What's that song that has men or a single man singing a trailing down oooohh wooahhh ah wooahh she's my
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could have been he's my, it was the oh woah part though for sure that I remember.
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In the early 2000s, I really started to explore the world of music. Sure, I had a CD player, but my collection was small and scattered—mostly random Top 40 singles or soundtracks from movies I loved. Still, every music lover starts somewhere. That was my foundation.
My older sister, on the other hand, had already carved out her own musical identity. Her tastes were more defined, often different from mine, but every now and then, our worlds would overlap. One of those rare intersections was a song titled "Your Love Is Like." I didn’t know the artist, didn’t recognize the voices, and I’d never heard it on the radio. It was just there—floating through the speakers one day on a mix CD her boyfriend had made for her. But from the very first listen, I was captivated. The lyrics, the melody, the mood—it all wrapped around me like a secret I had been waiting to hear.
At the time, I was a deeply closeted gay kid living in small-town Oklahoma. I had developed what I now know were maladaptive daydreams—elaborate imaginary stories I’d escape into, with music as the emotional backdrop. "Your Love Is Like" became the soundtrack to those daydreams. The song I’d hear in my mind whenever I imagined falling in love, holding hands with my crush, or being seen for who I really was.
After my sister and her boyfriend broke up, the mix CD found its way into my possession. I ripped the track to our family computer, and later, it became one of the first songs I added to my very first iPod. But like many cherished things, it eventually got lost. Somewhere between digital library cleanups and misplaced physical media, the song disappeared. It wasn’t on iTunes. It wasn’t on LimeWire. It wasn’t anywhere. Years would go by. Sometimes I’d forget about it. Sometimes it would haunt me. I even started to wonder—had I imagined it? Was this mysterious, perfect song just a fever dream?
Then, in my second year of college, I met someone who would become a major part of my life for the next five years. It wasn’t always pretty—our friendship had highs and devastating lows—but in that tangle of connection, we shared a lot. One Christmas, after I had told her about this elusive song that had lived in my heart for years, she gifted me a physical copy of the CD it came from.
The band? Spooky Tuesday. The album? The Trouble We Make.
I’d never heard of them before. I honestly haven’t heard much about them since. But that didn’t matter. I finally held the source of a song that had once helped me feel a little less alone.
This past weekend, while digging through a storage closet, I found that CD again—tucked away safely with other cherished belongings. Seeing it immediately brought the song back to life in my heart. I googled how to rip a CD to my iPhone (yes, it’s still possible!), and as I was setting it all up, I found myself wondering: Who were these people? Where did they go? And how did their music find its way into my life all those years ago?
The answers are few, but I found some clues. Spooky Tuesday was an indie band from Kauai, Hawaii, active in the mid-to-late '90s. They formed around 1995 and released The Trouble We Make in 1999. Another album, Incognito, followed in 2000, and then… silence. The band was a quartet:
Andrew Newman – Vocals, Guitar
Jess Penner – Vocals, Guitar
Kevin Penner – Drums
Justin Bundschuh – Bass
Their genre falls somewhere between alternative rock and pop rock, but honestly, they’re hard to pin down in the best way.
To me, this story speaks to the quiet power of music—how it can transcend geography, culture, and even time. A small indie band from Hawaii unknowingly gave hope to a closeted gay kid thousands of miles away in Oklahoma. That’s the magic of music. It becomes a lifeline, a time capsule, a love letter to the self.
"Your Love Is Like" didn’t just soundtrack my fantasies—it gave me something to believe in. That someday, somehow, I might experience the kind of love this song described. It remains one of my favorite songs of all time. And now that I’ve finally listened to the rest of the album again, I can say the whole thing is just as beautiful—haunting, honest, full of that raw sincerity that only indie artists seem to capture.
I don’t know where the members of Spooky Tuesday are now. I don’t know if they ever knew how far their music reached. But if by some miracle you find this post—thank you. Thank you for this song, this album, and for helping a lonely kid dream a little bigger.
I'll end this with some of the lyrics that have stayed with me all these years:
Your love is like salty summer kisses.
Your love is like spring rain on my lips.
Am I in debt? Do your stares entreat me?
Am I in debt, beyond my riches?
And I find you, remind to bear all my towers made of sand...
Into your hands...
Part 17 of the 'Lost Shoegaze - forgotten bands, great songs' series, this time with a US edition. Great songs of atmospheric, guitar-oriented indie rock/post-rock with lots of MBV influences
Feat.:
Artist: Band of Susans
Country: New York, US
Releases: Different ep and albums
Info: Active between 1986 and 1996. Exciting band, gazey playlist song 'Ice Age‘ is taken from the album 'The Word and the Flesh' (1991). Still very active on Facebook.
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Artist: The Bella Low
Country: Oregon, US
Releases: Inside Closed Eyes (1996)
Info: The band featured current members of The High Violets
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Artist: Stillmotion
Country: New York, US
Releases: A compilation '1992-1995*, released last year by Mutual Skies
Info: Maybe something fresh sounds in the future…
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Artist: Common Thread
Country: Florida, US
Releases: Fountain (1993)
Info: Active between 1989 and 1996. 'Fountain' re-released by Fort Lowell Records in 2023
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Artist: Star Ghost Dog
Country: Massachusetts, US
Releases: Happy Love (1998) & The Great Indoors (2000)
Info: Active between 1995 and 2001.
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Artist: Dirty on Purpose
Country: New York, US
Releases: Hallelujah Sirens (2006) & different ep
Info: Active between 2002 and 2008
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Artist: Prosaics
Country: New York, US
Release: Aghast Agape (2004)
Info: This debut, that’s all.
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Artist: Lucy Dreams
Country: Georgia, US
Release: Vivian (2011)
Info: This debut, that’s all.
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Artist: Dronefly
Country: Arizona, US
Release: Dronefly (2014), just released in 2024 on streaming platforms
Info: Trio of Mike Chambers, Deanna Quijada & Kevin Hartnell (Overlook Hotel Records)
Playlistcover: Old Magic Pallas (Brazil) – just remastered their brilliant album 'Pull My Daisy' from 1995.
