which one track have you been searching for for years but still not yet found?

It might have been from '82 rather than '81 as previously stated.

http://drivergear.vw.com/store/product.asp?product_id=2129

(does this mean we are in fact doomed??)

Can anyone help?

dunno where the song might have come from though...

(That's just the most touching of songs I've seen Rainy Day Regatta cover--there are very few that I know and they cover, but that one blew me away when I saw them play it.)

There's only one other left that I can think of - I heard it in a friend of a friend's car sometime around 1989/90. I've got no lyrics to go on (not that there weren't any - just can't remember them), it was catchy and electronic sounding, very upbeat. The only lead I have is that I think someone said at the time that it had *something* to do with... Billy Idol. But it doesn't sound anything like him - which was the supposed selling point in having us all hear it. I doubt I'd even like it now - it's just a small irritant the way it comes to mind every once in a while.

Now, the song I've been looking for forever is Marva Whitney's version of "Tit For Tat (Ain't No Taking Back)"...

ether did a great track called 'rue des jours' for a hal hartley soundtrack. they did an album i've never been able to find, and downloads of ether stuff all sound way way different. would love to find more from them...

Apologies if this is too bleedin' obvious, but it couldn't possbly have been something by Sigue Sigue Sputnik (which included Tony James ex Gen X) could it?

To Piscesboy, are you sure he didn't say "Sensurround"? They were a band on Icerink, St Etienne's label of the early 90s. I've got two singles by them somewhere, I'll have to dig them out and give them a spin.

Also, to whoever wanted "Mr Armageddon" by Locomotive, it's available on EMI's "Abbey Road - Psychedelia" CD issued a few years ago - I've got it if you can't find it and can copy it if necessary. Let me know off board.

I MUST find this song.

steroid maximus's version of "powerhouse!"

and phish covering "only shallow" (i think that's the mbv song they do)

The only other band I can think of with a GenX connection who might fit the bill is Gene Loves Jezebel.

I'd go back to Vinyl Exchange if I were you (God, I've not been there for a few years, picked up a few bargains in my time there...) because it is indeed the one with the Jon Savage "Foxbase Alpha" pisstake sleeve note, it's called "Blind Faith" and it's actually a rather cool record.

(Don't ask why I've owned it since 1994 and only played it today...)

I would love to hear "Ten Pin" by Flawless. But that would be impossible.

OHMYGOD
OHMYGOD
OHMYGOD

!!!!!!!!
(has heart attack....)

....
recovers.

oh. my. god.

i cant believe it.
if i'd have actually *bought* it when i saw it a month ago then
got it home i might have actually died.
had no idea it was actually the record i searched for for years

i can't believe this you have NO IDEA
how much i've wanted this record.

i am speechless...
i have no speech.

thanx rob.

any ideas?

Just a guess...

Nah:

Forgot to be a lover, babe. (Have mercy)
Forgot to be a lover. (Have mercy)
Forgot to be a lover.

I can't believe I know this. I am ashamed of myself. *slinks off*

When I realized that you need love too,
Gonna spend my life makin' love to you.
Got to be a lover.
Have mercy.
Forgot to be a lover, babe. (Have mercy)
Forgot to be a lover. (Have mercy)
Forgot to be a lover.
Make it on through to you somehow. (have mercy, baby)
Got to be a lover, babe (Forgot to be a lover)
Woo! Woo!

Anything from Cheap Dialogue, which I think was only every distributed through cassettes people would copy for each other etc. -- my cassette of a bunch of Cheap Dialogue stuff is 12 or 13 years old now and I don't trust it to last much longer

James's cover of Voice of the Beehive's "Monsters and Angels"

(Look for Power in the Darkness LP - US Version)

And there was a song that always seemed to be played in the space between bands at the Astoria a little while back. I can remember most of the lyrics: "lift again, lift again, I think I need a little lift again / and I'm here waiting for that special friend / to help me on my way // oooh, everybody loves that man, loves that man / he's got everything you need in the palm of his hand / and he's bringing it to everyone" but I never knew what it was called, or who it was by, and it's been bugging me for years.

Yvonne Baker - You Didn't Say A Word
and
Bobby Paris - Night Owl

I think they were both on Cameo Parkway, which probably explains their non-appearance (there's a long-running Allen Klein legal thing going on with that catalogue, which is also why you can't get the original ?/Mysterians "96 Tears" single/album on CD).

Laura was very keen on getting those and I'd still like to have them, for her sake :-(

The Stories - Love Is In Motion (early 70s from guys who were in Left Banke)
Three Dog Night - Cowboy (a version of the Randy Newman song)
Joe Odom - In Your Power (great country soul track)
Ivor Cutler - Pellets (along without about 100 other unreleased tracks)
David Ackles - his last album

going further back upthread, the Barbara & the Boys "Hooty Sapperticker" song can be found on "Louie's Limbo Lounge", which is pretty easy to find, and well worth it, too.

