In my iTunes, the sone wtih the most listens is Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" with 76. I am now officaly sick of it. I don't get how people can just sit there and listed to the same song over and over. Maybe they're simpletons and didn't get all the subtle inflections of "My Humps" the first 299 times.

Well I've decided the majority of humanity can tolerate and even enjoy listening to a (bad) song on loop. Or a very short playlist. I'm afflicted, but to a lesser degree than you. Depending very much on the artist and complexity of the song(s), I can listen to a song/album and not remember it very well for three or four times. About 4x into it I may know most of the titles and perhaps some instrumentation. Because I read into the individual sounds a lot, it won't be long before I'll probably only listen to it once a month or far less. As you say, the music tends to loose some of what I originally perceived it to have.

I think if you challenge yourself, however, you'll find interesting music from which you can carry away something different with each listen. I know I have. Do you listen to the radio? Maybe you need to branch out. Avant-garde might be a fun genre for you. And maybe you need to pick up some higher quality speakers at a garage sale. Come on, man. You're going to have to work at this.

I believe this to be normal. It is like seeing infomercials for the starving children in africa. you know that you should feel bad for them, and at first you do, but after awhile you just groan because they are annoying and you dont want to be filled with pity constantly...okay strayed from topic there. So kinda like that, but u just get bored of it.

Think of it in a different light. It gives you drive to discover more music and broaden your interests. It is a tool to discover what the world has to offer.

Architerecture in Helsinki
Broken Social Scene
Metric
Gingerbread Patriots
A Silver Mt. Zion
k-os
Fiery Furnaces
The Eels
Stars
Bright Eyes

theres some music to let your ears feast upon. However if you use audioscrobbler, i presume you have heard of most of those bands anyhow.

Cheers
E.S. Green

I have a last.fm and I only have like 208 plays. haha. There is a tool from there where you can have your iTunes song plays come up on your profile. It doesn't work for my computer though =/

ur not alone i constantly OD on songs

I think most things lose value when you're overly exposing yourself to them. I try not to listen to the music that I truly love too often because I want to keep it sacred in a sense.