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i've been unsuccessfully trying to find a version of "I Shall Be Released". apparantly there are over 80 different recordings of this song, way too many to search out on my connection.
The version i'm looking for was performed by (as i remember) a man, sounding not too dissimilar to paul weller, with an acoustic guitar.
Any ideas?

Slump Man (Slump Man), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

telly savalas?

James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

telly savalas sings songs??
are they good?
but no, it's not him.

Slump Man (Slump Man), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Another song ID, please!

Can someone please tell me the song which is being parodied in the new Halifax advert? Where they're all dancing around Bollywood style to "Make your money WORK just a little bit, SAVE just a little bit, BLAH just a little bit" or whatever it is. It's driving me nuts, I know I should know it, but I've got no clue.

Thanks...

kate, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't seen the ad but that sounds like Liberty X.

JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh my god. I am so ashamed. I think I like a Liberty X track. Shoot me now.

Well, at least I like the Halifax version!

kate, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 09:43 (nineteen years ago) link

it's ok Kate, that's easily the best song Liberty X have in their repertoire...but that shouldn't make you shy away from getting the album (and then lending it to me).

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Dude, when YOU buy the album, you may make me a mixtape that has the song on it. ;-)

kate, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 10:03 (nineteen years ago) link

and then fill the rest with Avril and Pulp, right? Done!

Although...what is this "tape" of which you speak? I'm not sure I have a clue what that is.

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link

It's those fings wot us luddites who don't have minidiscs or CD-burners use! Cor blimey, gov!

kate, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I can testify that the Liberty X LP is a thing of great pop-ness, my wife never stops playing it, and I'm always having to chuck it out of the CD player to put something else on. But I'm not averse to it. Wish it had that Richard X / Liberty X "Being Nobody" mix on it though - expect a 'special edition' in the shops by July...

Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link

five years pass...

Man, what the hell is that music playing at 15:40 that sounds so familiar that it's driving me nuts.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5144419865661936788&ei=NBgSStqYPIf8rgK0ypkO&q=landscape+horizons+&hl=en

since that probably won't embed, here's a link

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5144419865661936788&ei=NBgSStqYPIf8rgK0ypkO&q=landscape+horizons+&hl=en

Edward Saroyan, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link

Since when did ILX automatically hyperlink addresses, that is really useful!

Edward Saroyan, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link

omg what is it?! my first thought is an interlude off some grandaddy album.

massive dynamic lady (ledge), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link

i've been unsuccessfully trying to find a version of "I Shall Be Released". apparantly there are over 80 different recordings of this song, way too many to search out on my connection.
The version i'm looking for was performed by (as i remember) a man, sounding not too dissimilar to paul weller, with an acoustic guitar.
Any ideas?
― Slump Man (Slump Man), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 19:12 (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, it's Tom Robinson Band, I reckons. B-side to "2-4-6-8"

Mark G, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link

xp, it ain't off 'under the western freeway'.

massive dynamic lady (ledge), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 09:03 (thirteen years ago) link

nor 'the sophtware slump'.

massive dynamic lady (ledge), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 10:28 (thirteen years ago) link

i tried to shazam it but couldn't figure out where the mic in my phone is, to hold the earbud against.

massive dynamic lady (ledge), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link

Xposts: Ah yes, that makes so much sense, thanks.

Edward Saroyan, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link

It is 'I Collect Coins' by Mercury Rev off Deserter's Songs. xp again.

massive dynamic lady (ledge), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link

What is the original synth pop tune that is sampled in the track playing in this vid?

The answer is something really obvious, but I can't get it in my head.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link

Anyone?

Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 06:51 (thirteen years ago) link

Trans X - Living On Video?

touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link

That's it, thanks!

Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 09:34 (thirteen years ago) link

six months pass...

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 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

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 (twelve years ago) link

Tracy Chapman?

shanti ram emmanuel (corey), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:02 (twelve years ago) link

no she's white

no hipster hats (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:03 (twelve years ago) link

Alannah Myles?

shanti ram emmanuel (corey), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:05 (twelve years ago) link

nope :(

no hipster hats (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:06 (twelve years ago) link

bonnie tyler?

e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:09 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, most likely.

Mark G, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:41 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link

Heart?

Mark G, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:00 (twelve years ago) link

Either "It's A Heartache" or "Bette Davis Eyes"?

would like a calmer set (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:02 (twelve years ago) link

TLI!

Mark G, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:06 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link

mm hmm.

