How we discovered music as kids & how we do it now - an emotional short thread:

To know what a song was, in the 90s, I had to wait till it aired on a radio station and then hurriedly record it on a cassette & take it to a local record shop where the owner with

the encyclopaedic knowledge of music would figure out which one it was. When I had 10 such adventures in line, I could make a list and get the songs put together on a TDK cassette and enjoy on my Walkman. Today, I had a meltdown when I realized all one has to do to learn what

song they're listening to is type a few lyrics in Google or just hold a damn phone with Shazam open. Hit the logo and it figures out within a few seconds what the song and artist is. It gives you options to listen to the song again on another music app or even purchase it for

your digital music library. It's a convenience, of course,but for some reason today it hit me that things that occupied us during our childhoods and teenage years, things that commanded most of our effort and time, will never come back again.

Time does not flow in reverse, at least in this reality, and it is comically tragic.

But one thing remains true: all the songs we ardently longed for and chased after, those are the ones that stay firmly in our minds, even when all other sounds fade. Some comfort. xx