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

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maybe through this thread you will be able to obtain it!

i'm still trying to find that Orb 'perpetual dawn' mix i heard 11 years ago (see previous thread)...and a technoey track i saw on MTV about 8 years ago but they never ID'd the song...so i'm screwed with that really (altho i've been planning to 're-create' the track myself in the hope that one day someone says 'hey thats a rip off of 'xxx'!)

obviously it'll help if you know the name of the song and artist (i cant think of anything i know the name of but cant find tho there used to be lots of stuff)

― blueski, Monday, 28 October 2002 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I happened to be watching channel 5 in about 1998 - a basket case of a programme called 'Five's Company' (since axed) was on. Esther McVey and, I think, Nick Knowles were interviewing an elderly veteran English screen actor and his wife. I can't remember the actor's name, but I do remember recognising it at the time. The dapper gent was like Stewart Granger or Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in appearance and style(he had a thin moustache), and from that era. But I don't think it was Stewart Granger, because he died in 1993, I understand; and it certainly wasn't Fairbanks Jr. His wife was asked to sing a ditty she had apparently composed herself many years ago. It had never been released, and the only reason the interviewer knew about it was because the actor's wife had a reputation for singing it at dinner parties etc. The song was absolutely charming - one line in it went: 'You tickle me spitless, baby ... '. I wish I'd taken down some details at the time - the tune has been in my brain ever since; and now I want to record a version. By any remote chance did anybody on this board happen to see the same programme; is anyone able to tell me who's wife she is, so I can write to her?

― Ronnie, Monday, 28 October 2002 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

American Volkswagon commercial circa 93-95 (before Nick Drake VW mania)...consists of lines "are you free, are you really free, are you (are you are you are you really free)" sounds very mid-90's sort of alterna-rock. I had a lead with some group called Psychic(k?) TV or some such but my recent searches for it have come to dead ends. I've been looking for this crap all of my young adult life. Am I just dumb or what?

― mary b. (mary b.), Monday, 28 October 2002 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I *HAD* been searching for "Destructor" by semi-obscure Dischord band Fidelity Jones, which had only existed as a vinyl 7" since about `90, but recently made the jump to compact disc by way of the Dischord 20 YEARS boxset. Huzzah.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 October 2002 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Mary -- the Psychic TV song from the VW commercial is called "Roman P" and it's available on a 7" and a singles comp and shouldn't be hard to find online.

― dan (dan), Monday, 28 October 2002 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Now what's mary going to do? God damn the internet!

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 28 October 2002 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

This one!
Identify this song...please

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

― Jeff W, Monday, 28 October 2002 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Mary-- Or just get it here...

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

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

― Aaron W, Monday, 28 October 2002 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been looking for a particular Elvis Costello live track for years now. I heard it on a tv show whose name escapes me, that featured Tim daly and an actress as a couple who meet in college and stay together through the 1980s. It prominently featured flashbacks, with Tim Daly in funny hair. It also was very music driven. One such flashback involved a live version of "Accidents Will Happen," just Elvis and a piano. I seem to remember the characters talking about it as a "live version from Hollywood High."

Can anyone help?

― Rufus King, Monday, 28 October 2002 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

If it helps, the name of the show was (I think) "Almost Grown".

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

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 28 October 2002 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Hansi, "Automobile". I'm starting to doubt that it ever existed. Not that it's a masterpiece or anything but I just need proof that I haven't lost my mind!

― dave q, Monday, 28 October 2002 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

"barbee doll lust" by catholic discipline, WITHOUT kickboy face being interviewed over it. i really hope there's a DVD reissue of "decline of western civilization" and they reissue the soundtrack as a double CD with the excised tunes on it. i mean, COME ON, man.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 28 October 2002 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

dogg pound remix of jodeci 'get on up'

― ds, Monday, 28 October 2002 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

The first half of the DJ Shadow/Cut Chemist mix they did in San Francisco(?).

