[HN Gopher] A lost X-Files song
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       A lost X-Files song
        
       Author : tptacek
       Score  : 191 points
       Date   : 2023-12-07 16:36 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | AnotherGoodName wrote:
       | This link doesn't really work for anyone without a twitter
       | account fwiw. We just see a single message. I think the preferred
       | way to share twitter content these days is to screenshot the full
       | thread. Or just accept that it's not really shareable and move
       | on.
        
         | madars wrote:
         | Nitter instances work:
         | https://nitter.net/laurenancona/status/1731900441800155459
        
         | Nthringas wrote:
         | the public (open?) internet is dying
         | 
         | i wonder if there are any nuances between public and open
        
           | bongodongobob wrote:
           | I've never used Twitter in my life. Twitter is not "the
           | internet" nor is it essential in any way. Get a hold of
           | yourself.
        
             | anonymouskimmer wrote:
             | Commercial internet content providers have become more
             | closed to those not logged in over the years. Twitter is
             | just the latest instance.
        
             | black_puppydog wrote:
             | It used to be _part_ of the internet. As in, people
             | publishing stuff there weren 't isolated, I could send you
             | a link and you'd "just read it" as it were. This is
             | increasingly untrue. Just like with facebook and the
             | others, I might add.
             | 
             | In the end, I think Jake Applebaum was right: the
             | established social media are the real darknet. Stuff that's
             | posted there eventually gets cut off for fun^Wprofit and
             | dies a silent death...
        
               | jra_samba wrote:
               | This is very true. As an exmaple, Ian Hickson's blog post
               | explaining the real reason behind DRM was posted on
               | Google+ and is now completely unavailable (at least I
               | can't find the original text anywhere).
               | 
               | Here is an open web page describing what he wrote (with
               | some quotes), but the original text ? Gone along with G+.
               | 
               | https://www.techdirt.com/2013/03/26/true-purpose-drm-to-
               | let-...
        
               | anonymouskimmer wrote:
               | > and is now completely unavailable (at least I can't
               | find the original text anywhere).
               | 
               | https://web.archive.org/web/20131108215400/https://plus.g
               | oog...
               | 
               | I can get the internet archive to display the original
               | text when I view source. The reply to this comment of
               | mine appears to be the original text (minus some of the
               | formatting and bolding), and doesn't include the
               | comments. I think it's complete, but only grabbed and
               | reformatted a chunk of the view source.
        
