Extreme audio rather than visual memory??

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Have you read anything about, I forget the dude's name, his Multiple Intelligences theory. Musical Intelligence is one of the intelligences on his list, and strong auditory image recall is an attribute of Musical Intelligence. You, in my opinion, are still thinking in images, just not so much in visual images. I think in three forms of image: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. I can't seem to figure out how to spell that right now. Please for give my spelling. It's not one of my gifts.

I just posted this in another thread and realized it was probably relevant:

My mum used to sing nursery rhymes to me when I was a very young child (2-4 years old I think), and she is tone deaf so she would sing them all off key. Then when I went to stay at my grandma's house I would sing perfect imitations of nursery rhymes I heard to my grandma - complete with all the exact same wrong notes, and she would laugh herself sick.

(my grandma's the musical person in the family - nobody in my immediate family was musical)

My visual memory and visual imagination is very, very bad. My memory for music and lyrics is usually very good, but not extraordinary.

I have good audial memory. But I remember having good visual memory too but it seems to have deterioated with age. Well im only 19 but I dont even remember dreams being particurlarly visual anymore. I remember having memories from childhood before but I cant recall.
Its quite worrying. I think its because of lack of stimulance. When I was a kid it was me against the world. But after the diagnosis I have led a very pleasant and content life for the most part. Part of the test for the diagnosis was to draw a picture after seeing it.
And I did well. But I cant imagine doing that today.

I don't really remember in sound or image.
Although if I had to pick, I'd say sound makes more of an impact, somehow.

Always had a very strong ability to pick up accents. Was told by my French teacher in high school that my accent was unusually natural in my first year. Currently learning Japanese and getting the same type of responses from close friends who are native speakers (after establishing that they weren't just being polite).

My own accent apparently shifted toward those around me (region) while moving around in my teens/20s. I still get asked "Where are you from? You have an accent!". Still haven't figured that one out.

Transcribing and performing a complex piece of solo jazz guitar by ear and aceing "blind" memory tests (where the tester played a series of abstract riffs with his back turned and I had to play back by auditory memory) resulted in my receiving a scholarship to a prestigious Music College.

I'll chime in with a me-too here.

When it's silent, I usually have a song playing in my head, and whenever I play or sing a musical piece, I first have to recall that song in my head as well. That usually involves finding the beginning of the song and then 'playing the tape', so to speak. And when I do sing a song, I usually match the accent of the performer quite well. (I pick up accents easily anyway, when I hang out with a certain group I pick up their speech patterns in a day or two. And some of my friends do too.)
I do remember all the inconsistencies (sing them as well), and when I used to have a mix tape playing in the car, I knew which song followed each one.
And when singing along with a song, I can usually do all the different melodic lines, baseline, drums, et cetera.

Also, I remember a lot of other auditory things. Like the way somebody spoke a sentence, intonation and everything. And I can recognize people from their voices very easily, more so than from their faces. I believe I can still recall some things my very first love said, years ago, in exactly her voice.

So yeah, I guess phonographic memory is not that uncommon, huh?

Mine are both strong.

If I'm hearing something from memory, I'm also seeing it (if that makes sense).

I think primarily in pictures. But I would not be able to "draw" a room one time I have seen it. Though my pictural memory is strong, as I can perfectly describe the appartment I lived in for example age three to six in detail. My auditive memory is better as I can also as the OP remember music up to the smallest details, especially classical music of couple hours long.
And: Les Miserables was a side-SI for a time and I know it by heart too!
To OP: We could - as I cannot sing - hum it together! Well, I can "sing" the lines too in a way, but...