Marshall's Weblog

The internet never ceases to amaze me. Tonight I started watching the first season of 24 and at the end of the first episode, a really awesome song was playing. I couldn’t make out much of the lyrics because they were very soft and the actors were talking over much of it. From the bits of lyrics I gathered, I tried to search for the artist and song name. A fruitless effort indeed! The internet is to vast and my search terms were too generic to turn up anything worth while.

I then turned google loose on a new search: “music from 24 season 1“. Results were mildly better. On a whim, I decided to click on the link to the IMDB. That’s the “Internet MOVIE Database”. Apparently they catalog TV shows as well. I clicked on the first episode and searched the links on the left and sure enough, there was a soundtrack link. IMDB gave me a list of all songs played during the episode! Sweet!

I proceded to open up iTunes and go to the iTunes Music Store to get an audible confirmation of the track in question. Bingo! One simple click and the song was a downloadin’ and on to my iPod.

By the way, the song in question is Christiansands by Tricky. Check it out, it has some funkyness to it.

Another neat feature of the internet is the totally kick ass website Pandora.com. Simply punch in an artist or a song and it will play songs for you which are similar to the artist or song you entered.