Shazam!

Two of my friends, a husband and wife team that zwoman and I refer to as The Elegances, were early iPhone adopters. I didn’t understand the hoopla at first. Jenny Elegance showed me the great camera and how good photos looked on the big screen. It was cool but I wasn’t blown away. Then she showed me the map feature with GPS directions. I was really impressed—-I have no sense of direction and this is the type of thing I could really use. Then Danny Elegance came over the top with Shazam. My mind was blown. I said something like “Yo, this thing just sniffs the beats out the air and gives you the song?!? I want that beat sniffer!” FOGTB JP quickly replied “The beat sniffer, that’s my dog!” This is funny because his dog Hank liked to sniff the crotch of our friend Julie Beats. I guess you had to be there.

All this is to say that Shazam is great and it was the motivating force behind my first iPhone purchase. Over a decade later, Dave apparently just learned about Shazam and started blogging about it. Better late than never.

I still love Shazam. Here are some of my recent finds:

“It Was Wrong to Love You” by The Jay Vons (of course they’re on Daptone, here's the song live)



“Talk That Talk” by The Du Droppers (nothing like the Rihanna song)



“There’s No One Like You” by Redd Kross



“Tom Drunk” by U-Roy (the “Fortified Live” sample!)



“Castin’ My Spell” by Johnny Otis



“I’m a King Bee” by Slim Harpo (the original!)



“Night walkers” by Kiki Hitomi (I can't come up with a coherent parenthetical for this one)



“All the Way from Memphis” by Mott the Hoople (sounds like the influenced White Reaper)



Dave and I probably aren't the only Shazammers around here. What did you find lately?