Is there maybe ONE track you find yourself playing over & over again, maybe every time you start a listening session? Or, perhaps, it’s the very last track you always play when closing down (national anthems are excluded 
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Two tracks I like to close an evening listening session with are.
Lee Ritenour - “Maybe Tomorrow” (youtube.com)
John Surman - The Wizard’s Song on Private City ( Private City, John Surman - Qobuz
I can never just play this once and move on, always 2-3 times:
Dark Side of the Street - Ry Cooder
Same with:
Sound of Silence - Disturbed
… strange but true!
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The perfect last track for me late at night;
Yo La Tengo ‘Night Falls On Hoboken’. Nearly 18 minutes long. Acoustic loveliness that slowly unravels and wanders off into the night in a slightly random, soothing mess. From ‘And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out’, which is one of their finest-and they’ve made a lot of albums in their 40 years!
Bruce
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A number of tracks fall into this category for me:
Sandy Denny, Banks of the Nile
Vaughan Williams, Lark Ascending
Sibelius, Finlandia, and
Shostakovich, Ballet Suite no.4 prelude.
However, these are also the tracks I play when I don’t know what I want to listen to - a different type of rut.
When I ran a rock disco I always opened with Suppé’s Light Cavalry overture, then with thunderflashes into a high energy rock number, often Secret of the dance by Gillan or Hard lovin’ man by Deep Purple. Closing was always God save the Queen, usually Gentle Giant’s version, but occasionally Queen’s. Light Cavalry makes such a good intro, as it really conjures an air of something about to happen.
At home I don’t - it doesn’t suggest itself, unlike an entertainment show, and there seems no point.
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What was wrong with the only decent version? The Sex Pistols, surely.
Worth it for the opening lyrical couplet alone.
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Songs on repeat?
My fave over the last few years is Here At The Western World by Steely Dan. Sublime.
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Because it wasn’t the National Anthem! However on occasion I did pkay it during the gig, though Pretty Vacant or perhaps Anarchy probably more often
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Sandy Denny, Banks of the Nile - certainly one of my Desert Island discs. I too like to have it on repeat.
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