Autism

I have a soft spot for long pieces of music. Think twenty minutes and then some, like Octavarium (Dream Theater, 24 minutes sharp) or The Greatest Show On Earth (Nightwish, 24 minutes sharp). Or even music that must be listened by the whole disc, or maybe even the entire album. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Dream Theater, more than 40 minutes), All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World (Nightwish, just over half an hour), The Theory Of Everything (Ayreon, easily an hour and a half), stuff like that.

Let's just say that I need to make time to listen to it.

Some of my favourite songs are more of a good memory than a good song. I don't want to overwrite the memory by listening to it again unless I'm in the right mood. I'm never in the right mood.

Yep yep yep, I do this with songs and albums and bands that I love. After the initial period of listening to it non-stop on an endless loop as much as possible for an unknown amount of time (weeks to months) I have to stop altogether for a while.

Every once in a while I need to listen to [album with favorite song on it] and then I have to do that for like a week or two straight and then not touch it for a long time. The breaks get longer the more I've listened and absorbed it because, again, I'm trying not to get sick of it.

Isn't this everyone though?

definitely -- i have a permanent favorites list and a set of things i'm listening to frequently within the current few weeks that don't necessarily overlap at all. i don't want to play my favorites too often and burn them out

Yeah, I definitely don't listen to my favorite song all the time. When I find a song I like, though, I usually listen to it endlessly (at least until I move on to another song).

Dopesmoker by Sleep. It's over an hour

I tend to not have favorites of really anything, and I've wondered if that's just a unique me thing or from being ND. I either like something or I don't. There's no degree by which I like a thing (which may be the BPD and not ASD); it's binary.

I certainly have a tendency to hold off playing a song I like to not wear out it's welcome, but I don't have a single song in particular I'd point to as my favorite.

Most of the time, music is just something people do. I can appreciate the craft and the culture that goes into it, but I don't need to seek it out.

Then sometimes, usually on the way up from a bad spot, a song will just resonate with the way I feel, like it's some tangible, physical thing. It may be the same song, or artist, or genre that worked before, or it may be something entirely new. Then I can listen again and again, and as long as that emotional context lasts it has the same effect every time.

It's a pair or song, I always listen both and in the same order. These songs have somehow the ability to "reset" my mind. So I listen them only when I'm very exhausted and frustrated. They help me to rest

Yes. I have this with a few. I like games with a emotionally driven gameplay. This makes the soundtracks significant to me. No lryocs needed to hear emotions but there is lyrics occasionally.I have a weird set of self enforced rules for this kind of music.

I can't listen to the songs more then once a day.

I can't listen to the song on its own I need to hear the Playlist in its intended order to relive the experiance.

I cant do remixes untill Ive heard the original song enough times.

Unless a remixed version of the song is part of the experiance.

This is tough since I really like a song called "Heir of grief" (not from a video game but from a webcomic) but the Playlist associated with that is like 500 songs longs and takes day to get through. I really need to earn the experience.

Stan Rogers, "Mary Ellen Carter"

It's a beautiful song and has legit seen me through some dark places, but it's also a song that will always make me feel some kind of way, and I don't always need that.

I have a whole album for that. If I'm having a truly wretched day, I turn on Urban Hymns by the Verve. It's not in my standard rotation even though it's one of my favorite albums of all time. But when shit's bad, I queue it up.

Rene by Residente. It's so real, but also very depressing. In the song, he says that his happiness is still broken. Then in the chorus, he says he wants to call 755-0822 (his childhood phone number) to see who answers. It's like he's so desperate, that he's acting on habitual childhood behaviors hoping they work like they used to because he's running out of ideas.

I avoid it because to me, it's like the place where Tom Hank's character in Cast Away almost committed suicide. We know not to go there because the emotional weight is too heavy. Even writing this comment put was rough.

It's in Spanish btw.

YESSSSS! I do this with various songs cause I know if I listen to it too long, it'll be sucked dry. This is, however, unless it's one of my current comfort songs.

Oh yeah. I do this with lots of things. I waited 20 years to re-read my favorite book series because I didn't want it to get stale. Pandemic layoff hit and I decided it was time to tap the seal. Sooooo glad I waited. Now I will wait just 10 years next time. ;)

This may sound stupid, but The Last Unicorn soundtrack. It makes me cry. Also the Red Bull scared me so much as a kid. It's of course one of my favorite movies, and the songs kick but all it takes is the scene of him pushing them into the sea, which I think about every time I listen.

Oh for sure! They tend to be music that's far more technical or difficult to listen to. I listen to a lot of metal particularly and while I LOVE Lorna Shore, I've only listened to any particular song once or twice even so.

There is one or two artists that don't get old for me due to special factors that I can't quite describe though.

That being said, there are many bands I've dropped in the annals of time because their sound grew too familiar as well.

A few though they're kind of mood/theme music for times that don't come up too much. There's this one synthwave mix, 'Our Dream', I love but rarely listen to and then there's an old piece I enjoy, 'The Internationale' (Billy Brag's rendition), I listen to every now and then but intentionally won't listen to very frequently like I would something by Sabaton or Jonathan Young.