How to find that song?
Posted under: I am the “give the fishing rod, instead of the fish” kind of guy. When I wrote my post “How To: Make your own LED Throwies” Richard was curious to know what song was that on the video. To me it sounded like Belle&Sebastian but I was not sure about it, then I listened to a couple of more songs by Belle&Sebastian and the tone was right, the mood was right and everything pointed to Belle&Sebastian. When Richard asked me again today I went hunting for the song. It took me less than 10m to find out that: I was wrong; to discover a new music project; to deliver the right information back to Richard.
Remember the “give the fishing rod, instead of the fish”? Here is your fishing rod to find a song you only know some of the lyrics!
The answer of course is at Google but with so much data how do we find the right information? My tip is a simple one: If you don’t know the name of the song, don’t try and guess it. A few days ago, one of my tweeps was asking “That song “Never fall in love” is sang by whom?”. The song of course is “The Wicked Game” by Chris Isaak and the he only sings “Wicked Game” once during the whole song. So, don’t try and guess it. You will probably know at least one line of the lyrics of the song you are looking for. Do a search with “the line you know lyrics” and will will probably get it on the 3rd or 4th result.
Sometimes, like with the the song I was looking for, it’s not really straight forward. The song I was looking for was a cover version of the original song by swedish band The Knife. What to do then? Just do another search with the now known name of the song and artist name and adding the words “acoustic” or “cover version” to your search.
Do you know I love lists? Here is one for all of you.
What I did to find that song for Richard:
- Went to google and searched for “One night to be confused“
- Got to a website with the lyrics for the song “Hearbeats” by The Knife
- Went to Youtube, searched for it and got this
- Clearly it was not the same song. Back to Google with a search for “Heartbeats The Knife acoustic version”
- Got it!
Of course that if you are into electronic music, hard techno for example, a search for “Boom Boom Boom Ritititititi Boom Boom Boom” won’t do you much good. For that we will have to wait a few more years 
Did you find this post useful? Were you having trouble finding THAT song? Let me know on the comments!
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