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Comment by ehnto | Hacker News Reader

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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My dad still whines about Peter Frampton due to his time on a submarine in the late 70s. Could only take so much vinyl out to sea and I guess shanties were out of fashion haha.

I personally tend to listen to full albums repetitively. Lately it has been Billy Cobham’s Spectrum and some Khruangbin albums. I also play drums and tend to study the same handful of songs for a few months at a time. Ok maybe I’ve been meditating on Stevie Wonder’s Superstition for over a year haha.

Khruangbin is great work/focus music, they sink into a groove and stay there for a while so you don't get distracted too easily. Their early stuff with no lyrics was even less distracting but they don't go heavy on the lyrics anyway.

Collectively, the U.S. as a country, I think, have heard Hotel California enough. Thank you.

Yup, it sucks. For me it isn't even so much the song as it is how it transports me back to that job. Like, I hear the song and can picture myself doing certain tasks in the retail store I worked at while listening to it.

Working in retail or restaurants during Christmas season is absolute torture. There's not a single Christmas song I enjoy anymore.

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