Heyo Happy People, I am starting this thread because of a revelation I had while listening to my Ipod Shuffle.

You know I love PotF. I don't think they're released a single song that I haven't adored on some level or other. And yet, when one of their songs shows up on my shuffle (I have all three albums on there)....I skip it. I've started doing this a lot lately.

Have I lost my love of PotF? Did I ever really like them in the first place or was it just a passing fancy? Thankfully not so: the real reason is evident from scanning the Play Count: the very bottom is "Fragile," a song I have only listened to 18 times.

PotF is still brilliant, but I've just been listening to them too much. And I love them too much to keep listening when I'm not enjoying it.

They're getting deleted from my ipod for now. I'm keeping the albums, but when I'm walking around town, I'll be listening to my more recent purchases (ironically a bunch of older albums: I'm on a punky kick with Hole, Nirvana, Ramones, The Stone Roses, and my current favorite the Sex Pistols).

Has anyone else reached Saturation point with PotF? What do you do about it? Besides put it on the shelf for a while and wait for something PotF and new to happen?

I believe that in different times of your life, different music applies, and that if you only listened to one artist or band over and over you would know nothing about musical sensations. It's important to keep our ears open to new songs or we would be very narrowminded. You can just never know if there is an even more perfect song out there somewhere if you never look for yourself, and then god knows what you're missing out on?

With that said I don't think you should worry. Because I always find with music that is pure to the core, that you rediscover it. Over, and over, and over. That with what music is true, you'll find new layers of it, when you least expect.

It'll go in waves I think, Dreamer. Don't worry about it

*raises hand* Reached it about... 3 weeks or so. I've been listening to them for some 4 months without stopping for more than a few hours, so I guess I kinda got fed up with them for now. I still love them as much as I did in the beginning, however.
I guess all you can do is just put the CDs on the shelf and wait for that Poetic flame to stir again.

I guess it can happen: it's normal that in different perioods you feel more like listening to certain music than to other...
you can have some times when you listen to some artists non-stop, and then change (there are many bands worthy listening in this world )

If you think about it, when you choose which to play between two or more CDs, the one you pick isn't necessarly the one you like most or consider to be the best: it's just the one you feel more like listening in that moment: music is a lot about emotions, something that you can not control or investigate.

it can happen, and I can't see why worrying about it: to me it hasn't happened with Poets, but it's happened sometimes with some other bands, but then there have been times again when I felt like listening a lot to them again. Like beccali said, I think it goes in waves. At least, that's how it works for me

In my case I know it will come sooner or later. It has been a week already since the gig in Virgin Oil, and for that week I was listening to PoTF and only PoTF (meanwhile ordering my friends to listen to them too ). But I know that when I listen to the same stuff over and over again, sooner or later I stop listening to it at all. In order for this not to happen, I am forcing myself to listen to all of the stuff on my player, not just PoTF. But the randomizer chooses them quite often anyways, I can't help it But it's better to stop before it gets too bad.

This has been happened to me just about some of the POTF songs that i've been listening to them so much in a long period of time(for example:LUTS,Clevermind) but only 2 or 3 days after i was used to listen to them again

anyway i also believe that listening to a certain song or artist will be boring after a while

I find it a very "healthy" eye opening experience to keep a vacation from stuff that I like. That gives a chance for rediscovery not to mention appreciating the stuff more. Having a song on repeat will make your brain automatically wipe it out of your consciousness. In other words you cannot hear a piece if you have to listen to it over and over.
Thus far I haven't reached my saturation point intentionally with the music I like. Usually it happens without me even noticing it and then it just passes by.
Don't stress about it!

i happened with me..two weeks ago.. it was like i my mp3 playlists were bursting with potf songs for four months or so..and i hesitated to delete any of their songs for a long time..but then i too thought of taking a break from it..so i was following other songs and artists... and now m back to normal with potf songs.. n it does help to discover new layers to the songs...

For me it's pretty much the same as for dandalion. I listen to whichever music suits my mood and I might listen to the same album or band for a long time and then not listen to them at all for months. If they are among my favorites, the music will always come back to me.

As for the Poets. I have not listened to them much while I was in Finland (except for the two gigs), but that does not mean I love them any less now. I just was in the mood for different music.

i have yet to reach my saturation point no matter how much i listen to them the songs still seem so fresh and new. true they are not the only band i listen to, but they are the majority of my listening habits. DreamerM, i am sure that you will fall into the Poets phase again. it is almost impossible to never come back to it

I reach this point with all bands I listen to every once in a while. It's all about change. The music doesn't get worse, people just need something different, instead of getting caught in the same rythm of life.
I've reached this point with Poets, R.E.M., Travis, Rammstein, System of a Down, Stereophonics etc, all my favourite bands.
And then maybe a month passes and you don't really listen to the band at all, and then (for instance because you put your library on shuffle) you happen to hear one of the band's songs. And you 're-discover' it, so to speak. It's quite common, afaik.
There isn't a band where this doesn't happen (at least I refuse to believe so )

I was surprised when it happened to me. But it did, and I love them enough that I take a break until I can't stand it anymore. Like the others have mentioned, when I do listen to them again, it's like rediscovering them, and I fall in love all over again.

Saturation point!! I never got one. Because I never listen to the tracks album vice. I put all of my fav. songs of different bands in playlists, dividing them separately in between genres. So after setting shuffle mode, I never get bored of any band including potf.

Listening the particular song or album again & again might get boring. When such phase comes, one should put those song aside for a while. And listening it again after weeks or a month will help in gaining the potf obsession.

I think that I never been through saturation point.
If that moment comes someday, I will do what you all did.

I had it, yes. With POTF, even with Placebo.
And there are other great bands, localy or globaly, but I feel sorry I'm not a point of singularity so I could listen it all at once =D