               | anonymouskimmer wrote:
               | https://web.archive.org/web/20131108215400/https://plus.g
               | oog...
               | 
               | Discussions about DRM often land on the fundamental
               | problem with DRM: that it doesn't work, or worse, that it
               | is in fact mathematically impossible to make it work. The
               | argument goes as follows:
               | 
               | 1. The purpose of DRM is to prevent people from copying
               | content while allowing people to view that content,
               | 
               | 2. You can't hide something from someone while showing it
               | to them,
               | 
               | 3. And in any case widespread copyright violations (e.g.
               | movies on file sharing sites) often come from sources
               | that aren't encrypted in the first place, e.g. leaks from
               | studios.
               | 
               | It turns out that this argument is fundamentally flawed.
               | Usually the arguments from pro-DRM people are that #2 and
               | #3 are false. But no, those are true. The problem is #1
               | is false.
               | 
               | The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright
               | violations.
               | 
               | The purpose of DRM is to give content providers leverage
               | against creators of playback devices.
               | 
               | Content providers have leverage against content
               | distributors, because distributors can't legally
               | distribute copyrighted content without the permission of
               | the content's creators. But if that was the only leverage
               | content producers had, what would happen is that users
               | would obtain their content from those content
               | distributors, and then use third-party content playback
               | systems to read it, letting them do so in whatever manner
               | they wanted.
               | 
               | Here are some examples:
               | 
               | A. Paramount make a movie. A DVD store buys the rights to
               | distribute this movie from Paramount, and sells DVDs. You
               | buy the DVD, and want to play it. Paramount want you to
               | sit through some ads, so they tell the DVD store to put
               | some ads on the DVD labeled as "unskippable".
               | 
               | Without DRM, you take the DVD and stick it into a DVD
               | player that ignores "unskippable" labels, and jump
               | straight to the movie.
               | 
               | With DRM, there is no licensed player that can do this,
               | because to create the player you need to get permission
               | from Paramount -- or rather, a licensing agent created
               | and supported by content companies, DVD-CCA -- otherwise,
               | you are violating some set of patents, anti-circumvention
               | laws, or both.
               | 
               | B. Columbia make a movie. Netflix buys the rights to
               | distribute this movie from Columbia, and sells access to
               | the bits of the movie to users online. You get a Netflix
               | subscription. Columbia want you to pay more if you want
               | to watch it simultaneously on your TV and your phone, so
               | they require that Netflix prevent you from doing this.
               | 
               | Now. You are watching the movie upstairs with your
               | family, and you hear your cat meowing at the door
               | downstairs.
               | 
               | Without DRM, you don't have to use Netflix's software, so
               | maybe just pass the feed to some multiplexing software,
               | which means that you can just pick up your phone, tell it
               | to stream the same movie, continue watching it while you
               | walk downstairs to open the door for the cat, come back
               | upstairs, and turn your phone off, and nobody else has
               | been inconvenienced and you haven't missed anything.
               | 
               | With DRM, you have to use Netflix's software, so you have
               | to play by their rules. There is no licensed software
               | that will let you multiplex the stream. You could watch
               | it on your phone, but then your family misses out. They
               | could keep watching, but then you miss out. Nobody is
               | allowed to write software that does anything Columbia
               | don't want you to do. Columbia want the _option_ to
               | charge you more when you go to let your cat in, even if
               | they don 't actually make it possible yet.
               | 
               | C. Fox make a movie. Apple buys the rights to sell it on
               | iTunes. You buy it from iTunes. You want to watch it on
               | your phone. Fox want you to buy the movie again if you
               | use anything not made by Apple.
               | 
               | Without DRM, you just transfer it to your phone and watch
               | it, since the player on any phone, whether made by Apple
               | or anyone else, can read the video file.
               | 
               | With DRM, only Apple can provide a licensed player for
               | the file. If you're using any phone other than an iPhone,
               | you cannot watch it, because nobody else has been allowed
               | to write software that decrypts the media files sold by
               | Apple.
               | 
               | In all three cases, nobody has been stopped from
               | violating a copyright. All three movies are probably
               | available on file sharing sites. The only people who are
               | stopped from doing anything are the _player_ providers --
               | they are forced to provide a user experience that, rather
               | than being optimised for the users, puts potential future
               | revenues first (forcing people to play ads, keeping the
               | door open to charging more for more features later,
               | building artificial obsolescence into content so that if
               | you change ecosystem, you have to purchase the content
               | again).
               | 
               | Arguing that DRM doesn't work is, it turns out, missing
               | the point. DRM is working _really well_ in the video and
               | book space. Sure, the DRM systems have all been broken,
               | but that doesn 't matter to the DRM proponents. Licensed
               | DVD players still enforce the restrictions. Mass market
               | providers can't create unlicensed DVD players, so they
               | remain a black or gray market curiosity. DRM failed in
               | the music space not because DRM is doomed, but because
               | the content providers sold their digital content without
               | DRM, and thus enabled all kinds of players they didn't
               | expect (such as "MP3" players). Had CDs been encrypted,
               | iPods would not have been able to read their content,
               | because the content providers would have been able to use
               | their DRM contracts as leverage to prevent it.
               | 
               | DRM's purpose is to give content providers control over
               | software and hardware providers, and it is satisfying
               | that purpose well.
               | 
               | As a corollary to this, look at the companies who are
               | pushing for DRM. Of the ones who would have to implement
               | the DRM, they are all companies over which the content
               | providers _already_ , without DRM, have leverage: the
               | companies that both license content from the content
               | providers and create software or hardware players.
               | Because they license content, the content providers
               | already have leverage against them: they can essentially
               | require them to be pro-DRM if they want the content. The
               | people against the DRM are the users, and the player
               | creators who don't license content. In other words, the
               | people over whom the content producers have no leverage.
        
