it's totally normal, ignore the squares, and don't sweat it.

I am incapable of entering a room without turning on some media delivery device.

Boiling the kettle? - clearly the task of making a cuppa - 3/4 minutes, requires an elpee being played in the dining room.

Enter bedroom, turn on telly, get whatever I needed, exit bedroom, leave telly on.

Wandering around the house listening to podcasts gets me shouted at. I cut the grass twice each weekend just for that permissible listening time.

have you ever tried asking, "Does anyone mind if I play...?" It gives you a few clues as to whether what you're about to play would be well, badly or indifferently received and you can then consider retiring to another room or ploughing ahead anyway. (File under: "Getting along together.") :-)

.....I like the idea of just angling in on one LP/CD for an extended amount of time.
I've slightly extended the concept at the moment to only listening to the four VU records so, English cricket wins aside, you can imagine it's a barrel of laughs round here just now.

This year there have been a few albums that have been tested almost to destruction chez Rosbif. The Mummers' mini-album Mink Hollow Road album was one such, and is top of my most-played list; the Pierces were next for the treatment, but have since been overtaken by Julia Johnson, whose album (I Am Not The Night, as some of you will already be wearily aware...) I've played a huge amount, and still can't get enough of.

The new Gemma Hayes is going to get the treatment next. Ah, to spend quality time in her company...

.. those for whom music is a welcoming background noise, a kind of wallpaper. And those who take music seriously enough that they think it should be given the respect of being absorbed with full attention. The latter type of person gets very irritated with the former, for using music in a "thump thump, distract me at all costs" type of way.

I think silence and peace is also a valuable thing.

...I love music and have it on all the time. However, I cannot listen to the same thing time & again.

If you live with other people, you simply can't put the same thing on over & over.

I would KILL someone who listened to one thing a month in every room in the house. This may sound harsh, but I think you are being incredibly selfish. If you have to hear the same thing again and again, buy some headphones.

This is why that nice Japanese man invented the Walkman - so one can listen to music anywhere (and not bother anyone else with it). His original vision was to have the workers toiling in the paddy fields listening to the music of their choice to help alleviate the boredom of tending rice. Sweep forwards to the iPod age and the personal music concept is still the same. I am frequently reminded by Lady OF to use my expensive headphones from time to time! This is why she is designated the FPO (for our newer readers: Fun Prevention Officer).

Oh yes. Not least, forcing two innocent people to listen to Yes for a month is practically as bad as waterboarding.

For a month is much worse than waterboarding !!

although I can get like that with single tracks, let alone albums. I do find myself punching repeat on songs and indulging myself in seriously forensic listening - did I hear that bassline right? What was that sound at 2.57? Etc.

And to echo some of the above posts, this is why I do an awful lot of listening on headphones.

If I tried to play some of the stuff I listen to aloud on repeat chez nous, then Mrs Specs_Beard would take my iPod, insert it in one end of my anatomy and no doubt remove it via the other.

He had this approach and would play only one album for several months at a time.

but I love music.