Do you think your reaction with music is atypical?

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I see what you mean, this is what i've been addicted to lately, Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder live show, in preticular the song "Learning to Fly", so insperational and uplifting for me anyway I can't stop playing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViEOGiRrhSs

I've been analyzing music since I was ten, to pick existing songs apart to their respective notes/chords so I could recreate them on my computer. Bassline, melody, chords, sub-melodies, accompaniments, rhythm instruments... then later, this would come in very handy as a tuba player in many concert bands, as I knew and could hear everyone else's part, making it all the easier to know when/where MY part fit in.

In my mid-to-late teens I would take that and actually start composing music of my own instead of merely arranging other works. I would have a few years of fame from this in the computer Amiga MOD-style "tracker/demoscene" before life hit a few snags and I quickly faded away into obscurity.

I was surprised to know I actually still have a few fans out there.

I get a very deep emotional attachment to certain songs I know intimately and love dearly. I can't quite explain it...

...I suspect the average person listens to the lyrics of a song and little else. These people were often bored to tears by my orchestral music...

Until ~2 years ago I thought everyone had that.