General / Off-Topic Why Do I Only Like 5 Songs At A Time...?

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
I have access to literally 10s of millions of songs on Google Play Music.

Yet I listen to just 5, usually on a loop.
If I find a new song, it will generally replace one on the list.

My playlist has about 50 songs on it. But after the first 5, I start it over again. Lol

Why am I so weird? Or does anyone else do this?

Also, does anyone else cycle through genres, only liking songs from that genre for a while before moving to another?

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
 

Iskariot

Iskariot
CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
I have access to literally 10s of millions of songs on Google Play Music.

Yet I listen to just 5, usually on a loop.
If I find a new song, it will generally replace one on the list.

My playlist has about 50 songs on it. But after the first 5, I start it over again. Lol

Why am I so weird? Or does anyone else do this?

Also, does anyone else cycle through genres, only liking songs from that genre for a while before moving to another?

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
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I am very often fixated on a few songs at a time too.
I sometimes even loop 1 single song and listen to it 10, 20 times in a row.

Sadly these days I rarely discover new songs that make me pay attention, I revert to music 10, 20, 30 years old.
I am old :).
 

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
Iskariot said:
I am very often fixated on a few songs at a time too.
I sometimes even loop 1 single song and listen to it 10, 20 times in a row.

Sadly these days I rarely discover new songs that make me pay attention, I revert to music 10, 20, 30 years old.
I am old :).
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Hehe, me too. I basically hate most modern stuff these days.
I rediscovered Van Halen a while back, and player a few of their songs over and over. And over.

Now I've moved on to both new and old country music. Lol

While I like most music, my theme seems to be, if it has string instruments in it, I like it.
I rarely bother listening to the lyrics, which leads me to liking songs that don't really "fit". Lol
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
People like familiar stuff that isn't too familiar. What makes something (too) familiar is personal, but plenty of people go through that cycle. And unless one is actively interested in music (development), people tend to fill their heads with tunes they like in the first few decades of their life and then their brain is 'full'. At that point you listen to the music you are familiar with, cycling between the stuff to prevent it from becoming too familiar, while grumbling how the kids these days dont know what real music is. :p
 

Flash_Baggins

Flash_Baggins
Im similar but I do it with artists. Ill listen to a couple of artists non-stop for a couple of weeks to a month then Ill swap.
Earlier in the year it was Abba, then Billy Joel then ELO and its currently Dire Straits

I listen to some stuff on the side but its usually mostly the single artist or soundtrack Ill listen to
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
I'm the same way. I usually find a genre or artist or even a single song and listen to it ad nauseam. :)
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
I have about 10GB of songs on my phone, yet my actual playlist consists of 15 songs from only two artists and it's been on a loop for last two months.

So yeah.. You're not alone
 

Robin of Spiritwood

Robin of Spiritwood
It's even worse for me.
I started listening to Synthwave, which is like CheezeWhizz. It's only reminiscent of actual music. It seems to switch on memories of songs.

Sadly, it got started when the news reported on a mass shooter in some school, who listened to it, which got me to look for it to see what it was. He was a teen, so for him that stuff isn't derivative.
 

Deleted member 110222

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I only listen to two genres.

Metal & classical.

But they're both the same really.

EDIT: I reckon Mozart would be a metalhead today.
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
Robin of Spiritwood said:
It's even worse for me.
I started listening to Synthwave, which is like CheezeWhizz. It's only reminiscent of actual music. It seems to switch on memories of songs.

Sadly, it got started when the news reported on a mass shooter in some school, who listened to it, which got me to look for it to see what it was. He was a teen, so for him that stuff isn't derivative.
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Hey, don't knock synthwave! It's awesome. :)
 

Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
Robin of Spiritwood said:
I started listening to Synthwave, which is like CheezeWhizz. It's only reminiscent of actual music.
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OI! [mad]

Speedcuffs said:
No. Bach would be a Metal legend.
Mozart would be employed by Simon Cowell.[yesnod]
Or some cheesy ad company.
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Most big names have a stupidly large repertoire, with tons of commercial sell-out stuff for their patrons. But Mozart had some pretty heavy, dark stuff as well that is as far removed from the poppy 'eine kleine nachtmusik' stuff he is most famous for. If we're talking metal and the big names in classical music, by money would be on Wagner though.
 

Deleted member 110222

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Well, nobody disagrees that metal & classical are the same, which is fair, because they are. :D
 

Speedcuffs

Speedcuffs
sleutelbos said:
OI! [mad]



Most big names have a stupidly large repertoire, with tons of commercial sell-out stuff for their patrons. But Mozart had some pretty heavy, dark stuff as well that is as far removed from the poppy 'eine kleine nachtmusik' stuff he is most famous for. If we're talking metal and the big names in classical music, by money would be on Wagner though.
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Wagner. +virtual rep.
 

znôrt

znôrt
CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
I have access to literally 10s of millions of songs on Google Play Music.

Yet I listen to just 5, usually on a loop.
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the whole point of music is that the brain is able to predict the experience, which is when it finds pleasure in it. if it can't, it's just uninteligible noise. that's why rythmical melodies are so successful and popular, they are easy to learn and predict. you might be an expert in baroque chamber music but get a headache the first time you listen to, say, weber. listen to weber long enough and you will learn the clues to experience the same pleasure (i.e. aesthetic experience), and end up even liking it.

that said, i recommend you try and expand your tastes a bit :)
 

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
znôrt said:
the whole point of music is that the brain is able to predict the experience, which is when it finds pleasure in it. if it can't, it's just uninteligible noise. that's why rythmical melodies are so successful and popular, they are easy to learn and predict. you might be an expert in baroque chamber music but get a headache the first time you listen to, say, weber. listen to weber long enough and you will learn the clues to experience the same pleasure (i.e. aesthetic experience), and end up even liking it.

that said, i recommend you try and expand your tastes a bit :)
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Lol I do like pretty much all music, with the exception of most club type music, and that's basically because it's too repetitive.
And I'm not a fan of heavy metal, mainly because I don't think my aging ears can distinguish the instruments well enough for it to sound good (to me). Lol

My own music library consists of stuff from basically every genre.

But I still only listen to 5 songs at a time. Lol

This week it's 5 different country songs.
Last week it was Van Halen, Animotion, The Proclaimers, and the Ghostbusters theme. Lol
A few months ago I was in a nostalgic mood, so I was playing Spice Girls and B*Witched, which I grew up hearing all the time. Lol
 
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