For years I looked for a couple of songs my dad had taped from the BBC when I was a kid: Slim Dusty's "Pub with no beer" (which a friend found for me in Australia", and some American country singer's sad song about lack of intercultural communication, called "I wish I could sprechen sie Deutsch", which I still haven't found.

i bet $5 this track is in fact "hey! fever"

This guy wrote songs for Slyvester and Two tonnes of Fun and this tune is lunar

Can't find it for shit now, though

http://www.lyrics.net.ua/song/64400

There was also this little bit of music -- a summery little trifle made up of strings, acoustic guitar and a flute -- made for a circa '95 commercial for "Sunflowers" perfume that has always made me very very happy. I'm positive it was probably some studio thing made specifically for the ad and never released commercially, but I've actually tried looking on the 'net for more information about it.

Victor Calderone ?

Pan American Excursion
Kings County Perspective
Kings County Dub
Tomix
Pan Am Mix
1998 Remix
1998 Victor Calderone Remix

Nichole, this might be LB's cover of 'Be near Me' from the 'Pop Artificielle' album. All covers - Bowie, James Brown, Stones etc. And very grand it is too!

sample:

http://www.planetxusa.com/pub/audio/djram/2000/76036.ram

Oh yeah while you're at it, send me The UR X-track 'Soulpower' on vinyl too.

Still no word on this one. Please tell me I'm not living in a Philip K Dick novel.

While we're on the hopeful end of things, is Acen's stuff available on CD? I have a cd single of Trip II the Moon but I need more more more.

My one track is from 1984 or thereabouts and has a sort of mellow funky groove with a woman talking/(rapping?) about going down to London. All my guesses as to who this could have been (Maximum Joy, Rip Rig & Panic...) have turned out to be dead ends. I figured it might have had something to do with On-U Sound so I wrote this guy who had an extensive On-U Sound website, and he didn't know it, either. This has vexed me for 20 years.

"You're my sushi baby
You're my sushi baby
Cut me up and eat me raw"

Or something like that... quirky little dumb track, but I've long since lost that casette and have fond memories of the track. Anyone know where I might find a copy?

The song sounded mid to late 70s-ish, and it was very much in the singer songwriter vein of that era, female vocalist, sort of country-style.

Chorus was something like "I just can't make it through Sunday" or "I can't seem to make it through Sunday."

Help.

1) Maybe this is the one mentioned above -- A Bonzo Dog Band song, instrumental, in which the sound of a billards break is looped as a sample.

2) The original "Pictures of Adolph," which was covered by Jim O'Rourke and Glenn Kotche and made available on the internet only. I actually found the original listed on AMG, but it's not on CD and probably hard to find on vinyl.

Actually now that I think of it, I once emailed the guy that runs that site asking if it would be too much trouble to rip it to mp3 or tape it for me, and I'd gladly pay him plenty of money for it. He basically told me to fuck off, heh.

I still remember one verse:

I was chilling on a bus stop,
waiting for the bus
me and my girl,
then she started to cuss, she said:
Daryl why'ont you get a job and make some money
waiting on the bus ain't too damn funny
buy a Bug, a Nissan, or a Cadillac
the bitch was two seconds from getting slapped
"How the fuck I'm gonna buy a damn Nissan truck?"
She said: "Try hard, you'll have good luck."
Good luck my butt, I don't give a fuck
about no goddamn Nissan truck...

the chorus:
Nissans....nissans nissans....
Nissans....nissans nissans....
are so damn fresh.

classic, obviously. Dude had a proto-Too Short delivery(as if TS's delivery isn't proto enough) and the beat was basic drum machine with the odd synthesized bell tinkles that were common back then.

Also, Pete Seeger's "Precious Friend You Will Be There", NOT the live version with Arlo Guthrie, but a studio version they used to play as the intro to a local radio show by for and about disabled people(helmed by this cranky guy and an older blind woman who kind of fussed at each other like an old married couple, and not in the self-aware, aren't-we-just-a-mismatched-pair kind of way that's common nowadays, makes for some good radio)It was still a duet but it sounded like a woman singing with him. That song is sweet.

That would be by Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle (FSK), a German band. The song has been released on a Peel Sessions EP. Search allmusic for FSK for more info on the band.

my 6th class teacher played it to us along with macarthur park. heady stuff for a 12 year old.

Is it maybe "Baby" by Os Mutantes?

(after a bit of googling:) Koolworld, "Invader"