Thank you for introducing me to Amelia; it is wonderful and addictive. I have listened compulsively to Helpless by Neil Young, The Band, and JM singing beautifully on background from the concert film The Last Waltz. I agree that the best compulsive songs are filled with ambiguity.

here are a few of my OCD song list: Kites Are Fun-The Free Design Another Woman-Bloodstone Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots pt. 1-The Flaming Lips

I loved that mini essay on Amellia and compulsive listening. As an Australian, Amelia Earhardt lacks the resonance I imagine she has in the USA, but the song! How it echoed in my mind as I read.

I love the idea that Bob Dylan wrote "Tangled up in Blue" because of that album - more depth to both pieces of work for me.

As for Court and Spark - some very good moments and a breakthrough in style, but in the end, an album of transition following the emotional mastery of Blue. The albums that follow C&S are quantum leaps ahead musically and emotionally, as Joni mastered the musical genre.

Finally, some music I have compulsively listened to and will publicly admit I have - for what would be the point of all this wihtout some of that? :)

Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" - acappella version from his live set. (I've lived that particular angst.)

"One" by U2 - because it is also angst-ridden and clearly I have a hook in me for that ...

There's a Dylan harmonica solo in a concert he did in Tampa that I am lucky enough to have a copy of and I have been known to play that ten times in a row. Of course, the solo appears on "It Ain't Me Babe" and I had best get away from this conversation before a trend becomes evident and I mention Elton John's "Your Song". Oh dear! :)

from this valley they day you are leaving

come and sit by myside if you love me

do not hasten to bid me adieu

just remember the red river valley

and the girl that has loved you so true

i was waltzing with my darling to the tennessee waltz

when a old friend i happened to meet

i introduce her to my darling and

while they were waltzing

my friendd stole my sweetheart from me

the suns shine bright on my old kentucky home

met an old lover at the grocery store

it was snowing chirsmas eve

we laughed until we cried

we talked of

then the rain turned into snow

it is the chance of a lifetime

in a life time of chance

run for the roses

wish that i was on old rocky top

corn wont grow at all on rocky top

soil is to to rocky by far

that is why all the folks on rocky top

get their corn from a jar

rocky top you will always be

home sweet home to me

good old rocky top

rocky top tennessee

in the misty moonlight by the flickering

firesside

any place is alright

long as you are there with me

in a far away land

on a tropic sea sand

if your hand is in my hand

i will not be blue

to all the kin and friends

that l this year will be in gatlinburg tenessee

at christams time

as they are evey year right now shopping their little hearts out

for some new outfits for litle ole me

and playing poker high on a high hill as we all did one chirstmas not so

long ago before they broke me in that poker game of life

widh i could be there with youas

soon as i get some real dinero

i will you can bank on that

merry christmas