Fidelity
My dear friends, let me tell you a tale. T'was a bright and sunny morn and I was driving to work, listening to the radio as I sometimes do, and I heard a song that lodged itself in my head and took up residence to stay. The traffic became slightly interesting and required my concentration and when my mind was free enough to listen to the radio once more I found I had missed the name of the song... worse still, I could only remember a single word of the song, sung in a catchy way, endlessly repeating in my mind.
Now this was no pop station, instead a local alternative station called FBI who often play emerging Australian music. This was going to be a challenge. If I had remembered more than one word of the lyrics I might look it up that way, as I have done before, especially if it contained any interesting word combinations that might not otherwise be common. I went by the radio stations website to see if there was any help there... as it happened the radio segment I was listening to had put up a playlist for that day, score!
Dutifully i copied down all the songs of the segment and one by one I tracked them down (myspace proved very helpful for this by the way)... those I could not find clips of directly I found other music by the same artist and tried to determine if it was in the same style. I ruled out half the list, then three quarters, finally getting it down to one or two songs. Imagine my despair when I was forced to cross off these last vestibules of hope as well... NONE of the songs on the playlist had been the one I'd heard, was I going mad? No. I decided that the DJ had simply overlooked this one song when writing them out that morning.
So where do I go from there? I started querying the web for the single word I remembered, "heart", along with phrases like "sung in an interesting way" or "catchy tune"... it was like looking for a piece of hay in a stack of needles, painful and pointless. Thinking myself very clever I emailed the radio segment itself, surely they could help with my query! I waited... one day... two days... three days... no reply. Too good for their admiring public eh? Bastards.
So anyway a couple of days later they played it again and I caught the name. It was "Fidelity" by "Regina Spektor". Just goes to show, sometimes the web isn't the answer.
Now this was no pop station, instead a local alternative station called FBI who often play emerging Australian music. This was going to be a challenge. If I had remembered more than one word of the lyrics I might look it up that way, as I have done before, especially if it contained any interesting word combinations that might not otherwise be common. I went by the radio stations website to see if there was any help there... as it happened the radio segment I was listening to had put up a playlist for that day, score!
Dutifully i copied down all the songs of the segment and one by one I tracked them down (myspace proved very helpful for this by the way)... those I could not find clips of directly I found other music by the same artist and tried to determine if it was in the same style. I ruled out half the list, then three quarters, finally getting it down to one or two songs. Imagine my despair when I was forced to cross off these last vestibules of hope as well... NONE of the songs on the playlist had been the one I'd heard, was I going mad? No. I decided that the DJ had simply overlooked this one song when writing them out that morning.
So where do I go from there? I started querying the web for the single word I remembered, "heart", along with phrases like "sung in an interesting way" or "catchy tune"... it was like looking for a piece of hay in a stack of needles, painful and pointless. Thinking myself very clever I emailed the radio segment itself, surely they could help with my query! I waited... one day... two days... three days... no reply. Too good for their admiring public eh? Bastards.
So anyway a couple of days later they played it again and I caught the name. It was "Fidelity" by "Regina Spektor". Just goes to show, sometimes the web isn't the answer.
