# I wish someone could research my brain and find out the name(s) of all the music I...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-someone-could-research-my-brain-and-find-out-the-name-s-of-all-the-music-i/277245>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 30, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-someone-could-research-my-brain-and-find-out-the-name-s-of-all-the-music-i/277245 "2004-11-30T00:38:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-someone-could-research-my-brain-and-find-out-the-name-s-of-all-the-music-i/277245/1 "2004-11-30T00:38:00Z")

</div>

… Ever thought sounded good. All the music I heard in adverts or even posessed but lost due to disorganisation. I have the resources and funds to get hold of almost any music but my memory and mind are a complete blank.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-someone-could-research-my-brain-and-find-out-the-name-s-of-all-the-music-i/277245/2 "2004-11-30T05:15:33Z")

</div>

Man, can I _ever_ sympathize with that. My desk is always littered with scraps of paper upon which are scrawled lyrics I overheard (for later googling) on the TV, radio, Muzak, someone’s CD player, etc. etc. Sometimes it gets to be a compulsion to _find_ what song it is—all because of my hearing a nice chord change, clever lick, well-tuned snare drum, and like that.

I suppose if you really had funds, you could go to a hypnotist and have him try. 🙂

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-someone-could-research-my-brain-and-find-out-the-name-s-of-all-the-music-i/277245/3 "2004-11-30T05:20:54Z")

</div>

Commercials should be forced into displaying the music used (unless it’s original to that commercial)

I didn’t know until years later that Moby’s _God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters_ was what was used in the commercial for the movie _Heat_.

Then, not one week later, I found [this site](http://www.soundtrack.net/trailers/). Oh, the pain.