# Help me find this song from 1997-1998
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-song-from-1997-1998/823894
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 2, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-song-from-1997-1998/823894 "2018-11-02T16:21:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-song-from-1997-1998/823894/21 "2018-11-04T00:52:09Z")
I never liked the song, but for some reason I downloaded it. Guilty pleasure, I guess.
When “Blue” was popular, I saw a comic strip in the student newspaper of the college I was attending at the time. In the comic strip, somebody is sick of hearing the damn song on the radio all the time. He decides to invent a time machine, so he can go back in time and kill Marconi, the inventor of radio, just so he won’t need to hear the song ever again!
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2018, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-song-from-1997-1998/823894/22 "2018-11-04T04:25:19Z")
> [@Ponch8](#):
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> I never liked the song, but for some reason I downloaded it. Guilty pleasure, I guess.
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> When “Blue” was popular, I saw a comic strip in the student newspaper of the college I was attending at the time. In the comic strip, somebody is sick of hearing the damn song on the radio all the time. He decides to invent a time machine, so he can go back in time and kill Marconi, the inventor of radio, just so he won’t need to hear the song ever again!
But then how would they build that city on rock ‘n’ roll???
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### Author:  [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-song-from-1997-1998/823894/23 "2018-11-05T10:37:02Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Thanks for the link. I had never seen Todd in the Shadows before, but I love what I’ve seen. I clicked on the Scatman John video after this one, and it was gold! Sounds like I’ll be going down the Youtube rabbit hole tonight!
I just had a flick through a few of those videos; surprised to find that A-ha were a one-hit-wonder. I know Madness are thought of as such over the pond - despite being one of the biggest singles acts of the 80s on their home turf - but I didn’t know about A-ha.
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