The Extraordinary Journey In Search of an Old Song in the Midst of Exam Season
What an extraordinary title for a blog entry. But with great stories come great titles. It has indeed been an incredible and noteworthy journey that deserves unabashed documentation only in the most stately of media.
Let's say you like a song. A rather old song, circa 1998. English. Shouldn't be so hard to find it online right? Let's go to KaZaA. Oh oh. Nothing there at all! Tried searching by artiste, by song name, nothing!
BitTorrent? Not a chance. Too lazy to even try mIRC. What exactly is the problem?
You see, the problem is this song is by a local band. How widely available online can music made by local bands be? Especially when this band is now defunct. Especially when it's an English song too! At least local Chinese songs get more exposure here.
I cannot exaggerate the obscene amount of time I spent trying to look for the song via as many as a dozen search engines. This activity was especially obscene given that it was performed in the midst of exam preparation. I stumbled upon a blog which listed the song on its playlist, and emailed the blogger requesting that the song be sent to me, pretty please.
And lo and behold, the blogger was so kind to have uploaded it. This song was the song of 1998. It was featured in the soundtrack of the local movie "The Teenage Textbook". The lead singer has a really lovely voice and the song has this retro sound to it. (The music somehow resembles this sequence in "The Young Ones" by Cliff Richard.) The movie and this song really brings back memories of those days. The song rocked my world in 1998, maybe it will rock yours 7 years down the road.
Download the song via YouSendIt here while stocks last, download expires on 30th April 2005
The kind soul who uploaded this song, a thousand thanks
Let's say you like a song. A rather old song, circa 1998. English. Shouldn't be so hard to find it online right? Let's go to KaZaA. Oh oh. Nothing there at all! Tried searching by artiste, by song name, nothing!
BitTorrent? Not a chance. Too lazy to even try mIRC. What exactly is the problem?
You see, the problem is this song is by a local band. How widely available online can music made by local bands be? Especially when this band is now defunct. Especially when it's an English song too! At least local Chinese songs get more exposure here.
I cannot exaggerate the obscene amount of time I spent trying to look for the song via as many as a dozen search engines. This activity was especially obscene given that it was performed in the midst of exam preparation. I stumbled upon a blog which listed the song on its playlist, and emailed the blogger requesting that the song be sent to me, pretty please.
And lo and behold, the blogger was so kind to have uploaded it. This song was the song of 1998. It was featured in the soundtrack of the local movie "The Teenage Textbook". The lead singer has a really lovely voice and the song has this retro sound to it. (The music somehow resembles this sequence in "The Young Ones" by Cliff Richard.) The movie and this song really brings back memories of those days. The song rocked my world in 1998, maybe it will rock yours 7 years down the road.
Download the song via YouSendIt here while stocks last, download expires on 30th April 2005
The kind soul who uploaded this song, a thousand thanks
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