I was playing guitar the other night and had a song come into my head from a band I listened to as a teenager; Bad Lizard, a small rock band from Chippenham, the bassist was my friend's dad. I used to have their self-titled song, 'Bad Lizard' on my iPod and blast it when I was in the mood. I'd ripped it from the CD into iTunes. The song probably only lived on a couple of hundred devices.

Songs like that don't exist today. They're on our old devices. Mine are backed up on some external HDD back home. We lost a set of music when we moved to Spotify. For me, George Watsky's Color Lines over Miley Cyrus' Party In the USA which would never get listed due to copyright claims, Madeon's 1hr party mix downloaded from SoundCloud, and a bunch of remixes from ThisSongIsSick.com like Eyes On Fire (Zeds Dead Remix).

These songs lived in a time before copyright and centralized catalogues, where we each downloaded from Limewire, ripped from CDs, and discovered music on niche sites. We had songs that no-one else would know, with a cool backstory, where passing someone your iPod opened up a little world of discovery.

Here's to those lost songs. Bad Lizard - I've Lost My Shoe.