               | jhbadger wrote:
               | In the same way that sugared cereals used to be
               | advertised as "part of this complete breakfast!" showing
               | it next to fruit, eggs, toast, etc. that made a perfectly
               | good breakfast without the cereal.
        
           | MisterTea wrote:
           | No the public internet is doing just fine. I can still send
           | packets to where ever. However, the machines connected to it
           | aren't playing nice with each other anymore.
        
             | anonymouskimmer wrote:
             | You're purposefully misinterpreting the contextual meaning
             | of "internet" as used by GP.
        
         | wharvle wrote:
         | It's frustrating because some of Musk's first moves were to
         | make logged-out Twitter a _ton_ better, but then a while ago he
         | reversed course hard and made it entirely unusable. It's the
         | worst it's ever been, I'm not employing "unusable" flippantly,
         | it's in fact almost pointless to follow a Twitter link while
         | logged out now.
         | 
         | Yeah, in my circle if people want to share Twitter stuff,
         | they've taken to using screenshots.
        
           | partiallypro wrote:
           | I've stopped sharing Twitter links at this point and just
           | send screenshots to people. I can never know if they have a
           | Twitter account. He supposedly did this to stop "bots."
        
             | zerocrates wrote:
             | My suspicion has been that the well-publicized removal of
             | many servers that used to be part of Twitter's infra had a
             | negative performance impact, and the series of changes to
             | how anonymous users and/or tweet embeds worked are a band-
             | aid on that.
             | 
             | For an anonymous viewer, they still don't show you the rest
             | of a thread a tweet is in, or even any indication of the
             | fact that there is a thread that you're not seeing. This
             | doesn't even make sense as a nudge to join Twitter, so load
             | reduction feels like the most likely reason to me.
        
           | butlike wrote:
           | If you want to watch the presidential debate, you'll need to
           | log in to Twxtter, is the gut check I'm getting with the push
           | to streaming, but not adding clips.
           | 
           | You can go from there depending on how optimistic/pessimistic
           | you want to be, but ultimately I do feel like I can see that
           | being the path forward foe Twxtter.
        
           | Teever wrote:
           | What if we talked about the X-files in a post about the
           | X-files, and talked about Elon Musk... Anywhere else?
        
             | wharvle wrote:
             | When sufficiently broken links hit the main page, the
             | brokenness is gonna be part of the discussion. Whatever the
             | intentions of HN, it's always the case, even for ones that
             | are broken for boring and predictable paywall reasons
             | rather than slightly-more-interesting walling-off-the-"town
             | square" reasons.
             | 
             | Besides... "The Twitter Files"... Twitter renamed X... yep,
             | that checks out, still on topic.
        
           | readams wrote:
           | The worst part is that it's not apparent _why_ the link
           | sucks. If they would at least have a message "Log in to view
           | the rest of the thread" it would be much better. But I have
           | clicked around in futility several times before to try to
           | find where the rest of it is.
        
           | xupybd wrote:
           | I think it is a move to try and force people to sign up.
        
             | retox wrote:
             | And then when you do your account gets locked immediately
             | for 'suspicious activity' and they ask for phone details
             | and/or photo ID. X is going to be WeChat with payments etc,
             | they need real people's details.
        
         | naremu wrote:
         | The "town square" in action.
        
         | drcongo wrote:
         | It's free speech.
        
         | gorbachev wrote:
         | Can we just automatically replace twitter links with nitter
         | links here? Please.
        
       | block_dagger wrote:
       | Lyrics: "have waited for a light-year." What a long time! Wait.
        
         | anonymouskimmer wrote:
         | An eternity. https://phys.org/news/2014-05-does-light-
         | experience-time.htm...
         | 
         | : photons don't experience any time at all.
         | 
         | Edit: I think it's appropriate as the lyrics start "in my
         | memory you are moonlight, starlight". Postulating that the
         | subject of the song is light makes the "waited for a light
         | year" more of an "I would walk 500 miles" type of song lyric.
        
         | sixothree wrote:
         | It's just a few parsecs.
        
