GUEST POST: 13 Signs That You Have Listened to a CD Too Many Times

by Mike Hacker (my cousin-who's-not-really-a-cousin-but-a-distant-relative-of-sorts)

Signs you’ve listened to a (live or studio) CD too many times


1. You mouth the band’s banter with the audience
2. The CD is scratched, and you sing along with the skips
3. You know the order of all the songs
4. You’ve memorized the liner notes
5. You scream along with the audience
6. You can name the songs backwards
7. “Shuffle” drives you nuts
8. You make your own CD of covers in the same order as the original
9. The band calls you for lyric suggestions
10. You have mastered the “air” version of each instrument
11. After hearing a song from the CD on the radio, you start singing what would be the next song on the CD
12. You start to dress like the band
13. You get mad when you can’t play the whole CD on a jukebox