One day my husband decided he liked that "Umbrella" song, but he had hasty fingers and accidentally downloaded the dance remix, 'cause you know you can't dance to the original, so they will have us believe. So then he had to download the original 'cause I don't believe in remixes. So now we have two.

That Killers song is a good one, so don't feel too bad about listening to it on repeat. Same with Keane. I do the SAME exact thing. I sometimes listen to the same song 7 or 8 times in a row. It gets so bad sometimes that I wake up with whatever song I am currently obsessed with in my head.

Most recently, my go-to song has been "Cath" by Death Cab for Cutie. Ever since I got their newest album, "Narrow Stairs" back in June I have been obsessed with it. It's actually probably the worst I have ever been about a single song. My husband just shakes his head at me.

As a kid, some of my favorite songs that I played on repeat on my little fisher-price record player were "Yellow Submarine" by the Beatles, "Got My Mind Set on You" by George Harrison (that one actually drove my brother crazy) and the song "We Are Siamese" from Lady & the Tramp.

And I TOTALLY remember sitting intently by the radio with my finger ready to slap down the record button as soon as I heard the first few notes to my favorite song of the time, whether that be "The Humpty Dance", "Straight Up Now Tell Me", etc. LOL!

I recently drove my family insane by becoming obsessed with the soundtrack to The Last Unicorn. I didn't torture them by playing it when they were around but there were times when I couldn't stop myself from singing different bits. "Now that I'm a woman - everything has changed!"

As for the music, I get addicted to whole albums these days. The Fray was on constant repeat for a year until Nicole Atkins put out her album, Neptune City. Now it is Pictures and Sound.

Love that Dido song by the way, for a while was my anthem.

I came here via Erin in Jersey and also via Kristen Leep, who you met at the blogging Indiana conference.

I've been reading awhile. I want to go back and read it all. Also currently reading your book.

Anyway, that killers song is awesome and I think I downloaded not only the original but several versions of it.

I am more concerned about your "Umbrella" count though. :)

My iPod would have weird & embarrassing info as well, because there are some albums (yes, I still think of them that way) that are entities unto themselves--and the artists actually intended it that way, and intended that the songs be played in a particular order, in order to tell a story. (I'm sorry, but "Dark Side of the Moon" should NOT be on shuffle. Nor should "Sgt. Pepper" or "Abbey Road" or "Born to Run" or probably even "Darkness on the Edge of Town.") I realize this does not fit with the short attention span so popular with Kids These Days, but, in case you haven't figured it out, I am Old.

Seriously though, #4 on your list, easy silence, was this summer's OCD summer-driving track in my car.... I sang it nearly every day (actually, that whole disk for the most part!) and am now confident, I can go to karaoke and not sound stupid.

That's my excuse anyways! No easy silences around here!

Today it's been the theme tune to "Firefly". I got the DVDs for my birthday, and am discovering the geeky joys of being able to watch episodes one after another if I want. But now the theme tune is imprinted on my brain. "Take my life, take my land, take me where I cannot stand..."

It's pretty short. I run out of lyrics quite quickly. At least your Killers track is 4 minutes.

Technically, Erin and Kristen do not know each other. They both know me though. :)

I thought I was the only one grooving to really bad music that knows it's bad music but is listening to it anyway. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has guilty pleasure music that they wouldn't listen to with anyone else around. I mean, there are fine albums like Dark Side of the Moon, and there is bopping one's head to SexyBack. I know it's just fluffy pop, but it's FUN and has a pleasing beat to it.

Itunes also keeps track of how many times you've listened to a song- embarrasing!

If I like a song, I'll listen to it over and over until I know it off by heart backwards. I don't know why I do this, but I'll add it to my list of compulsions as well. I do the exact same thing with songs I don't like, which answers the question that many of us ask: " Why is it that we know all the words to a song we don't like?".

It's amazing how quickly I tense up when someone looks through my playlist. I suddenly find myself rambling with excuses as to why I have such and such song and that "oh, I downloaded that track by accident I thought it was someone else, a friend of mine wanted me to burn a CD for them". Strange.

To compare it to weight-related issues, I used to have the same insta-mortification when someone would open my refrigerator. " Oh there's a bake sale at work, my mom knows I love such and such so she loaded my freezer with it, they were on special so I stocked up etc etc...".

Why do we feel the need to justify ourselves ?

I am so not into current music. I'm so lame that way. I did hear a song today by Linkin Park that is fairly current, I assume, and you're right--all I had to do was google the few lines I memorized and POP! there was the song I heard & loved and then downloaded from iTunes in 10 seconds & then dragged & dropped to my iPod. Much better than an 8 track.

I remember wearing out TWO cassette tapes of Bob Seger's Live Bullet back in the day. More recently, I played "I'm No Good" and "Tears Dry on Their Own" by Amy Winehouse on my Ipod for a week before I put it back on shuffle.

I'll have to check out some of your favorites. I tend to listen to classic hits and need to explore some of the newer stuff out there.

Mine was "Everything I Do...I Do it For You" by Bryan Adams from the "Robin Hood: King of Thieves" soundtrack. I literally had an entire 60 min blank tape of just that song, recorded off the radio...cuz this was before I had a CD player with the magic repeat track feature.
I would lay in my room doing homework or what not, listening to that song endlessly...I think the tape eventually broke :(
Now its on one of my magical computer playlists, cuz I'm such a dork, that every song I was ever obsessed with I still love.

Ok back to I'm a dork: I have not one, but two copies of TLU...one on VHS and one on DVD, both from Target, paid full price for em, and have forced my children to watch them more than once.

Ok random question for anyone around 30 and up: Who remembers seeing an Austrailian animated/live action movie called "Dot and the Kangaroo"? I only know one other person who remembers seeing it.