Anyone else on the spectrum idiosyncratic about music?

[Aspigander]

I'm wondering if anyone here with an ASD is idiosyncratic about music, or if anyone knows someone with an ASD who is idiosyncratic about music.

When I was, I'd say about 10 years old, my mom brought home and started playing a Gordon Lightfoot CD. I think she regretted it. lol My parents soon became very bored with Gordon Lightfoot. Why? Because all of a sudden I would listen to it pretty much exclusively. And 15 years later, I still listen to GL almost exclusively.

Then computers entered the scene. I've got a bunch of GL music on my computer. I discovered that Windows Media Player has this feature where you can adjust the speed of what you're listening to. I like to pace the speed to its slowest setting. Not that the regular setting is too fast or anything, just for some reason I like to play it on a slower speed.

Anyone else idiosyncratic about music like that?

[peglem]

Allie will do that for awhile with 1 or 2 songs out of a cd, but she switches to different ones. She liked the Beatles' "Love, Love me do" and she has played the Monkeys' "D.W. Walker for several days straight. Then there was some horrible song by Jewel (sorry, I had to ditch that one, even though it belonged to hub). Another time we spent a few weeks listening to Dione Warwick's "I'll never Fall in Love Again" and "Walk on By" I think its a test of "good" music. If I can listen to it 20,000 times and still like it, it must be good music. (Dione Warwick isn't, but Savage Garden and Gerry Rafferty are still good)

[Aspigander]

Oh, you mean she'll pick a song and play it over and over and over and over for hours on end? I'll do that too, though not as much now as when I was younger. Though I pretty much never switched between artists though I might between which songs were repeating.

I think its a test of "good" music. If I can listen to it 20,000 times and still like it, it must be good music. (Dione Warwick isn't, but Savage Garden and Gerry Rafferty are still good)

I don't think my parents think Gordon Lightfoot is still good, even though he was more 'in' when they were younger.

[Aspigander]

Oh! I didn't even go into what I do on my parents' computer! I have some GL on that too, and that computer has a program that lets you change the pitch of what you're listening to. I tend to put it on its highest pitch (think chipmunks).

[peglem]

Oh, you mean she'll pick a song and play it over and over and over and over for hours on end? I'll do that too, though not as much now as when I was younger. Though I pretty much never switched between artists though I might between which songs were repeating.
She'll listen to the same song over and over for weeks on end. I'm not sure GL would make the cut for me...I'd get pretty sick of that Edmund Fitzgerald getting wrecked. Besides, they don't even know if she broke up or capsized!:D

[roadracer]

Your hiting me with the big words again, and it is to late to even read a word as long as "idiosyncratic"

Music is one of my big obsessions, my head is a giant database of every song I have ever heard. I never forget a tune, and I listen mostly to classic rock, but also listen to most other genres of music. I have more music then most people could handle. On the computer over 600 classic rock albums, and many more other albums, a lot of punk albums, hundreds of other albums in various stacks around my room, a book shelf full of record albums and tapes.

One of my favorites is Neil Young, and I have every album by him, and for people who dont know that is a lot of albums.
And if you notice my signature changes all the time with a new song lyric that is on my mind.
I started this obsession with music when I was 6, as we lived across the street from a music store, so I would go over there every day, and every time I would get a couple dollars I would buy some music (cassete tapes back then) and what I could afford was usually the used ones that no one else wanted, lol. I still have every one, every album I have ever bought.

[roadracer]

Savage Garden
lol, they still around? There the group that sung "truly madly deeply" "two beds and a coffee machine" lol
darn it, now I got "truly madly deeply" playing in my head, make it stop, make it stop
lol

[Aspigander]

She'll listen to the same song over and over for weeks on end. I'm not sure GL would make the cut for me...I'd get pretty sick of that Edmund Fitzgerald getting wrecked. Besides, they don't even know if she broke up or capsized!:D

Click me, I don't bite! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzRLZaHgv_4)

I think you're confusing the lyrics a little. They don't know if she split up or capsized, or broke deep and took water. But at least they know they'd have made White Fish Bay if they'd put 15 more miles behind her.

[Aspigander]

Your hiting me with the big words again, and it is to late to even read a word as long as "idiosyncratic"

Being idiosyncratic, or having an idiosyncrasy, is basically having an odd quirk. Something those of us on the spectrum tend to have a few of. lol

An example of an idiosyncrasy would be how I nitpicked Peg's confusing of the lyrics of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I don't think an NT would have done that. LOL

[Prot]

One of my favourite GL songs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M76owSH8zvY) (With Ian and Slyvia)

[Prot]

One of my Neil Young favourites (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRPwfMikFdI)

Ian and Sylvia version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ql6iQdpRgc)

[Nikabee]

An example of an idiosyncrasy would be how I nitpicked Peg's confusing of the lyrics of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Good example... and you said, not me! :)

Kaelen goes through times when he listens to the same cd over and over again. He has one song that plays on repeat ALL NIGHT LONG every night and has for the last 4 years. (Maybe that's why *I* have sleep issues? lol)