― Juan, Monday, 28 October 2002 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been looking for a September 67 song, "Steve Malkmus is a Fucking Snob." No idea what they sound like, but great song title.

― wl (wl), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

dear god i am dumb! heh. shit, now i have no mission in life...

― mary b. (mary b.), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I still haven't heard the proper single version of April Showers' "Abandon Ship". All I have is some stupid remix where the vocals are too quiet.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

A song Rainy Day Regatta covered when I saw them last winter. They didn't say who it was originally by, and a google search has revealed nothing. The lyrics involved stains on spaghetti straps.

(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.)

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

The Elvis Costello piano-only version you're talking about came as part of a 4-song EP I got with the (I'm reaching here) ARMED FORCES album. It was really, really good...as I recall. Limited!

― matt riedl (veal), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I had one of these for years, I even had it on tape (probably from Queen's U radio)- but unidentified. But then came the internet, and doing monthly searches for a particular lyric string eventually revealed that it was the Posies, Apology. Yay internet!

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.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 01:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I still can't find an MP3 of Locomotive's "Mr Armageddon" (though I do have an old radio recording, so it doesn't really count).

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 05:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, the "Accidents Will Happen" w/ piano was on the 7" that came with the initial run of _Armed Forces_... but it'll also appear on the forthcoming 2-CD reissue (out in 2 weeks), I believe.

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

― Douglas, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 06:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I have not been able to find a complete (i.e. more than a fragment) version of The Primitives "The Ostrich" ... I'm sure it's out there - but I can't find it....

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks to all who weighed in on my Elvis mystery. Of course, now my life has no meaning....

― Rufus King, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Bukka White: "How Long 'Til I Can Change My Clothes", since hearing it on a WFMU webcast like three years ago.

― Ryan Pitchfork, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

ibm ran a series of commercials about '98 with versions of 'i am superman'; one was just stunningly forlorn. spent days tracking it down, even calling the ad agency who put the commercial together, only to find out it was a studio track done just for the ad. would love to hear a full version. or finf out who did it.

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...

― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"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."

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?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

mark goodier show - evening session (pre lamacq)
circa 1992,ace indie dance tune with the
chorus ' i lost my faith in the human race'.
pretty reminiscent of st. ett's
'only love can break your heart', and goodier says
at the end 'centurize'
as in ceturies, only...erm, like 'centurize' instead.
i know not wether that's band or title, but
that's what he said. heard nothing since. *nothing*
and *even then* - no-one knew what i was talking about.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

classic indie tune from 80s-early 90s with chorus "satellite allright allright allright".

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Osymyso's remix of "Three Lions".

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Two quick answers...

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.

― Rob M (Rob M), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

rob! nice one !
yeah it might have been them. same era. i've seen 1 of their 2 singles, the one with the piss-take of jon savage's 'foxbase alpha'' sleevenotes on the back. i almost bought it just for that and was actually thinking 'how could *that* have passed me by' seeing as
the records that they term 'balearic' in manchetser's vinyl exchange's 'balearic' section are all things i either own or like.
seriously if it turns out to be either of those singles
(can you recall their names rob ?) then i'll be, well, as happy
as when i found the 'mr. rossi' soundtrack.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

God, I couldn't actually remember the name of them off the top of my head but I'll have a dig around at home through my boxes of vinyl and find them for you. I think there's a track or two on the "We are Icerink" label compilation too which I've got stashed away somewhere...

― Rob M (Rob M), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Sterling-- That was "Satellite" by Kicking Giant, from the Halo CD.

― Eric K, Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Stewart - I don't *think* so. Not unless it's something that wasn't on that first Sigue Sigue album, (which I had at the time) and I probably would have recognised it as them. Thanks though!

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Many years ago, Dave Barry in his news column had a "Worse Song of All Time" contest. One of the entries, mailed to him by one of his readers, was a song called "Howdy Hooter Sapperticker" by (I believe it was) Barb and the Boys. Apparently, the song consists of the Boys singing "Howdy! Howdy! Howdy!" and Barb singing "Howdy Hooter Sapperticker!" over and over again.

