Music, books and memory

Why is it I can drop a CD in my CD Player that I have not listened to in 10 years and know every meaningless word to every meaningless song, but I can read a technical book tonight, and forget what I read tomorrow and have to pick the book back up to recall?  Can someone out there start writing songs related to .NET?   Would it not be too cool to navigate over to Amazon, do a search on ".NET CLR" and get 10 hits under Music!!