Help IDENTIFY SONG

I think.

A turn of the decade UK Garage track, male vocalist, called 'Sorry' or 'I'm Sorry' or whatever.

I guess 4 in the morn not the best time to revive this but i'll forget later.

bump. anyone help?

Monster Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huSaMO4v11s

thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks.

OK so I went to this club yesterday where they played a lot of indie-friendly dance (DFA, etc.) and there was this song that sounded a bit like Orgy's version of "Blue Monday" (but a lot better). Basically a strong beat, heavily processed guitars with A LOT of pitch bending and no singing; maybe a remix. Also, I'm pretty sure it's recent (past 4 or 5 years max). Any guesses?

Anyone? :(

No?

Right - there's a song in the background at 3:15 on this TV Cream podcast. http://www.tvcream.co.uk/?p=15059

I'm desperately trying to remember who or what it is and it's driving me insane - they cut out before any lyrics pop up to help, but it's a semi-well known synth number from the eighties.

Help much appreciated.

Isn't that Tarzan Boy by Baltimora?

I would love it if some could identify this song:

http://www.mediafire.com/?czzczzlzm2d

It's a really pretty/borderline-cheesy acoustic guitar piece. Instrumental so difficult to google!

ok this bit of a song has been in my head and its been driving me nuts for the last few days
John Peel probably played it loads, mid 80s lumpen indie in that Redskins, early Age Of Chance sort of way. late Clash influenced?
the only bit i can remember goes "OOH! AH! A Riba-Riba-Riby! OOH! AH! A Rib Rib Ey!"
suspect it was complete bollocks

the easier way to identify a song is to ask your friend who has shazam in his/her cell phone.

ha, already tried that to no avail sadly...

Right - there's a song in the background at 3:15 on this TV Cream podcast. http://www.tvcream.co.uk/?p=15059

maybe this
Ryan Paris - La Dolce Vita

Please identify the indie guitar stuff that comes in at about 8'50 of the following vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObNC4gttfkA&videos=zs5qwWHheIE

never heard it before.. though it sounds like a parody of something else.

I was gonna say... It's probably just something commissioned or bought from a commercial music house.

Thanks guys.

the only bit i can remember goes "OOH! AH! A Riba-Riba-Riby! OOH! AH! A Rib Rib Ey!"

King Kurt, Destination Zululand?

right vintage, but not that song. lol psychobilly though!

Red Box, "For America" ?

yikes no! definitely early/mid 80s uk band, that bit i remember is loads of blokes chanting over & over "OOH! AH! A Riba-Riba-Riby! OOH! AH! A Rib Rib Ey!". maybe sounds a bit like late Clash, slightly clumsy indie funk to it? dread think now what it turns out to be!

God dammit, now you've got ME doing it! I know the chant you mean, but can't place it at all. Thought it might have been Blue Rondo A La Turk's "Klactoveesedstein", but a quick YouTube tells me I'm wrong.

Aaargh. This is going to torture me for the rest of today.

It's some sort of Shriekback/Pigbag/Rip Rig & Panic/Maximum Joy punk-funk/disco-not-disco thing, isn't it?

that sounds about right, i was thinking a more boisterous Higsons

Hoo, hah, it IS The Higsons! "I Don't Want To Live With Monkeys", yes?

(The weird thing was, I kept thinking: "Norwich. It's a band from Norwich.")

wow! i don't remember them sounding that punky!

Although "Monkeys" actually goes: "HOO! HAH! a-dibby-dibby-dibbaay, HOO! HAH! a-dib dib doh..."

well, considering the last time i probably heard it was on the John Peel whingding when i was 12, i think i did ok :p

Oh, absolutely... I was just checking that we meant the same song. There was a lot of that sort of stuff about! A major Peel favourite, that one.

its sounds surprisingly good! i was expecting it to turn out to be Guana Batz or something.

higsons: "i don't wanna live with monkeys"?

http://sideroom.blogspot.com/2008/02/70-aussie-fest.html

loooong xpost. it just came to me, the way these things do. anyway, podcast link above.

