I think it keeps it fresh when you switch from one genre to another. I don't know how people listen to the same old same old without it getting boring.

I can also get into an artist way too easily and then have to throw them out because I get sick of them. That's why ATM I'm in a self-made program "Find New Music", i.e I'm focusing a lot more on albums as a whole and listening to new ones all the time. Either completely new and random albums I find on review sites, or the ones I didn't listen to from my old artists.

Yeah I have that tendency too but only sometimes. Mostly I listen to a single song once then move on. Then it's 10 times. I think it's some sort of discovering why the song grips and connects with you in a deeper level. Really listening to the layers and how it works all together.

Sometimes I'm obsessed with an artist/band, sometimes with genres and then the most horrible obsession of listening to one song over and over again until I get bored. One curious thing I've noticed though: seasons affect my taste in music. If I listen to a band in winter, I usually stop listening to it in spring, but then when winter comes again they suddenly start to sound good again. And no, I don't mean like Christmas jingles :D I suppose it's because the four seasons are so different from one another here where I live. It's kinda like clothes - you don't wear a bikini when there's a snowstorm raging about.

mervi, good point! It's an odd feeling when a "summer" song or band plays in the winter; or if a "spring" band plays in the fall. It just feels out of place. It's like, there are some albums/songs/artists/genres I love to listen to in the weeks before Christmas (that aren't Christmas songs) that would seem inappropriate in the weeks leading up to the summer months. I can definitely relate to this.

Glad to know I'm not alone with this :D You're from Canada, right? So, we're living almost on the same circle of latitude, quite similar seasons, perhaps, perhaps... I bet there's some science behind this all, eh? :p:

Oh, yeah, I definitely have seasonal music tastes, and like you I'm originally from a place with very distinct seasons. The funniest thing is that a lot of music I like the best is music I associate with the fall, and that also happens to be the season where I grew up is most known for.

Come to think of it, I like fall music the most too. Also I think I find more new music in fall.

"Music effects a steep rise in the levels of serotonin, which has positive influences on brain cells controlling mood, sexual desires and processes, memory power and learning, temperature regulatory mechanism of the body, sleep and memory functions."

Fall in Finland is usually long and gloomy and I have a bad habit of becoming depressed. Music helps, no doubt about it.

Yeah, anyway, ok, sorry, I got a bit carried away from the original topic of this thread :)

When I was in Saint Petersburg, it was full of drunk Finns.

It's not that far off topic is it? ...has to do with 'obsession' and how we 'amplify' the amount we listen to certain artists; seasonal factors seem to be prevalent to that concept (?).

I wonder if the fall is the most popular time to listen to music. Most friends and family think so. But I'm really an autumnal kind of person to begin with- I like the melancholy of it, and music enhances that. Fall is when I start to really get into wistful, more atmospheric and poetic artists and genres, and I love to live in those emotions.

Because music is largely a cultural art form, and culture is affected by environment, I think it's safe to draw some correlations (while avoiding fueling the stereotypes about the music from a given region). For example, California being known for summer-like music.

But Ontario, New England and the Midwest seem to generate a lot of autumn-like music, to go with the famous changing leaves. I always thought Rush sounded the best in September/ October, and they're from Toronto.

And Finland does have a very similar seasonal pattern as Canada (regardless of where in Canada, as Finland has a similar extreme variation from north to south).

I could go on all day, (I cant resist the urge to hypothesize and research!!), but I'll spare you.