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I get obsessed with certain music for days or weeks on end. It changes eventually. Sometimes I get bored with music for awhile and then I have some peace.

The problem is that if I listen to music, especially regularly, it doesn't go away. It's in my head all day, unless I'm doing something that distracts me and requires listening. I will sing it throughout the day. I'll hear it when I try to sleep.

When I study language, I use several apps. If I listen too often, I will hear phrases from the apps in my head when I try to sleep. It drives me crazy.

I LOVE listening to the same song(s) over and over! In the past, I've listened to different covers of the song "Come Go With Me" - first made popular by the Del Vikings. However, there have been multiple covers of the song by groups such as The Beach Boys, The FireBirds, and Dion and the Belmonts - and I've been known to listen to them all on repeat.

Other songs that have undergone this treatment are AKB48's "Sugar Rush" from the Wreck-It Ralph soundtrack, and various Passion Pit and Enya songs.

My current song I'm listening to on repeat is Barenaked Ladies' "Duct Tape Heart."

.....Yes, I'm listening to it right now.

Hey, I enjoy both of those songs, too! I'm actually really into doo-wop music and J-pop is my guilty pleasure...

And I, too, enjoy listening to the same things over and over, as well as watching the same scenes repeatedly. It started when I was a pre-teen and I would watch the same VHS every day when I got home from school, and I would rewind most scenes of it and watch a different character each time. Now I watch movies over and over so much so that snippets of scenes and dialogue come into my head in conversations and it is really hard not to repeat them. For example, today in class someone said the word "differential" and I started singing (in my head!) the song "My Hero" from "Going Wild" (1930) starting with the point at which it says "Suppose your rear transmission jams up your differential..."

My mind is always full off old movie quotes and lines from Let's Plays.

There seems to be some commonality regarding what I like to listen to repeatedly. This personality assessment from when I was 8 seems to be related:

Usually what I listen to over and over embodies "tension, conflict, or turmoil," it seems. I wonder if anyone else is like this?

Initial thought is... maybe it's an AS way of processing our own emotions? I know that I love song lyrics and quotations that put in words what I wish to convey. Some use things like film to relate to people. So maybe music is another medium through which we relate to others and process our own stuff? Someone else mentioned listening to something repeatedly until they got what they needed from it. I think what I need is to process a related issue, emotion, thought, etc.

I create playlists that i listen to ever night but right now im listening to this

My playlists consist of this:

My Chemical Romance: Albums: I Gave You My Bullets You Gave Me Your Love 11 songs, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge 13 songs and The Black Parade 14 songs

Panic! At The Disco: Albums: A Fever You Cant Sweat Out 15 songs,Songs:Were So Starving (Pretty Odd) Nine In The Afternoon (Pretty Odd) Northern Downpour (Pretty Odd) That Green Gentlemen[Things have Changed] (Pretty Odd) She Had The World (Pretty Odd)

The Strokes: Life Is Simple In The Moonlight (Angles) You Only Live Once (First Impressions Of The Earth) Undercover Of Darkness (Angles/Single) Under Control (Room On Fire) Automatic Stop(Room On Fire) I Cant Win (Room on Fire) Razorblade (First Impressions Of The Earth) Trying Your Luck (Is This It) I'll Try Anything Once (single) and a majority of the album Angles.

Teenage Riot by Sonic Youth

Asleep by The Smiths

Low by Cracker

Viva La Vida by Coldplay

Breaking Benjamin: Sooner Or Later (We Are not Alone) Firefly (We Are Not Alone) Breath (Phobia)

The Gorillaz: On Melancholy Hill (Plastic Beach) Empire Ants feat Little Dragon (Plastic Beach) Broken (Plastic Beach) To Binge feat Little Dragon (Plastic Beach)

New Perspective by Panic! at the Disco

Three Days Grace: Time Of Dying (One-X) Animal (One-X) Let It Die (One-X)

The Tragically Hip: Bobcaygeon, The New Maybe

Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chilli Peppers

A Punk by Vampire Weekend

Instant Crush by Daft Punk feat Julian Casablanca's (The lead singer of The Strokes)

Knives And Pens by Black Veil Brides

We Are The Sleepy Heads by Belle And Sebastian

I listen to this playlist everynight and have since about 2009 but i just recently added Breaking Benjamin and My Chemical Romance.

