Tell me about it! I searched high and low trying to find a song about feeling sorry/guilty/apologising that is not a downright love song.
Yeah, same problem - plus the fact that most of my music taste is for songs that aren’t particularly cheery.
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Yeah, all those glam metal power ballads…
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But anyway, please don’t feel guilty - I’m just being a silly girl.
Oh!
Edit: actually that’s not hugely appropriate given all the irony. Ah fuck it.
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Never mind. It´s just that I´m very cautious now because of everything I have ruined in the past due to misunderstandings in the written word. I basically have a vicious hatred for texting now. At least a forum isn´t limiting you as much because obviously I can´t express myself clearly on the point within a few characters.
I’m sorry you’ve had a shit experience in the past - it seems like it really affected you. I can’t really imagine you offending anyone.
Text messaging is pretty ripe for misunderstandings. But yeah, less likely on here so don’t worry. And don’t think this was a big deal because it really wasn’t.
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To get back on-topic: Someone proudly presents his mood of the day:
Let me tell you a story about that song which makes it really personal to me. It´s also a story that would never happen like this today.
Back when Married With Children was on regulary I used to hear this song on so many occasions, it appears so many times on the show and other shows. I really wanted to know what the name of that song was. Ironically there was an episode about Al having that exact problem with another song he can´t remember the name of. He just went humming to everybody “hm hm HIM!” because that was all remembered.
Unfortunately I never knew when that song appeared so I could record it and play to others.
But then I saw Christine (John Carpenters adaptation of Stephen King´s novel about that haunted 1950s car) which starts out with the first verse playing over that scene in Detroit where she kills some workers on the assembly line.
I had that movie recorded from the TV so I could play it again and again and so I took a small tape recorder (it was a replica from that one from Home Alone 2 Lost in New York) close to the speaker, played that scene and so I had it now on tape.
And I did what Al Bundy did. I walked through all of town on foot. Every single record store. I think in the end I went through at least 5 stores, of course not the big mall ones where the employees wouldn´t do that anyway but the small independent ones (only one of which still exists now some 20 years later, but it has moved now). And of course back then we even had one less mall in town!
Anyway, I played my tape to at least 5 record store clerks all over town. I started with the one I went to regulary and went also to some I never had been to before. Of course back then everyone still had a tape deck so they all listened to that small 90 second portion, it was short but it was clearly enough audible.
Wouldn´t you know it? Not a single person knew the artist or even the title of the song.
I was so dissapointed and went back to the first store a while later and told the guy I hung with regulary just to chat about music when I didn´t buy anything, that I was unable to find out what the song was.
He smiled at me and said:“You know I finally got it now!” So he handed me the CD which was “The Badest Of George Thorogood & The Destroyers” where of course that song being by far his most famous was track No 1. I still have that CD. I just checked and it even has the price label still on it. It cost 18 Deutsch Marks which was half the price of a new CD back then. I was so happy and listened to that song countless times in the following months (the sax solo was new to me since it never plays out when the song is on a show).
To this day I´m a bit surprised that no one knew the title of such a not reallly obscure track.
The first app I downloaded when I got my smartphone was Shazam. I use it regulary now.
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The harpsichord intro has a slight Monkey Island vibe… but just wait until the Sabbath riffs kick in at 1:45 and then the forest goddess starts singing. 
So tasty.
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That is really surprising, since Thorogood was all over the radio here in the States. It’s one of those songs you know just by hearing it coming out of passing cars all the time. I remember seeing him on SNL too.
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That does seem surprising, but then again I think that song has become more famous since by being used a lot in adverts and things. Though it’s odd that literally none of the shops knew it.
It made me think of the amusing Bad to the Chrome parody in Space Venture, the - cough - ‘upcoming’ game from the creators of Space Quest. I went on the Kickstarter page to reference it and the link to the video is broken 
“This video contains content from [Merlin] Beggars, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds” 
Sounds like it was a very rewarding experience. 
Much nicer than having Google tell you the name of the song straight away.
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D’oh! Maybe the Live version will work?
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Yes, it does! Thanks!
Why would a company with such an overly british sounding name block something in the UK? 
Because they’re a record company, and apparently it’s terrible if they’re not earning money every time a song is played on YouTube…
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We had that same problem several years in Germany.
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I forget I live in the UK and that’s probably seen as a comment on the weather…
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