Summer Playlist Week 2

There are few things more frustrating than hearing a song you love and not being able to find it later. You remember a few lyrics from when you heard it on the radio, or it comes on in a movie soundtrack and then it’s nowhere to be found. The lyrics you remember are more of a generic phrase that come up in 3,000 Google searches and you have to wait for the music universe to bring it back to you one day down the road. This happened to me a while ago and I pretty much gave up on ever hearing it again.

Almost two years ago I was seeing My Morning Jacket playing in San Diego. The Fruit Bats were opening for them and the only song of theirs I really knew was the “When U Love Somebody”  one that had been making its rounds on the radio that summer. The more they played, the more I got into the rest of their music and then I heard it, the song that would drive me crazy for the next year and a half.

I whipped out my phone to record a bit of it, just enough so I’d be able to find it later and catch a few of the lyrics to look up. I put my phone away and didn’t think about it until long after the sound of Jim James’ voice in the headlining set stopped ringing in my ears.

The next day I pulled up the video and got all excited to find my song. I had a good chunk of some bluesy and twangy instrumentals followed by what me and some friends made out to be “and I wanted you but I knew” and “I was young” and some other generic phrases. I typed them all in followed by Fruit Bats on google and waited for a video to pop up and end the search. Instead, some YouTube videos of fruit bats in their natural habitat came up and nothing else. So, I went to iTunes and sampled each 20 second clip of their discography thinking I’d recognize it right away but I had no luck.

I sent it to my friends and boyfriend that were at the show and waited for someone to know it. Nope. I searched their set lists from previous shows and couldn’t find anything. We thought it might be a cover or something and that’s why it wasn’t coming up.

A few months went by and Michael said that he would probably be able to post it on Reddit and someone would know it. I nagged him to do this for months until we both forgot.

The next summer my brother got a family package for Spotify. I was a Grooveshark die hard and still mourning the loss of my favorite music site and didn’t think Spotify was what I was looking for to replace it. I was wrong. After ignoring sign up emails in my inbox for several months I finally gave in after listening to both of my brother’s playlists and liking that we could follow along with each other’s lives through our playlists again.

I signed up and started adding favorite artists to my page when Fruit Bats came up in my recommended artists section. Omg. What if they had the song?! I went to their page and pressed to play their collection and the first song that came on was it. I was scanning stuff for work and almost tripled over everything to get back to my computer screen and see what the song was called.

“HUMBUG MOUNTAIN SONG” I couldn’t believe it. It had been over a year and a half since my 52 second concert clip left me longing. I texted Michael and my friends in obnoxious caps letters saying to guess what I just found. Apparently I was the only one still trying to figure it out, so know one guessed but I had found it!!

I favorited the song and kicked myself for not adding Spotify that summer before.

After playing the song on repeat for a couple weeks, I almost wore it out but it’s a perfect sound for this week’s summer playlist addition.

Here’s another 10 songs to add to your summer playlist or you can check them out on the growing With Wildflowers Summer playlist on Spotify.

1. “Humbug Mountain Song” … The Fruit bats

2.  “Lions” …  Dire Straits

3. “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” … The Beatles

4. “Scissor me Cigs” …  The donkeys

5. “Social Disease” … Elton John

6. “Love Like That” … The Heavy

7. “Tree by the River” … Iron and Wine

8. “Mahgeetah” … My Morning Jacket

9. “Plundered my Soul” … The Rolling Stones

10. “Higher” …  The memories

Has this happened to you before? Did you ever find the song? Let me know what it was!