• IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    For me it was: hey check out this cool Muse song! - it’s Radiohead

    Bring Me To Life? Clearly Linkin Park 👌

    Oh, this one? Pendulum. Honestly! (Not Pendulum and I’ve never learned who actually did it but I have a cool unknown track in my collection 👍)

    Good times.

    Oh, and God forbid you ACTUALLY want to download porn unless you fancy playing CP roulette. 😰

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      11 months ago

      Oh, this one? Pendulum. Honestly! (Not Pendulum and I’ve never learned who actually did it but I have a cool unknown track in my collection

      I think every millennial has at least one napster/limewire era “white whale” song. It was awesome and you’d try to determine who actually performed it for years without ever figuring it out. Mine was a punk song listed as Dropkick Murphys but all I know for certain is it definitely was not them. No lyric searches have ever pulled up a match despite the fact that every few years I’d try again on a whim.

      My best guess is that it was probably a late '90s band that never had much of a following beyond whatever local music scene they came from and someone uploaded it from a demo they picked up at a show.

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        11 months ago

        I’ve got a whole white whale album. I routinely bought CDs from a secondhand store and found some half-decent techno labeled Amixiam - Dream Frequencies. Quite possibly just some guy’s personal work, packaged with a modicum of professionalism. No internet search has ever turned up a damn thing, and I no longer live on the same continent as that thrift shop.

        But then - a few years ago - I was going through old CDs, ripping them anew for modern codecs and decent bitrates. CDex filled in the track names automatically. A database recognized the disc! Someone out there had this information! And seconds later I realize that someone was me, sending the data to CDDB automatically, when I had ripped it the first time. I played a fifteen-year brick joke on myself.

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      11 months ago

      It might be the song Slam by Pendulum if that helps your search. I remember finding it for the first time on Limewire

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        11 months ago

        Sadly not. I became mad on Pendulum back in 2005, I’d absolutely recognise it if it was on any of their albums!