# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/81 "2012-07-06T07:58:39Z")
I recently discovered Flying Colors and have been obsessed with “The Storm”. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/82 "2012-07-06T08:04:47Z")
When I first hear a song, I know within seconds if I will like it or not. Then, if I really like it, I’ll continuously listen to it for a whole week or so every time I put on my headphones. Through the years, some include: Blasphemous Rumors - Depeche Mode The Reflex - Duran Duran True Blue - Madonna Let’s Go Crazy - Prince and the Revolution Only You - Flying Pickets Tomorrow - James Love to Hate You - Erasure Dreams - The Cranberries Girls & Boys - Blur El Amor - Azucar Moreno (Spanish) Soon Jung - Koyote (Korean) je t’aime je t’aime - Tommy february6 (Japanese) Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 ---
**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:** [July 6, 2012, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/83 "2012-07-06T09:01:11Z")
Like I said when this thread was new, I do this all the damn time. I’m posting again to share the one currently going (an hour and counting). [‘Scare Tactics’ (actually apparently a rather obscure New York punk band called Fur) Inhumanifesto](http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/05/18/comic-book-legends-revealed-addendum-the-scare-tactics-single/). (Also, JpnDude - yay, Tommy! Though I prefer heavenly and buriguri to february…february’s still good, though. I’ve semi-recently had Talk To Me (brilliant green) and I’m Your Devil (Tommy heavenly6) in my obsessy-file.) ---
**Author:** ![truthSeeker2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@truthSeeker2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthSeeker2)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/84 "2012-07-14T16:59:20Z")
All the time. Current obsession is [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYIZt8eOZuI&feature=related)song. People here may not understand the lyrics but should still find the music and singing brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/85 "2012-07-14T17:09:13Z")
Yes. I worked it through by transcribing every note (of every instrument) of it into sheet music, using a wonderful little German software (the free version is great for most purposes) called “Forte”. I’m no great musician or composer, but it was such a pleasure (harmless diversion, althoughat one point I was wasting more time than I should have) to work out how to express the music in graphic form…and there’s just something beautiful to me about sheet music – I can’t exactly say why, it just is. Anyway, it helped me get over my fixation with the song… ---
**Author:** ![Tad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tad)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/86 "2012-07-14T18:23:56Z")
I [most definitely](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ecHynzptc) have. This is from a little while ago. For a long time last summer it was [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql0ZofDP1pc). Right now, it might be [this one,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux6JLQQ0J9o) or [this one,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRdFictnQAs) or [this one.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlLlwVk9eI) There have been so, so many. These are just in the last while. ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/87 "2012-07-14T22:22:46Z")
Strangeness & Charm by Florence + The Machine I could listen to it all week and never grow tired of it. ---
**Author:** ![pojimba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@pojimba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pojimba)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-obsessed-with-a-song/476869/88 "2012-07-14T23:09:16Z")
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