The Large Hadron Collider kicked off today, and I believe that I have experienced a personal side effect from this:
I finally figured out from where I knew the theme song on “House.”
I know this sounds completely unconnected, but let a crazy girl finish. We’ll get there in a second.
Okay, so “Mother Jones” has a music column online. (Don’t ask me why, but they do.) And it was talking about some schmuck band that beat out Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” for some UK award. So I went online and sampled that band, which I did not enjoy at all. However, the column mentioned another contender for the award — “Untrue” by Burial — so I sampled them, too. They are apparently newer wave trip-hop (and pretty darned good, in my opinion) — which brought to mind some old Massive Attack that I liked a lot back in the day…which led to further sampling and the startling discovery that “Teardrop” was the theme to “House.”
See, I’ve been trying to place that song for years. Really. I just couldn’t figure it out without the vocals. Apparently, I am a little bit dumb, since after I crowed my new-found knowledge to the heavens, Lennox pointed out that this musical tidbit was pretty obvious on the end of the show credits. It was like living next door to the person of your dreams for four years, and then meeting them online when they move three states away. DOH! I just never have a Clue [TM].
So…long story still long…I bought two MP3 albums this afternoon, and now it will be 1998 and 2008 simultaneously on my iPod. A whimper or a bang? We’ve got both, baby! Right here!
And that, I believe, is a side effect of the Large Hadron Collider. Thank you.