Not really OCD but I find it difficult to put on a CD in the morning. I work from home 100%, and mornings are for radio/podcasts, afternoons are for CDs. While I am here, Doc, I also can't eat any chocolate product before lunch.

Natch there are certain CDs I cannot / daren't listen to for fear of reminding me too much of a previous relationship...

backwards, you need to seek some help

without the volume control on my amp compelling me to turn it up, up, up.

I had to do it, M'lud, it told me to...

thankfully, but i'm a terror for putting on that song 'How Bizarre' followed by 'Enola Gay'.

that'd be OMC and OMD covered instead.

I like to position the disc in the case so that the title and tracks writing on the disc is at a 45 degree angle and running bottom left to top right.

I also check locks several times when I leave the house. I am normal when it comes to washing hands though and one of my favourite bands is Hothouse Flowers.

I also believe that there are some bands and singers that only make up songs that they think will sell rather than attempting to artistically reflect the human condition and their angle on it regardless of the consequences.

Back to angles again.

I know someone who listened to one side of Trout Mask Replica every morning before he went to work, for two years solid.

The nearest I get to musical OCD is always playing French music when I've invited people for dinner (not exclusively, but there has to be some) and, like maronator above, positioning my CDs carefully within their jewel cases. The writing must be precisely horizontal.

Papa Was a Rolling Stone on the 3rd September.

"September" by David Sylvian on the first day of September.

I still remember just before midnight, December 31st 1983 as a 15 year old cueing up "1984" by David Bowie on my record player, ready to play at the stroke of midnight!

The first CD played in a new car (or on the rarer occassion new house) is always, but always, by the Beatles.

Had a friend who had to line the CDs up in their boxes so that the writing was perfectly horizontal. The fact that all his CDs were hardcore punk, etolling the vertues of rebelion meant nothing when it came to neatness. Maybe it was a Staight Edge thing I knew nothing about...

Personally, I get upset if I hear The Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping in the run-up to Xmas before I've had chance to play it in the company of my best mate - it's the traditional signifier that Christmas has begun (Mrs. RobotMonster get's annoyed by this, which is fair enough...)

you line up your CDs with spine facing out on shelves and it's normally by tilting your head towards your RIGHT shoulder that the writing on the spine of the CD is legible.

There are a few where it's the other way around, and that really annoys me. That's not OCD, is it?

creating a new strip to put inside the spine so the writing would fact the correct direction would be though, wouldn't it? Er, a friend, that's right, a, um, friend of mine does that....

With CD albums, I skip tracks sometimes but for some reason I feel slightly ashamed when I do. But once I do skip - I go frantic and listen to about 15 seconds of each track and this can go on for a long time... eventually I will settle down and commit to one. But then I spend all that time regretting that I am not listening to a different one.

It is easier to discipline myself into playing CD albums from beginning to end at all times but I do not display this behaviour with mp3s or compilations.

I trace this to the years of vinyl listening in the olden days and habits developed at that time. D'you know, I'm sure the Police are getting younger - and isn't the Queen marvellous for her age?

1. I have that 'High Fidelity' thing of needing to re-organise my CD collection from time to time, leading to anguished bouts of shelving. This is often prompted by Mrs Specs_Beard not being able to find the CD she wants to play, even during those periods when I have it all in strict alphabetical order. This probably means I might have to re-shelve one day according to 'My CDs' and 'The Wife's CDs' - which will be an exact reversal of the current 'My Clothes' (a drawer and a wardrobe rail) and 'Her Clothes' (one and a half rooms) situation.

2. Those CDs where the writing goes 'up' the spine - I turn them round, usually works. Upside down? NOOOO!

3. I shelve the CDs by each artist in chronological order, not alphabetical. Apart from the Fall, obviously.

4. I have to stack the dishwasher to metal. (Jazz doesn't work.)

5. In the run up to going to see a band live, I deliberately stop myself listening to their music for a good 2-3 weeks beforehand. Not too worried about instantly recognising each song as it starts - but I want to come back from the gig with the euphoric desire to get their CDs out again and play them to death.

I could probably, but won't, go on ...

My job takes me to the major cities in the UK several times a year. I have a playlist for each one and always listen to the music of my destination during the last hour of my train journey and as I walk around the town. Penny Lane should be playing as I step onto the platform at Lime St, Waterloo Sunset at Kings Cross, Killermont St at Queen St etc
I have found that Glasgow has produced more of my favourite tracks than anywhere else. As I am based in Leeds thankfully I don't need one for there - there's only so much Soft Cell and Gang of Four you can take.