Jaw-dropping thread on Reddit. One user posts that he can hear for the first time in his life and asks for listening suggestions. More than 14 thousand comments so far. In two days.

From Weekly Filet #80, in August 2012.

I can hear music for the first time ever, what should I listen to?

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Trouble Will Find Me

The National

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M83 in Concert

NPR

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