       | iambateman wrote:
       | This makes me miss the ReplyAll podcast. They were the best at
       | tracking down obscurities like this and telling a fun story about
       | them.
        
         | ParacelsusOfEgg wrote:
         | PJ Vogt has a new podcast called Search Engine that is worth a
         | try.
        
         | stickfigure wrote:
         | Sounds like you would enjoy this podcast, if you haven't
         | listened already:
         | 
         | https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/
         | 
         | A whole 8-part podcast series about the origin of the Scorpions
         | song "Wind of Change". But really a vehicle for lots of
         | interesting cold war history.
        
       | cmdlineluser wrote:
       | There seem to be a few articles about it now:
       | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/06/x-files-son...
       | 
       | An update from one of the songwriters:
       | https://www.joneshouseband.com/about-2
        
         | JamieDawsonCode wrote:
         | Apparently Dan and Glenn had 4 hours to write and submit the
         | song! Imagine throwing together a song in 4 hours and then
         | finding out that people loved the song so much that they
         | tracked you online 25 year later.
        
           | xattt wrote:
           | It's survivor bias at play. There would be a million other
           | tracks written and released with the same time constraints
           | that no one heard off.
        
             | magicalist wrote:
             | > _It's survivor bias at play_
             | 
             | What is the "it" in this sentence referring to? No one made
             | any claims to refute.
             | 
             | The GP just asked you to imagine the feeling of being in
             | that situation.
        
           | pavel_lishin wrote:
           | Imagine being so skilled that you can whip up a whole amazing
           | song in four hours! I'm not sure if I could create _anything_
           | beautiful in four hours.
        
             | stavros wrote:
             | This is the most beautiful comment I've ever read. Well
             | done, Pavel!
        
             | whstl wrote:
             | True. I know a couple people who work with soundtracks
             | professionally for TV, and the crazy thing is that "writing
             | songs fast" is a totally different skill in itself, so it's
             | not enough to be an amazing player with decades of
             | experience, or even an amazing songwriter, it's a different
             | superpower that impresses other musicians too.
             | 
             | Those super-fast soundtrack/jingle composers, session
             | musicians and professional songwriters have this "little
             | bag of tricks" in their heads that they use to move fast
             | and iterate. They know intricacies of the styles they work
             | with, like chord progressions, rhythms, song structures,
             | arrangement conventions and cliche lines. Then, the chord
             | progression often "suggests" a melody (meaning: some notes
             | sound more natural over different chords), and melodies
             | often also "suggests" some lyrics. And they also know the
             | rules well enough to be able to break them.
             | 
             | Naturally, to make something "beautiful" takes more than
             | "speed" and "familiarity with the genre". But it is really
             | cool to see people able to do things fast. I wonder if we
             | could apply this to coding... I guess it's not too
             | different from people able to do game jams, or hackatons.
        
               | jimmydddd wrote:
               | I recall reading that Bernie Taupin and Elton John first
               | met when they separately answered an ad for a company
               | that wrote jingles and music for commercials. Apparently
               | the two were partnered together at the company and would
               | crank out a high volume of content every day. If true,
               | this gives insight into their prolific output during the
               | late sixties and early seventies.
        
             | seanhunter wrote:
             | Charles Mingus was onstage with his band when he was told
             | that Lester Young had died. He called a short minute break
             | and while his band went and got themselves a drink, wrote
             | and arranged (for an 8-piece band) "Goodbye Pork Pie
             | Hat"[1] in tribute. They came back on stage and played it
             | immediately.
             | 
             | Keith Jarrett wrote all the music for a tour of Japan on
             | the plane there. That became the album "Personal
             | Mountains"[2]. Apparently he literally had all the meal
             | trays around him open with scores on them and was
             | scribbling away the whole way.
             | 
             | [1] One of the all-time classic jazz ballads.
             | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWO_VcdnHY
             | 
             | [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8rokRx3lnY
        
             | jjeaff wrote:
             | Well, as the saying goes, it took 4 hours, plus a lifetime
             | of study and practice.
        
