discovery

There's nothing quite like the feeling of discovering a new song or piece of music, and slowly coming to the realization that you're in love with it as you're listening to it for the first time, and that you know it's going to be on continuous repeat at home, in your car, and at work for the next couple of days. Love at first sight is debatable, but love at first listen is undisputed fact. Why is just one listening never enough? There must be some kind of complex brain process going on that can explain our thirst for repeat listenings of a particular piece of music, and why we don't feel like we can fully "digest" a song until we've heard it 20, 30, 50 times.

Speaking of which, I really want to read this book:

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession