Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I’ve collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their “song obsessions of the week.” Quite often it’s easy to explain why the song is good; it’s much hard to explain why we’re obsessed. Maybe you’ll become obsessed with one of these.

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Adrian (me):
Kanye West (with DJ Premiere) - Everything I Am (mp3) (buy)

I’ve been liking Kanye’s Graduation, which I got last week, and this is the immediate standout track to me. It’s got a sweet laid back groove and a nice chorus. The lyrics aren’t total fluff, deriding superficiality and the typical gangster bent of most rap lyrics.

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Keith:
Rupert Holmes - Our National Pasttime (mp3) (buy)

With the baseball season coming to a close this Rupert Holmes tune is set on an appropriate stage. Those familiar with Rupert through his wretched late
70’s hit “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” may be surprised at the subtle sarcastic wit displayed by the spoken word flirtation at the end of this song. I dare anyone asked “What kind of wine is this?” to answer with something other that Rupert’s reply.

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David (not Dave):
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova- If you Want Me (mp3) (buy)

It’s been late fall weather in New York this week, which always makes me overly sappy and hopelessly romantic for reasons I can’t entirely articulate. I think it’s a desire to be cuddling with a composite of Annie Hall, Cindy Crawford and my mother. All Woody Allen movies are set in the fall. I’ve been nursing a cold as well and wallowing in self pity and loneliness. The Once soundtrack has, or hasn’t, been helping, depending on your point of view. If you haven’t seen Once, you should. Don’t approach it as a musical, though. In the words of my friend Matt, see it as a fictional documentary about two musicians. Ignore the fact that the songs don’t move the plot forward, and instead focus on how incredibly heartfelt they are.

Live, Glen Hansard introduces Falling Slowly as a song about seeing a girl across the room when you’re at a party, and your girlfriend has gone to the loo, and for just an instant, you fall madly in love with someone you don’t know at all — I’m not doing it justice. Watch the youtube video. I even wrote my own trite lyrics to this song that go “If you want me/I don’t want you/I am broken like that.” Really awful.

But the song I love more is “If you want me,” because the loop on it is so catchy that I’ve been finding myself humming it over other songs on my ipod and enjoying them more for it.

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New panelist (and former sometime co-host of my radio show) David has the longest song obsession blurb ever, but I’m glad to have him anyway.

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