I MUST find this song.

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:34 (twenty-three years ago)

can't help anyone with theirs, sorry. what i've been looking for is:

steroid maximus's version of "powerhouse!"

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

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 05:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"Stewart - I don't *think* so. Not unless it's something that wasn't on that first Sigue Sigue album, (which I had at the time) and I probably would have recognised it as them. Thanks though!"

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

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 09:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Piscesboy...

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...)

― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I've wanted to hear "A Girlfriend Is..." by Vena Cava for something like 15 years, still never heard it.

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

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

OH MY GOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OHMYGOD
OHMYGOD
OHMYGOD
OHMYGOD
OHMYGOD
OHMYGOD

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.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 30 October 2002 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

i can only echo piscesboy's delight as i recently ID'd the second track i mentioned in my original postm having been able to ask the only person in the world who would've been able to tell me!!!! it was Jon Hassel's 'Voiceprint' remixed by 808 State....so right under my fucking nose all these years basically as I'm a huge 808 fan but never quite twigged it might be them (but it sounds just like them for chrissakes). i found the mp3 on slsk the same night i was told what the track might be (based on the lamest of vague descriptions) which i find equally incredible.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 September 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Several Norwegian ones....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 8 September 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

some early cajmere or green velvet track that had a kinda flapper/charleston feel to it - like a really early (91?) version of "keep it unreal" by Mr Scruff but much much better as i remember it.

any ideas?

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 8 September 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Father Abraham & The Smurfs - Smurfing Beer
Sieste - Kitty Whip
a really cool "electro-ey" thumpy version of "Gimme the Light" by Sean Paul I heard at Reading this year, which reminds me of another time at reading in one of the big drinks tents in the main arena, they played the eeriest melody in the world. I memorised it and tried to copy it but yet no-one has actually told me what it's supposed to be.
Also, I think it was Mogwai who dj'd on Mary-Ann *spits* Hobbes. They played a track of someone rapping, all cut out. It might have been "Qtio" by Brothomstates, but straight after they played something that sounded like Boards of Canada but better and I ripped that off too, but also in the same hope blueski had way above thread that someone would tell you what you'd ripped off.
< /tripping on a weeknight>

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 8 September 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

a cover of "i shall be released" by some guy (who sounds a bit like paul weller, i think) and his guitar. there's around 80 published versions of this song, and the further down the list i go, the more worried i am that it's not there.

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

To go back up to Kim's one upthread she said "sounded like" Billy Idol but with upbeat electronics - could it in fact have *been* Billy Idol's "Forgot to be Your Lover" which had a rather upbeat driving synth bass riff?

Just a guess...

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought it was 'got to be a lover'...?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The Dickle Brothers - "I am thinking tonight of your blue eyes"

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"Holed Up," a song by an Athens GA band called Bob. There are so many Bobs, however (and this is not the acapella group, unfortunately) that this search is invariably rendered frustrating/tedious before it even begins.

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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Some version of Arab Strap's "The First Big Weekend" which I heard once or twice, probably on Lamacq

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

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Eric Robinson - High in Heaven

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

― blue, Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

still looking for Pearl ft Rhys Ifans' 'Bardot'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

and 'Fix' by Fix (classic jittery disco-tech)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

dave q: I have the Maniac soundtrack LP! Assuming the song you're looking for appears on the soundtrack, it's composed and conducted by Jay Chattaway, and was released on Varese Sarabande in 1980.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 11 September 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

There was this mix of ABC's "Be Near". Heard it ages ago, and was so slowed down and chilled out a loved it.

Can't find it for shit now, though

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 11 September 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

a certain john wesley harding (the singer) track...i found an ep that i once owned of his unlistenable, but a couple of years ago i heard a beautiful, heartbreakingly sad song with minimal backing. it may have something to do with a river or water, but i'm really not sure.

