Comments on: I'm a cyberspace commuter?

Question: I'm a cyberspace commuter?

nanojath — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:54:39 -0800

Here we go again: partial lyric, name the song. The phrase "I'm a cyberspace commuter" is repeated several times. The chorus goes something like "ooh-ooh then I see you smile, and everything's fine... Ooh-ooh then I look at the sky and I see the sun shine"

The ridiculous thing is it is somewhere in my iTunes playlist. Somewhere among those thousands of songs. I made a bunch of comps by trolling around for songs that struck my fancy but I didn't recognize and couldn't remember where I'd got them. Then I unthinkingly deleted the playlist. Bits of lyrical clues and googling has found me most of the ones I couldn't figure out, but this one is stuck in my head and I can't find it anywhere.

By: sian

sian — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:26:27 -0800

Coldplay - Daylight ? Or an amalgamation of Coldplay songs?
The cyberspace commuter bit doesn't fit in though.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:34:31 -0800

Definitely not that, sian. Thanks for trying though.

By: sian

sian — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:36:06 -0800

I figured as much! But I'm keeping an eye on this because somehow it's ringing a bell and driving me nuts. Male singer? Female? New, old? What style music?

By: nanojath

nanojath — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:54:44 -0800

Male singer. Possibly a UK accent but that's not really clear. It's sort of in the alternative/pop genre, and strikes me as newer, like 90's or later, perhaps current... I'm having trouble describing it which is partly why I led with the most memorable lyrical hooks that stood out. There's a distinct difference between the style of the verses and the chorus (the latter being the part with "I see you smile, and everything's fine"). The verses have more of a low-fi, distorted sound, and a faster rhythm. The chorus is slower, more lyrical and atmospheric. I'm not very good at this. If nobody recognizes it, sian, I can rip it back off the comp I made, and email you the track. At the moment it's out in the car and too much hassle at nearly midnight, my time, so unless someone turns up with the answer within the next ten minutes I'll check back in tomorrow.

By: tristanshout

tristanshout — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:26:39 -0800

can I have a copy, too? Sounds fascinating....

By: jdfan

jdfan — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:57:14 -0800

Bad English "When I see you smile"?

By: nanojath

nanojath — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:50:54 -0800

Well, I found it through alternate means of inquiry - I'm not surprised it didn't get recognized, it's fairly obscure. Listening to the lyrics more carefully it's all a little bit too apropos for the Metafilter addict.

The song is "Buckled" by one-man-band "Lost Idol."

You can hear it online here and ponder what a lousy job I did of describing it. Label site here.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:54:52 -0800

The unanswered question is how I got it in the first place. I suspect that the label was one of those who accepted the now-defunct Bitpass micropayment system, which I was a beta purchase tester for (before they quietly demolished my small payment account with sneakily-added new "fees" for shit like "account inactivity" and then went belly-up, those fuckers... I hassled them by email until they gave me my seven dollars back...). I picked up a bunch of weird stuff through that.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:03:35 -0800

You can buy an unfortunately overpriced MP3 here. Given it can be had legally, I'll refrain from distributing the MP3.