I tend to listen to things over and over. When I was young and in the Navy (37 years ago) I was constantly harassed about the music that I played over and over until I got head phones. I do tend to lock into music. And, when I discover a new band I like, I go nuts finding everything I can and listening to it.

im definitely a repeater lol.... when i was younger i would watch things like schoolhouse rock songs, scenes from the garfield cartoons, weird japanese commercials, and other things on repeat all the time! i would also sing or repeat lines i thought were funny around my family and it became annoying for them haha. i still have to stop myself from doing something weird like singing the monkey rap from dk 64 in the car with my dad and sister. we used to sing weird songs together when i was little, but now for some reason my sister would just make fun of me for doing something like that :^P

"I'm just a bill
Yes, I'm only a bill
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill"

Yeah, sometimes. Like this, one of my favorite songs to listen to over and over:

Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ

This is another song I used to play over and over, although since Scott Weiland died it just isn't fun anymore, and I feel like my stimming to this was almost a weird precognition to his death
STP- Dead and Bloated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdCEPhNBnrM

At one time I was listening to Liszt's Totentanz over and over, and his piano concertos. At another time it was Poulenc's harpsichord and organ concertos. I like both those composers for the shifts in emotional tone, where a movement can start in one mood and then change to something completely different a couple of minutes later. Liszt is also over-the-top dramatic a lot of the time.

Liszt's Totentanz will forever remind me of playing Candy Crush Saga because that's what I always used to do while listening to it. lol

Sometimes I also like to listen repetitively to things that are silly and possibly obnoxious to other people, lol, like this:
Adam and the Ants, Ant Rap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvtzHxr-7g8
I also like Goody Two Shoes and Kings of the Wild Frontier

Trying to think what else I've listened to repetitively, oddly I can't really remember what most of them are if I'm not in the particular mood to listen to something.

In general I like dissonance, chromaticism, and minor chords, and those things create tension in music.

I also love pipe organ music, and especially if it is in a minor key and sounds really grief-stricken or menacing, and best of all if the organ tuning is in meantone. Like this, I cannot get enough of listening to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZyX9jTY0kU

Pachelbel is best known for his Canon in D, and it's one of those pieces that people (who don't normally listen to music repetitively) might listen to repetitively, because they find it relaxing. I on the other hand find Canon in D to be one of the most annoying pieces of music ever written, and hearing it makes me want to start throwing things, but I absolutely love his darker pieces written in minor keys.

For me it's like having a crush on a song and I'll listen to it at every opportunity I get, I'll keep replaying the same tune over and over inside my head all the time and I'm loving every second of it, it's awesome!!
Eventually it will fade away in a week or so, sometimes it may take up to 10 days or 2 weeks even, I simply must hear it!
It's like heroine haha!

Loving it!

So....you're always chasing the tune?

I actually feel the same way. But in the vein of listening to the same thing over and over, I also like repetitive music. Kinda in that Alan Parsons, Kraftwerk or Tangerine Dream type of thing.

UPDATE: New Song I'm addicted to from The Hateful 8 Soundtrack which i have already watched 4 times. I love that movie so much! More than Django Unchained but not as much as Kill Bill Vol 1.

The type of music doesn't surprise me. But the wording of this part, "...presence of these factors seemed to increase her own level of internal arousal." Well, Effin' DUhhhhhhhh

Music is like a drug. NOBODY I know of experiences music without it having some sort of mental/emotional effect. So, if you listen to 'rousing music' well, expect to get 'roused'. Frikkin' idiots.....'seems to increase her own level of internal arousal'.....sheeeesh...mutter, mutter......

Presently ---> David Sylvian's 'Anthology 1987-2011'

Right now, I've been listening a lot to the FF4 final battle theme against Zeromus. I've also been listening a lot to "fure fure mirai" as well as "hare hare yukai."

Scenes in Haruhi Suzumiya I've been listening to in the car include the one where the combat waitress from the future Mikuru is battling the alien magician Yuki, the one where Mikuru gets a final challenge from Yuki, the one after that where they talk and fight, the beginning of the episode with that song where they're doing the cultural festival, that one with the Day of Sagittarius III where the computer club president challenges the SOS Brigade and gets attacked by Haruhi, and the scene around where Haruhi makes the bleeped Gundam reference.

The group of stuff I've been listening to is bigger than I thought. Nevertheless, I will still stick to one scene throughout a whole drive and will often keep doing that scene even after I've arrived at my destination, which greatly delays my getting out of the car. I may sometimes continue driving around the block to get the sense of motion I often crave while doing this repetitive listening.