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I appreciate this. I’ve had days where at work I’ve played a new song I’ve gotten into at least 30 times, sometimes with a few songs to break it up, often not t
by pseudoramble 4y ago
I appreciate this. I’ve had days where at work I’ve played a new song I’ve gotten into at least 30 times, sometimes with a few songs to break it up, often not though. I’ve always assumed it was slightly strange, but also probably not that strange. I also relate to the authors explanation. I’ll get tired of a song eventually, for a while, but one day come back to it and get into another usually less intense loop.
I don’t really understand what happens, but to be honest, I’m not really sure I’m bothered by my lack of understanding either. It’s just an experience that I can explain simply “I listened to this song on repeat 37 times today”, and yet I can’t explain it at all “Why does this happen? Why this song from an anime I’ve never seen? Beats me!”
- Buttons840 4y agoOnce you sleep on the song once or twice the enjoyment fades. Like that favorite song from the radio, you listen 4 or 5 times over several days and the excitement is gone. So you mine as well enjoy it 40 times in a row on day one.
- doliveira 4y agoOnce I checked the stats and I had listened to a single specific song 150 times in a single year. I wouldn't be surprised if I've reached 500 by now
- bigiain 4y agoWhat song? (I might have hit that count with Lebanese Blonde by Thievery Corporation a few years back...)
- bigiain 4y agoIt's like forgetting the words to your favorite song You can't believe it; you were always singing along It was so easy and the words so sweet You can't remember; you try to feel the beat -- Regina Spektor, Eet - https://youtu.be/nlK0zYZLBGY https://youtu.be/nlK0zYZLBGY
- jnwatson 4y agoThat was one of my repeat songs!
- unsafecast 4y agoI'm the complete opposite. Playing music on repeat ruins it. But if I listen to a song/album relatively rarely, it feels just as good every time. I also notice new subtle details once in a while, and that makes it even better. I have songs that I absolutely love and have loved for years now. I just make sure not to overdo it.
- pseudoramble 4y agoFeel like this is probably a better way to manage it if I'm being honest. Actually, this is a bit of a similar way I'd listen to jam bands (Grateful Dead, Phish, Railroad Earth, etc.) Usually too long to listen to on repeat, but interesting enough to listen to many times and pick up on things.
- steinuil 4y agoFor me the enjoyment fades only if the song itself is not very good to begin with; I start to notice the flaws and after a while I start to hate it and wonder why I even liked it in the first place. Good songs tend to pass the test of being listened to on repeat for me.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoMy experience with albums (LPs, remember?) was that a handful of songs would attract me fairly quickly, while other's were, meh. It was good that there were songs that hooked me early because I would wait patiently through the less-appealing songs for those good ones. Some months or so later, the tracks had flipped — burned out on the hooky songs, loving the once-meh songs. (I can specifically remember this to be the case with both Murmur and Reckoning when they came out — yes, I am old.)
- pseudoramble 4y agoFor me, I think short term this is kinda how it works. Although a point I'd make is that is not that I enjoy it less often, it's just that I move onto other things. Long term though, songs I loop like this can always return and restart their cycle. So it doesn't completely ruin it for me or anything after a few days.
- dehrmann 4y agoAnd then it's time to find your next fix. In a year or two, that song might be able to bring you back to that point in time. I've started building playlists by the year I discovered the song. It's a trip.
- ge96 4y agoI do it to focus. Loop a known energetic song.
- Scarblac 4y agoI do it with a single album (No More Shall We Part by Nick Cave) but it's been my focus music for about twenty years now.
- bentcorner 4y agoWhen I was younger I would get hooked on a CD. I'd do it so much that the current game I was also hooked on and the music I was listening to get intertwined into a single memory (if I see the game I remember the music, and vice versa). These days with Spotify I get hooked on a single song and will often play that song over and over for a week or two.
- spockz 4y agoI had this with books! I would play one album per book. And still when I pick up the book I hear the music and know where I was when reading it. And the other way around. When I hear the album I see the pages of the book again.
- thorin 4y agoWalking on Glass - Iain Banks and In-sides - Orbital been stuck there for 25 years or so
- TexanFeller 4y agoOrbital is a great band to be stuck on! One of the few I don’t tire of.
- LAC-Tech 4y agoI've unfortunately at least tired of "Halcyon" because the youtube algorithm just won't stop playing it to me when I have autoplay on.