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    Default Do you get stuck on a certain song?

    If you hear a song you really like, do you just enjoy it in that moment, or do you play the crap out of it on your ipod/CD player/computer, putting it on repeat until you know it inside out?

    If you are the sort who can get fixated, what's your current preoccupation? What have been some of your in the past, either recent or distant that you can remember?

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    I am most DEFINITELY in the latter category, to the point where it's kind of embarrassing how long I can listen to one song. That song for me right now is "Blackest Eyes" by Porcupine Tree. I don't think prog rock/metal is supposed to be that catchy.
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    Yes, I do that. The latest song I was fixated on was this one, and this particular acoustic live version:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCbCgp4tnAg

    I even have played it via youtube, from my iPhone into my car stereo on the way home or whatever.

    I get fixated on bands, and/or songs, all the time. Another one I did it with was this Mayer one:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvy4oybNIxA
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    I get that way with songs, but what excites me more is when I get that way about an album since I find so few artists know how to make an actual album anymore. Still, just about every year I manage to find an album that becomes what I call "musical crack." It's just so damn enjoyable and addictive that if I want to turn it off, I can't make myself do it.

    This time around it's Sleigh Bell's Treats.

    It's supposed to be catchy.
    It's supposed to be fun.
    It's supposed to be addictive.

    It's three for three.

    I will say though, they are unlikely to be the kind of band that would appeal to 90% of the people here. They are a mix of live guitar, break beats/samples, and over-the-top overtly pop female vocals. Make no mistake, this is dance music, but it's also rock music that I think can be categorized with the greater "post-punk" concept (adding technology and pop elements to the punk template a la Magazine or Wire or a thousand bands that came after). Call it post-post-punk if you will.

    Oh, and as far as individual songs I am hooked on at the moment, I have been obsessing over Funkadelic's "Can You Get To That?" which is a direct result of the Sleigh Bell's album as one of the songs generously samples the acoustic guitar pattern that is the basis of the Funkadelic song. When I first listened to the Sleigh Bells album I actually said out loud "Sweet! This is sampled from the Maggot Brain album," which I then immediately put back on my iPod.

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    I like holding the song parts I can remember, or the hook, in my head for a while after I've found one of those songs that totally resonates with me. I don't over listen. It allows my imagination and creativity move around. It's like drinking a fine wine - a taste here and there really allows me to appreciate it and think about it - chugging the bottle reduces it to the norm rather than the exception.

    I've fallen in love with great songs too many times in the past and then burnt out on them. If I ration my listening or, like RoG, appreciate the rest of the album as well then the love affair doesn't have to end. No fights, no cheating, no unwanted pregnancy. Just sonic emotional bliss for a long time.

    FWIW - Blackest Eyes is an amazing song. I have to ration that whole album or I'll listen to it 24 hours a day...like I did in the beginning.

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    I definitely do this with albums all the time. I wear it out for about a month and then give it a break for a few months.

    One song I can't get out of my head is this tune from a group called "Black Dub" with Trixie Whitley. The musicianship isn't phenomenal except for the drummer, but Trixie's vocal is so sweet.


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    I do it all the time with songs I want to learn to play.

    Starting and stopping the song while learning it just doesn't get it for me a lot of the times. It helps, but it's better to know what it sounds like in my head rather than trying to follow it while listening to it.
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g29MRQxuFM
    This is one I'm hung up on lately.

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    Heck, when I first got into Zep, I had 'Stairway' on repeat for 6 months straight. Serious. 6 months. CD player was right next to my head when I slept. I'm not saying it's the greatest song in the world but when I dig something -- I dig it!

    I did the same for the Final Fantasy IX Soundtrack+, except that was more like 8-10 months (Nobuo Uematsu = Dude)

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    Quote Originally Posted by thearabianmage
    (Nobuo Uematsu = Dude)
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    There's a couple of songs I will now and then look up on the iPod and listen to, yeah, and which I know inside out, although not have necessarily even tried to play them myself.

    First that come to mind are...

    Faster Pussycat: Where There Is a Whip
    Counting Crows: Mr. Jones
    Iron Maiden: Still Life
    Skid Row: Monkey Business
    Hammerbox: When Two Becomes One
    Reef: Together
    Aimee Mann: Deathly

    These are a few tracks that certainly get much more play than some others...there are more. I should probably some day make a compilation of 'best' songs just for one.
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    I'm currently fixed on Jonathan Rhys Meyers - This Time, off the August Rush soundtrack.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd3X9...eature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWwp...eature=related
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