pre-this thing song i.d. adventures!

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so how did you go about finding out what that wonderful tune was you heard somewhere before the days when you could come on here, where all mysteries are rendered unmysterious? by accident or design? are there still mysteries that even your network of know-it-all cyberfriends can't help you with?

i was in a GAP in jackson, miss., in '89, '90 or so and heard something in there that was unlike anything else i'd heard (and there was a lot i'd never heard growing up in mississippi). totally dreamy. had no idea what it was. stores like that had tapes they'd play on loops and i thought about asking an employee if they had a list of whatever was on that tape, but i was too shy and didn't. so it was a mystery. until several years later when i picked up a tape out of one of camelot records' few remaining cutout cassette bins. the tune was "carolyn's fingers." ha! mystery solved! by accident. but enough about me.

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you mean before ILM or before the internet?

I think I just hoped for the best. It didn't seem to happen much.

Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess i meant pre your ability to access the net, ILM included naturally.

yeah, i guess it didn't happen much.

*sound of one thread fizzling*

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I either remember the title or key lyric of a song, which nowadays is usually enough to find it on the net, or else I am still lost. I am no good at remembering fragments of melodies, basslines etc. So there's no chance of me embarrassingly myself by singing them to record company staff.

Has anyone tried Shazam on their mobile phone? I still haven't. Is there any chance of it working with one singing the tune into it, rather than holding it up to the speaker?

Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, there was one of those tragic profile shows on MTV a few years back (basically aping VH1's "Behind the Music" format) about the band Sublime. At one point in the program, sonically framing a segement about the lead singer's cliched dance with heroin abuse, there was a great, histrionic track playing (note: it was not a Sublime tune), and I've never been able to find out who it was. It had the same vast sweep of vintage Jane's Addiction with great hoary vox, but I have no idea who it was. Alas...

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)


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