That's it, thanks!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard a song in a grocery store last week. I am fairly ignorant about pop music - before I started trying to track this song down I wouldn't have known the difference between Rihanna and Lady Gaga - and I don't know any of the lyrics.
- more R&B than anything, but with a slow 4/4 kick dance beat - possibly around 110bpm- female singing, possibly some auto-tune, but it was subtle.- T.I. style "heyy" "ooohhh"s every few lines.
this description sound a lot like T.I.'s Live Your Life, but I'm certain that this wasn't the song, both because the beat is way different, and because I had heard the T.I. song before, and feel I would have recognized it immediately. I also remember it being faster and more upbeat than Live Your Life is. I've listened to every remix of Live Your Life I could find, but all of them seemed too fast and trancey. It was definitely a good club song, though.
I've been through all of the iTunes top charts, and I just don't hear it. I ask myself what could be big enough to be on the grocery store's satellite radio feed, but isn't on any iTunes Top Charts?
― Buck Utah (rockapads), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
okay this is REALLY obvious, but help
REALLY popular 80s rock song by female vocalist, with deep/husky voice.. think she was a one or two hit wonder
I have the song in my iTunes but I can't remember her name/what it's called right now so I can't find it and it's in my head
― no hipster hats (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Tracy Chapman?
― shanti ram emmanuel (corey), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
no she's white
― no hipster hats (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Alannah Myles?
― shanti ram emmanuel (corey), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
nope :(
― no hipster hats (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
bonnie tyler?
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, most likely.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
nope...okay it may actually be early 90s
i remember the video she had big blonde hair, and there was fog.. or something..maybe?
― no hipster hats (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Heart?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Either "It's A Heartache" or "Bette Davis Eyes"?
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
TLI!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
What's TLI? Too Little Information?
Cuz yeah, I'm lolling at she had big blonde hair, and there was fog.. or something..maybe?
― The animal magnetism of Tim Pawlenty (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
mm hmm.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7e75Mig25E
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P8UxneDJE
― shanti ram emmanuel (corey), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, not a one-hit wonder
― shanti ram emmanuel (corey), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
who did and/or what is the name of that spacey light housey song from ten years ago or so where the vocals (sung by a woman) are all about "time"? does that ring any bells for anyone, cos it bugs me that i can't figure out what it is?@
― beggin' strips continuum (del), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAAldg3I3uQ
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
HUH. Do I wanna go OUT??
― shanti ram emmanuel (corey), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Bette Davis Eyes! THANK YOU!!
― no hipster hats (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Uh, heard a weird, druggy, slow cover of Dawn Penn's "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)" on KCSB today and their site is down so I can't check the playlists - any ideas? Female vocals. I think.
― GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
A friend describes to me a vaguely bluesy song he heard on KZXK (excellent commercial free classic rock format out of Doney Park, AZ) with lyrics that go something like "I got love in my heart for drugs". He says "Shoot me up with soul" was another line. Google has been no help, and of course the radio station barely has any web presence- though I did find it is owned by a very interesting man named Ted Tucker. I think he creates all the playlists, but I can't find much information on him, either. Please help?
― boongish, Monday, 15 August 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZSmGaFBmkthe peppy, rhythmic, flute-y instrumental jam at the startso good!
― blossom smulch (schlump), Sunday, 17 June 2012 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
Zap Mama - Babanzele
― She Got the Shakes, Sunday, 17 June 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
oh man thank you! i really didn't think that was enough to go on. & am psyched to see there's an ILX thread. xxx
― blossom smulch (schlump), Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
wasn't there some pop rap song with a verse that ended
for real? for really real? for really real?
like tribe called quest or pharcyde or something like that?
