The slow loss of music.

[davefish]

I am sitting here listening to Anthology, a NMA best-of compilation I picked up at Infest. It has made me realise how easy it is to forget about some songs. Ten years ago I was hearing a lot of NMA. Admittedly at the time I was out at nightclubs a couple of times a week, where they'd get a lot of play. I was always at the Christmas gig, and

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[sadaprilsky]

Do you consider this a bad thing? Or was it more of an observation? At least having forgotten this music you are able to enjoy the band afresh? I can't imagine how much fun it would be to listen to Thunder and Consolation for the first time again. I haven't experienced this so much with music, but with TV it is definitely the case. I was re-watching the first couple of seasons of Buffy recently and it was like discovering my favourite programme for the first time I had forgotten so many of the details. Or are you observing that with the passing of time, that different things are important to keep in your head? Much as I love NMA, I can't say I listen to them very much these days. I almost feel as if I've 'worn out' the songs/ Though reading your post has made me wondering whether it is time to get reacquainted...

[venta]

I quite like the feeling of listening to a long-ago-loved song, where your brain can't remember it but your mouth can sing along, recalling each line just in time. Hard to engineer on purpose, though :)

[davefish]

I'm not sure just yet....

I am probably sliding towards it being a good thing but my initial reaction was a bit of alarm that I had mostly forgotten about Drag It Down (As an example.) Maybe I should have a bit of a project to listen to more of my old music...

Or the other side of the coin is that I should also spent more time trying to find new music to listen to.