When Old Songs Become New Again

When I hear a song that really gets me crazy about it, you know, really crazy like on the edge of my seat crazy, I'm a loyal patron of it forever. I will listen to it at least a dozen times before I return to my senses. Well, I was in Nordstroms at Northpark Mall with some friends when I almost made what I will call the discovery of a life-time, songwise.

I say almost because I have an iPhone and I use the app Shazam, to find songs that I don't know or recognize. This was one those moments. I'm looking for my friends but in the background I hear this song. And I was like OMG! OMG! OMG!!!! I couldnt pull out my iPhone quick enough and punch the Shazam app to tag the song playing. So, I'm waiting for the app to tag the song and I get this message:

"Connection lost. Please try again later."

And then the song ends. Yah! I wanted to exclaim like Camden did in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', when Ferris talked him into joy-riding his dad's Porsche and afterwards trying to rewind the mileage back, and the vibration of the reving motor caused it to fall off of the bricks and backout of a window into a creek. Yah!

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

Later on, we went to eat and that song was still on my mind. You see, I go through a ritual in order to try retaining and remembering the most minute detail about a song, especially if what happen tonight happens. After getting that devestating message, I knew that I had my work cut out for me. But I was only discouraged not beat.

I went over to blip.fm to write something and for some reason I was thumbing through my WIFI settings. Oh yah. I was turning the WIFI settings off. I stopped by the Shazam app and saw those dead tags that had turned up nothing. But then I noticed that Shazam had found one of the songs it couldn't find back at Nordstroms. And I saw that last one, the song that I so wanted to know about. It just said untagged item. So I hit it and it started analyzing it's remains. And,...AND!....OMG! Was it true?

IT FOUND THE SONG!!!

Evidentally, all of the information was still stored into my phone. The song: "Erase and Rewind", by The Cardigans. I know the group but I could not distinguish that it was them singing. I bought the song from iTunes and have been playing, by now, 20 times in a row. Yes, during this writ. But I was surprised that it was a song from their Gran Turismo album, in 1998.

Wow! I love it either way but I am not imited by the age of the song, then throw itr away because I found a new song. No. It hit me also that many others are too pushing aside their differences about song age and bringing back the cool, tight and killer tunes, despite the song's age. There are some gems out there. Go out and keep making your discoveries. You will never be disappointed. Awesome! I will sleep rather soundly since this latest discovery.

(pressing play to hear "Erase and Rewind" again)...