Occasionally, I go crazy for a particular song and listen to it over and over and over and over and over and over and over .... you get the picture.
The last one was Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands by Bob Dylan. Before that, This Side of the Blue by Joanna Newsome.
It's not like I have an obsessional song all the time. I just get them every now again.
At the moment, it's Sound & Vision by David Bowie. I'm listening to it approximately three times a day but I think I'm coming out the other side now.
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Okay, so I'm not the only one who does this? For me right now it's an old one. Darkness, Darkness by The Youngbloods... can't. stop. listening.
Nice to know I'm not the only one. :)
Oh, funny!! This is a fun fact.
I used to have this album - what a blast! I was here nor there on Sound and Vision, but I really loved the record.
I tend to wear out whole CDs instead of single songs now. When our record player was still set up a couple years ago I wore out Bowie's Station to station. I'd let a side play over and over.
Lately my music has come prepackaged: my dd makes me mixes. So, some Mika tracks have been on the latest and they're great: that heavy choral/choir overlay than reminds me of Freddy Mercury.
But yeah, I wallow in a song until it's almost imprinted on my brain.
This post prompted an argument between me and my husband. He finds it unusual that you would play the Dylan song over and over because (while he loves it, loves Dylan, plays Dylan on his guitar all the time) it is pointedly about Dylan's ex wife, and therefore is not the kind of song one would normally play over and over. That is, the songs we listen to over and over tend to be universally applicable.
We are presently in the middle of a huge fight, er, discussion, about this ridiculous assertion.
For my part, I do this too, and right now it is Ok Go' invincible.
Jessica - don't even get me started on my Dylan obsession. I listened to Nothing.Else. for a long time. Album by album. And yes, I am fully aware that SELOTL is a long and somewhat monotone song to listen to over and over.
Another one I listened to a scary number of times was Idiot Wind, possibly the angriest love-hate song ever. It's so weird and long and just venomous with lyrics like:
you hurt the ones that I love best; and cover up the truth with lies; one day you'll be in the ditch; flies buzzing around your eyes; blood on your saddle
and then it has these sort of love-lyrics near the end.
I followed you; beneath the stars; hounded by your memory and all your - raging glory.
And then it ends a note of sadness where he recognises that they'll never really understand one another.
I suppose I'm fascinated by his quicksilver temperament and his capacity to feel such vital rollercoastering emotion.
I feel a love/hate post coming on.
Bob's son, Jakob Dylan, said in an interview that he cannot listen to Idiot Wind. I totally understand. Imagine hearing your father talk that way about your mother? Even if it was just an emotional slice of time.
We also listen to a lot of Bowie in our house!
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