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):
the Welcome Wagon – But for You Who Fear My Name (mp3) (buy)

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I’m not quite sure where this one came from. I heard it a few weeks ago and then didn’t think much of it, but during my show on Tuesday I thought to play it. Since then, I’ve been hitting the repeat a lot.

From the Vito of Vito’s Ordination Song comes this Sufjan-produced track. It’s got a real old-time hymn quality to it, a timeless melody. In a lot of ways it reminds me of Sufjan’s version of the actual old-time song “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”

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Keith:
Fantastic Something – And I Love Her (mp3) (buy)

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With all the information available at our fingertips from wikipages to sound files it’s getting more and more difficult to make completely uninformed impulse purchases. Remember those days when you’d flip through bins and pull out something because of the label or the cover or the band picture? Well here’s a great example – this dead-on 60’s orch-pop ripoff was completely unknown to me at the time but once I hit song #3 on this ep a lasting obsession began.

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Natalie:
Bound Stems – Taking Tips from the Gallery Gang (mp3) (buy)

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Scott:
Nadja – Stays Demons (mp3) (buy)

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