― j'aime les sucettes (call mr. lee), Thursday, 11 September 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know anything about John Wesley Harding, but maybe it was this:

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

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 11 September 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Pauls00: Sucker? A sucker, dear sir?! Not sure which side of the Atlantic you're on, and import rates etc., but 'Cornology' is superb value in Blighty; around £15 or so IIRC I acquired it for, and it is practically, if not entirely, the entirety of a very fine band's oeuvre...

― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

A RECORD THAT I PROBABLY WILL NEVER FIND EVER: the remix of "Cubik" by 808 State that was featured in a commercial for the video game Street Fighter II back in 1991. WHO DID THAT REMIX!?!?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 13 September 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone know where i can get a copy of Shotgun Messiah's VIOLENT NEW BREED? is it even available on cd cause that album kicks ass

― Darryl, Sunday, 14 September 2003 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I taped part of a live club show broadcast on the radio in the summer of '91 that had just this AMAZING track. Eventually, I was able to figure out that these were probably two songs, the first was Sweet Exorcist's "Testone". The second one (if the whole thing isn't just some kind of remix or variant of the first) was essentially a thunderous techno version of the Bo Diddley beat (boom-boom-boom-boomBOOM). It was made with the same crude electronics as "testone" (or maybe even cruder). It has no melody at all. Fake lightning crashes random punctuating the music every so often.

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.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 14 September 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

+++the remix of "Cubik" by 808 State that was featured in a commercial for the video game Street Fighter II back in 1991. WHO DID THAT REMIX!?!?

Victor Calderone ?

― kephm, Sunday, 14 September 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

A quick search reveals the following list of "Cubik" remixes:

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

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

John James' "She Bought Love" ISN'T EVEN IN THE FUCKING AMG

― dave q, Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

and for that matter neither is "I Like What You're Doin' To Me (Theme from 'The Cheerleaders')" or Legion's "Shake it Around" (from 'Joysticks')

― dave q, Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave, if you ever find "She Bought love" you NEED to give me a copy (and I'll pledge vice versa). For years I thought I'd actually imagined that fucker.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I want his cool-as-hell cape/coat from the video too.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

There was this mix of ABC's "Be Near". Heard it ages ago, and was so slowed down and chilled out a loved it.

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!

― Bill E (bill_e), Monday, 15 September 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I can (and have) get it on mp3, no problem, but I'd really love to have 'Switch Lock' by Future Funk (plastic city) on vinyl. It got a repress in 2000 too, but I was asleep that weekend I guess.

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.

― tylero, Monday, 15 September 2003 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Hansi, "Automobile". I'm starting to doubt that it ever existed. Not that it's a masterpiece or anything but I just need proof that I haven't lost my mind!
-- dave q (scrape10...), October 28th, 2002.

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

― dave q, Monday, 15 September 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

coat hanger;
you're looking for SMOKE CITY's

Flying Away album. been a while since i listened, but methinks the song is "mr georgeous (and miss curvaceous)".

― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Monday, 15 September 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Gin Sonic's cover of France Gall's "Laisse Tomber Les Filles"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 September 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the name of that bukka white song is actually "parchman farm blues". truly amazing song.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex...I'm pretty sure "Moustachioed Daughters" is the last track on "Urban Spaceman", which I have on compact disc via One Way Records. Not extra hard to find.

― Abbitt, Friday, 24 September 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, be that as it may, Abbitt....the only Bonzo Dog Band discs I've ever been able to find here in NYC have been compilation discs. I could always try ebay or some such, but that can be so much work....especially for simply one single track.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I could just burn it & mail you a copy - e-mail me if you want.
"To choose another's form and make it...THINE!" It's awesome.

― Abbitt, Friday, 24 September 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

You'l' be glad if you take me up on this because "We Are Normal" is on the album and it's also a hilarious sort of mindfuck.

