Memorize the lyrics, remember the beats, and hit the back button again and again until your new favorite tune is permanently etched in your brain.
AWESOME!
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August 18, 2009...12:01 am
#698 Listening to your new favorite song over and over again
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August 18, 2009 at 12:27 am
Doing that awesome thing right now! My current new favorite is this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pLj9BoNb1U
August 18, 2009 at 11:58 am
Does it count as being Rick Roll’d if you actually enjoy the result?
August 18, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Yes.
August 18, 2009 at 12:27 am
!!
I’ve done this too many times. When other people sing my favorite songs, I have this urge to correct them when they make a mistake without realizing it.
Frustrating. Also happens with favorite movies and TV shows.
August 18, 2009 at 12:34 am
Haha, that’s so right!
August 18, 2009 at 1:21 am
I do this all the time. i get a song i like and I play it until everyone around me begs me to stop.
A related awesome thing for me is finding a copy of a long lost old favorite again. I recently found copies of dozens of old disc from my college era. I’ve been in nostalgia heaven for a month now.
August 18, 2009 at 2:20 am
Have been doing this with my Song of the Week for the last 2 days. As soon as I wake up it’s in my head.
August 18, 2009 at 2:21 am
This is so funny.
I was going to quickly check what new Awesome Thing was posted today as I clicked “replay” on this one song that I was currently obsessed with, when I saw this.
Too perfect, too awesome. :)
August 18, 2009 at 2:29 am
Hee, this is one of my favourites. I do this ALL THE TIME.
August 18, 2009 at 2:48 am
This should be in the top ten most awesome things.
August 18, 2009 at 3:16 am
I have done this to songs to the point where I have listened to one over 500 times in three days.
I’m not kidding.
My friends are generally not pleased when this happens. =D
August 18, 2009 at 4:34 am
Guilty as charged.
August 18, 2009 at 7:59 am
Hey if its a great song…. Rock it.!
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August 18, 2009 at 8:49 am
Doing this right now – gotta love replay on the iPod!!!
August 18, 2009 at 9:04 am
agreed very much.
current obsession: Mayday Parade “Jamie All Over”
April 25, 2010 at 9:45 am
Right now, it’s “Mother Maria” by Slash feat. Beth Hart. Awesome!
August 18, 2009 at 9:06 am
I do this all the time on my iPod…especially when I’m working out. My latest has been either Waking Up In Vegas by Katy Perry or Heartless by the new American Idol, Kris.
August 18, 2009 at 9:25 am
LOVE doing this, even though it drives some people crazy. I will listen to a song a million times before I tire of it! :)
August 18, 2009 at 11:43 am
Two are “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” from Sgt. Pepper, and “Mean Mr. Mustard” from Abbey Road.
August 18, 2009 at 11:47 am
Lately I’ve been trying to back off on listening to the new, awesome songs I come across. I’ve killed so many of my favorite songs by listening to them again and again. Now I try to ration out the ‘coolness’ by keeping the listen-count low.
August 18, 2009 at 12:00 pm
As people have mentioned, its awesome when you do it for yourself. Less awesome when you’re a victim of it.
I had a roommate in college who only owned 1 CD. It was Blink 182′s Enema of the State. He listened to the entire CD, on repeat, for an ENTIRE year. It was really ridiculous. Trust me that as far as torture goes, this is worse than waterboarding.
August 18, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Remember back in the days of cassette tapes, it was an art:…song ends…hit rewind… hit play again at the exact right second. Awesome!
August 18, 2009 at 1:59 pm
This is quite possibly my favorite thing on the list so far. I am guilty of doing this every day. I have a favorite song of the day or the hour or the week and I play it over and over until I get sick of it. I do the same thing with albums sometimes.
August 18, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Not new, but recently remembered, and constantly on repeat:
August 18, 2009 at 5:42 pm
I do it all the time
August 18, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Right now it’s Marcy Playgrounds “I Must Have Been Dreaming”.
August 19, 2009 at 12:03 am
Ha! Been doing that all day long.
August 19, 2009 at 12:25 am
Also known as “ruining a great song by burning it out,” which is profoundly un-awesome.
August 19, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Neil, how did you decide to spell “favorite” in the proper American English vs. French Canadian? :)
August 20, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Put in Pearl Jam’s Yield (MASSIVE PJ fan here!!) and alternated between ‘Given To Fly’ & ‘In Hiding’ (my current favorite song) for about 1/2 an hour!
…did that with ‘The Real Me’ by The Who and DMB’s ‘Tripping Billies’ a few days ago, actually!
man, I do this all the time!
August 24, 2009 at 1:23 am
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August 27, 2009 at 7:47 am
Yeah, especially if you felt like the lyrics were someway created for you.
October 23, 2009 at 1:24 pm
and then the next day,
you feel like you’ve known the song forever.
November 6, 2009 at 5:24 am
Meh, I’m not much a 1 song over and over type. I prefer to listen to a whole album repeatedly :D. Of course, by the end, I have whiplash, but it’s worth it.
November 17, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I just found this site and I already love it. I seriously just did this with “Rocky Raccoon”.
November 18, 2009 at 1:28 am
Ive been doing this heaps with Taylor Swift’s song “Love Story”. Such a beautiful and great song.
December 14, 2009 at 6:06 am
The best!
December 17, 2009 at 4:26 pm
When I was a kid, I got 20 dollars a month for allowance, and every month I would buy a new CD. The moment when I got into the car and took last month’s CD out of my walkman, put on my headphones and let the new music flow was the highlight of the month! That CD would stay in the player until another 20 bucks came around, by which time every track was almost irritatingly etched into my brain…
But on the way to the store on that special day, there was only one song to play. Knowing I was going to be transfixed by something new, and I probably wouldn’t be hearing my favorite track from this month’s CD for a long time, my parents were treated to a loud rendition of that one wonderful song — for the whole 30 minute ride to the store. And it was awesome!
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January 25, 2010 at 7:16 pm
I loooove to do this! But.. I’m trying to learn when to stop before I get tired of it. :-/ It’s so hard to do.
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April 19, 2010 at 2:36 pm
So I go to this website every sunday to see what this week looks like. It’s called postsecret.com. It’s one of my favorite things to do on a sunday morning. And this week there was this song they posted on there that I am in love with. I keep hitting the replay button because I just love it so much. And, it’s called “1000 Awesome Things” :)
August 7, 2010 at 10:11 am
OMG i saw this one!!! wow ive been following it since the end of march i think… that video is what lead me to this site =D totally and completely and utterly
AWESOME!
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June 1, 2010 at 3:59 pm
I thought i was the only person who did this and upset all those around me. I remember putting the 12 inch version of she sells sanctuary on a 90 min tape and just playing it continously…. heaven !!!!!!!!!!!
I thinks it is a form of meditation and those who can do it, get some real peace from it…..
My current obsession is an oldie but a goodie.
Collective Soul – Shine……….
June 5, 2010 at 11:49 pm
That tune is totally amazing. I really like it!
August 16, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Yes, this is awesome. but it’s even more awesome when you own the tape that has it, and cannot find the song on google or anywhere else for that matter. “who invented music? I’d like to shake his hand, ’cause music put’s a spell on me that I can’t understand…..”
August 30, 2010 at 10:44 pm
today I listened to my new favorite song about 25 times, effectively spending about an hour and a half listening to that one song!