The same as addiction to alcohol or cigs is going back to that first drink or smoke. So perhaps compulsive listening is our mind going back to our youth and that first buzz. Songs like Bear Cage, Requiem, Mannequin and Boredom have so many individual elements to go back to and focus on. Out of every ‘punk era’ recording I find it the wittiest and the song that reminds me most of that era (old school phones) … And, of course, the best, most brilliant joke of all is the two note guitar solo… simply genius. It was just so exciting (Michelle Brigandage)īuzzcocks Boredom. When Spiral Scratch arrived by post direct from New Hormones It was played non stop all afternoon and the next day… the same goes for New Rose and Anarchy. I must’ve played it about 20 times in a row, flipping over to the B-side Did You No Wrong and back again. When God Save The Queen 7″ came out, a schoolfriend brought it into school and I borrowed it overnight. It may go back to the late seventies, when we were teenage punks and the seven inch vinyl single was the main way music was consumed.īack in time when you could only afford to buy one single at a time, each one was played endlessly until you could afford the next one. Why do we do it? Isn’t it a teenage thing? Are there psychological reasons for it? I asked for examples and possible reasons from my online chums.įrom my extensive investigations I conclude that it is quite common – at least amongst us music obsessives and people of a delicate but punk-inspired artistic disposition.
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