Music as a special interest?

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Might be wrong section, could go in music/writing section...but maybe not.

But was wondering if anyone else has music as their special interest?
Another post is about how you listen to songs over and over but I am quite the opposite.

I listen to songs over sometimes but for the most part I am constantly getting new music, non stop- if I am on the computer I am getting more music, I cannot stop.

When I was a kid I would sit by the radio with a stack of tapes and record all day trying to find cool songs on the radio. Then when I started getting cd's I would record my favorite songs from cd's onto tapes that way I could have them all on one thing instead of a bunch of cds. (Plus I only had a portable tape player at the time and not a portable cd player)

With the internet this has gone into hyperdrive, as many things have done.

Once I delve into a genre of music, I try and get as much music in that genre that I have never heard before. I enjoy having music most people wont have or know although this is not the reason I choose to get the rarest, it just turns that way when I delve deaper into a genre which means going below the surface.

It's like a whole new world out there waiting to be discovered and a lot of my day is dedicated to this quest of the ears.

My specialist interest is rock and roll and some punk rock. I hate hit music and don't just get into any song I hear.
I usually HAVE to listen to songs I get in my head or the world will come to an end. Not really but I have it as a sort of rule when I get the song in my head. Usually I spend most of the day listening to the band that sing the song. Today it's been The Kinks.

My interest is blues, funnily enough, have just spent the last three hours looking up songs on youtube. I am the other way round though and have to listen to the same song over and over. Took me two years to get my way round my favourite album!

It used to be (one of) my special interests. It's probably the most NT-friendly obsession. Anyway, I wish music was still my special interest because that is what i have a degree in but my area of work is in food!

well since I no longer get the songs off the radio, my interest has lost its place with the NT's. Seems they think my music is strange/alien and they do not understand it. Like if I am into music during the great depression, they are likely going to think that is wierd.

I would say it is one of mine, but the theory half of it more then anything. I have perfect pitch so I tend to find something musical about almost everything I hear

Music is a special interest of mine. I'm into the older music. I like rock n roll, The British Invasion, Motown, folk rock, funk, disco, punk and reggae. I also like some 80s music.

in my teenage years, i would spend hours during the week nights listening to music and saturday nights listening to john garabedien's "open house party" while i wrote my poetry. i would play my favorite cds over and over again. now that my time is interrupted with the adult obligations, i listen to music at least an hour or more every day. i watch music videos on yt and pandora radio definitely helps my exposure to new, undiscovered music plus music is in my head all the time. i used to record music from local radio stations back in the day and then in college when i was a dj, i recorded some of my shows. the funny thing is i haven't bought a cd since about 2004/2005. music is definitely a special interest of mine.

My instrument is mine.

Music is not simply a special interest for me. It defines me.

Heavy metal, hard rock, punk, goth, industrial, the doors (the doors especially, and Jim Morrison especially). I loved specific bands and artists that may or may not fit into these categories such as Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Eurythmics, Madonna, Samantha Fox, Billy Joel,

I mention the doors specifically because that was the one time I cared more about the music and a lot about the people behind it. I have watched I forget how many documentaries about them, plus Oliver Stone's movie (which was ridiculous and inaccurate at points, but emotionally rich to me), memorized multiple songs and sometimes sing them over and over (do people do that as a stim?). I can't really explain why, but the music has a kind of familiarity/sense of coming home feel to it that other music usually does not. There are a few records and songs by other bands that can do this to a lesser extent:

AC/DC's Highway to hell and Black in Black
Queen News of the World and The Game, and the song Another Brick in the Wall
Rush's Roll the Bones
Billy Joel's song My Life
Eurythmics in general
REM's song Losing My Religion
The entire The Crow movie soundtrack - the songs, not the instrumental. I used to play this on repeat for hours and even occasionally days at a time. This was also tied into how much the comic and the movie was such a cathartic experience for me.
Sisters of Mercy Floodlands
Concrete Blonde Bloodletting
Elton John's Candle in the Wind
Don McLean's American Pie
The Eagles' Hotel California

I have always needed sounds around me to sleep - not random quiet distracting sounds that would constantly wake me up, but sounds that are either purposeful (like radio or television) or white noise. I would leave my clock radio on all night while I slept, and so many of these songs seeped into my brain that they provoke a kind of automatic reaction. Not so much wanting childhood back, but just the intense familiarity of something that's been with you in the past.

Many of these are simply associated with emotionally intense times in my life, good or bad. "My Life" was a constant standby when I was in an abusive relationship. It summed up feelings I had trouble expressing directly. In general, all the music I love has emotional resonance for me, in a good way, that I relive while hearing the music.

I also seem to have mild synaesthesia (I am not positive about this, but I see sparks and explosions of color when I hear music, and colors seem to have a flavor/texture) and heavy metal especially is like fireworks going off when I hear the music. I have fallen asleep listening to Judas Priest through headphones and watching the light show.

I love listening to music when I write - it seems to stimulate the writing a bit and of course drowns out distracting sounds.

I also played guitar, although I stopped in the past for various reasons (difficulty sustaining practice, difficulty living with other people and practicing with an amplifier). I mostly taught myself how to play and as long as I kept that up I was able to keep learning, but once I started getting structured lessons, I had a hard time dealing with them. My usual method of learning a song was to listen to the CD and learn to play it back note by note and chord by chord, which was great for learning one song at a time, but difficult for learning the principles of playing overall, for which I needed more structure and a grounding in music theory. Unfortunately, my lifelong inability to stick to something once it becomes an obligation kicked in, with a side helping of my abusive ex getting openly jealous at me because I was learning to play so quickly (and she wasn't learning much at all, despite copying my interest in music) that I closed it off at the time. It's been a long time, and I would really love to start learning again.

... er, to answer the question: Yes, I have music as a special interest.

I find my special interest effecting my mood, if I am listening to sad music then I will be sad, mad music then mad, happy music then happy, etc..

I've wondered if my choice of music is dependant on my mood but in doing some trials it seems to be the opposite and the music has the power to influence my mood.

Which is probably a common known fact but seems like those on the spectrum with music as their special interest it is important to choose positive music to play. At least in my case, because music can have such a huge influence on me.

i wasnt referring to multiple emotions displayed in a song per se, but in general i can be "happy" just listening to music and also be having "angry" feelings that have become attached or are related to the lyrics/tone of the song. the lyrics are very important to me for me to deconstruct and form my own meaning/understanding/importance of the song. like right now im listening to mostly 70s rock like aerosmith, tom petty, foghat, the rolling stones, the hollies etc but probably in a hour or so if im still up, i'll switch to another pandora station and probably get a whole new set of emotions in addition to just being happy listening to it.