Hot on the heels of sharing the Apology Line podcast with me earlier this week, my pal Caroline (both a fellow former Upper East Side resident and kindred spirit in all things punky/indie/underground, specifically of the New York variety) shot me another link to another podcast, albeit to a very specific episode. She did this, I assume, given my penchant for getting fixated with finding elusive minutia from my ever-distancing youth.
If you need evidence of this particular preoccupation, you need look no further than any number of posts here, notably the saga of the Plasmatics' graffiti wall, the tireless search for the location of a photograph of the Lunachicks, my endless quest to find a very specific gig flyer by Cop Shoot Cop, my desire to track down a certain live album by Venom, my recollection of a certain pivotal scene in a film noir and my quest to find a street-art stencil that used to adorn the walls of SoHo in the late 80s/early 90s. None — and I mean NOT A SINGLE ONE — of these things has been even remotely important, but I get obsessed with them (albeit in an entirely fun way, not in some feverishly manic and unhinged way). I look at this way: Where once I used to busy my silly self with trying to track down elusive LPs, 12” singles and/or imported or out of print compact discs, when physical places one visited to try and procure those items dried up and vanished, I needed to find other things to search for.
In any case, in this episode of the Reply-All podcast, a man becomes singularly mystified by not being able to identify (nor find any evidence of) a song he vividly remembers both the lyrics and the melody to, and it haunts him. He searches all over the internet, but finds absolutely nothing to back up his recollections. This is the story of the lengths he goes to in order to solve the quandary of the mystery pop hit from his memory.
Anyway, it was definitely right up my alley, and I totally empathize with this story’s protagonist. Want to find out how it all ended? CLICK RIGHT HERE TO LISTEN.
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