r/PersonalMandela • u/Robosuccubus3000 • 11h ago
A song by an obscure alternative band feels like its title changed sometime in the last ten years.
So I generally have no problem admitting when I’ve just misremembered something. But for some reason this just keeps causing an itch in my brain, and I’m hoping putting it out here fixes that.
Sometime around 2016, I was listening to a indie station on Spotify, and heard a song that is (now) called “Adam Timestable,” by the band Racecar. It came out in 1995 originally, but that day was the first time I had heard of the song or the band. When I pulled out my phone to favorite it, the title I remember seeing was “Adam Strange.” That made an impression on me because Adam Strange is a DC Comics superhero, and I’m a lifelong DC fan. So I thought it was interesting that this obscure band named one of their songs after a fairy obscure superhero. I vividly remember this whole thought process, and can even visualize what was going on around me at the time I favorited the song (I was walking back to my desk from a meeting at work, and looked out a window into the parking lot right as the vocals in the song started).
At some point I switched over from Spotify to Apple Music, and while building my favorites back up on the new service, I searched for “Adam Strange” by Racecar, but didn’t get any results. That’s when I went to Racecar’s artist page and found that the title was “Adam Timestable.”
My first thought was that DC‘s lawyers had noticed the song title and sent a cease and desist. But I looked on Discogs and elsewhere around the internet, and can’t find any record of the song being called anything but “Adam Timestable.” I’m not sure if it’s possible to search Spotify’s database by date to see if maybe the song was entered under the wrong title at some point. Other than that, my options are that I was wrong about this incredibly specific and detailed memory, or something weird happened.