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
For ever? For ever ever? For ever ever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxAiK6VnXw
2:38
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
heard a tale the other daystrangest one i ever knewup in the hills and through the treeshis memory still haunting me
???? helping out a friend here
― the world's most impertinent web designer (sleeve), Thursday, 28 March 2013 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
Google is your friend too, you know.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 28 March 2013 08:11 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pHzemDZ588
― how's life, Thursday, 28 March 2013 08:23 (eleven years ago) link
god dammit I have that record! and my friend swore he tried Google, just bein' lazy xp
― the world's most impertinent web designer (sleeve), Friday, 29 March 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
also THANK YOU Mr. How's Life
― the world's most impertinent web designer (sleeve), Friday, 29 March 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
I woke up with the beginning of a piece of music I can't quite place in my head.it's a two chord piano sequence, similar to the piano in James Blake's 'Limit To Your Love' but it's not that song. I'm almost certain it's the lead track from an album from an established act that came out within the last ten years. at first I thought it might Ambulance by Blur because the chord sequence is similar, but there's no piano in that song. I know that's vague. but can anyone help?
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Saturday, 23 January 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
cant make out the vocals enough to start searching possible titles on this little fellow on the green
http://www100.zippyshare.com/v/tu7JXAbi/file.html
― saer, Sunday, 24 January 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
Female singer, new wave song recorded from Canadian radio in the early 80s sometime and mislabelled apparently. Any ideas?
https://soundcloud.com/treatment-x/da-da-band-everything-is-right
― everything, Friday, 2 September 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
late 80s early 90s mid-tempo radio synthpop. mumbly, breathy male lyrics. singing something like "alllll myyyy liiiife" or "allll myyy miiiind" or possibly both?
― how's life, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
Or maybe it's "my whole life"?
― how's life, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
Bouncy little lead synth line.
― how's life, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link
psychedelic furs - love my way (?)
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
You nailed it! I didn't even get the words remotely right.
― how's life, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:29 (seven years ago) link
yesterday i was listening to a spotify playlist, and after the playlist ended it kept going on into the mystery bonus radio thing that takes the last few songs in the playlist and tries to find other songs in the same vein.
so a song came on that i wasn't familiar with. i didn't catch the artist but the title was something close to "indian reservation", and the lyrics were mostly about going back to missouri. it sounded like it was from the late 60s or early 70s, kind of in the r&b/soul style, mid-tempo, chill.
anyone know it? i tried to look back in my spotify listening history on my phone but it only shows the songs from the playlist i was listening to, not the extended bonus radio tracks that played afterward.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 May 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
Early 80s track. Band and title are wrong. Possibly Canadian. Anyone recognise?
― everything, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
heard while shopping: a late '70s/early '80s (?) funk song with a smooth male vocalist and a chorus that goes something like this:
____________ let you gogot to get below
the first line might end with "let this go", and the second line might be "[something something] get low" (proto Lil Jon?), but the exact wording eludes me, and google isn't helping so far. any ideas?
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Friday, 19 April 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link
fyi it was Lenny Kravitz's 2018 single Low. hurts 2 get kravitzed so hard :(
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Monday, 22 April 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EldVJhGZpDc
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Thursday, 4 June 2020 08:51 (four years ago) link
https://vocaroo.com/d2XWzhyWDDB
beautiful obscure French chanson.
― Ludo, Monday, 21 September 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
amazing song
― budo jeru, Monday, 21 September 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
have been trying word combinations, but nobody seems to have added the lyrics somewhere, anywhere, online. :o
― Ludo, Monday, 21 September 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
that's not it, but thanks for trying
it's a lot mellower and less rockin' than that Band song, though not necessarily acoustic. think Gordon Lightfoot or Don McLean
― astor pizzarolla (unregistered), Monday, 16 January 2023 01:45 (one year ago) link
a hard rock song whose chorus goes
"it's a chain reaction / everybody talkin / it's a chain reaction"
probably... 1990 or so? i want to say it's somebody like warrant, or white trash, or cinderella but i cannot find it at all. i managed to dig up a video by long-forgotten hard rockers "harlow" who have a song called chain reaction but nope
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
a salsa-inspired latin crossover hit from the '90s. sounds a lot like marc anthony's "i need to know". big brassy horn section with a very infectious hook that gets repeated throughout the song.
pretty sure it's spanish vocals.
was a huge hit and you still here it being played.
