# Ever get obsessed with a song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869 "2008-12-12T12:58:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/21 "2008-12-12T17:49:04Z")
I hear the “Bird’s the word” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/22 "2008-12-12T17:52:12Z")
[10,000 Days (Wings Part 2)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU7H3zy__os) ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/23 "2008-12-12T20:21:04Z")
All the time! My current obsession is [What About Everything](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bghgaL7l2Ug&feature=related) by Carbon Leaf. What about aliens? Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/24 "2008-12-12T20:23:07Z")
The really nice part of the songs you listen to forty times per day for three days straight is that you’ll never forget where and when you spent those three days. For me, any time I hear any cut off TRAFFIC’s “John Barleycorn Must Die” album, I’m right back in my basement apartment in E. 16th street and it’s the summer of 1973. ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/25 "2008-12-12T20:27:01Z")
\*\*Rosetta Stoned \*\*by Tool. First to try and figure out WTF Maynard is saying in the narrative part of the song (the lyrics are available now and it’s LOL funny), and 2nd to figure out the drum beat in the minute-long “groove interlude” about 2/3rds into the song. I also found parts of the song that rather directly harken back to **Third Eye** and **H** off of Aenima. Love this song and easily get lost in the cleverness of it displayed by each band member. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/26 "2008-12-12T20:52:13Z")
Very recently in fact. The song by Love “7 and 7 is” blew my mind in that it was made in 1966 and it sounds completely modern. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/27 "2008-12-12T21:43:52Z")
All the frakking time. When am I _not_ obsessed with a song would be easier to answer. Right now it’s Neko Case’s [Knock Loud](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeQi_6kAkG4). Not only do I listen to it on my iPod over and over again – as I walk to work, as I work, as I walk home from work – but I sing it in the shower and while I’m doing the dishes. It’s not even that interesting a song, but it’s got its hooks into me for some reason. I’m also obsessed with a few of the Gutter Twins’ (Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli) songs, but I can’t sing them because they’re out of my range. The big three are [All Misery/Flowers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vB03XT5xEo), [Idle Hands](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEUmdjgW-r0), and [The Stations](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0jyqGxAyRc). ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/28 "2008-12-12T22:08:22Z")
I regularly listen to the same song for hours on end. I’m sure it’d be annoying to many people… ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/29 "2008-12-12T22:12:52Z")
Two years ago my dad passed away. We knew it was coming for a month, though we didn’t talk about it. He and my mother spent his final few weeks doing everything they’d ever wanted to do together (riding in a glider) and re-doing everything they’d loved doing together for 50+ years (walking the ocean trails in Acadia). Anyway, during that month and during the month after he died, I became obsessed with the song **Pig** by Dave Matthews Band. It’s about seizing the day and how love is what fills our lives with light. I would crank that baby in the car every day on the way to work and cry my eyes out. It just fit the whole situation so perfectly. Still love the song, and I can (usually) listen to it without crying now. ---
**Author:** ![ShakWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@ShakWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakWave)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/30 "2009-01-05T02:18:38Z")
> [@unwashed\_brain](#): > > \*\*Rosetta Stoned \*\*by Tool. A big nod to **Rosetta Stoned** from me as well. I just love this song, the music and the lyrics both complement each other so well. ---
**Author:** ![Gwyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/858c86/32.png) [@Gwyen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gwyen)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/31 "2009-01-05T02:36:18Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I hear the “Bird’s the word” > > 🙂 Gahhhh!!! Why… why… The entire Lit, A Place in The Sun album Damn by Matchbox Twenty Beast and the Harlot by Avenged Sevenfold Portland, Oregon by Jack White and Loretta Lynn Don’t Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/32 "2009-01-05T03:49:14Z")
Yeah, I am usually ‘obsessed’ with one particular song at any given time. It can last from a few days to a month or so. I am capable of being obsessed with entire albums at one time as well, but that is much rarer. I will listen to the song over and over and over. In the car, on my ipod (which I wear almost all the time), at home on the stereo or computer. As others have mentioned - I always imagine that this would annoy the crap out of a lot of people. > [@welby](#): > > [Winter](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHlf08yTPiU) by Josh Radin ‘Winter’ is a recent obsession for me too - love Josh Radin! ---
**Author:** ![discodancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@discodancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discodancer)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/33 "2009-01-05T03:53:33Z")
Happens to me a lot. The latest song is Paper Planes by M.I.A. First time I heard that song I felt like I was hit with an ocean wave. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/34 "2009-01-05T04:00:35Z")
\*Poems, Prayers and Promises \*by John Denver, back when we were in love. He, alas, did not know we were in love. 😉 **An Gadaí,** if you don’t have Chanticleer’s rendition of _Shenandoah_ in your collection, I highly recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/35 "2009-01-05T04:02:25Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I think she was a bit tired of hearing it played in my room twelve times back to back, but I believed her for a while, and thought I was _the only one_ who could appreciate the awesomeness. I can empathize. I used to work with a guy who was a couple of cans shy of a six-pack. Picture a simpering, limp-wristed homosexual who is heavily into combat weapons. Kind of a confused individual. Anyway, one day he opened the door to his office and blasted out Wayne Newton singing _Danke Schoen_ in a continuous loop all friggin’ day. Dude definitely needed some time on the couch. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/36 "2009-01-05T04:07:17Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > Picture a simpering, limp-wristed homosexual who is heavily into combat weapons. … okay. Was I supposed to get something from that exercise? Anyway, I had a few months’ infatuation each with “True Faith” by New Order, “Sea Lion Woman” by Feist, “Our Lady of the Bottles” by Oysterband, and various others over the years. Oh, and I was most memorably and primally obsessed with Pachelbel’s Canon when I was 17. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/37 "2009-01-05T06:41:38Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I hear the “Bird’s the word” Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word. > [@Dung Beetle](#): > > …for the last two days the only song I’ve wanted to hear has been Cher’s Heart of Stone. O the humanity. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/38 "2009-01-05T08:39:19Z")
Yeah, there’s usually some song that I obsess over for weeks or months at a time. Currently, it’s “She’s Lost Control” by Joy Division. Last month, it was “Satellites” by Parts and Labor. The month before, “One of Us” by Wire. The month before that, “Clash City Rockers” by the Clash. Etc. I can get pretty OCD when I hone in on a song, album, or band. There was a whole swath of my life where I listened to pretty much nothing but Sleater-Kinney. And another dominated by the Smashing Pumpkins. I’m not sure what triggers it, but sometimes I just become glued to a certain sound. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/39 "2009-01-05T13:08:49Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > O the humanity. You hush! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/40 "2009-01-05T13:27:27Z")
All the time. Just yesterday I listened to Pat Benetar’s _All Fired Up_ over and over. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869.md?page=3)