About 10 years ago, while on my mission, I heard a song by The Cardigans that I really liked (not to mention that I was already in love with Nina Persson’s voice). But by the time I returned home, I couldn’t remember the name of it, or exactly what it sounded like to be able to find it. All I could remember was that it was a live version of a song from one of their singles released in the late 90s, that it had a fast tempo, and that it had the lyrics “har har har” somewhere in the song.
I had been home for about 2 years, when I found a song titled “Sick & Tired” off their Emmerdale album; I thought sounded like it might be the song I was looking for, but since it didn’t have the har har har lyrics in it, I ended up deciding it wasn’t it, and gave up looking for the song.
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to look again and found a pretty good discography listing on their official website. When I saw the following CD, I realized that I was retarded, and that the har har har lyrics were likely only in the live version:
I realize this is the wrong live performance (this one says it’s off the “Erase/Rewind” single; though even that’s probably wrong, and it should be listed as being from the “Rewind-Live” single), but I still can’t find the recording from the “My Favourite Game CD 1″ single, and this example is good enough.
I have a song in my head, that I heard every once in a while over the last decade that I have NEVER been able to find. It is a contemporary jazz song, sung by a woman who sounds an awful lot like Kim Carnes (Betty Davis Eyes). Every time I hear it, I’m never in a position to write the lyrics down and then I usually become distracted to the point that I cannot remember what I told myself to remember. The last time I heard it (about 5 weeks ago), I was in a restaurant, with my iPhone, WISHING they had the Starbucks-purchase-the-song-you-hear-on-the-radio-throgh-wifi thing going. Little things like this will drive me nuts.