         | QuercusMax wrote:
         | They're planning to release it as a single!
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Noticed this one a few days ago randomly as it was developing and
       | as an old X-Phile it intrigued a bit ... particularly because it
       | actually was going somewhere very fast after years of people
       | pondering about it. (even had me searching some old usenet
       | archives for clues)
       | 
       | TL;DR:
       | 
       | A song that appeared in a country bar scene in an X-Files episode
       | (the 25th anniversary of the first airing of said episode in
       | 1998!) has been a mystery for years. Allured by its on-topic
       | country lyrics etc, many have wondered for years. After this
       | thread, the music production guy and some others have come out of
       | the woodwork and are working on finding the lost song which was
       | produced/played custom for the show. A cue file has been found
       | and the music guy thinks he might have a cd backup of it
       | somewhere (which requires more help because he doesn't have a cd
       | player to play it apparently!). They are going to work on a
       | public release of the song if it comes together.
        
       | danirod wrote:
       | I find stories about lost media intriguing and I am happy that
       | this one got resolved.
       | 
       | There is an online subcommunity both on YouTube and Reddit trying
       | to discover a lost song based on a 17 second audio clip found
       | online a couple of years ago. So far, no luck.
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone_Knows_That_(Ulterior_...
       | 
       | Honorable mention to The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet as
       | well:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Mysterious_Song_on_th...
        
         | the-rc wrote:
         | If anyone is into musical mysteries, there's a bunch of Zappa
         | fragments that might be quotes from his or others' works,
         | something that he did all the time:
         | 
         | https://www.zappateers.com/fzshows/mystery.html
         | 
         | Every time I hear #4, I think a bit of La donna e mobile, ...
        
           | tomcam wrote:
           | Definitely not. I've sung La donna e mobile a zillion times.
           | Also, damn, was his guitar going out of tune or what? Maybe
           | he's playing one of those 1970s Stratocasters that just
           | wouldn't behave.
        
         | TillE wrote:
         | That does sound _a lot_ like Darren Hayes, as Wikipedia
         | suggests. Specifically the lower-pitched singing of  "you've
         | got"; it sounds exactly like a signature Savage Garden thing.
         | 
         | Every artist has demo tapes with songs they've written but
         | never published, and a lot of obscure stuff got leaked in the
         | heyday of filesharing.
        
       | 1970-01-01 wrote:
       | For the next exercise, please find the original moon landing
       | tapes.
        
         | HumblyTossed wrote:
         | The ones where we actually _did_ land on the moon?
        
           | ethbr1 wrote:
           | The ones that tried to convince you we didn't land on the
           | moon and faked the tapes, despite people in the know being
           | well aware that the "fake tapes" were actually produced on
           | the moon as part of Operation Nonstop Night.
           | 
           | Lone Gunmen forever.
        
           | adastra22 wrote:
           | Yes, the original video recording of the moon landing has
           | been lost. It was broadcast live, but all we have is the
           | grainy, shitty, washed out recording of the national news you
           | see shown everywhere. The actual signal from the moon, which
           | people at Mission Control would have seen, had a FAR better
           | resolution and contrast.
           | 
           | It was recorded with basically the best camera they could
           | send, and digitized and returned to earth with a proprietary
           | signal format invented just for this purpose, to ensure the
           | highest possible resolution and accuracy as 1969 tech could
           | provide. But because it was proprietary, for the media event
           | they piped the high resolution imagery into a crummy TV
           | somewhere in Houston, and pointed a run of the mill TV
           | production camera at this little TV screen, as a low tech
           | conversion just for that night. Like a bootleg movie video.
           | 
           | Unfortunately the primary recording was accidentally
           | destroyed, and the backups are missing. All we have now is
           | that shitty TV camera recording of a TV screen with terrible
           | contrast where you can barely see anything.
           | 
           | It is accurate in that for the billion people watching live,
           | this grainy low contrast video is what they correctly
           | remember seeing. That was the moon landing experience for
           | nearly everyone on earth. But those in Mission Control DID
           | have a nice crisp view, and the rest of us may never get to
           | experience that :(
        
             | hnthrowaway0328 wrote:
             | How did they lose that? Sigh...
        
             | MostlyStable wrote:
             | While obviously the true original would be better, I wonder
             | how closely modern upscaling/de-noising/etc (possibly with
             | AI assistance?) would approximate the lost footage.
        
