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Does certain music cause you to loop?
Yes. I'm looping right now! "This was a triumph..." 85%  85%  [ 17 ]
No, um isn't that what you do when you tie your shoes? 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
We can't stop here, this is bat country! 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
My cigar's on fire! 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
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28 Oct 2009, 5:38 pm

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SamwiseGamgee I LOVE YOU! I actually got to meet Felicia Day at Blizzcon this year and it was so awesome! This song is crazy for looping. My brother and I waited for 2 hours so we could be first in line to meet them all. I was so nervous I had to listen to music just to calm me down.

Many hours of happiness! Smile face inevitable: :).


Thanks for the love. That's really cool that you got to meet her, she's amazing!



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28 Oct 2009, 6:03 pm

Yep, I "loop" allot.

I can replay songs I've heard allot in my head with perfect tempo. I just remember the lyrics and a single instrument between lyrics. I have multiple recordings stored of a few of my favorites. This comes in handy when you need to mellow yourself out and can't use an ipod at the moment.



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30 Oct 2009, 1:51 am

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I generally pick one album and loop it. I skip certain songs though sometimes. Theres always that one track thats out of place and doesn't get played. Before I had an MP3 player the CD that was in my car for about 2 years straight was Alice in Chains - unplugged (until someone stole my cd player and took the CD with 'em, grrrr)

When I was in middle school on the bus it was metallica, metallica, metallica. Everybody in the world knew my obsession with metallica.

The past 3-6 months have been symphony x - oddysey.


Generally speaking, I pick an album, listen to that album and only that album for days, weeks, or months, then switch to something else. Often go back to previously looped albums.

My brother is big into music and often goes on and on about multitudes of different bands and such. When that conversation starts I feel more or less like a dumb rock with nothing to say. Talking about preferred music is one of the hardest topics for me to get involved in, unless the other person is into the same music. Unfortunately my music choice isn't popular.

At one point I had iTunes hooked up to some website which would track my music selection to find other bands to listen to. I never used the feature, but it still tracked my music. I was the #1 melvins fan by a large margin. I guess there was a time period where it was nothing but melvins for months on end.

I find it hard to get into new music as well. My friends find a new band and tell me about it saying this and that and blah blah blah. Could be great music, but compared to the FotM album being looped its nothing!


Yes I completely understand. When I was in high school I was obsessed with alternative rock. I'd listen to it for hours and hours, but when someone would ask me about it I'd have no idea who sang what or even what most the lyrics where. Just certain details, melodies, or beats.

I like your name Progressiverocker because it seems like an oxymoron since you only listen to specific music over and over. 8O


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30 Oct 2009, 2:00 am

SamwiseGamgee wrote:
I've never defined it but I also do something like what you describe. For the past few weeks I've been doing it with one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my life: Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking


Been obsessing over this song for about a week now. It plays in my head whether I actually hear it or not. Does that happen to you?



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30 Oct 2009, 2:04 am

I do this too, though I don't think it has anything to do with AS. I know alot of other people who do it as well.



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30 Oct 2009, 2:08 am

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No offense but basshunter is really subpar electronic music(dance?).

Try some Goa Trance if you want to loop, it will make you feel out of this world!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjCTJZjo ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc6ftIGp ... re=related


Wow! I mean WOW! I will be listening to this for a long time. Very deep. Thick metallic feeling music. Industrial sounding. Makes me think of Juno Reactor or Dezacrator.


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30 Oct 2009, 2:29 am

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I do this too, though I don't think it has anything to do with AS. I know alot of other people who do it as well.


Yeah I'm not really sure, you could be right. A lot of people get songs stuck in their heads. For me the music is like a part of my body, expanding and contracting. Exploding like waves into the earth. It's pure emotion feeling in my whole body like a vibration. Sometimes it's only just the beat or a certain melody that connects with me. For me music is visual. I SEE it. I could create a music video for any piece of music or song that I hear. Especially if it touches me. I listen to the same music sometimes for several hours a day for weeks, even months. It's hypnotic. I smile and it makes me laugh and cry. When I'm with my friends I have to hide the tears because they wouldn't understand why the same song makes me cry everytime.

That is why music is like a drug to me. It overwhelms me.


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30 Oct 2009, 5:31 am

Boomkin wrote:
hush6 wrote:
I do this too, though I don't think it has anything to do with AS. I know alot of other people who do it as well.


Yeah I'm not really sure, you could be right. A lot of people get songs stuck in their heads. For me the music is like a part of my body, expanding and contracting. Exploding like waves into the earth. It's pure emotion feeling in my whole body like a vibration. Sometimes it's only just the beat or a certain melody that connects with me. For me music is visual. I SEE it. I could create a music video for any piece of music or song that I hear. Especially if it touches me. I listen to the same music sometimes for several hours a day for weeks, even months. It's hypnotic. I smile and it makes me laugh and cry. When I'm with my friends I have to hide the tears because they don't understand why the same song makes me cry everytime.

That is why music is like a drug to me. It overwhelms me.


I guess you must be synesthetic as well. I've heard alot af people with AS are, but I'm not certain. I know mostly "NT" synesthetes. It sounds like you are affected in much the same way I am which is very nice because I have not met anyone who gets the whole 'part of my body' bit.

I have one song that I don't really like, but it has a chorus and whenever it comes in my body feels full of good things and I get dizzy. I took ecstacy a few times when I was younger and it made me feel very full of life and connected, the chorus of this song is very similar.

Many songs also make my eyes water, I'm not sure if it counts as crying, but it feels very emotional at the time, but more just pure intenseness than happy or sad feelings.