Ok, this one might be tricky... I've heard it many times over the years but it's always at bars and I never get the chance to decodify the lyrics. It's got some sort of funky reggae shuffle similar to 'feel like jumping' by Marcia Griffiths and the only part of the lyrics I remember is a very generic 'that what I say / said' that I think gets repeated several times on the chorus. Please help.

"54-46 Was My Number"?

Yep that's the one. I now realize I've had it on my collection for years and blanked out completely on that one. Thanks.

holy crap! good job getting the song from just that description.

Here's another one.
It's a gospel house track, or maybe just straight gospel.
There are children singing.
The lyrics include: "We don't know where, we don't know when" and the choir goes: "That's how the good lord works, that's how he works".
It is funky as fuck.

Pretty sure that's "Stand on the Word". The piano intro is great on that song, at least the one with Larry Levan and the Celestial Choir, which is the only version I've heard.

I used to mix 'feel like jumping' in with '54-46' when I dj'd reggae nights. The two are kind of inseparable now to me, although I'm surprised moka knew the former better than the latter.

I once asked a question like this that went something like 'what's thus Jamaican rocksteady song that goes 'sandy sandy'? Turned out it was actually 'Dandy' by the Kinks which I'd reimagined as reggae.

I used to mix 'feel like jumping' in with '54-46' when I dj'd reggae nights. The two are kind of inseparable now to me, although I'm surprised moka knew the former better than the latter.

― ford lopatin (dog latin)

Hahaha you used to mix those two for real? wow! I just thought of it as a random reference that could fit with what I was trying to say... little did I know it was going to be spot on for you to guess the song I was looking for. I think we are meant for each other dog latin.

Yes it's a little freaky because I remember that segue being the opening of a well-received mix CD I made back in 2003.

Well I for one would love to see the full tracklist if you still got it somewhere.

Okay can somebody tell me if this is a Japanese version of a well known song, and if so, what song it actually is. I'm sure I've heard an english version of it before, maybe by The Nits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJkiMG5xhZI

Ha no it's not but it was a #1 hit in the American charts on 1963 and stayed there for 3 weeks.
Kyu Sakamoto – “Sukiyaki”

So, yes. It was a well known song in America but surprisingly it hitted the charts its original language (a case similar to Volare). Wouldn't be surprised if there was an english cover version but the actual hit was the japanese version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXQ31F1A-k

Wikipedia:

Well-known English-language cover versions include a 1981 cover under the title "Sukiyaki" by A Taste of Honey and a 1995 cover by 4 P.M.. There is also an English language version with altogether different lyrics by Jewel Akens under the title "My First Lonely Night" recorded much earlier in 1966. There are many other language versions of the song as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiyaki_%28song%29

Awesome Moka, thanks. this is the song it reminds me of, kinda close but not really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbLNb6GcoV8

Love a bit of Kyu Sakamoto.

I don't think I have the tracklisting anywhere Moka, but it was mostly highlights from various Trojan and Soul Jazz comps. I might make a new reggae mix soon though as it's been ages since I did a proper one.

Maresnest: Wow! That's so close it's almost a rip-off. I like this song, actually... not sure if I'd ever be able to hear it without thinking of Kyu Sakamoto tho.

Dog latin: for shame, judging by the strong opening pair it sounded like my kind of playlist. Please give me a heads up when you ever make a new mix.

> Well I for one would love to see the full tracklist if you still got it somewhere.

is here:
Woohoo! Just finished a reggae mix and it's up on soulseek!

(lol 2003)

Yes! Thanks koogs. That's a fine looking playlist and wow... really old indeed. How in the hell did you find that one?

i remember him posting it, or one like it. a quick search for 'feel like jumping' turned it up (on 2nd or 3rd page of results, is a popular tune!).

