Not much help, but it's bugging me. Cheers.
― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Can you sing it for me?
― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Sure!
(Joseph strides up to "Gong Show" stage in his full-on drag guise, "Joe Mama")
(perky horn riff leads into bass line from "Best of My Love")
Whatchoo FIIIIIIINDDD-ahhh!Whatchoo FEEEEEEEELLL-now!Whatchoo KNOOOOOOOWWW-ahhh!To Be REEEAL!
It's-got-ta-be-REEEEEEEAL!
(ILMers dressed as Arte Johnson and Jo Anne Worley rush to gong)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
That's the bunny.
Thanks.
― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
some recent-ish last-ten-years r n b song from before i ever listened to r n b enough to know who was who. i assumed it was mary j blige, but i don't think it is. in my head the chorus line is 'it ain't wor-king', wavily sung after all these overlapping backing singers singing something about trying, maybe. was ist das?
― schlump, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"Ex Factor", by Lauryn Hill, maybe?
"No matter how I think we growYou always seem to let me knowIt ain't workin'It ain't workin'And when I try to walk awayYou'd hurt yourself to make me stayThis is crazyThis is crazy"
She sounds a little like Mary J. Blige when she hits the upper end of her range.
― Tantrum The Cat, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 06:27 (fifteen years ago) link
y e s:i think that is it. i did kinda think of her. thank you x
― schlump, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 06:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Does ILM remember a 70s pop/not-quite-Disco/ABBA-esque hit that seemed to ape the melody from Never On Sunday?
All I have is vague memories of something I heard as a child, which only gets triggered when hearing Never On Sunday
― i am truley sorry for your lots (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 07:21 (fifteen years ago) link
(and it's not Crystal Grass's Love Train To Greece)
― i am truley sorry for your lots (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 07:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember it being in 12/8, if that helps
― i am truley sorry for your lots (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 07:25 (fifteen years ago) link
nevermind, a little thought + google was all it took
― i am truley sorry for your lots (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 07:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll be impressed if someone can identify this track: on a bus tour in Barbados, our driver was playing a tape of Caribbean pop. The tune I'm interested in was a fast one with an almost calypso sound, I think about a guy being pussywhipped. Remembered lyrics: 'Are you a man or are you a mouse?', and the chanted chorus 'Mouseman, mouseman, have you any cheese?'
Google is of no help to me.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 22 December 2008 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Sounds like it could be a Soca tune? There's a track called "Mouse Man" by Madd. You can check it here:
http://www.junodownload.com/labels/Faluma/
― Official Best Band Ever Poll Moderator (Noodle Vague), Monday, 22 December 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
That's it! Outstanding work, sir, I am in your debt
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 22 December 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
(I'm sure Soca is the right name for this stuff, but at the moment it sounds like nothing so much as an Irish drinking song. Maybe you only get this effect during northern winters)
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 22 December 2008 13:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm a long way from being an expert but yeah Caribbean musics is basically my main weapon against living on the freezing Northeast coast of a god-forsaken heritage themepark between September and mid-July.
― Official Best Band Ever Poll Moderator (Noodle Vague), Monday, 22 December 2008 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Unexpected bonus: I accidentally skipped forward 'Take Your Time Do It Rite' by something called Eye Candy/Nikman, which is just great and duly acquired. It also sounds quite familiar - I suspect Puddin & Souse is the very tape my bus driver was jammin' that day
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 22 December 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
This may be impossible: I've been searching for years for a reggae record I heard on a jukebox while in Grand Cayman. My recollections:
Artist was Brother D.
Title was "Nenga Nenga" (there could be an "h" on the end of those Nengas...)
One snippet of the verse went, "And when you come for a date, and you (something something) late, Nenga Nenga Nenga aa-ee-yah...
Googling provides nothing, including what "Nenga Nenga" might mean, in Jamaican patois or otherwise. Of course, I could be misremembering virtually all of this...
