What piece of music can you play over & over?

Same song or album, non stop listening for eight hours?

EX. “I Want To Hold Your Hand”?

Someone has obviously missed the surgeon general’s warning label afixed to every Beatles CD which says;

WARNING: Continuous playback of this disc can result in combustion of the disc material. Extensive uninterrupted listening to the Beatles music may also result in loss of your audiophile credentials. Also, the extensive timeliness and costs for re-associative therapy pursuant to recovery from such instances can not be either foreseen, nor guaranteed. You may disregard this message if this album is “Rubber Soul” “Revolver” “The White Album” or “Abbey Road”. Happy listening.

The point being made is that some music is so well composed that it doesn't tire the listener. Obviously there is no need to stop at one song and never listen to any other compositions.
Here is an example, the opera La Boheme, for those who are familiar with it they understand when I say the opening prelude is so complex that it is hard to hum to oneself. It's quick and snappy yet gentle at the same time.
Back in the old days when the populace was deprived of education, operas were composed in a way to excite the audioence and grab their attention. The opening prelude had a big bang it was written that way to let everyone know it was time to shut up stop gossiping and pay attention because the opera was starting. Today we don;t need that, we have dimmers in the opera houses and people have a better education. Opera goers are not bored and show up at the met because there is nothing else going on, they show up for other reasons, because opera is exciting, full of emotions, but most of all it is beautiful, the stage sets, the costumes, the stories, but mainly the music. If you ever attended an opera you will know that there is silence throughout the whole performance with a house that seats around 4,000.
Opera isn't for everyone, but it does say something about one's ability to appreciate music. The epitome of opera is Wagner's compositions, I still haven't explored his work, but when the met stages his pieces the house gets packed with the most serious opera lovers, I say that because his music is some of the best(not my opinion but commonly understood in the opera world) but it is also the longest. Anyone willing to sit through 6 hours of opera is nuts, or is he/she?
Some like rock, others the blues, and jazz and classical and opera too. I discovered opera 22 years ago, it made one of the biggest impressions on me, now I hear into the compositions of all genres of music better for some reason. I highly recommend giving all styles of music an opportunity to move you, and don't laugh at others taste because some day you may get there and realize that there are many ways to express art, and art it is the most beautiful art in the world, we still connect to the prenatal sounds of our mothers, this forms a connection, some times I hear an instrument or vocalist that sounds so endearing I wonder why others don't hear the same.
We are all different and need to explore what works for us, the beauty of it is there are so many to choose from.
Happy New Years everyone, all the best!!

I second what Facten said. Those four mentioned are, IMHO, his best!

Easy, several...
Over the years, Ella, (anything ballady, as I liked her in that genre rather than the 'scat' singing, perhaps a blaspheme, but my feelings).
Of late...my 'gaydar' must be going off, because I think I have a 'mancrush' on Michael Buble. He is, quite simply the best male vocalist of the last, and maybe several generations, (my humble offering at least). He can sing, he can phrase, he is in pitch relentlessly, (though the latest digital equipment makes that a given).
Over the years, Cannonball and Nancy Wilson, circa, 1962, and also her coming out album.
Charlie Parker, for the complete mastery of the Alto Saxaphone, which I (tried) played. He was "THE MAN"
Chuck Mangione circa 1980 or so, when he was doing Children of Sanchez, and others. (Around the time of the olympics in Canada, for which he performed the 'Theme'?
Harry Chapin's ballads of the '70's.
Billy Joel in the 70's and 80's.
George Strait of any era.
Joanie Sommers then and now, regardless. (OK this is puerbty driven, so caveat emptor).
The Beachboys.
Beatles before 1969...
Renasseance (spelling?) Sherazade (spelling again) was a terrific album...and these are a few that I loved.
Anyone?????

Larry

I listen to different music.

As for the operas, recent operas I was stuck on are Turnadot and aftet that one I switched to Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Speaking of a complex opera. Try this one. One of my favorite.