Comment by zzzeek
7 years ago
There are millions of demo tapes and CDs from endless ad-hoc bands that were never known, I have myself at least a dozen catchy songs that get in my head from bands I've played in and some I can't even remember who they were, others are on dusty old demo CDs and tapes from 1993 in my basement. The "catchy song that can't be traced" is more than just one song in Rolling Stone, for me it's a whole world of music that existed for only a few months somewhere decades ago that lives only in my mind.
I've played stuff from Song Fight[1] in the car, or been signing along at my desk and been asked about the songs. There's so much good, "catchy" stuff out there if you take the time to look. At least w/ Song Fight I can usually trace down the original artist.
I have the same thing w/ old tunes from MOD files. I have a couple melodies I whistle that I know came from MODs I downloaded and listened to 25 - 30 years ago but I have absolutely no idea which ones they are. I still have most of that stuff (the benefits of kicking your data onto new media every few years), but slogging thru all of it just to find a few bars of melody just seems like a chore. I also thought that, if I ever chose to do that, I should record my current interpretations of the melodies to see how they changed over the years vs. how the original actually sounded.
[1] http://songfight.org/
Yeah, I think anyone even tangentially connected to a music scene feels this. Especially if you hung around something like college radio stations where people (like me) would sometimes just bring in a burned CD, it'd get tossed into some DJ's show, and then handed back and never really noted or catalogued.
Agreed. It sounds like a demo tape to me. Probably from a short-lived band that never made it big.
It's actually fairly good, but IMHO it sounds familiar because it's derivative of lots of things that were happening at the time. Which you might expect from a novice band.