I've listened to the same song..

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I repeat whole songs, but it's usually a specific part of a song that gets me hooked in the first place. If it's repeating and I realize I missed that part while I was working I'll back it up or start it over and wait to hear it before resuming work.

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Came on this morning and put on the same song. Can't stop listening to it. It's not even that remarkable.. can't listen to anything else though.

Right now I'm listening to the song "The Memory Remains" by Metallica, for the umpteenth time in a row. It's kind of hypnotizing.

There's a section in a Joseph Arthur song that I occasionally stick on repeat, much to the annoyance of others around me. I did that once for at least 4 or 5 hours once . . .

its more like the same album constantly for a month or so..If i am working out I can play the same song repeatadily if i am into my workout

I know someone with ADD who listened to the same song 160 times in one day... and I know a lot of NT's who listen to their favorite songs a ton, often in a row... that part of a song thing though might be a sign of autism like Daniel said

My top song on last.fm has 20 plays, so dunno what thats supposed to mean. Not too obsessive I guess

As well as just listening to a fragment of a piece, what I'll often do is to listen to a whole piece/movement, then go back and listen to the fragment over and over.
For example, I'll listen to the 1st movement of the 1st Brahms violin sonata in its entirety, then go and listen to the final sequence with the G-major arpeggiated figures, ad infinitum.
I do this even if I want to listen to another song, it's like a switch in my brain is stuck. If I make an effort to try to listen to something else, my whole mind freezes, my body tenses, and I can't think or relax until I go back to listening to my little fragment.

I've always done that. My mother does it too. She is worse than me, I used to tell her "There are other songs on the album Mom!" (that is when we had albums). Sometimes a good song is worth a couple of thousand listens in a row.

I've never done this with books. I generally need to wait at least a year before I read a book again.

I started listening to bits of music on repeat when I was little. My family think it's pretty weird but I generally listen on headphones so that they don't know. I got a free NME disc once that had a live Muse track, Embrace and Les Rhythmes Digitales and I must have listened to it hundreds of times over about a month. I couldn't even put it on loop so I kept having to press play!

Dream Brother by Jeff Buckley is a song that I can never tire of, but I have to have it super-loud and I stop everything when I'm listening to it.

I've been reading the new Elliott Smith book by Autumn de Wilde and someone mentions that Elliott once listened to Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for 18 hours. He also used to love little bits of music. But he didn't have AS.

I definitely get stuck listening to one song or CD non stop until the next one comes along. It drives my husband mad. But he also realises that it's usually something in the words that has me attracted and usually I listen to it until I know all the words perfectly. I'm extremely attracted to language in conjunction with music. Just music does not have the same effect on me. I usually find music without words kind of annoying.

I do the same thing with movies as well. Bad days will always find me watching Return of the Living Dead or Shaun of the Dead. My husband always knows what mood I'm in by the movies that are on my computer desk because I've been watching something while doing tasks in my room. LOL.

Heh, I have a song looped that I have not herd since middle school. I do it all the time with songs, its so funny I never thought it would be a trait, just something I did...

Yeah I can go for days with the same song or the same couple of songs. I can keep track of it now, I put up a song on my site and it has a post date when I put it up. So I can safely say, days, not hours.

Steven Wright joke where he says he and a buddy traveled across country, they only had one cassette and he couldn't remember what it was.

I can listen to the same song for days and not be able to tell you what the lyrics are.