Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lam, and I'm Joe McCormick.

As we've discussed on the show before, a memory is a complex topic.

There are things we remember, there are things we forget, there are the things we only

think we've forgotten, and then there are the numerous ways in which altered memories

are stored and then retrieved as if they're fact.

Memory is powerful, it's beautiful, it's dangerous at times, and it's essential to human

culture and the human experience.

In this episode, we're going to be looking at some of the issues related to memory and

music, because the way we think about store and recall music, I feel like this helps

illuminate what's going on in the complexity of memory.

It's also something that's highly relatable.

We can all dip in on this particular topic, and I look forward to hearing from listeners

about it, but also we're dealing with something that's slightly intangible.

When you try and think and talk about how you remember music, how songs stick with you

over the ages, and what songs mean to you, you get into a lot of interesting territory.

Sure, I think one of the most common things that we can all relate to is the way that

music has such a powerful ability to evoke bygone places and times, to just put you right

back in the mindset of that summer or the year that you were 19 years old or whatever.

It's strange why sequences of sounds do that, seemingly so much more than almost any

other stimulus of any kind.

Yeah, yeah.

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