― Dan Peterson, Monday, 22 December 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
And I was in the Caymans in 1986, so it's from that era or earlier. The overall vibe is a bit like "Youth of Eglington" by Black Uhuru.
― Dan Peterson, Monday, 22 December 2008 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Holy freakin' crap, found it!!! Now I'm off to purchase a copy! Respelling a few things was crucial:
When you hear the name Brother Dee two songs immediately come to mind, "Nengeh Nengeh" and "Bigger Boss," two of the most popular recordings in the history of Jamaican music.
The guitar styling of Dwight Pinkney (Brother Dee's real name) have been a part of recorded Jamaican music since the earliest years of Ska. Dwight's first professional band THE SHARKS recorded many Jamaican number one hits at Coxsone's studio...
The era of the late 70's through to the 90's saw a band called Roots Radics...
Etc, etc, etc.
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
can anybody identify the song playing at 14:30 in the clip belowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2C3gn-Oca0
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 April 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
ah nm Gary Byrd
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 April 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
Heard a mid-90s alt-rock song by a female artist in the check-out line at the grocery store the other day. Sounded like a harder Liz Phair or Veruca Salt song, but not any song that I knew by them. It was decent, but the outro had this very repetitive dweedly-dweedly guitar solo that seemed pretty annoying in context. It was over before I had a chance open up Soundhound.
― how girl's (how's life), Monday, 2 May 2016 12:22 (eight years ago) link
come on, you have to give us more than that
― kinder, Monday, 2 May 2016 13:09 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, I was talking to the cashier when I noticed it during the vocal part, waiting for my receipt when the solo started, and struggled to get my phone out before the song was over. To further expand on the guitar solo thing, it was a brief figure, just a few bars, full of hammer-ons and pull-offs or tapping that got repeated over and over again.
― how girl's (how's life), Monday, 2 May 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link
Tracy Bonham? K's Choice?
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Monday, 2 May 2016 13:15 (eight years ago) link
Those would definitely fit in genre-wise, but I'm not really familiar with much of their work.
― how girl's (how's life), Monday, 2 May 2016 13:19 (eight years ago) link
Lyrics:
time is always forever changingthough i'm not aginglike shadows on the wall
Sounds a bit like Modern English. Anyone?
― geoffreyess, Friday, 27 May 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/nivek-tek/john-kesslerariel-rechtshaid-and-justin-raisen-im-not-there
― soref, Friday, 27 May 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link
Sad! Though I suspected it might be new.
― geoffreyess, Saturday, 28 May 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd0xG1FHxtM^^tune that starts around 5:07 in this thrilling readalong does not seem to be on the official Mancini score - any ideas for what it might be? sounds a bit like the Giana Sisters theme
― niels, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
there's a flute-heavy instrumental that I associate with 70s ontario public broadcasting bumpers (is that even a thing?)that sounds kind of like "the fool on the hill" but it's not "the fool on the hill" -- any guesses?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
A song from mid-to-late eighties, I think. It has a proto-housey/synth pop backing, on top of which a woman describes all sorts of sexual activities she enjoys in a highly graphic way, using a lot of lewd words.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 4 June 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
Sex (I'm a...) by Berlin?
― peace, man, Thursday, 4 June 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
No, it's not that... The song I'm talking about has more obscene lyrics, with plenty of F-words etc.
― Tuomas, Friday, 5 June 2020 05:16 (three years ago) link
And IIRC the vocals were (mostly) spoken word, not sung.
― Tuomas, Friday, 5 June 2020 05:22 (three years ago) link
Lords of Acid - I Sit on Acid?
― epistantophus, Friday, 5 June 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
(‘96 extended remix in particular)
― epistantophus, Friday, 5 June 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
No, it's not that either. IIRC the track is by a solo female artist, or at least released under a name that sounds like a solo artist. Also, I think it's someone fairly obscure, not anyone as well known as Lords of Acid. I'm fairly sure on ILM posted a Youtube link to the track, before that I'd never heard of it nor of the artist.