Mark G, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:16 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7e75Mig25E

would like a calmer set (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:18 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P8UxneDJE

shanti ram emmanuel (corey), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:21 (twelve years ago) link

oh, not a one-hit wonder

shanti ram emmanuel (corey), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:22 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAAldg3I3uQ

would like a calmer set (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:30 (twelve years ago) link

HUH. Do I wanna go OUT??

shanti ram emmanuel (corey), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:30 (twelve years ago) link

Bette Davis Eyes! THANK YOU!!

no hipster hats (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 17:37 (twelve years ago) link

four months pass...

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 (eleven years ago) link

four months pass...

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 (eleven years ago) link

ten months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZSmGaFBmk
the peppy, rhythmic, flute-y instrumental jam at the start
so good!

blossom smulch (schlump), Sunday, 17 June 2012 11:37 (ten years ago) link

Zap Mama - Babanzele

She Got the Shakes, Sunday, 17 June 2012 13:19 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link

six months pass...

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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link

two months pass...

heard a tale the other day
strangest one i ever knew
up in the hills and through the trees
his memory still haunting me

???? helping out a friend here

the world's most impertinent web designer (sleeve), Thursday, 28 March 2013 02:25 (ten years ago) link

Google is your friend too, you know.

breastcrawl, Thursday, 28 March 2013 08:11 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pHzemDZ588

how's life, Thursday, 28 March 2013 08:23 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link

also THANK YOU Mr. How's Life

the world's most impertinent web designer (sleeve), Friday, 29 March 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link

two years pass...

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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link

seven months pass...

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 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

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 (six years ago) link

Or maybe it's "my whole life"?

how's life, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:09 (six years ago) link

Bouncy little lead synth line.

how's life, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:10 (six years ago) link

psychedelic furs - love my way (?)

brimstead, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:24 (six years ago) link

You nailed it! I didn't even get the words remotely right.

how's life, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 00:29 (six years ago) link

six months pass...

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 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

Early 80s track. Band and title are wrong. Possibly Canadian. Anyone recognise?

https://soundcloud.com/treatment-x/da-da-band-everything-is-right

everything, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:01 (four years ago) link

eight months pass...

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 go
got 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link

one year passes...
three months pass...

https://vocaroo.com/d2XWzhyWDDB

beautiful obscure French chanson.

Ludo, Monday, 21 September 2020 15:14 (two years ago) link

amazing song

budo jeru, Monday, 21 September 2020 16:11 (two 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 (two years ago) link

where did you first hear it ?

budo jeru, Monday, 21 September 2020 17:23 (two years ago) link

asking for a friend! i said i'd put the link up on ILX the all-knowing forum :P

Ludo, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 10:44 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Was in the grocery and heard a (classic rock?) song following The Eagles "Already Gone". I've definitely heard it before but it was being played at a volume that made it hard for me to discern it completely. Distinctions:

Slow-tempo, kinda "soft shoe" country rock feel
Vocals were kinda talky, soft spoken
May have had a female backing vocalist enunciating at times (with harmony?)
The chorus had a slide guitar hook that went like (in key of C): C (hold) C-B-C-G-E (hold) and would repeat after some soft song words

Now the reason I mentioned "Already Gone" is that this song shares a kinship with that song, maybe it's slower/softer cousin if that makes sense.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 16:38 (two years ago) link

whoops the notes of the slide guitar chorus hook should be: C (hold) C-B-C-E-G (hold)

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 19:35 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Help! What song is in the first 45 seconds of this video?

https://www.facebook.com/kait.midgett/videos/10224531063842667/

city worker, Sunday, 8 November 2020 15:50 (two years ago) link

two years pass...

heard while pooping at a Park & Ride in late 2021: an early-to-mid-'70s singer-songwriter/folk-pop song. male vocals with maybe a bit of a country twang; no prominent vocal harmonies iirc. the chorus is something along the lines of 'I don't have to [verb], she [verbs]', but I'm hazy on what exactly she does on his behalf. 'I don't need to worry, she worries for me' would kinda make sense, but it's not that

I sat inside the same Park & Ride a few months ago and heard Boz Scaggs, Paul Simon, and Lobo's Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend, which is along the same lines stylistically. it was some oldies station on Sirius

any ideas?

astor pizzarolla (unregistered), Sunday, 15 January 2023 23:38 (two months ago) link

"Up on Cripple Creek," by The Band?

Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Monday, 16 January 2023 01:07 (two months 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 (two months ago) link

one month passes...

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 (two weeks ago) link


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