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):
Wintersleep – Weighty Ghost (mp3) (buy)

The recent Land of Talk cover of this that’s surfaced brought to mind the original. Walking to a friend’s party over the weekend, I listened to it a couple times and sang along–it’s a highly singable song (as some kids on the CBC know).

I thought I’d featured this track before, but it seems it was just on a mixtape. I’m glad my brain hooked onto this again so I’d feature it now. Better late than never, right?

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Keith:
Desario – Cane Cola (mp3) (buy)

Ever have one of those bands where there’s just one element which puts you off the bandwagon? This is a tune by a supremely catchy band on Darla who do a poppy style of power pop very reminiscent to Poole or other bands that detuned the rock from the 70’s style of the genre. But I just can’t get into the vocalist, who takes a bit more of a warbly angle to it rather than smoothing it out. This is my favorite song by them, but somehow I’d probably love the whole thing much more if it was instrumental. Sorry …

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Rob:
Gregory Brothers – Autotuning the News #2 (mp3) (free at the group’s site)

All right, I feel absolutely foolish about this, but I have to admit
that I’ve listened more obsessively to the “Auto-Tune The News”
YouTube clip than I have to any other song in… a long time.
Probably my first true song obsession for months. What is happening
to me?

It’s worth noting that without the Katie Couric bit the piece would be
merely another clever YouTube novelty. With the sequence… well, I
guess it becomes a merely clever YouTube novelty with a surprisingly
brilliant thirty second interlude.

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Weighty Ghost video, while we’re in a video mood, after the jump.

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