Incoming phone call, somebodies phone is about to ring.

pop… pop pop da pop. BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Phone starts ringing

GSM inbound call.

almost 20 years ago I downloaded off limewire a cover of Toxicity by System of a Down, purely instrumental and listened to it through highschool

the artist listed in the file’s metadata was Trans Siberian Orchestra. back around 2005 finding out that they never covered Toxicity was somewhere between challenging and impossible so I accepted it and forgot about it

recently I wanted to re-find that song, maybe on Spotify or YouTube or wherever. only this year did I realize that that artist was never correct, and googling held nothing for me

in one of the vanishingly rare successful uses of a large language model I got ChatGPT to suggest artists from that time that might have covered that song and after a few tries dismissing the most popular artists it spat out Vitamin String Quartet and I get to listen to a higher quality version of the song I first heard around 2005

🎵 The menfolk found their women scary

'Cause they were so big and hairy 🎵

Smash Mouth - All Star

Linkin park, Evanescence, Green Day, Gorillaz

Tim Carleton’s “Opus No. 1” Cisco hold music hit. Shit is still a banger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4&t=16

I don’t think I had those exact speakers, but it makes me think of the Windows 98 startup sound and the times it was so loud that I had to scramble to turn the volume knob down.

Freestyler - Bomfunk MC’s

Although, technically, there’s a song I remember the “Winamp…it really whips the llama’s ass!” (For the younger crowd https://youtu.be/HaF-nRS_CWM) Echoing… That and the ICQ’s “Uh Oh!” (For the younger crowd https://youtu.be/RhGHerssyk4).

Kryptonite - three doors down

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WARCRAFT 2 THEME INTENSIFIES

Mambo Number 5