Comment by jmmcd
7 years ago
My "white whale of the internet" is a 4-track EP from mid-1990s by a band called The Mark Kramer Band (not that Mark Kramer) with track titles Dust Bowl Rain and Wild Prairie Dog. It sounded like a bluesier Jeff Buckley, I think. I had a copied tape, so no pictures or other info, and of course it's long gone. If you Google it you'll see my previous pleas on other fora.
Mine is an "I wanna be adored" cover that I heard on a college radio station. Took me awhile to find it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhYUPgOnEFo
Mine is an odd, backwater website hosting a few tracks of surrealist noise (music) by someone/some-people called "The Waxwing Slain".
I found it when I was 13 or 14 while I was trawling the backwaters of the internet. I downloaded all the tracks and listened. It was odd, surreal, satisfying to listen to. Eerie, even. I've lost the HDD those mp3s were on. And the website has disappeared into the dusts of time.
https://archive.org/details/MusicUnderTheMoon2018-10-16 contains a track with that title, by someone calling themselves The Golden Oriole. Probably not your lost tracks.
You are correct, that isn't it. It isn't nearly surreal enough.
Thanks for poking around, though.
I bet googling the band name just gives results for Pale Fire by Nabokov these days.
Mine is a dancehall song that had the mp3 tags: Nicky Nicole Davis - Road Block, I lost it in a disk crash and I can't find anything about it on the internet.
Then you should definitely listen to that podcast that Cenk linked to... it will be very infuriatingly relatable!