roommates who listen to the same cd over and over, even if it's a good cd: classic or dud?

Only Classic sometimes because I would do it myself; but only because of Girl Trouble and Richard Buckner's (totally awesome BTW) "Since." Anyway that record was only 30 minutes long. No other option-

Then again, my roommate can't fathom why a sensitive feminist guy like me listens to hardcore rap. All she's been listening to lately is Belle & Sebastian. Luckily we don't discuss music often, because it would inevitably lead to an argument. Still, I love her, and perhaps it's a sign of a good roommate relationship when you can stand each other's differing tastes.

my roommate at this time apparently owns only two CDs, Ryan Adams' "Rock and Roll" and that Postal Service one. I've grown to hate them more than I already did.

in college I had a roommate who literally only own CD, Stone Temple Pilots' "Purple", which he would play once a day. Also, he would do 300 situps every afternoon at 4 to the song "Eye of the Tiger". This same roommate also: talked in his sleep, imagined that he saw midgets wandering around our room, beat up a kid for accidentally hitting his car with a snowball and got sued by the kid's parents, and stole a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey from me, which he drank. The next day he kept moaning about how much pain he was in and I said "that's what you get for stealing my whiskey!" as it turned out he needed to have his appendix taken out.

he sounds like a total asshole, but that little quirk is pretty awesome.

i want to kill him, sell his guitar and live comfortable for a year in rural portugal.

my freshman year roommate would jump around the room before wrestling matches to this very same song, sometimes his girlfriend would sit obligingly on the bed and cheer him on

Classic at first

Me: "Oh Jack, I didn't know you could play the clarinet!"
Other housemate [bitterly]: "He can't."

(dud, even if it's a good CD)

He handed me two Nurofen and a glass of water and turned the music up still further. Respect.

though roommates? thank god i've never had someone invading my personal space in such a way

We also had the phish & grateful dead potheads in the triple next door. They had one oversized case logic CD binder full of nothing but phish bootlegs which they would rotate while smoking pot all day and skipping class.

Needless to say, any remote chance I had of appreciating these bands has been obliterated.

In 1989, another dorm situation, this guy played JAMC's "Sidewalking" every night for a month, multiple times in a row. Both are worthy bands that I still can't really enjoy.

1) this cantonese pop song i dont know the name of
2) a track off miss saigon
3) uptown girl
4) achy breaky heart
5) this clip off canadian idol, i think, where someone sings acappella, then they judge says UNBELIEVABLE, and then someone roars.

Not necessarily.

I do this all the time (luckily, I live alone, though). It's a sign of a musical obsession, when you become so utterly obsessed with a song or an album - piece of music - that you just want to curl up inside it and understand every single nuance of it.

We used to call this "carolanne-ing" after the riff from a Boo Radleys song that my entire band got completely obsessed with. All of us used to play it on repeat over and over, usually in our drummer's car, for about a month.

4) achy breaky heart
5) this clip off canadian idol, i think, where someone sings acappella, then they judge says UNBELIEVABLE, and then someone roars.

4) i still think was secretly you
5) is the single most alarming thing i have ever woken up to, i thought that was you as well because it is so unlistenable - especially on repeat!!!! - that i assumed it was some weird avant garde shit

oh HEAVEN FORBID

k8 is right, this is some snobby bullshit!

i thought that was you as well because it is so unlistenable

:(

i suppose i played them too, some of them. and the beta band. and 'bringing it all back home'.

i guy whose flat i lived under played rhcp's best of every day for a very long time.

He always did strike me as the unreasonable type

1) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside
2) Rob Zombie - Dragula and Superbeast
3) Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright

Occasionally, there will be a Bush song thrown in there.

DUD would be an understatement.

Yes. I can still remember playing Rumours the whole day and only having oh a couple of thousand other records.

No it's not. It's a sign of falling in love with a certain chord change/rhythm/bassline/whatever that seems for a while to encapsulate everything you love about music. It's also laced with the sad knowledge that you are playing the song far too much and will probably grow sick of it soon. And then rediscover it afresh in a few years' time when you stumble across the record while tidying your room.

obviously it isn't the only reason people might play something repeatedly, but it's definitely one of them. and in my experience, often the people who are all smug and defensive about their favourite cd don't have the open-mindedness to discover more music or listen to recommendations. i've been in the company of people who close their eyes and get all nostalgic and soulful when jim hendrix or the chilis are playing, but only know about three other bands.

i'm certainly not a snob when it comes to music or anything else. i listen to people when they talk about what music they like. i don't champion my own favourites and imply through disinterest that what they like is shit.

sometimes have to listen to one song over and over... the other month i had to hear "dark was the night cold was the ground" well over a hundred times. sometimes while taking a shower i'll listen to a song 5-6 times -- lately it's "peking spring" by burma or that nic jones whaling song. at least i don't sing along loudly in the shower, that would not be very sporting of me.

thank god for renting a big enough house that this isn't really an issue. though my one housemate needs to be asked to please not throat sing so loudly with the door open (but clearly that's another thread entirely).