Thanks Iris.
That is indeed the jam.
Hallelujah!

Got another one!

Sounds like Jesus & Mary Chain... still unsure it's not them. Song lyrics mention grey / blue skies constantly... can't really remember anything else heard it on a pool party :P

Ariel Pink - Bright clear blue skies?

Even As We Speak - 'Blue Suburban Skies'?

I've got one I've been trying to track down for years. Sounds like an early 80s DIY electronic / industrial / minimal 4-track recording. Drum machine, descending bassline, bell sound melody, London-ish working-class-ish voice with lyrics something like:

Are my feelings in the way, it's a weird thing to say
Do you miss me when I'm away
I just wanna play
And it's easier, just to leave yer
Every other day
Do you feel the same way
I wanna ---------- some Milk Tray

I can stick up a rip if it helps.

That last line is amazing

Got another one!

Ok can't really remember the song... the singer is a shaved black female and in the music video there's a dog that dies and we sort of see the pov of his ghost... at least that's how I remember it... it's a bit old.

or maybe the singer is the ghost/hallucination and the dog follows around?

skunk anansie

please note, that is an uninformed guess based entirely on description of singer

Not Skunk Anansie. I was thinking Sade for a minute because I remember the singer/band was a simple name like "cher" or "sade"...actually not sure if she has her head shaved in the video... I just kind of remember her that way... I'm thinking late 90s. It's bugging me off but my memory about it is very blurry. I just recall this music video with a dog and a sort of ghost of a black woman and that's pretty much it.

No idea even what type of music it is?

so wait, is the dog that is a ghost, or is it the shaved black woman? hoping to narrow it down a little...

michele n'dehkjhhjgfhgfdgfdsfdas?

Are you thinking of Forest Whitaker in Ghost Dog?

Cos he's not a girl and it's not really about a ghost dog.

I want to know what the Milk Tray one was.

Can anyone identify this song: http://soundcloud.com/clubclique/excerpt-from-the-robyn-minimix/s-NpqW4

It's a few second excerpt from the recent Robyn minimix for Annie Mac. No tracklisting out there. I'm sure it's something really obvious as it rings a real bell, does anyone out there know?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU3SWtlHwxI&feature=related

ah yes! thanks a ton. i knew i'd heard it before, definitely going to dig all their stuff out again

Ok new one. Song from the 60s or the 70s. The production is sort of Phil Spector-esque... you know heavily orchestrated wall of sounds. Constant, pressing drums and tinkling metal sounds. Can't really remember lyrics (...it might say something like 'my baby is gone' somewhere in there)... male singer possibly from french origin (sounded to me like he had a french accent but I could be wrong.

Mmm for reference I recorded the main riff. Granted I'm not a guitar player and the sound is too low but here you go. So just try to imagine the riff being played by piano and strings.

http://www.divshare.com/download/15490292-e98

Ooops uploaded in .wma and realized my roomate is talking in the end but you can kind of get the idea I think? Want me to upload a on mp3?

Anyone know the soul sample in this track?
http://open.spotify.com/track/7rRQQF7JVoHtscu7eE3xcC

guys I even uploaded a riff! come on, help me out.

Says you haven't confirmed your e-mail so it can't be downloaded.

Oops. Email confirmed now.

http://www.divshare.com/download/15490292-e98

dude that is totally inaudible

Here's another one:

Trance song from early 00's. Was sort of popular and it had a synth very similar to the main melody in ATB's "9PM (til I come)". Rhythm-wise it was similar to Shock Bukara's 'Play something smooth' sort of latin influenced. There's a vocal part where a sexy sort of hindi voice keeps repeating 'in your eyes... eyes' or something along the lines... (those might not be the actual lyrics, I could have heard wrong).

Ok new one. Song from the 60s or the 70s. The production is sort of Phil Spector-esque... you know heavily orchestrated wall of sounds. Constant, pressing drums and tinkling metal sounds. Can't really remember lyrics (...it might say something like 'my baby is gone' somewhere in there)... male singer possibly from french origin (sounded to me like he had a french accent but I could be wrong.

