Why We Love Music—and Freud Despised It
In the late 1990’s, our own Steven Pinker ruffled feathers in the cognitive psychology community after he called music auditory cheesecake.” He was referring to the theory that music is a useless by-product of natural selection – a potentially wasteful use of our brain’s resources that brings pleasure but serves no evolutionary purpose for the species. Listening to these songs, it appears there is nothing new to say, so I thought I would save writers the trouble and create an all-purpose love song. The live disc, a compilation of Nirvana concert recordings, finally saw release in October 1996, titled From …
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