The songs we forget.

[u/Blueberry__Bubbles]

I wish I had a list of every song I've ever heard and enjoyed. I wonder how long it would take to reach the end (listening of course). I also wonder how many songs I've forgotten about over the years. Have you ever had that thought?

I think about it every so often when a song comes on over the radio (it's usually Metallica, Pink Floyd or Rush, I've noticed). It's like I completely forget that they exist until that moment and while I'm jamming along, I'm thinking to myself 'I need to listen to these guys more often!' but then I never do.

I feel like I do limit myself these days, getting stuck in the cycle of picking from the same 3 lists, depending on my mood.

My seven year old comes home singing Queen, Papa Roach, Elton John and I love it.

My friends niece has just hit teenage years and is heavy into music these days. It's so surreal hearing her gush over Ozzy, Nirvana, Gorillaz etc. getting to experience these bands for the first time and fall in love with their music. Oh, it takes me back!

Staind was my first music love. Break the Cycle was the first CD I ever bought. It's also one of the handful of albums that I enjoy every single song on it. That band definitely got me through the worst of my teenage angst years.

[u/Natural-Berryer7]

What's even crazier is thinking about all the music out there that you've NEVER heard, and how some of that undiscovered music may be your absolute favorite once you hear it!

I'm going through a discovery phase with some less mainstream genres of music and have easily doubled my "favorites" in the past year alone. It feels like I've leveled up somehow, and I hope to keep discovering!

[u/Blueberry__Bubbles → u/Natural-Berryer7]

I have thought about all the things out there in the world that I'll never experience or learn about in my lifetime but oddly enough, music wasn't part of that thought process. I think because music is in such abundance, I don't think about what I'm missing out on because it's getting played from all directions. If that makes sense.

I love this for you though! What do you generally use to discover new music?

[u/Natural-Berryer7 → u/Blueberry__Bubbles]

That does make sense. So much we'll never experience that we'll never even know we're missing!

There's an app a friend recommended (If you really want to know the name of it message me, not here to be an advertisement because there is a subscription fee) that has "stations" with all different kinds of EDM/EDM adjacent music to discover. I've found quite a diverse bunch of new favorites and lots of fusion with other musical genres.