How it began:
First Level: Music System
Our first audio cassette album that we bought was "Aqua - Aquarium" (Rs.125) and first Audio CD was "Michael Jackson's - Blood on the dance floor" (Rs.599). Those were very expensive back then but well worth it!
Next Level : Channel [V] and MTv
We used to watch some awesome music shows on Channel V and MTV. Our favorite show on [V] was "Turn on t[V]" and on MTv was "Non-Stop Hits". Back then it was all English songs, no Hindi songs in India. Me and my bro used to sit in front of the TV and connect the TV with our music system to listen to our favorite songs out loud.
We had a lot of favorite songs. We used to buy the cassettes with the hits in it (Now 5, Max 4 etc.). We started remembering artists and their songs. We got so used to listening songs that we could tell the artist by just listening to the songs or voices in the songs.
Lost in time:
There were a few songs though which we heard once and loved but never got a chance to hear again. These were the songs whose tunes were stuck in our head for years together and we couldn't figure out 'who the artist was' or 'what the song name was' or 'what the lyrics was'.
New Generation of search:
As the years went by, new technologies and websites like Youtube emerged, in which we were able to find some of the songs from our list of "tunes in the head" by just entering some of the words from the song.
For example: one of the words from a song stuck in my head was "....Smashing...." so I searched for it and found "smashing pumpkins" but wasn't sure if it was the one I was looking for. I heard each and every song of theirs' to find the one I wanted and I found it. And realized that the song had no lyrics with the word "smashing" in it anywhere. The word in the song which I was thinking to be "smashing" was actually "perfect", LOL.
But one song was still creeping in our heads... what was it? :
Slowly as the years went by further, we found most of them. BUT there was one music video which was stuck scene by scene in our head and we knew just two words from the songs which sounded like "...Paaale Paramu..." (doesn't even make sense, right?) . The video had two kids travelling all over the world on a Magic carpet like the one in Aladdin. We tried the same type of search for this song too. i.e. searched for the keywords and we even tried magic carpet ride etc but no luck :(.
Its been 13 years since we first saw that video and that video and tune is still stuck in our head.
How did I come across it:
Since a past few years with the upcoming of online radio, I have started listening to songs 24x7. I Work, eat, and even sleep with music on the radio.
THE DAY! - April 7th 2010 (almost 13 years after first hearing the song)
Today I was listening to one of the electronica station on iTunes and I came across a remix song which seemed to have the tune which I have been looking for all these years. I noted down the name of that song and did a youtube search and found the original song with DVD video quality and there it was!!!!.
I was getting chills and a great sense of accomplishment when I found this music video after 13 years of looking for it. Now I feel like one of my biggest tasks in life has been done. :P I cant even think of any other song which I have been looking for and haven't found.
There was a question in my mind as soon as found it.
"What next...?"
