I was thinking I’d like to share a song from Meg Myers this month, so I went back and checked which of hers I’d already posted, and I was stunned to realize I hadn’t shared The Underground yet.

This isn’t the first song of hers I heard — that was her cover of Running Up That Hill — but it is the one that really blew my mind and inspired me to check out the rest of her catalogue.

This is still one of my favourites by her, or really any artist. Her incredible voice, that sick guitar riff on the chorus… just immaculate. What an amazing talent she is.

There’s a song I remember liking when I was a kid. Every few weeks, it’d pop into my head, but the thing is I could never remember the name of the song, or the artist, or much of the lyrics. All I could remember was the melody of the chorus, that it mentioned California (but wasn’t a Chili Peppers song), and that the music video involved a moving tattoo or something.

I tried finding using these scraps to track it down many times over the years, but I always came up short. At one point I thought it might have been an Econoline Crush song and listened through a good chunk of their discography trying to find it, but still no luck.

Then, finally — finally — I was listening to the radio a week or two ago, and the DJs were talking were about I Mother Earth, and they mentioned a solo project by their singer, Edwin, and his one notable hit, Hang Ten. They played a brief clip, and there it was. That was the song I had been trying to track down my entire adult life.

It’s not even that great of a song really. Absent the childhood nostalgia factor, it’s not really anything to write home about. But it’s such a relief to finally have that mystery solved.