I agree with genre obsessions. I'm big into trip-hop and electronic right now.

I'm another genre-oriented obsessive person. I go into genre kicks for as long as I'm listening to music constantly without significant lengths of time not listening to music. When I don't listen to anything for a while, which can sometimes be a work-week, I feel like listening to something else coming back into it.

Apart from when I was a teen and exclusively listening to Punk, I think my longest particular genre obsession was with Classical, which lasted 4 months straight. I didn't listen to ANYTHING that wasn't classical during that period.

Just got into my new obsession, psychedelic rock! ;)

I agree with both camps here. Sometimes I have genre obsession, sometimes artist obsession. Usually the former. But most of the time I go through loose musical "phases." For instance, maybe for a week I'll listen to mostly jazz and hip hop but have some Black Flag on the side throughout to cleanse the palette. And so on.

I'm the same way with Tool. Been a big fan since '01 when I was a freshmen in high school. Thought I'd never need any other bands. That was foolish. But I did spend a good year or two with nothing else more or less.

Now, they're an obsession on the back burner. If someone plays Tool, I don't make a fuss, but I'll tell them not to change it. And I'll probably drum along, or sing. Haha. But I just don't actively put them on anymore. I know the songs. Even on the new 10,000 days. I just about researched Lateralus, the album, just out of interest enough to write a paper on it.

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I have moods, but I'm a sucker for throwing everything that I rate 5 stars, genre be damned, into a playlist and hitting shuffle.

When I first heard of dubstep around 08, I avoided it, finally heard a song I liked, found similar, spent a month or two being dubstepped out. Fell off. I only listen to dubstep every blue moon now. Might break it out when drinking, etc.

Got into a really deep modern space rock faze because there was so much of it, the average song length is 10 minutes, and I loved it. Flying through discographies of a dozen European and American space rock jam bands like Oresund Space Collective, Hidria Spacefolk, Quantum Fantay, Sula Bassana and Schmidt's other projects, First Band From Outer Space, Stone Oak Cosmonaut, etc. etc. etc. etc. and that all lasted for a good year or so. I wasn't interested in listening to hip hop, jazz, funk, regular rock, metal. I just wanted to listen to the jammy jams. I can't blame myself... the music is amazing. I just had to take a break from it so I could catch up on new releases of other bands I like and the sort. Then when I go back I can get like 5-10 more space rock albums because they churn those things out - a lot are completely improvisational. So anyway, I got into such a mood for this I barely had but 3 albums from 2012 by last month... this time last year I was sitting on 30-40 2012 albums by summer...

So it's okay to get stuck in one genre or maybe one artist for a time, but to do it ad infinitum is a bit overkill and a bit sad. There's too much good out there to get trapped. It's kind of my view on marriage at the moment as well. Or dating even.

I might listen to an album 2 or 3 times until I start skipping songs and then when I'm tired of it then finally I put it away for whenever. I always return to my favorite artist. I might not return to them for a long time, but when I do I always think 'this is great why did I stop listening to it?' My taste goes in cylces. I never know what music I'll be interested in tomorrow. I go back and forth between music OCD and music ADD.

I'm like this with songs. I pick one song and I leave it on repeat until it just becomes irrelevant noise. But no joke, I will listen to that song and each time connect with it even more until I just stop. Become exhausted from it. Usually I'll just drop it and then pick it up again months later and the feeling will still be there as to why I connected with it in the first place but not as intense to want to listen to it all day, everyday.

I do this with albums, most commonly, and artists if they've released two or more albums I adore. I also tend to focus my interests in all other mediums of art and hobby the same way.

No. I'm all over the place.

I do that as well. Make sure to switch up genres in the album que.