkees song "Magnolia Simms" by Michael Nesmith includes the sound of a skipping record near the end. They included a disclaimer on the album so people wouldn't think their copy of the record was defective.
  • Michael Oakley's "When Stars Collide", the final track of Odyssey, exhibits this trope during its fade-out ending, in addition to lampshading it with the line "Sometimes my words sound like broken records".
  • U2: The line "Baby, baby, baby... baby, baby, baby... baby, baby, baby, light my way" from "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)". Even more, the line is repeated numerous times. Bono deliberately did this as he had never previously written a song with "baby" in the lyrics and opted to take Refuge in Audacity, to the point that the album's engineer Mark "Flood" Ellis noticed the other band members wondering if it could be actually pulled off while he was preparing the final mix.
  • Chuckie Finster: "Blush" features the phrase "you and me" being repeated numerous times for its chorus.
  • Origami Angel: GAMI GANG has "Noah Fence", where the words "why you" are repeated 24 times in a row near the end.
  • "99 Bottles of Beer", a longtime favorite of road trips, campgrounds, and bars dating back to the mid-20th century, starts with "99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around,note  98 bottles of beer on the wall!" Repeat until you hit zero. As Wikipedia's page on the song notes, some versions of the song end there (either because they're out of liquor or they're too drunk to continue), others have the singer "go to the store and buy some more" to start all over again, and others start going into negative numbers. Andy Kaufman, early in his career, would sometimes sing the entire song in full at his shows just to troll the audience.
  • Austra's "I Am Not Waiting" has thirteen repetitions of "I'm over you" at the end of each chorus.
  • "Fucking Ada" by Ian Dury and The Blockheads ends with a three minute outro consisting of the titlenote  being repeated over sixty times.
  • Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" contains both this and Punctuated! For! Emphasis!.
    I'm
    The
    Cult
    Of
    Per
    So
    Nality!
    I'm the cult of
    I'm the cult of
    I'm the cult of
    I'm the cult of
    I'm the cult of
    I'm the cult of
    I'm the cult of
    I'm the cult of
    Personality!
  • James Blake:
    • "I Mind" is comprised entirely of the phrases "I mind" and "pussy", distorted heavily and repeated ad nauseam across the entire three-and-a-half minute track.
    • Similarly, "The Wilhelm Scream" is just the lyrics "I don't know about my dreams/I don't know about my dreaming anymore/All that I know is I'm fallin', fallin', fallin', fallin'/Might as well fall in", repeated over and over with slight variations.
    • The chorus of "I'm So Blessed You're Mine" is just the title repeated sixteen times in a row.
  • Orax's "Fragments of a Lost Time", the last track of Love Kills The Demon, ends with a fake-out record skip before coming to halt with a Record Needle Scratch.
  • The Pointer Sisters' "How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)" contains a chant which repeats 16 times:
    Betcha got a chick on the side, sure you got a chick
    I know you got a chick on the side!
    Betcha got a chick on the side, sure you got a chick
    I know you got a chick on the side!
  • Kelis has a few of these:
    • “Flashback” chorus (with the exception of a few adlibs): “Yeah, yeah/ooh you make my body go/yeah, yeah/ooh you make my body go/yeah, yeah…”
    • ”Rolling Through The Hood” bridge: “Maybe tomorrow/maybe tomorrow/maybe tomorrow/maybe tomorrow…”
    • Played With on “Popular Thug”, where the line “make my record skip” is repeated four times with an effect that makes it sound like a record really is skipping.
    • “Emancipate” chorus: “Emancipate yourself/emancipate yourself, emancipate yourself, emancipate yourself…”
  • Tommy James and the Shondells' "Hanky Panky" repeats the line "My baby does the hanky panky" 23 times throughout the lyrics.
  • The album version of the Pet Shop Boys' "It's Alright" ends with the lyric "'Cause the music plays forever on and on and on and on..." imitating a locked groove before dissolving into the background reverb, also accompanied by the repeating spoken-word "I hope it's gonna be alright".
  • MC Hammer's "2 Legit 2 Quit" repeats the line "Too legit, too legit to quit" 49 times throughout.
  • On Vylet Pony's Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow...):
    • "Constellation Cradle":
      When you're playing, playing with stars
      When you're playing, playing with stars
      When you're playing, playing with stars
      When you're playing with stars
    • "Creekflow":
      When will I break?
      When will I break?
      When will I finally break?
      When will I finally break?
  • The coda of The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet loops the lyrics "Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues / Tear it in, tear it out, it's a real excuse" as it fades out.
  • "Doctor Who-oo! (Hey) Doc-tor Who! Doctor Who-oo! (Hey) The Tar-dis! Doctor Who-oo! (Hey) Doc-tor Who! Doctor Who-oo! (Ha) Doc-tor Who! Doctor Who-oo! (Ha) Doc-tor Who!", repeat.

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