Posted this question on r/aspergirls some time back and I’d like to hear what users on Lemmy have to say.
Do you have a favourite song you don’t listen to a lot? For me, I can’t listen to mine regularly because I don’t want to “wear it out” and make it lose its emotional effect on me; I want to be blown away every time I hear it. It’s a rock song as well, and because of that I don’t want to listen to it much because it can be overstimulating as the instrumental is heavy (in my opinion). I reserve the song for special moments or moments I know I can listen to it better and truly appreciate what a masterpiece it is.
Anybody else feel the same way?
I have a soft spot for long pieces of music. Think twenty minutes and then some, like Octavarium (Dream Theater, 24 minutes sharp) or The Greatest Show On Earth (Nightwish, 24 minutes sharp). Or even music that must be listened by the whole disc, or maybe even the entire album. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Dream Theater, more than 40 minutes), All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World (Nightwish, just over half an hour), The Theory Of Everything (Ayreon, easily an hour and a half), stuff like that.
Let’s just say that I need to make time to listen to it.
Rush - 2112 - 21 minutes and some change
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick - more than 40 minutes
Keygen Church - Bullug Gegbug Ibgabiug Gixcure Dagabciea Fuic - 18 minutes
And I definitely agree. It’s hard to over listen to songs you have to make time for. Lol
I agree a lot with this sentiment. I think my favourite piece of music to sit down and listen through is The Wall (Pink Floyd, 80 minutes).
I have it on vinyl and it takes effort to set up the amp and get it going. But also, I feel like it adds to the experience. The warmth, crackling and popping all make my brain happy. Plus it has crescendos timed with when you have to stop and flip or change the vinyl.
And if anyone recognises Ayreon and thinks “hey, that’s prog metal opera, right? Surely the entire discography is to be listened by the album, right?” to you I say: Well yes but actually no. The Theory Of Everything is uniquely geared to being listened to as an album. Most other albums have songs that stand on their own, and are merely improved by listening by the album.
Some of my favourite songs are more of a good memory than a good song. I don’t want to overwrite the memory by listening to it again unless I’m in the right mood. I’m never in the right mood.
Yep yep yep, I do this with songs and albums and bands that I love. After the initial period of listening to it non-stop on an endless loop as much as possible for an unknown amount of time (weeks to months) I have to stop altogether for a while.
Every once in a while I need to listen to [album with favorite song on it] and then I have to do that for like a week or two straight and then not touch it for a long time. The breaks get longer the more I’ve listened and absorbed it because, again, I’m trying not to get sick of it.
Isn’t this everyone though?
I always had the impression NTs could play their favourite song more often, while I need to hold off and only listen to my favourite song max 3 times a month… if that. Maybe I’m wrong though, I don’t know how people generally do it.
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definitely – i have a permanent favorites list and a set of things i’m listening to frequently within the current few weeks that don’t necessarily overlap at all. i don’t want to play my favorites too often and burn them out
Yeah, I definitely don’t listen to my favorite song all the time. When I find a song I like, though, I usually listen to it endlessly (at least until I move on to another song).
It’s a pair or song, I always listen both and in the same order. These songs have somehow the ability to “reset” my mind. So I listen them only when I’m very exhausted and frustrated. They help me to rest
Dopesmoker by Sleep. It’s over an hour
I tend to not have favorites of really anything, and I’ve wondered if that’s just a unique me thing or from being ND. I either like something or I don’t. There’s no degree by which I like a thing (which may be the BPD and not ASD); it’s binary.
I certainly have a tendency to hold off playing a song I like to not wear out it’s welcome, but I don’t have a single song in particular I’d point to as my favorite.
Most of the time, music is just something people do. I can appreciate the craft and the culture that goes into it, but I don’t need to seek it out.
Then sometimes, usually on the way up from a bad spot, a song will just resonate with the way I feel, like it’s some tangible, physical thing. It may be the same song, or artist, or genre that worked before, or it may be something entirely new. Then I can listen again and again, and as long as that emotional context lasts it has the same effect every time.
Yes. I have this with a few. I like games with a emotionally driven gameplay. This makes the soundtracks significant to me. No lryocs needed to hear emotions but there is lyrics occasionally.I have a weird set of self enforced rules for this kind of music.
I can’t listen to the songs more then once a day.
I can’t listen to the song on its own I need to hear the Playlist in its intended order to relive the experiance.
I cant do remixes untill Ive heard the original song enough times.
Unless a remixed version of the song is part of the experiance.
This is tough since I really like a song called “Heir of grief” (not from a video game but from a webcomic) but the Playlist associated with that is like 500 songs longs and takes day to get through. I really need to earn the experience.
Rene by Residente. It’s so real, but also very depressing. In the song, he says that his happiness is still broken. Then in the chorus, he says he wants to call 755-0822 (his childhood phone number) to see who answers. It’s like he’s so desperate, that he’s acting on habitual childhood behaviors hoping they work like they used to because he’s running out of ideas.
I avoid it because to me, it’s like the place where Tom Hank’s character in Cast Away almost committed suicide. We know not to go there because the emotional weight is too heavy. Even writing this comment put was rough.
It’s in Spanish btw.
A few though they’re kind of mood/theme music for times that don’t come up too much. There’s this one synthwave mix, ‘Our Dream’, I love but rarely listen to and then there’s an old piece I enjoy, ‘The Internationale’ (Billy Brag’s rendition), I listen to every now and then but intentionally won’t listen to very frequently like I would something by Sabaton or Jonathan Young.
Stan Rogers, “Mary Ellen Carter”
It’s a beautiful song and has legit seen me through some dark places, but it’s also a song that will always make me feel some kind of way, and I don’t always need that.
Oh yeah. I do this with lots of things. I waited 20 years to re-read my favorite book series because I didn’t want it to get stale. Pandemic layoff hit and I decided it was time to tap the seal. Sooooo glad I waited. Now I will wait just 10 years next time. ;)
I have a whole album for that. If I’m having a truly wretched day, I turn on Urban Hymns by the Verve. It’s not in my standard rotation even though it’s one of my favorite albums of all time. But when shit’s bad, I queue it up.
