Song ID - 80's club hit

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This song was played pretty often in clubs in the mid-80s .. I just thought of it today though, and it struck me that I don't think I ever knew who it was or what it was called. (or maybe I did and completely forgot.)

It's not a particularly great song either .. just one I can't seem to fully remember.

It has similar sound to Blue Monday (I think) .. and NO, it's not The Beach, Einstein. I don't remember it having any words or much else besides the bassline & some filler. (but my memory is fuzzy.)

Here's the best I can remember .. synth used for bassline:

mmm BOW mmm BOWBOW
mmm BOW mmm BOWBOW
mmm BOW mmm BOWBOW
..ad infinitum ..

that's all I can remember... the "mmm"s were on the upbeat and the "BOW"s were on the beat (except for the last one, which was on the upbeat.) I don't know how to represent that in musical notation .. but 4/4 time, "BOW"s on the 1 and 2 ..

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Looks like "Oh Yeah", by the Swiss group Yello. From 1987 if i remember correctly.

― NUXX (NUXX), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

spot on from the desciption nuxx .. thats gotta be it. great track from their best album 'stella'.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope.. Forgot to mention .. it's not that either.. Good guess though. That is what it sounds like I'm describing.

The synth/bass thing sounds kinda like someone burping, if that helps in any way.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

There was another one that went "Vibrationnnnn Vibrationnnnn Vibrationnnnn Vibrationnnnn" from around 1989/1990

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave, I totally know the song you're thinking of. I can hear it in my head. But I don't know what it is! Will think about it more...

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm guessing it was big around 1984-86? , by the way...

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Ministry, "Everyday is Halloween" (1984)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

jaymc completely OTM.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

That's it .. I just listened to a clip on Amazon .. Thanks. .. And my recollection seems to be pretty accurate -> Blue Monday + Oh Yeah ...

Thanks...

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, on second listen, my description was crap...

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

dave, was there a lot of "CHIK....... CHIKA CHIKAAAAAAAAW" in the song? If so, "Oh Yeah".

or was there a lot of "WOI KONT THAY SAY THEY'RE JUZ LOIK MAY?". If so, "Everyday is Halloween"

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

ah, never mind...

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG DB plz submit that to a lyrics site ok thx

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

MINISTRY? The same Ministry of NWO and "Just one fix"? I never would have imagined could sound like New Order.

― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, in that case I urge you to seek out their tune "Revenge" (which makes New Order sound like "New World Order").

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Early- and mid-period Ministry COMPLETELY KICKS THE ASS of the Ministry that everyone knows about.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan OTM (with the possible exception of that Cold Life EP, which never did it for me even as a sullen youth).

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Such beautiful wrongness, Dan.
You did it again
You did it again
You did it again and again

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoa whoa

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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