Mmm for reference I recorded the main riff. Granted I'm not a guitar player and the sound is too low but here you go. So just try to imagine the riff being played by piano and strings.

― (Moka)

Better recording since the past one was inaudible :S

http://www.moteldemoka.com/moka/songid.mp3

The link doesn't work....

what? it works fine for me... can you try again?

404

Oops. Something obviously isn't right if you're reading this. The URL you entered or followed no longer seems to exist, has been removed, or has been replaced. If you feel that this an error that needs to be addressed, feel free to contact the administrator of this website.

mmm ok let me try again:

http://www.moteldemoka.com/moka/whatisthis.mp3

oh wait i see what the problem is... motel de moka doesn't allow redirected links... once you go to the error page click enter on the adress bar and it will open it.

Sorry about that :S

copying and pasting the link in the adress bar instead of clicking it will also work.

nah, that doesn't work either. I see the same 404 error either way.

there isn't a separate error page. the "Oops. Something obviously isn't right..." message appears right on http://www.moteldemoka.com/moka/whatisthis.mp3.

sounds like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVWNZPOUhO8

omg that's it :D thank you mr. president.

been wondering what was it for months, it was a long shot but you didnt dissapoint.

So they weren't French they were actually from Madrid.

The b-side from this single is even more Phil Spector-esque and it's actually a cover from a spanish song 'perfida albion':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fb3wH2mnSI

I'm so happy right now.

can anyone help identify the opening track from this mix: http://soundcloud.com/thetwelves/the-twelves-08-05-2012

clues are in the tags, is it gino soccio? someone else says 'flying lotus' in the comments

I think this is from the late 90s, BUT it could be 80s...or even early 2000s This is a song heard in a store over their music system in 2000-2002. They used the Westwood One service.

Urban sounding song with a strong beat. Mostly instrumental....except for a few times where a guy speaks a few lines. Sketchy memory, but I remember him saying "North South East West"...although it could have been in a different order. And I think he says "Let's go get Sally"....but that could be totally wrong!

This song is driven by a piano riff (repeating over and over). Strong drums....almost hip-hop-ish drums...BUT NOT REALLY. Kinda funky, but really more urban. When the guy speaks, it is done in that compressed sound....like you're hearing him over the telephone.....know what I mean? And it's spoken in cadence: "North South East West....da da Da da DA da DA...."

I have included a dropbox link to an mp3 of me trying to play the melody on a piano. I am not a musician and do not have perfect pitch. The song could be in a different key or I could be a little off. I am not musical at all. But this is the general melody and the cadence of the riff.

Been looking for this one since 2002. I will be forever indebted to anyone who can help with this! This is my last "holy grail".

LINK: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xgxorbxhe71c3dv/Unknown_New.mp3?dl=0

The above was posted here by mistake. I cannot figure out how to make a new question!

Anyone know what's playing at the 6:57 mark on this mix?

https://www.mixcloud.com/Rare_Groove_Keeper/black-queen-of-nashville-flies-to-holy-land/

This is driving me crazy because I hear this song every 3 months (when I hadn't heard it in years) and I keep meaning to take note of the lyrics.
Female singer, has the same vibe as Living in the City but more uptempo, more staccato/lilting vocals. I think some of the lyrics are about "down in LA" and maybe about naming other locations, cities?

stupid answer but it's not Sheryl Crow's "All I Wanna Do" is it?

either way i'm going to listen to Sheryl Crow for a bit

maybe crack a couple of tins, kick back

drinkin beer at 10.30 on Thursday

No. Higher voice, it's definitely a more city vibe like the Stevie Wonder ref above. I can't remember if there are horns in it because I keep melding the two songs in my mind. I think almost every line ends in a long A (for the rhymes).

Voice is more Vanity, less Sheryl Crow.

