MusicDude

I'm just curious to see if some of you listen to music the way I do. When I get into a band or an album, I listen to it pretty much exclusively, and this can last for weeks. Then I will decide I'm done with it and often never listen to it again or listen to it rarely. And on to the next obsession. Do you all do that too, or do you have a bunch of artists you like at once and kind of rotate through them?

Duraddict

That's how I ween out who really matters and who doesn't.

I get insanely attached to an act and then I just stop. Almost spontaneously. If I eventually make my way back to them, then it was all worth it.

So far, the only artists who I don't listen to regularly anymore are Joni Mitchell and Gregory Douglass, but those are for personal reasons rather than not liking their music anymore.

Current obsession: The Police.

Bands that have survived the obsession phase and proven their worth: Robyn, Madonna, Duran Duran, Janet Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Tears for Fears, Queen, Frank Sinatra.

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LoathsomePete

I find I get this way with genres rather than artists. Lately it's been post-punk, a genre I have some familiarity with, but only with the top tier bands. I'm now trying to learn more of the deeper cuts because a mix CD I made for a party on Saturday turned out to be a big hit and now I've been conscribed into making a follow-up for August's monthly party.

Before this it was hip hop, where I decided to go through my collection of somewhat "broken in" artists in the hopes of finding more tracks I like, and before that it was metal.

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Urban Hat€monger ?

I tend to get obsessed with types of music rather than one band.

One day I might download a bunch of soul & funk and spend a while listening to that, then I might get bored & listen to a load of noise rock, then get bored of that and get a bunch of jazz and so on and so on.

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Janszoon

I'm the same way. Every once in a while, when I come across someone who really knocks my socks off, I'll get that way about a single artist, but usually it's about general types of music.

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Goofle

Agree with that. On a huge post-punk kick right now, and starting to listen to more Jazz as well.

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Charlemagne

I wouldn't say obsession with a particular band but definitely with genres, except mine usually last a long time, for the past 2 years I've been on a huge punk and emo kick, before that I was obsessed with Twee pop and I listened to that exclusively for like a year before I moved on.

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Rjinn

Tend to be more obsessed with artists rather than genres. When I do, I gotta listen and find out everything about them. Can't seem to shake off my Tool obsession. Not like I want to anyway.

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Mrd00d

I'm the same way with Tool. Been a big fan since '01 when I was a freshmen in high school. Thought I'd never need any other bands. That was foolish. But I did spend a good year or two with nothing else more or less.

Now, they're an obsession on the back burner. If someone plays Tool, I don't make a fuss, but I'll tell them not to change it. And I'll probably drum along, or sing. Haha. But I just don't actively put them on anymore. I know the songs. Even on the new 10,000 days. I just about researched Lateralus, the album, just out of interest enough to write a paper on it.

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I have moods, but I'm a sucker for throwing everything that I rate 5 stars, genre be damned, into a playlist and hitting shuffle.

When I first heard of dubstep around 08, I avoided it, finally heard a song I liked, found similar, spent a month or two being dubstepped out. Fell off. I only listen to dubstep every blue moon now. Might break it out when drinking, etc.

Got into a really deep modern space rock faze because there was so much of it, the average song length is 10 minutes, and I loved it. Flying through discographies of a dozen European and American space rock jam bands like Oresund Space Collective, Hidria Spacefolk, Quantum Fantay, Sula Bassana and Schmidt's other projects, First Band From Outer Space, Stone Oak Cosmonaut, etc. etc. etc. etc. and that all lasted for a good year or so. I wasn't interested in listening to hip hop, jazz, funk, regular rock, metal. I just wanted to listen to the jammy jams. I can't blame myself... the music is amazing. I just had to take a break from it so I could catch up on new releases of other bands I like and the sort. Then when I go back I can get like 5-10 more space rock albums because they churn those things out - a lot are completely improvisational. So anyway, I got into such a mood for this I barely had but 3 albums from 2012 by last month... this time last year I was sitting on 30-40 2012 albums by summer...

So it's okay to get stuck in one genre or maybe one artist for a time, but to do it ad infinitum is a bit overkill and a bit sad. There's too much good out there to get trapped. It's kind of my view on marriage at the moment as well. Or dating even.

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xMusicMan

I think everybody gets kinda obsessed with certain kind of music sometimes. Sort of like my little brother- but instead of music he used to get obsessed with specific movies when he was younger. I remember his Lion Kong period. I swear I got the entire movie memorized at that time lol

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