― Abbitt, Friday, 24 September 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone out there have a copy of an lp by the German new wave band Chrisma called "Chinese Restaurant"? It has a song called "Black Silk Stockings" that i have been searching for for YEARS. I have other Chrisma lps but they are not The One and Only thing I'm seeking. Who's got it?

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.

― Drew Daniel, Friday, 24 September 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this Bonzo Dog Band not on slsk? I tend to like scary/disturbing stuff, too.

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.

― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, the woman did have a British accent of some type.

― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I had an old Restless/BarNone casette comp with a song called Sushi Baby. (circa 1990?) A quick Google tells me the woman's name who sang it was Bianca Flystrip Miller and the lyrics went:

"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?

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

sheesh. spelled cassette wrong TWICE in that post. it's late, i'll blame it on that

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

bianca flystrip miller is a great name.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone up there shouted WFMU -- this one is also from 'FMU (Jersey Reprazent!)

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.

― Hurting, Friday, 24 September 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Two more:

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.

― Hurting, Friday, 24 September 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, so it's not just one song. It's an album. Totally 100% inaccessible, it might as well have never existed. I've searched for it periodically since I first saw it probably ~8 years ago: http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/page/skylab.html#CRY , but I've more or less given up hope now. It probably wasn't that great anyway... but I wanted it so bad when I heard those samples.

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.

― vb, Friday, 24 September 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

a filthy early 80's rap song called "Nissans" by someone who, in the rap, refers to himself as Daryl Mac(no not Run DMC). My friend introduced me to rap by making tapes off the first and only hip hop station in L.A. at the time(legendary K-DAY), which I couldn't pick up cos I lived close to the mountains. This song was in among the Whodini and Fat Boys and whatnot, sadly the tape disintegrated c. 87 or so. Googling and soulseeking turns up nothing.

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.

― tremendoidob, Friday, 24 September 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

[pauls00:]
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.

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.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay the Brits ought to be out now. Can you help me with the track I described above? Just thought I'd ask. Thanks.

― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

mine: its a 60's song i think. its a rather jolly ode to the joys of summer. the last line of the chorus goes "...all over town, old people dying!"

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

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

Hey all, i am looking for an early - mid 90's techno song that has a sample of Darth Vader Saying "Perhaps i can find new ways to Motivate them" in it. Anyone have any ideas on what song this is?

― Sean C., Friday, 18 March 2005 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Something that sounds a bit like Moloko (the voice), the music is a bit samba-y and the lyrics are about speaking Brazilian Portuguese and mention a girl on a beach...

Is it maybe "Baby" by Os Mutantes?

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 18 March 2005 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey all, i am looking for an early - mid 90's techno song that has a sample of Darth Vader Saying "Perhaps i can find new ways to Motivate them" in it. Anyone have any ideas on what song this is?

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

― willem (willem), Friday, 18 March 2005 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

a friend of mine is searching for "Cindy so loud" by Darlin (after being described as "daft punk" Darlin became...), can anyone help out?

― willem (willem), Friday, 18 March 2005 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Gravel, "No Stone Unturned"

― Melson (ArchCarrier), Friday, 18 March 2005 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of Norwegian stuff.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 March 2005 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Some electroclashy song with female vocals I heard at Strange Fruit c2002. Also heard it in a shoe shop in Boston, Ma, so it must have been fairly successful, but I've never worked out what it was, and now I can't remember any of the lyrics so I'll probably never find it unless I hear it playing again somewhere.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Velvet Underground - Ride into the Sun (instrumental version). It was my favourite song in the world for a while (and that was in the days when I made lists of my favourite songs in the world) but I only had it on a long-departed compilation tape. I don't suppose anyone wants to mail me the mp3, do they?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 18 March 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought that started with the guitar? Maybe it's a different version.

― Ther Return of the Son of Dadrockismus (Dada), Friday, 18 March 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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