― budo jeru, Saturday, 8 July 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
hear it*
elvis crespo - "suavemente"?
― c u (crüt), Saturday, 8 July 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
no, it's more midtempo, closer in tempo and feel to "i need to know"
― budo jeru, Saturday, 8 July 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
Not “Smooth,” by Santana (ft. Rob Thomas)?
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Saturday, 8 July 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
(I know that’s not Spanish vox…)
nope! thanks though
― budo jeru, Saturday, 8 July 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
The Blackout Allstars - "I Like It (Like That)"?
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Sunday, 9 July 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
nope.
starting to drive me crazy. i might have to record a little clip of the melody.
― budo jeru, Sunday, 9 July 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
sorry to interrupt one request with another, but this has been bugging me for years - indie pop / 60's motown with what i can only describe as the "columbian necktie" drumbeat, female vox - shangri-las / shop assistants / aislers set type of thing - verse chorus verse chorus then repeats "only boy" or "lonely boy" till the endany ideas?
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Monday, 10 July 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link
budo j, is this too obvious?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mPV9f6tGWI
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 10 July 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
xp massaman this is a long shot as “Johnny” doesn’t sound much like “lonely” or “only,” but some of the other elements are there — perhaps “Johnny Boy Theme” by Johnny Boy?
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 22:26 (one year ago) link
xp i've gone through MA's entire catalogue at this point and i'm pretty sure he didn't do the song i'm thinking of.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link
And a number of xp Tracer Hand — Drivin N Cryin “Chain Reaction”?
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 22:42 (one year ago) link
fucking hell that's it!!!!
GAUHHH!!!
thank you
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
cmon how, like, spin doctors is that song
early rejecter - i think you might have it! - thank you! - funny how my memory had morphed it into something different, tho, so now i have to overcome the urge to continue looking for the imaginary song that never existed >doh!<
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 13 July 2023 09:12 (one year ago) link
I’ve definitely had that experience. Anyway if you’re not familiar with them be sure to check out “You Are the Generation that Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve.” That one’s a classic.
― early rejecter, Friday, 14 July 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link
i realized my brain was hearing a spanish-language salsa cover of outkast's "the way you move"
whether that actually exists or was created by my brain is a different question
― budo jeru, Friday, 21 July 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link
can anyone help me ID the song that starts at 19:30 here? or perhaps a spanish speaker could help me transcribe the lyrics, which would be a start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sPWoXygFW4
― budo jeru, Monday, 4 March 2024 16:33 (six months ago) link
It appears to be "Váyase al monte" performed by the Perez Prado Orchestra
― Josefa, Monday, 4 March 2024 18:07 (six months ago) link
Thank you! Source?
― budo jeru, Monday, 4 March 2024 20:54 (six months ago) link
https://anttialanenfilmdiary.blogspot.com/2018/06/victimas-del-pecado-victims-of-sin.html
I could hear the words of the refrain of the song, but that's a typical refrain from guajiras and you'll find songs out there with similar titles, e.g. Arsenio Rodriguez's "Vaya P'al Monte" so luckily I eventually stumbled across that blogpost. The Pérez Prado rendition appears to be pretty obscure.... I didn't know it.
― Josefa, Monday, 4 March 2024 21:04 (six months ago) link
i was thinking of the Arsenio tune too! thanks for the link.
― budo jeru, Monday, 4 March 2024 21:26 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZOep0ncI6c
Probably a long shot, but I am going to post this here in case someone recognises it. New wave/synth pop/dark wave-type song taped off San Francisco radio station Quake in 1982. Thought to have been recorded around that time. People have been searching for years but nobody has figured it out yet. Could be a local San Francisco band. I think it's quite a cool track that's worth a listen anyway, so I will share it here.
― mirostones, Friday, 14 June 2024 18:33 (three months ago) link