Help us find this song!

June 25, 2010 9:35 PM

Why has "A Song for Bob Crane" by Clem Snide disappeared?

My husband loved this song and played it on youtube and pandora. He purchased it on iTunes before his hard drive died. He asked the Clem Snide facebook group about the song, but no one said anything about it. It was a track on the Autofocus movie soundtrack, but now the sample of the song on the Amazon listing doesn't even play the right track and the CD is unavailable.

Are we going crazy?

posted by elvissa to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

I think the CIA is hiding it... it literally nowhere to be found online. I can only find the guitar tab. It is a mystery. Kind of like how did Jesus move the boulder from inside the tomb by himself, (or if he did why was he crucified?) or why did he have so many whores hanging out with him or why did the messiah show up before the internet, foxnews + glenn beck and camera phones?

Seriously though... the song is gone. The track on amazon is some musaK junk...
posted by meta x zen at 9:48 PM on June 25, 2010

Wow, that's really bizzare. It's like a memory hole in the internet!

Just http://twitter.com/dtetto/status/17071479020 to @eefbarzelay. He seems active on twitter, but doesn't seem to @reply to fans a lot. We'll see!
posted by rafter at 10:35 PM on June 25, 2010

"Just tweeted this to..." that is.
posted by rafter at 10:36 PM on June 25, 2010

Was going to suggest that you see who's been listening on Last.fm. But check out the track detail page (alternate spellings: 1 2)! It has a listener count, but no recent listens, and no users listed as owning the track!

(Compare at another Clem Snide song with listening history and a list of all the users who've listened!)
posted by rafter at 10:42 PM on June 25, 2010

I remember my college radio station having a 7" with this song on it. Looks like it was put out by The Self-Starter Foundation. This page claims it is available for purchase, but the "buy it" link doesn't work and it's not coming up when I do a search for Clem Snide at Insound. Maybe you could try sending to an email to SSF?

Or...the Auto Focus soundtrack seems to be available used on Amazon.
posted by kitty teeth at 10:52 PM on June 25, 2010

Mod note: hey folks we can't really toss yousendit links in here, please MeMail the link to the people in the thread if you want, sorry.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:39 AM on June 26, 2010

Response by poster: EEK! Awesome! love you guys. thank you so much!!!
posted by elvissa at 4:05 PM on June 26, 2010

Soulseek/Nicotine+ is your friend. It took me about fifteen minutes to find it.

MeMail me for the YSI-link.
posted by mahershalal at 7:58 AM on June 27, 2010