a jerk from here to Alabama

the band-guy who sent me the song I spent months looking for was totally fine with me sharing it with others online too, so here y'all go!!!! everyone say thank you to theo andersson from Alley Creeper (he was the bassist and songwriter btw) 🗣🗣

and in case you don't read the YT-description; it's no wonder I had such a hard time finding this song anywhere. based on what theo told me, it seems like the song only exists on some demos that the band gave out in 2005, specifically around gothenburg. well, those demos and probably a few mixed CDs as well (like that stingy guy on discogs apparently owned but didn't want to share)

I actually have theo's son to thank as well, because I was told he was the one who found one of the old demos he'd kept!

(also, the movie-stills and stuff are from Die Zombiejäger, aka. that... interesting zombie-movie that the song is featured in. and the very last image in the video is a screenshot I took of Alley Creeper's old website that was actually archived on the Wayback Machine)

DET ÄR INTE ALLS SAMMA KÄNSLA ATT SE DET PÅ ON-DEMAND FÖR I HELVETE!!!!!

context: Midsomer Murders has "returned to tv" with a new season (there was a hiatus last summer), but now it seems that this new season will not actually get proper air-time on real television, but just get released on the channel's (free, but still) streaming site instead. if you're a swedish MM-fan set in their traditions for like 20+ years now, you probably understand my disappointment because streaming whenever you fucking feel like it is NOT THE SAME as sitting down during airtime and just watching when they decide to air it, ffs

well, THE SEARCH IS OVER NOW!!! it's funny because I assumed nothing would be on youtube, which is why I didn't look there sooner. but after a lot of dead ends on other sites, I searched the band (named alley creeper) and song's name on YT just in case, and while "killer disease" was not on there, other songs by the band WERE! they were a couple of music videos, uploaded by two different accounts like 16 years ago, no less

so I did a hail mary and commented on one video from each account, asking them that if they happened to see my comment, to please contact me if they had access to "killer disease" as well, since I would really like to hear the whole song.

I didn't expect them to reply anytime soon, given how the accounts haven't been very active apart from uploading those music vids more than a decade ago, so imagine my delight when one of them actually replied to my comment pretty soon after I'd posted it?!? not only did they reply, but the guy seems to have been part of the band as well, and he told me he'd try to look for one of their old cd-demos and send the track to me if he found it!!!

well, it took like 9 months for me to hear from him again, but he delivered and I now have "killer disease" in my possession and have listened to it in full at long last!!!!! now I know how those people searching for that "like the wind" (not the actual title)-song probably felt once they had managed to track it down, because damn, it feels so surreal, omfg.

humongous thanks to theo from the band alley creeper for hearing my call and putting a satisfying end to my search, agHAHHFJ