r/BenignExistence • u/Blueberry__Bubbles • 6d ago

The songs we forget.

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.

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u/M_Pfefferi 6d ago

I definitely think about this. There is a song I know was really important to me in the early 2000s. I was very poor, so didn’t buy it. Heard it on the radio often, saw the music video once or twice, and for the life of me I cannot remember it well enough to find it again. sigh

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u/AlternativeSkirt2826 5d ago

Can you remember any of the lyrics? What genre? Male or female singer? Any detail of the video? And what country were you in when you heard it?

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u/M_Pfefferi 5d ago

I don’t remember specific lyrics any more. It was playing on the radio in the US in the early 2000s so probably a US singer/band. I think it was a male singer, but it could have had both male and female vocals. It was probably ‘alternative rock’ or something similar, because I would have seen the video on MTV or VH1. 

The ‘story’ was about love and loss, or the fear of loss. The one thing I remember very clearly from the video, and the thing I have used to search for this when I’ve tried in the past, was a woman falling backwards into a pond/lake that was on fire while a man or men watched helplessly. 

I would have thought that visual would make it easy to find, but it never turned up anything.