How many songs do you know?

[benhatchins]

Remembering songs honestly feels harder now because people stream so much random music every day. Years ago albums stayed in your head longer somehow. I recently checked fubotv reviews while trying to decide on streaming options and caught myself listening to old songs I still know perfectly after decades. Music memories really stay with people. Interesting question honestly. Everyone has certain tracks permanently burned into memory.

[Skip Ellis]

I used to play pedal steel in a band whose lead singer was a blind American Indian - I think he knew the lyrics to every country/classic rock song there ever was and those of us in the band had to be able to play every one of them at a moment's notice. We figured out, once, that we could play 5 sets a night for at least a week without even thinking of doing a repeat. And it wasn't all 3 chord country - he also did some standards. If I've heard a song, I can pretty much stumble through it without making myself look like an idiot.