I hear the “Bird’s the word”
All the time!
My current obsession is What About Everything by Carbon Leaf.
What about aliens? Indeed.
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.
**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.
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.
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. 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, Idle Hands, and The Stations.
I regularly listen to the same song for hours on end.
I’m sure it’d be annoying to many people…
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.
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.
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
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.
‘Winter’ is a recent obsession for me too - love Josh Radin!
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.
*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.
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.
… 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.
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word.
O the humanity.
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.
You hush! 
All the time. Just yesterday I listened to Pat Benetar’s All Fired Up over and over.