I recently realized I haven't actively listened to music for almost a decade. Some life stuff combined with a job I've had for awhile that really exhausts me, and I guess I hit a dead end without realizing it.

Back in the Before Times, the local radio stations played exclusively power trio stuff, and I sort of came to the conclusion that... I didn't like music? Which is obviously dumb, I just had a limited window on things.

Then Pandora happened and life was good. You could throw thumbs up / down at stuff and it would figure out what you liked. It was around this time I figured out that I liked stuff like Thievery Corporation, but since there wasn't any way to export your history, I don't recall many names from that period.

Pandora kept getting worse until I stopped using it. No idea what email I even used at this point. For some reason, probably stubbornness, I never picked up a Spotify account. And so here we are today: I don't listen to music much, and I don't even know what I like.

So like, what do? When I hit up Youtube for some search like "focus music" for getting stuff done, or "viking music" for playing Valheim with friends, I usually enjoy it, but that's a far cry from actually having a taste in things.