Friday thread the first: Great songs you shouldn't listen to more than once a year

[gratuitous]

There are those classic songs that for one reason or another, you shouldn't listen to more than once a year.

"I will always love you" by Whitney Houston. Kind of obvious. Whitney owns this song, but the genre it spawned with singing "stylists" interminably drawing out words and notes causes eye-rolling rage.

"Bridge over troubled water" by Simon and Garfunkel. Beautiful song with great lyrics, building slowly to a crescendo. Dominated by a deceptively simple piano score and the clear voice of Art Garfunkel. Once you've listened to it, though, you're good until next year.

Others?

[peacefreak]

1. That's easy

Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie

[gratuitous]

2. I figured someone would come up with that

It's coming on time to listen again, since the song mentions Thanksgiving.

[FrodosPet]

3. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

But only because it is 363 days long

Sanders 2016

[Capt.Rocky300]

8. Oh yeah!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. One of my personal favorites

or maybe not

[gratuitous]

5. Okay, that one's not even once a year

[Art_from_Ark]

6. The Great Pumpkin Waltz

[cemaphonic]

7. Velvet Underground - Sister Ray

14 minutes of a single 3-chord progression, which would make for a hypnotic groove, except they've got the gain cranked up to 11 on every single instrument. Every once in a while, Lou Reed checks in to tell some incomprehensible story about some amphetamine-fueled orgy. All in all, it's pretty awesome, but also goddamn abrasive and draining.

[Capt.Rocky300]

9. "Get Ready" the loooooong version.

Rare Earth of course.