weird thing, i think i love you

[piranha]

prompted by a post from beelavender and the "weird things about you" meme, here's one:

i can get into phases where i will listen obsessively to music. and no, not to a particular artist or album from my large collection, but to only one or two songs that i'll play over and over and over again. this is why i know the lyrics perfectly for certain songs, even though in general i don't actually care about lyrics at all. and i can sing not just the melody, but most instruments' parts, and hammer out the percussion rhythms. i love getting to know a piece of music this well, and certain songs will inextricably be linked to certain periods of my life, and hearing them years later will bring back stronger memories than music in general (which is already very much linked with memory). those songs bring back even smells, which nothing else quite does the same way.

i used to record entire 90-min tapes with only a couple of songs on them (in sets of 1 each :). luckily this has all become so much easier with the rise of music kept on computers; i can just click the "repeat" button and the rabbit keeps drumming. i wonder when i am gonna wear out the first bits on one of my music drives.

fortunately for people living with me, i listen with headphones on; otherwise over the years somebody would have strangled me. unfortunately for me, sometimes i would really like to do this with music blasting from the speakers -- but people are living with me. also, i don't even have good speakers anymore. i vacillate on whether that needs to be rectified.

this winter is filled with obsession music of which i don't actually approve, *heh* (i listen to KAT-TUN for the music, yeah yeah).

Comments

[blur01.livejournal.com]

I listed that as one of my special abilities the other night. I can listen
to the same song for a very long time. I have been listening to Blue October's Into the Ocean for a couple of weeks now.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I do that too sometimes -- less now than I used to but still once in a while.

As to tapes, my tape deck actually lets you mark a region and play it on repeat, so I could do the "repeat one song," thing even with full tapes. :)

[mechaman.livejournal.com]

Oh lord do I ever do that. Though usually it's the lyrics that drive the looping (not always the case, especially with a lot of anime tracks but.). Stone Sour's "Through Glass" for example.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I can listen to a single song as long as you, but I certainly go through phases where I can listen to one song repeatedly so many times it drives everyone around me nuts, and yes, technology is great for this :-).

[firecat]

I've been known to listen to a song over and over. I'm more likely to do it with a whole album though. And the inextricable memory link - yeah.

[blur01.livejournal.com]

What memories are linked to which songs?