       | mikub wrote:
       | This reminds me of how much I miss watching X-Files back in the
       | days. Such a good show.
        
         | sgt wrote:
         | The Lone Gunmen!
        
         | hnthrowaway0328 wrote:
         | Still a good one. I watched it once few years. I'll probably
         | watch it again this year during Christmas. When my son grows up
         | I'll introduce it to him too. I'm not sure what is the
         | appropriate age but I guess 12 is OK? Some of the scenes are
         | definitely 18+ though, I think.
        
           | mikub wrote:
           | Just don't let him watch the episode called "Home", some
           | other episodes could also be to early at 12, but most should
           | be ok.
        
             | hnthrowaway0328 wrote:
             | Oh yeah, now that you reminded me, there are a few episodes
             | that has sort of viewer discretion warning at the
             | beginning.
             | 
             | I'll tell $wifie that I'll have to re-watch the whole
             | X-Files this month to figure out which episodes my son
             | should avoid when he is 12 (that is around 9 years from
             | now). This definitely counts as parenting work.
        
         | AntoniusBlock wrote:
         | If you're in the UK, all X-File episodes are available to
         | stream for free on 4OD. I'm re-watching it too, but I'm so busy
         | I can only do 1 episode every few days.
        
           | mikub wrote:
           | That's almost how it was back then, one episode per week. ;)
           | I haven't done a complete rewatch but from time to time I
           | just watch some of my favorite episodes like, "How the Ghosts
           | Stole Christmas", "Field Trip", "Quagmire" to just name a few
           | of them.
        
           | circularfoyers wrote:
           | The same on SBS OnDemand, for anyone in Australia.
        
             | c23gooey wrote:
             | Thank you for this.
        
           | mindslight wrote:
           | If you've got an Internet connection, all the X-files
           | episodes are available for download through torrents.
        
         | codexb wrote:
         | I fondly remember getting Little Caesars pizza every Friday
         | after soccer practice and coming home to stay up late with my
         | dad and watch the new X-Files. The 90's truly were the best
         | decade.
        
           | tomcam wrote:
           | That's a lovely reminiscence. It's a beautiful memory to
           | have.
        
         | cm2187 wrote:
         | I loved as a teenager but its looks silly now, like a lot of
         | teenager movies. With the exception of the "X-cops" episode
         | which is a little gem.
        
           | RajT88 wrote:
           | It has aged better than most other shows from the era. IMO of
           | course.
           | 
           | "Harsh Realm" (another Chris Carter show) may yet become
           | relevant again though.
           | 
           | "The Lone Gunmen" as the sillier cousin of X-Files is as
           | charming as ever.
        
       | dmux wrote:
       | Coincidentally there's another song in an x-files episode that
       | has been sought out over the years. In that case though, it's a
       | rendition by the original performers that seems to have never
       | been made public:
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/XFiles/comments/1zthzq/can_we_pleas...
        
       | cies wrote:
       | Makes me think of once I was in bed listening to a house mix and
       | suddenly I heard a remix of a track I've been wanting to re-
       | listen since my child hood. No text, just melody. I jumped out,
       | got on the piano and rev-engineered the melody.
       | 
       | Now there are search engines for melodies, I think I used this
       | one:
       | 
       | https://www.musipedia.org/js_piano.html
       | 
       | First 5 hits were not the track (knowing how to read score helps
       | here), but the sixth: bleam!
       | 
       | The track was "Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence"
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jElCDsfptVU
        
         | toasterlovin wrote:
         | Huh, I also recognize that tune from a dj set. Going out on a
         | limb here, but is the one you have in mind The Outrunners at
         | Razzmatazz? It would have been on the VALERIE blog in 2009ish.
         | Here's a link:
         | 
         | https://www.mixcloud.com/pierre-de-la-touche/the-outrunners-...
        
       | 38 wrote:
       | I checked the whole thread but don't see a link to the actual
       | song. did it actually get posted yet? and I don't mean a cam of
       | someones TV or something. as others said, logged out Twitter is
       | garbage.
        
