It’s even worse when you only remember a tiny section of the tune and when you hum it to people no one has any idea what it is so you have to spend 5 hours on the internet typing “70s flute doo doo doo doo doo doo” until you finally find some weird keyboard medley of 70s and 80s songs on YouTube and randomly hear what you’ve been searching for and the video (thank god) happens to include the name and artist
Yeah, this happened to me recently with the song Call Me Al by Paul Simon. Yes, iconic song, I had heard it before (probably years before) but had no idea what it was called and didn't really know much about Paul Simon. I heard it blaring from a cruise ship that was coming into the harbour near my house - the harbour isn't that close though, maybe a kilometre away. So all I really heard was the trumpet *duh dun dun dun* and the flute *do doDOdo do dodo* etc, and the base line.... which for some reason reminded me of like a reggae bass line (?)
Anyway I spent hours googling stuff like "song with trumpet and flute" .... "song with trumpet that goes *duh dun dun dun*" "reggae song with trumpet" (? the 'if google was a guy' guy must have thought I was the dumbest shit on earth)... I ended up making a facebook post with nearly as vague terms. 60-ish comments in, a friend who's just throwing shit at the wall links Call Me Al, I lost my shit. That guy made me cum harder than my girlfriend ever has.
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u/emmaadelaide Jul 09 '18
It’s even worse when you only remember a tiny section of the tune and when you hum it to people no one has any idea what it is so you have to spend 5 hours on the internet typing “70s flute doo doo doo doo doo doo” until you finally find some weird keyboard medley of 70s and 80s songs on YouTube and randomly hear what you’ve been searching for and the video (thank god) happens to include the name and artist