The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1045: The Top 100 Moments in Rock in the 21st Century So Far (10-1)
People who study such things say that the human brain—this folded lump of mostly fat—has a pretty good hard drive. The average adult brain has a capacity of about 2.5 petabytes…put another way, that’s 2.5 million GB. That’s a lot.
We’re talking about personal memories, facts, academic education, learned behaviors, and muscle memory. There are also special places where things like musical memories and lyrics are stored…
Some memories remain rock solid, barring injury or illness. But because we’re always experiencing new things, we forget other stuff as new experiences crowd out the old stuff.
As a result, things fade. Significant details about something can start to fade away within days—even hours or minutes, depending on the circumstances surrounding that memory. Eyewitness accounts may sometimes become compromised, which is why they are often considered unreliable in legal proceedings. And it’s not like we can download a backup of our memories—at least not yet.
This is why it’s a good idea to do a little maintenance on the hard drives in our heads. That can be as simple as doing a refresh. How? By stopping for a little history, a quick study on where we’ve been, what we’ve done, and what’s happened to us. Think of it as pressing “F4” on a keyboard a bunch of times.
John Lennon said, “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” He’s right. And the more time goes by, the more plans we might have made…inevitably, we forget some of life.
And that’s why if we want to know why things are the way they are—and where things may go in the future—we have to hit “F4” every once in a while.
This is such a program. It’s part ten of the 100 greatest rock moments of the millennium so far. Do you remember these things? And have you ever thought of them in this way? Let’s find out with moments 10 through number 1.
As usual, we have this playlist from Eric Wilhite.
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