Sorry I'll stop babbling!! !



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30 Oct 2009, 7:54 am

Yep, guilty! I'll often loop a song I like for an hour or more.


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30 Oct 2009, 1:07 pm

shirochan wrote:
SamwiseGamgee wrote:
I've never defined it but I also do something like what you describe. For the past few weeks I've been doing it with one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my life: Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking


Been obsessing over this song for about a week now. It plays in my head whether I actually hear it or not. Does that happen to you?


Yes, it has become the theme tune of my life. And for the first time I'm not complaining, what a wonderful song to have playing over and over in your head. :)



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30 Oct 2009, 1:42 pm

hush6 wrote:
I do this too, though I don't think it has anything to do with AS. I know alot of other people who do it as well.



While I believe you are correct that NT do this as well, the degree or magnitude of it could be autistic related for sure. There comes a point where it becomes ritualistic behavior no? Looping a song twice - normal. Looping a song 30 times - not sure. Looping a song 30840 times? ....



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30 Oct 2009, 1:58 pm

Music is something I rely on to get through my day. It doesn't matter the song or artist...if I like it, it keeps me going. I'm more productive when I can listen to my own music. I've got have my iPod or the radio playing while I'm driving. And it's inspired so many ideas for my writing as well; I can easily create new scenes in my head for tracks that may have been used for something else entirely, and I have playlists that string all of these tracks together to actually create a story in my own head.

A good sign that a piece of music really moves me is if it gives me goosebumps/chills at different points or moves me to tears for no real reason, or, in the case of heavier music, makes me want to move my head along with the beat. There's just something about the combination of instruments and/or voices that does that. And believe me when I say there's a lot of all of those in my collection.

Someone earlier in the thread linked a Doctor Who track that they listen to a lot...that's one that I love listening to a whole lot too. There's just something about it that stirs so many emotions in me, ever since I first heard it in the show, even. Lately the music I've been "looping" a lot is from World of Warcraft--specifically the haunting music that plays in the Terokkar Forest zone, as well as some areas of the Blade's Edge Mountains. I recently learned how to extract the game music so that I can listen to it outside of the game, and now that I've been able to, I could listen to those three or four main tracks for hours on end sometimes. They're just that powerful and moving to me.



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30 Oct 2009, 5:52 pm

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I guess you must be synesthetic as well. I've heard alot af people with AS are, but I'm not certain. I know mostly "NT" synesthetes. It sounds like you are affected in much the same way I am which is very nice because I have not met anyone who gets the whole 'part of my body' bit.

I have one song that I don't really like, but it has a chorus and whenever it comes in my body feels full of good things and I get dizzy. I took ecstacy a few times when I was younger and it made me feel very full of life and connected, the chorus of this song is very similar.

Many songs also make my eyes water, I'm not sure if it counts as crying, but it feels very emotional at the time, but more just pure intenseness than happy or sad feelings.

Sorry I'll stop babbling!! !


I should clarify what I meant by crying. It's much more how you describe. Tears come to my eyes and I have trouble holding back the emotion. It's rare that I actually break out bursting into uncontrollable tears :cry: . But it does happen occasionally with music or a touching scene in a movie.

Babble on! (Babylon!) :P


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30 Oct 2009, 6:00 pm

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Music is something I rely on to get through my day. It doesn't matter the song or artist...if I like it, it keeps me going. I'm more productive when I can listen to my own music. I've got have my iPod or the radio playing while I'm driving. And it's inspired so many ideas for my writing as well; I can easily create new scenes in my head for tracks that may have been used for something else entirely, and I have playlists that string all of these tracks together to actually create a story in my own head.

A good sign that a piece of music really moves me is if it gives me goosebumps/chills at different points or moves me to tears for no real reason, or, in the case of heavier music, makes me want to move my head along with the beat. There's just something about the combination of instruments and/or voices that does that. And believe me when I say there's a lot of all of those in my collection.

Someone earlier in the thread linked a Doctor Who track that they listen to a lot...that's one that I love listening to a whole lot too. There's just something about it that stirs so many emotions in me, ever since I first heard it in the show, even. Lately the music I've been "looping" a lot is from World of Warcraft--specifically the haunting music that plays in the Terokkar Forest zone, as well as some areas of the Blade's Edge Mountains. I recently learned how to extract the game music so that I can listen to it outside of the game, and now that I've been able to, I could listen to those three or four main tracks for hours on end sometimes. They're just that powerful and moving to me.


I can relate to all of this. My favorite video game music (especially if it's the original music from the game) is from Dragon Warrior (NES), Zelda I, II, and Link to the Past, any Final Fantasy (I like the early ones best). Also the original music (they redid all the music which angered me) from Kelethin the Wood Elf start city in Everquest.


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15 Dec 2009, 6:50 am

Boomkin wrote:
TXaspie wrote:
No offense but basshunter is really subpar electronic music(dance?).

Try some Goa Trance if you want to loop, it will make you feel out of this world!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjCTJZjo ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc6ftIGp ... re=related


Wow! I mean WOW! I will be listening to this for a long time. Very deep. Thick metallic feeling music. Industrial sounding. Makes me think of Juno Reactor or Dezacrator.


Juno Reactor was definetly an early at in the early 90's that influenced what became Goa Trance.

Essentially Goa Trance is the original "electronic trance dance music". This was before commercial trance and other stuff that made it into a pop thing. Notice that those 2 tracks sound more organic/dark/hypnotic than any of the "commercial trance" artists.

They are really made to transcend your mind while you listen to it, it stimulates alpha, beta, theta receptors in your brain through the use of the repetative/hynotic and ritualistic beats and melodies.