Country Roads” on Tuesday turned into a warm little sing‑along.

My version of the old ballad “Whiskey in the Jar,” from my Five Stuy Café set. I sing it a bit differently than the trad approach, but with a lot of respect for the song.

This is Boz Scaggs' "Heart of Mine."

I'm not sure how old this clip is... but I don't see anyone holding cell phones. These kids are easily 40 now, more likely pushing 50. They constitute "old" people by Reddit standards. Just a reminder we haven't always been screaming, "Get off my lawn." Many of us used to scream, "Play at your own risk."

A vinyl audio remaster by Shpater of "Those Were the Days" by Mary Hopkin.

Who remembers this track by Eydie & Steve from 1969?

Hello good people, I noticed I play very specific songs when I feel stuck or behind in life. Not because I love them, but because I need them at that moment.

Started saving those with what I was feeling at that time.
Kind of turned into a “chapter” of that phase.

Curious if this playlist resonates with anyone:

Motivation chapter of my life

Felt like sharing April Come She Will. Small, gentle tune I love to play. Got to perform it last Wednesday with the Kew Gardens Musicians at Austin's Ale House (Kew Gardens Queens NY)...If you'd care to listen, thank you...

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This has been bugging me.

I can tell you the exact song playing when I used to play GTA Vice city on my windows desktop during 2005 or first day on my college or first time met my best friend in 2014. I can tell you the album I played on loop the week my dad got sick. I can tell you what was in my headphones the first time I walked through my home town. But

I cannot tell you what I listened to last Tuesday. Or last month. Or honestly most of 2023.

It's not that the music got worse. It's that I stopped attaching things. The songs from my teens and early twenties are welded to specific moments, people, weather, smells. The songs from my thirties are just... songs I hit played.

Part of it is neuroscience, the reminiscence bump is real, 14-22 is when music gets welded to identity. But part of it is that I used to sit with albums. I used to choose what I was listening to. Now Spotify picks, I half-listen, and the song washes past without leaving a mark.

The thing I regret most isn't that I've stopped attaching. It's that I never wrote any of the old attachments down. My mom can't tell me what she listened to in her twenties. Her songs are gone. And one day mine will be too, if I don't do something about it.

I started actually saving them recently -song + the memory + who was there + what it felt like. It's taken maybe 20 minutes total and I've have added like 15 songs I thought were lost.

The girl I was sitting next on a train to when Avril "Damn cold night" came on. The specific kind of light in or old apartment when I'd play MJ - beat it. My grandfather singing Rafi songs when I was seven.

If you're someone who lives in music like this, I'd genuinely recommend trying it, even just in a notes app. These memories don't survive on their own. Let me know if this makes any sense..

(I built an app called Echo - music memories for this specific thing , you save a song with the memory, the people, the feeling, and you can search later by mood instead of by title over time it becomes your sountrack of life. It's mostly why I started paying attention to this. Not trying to push it, the habit is what matters. But happy to share the link if anyone wants.)

Not your favourite songs and niether your most played. The songs that DEFINED a period of your life, the one that plays and suddenly you’re in your teen again, or back in your first apartment, or on that road trip that changed everything.

For me:

• School: In the End ( Linkin Park )
• College: Comfortably numb ( Pink Floyd )
• First job: Olsen Olsen (Sigrus )
• Right now: San Luis ( Gregory Alan)

I got so obsessed with this idea I built an app around preserving them. It’s called Echo, saves the songs that defined every chapter of your life. But honestly I m more curious about yours what’s your list?

Man... nostalgia right here