It's not this is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlpQ7IOlov4

(dno Stevie Wonder vibe tbrh)

k now i'm struggling to think, but i am blasting some tunes so it's all good

No, more uptempo, funky. I was looking up LA songs too. I think Chicago is mentioned. I literally hear this song every time I am drunk and I start shouting "I can't believe you've never heard this song" to my spouse. It has a late 70s, early 80s vibe but I want to say it's a lot newer than that.

I am looking up old Janelle Monae songs now, but I think her voice isn't high enough.

I want to also say it's urban jazzy?

OMG, I just found it. And this entire time in my head I was thinking "this better not be a fucking Kanye song."

It's Estelle, American Boy (2009). I was in a music blackout from 2008 to about 2012 so this makes sense.

hah! i knew it was rattling around in my head somewhere and I had a feeling I heard that phrase several times a day. Turns out they play it all the time at the station where I work

lol i love "American Boy"

I somehow managed to block out that Kanya raps and that she says American Boy in it. I've been hearing it everywhere this year.

Track played on 6 music just over a week ago, so sadly not on their webpages. Dance track which features a spoken interlude by a Northern (?) female about how she'd play music and her dad would tell her to turn it down.

Zombie Nation - Momplays? ("mom plays records, dad plays records" etc)

Beulah Loves Dancing by Planningtorock ???

snippet here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/listen/playlist.shtml

Yes, that's the one ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7u8nUFH6C0

it's on the a-list this week, so it's everywhere.

Only listen to 6 music occasionally, so was lucky to hear it when I did.

This is probably a dead-end but I was at a stoned gathering, sometime in the mid-late 90s (98, if I had to guess). Folk were playing various tapes and I heard a Massive Attack remix that, in my memory, went on for what felt like 10+ minutes and gradually built to a glorious wall of noise. It might have been a remix of Weather Storm, but I've listened to Mad Professor remixes but nothing has matched. Am I just stonedly remembering the wrong thing?

Late 90s hardcore song that samples the quote from top gun (“I’m holding on too tight; I’ve lost the edge”).

This is killing me.

bump

Is it this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF4teCkg7Sc

It’s not! I saw that somebody else asked this some years ago on Reddit, and that was the answer given there, but no.

I thought maybe bouncing souls or good clean fun—almost definitely a mid-Atlantic band of that era—but I’ve come up completely empty.

The teenage bottlerocket song references the same scene in top gun, but there was a song that actually sampled the dialogue from the movie.

This is such a monkey on my back lol.

This is probably a dead-end but I was at a stoned gathering, sometime in the mid-late 90s (98, if I had to guess). Folk were playing various tapes and I heard a Massive Attack remix that, in my memory, went on for what felt like 10+ minutes and gradually built to a glorious wall of noise. It might have been a remix of Weather Storm, but I've listened to Mad Professor remixes but nothing has matched. Am I just stonedly remembering the wrong thing?

― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski)

This could be the Craig Armstrong version

this pop hit from the 80s or 90s, with synths, verse lyrics entirely spoken in a low baritone, I don't remember hardly any words other than I think the dude talks about 'magic' at one point, and the chorus just seems to be harmonized AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH-AHHHHHHH, followed by something that sounds like 'doot doo' or maybe a synth sound that sounds like that (and no it's not Freur - "Doot Doot").

the 'doot doo' sounds kinda like what the ringer sounds like in the UK, kinda,

is vic there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUUA0Fdw_6Q

um, that's a lot less synthy than i remember it being. it does have bridge in the middle which is spoken / phone ringing sound but i think that's about it

Not Magic by Mick Smiley, from the Ghostbusters soundtrack?

sadly neither match.

to describe it better, it's a midtempo song, and the verse is pretty entire entirely spoken in a nasally baritone, he sounds like he's trying to sound seductive or suave. then it segues into a harmony of what sounds like female vocals going AHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHH, descending.

after it repeats a few times what sounds like female vocals singing "doot doo" or "choo choo" or something or other happens.

idk I'll never figure this out and it's probably a really easy to identify song that I've somehow forgotten lol.

thanks for the suggs though!

