One example: Slicing Up Eyeballs posted this to both Facebook and Twitter.Ĭan you ID this funky post-punk song taped off WNYU in the ’80s?Ī Slicing Up Eyeballs reader sent us the following note: In every instance these have been songs and artists I’d never heard (or even heard of) before.īut the recordings contained the necessary clues and context, to which I applied some deductive reasoning and research done on freely-available websites. Here’s how I’ve gone about it, in case crowdsourcing isn’t working for you. Not because I’m Brainypants McMusicface to the contrary. Many times, without what felt like much work, I’ve been able to successfully ID such songs for strangers. There are entire communities-on websites like Wat Zat Song?, Midomi, and Reddit-devoted to crowdsourcing the solutions.
They’ve had no luck Googling lyrics or playing the song into Soundhound, Shazam, or friends’ ears. why are private details that are stored on our personal devices, any different than the details and private records of our lives that are stored in our private journals?’”Īnd now it’s an inquiry you can dance to.It’s pretty common in music circles to encounter people who have spent literally decades trying to identify an obscure song on an old mixtape. “The question is: ‘Why are our private details that are transmitted online. “Technology can actually increase privacy,” Snowden says. His contribution sits firmly in the spoken-word category, having been taken from an old interview about the dangers of a government spying on its citizens. The rave-style track represents a different type of whistleblowing for Snowden, who appears in the middle of the video, discussing privacy in front of a grey curtain. This is a interspersed with shots of Jarre hopping around a studio playing the keyboard. There’s a disorientating car chase, cutting to a fairly shoddy special effect of a satellite circling the Earth. There’s video of green numbers scrolling down a black screen, interspersed with quick-zoom aerial reconnaissance images. Continuing this theme, the music video has been contrived as a Matrix/Bourne Identity/Wikileaks drone footage mash-up.
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