Musical repetitiveness typically aspie?

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I am not sure if it typical for an Aspie, but often I hear a song that I like so much that I play nothing else for an entire day or days. I notice most other people (NT) will have an urge to listen through an entire record of a band when they hear a song that they love immediately, but I am usually just repeating that same song over and over again and only several days afterwards I will move on to the next song of the band.

This weekend I have played the Rush song "Limelight" about 80 times I think, while I have hardly listened to any other song...

Is that typical Aspie or just me being weird?

i do it too.... on my winamp... i will loop ONE song....

Whether or not it's typically Aspie, I cannot say. But it is absolutely typically me.

Yup, I repeat one song, and usually won't ever listen to any of the other tracks.

Even if I can't physically play the song (if people are around, for example), it will still play over and over in my head, sometimes for weeks.

Yup, I've done that before. Whenever I would hear song that I like, i would repeat it over and over and never stop. I've been listening to "Worried About You" by The Rolling Stones several times the last couple of days.

I'm like this as well. In fact, I have become obsessed with several songs recently and each one I became obsessed with, I listened to them for 1-3 days almost non-stop.

i dont know if its an aspie thing, ive spoken to a number of people who do it

personally i dont usually

This is definitely me. It might be one song (like The Libertines' You're My Waterloo...played over 2000 times over the course of one summer) or a few songs (a couple of Cowboy Junkies songs I have on loop) or one album (in the winter I listened to nothing but Arctic Monkeys' Favourite Worst Nightmare for a week straight. Morning, noon, and night) or an artist (The Libertines, Pulp, and Ryan Adams dominated my playlist for awhile) and sometimes it's just a couple of times in a row (like I listened to Dancing With Myself 4 or 5 times just now) but it's very comforting and it's how I listen to music, how I always have.

I do this all the time -and love it. I also do it sometimes with music videos.

The song I have been looping recently is Ah Leah by Donny Iris. The video has been Shadowplay by Joy Division.

I do that too. I think thats not aspergers though.


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I'll loop the same short segment of a song. I can listen to the same 10 seconds over and over for half an hour or more.

I won't listen to just that one song, but I'll typically find a favorite and listen to it unendingly. On my old iPod, I had three songs that hit over 100 on the playcount; "Where the Streets Have No Name" by U2, and "Mind Storm" and "Flying in a Blue Dream" by Joe Satriani.

Actually, in the aspect of listening to a particular artist, I listen to Joe Satriani... a LOT! And it's typical for me to listen to particular favorites more than others. Still, I try and force myself to diversify in the songs I listen to. Then I become obsessed with NOT listening to the same materials over and over. See the corner I back myself into?

Certain songs, as well as certain parts of songs,
give me a "musical high," and I'll play these songs
(or parts of songs) over and over ad nauseam.

A short list of songs that get me high:

I don't want nobody to get me nothin' (I'll open up the
door and get it myself) by James Brown

Can't you hear me knocking/Dead Flowers by the stones

Today your love, tomorrow the world Ramones

No Agreement by Fela Kuti and Africa 70

High Water everywhere, part 1 Charlie Patton

Both my mom and I tend to do that. Unfortunately for me though her music is terrible D:

I'm known at work for doing this as I'll sing the same song out loud to myself when I'm stressed for weeks on end and drive all of my co-workers crazy! One time I actually got some of them singing it with me.
Ive done this my whole life and always thought I just "really liked the song" one guy I dated told me "If you play that song again I'm getting out of the car and we're breaking up" (Jackson Brownes "Stay" btw) I thought it over for less than 30 seconds, looked at him defiantly and hit rewind on my cassette player in the car. I then told him "Aren't you getting out of my car now?" and left him on the side of the freeway in Kentucky.
I am currently doing this with "Spirit Voices" by Paul Simon, and just got over a MONTHS long stint of "Once upon a time I was an Ocean"
My autistic daughter does this with both song and film and will rewind a segment of her favorite movie for hours at a time every day. Right now its where Mike and Sulley fall through the door sideways into Paris in "Monsters Inc."

I'll do it sometimes if it's a song I really, really, really like, and the mood hits me...especially if I can't think of something else I'd rather listen to instead

I'll be like "Okay, just one more time..." and two turns into ten turns into twenty...etc. @_@