I love noticing tiny similarities in chord progressions or melodies or background chords or whatever in someone's music. It creates such a continuity in the work. Overt similarities annoy me because it's like "OK I GET IT YOU'RE ~UNIQUE~" and they just seem too contrived to be taken seriously (and if the two songs are on the same album I can never take it seriously, either, for obvious reasons), but when they're the tiniest things hidden somewhere in the layers of the music that take years to notice, I always get this big cheesy grin on my face when I finally do recognize it, and instead of being annoyed it's more, "That is genius." I think quite a few artists do it, to bind their work together as a cohesive unit in such a way that though it is consciously unnoticed, the brain still gets it. It's really cool... Yeah, anyway, I noticed that in two of someone's songs today, songs that I've known since I was about ten, and just HAD to inform several friends of it even though they didn't care at all.

Timbo Slice wrote:
I have the exact same problem! The worst part is when you're the only one laughing. It's fun when one of your friends is laughing with you (Except for the "WTH?" looks from everyone around you)
Oh, it's real fun when there's someone else that finds whatever random thing has just occurred that hilarious as well.

Will always be grateful to one friend that is the male version of myself; we get along famously in general, but when we lose it laughing, it neeeever stops. I mean, some stifled laughter and smiles are expected, but to continue on with it for at least fifteen minutes is just ridiculous.