Missing Songs Found!

I want to start off this entry all cool and collected, but I'm too excited. *grin*

I ran into Parrish briefly on IM mid-afternoon, and just before he left, he mentioned that he was listening to a song called Celestial Soda Pop. I figured that sounds about as strange as one is likely to get, so I asked he toss a copy at me when he got home. Sure enough, when I managed to get back to my computer a few hours later, he was on IM and the song was on my drive. :-)

So we hung out having the usual fun conversation, my just remembering in the back of my head to check the song out. There was a bit of a lull at one point, so I decided to queue up some music and include his odd addition to the collection for kicks. Much to my complete shock, what came up was a song I used to play all the time on my Apple IIgs about 12 - 13 years ago and have been wondering about ever since! *bounces*

Playing it for the first time since childhood brought back some neat memories -- I had a lot of emotion invested in that computer and often spent every waking moment at it. I'd come downstairs early in the morning, dump tablespoons of Nestle Quik into a glass, pour milk on top of it (*stirring* it somehow didn't occur to me) and head on down to my computer, cheerfully eating this as my breakfast. Unless I had a special story-writing project to work on, I would sit at my computer for hours, trying to figure out how to make the screen emulate the rippling colors that I saw whenever I listened to music. Repetitive music with a distinct interwoven beat between multiple instruments (how is that for a lame description?) was the most compelling to perseverate on; Celestial Soda Pop was my favorite, even though I had no idea what it was called other than something like "synth008" in the program!

So suddenly, many years after I'd given up hope, having my notebook start playing that song this evening was a seriously exciting shock. *grin* It still has exactly the combination of tones, patterns, and repetition to please my autistic brain after all this time -- I still feel the need to leave it on loop for several hours in row.

What was also pretty cool, after I told Parrish this, was that I was able to find a song he'd been missing for years, too! He played an arcade game back in 1983 that involved a penguin knocking ice cubes around the screen, and greatly enjoyed the tune used. After a bit of creative Googlesearching, I managed to figure out that it was an old Sega game called Pengo. (I admit I didn't think there was a chance in hell I was going to figure out what he was thinking of, so it was as much of a surprise to me as it was to him when I got it right!)

I told him the game title, and even before I could Google it myself, he'd tracked down the name of the song and artist! Hunting things down like that (and the startled reaction of "Holy sh**!" from him) was a lot of fun for me... I have to admit, too, that having grabbed a remix or two as well as the original, it does make neat repetitive background music too. So not only did I help him out in return for finding my "lost" song, I added something remarkably addictive to my own stash. *big grin*

Posted by moggy at October 15, 2003 11:13 PM | TrackBack