I FOUND IT

it's Love and Rockets - "So Alive".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4sj6LhmYNA

thank you google!

I really thought it was going to be the Mick Smiley one which, even though I have seen Ghostbusters numerous times, I do not recall at all.

So Alive is in a local pub's karaoke book even though it wasn't a hit here.

Mind you they also have FIVE Eagle-Eye Cherry songs

LOL

i love bauhaus, i love tones on tails, still never heard a love and rockets song that i like at all :(

not even Saudade?

Ha, I was posting to ask about that same song.

Ah I'd never heard that one before, it's pretty nice! sounds like the legendary pink dots or someone, that sort of pastoral goth psych thing

sometimes it's nice to be wrong

ha! i just wondered as i know a couple of other folk who don't like them but who like that one track. i only really like the 1st album.

I've just got i think their 3rd and 4th albums, sitting unloved in a box somewhere, and i got a bit discouraged with exploring any further. been a long long time though! sounds like i need to go backwards

^ opinions formed in a time when you had to buy records to see if you liked a band or not, I *am* slowly revising these as I catch up with the long gone past

uhh sorry to jump in with this, but i'm trying to find an ilm recommendation from the last year or two, having trouble with search, and this thread was up top. i think it's a compilation of pretty raw and intense percussive and/or electronic music from .. tanzania? kenya? the kind of thing that gets a wire mention. does that ring a bell for anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3gm39XHKpg

???

yes! thank you!

Looking for a dance track with a vocal which is more spoken than sung which has line “the roof is blocking the view to the stars”.

Voice sounds Mancunian.

this is the thread i have bookmarked for this kind of question so let's try it!
this melody has been rattling around in my head for a week. can't tell you the decade, the genre, the instrument... i'm quite sure it's NOT a guitar tho, if that helps. (link to some music sequencer website)

anyone have any idea? i think someome might sing along w/ it at some point but i more remember it as an intrumental part. losing my mind. it is probably something so obvious.

ooh that really does sound familiar. I'll sleep on it.

ah good after 60 hours of mental constipation, humming poorly to ewveryone i know, it just came to me. if you'd like to experience a fraction of my frustration i'll spoiler tag it so you can discover it at your own leisure. (i was indeed in the wrong key and added some extra notes in there) cold war by janelle monae

never would have gotten that but this revive has taught me some very crash-course but nonetheless quite illuminating information about how midi works. thank you for posting.

Haha I would not have got it from the midi file

But I'm glad to hear the song again

Has anyone seen the documentary ‘Pauline Boty I am the Sixties’? There’s a song played in the intro and end credits I’m trying to identify. Sounds like The Go! Team.

Has a lyric ‘ This is an up uprising’.

end credits say:

"Uprising" composed and performed by Cineman
Courtesy of Temple Sound / Fairwood Music

Cool, should’ve watched to the end!

who that person is though, is a bit of a mystery. not much useful information on the net and the song doesn't seem to exist outside of that tv production

I've asked this question a few times now and got nowhere. I'm pretty sure the track is called either "Part Of The Machine" or "Heart Of The Machine". I remember listening to it c2004 or 2005, and it's got a fairly fast 4/4 techno/electro crossover sound that does a speed up towards the end.

The lyrics are sung in a dispassionate neutral Southern English accent and repeat lines similar to:

I'm a screw, I'm a cog, I'm a wheel
I'm the part that makes you feel
I'm the sound that's in between
I'm the heart of the machine

Those lyrics are only from memory, so probably not right.

> "Uprising" composed and performed by Cineman
> Courtesy of Temple Sound / Fairwood Music

some hits for temple sound on discogs, oxford based, go-team and supergrass releases...

I guess that’s why Shazam came up blank.