finding your own music in random unexpected places

some spanish goth dude uploaded my song to youtube only it sounds like it's been through some serious lossy compression. lol @ the visuals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wurl-tKZmbU

cool song curt1s!

Weird to think that a little keyboard riff I wrote at a friend's house in San Diego eight years ago led to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDDDqsvwuXw#t=57s

(fast-forward to 0:57)

Fuck, how old is Alan Alda now?

more like alan olda

Its great it ended up there C, it really is an awesome song! I love it, I listen to it heaps.

I was hoping jaymc's youtube was keyboard cat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUWTKa6ok_c

this was only unexpected insofar as only one person in the band knew that this was being made. like btw my friend made a music video "oh ok, cool"

Hahah I had the same keyboard cat thought actually :o

not music but a picture of my band

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/velez/velez12-5-07.asp

(NB: it seems like mine should've been expected, but it wasn't: we made our songs available for licensing, but we didn't know it was going to be in the movie trailer until someone e-mailed us to say they'd seen it.)

i was watching this documentary about craft breweries, and when they're interviewing the guy at bell's (my favorite brewery), i was like "that song playing on the jukebox in the background sounds familiar. oh, that's my band."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9dVo-MRckI

Its great it ended up there C, it really is an awesome song! I love it, I listen to it heaps.

― our soldiers die like chickens day by day (Trayce), Friday, September 4, 2009 3:35 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

So do I. It's so good.

That whole album is +++ awesome. Jealous.

Curt1s the first time I listened to your track above I accidentally had A.R. & Machine's AR IV playing concurrently, and I was like "Curt1s' music is really, REALLY fucked up".

But even with AR IV it's still an awesome cut. :)

Some old bands music ended up on a Discovery Channel documentary about Flight 93 (actually it's probably on around now I guess.)

It was a very odd sensation hearing something you wrote playing in the background whilst a lady recounted the details of mobile phone conversations with her soon to be dead husband.

On a brighter note, a version of the end title music to Camberwick Green (that I did for a laugh) came out on a compilation years ago and is now on Spotify!

I've never felt weirder than when I was at a bar with a friend, each of us minding our own business, when the DJ (who I'd never met) started playing one of my tracks (I had not released any music in any way shape or form)!
My friend and I kinda trailed off and looked around trying to figure out why my music was playing in a public place by someone I didn't know. It really caught me off guard.

(Turns out the DJ knew a friend of a friend who passed the track along. He was equally surprised to have someone come up to him saying "Whoa hey how'd you get my music?")

i was once walking home from work and heard a snatch of one of my songs coming from a car.. when i looked around whoever it was had sped off. found out later that (sadly) it was someone i know.

i've heard my songs being played in pub PAs and once, memorably, in a secondhand cd store. where the cd was put out for a fiver.

somebody's ringtone in a restaurant