I think I found the missing song from the Crowley and Aziraphael wine date in 1941.
Everything about that is explained in this awesome meta post:
https://www.tumblr.com/noneorother/731212031467896832/all-the-music-you-didnt-hear-the-good-omens?source=share by @noneorother
I have to go a little further to explain how I found the song.
There are 3 parts to this:
Part 1 - Finding the song
Part 2 - Does it fit?
Part 3 - Am I going crazy?
Part 1 - Finding the song
I don't remember exactly when it happened, but sometime shortly after the second season aired, I read somewhere that the new title sequence had hidden clues. I didn't know what clues these might be, so I looked closely at everything (and yes, by that I mean I watched it frame by frame).
Actually, I was focused on the characters and wanted to figure out who was which figure. But then I noticed things in the background. And especially this:
I wondered what kind of cool record cover that could be. So I retouched it a bit. Maybe it reads: IT WAS ALL A Dream.
The picture was too blurry for Google to search for it in reverse. So I just googled "It was all a dream song", hoping to find that neon sign somewhere as a title cover (that's my description of what I found at that time, some weeks ago. At the end of this post in "Part 3", I explain how this search ended today for me and why I have to lie down after writing this…). But there was no fitting title cover (at that time).
I found nothing so I searched for "It was all a dream neon sign". It might be a famous picture I don't know about.
Oh cool, just a common neon sign. I used one of these to do a Google reverse image search. Im 99.99% sure that this song cover was one of the results at that time (but I am unable to recreate that search and I don't know why, and I am beginning to doubt my memory…):
"It Was All A Dream" by Rahul Gohli.
First, I looked up what kind of song it was. Maybe it had lyrics that led me to some cool meta. But no. There are no lyrics. I didn't find anything interesting about the artist Rahul Gohil. So I saved this clue as a side note for now.
The title "It was all a dream" could have something to do with the fact that the minisodes/flashbacks don't seem real, or that Aziraphael is an unreliable narrator. There are some cool metas (SPOILERS):
https://www.tumblr.com/ineffable-suffering/729446128795402240/why-aziraphale-is-an-unreliable-narrator?source=share by @ineffable-suffering or https://www.tumblr.com/indigovigilance/729908186775158784/every-single-minisode-is-aziraphales-memory by @indigovigilance .
But then I read @noneorother’s post (mentioned at the beginning. Don't scroll up. Here it is again: https://www.tumblr.com/noneorother/731212031467896832/all-the-music-you-didnt-hear-the-good-omens?source=share)
A whole song is missing? Let's take a look at the wine scene in 1941 (episode 4, about 36:29). For a brief period of approximately 1 minute and 3 seconds, there is no background music. So the missing song must be of the same length.
"It was all a dream" by Rahul Gohil is 1:10 on YouTube.
Well…I played both the 1941 scene and the song at the same time.
The length. The atmosphere.
The card dropping from Aziraphale's hand fits to the ringing bell sound in the song.
I think that's a huge clue… for something…
Rahul Gohil has more songs. The whole album is called "It was all a dream"on his Spotify and YouTube. But I am really bad at analyzing music… Perhaps someone else finds something interesting.
Wouldn't that be a nice ending for a little music meta that I found unintentionally?
Part 3 - Am I going crazy?
For the sake of this post, I wanted to recreate my steps in finding this song. So I did it again. The same steps. Searching for "It was all a dream neon sign". I found this free to use-photo on pexels.com that looked like the original motive for the song cover:
It's by Marani Ceja: https://www.pexels.com/photo/neon-text-at-cellar-bar-entrance-4509351/ called "Neon text at cellar bar entrance", uploaded on May 29th, 2020 and taken At Nov 23, 2019. I don't know if this is a famous location.
I thought maybe I could skip the Google reverse image search this time. It's possible that Rahul Gohil's song cover shows up directly in the image search. I googled "It was all a dream song".
But it didn't show up. This came up instead:
"It Was All A Dream" by David Wright.
I am 99.99% certain that there was no such song/album in my results a few weeks ago! Because I would have stopped looking for another. I would have thought: "Oh cool, a British musician with a fitting song title. Too bad I can not play it on Spotify because it's grayed out. Maybe it's not available in my country. What a pity." And I would have moved on.
This song was not there. But now it is and I am confused. What is happening?
David Wright is an English keyboard player and composer. He released his first album 1989. And in 2022 he released his latest album. But where the hell is this Spotify album called "It was all a dream" which has the same cover art as the Rahul Gohil song?
I can't find it. It's not on his or his music label's website. Not on Soundcloud, not on YouTube.
It's only on Spotify… Grayed out (for me), and it's written by Elizabeth Pine and released on October 2, 2020: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/4TmldBSkaHIlV5s7IwstaI
I don't know if the dates are always correct on Spotify (there are some reports for release dates of albums being insanely incorrect). But I think you can edit the release date after uploading an album…
The Rahul Gohil song was released on Spotify on December 2, 2020. But on YouTube it is uploaded on December 1 but in the description: "Released on: 2020-12-02". Provided to YouTube by Ditto Music.
October 2 and December 2, 2020? What a weird coincidence.
Here is another funny date I found:
November 2, 2021 Good Omens Season 2 began filming.
The other spelling is this:
2.10.2020 David Wright song was released
2.12.2020 Rahul Gohil song was released
2.11.2021 Good Omens Season 2 began filming
Wasn't there something with the number 21 in Good Omens? 21 minutes? Earth's birthday on 21st of October?
Maybe someone can find that David Wright song. Or maybe… there is a third song with the same album cover and title on YouTube:
"It Was All A Dream" by One Dream & UnMasked Tommy (release March 30, 2023).
But now we have 3 songs… and there was something about the number 3 and magic and something…
I may have dreamed that there was no David Wright song, but for now my mind is empty.
I love the music of Good Omens, so I'm just gonna listen to the OSTs for now and lie down~