         | ksherlock wrote:
         | Dan Marfisi/Glenn Jordan found the song on a CD but it has not
         | yet been made available anywhere.
        
         | upon_drumhead wrote:
         | Not yet.
         | 
         | > Due to popular demand, writers Dan Marfisi & Glenn Jordan are
         | working to release the song as a single.
         | 
         | https://www.joneshouseband.com/about-2
        
       | DashAnimal wrote:
       | That was a really enjoyable thread, and what a great resolution.
       | Not really my type of music but I'll ha e to give the song a
       | listen in a couple of days when it becomes available.
        
       | asadalt wrote:
       | I once was listening to a song in a cafe in Pakistan and couldn't
       | find it. Me and friends did:
       | 
       | - Shazam a few times
       | 
       | - Ask the restaurant folks if they can look at some screen to get
       | us the name, apparently it was on a screenless mp3 player
       | 
       | - I recorded a sample of it
       | 
       | - I tried all fingerprinting services apart from Shazam
       | 
       | - Posted on a few subreddits, found the base song, a daft punk
       | song but not exact one
       | 
       | - I looked up all remixes all over internet, no luck
       | 
       | - Finally someone found the exact soundcloud link, apparently it
       | was a remix with no mention of daft punk anywhere
        
         | leblancfg wrote:
         | Well do share! lol
        
         | poglet wrote:
         | Many songs that I liked on Soundcloud go missing so consider
         | saving it.
        
       | HumblyTossed wrote:
       | So... if they forgot about it, are they not making anything at
       | all off of it from the X-Files? That seems so wrong.
        
         | encoderer wrote:
         | Works for hire.
        
       | zzzbra wrote:
       | best of the internet
        
       | bmacho wrote:
       | > The full song will drop Friday, Dec., 7. Check back for it!
       | 
       | https://www.joneshouseband.com/
        
         | stavros wrote:
         | "Friday"?
        
       | quickthrower2 wrote:
       | https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1731900441800155459.html
        
       | drexlspivey wrote:
       | I've been on a similar rabbit hole looking for a proper release
       | of this song https://youtu.be/Oom_s1mu-Ks from the movie The
       | Funeral
       | 
       | I found out that it was written by Abel Ferrara (the director of
       | the movie) but no proper recording that I could find
        
       | cm2187 wrote:
       | Talking about music Shazam fails to identify, I have a bee in my
       | bonnet about a piece of violin that I found in several trailers
       | [1] [2]. Sounds like Ray Davies but can't find the tune anywhere.
       | 
       | [1] https://youtu.be/md9M1KPP9no?t=82
       | 
       | [2] https://youtu.be/R4OIZJljMWA?t=3
        
         | JDW1023 wrote:
         | The song appears to be Soiree by Helen Jane Long.The song is
         | recognized by youtube on the second youtube video in the
         | description.
         | 
         | https://us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/soiree_5303
        
       | mwcremer wrote:
       | Somewhere I saw a clip of David Duchovny revealing the never-
       | before-heard lyrics of the X-Files theme song:
       | The X-Files is a show           With music by Mark Snow       The
       | X-Files is a show           With music by Mark Snow       ...
        
       | netsharc wrote:
       | Somewhat related, in that involves the X-Files and hidden songs,
       | the CD of X-Files related music had a "Track 0" that can be
       | accessed by rewinding beyond 0:00 of track 1:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_in_the_Key_of_X:_Music_f...
       | 
       | > Producers used the Compact Disc's pregap, so a listener would
       | have to actually manually rewind the first track a full nine
       | minutes to hear two additional hidden tracks, "Time Jesum
       | Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum" and a cover of The X-Files theme
       | song, both performed by Nick Cave and Dirty Three.[20] This is
       | hinted at in the album's liner booklet, which notes "Nick Cave
       | and the Dirty Three would like you to know that "0" is also a
       | number".[21] The use of these hidden tracks has been described as
       | "just the sort of surprise one might have suspected from a show
       | that deals in unexplainable mysteries".[22] Not all CD or DVD
       | players will allow the album to be "rewound" back to these tracks
       | as this violates Red Book standards.[23]
        
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