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

[znôrt]

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

yeah, my answer was a bit generic, but i see yours as a special and extreme case of that, and i know it very well because it happens to me too (a lot, although less and less as i grew older).

sometimes your brain just fixates on a specific experience, over and over. kind of a drug, really, until it had enough and it wears out.

as an experiment, try listening do different versions, covers or variations of that same song. it isn't the same, right?

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Atmospheric black metal:
I was thinking of Venom.
Then you said complex:
And I was not thinking of Venom.

Northern/Eastern Europe = Best metal.

 

[znôrt]

People like familiar stuff that isn't too familiar.

yeah, this too. applies to everything, not just music.

 

[Speedcuffs]

yeah, this too. applies to everything, not just music.

I'm aware of how that works with music, but it makes me think, is this just a sensory thing?

 

[Broon]

Am I the only person who listens to the radio?

Work usually has the local rock station on, mostly, but country makes an appearance occasionally. I listen to rock/classic rock on the radio in my truck while driving and sometimes I turn on the radio at home and listen to.....umm, you guessed it, the local rock/classic rock stations.

I have a bunch of vinyl and cd's at my disposal that span from the mid 60's to the turn of the century and cover rock, blues and metal with a touch of classical mixed in for good measure but I rarely fire up the turntable or disk player. No country or rap/hip hop junk though.

 

[Roybe]

I listen to satellite radio....a few hundred stations of various focus.

I am currently stuck on the '70's channel...pop from the '70's. Taking a break from the classic rock, new wave, and electronica....

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Am I the only person who listens to the radio?

Work usually has the local rock station on, mostly, but country makes an appearance occasionally. I listen to rock/classic rock on the radio in my truck while driving and sometimes I turn on the radio at home and listen to.....umm, you guessed it, the local rock/classic rock stations.

I have a bunch of vinyl and cd's at my disposal that span from the mid 60's to the turn of the century and cover rock, blues and metal with a touch of classical mixed in for good measure but I rarely fire up the turntable or disk player. No country or rap/hip hop junk though.

No, you're not alone. Know where I said I like classical music?

That's all on the radio. Classic FM is great.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Does internet radio count? I listen to Google's "radio" quite often.
Pick a genre, sit back, pure music, that you can skip, and no adverts or annoying banter.

 

[Barking_Mad]

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

Metallica S&M Live DVD is brilliant.

Am I the only person who listens to the radio?

Work usually has the local rock station on, mostly, but country makes an appearance occasionally. I listen to rock/classic rock on the radio in my truck while driving and sometimes I turn on the radio at home and listen to.....umm, you guessed it, the local rock/classic rock stations.

I have a bunch of vinyl and cd's at my disposal that span from the mid 60's to the turn of the century and cover rock, blues and metal with a touch of classical mixed in for good measure but I rarely fire up the turntable or disk player. No country or rap/hip hop junk though.

Soma FM app is very good.

 

[Necronaught]

My brother has been listening to Master of Puppets, Number of the Beast and Leveling the Land for the last 25 years. Bar the odd Guns and Roses song that's all he listens to.

Atmospheric black metal:
I was thinking of Venom.
Then you said complex:
And I was not thinking of Venom.

Mayhem?

 

[MottiKhan]

Am I the only person who listens to the radio?

Work usually has the local rock station on, mostly, but country makes an appearance occasionally. I listen to rock/classic rock on the radio in my truck while driving and sometimes I turn on the radio at home and listen to.....umm, you guessed it, the local rock/classic rock stations.

I have a bunch of vinyl and cd's at my disposal that span from the mid 60's to the turn of the century and cover rock, blues and metal with a touch of classical mixed in for good measure but I rarely fire up the turntable or disk player. No country or rap/hip hop junk though.

Radio listener here too. I have a USB stick with music downloaded to it, but after a short while, I get tired of the same songs playing in the same order. Yeah, I could randomize it, but the radio does that for me.

Mostly alternative, modern rock, metal/hard rock and classic rock stations. I tend to rotate them around so I don't get bored with them. Something new on the radio usually gets my attention.

 

[Broon]

Soma FM app is very good.

If I ever get a smarty phone I might look into that. I still use a flip phone for talk/text. Nothing more.

Radio listener here too. I have a USB stick with music downloaded to it, but after a short while, I get tired of the same songs playing in the same order. Yeah, I could randomize it, but the radio does that for me.

Mostly alternative, modern rock, metal/hard rock and classic rock stations. I tend to rotate them around so I don't get bored with them. Something new on the radio usually gets my attention.

Awesome!

But I guess I am old school and feel the need to be able to own a physical copy of my music. I have never downloaded a single song, ever.

 

[MottiKhan]

Awesome!

But I guess I am old school and feel the need to be able to own a physical copy of my music. I have never downloaded a single song, ever.

I own physical copies of my music, too. The downloads are paid for and most are in my Amazon library. The local copies are on the stick and I can change them out when I want. It's no different from an old school CD. It's software either way.

 

[Broon]

I own physical copies of my music, too. The downloads are paid for and most are in my Amazon library. The local copies are on the stick and I can change them out when I want. It's no different from an old school CD. It's software either way.

Is "the music store" even still a thing? Browsing through racks of albums/cd's looking for good music? Or have they gone the way of game arcade?


I don't get into the city often, much less someplace like the mall that might house such a place.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Is "the music store" even still a thing? Browsing through racks of albums/cd's looking for good music? Or have they gone the way of game arcade?


I don't get into the city often, much less someplace like the mall that might house such a place.

We do have an HMV other side of the harbour here, and it's doing great. Love it because of the huge metal collection there.

 

[Gortron]

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

It isn't really all that weird. Most radio stations play the same stuff over and over in a loop periodically adding in something new to the loop. Even radio stations that don't play current 'pop' do the same thing. You listen to them and think 'Oh wow they play some different music' but after a few days you realise they just play the same stuff over and over in a loop; it just isn't what you were listening to on the other radio station.


There must be a reason for it or they wouldn't do it

 

[Deleted member 115407]

I think it's pretty normal, OP. Songs are highly evocative, and people people are likely to gravitate towards the one or a few that they feel most poignant to their present state of mind.

 

[Cosmo Bozo]

Thing is... while we might listen to the same stuff repeatedly, if a colleague does the same thing we think "Play something else for a change godammit!"

 

[Cosmo Bozo]

There must be a reason for it or they wouldn't do it

The reason is to hugely annoy people who work with radio listeners....

It annoys me that the rock staions do this when there is such a huge back catalogue of classic rock that just gets ignored. (I'm sure it's the same with other genres)

 

[SpacialKatana]

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.

Nailed it [yesnod]