Since 1978, there has been a musical mystery in my life. That year was the last time I heard a certain song that I really like. It was on the radio, on my mom’s clock radio. It was called something like “Shoes” and had kind of a Russian feel to it.
I remembered it all these years (I have a good memory for music). Today, for some reason, I remembered it and decided to google around.
A bit of searching led me to this blog. Songs named “Shoes”? I scrolled down. Well, what about this one?
For ages, every time I heard the song Whatsername by Green Day, I thought the melody reminded me of something else I’d heard on the radio when I was younger. But just humming the melody to people wasn’t enough to get them to guess the correct song.
Finally I happened to hear it again on the radio last year, take note of some lyrics, and stick them in Google. Turned out it was the Wallflowers’ One Headlight, and by chance my parents happened to own the album.
Some time recently I was linked to a YouTube video that I found really interesting because of the artist’s use of a sampler and a violin - he recorded loops live and played them on top of each other. I remembered that he was covering a song by a pop singer, but I got the name of the pop singer mixed up, and went around asking people if they had seen a video of a young male artist playing Madonna’s “Open Your Heart” with a violin and sampler.
Last night some friends and I were discussing famous men we found attractive, and one friend mentioned Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy. Who used a violin and a sampler to cover Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy”.
The opening stanza of the song reminded me of my wedding. My groomsmen managed to steal my dress shoes, and get them to me at just the very last minute. The ceremony started, and all went well until we had to kneel in front of everyone. I heard a laugh go through the church. It turns out they had put “HELP ME” in big white letters on the bottom of my black soled shoes.
And the song sounded similar to something I had heard before - another song. A little digging turned up “Those Were The Days” by the Hermes House Band. Weird stuff, memory is…
Thanks, Sunspace! This thread inspired me to do a google search for “musical set in Antioch” which lead me to the name of a play I’ve been tryign to remember since I was a child: Philemon. Now if I can just track down an album …
Now you’ve got me thinking of another one. When I was at Sheridan College, my English teacher played an experimental album by Chilliwack, that was not part of their regular repertoire. This was in 1984ish. Anyone know the album I mean? Googling doesn’t seem to find it.
And I’m also looking for Les Cinq Saisons by Harmonium. But at least I know what that one’s called…
Years ago, I heard a song I really liked on the radio. I only heard it once.
Many years later, i thought about it, and wondered if I could find it. All I remembered was it had the lyrics “so afraid of the Russians” in it. So, I used AltaVista (no Google at that time) and sure enough, it popped right up, and I was even able to download an MP3.
