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Long ago when I was addicted to listening to the radio, I would keep track of how many times a group or artist would sing the title of a song in the song itself. For awhile Culture Club's "Time" was the record holder at around 50 occurences. Then I discovered the song had a subtitle (Clock of the Heart) which dropped its total to zero. (The title had to be sung exactly as it appeared...there's rules to this ya know) I kept track of these things for about three years but finally grew tired of having to listen so closely to songs and keep tally marks. I wish I still had this list. I wonder which song--new wave or not--would be the winner?
Then I decided I would just keep a list of every song I heard on the radio. I still have this list which fills a large three-ring binder--printed out on my nifty Apple II+!! This went on for another six years or so until I finally gave it up midway through college and got a job in radio myself.
I would also listen to American Top 40 religiously and write them down. When I couldn't catch the show or missed part of it I would buy a copy of Billboard and copy it down. I think I was the only 11 year-old reader of Billboard.

Anyone else waste years of their lives doing this kind of crap?

I think this behavior in an 11 year old kid would nowdays be called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and unfortunately result in them being pumped full of zoloft and prozac.[:(]

But really, I think it may be Chic's "Dance, Dance, Dance".

When I was a teen, I was very particular with how I taped songs off the radio. I would carefully hit record when the song started and leave just a smidgeon of extra time after the song ended. Then I would rewind the song a little bit, play it, and—this wa

I used to do strange stuff like that all the time (and much worse). Thankfully whatever the problem was, it went away on it's own as I reached adulthood.
Dance,Dance,Dance by Chic is a good one. Also try Blue Eyes by Elton John. Don't know if he holds t

I think strange habits is a part of having a love for music but I don't think what's in the parenthesis of the title should count since it is a subtitle and not [i]THE[/i] title. You may have to go back to your lists.

Seriously though, I bought my fir

[quote]Originally posted by buffalochipz
[br]I would also listen to American Top 40 religiously and write them down. When I couldn'

Thank goodness....I see I wasn't the only one doing this sort of thing and more.

Kasey Kasem was an easy outlet for us anal-retentive budding musicologists/...I kept those lists for long, too ! Also, i would keep track of how far a song rose or droppe

Alright....THIS is weird! Our Top 40 station in Lynchburg, V.A. was a Z-100 (don't get me started on the clear channel stuff, homogenized radio was happening in the 80's too). They ONLY played 40 records a day so if you could memorize their rotation (whic

i used to listen to AT40 3 different times on the weekend (i listen to KJR saturday mornings and sunday evenings, and KGW sunday late-morning-afternoon) and i would write them down and keep track every week. i would have friends that would ask me "whats t

In 1980, I built a special antenna and mounted it on the house next door (because it was taller) so I could receive WLIR in New Brunswick, NJ. I remember leaping the gap between buildings. As I look up today, I realize how far I could have fallen.

The strangest thing I did with the radio was probably that I could get ABC TV's audio from Philadelphia on my radio. I would put the TV on (NYC's ABC channel 7) and turn the volume all the way down. Then I would put channel 6 from philly on the radio righ

Speaking of American Top 40, it suddenly became wildly unpopular about the time in the late 80s that Top 40 became a vast wasteland, AND the songs had to be edited, AND it was becoming harder for Casey to talk about the songs, or even say the titles.

This is some of the funniest audio I've ever heard--Casey Kasem going apesh*t on an AT40 outtake. I don't think "Smack my bitch up" would have a hard time spilling out of his filthy piehole. Listen here:

http://www.campchaos.com/show.php?iID=837