Can Anyone Identify This Song?!

Can Anyone help identify this song, band, era, anything? Been searching for a while to no avail. Shazam has yielded no results, nor have internet lyric searches. Someone out there has got to know. Any help is greatly appreciated.

The only thing i know is that it was recorded before 1997. Sounds like it may be live, but could also just be tape hiss/recording quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4pmaY6EQnA

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That's Benny and the Jets by En Vogue

good one.

It sound like an early live b-side by a band that would be on a razorcake podcast.

Yeah, i kinda thought that maybe it was the band Weston, but searching through track lists of their discography and trying to hunt down singles information has turned up nothing. It kind of reminds me of the Replacements somehow as well. But i don't think it is.

For what it's worth, I listened to tracks by The Oysters, Grabass Charlestons, Copyrights, Knockouts, Pedaljets, Dillinger Four, Knockout Pills, Arrivals, Tiltwheel, Squirrel Bait, and whatever else came to mind earlier this afternoon. I thought about Soul Asylum and The Dogmatics, and some bands from New Jersey.

Not a bad way to waste an afternoon investigating a band with two rough vocalists doing a pop punk song that could be from the mid-west or somewhere similar sometime between 1986 and 2000.

I think you're on the right path with Soul Asylum. Sounds just like a song they'd write, but that's not them.

for what it's worth, a band like connections could've written and recorded pretty much that exact song in 2013. they didn't, but they could've.

Hey Zach, thanks for the ideas. It's definitely not D4 or Squirrel Bait, but yeah definitely has a pop-punk flavor and definitely reminds me of something from the mid-west. Sounds like it came from late-80's to Mid-90's. This has been eluding me (as well as everyone I've ever played it for, for almost a decade now). Pretty amazing. If you've got any other ideas of where else i can try to post it or any music trivia genius who might know, please lemme know.

thanks again for all your suggestions!

Doughboys? Big Drill Car?

Neither of those ideas seem to fit, but thanks, ringworm. Anyone know of any databases/services that might be better at interpreting this sample than Shazam? There's gotta be some scientific approach that i'm missing here.

Who ever it is, they really sound a lot like Moving Targets.

tried Soundhound? i like it better than Shazam.

thanks for the tip about soundHound. Just downloaded it and tried, but alas no luck

Not a song but a band: early-mid 2000s Italian psych band strongly influenced by the Small Faces, The Move, I think their name was a woman's name, like 'Helen (Something)'. It's driving me nuts

Jennifer Gentle?

THAT'S IT!

Thank you xx

looks like they've been going strong and only released something last month!

Googling them tells me that their name is taken from a line from "Lucifer Sam" by Pink Floyd, which was itself a reference to Syd's girlfriend at the time.