Luck? Years getting good at “thinking like Google”? Probably both. Definitely both.
a) You gave enough clues
b) I distilled the clues in a format Google likes as:
chips ahoy commercial jazz
c) somebody uploaded it to youtube
d) they happened to name the song in the description
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One of my longest searches is this ridiculous space-rock/classical song. I’ve been haunted by it since I was a kid in the 80s.
Didn’t know what show it was from. Heard it in a few places. Incidental music (which always haunts me the worst – I love incidental music) – and remembered it was part of some mystery / space / myth show but that’s about it.
Somehow through a chain of searching for something entirely different, looking up “absolute elsewhere” from a strange little BBC science video I tripped over, I came across a band called absolute elsewhere that made songs based on “Chariots of the Gods”. That had my curiosity because I remember reading that book as a kid and seeing a few specials about it on 80s TV.
I scrolled through the album, not terribly impressed – and THERE IT WAS.. my mystery tune.
Took another 1/2 hour to track down the name of it and find a copy of it by itself. I had to add up the track times to figure out what song was playing at the 30:25 mark in the album video I found… and even THEN, there was only one copy of it on Youtube by itself.
So I got it, victorious after 30 years wondering what that mystery tune was, downloaded it, cleaned it up a little, and reuploaded it to youtube.
I guess I depend on the collective connectedness of random knowledge on the internet to guide me to wherever i need to go, even if i don’t know where it is at first.
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Thanks 🙂 I thought for 1/2 a second of keeping a wizardly mystique but I was never that guy that did that kind of thing. [except when I walk into a room to fix someone’s computer problem and just by being there, it’s ‘magically fixed’. I learned to shut up and smile mysteriously rather than explaining why it suddenly worked]
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