the past 2 days, i've had TVOTR's "blind" on constant repeat. like, i'm getting into obsessive detail with it right now, which is not good for my "relationship" with the song, since i'll probably never want to hear it again after this.

but anyhow. what's with that? is it just the melody itself? the atmosphere? the lyrics? emotion? i mean, i've known this song for at least a year, but out of nowhere...it has taken complete hold.

if i had a therapist, i'd want to talk them into discussing this further. but as i don't...

KPH

I don't know why, but I do shit like this all the time. I was listening to Buffalo Springfield Again yesterday and must have skipped to "Broken Arrow" six times. I also have a tendency to realize there was something I wanted to hear again, then skipping back to the beginning, then forgetting where it was or what it was until after it passes again.

On Sunday I just walked around Glasgow listening to the alternative version of 'Elevate Me Later' from the reissued Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, over and over again.

I think I was trying to work out in my mind what parts were different and what bits were the same.

I do this all the time once a song gets a hold of me. It wears it out for a bit, but when you go back to listening you remember why your were so obsessed in the first place. I just did this on a couple of Who songs just to listen to Townsend's rhythm.

back in college, I used to work as a lifeguard at my hometowns public pool. It was a pretty cool place, and all the lifeguards were down with the alternative/indie rock scene.

local radio sucked except for when certain DJ's were on air at the free-format college radio station that I DJ'd at. We use to tape a lot of shows and just play them at work. We'll I got the bright idea to play a little psychological warfare on the masses and taped one song over and over again on a 90 minute cassette just to see what effects it would have on the general populace. It was the summer of 1988, the weather was beautiful, the pool pretty full, and the song was the Tokens, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."

The first time it played people were smiling, happy to hear it. The second time thought people chuckeled at the re-run. Third time through people began to get agitated, by the fifth time though that beautiful track the people were up in arms, shouting, shrieking, dishelven, distrought, twitchy. Total mass hysteria. It was so-o-o-o fun to watch the collective freak-out. It only made it to five before someone pulled the plug - to the hearty cheers of the aurally abused. i gotta try that again some day.... bWah Hah Hah!!!