Getting stuck listening to the same song over and over

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Yes, done this since I was a young child.
Same songs, same albums.
I find it very hard to venture into any new bands as I get stuck on the same sets of notes and songs.

Remember this next time you see your therapist, she isn't normal. If she asks you why your laughing, what are you going to say?
I tell them the truth, lol.

I had one tell me one time she thought everybody should do therapy. Now I tend to agree, but if you think about the business she's in, that's not a bad thing to keep them coming in the door. But with her, she knew she wasn't normal and that's why she was good at what she did.

WOOT!! day eight with the Queens of the Stone Age, they still rockin in my head phones. Ask her how long she goes. (and I still don't know the words to the 5 songs or even the titles)

oops, make that nine days, I might be math challenged, lol.

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I have been listening to, watching the video for and singing the same song for a week now. I'm hoping it will wear on me soon so I can forget it!

Been there, done that, have parents that are very glad I eventually transitioned out of my Michael Jackson obsession.

I'm beginning to see that everything and anything that is conducive to self-soothing is misconstrued as being lethal, an *OBSESSION* and to be shunned. WTF? OK?

You have a soul, you have hurts, you have longings, you have a need to express yourself. Sometimes repetition is OK. It's OK. There's nothing toxic or pathological about listening to a song over and over if there's an inner need to do so. Eventually you have enough and your needs are satisfied. And if not - there will always be the option of the men in white.

Personally I've been known to listen to Coldplay's The Scientist repeatedly, Dylan's You're a Big Girl Now and others that right now I can't even recall.

I think everyone just needs to stop worrying about everything and JUST RELAX a little.

I listen to a lot of different songs, but there are certain songs... when I get to them (in my playlist) I just have to put it on Repeat One. And then I listen to that song for the next week

I had my Pearl Jam *I'm in Hiding* week. That was fun

Yes I do this a lot. I have a CD of ABBA's greatest hits, Rod Stewart, and others that I will listen to over and over. I also found the old Star Trek Cartoons on YouTube that I have watched parts of over and over.

I must confess , This is not really me . Sometimes even though I love the song , I can 't stand it to repeat even once . There has to at least be one song inbetween . Though I may repeat an album or a playlist of songs a lot .

I will often listen to the same song for at least a month. This month it is "Pretender" from the new Foo Fighters CD.

It used to be a pain when all I had was records.

Then the 8 track came along and IT WAS EVEN WORSE! (same thing when the cassette came out)

CD's were the first real relief for me concerning music.
Set it to repeat-1 and let it go!

Now... iPod!
It even keeps track of how many times I've listened to a song

I recently put a song on my daughter's iPod. It was a song/band she isn't really crazy about (Green Day or something like that perhaps... I can't remember).

She asked me the other day if I put it on her iPod ... she said she didn't remember doing it and she knew she hadn't listened to it 50 TIMES! Busted!

At work, I love it when everyone goes home and I'm alone on my side of the lab.
I take out my little lamp and turn it on, turn the overhead lights off, plug in my iPod to my speakers and put on a song and let it play... over & over & over...

I'm really glad to hear other people do this. It drives my wife nuts, but there are songs I just MUST listen to over and over. The third movement to Beethoven's 9th -- so gorgeous I can let it go again and again. Program in a few Louis Armstrong Hot Fives and Hot Sevens and let them play over and over. It becomes almost meditative for me. There's something about rhythm and experiencing musical genius (and everyone will define this differently) that sort of massages my psyche. One thing I can do when I'm stressed is blast something for a few repetitions and I'll feel lots better. My wife's just the opposite -- she needs something soothing or just silence.

LOL. Cue song, veg out to song, song ends, get up, put needle back to beginning of song, veg out to song, song ends, get up...ad nauseum.

Uniklubi this week.

Good lord, it's not even in English, and that's the only language I more or less know!

As I write this, I'm listening to Salmonella Dub - Dub Survivor for the fifth time today. It's nearly ten minutes long, so that's getting close to an hour of just this song. I heard it on my playlist last night before I went to bed, it stuck in my head all night, and now I'm playing it over and over again. I know what winamp needs: a "track repeat" button.

This happens often. Usually whenever I get some new music.

On last.fm, my profile indicates that my top six bands represent about one fifth of all songs played and my top twenty songs represent about five per cent of all my songs played (in a collection of about 9000 songs). Most of the songs in my top twenty got there by virtue of being on high rotation as I played them back over and over again in order to discover hitherto unnoticed nuances...