― Tuomas, Friday, 5 June 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
1992, but something off Jeannette Katt's Pink Mischief?
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
Karen Finley?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/karen-finley/tales-of-taboo-belgian-waffles-the-yam-jam-the-naked-truth/
Synth Punk / 80's / Spoken Word by a Woman / Graphic, Lewd Lyrics
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
Oh man. I forgot about Karen Finley.
― peace, man, Friday, 5 June 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
Yes, thank you, Moka! It was "Tales of Taboo" by Karen Finley I was looking for.
― Tuomas, Friday, 5 June 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
You’re welcome. It’s perhaps one of the most vulgar songs I’ve ever heard so it was the first single that came to mind based on your description.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 June 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
1980s aor ballad with the chorus:
Love you!*pause* Love you!*pause* Love you!
― peace, man, Monday, 27 July 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
Still can't find Canadian public TV song that isn't "fool on the hill" but this is what I remember it sounding like:
https://vocaroo.com/eNtJbpieUJh
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
xp: This turned out to be Made to Love You by Gary Wright, off of The Dream Weaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRgNDS7x4A
― peace, man, Monday, 9 November 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
In the film Suburbia there's a horrible scratchy punk tune that directly quotes the intro to Yes' Roundabout, any ideas?
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMEWO8vNGEQ
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link
There is a song I used to hear in the playlist at my old job, it had some kind of scat vocal and it was clearly the song that satan is singing to himself as he dances around your newly arrived soul when you get to hell. Any ideas?
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 01:09 (two years ago) link
I strongly doubt it's what you're looking for, but just from reading that description I now have Hell by the Squirrel Nut Zippers stuck in my head.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 12:01 (two years ago) link
XXP - Thanks Dan!
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 12:43 (two years ago) link
Descent into the Inferno by Scraping Foetus off the Wheel?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tKMo1H4zQ
― everything, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 16:03 (two years ago) link
No, it’s a wordless scat, like “dikadikadikadik-ah-ah” over and over again.
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
The satan thing was just what I pictured when I heard it.
Korn - Twist
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
Nope, it was more, sort of jazzy, I think, definitely not nu-metal. And the scat vocals, while not too far off from that, were a little more atmospheric and less intense.
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
I would have heard this song back in the mid-2000s but I don’t know how old it was at the time.
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
OK
I could've just Shazam'd it but there's a song that I don't actually know who it is and I hear it at least once a month (at the bar) and at every wedding and it's driving me crazy. It's like indie-jump-up music that has the syncopated feel of "Last Night" by The Strokes (but I think it's older) or "Valerie" by The Zutons (but faster) and has shiny late-90s production. The key lyric is when it slips into a Robert Smith moment and the singer sings "ba ba ba ba ba-da baa ba-da-ba ba ba ba-da baaa" over e-minor into F-major
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 3 July 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
This is not an admission of enjoyment of said song it just feels ubiquitous and yet I don't know who it is btw
That sounds like it might be The Jam's 'A Town Called Malice'?
― nashwan, Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
Likely 2000s techno / electro tune, man with an English accent saying something like "I'm a cog / I'm a wheel / I'm a part of the machine". I'm almost certain the tune speeds up at some point.
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 23:46 (five months ago) link
An 80s girlpop hit that was on heavy rotation when I was a kid, a really big track. The melody is virtually identical to the opening lines of Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me”. It’s killing me! What’s that song?
― spider alert: 🕷️🕷️ (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 20:19 (five months ago) link
FOUND IT, duh. Amy Grant “Baby, Baby”
― spider alert: 🕷️🕷️ (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 20:22 (five months ago) link
The other day I heard the original song that gets sampled at the beginning of this tune, but didn't get a chance to note it down. Anyone know?
Spectre - Covert Dub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkxjIrRLCsQ
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Monday, 15 April 2024 16:33 (one month ago) link