Identify a song

(I'm sure Soca is the right name for this stuff, but at the moment it sounds like nothing so much as an Irish drinking song. Maybe you only get this effect during northern winters)

I'm a long way from being an expert but yeah Caribbean musics is basically my main weapon against living on the freezing Northeast coast of a god-forsaken heritage themepark between September and mid-July.

Unexpected bonus: I accidentally skipped forward 'Take Your Time Do It Rite' by something called Eye Candy/Nikman, which is just great and duly acquired. It also sounds quite familiar - I suspect Puddin & Souse is the very tape my bus driver was jammin' that day

This may be impossible: I've been searching for years for a reggae record I heard on a jukebox while in Grand Cayman. My recollections:

Artist was Brother D.

Title was "Nenga Nenga" (there could be an "h" on the end of those Nengas...)

One snippet of the verse went, "And when you come for a date, and you (something something) late, Nenga Nenga Nenga aa-ee-yah...

Googling provides nothing, including what "Nenga Nenga" might mean, in Jamaican patois or otherwise. Of course, I could be misremembering virtually all of this...

And I was in the Caymans in 1986, so it's from that era or earlier. The overall vibe is a bit like "Youth of Eglington" by Black Uhuru.

Holy freakin' crap, found it!!! Now I'm off to purchase a copy! Respelling a few things was crucial:

When you hear the name Brother Dee two songs immediately come to mind, "Nengeh Nengeh" and "Bigger Boss," two of the most popular recordings in the history of Jamaican music.

The guitar styling of Dwight Pinkney (Brother Dee's real name) have been a part of recorded Jamaican music since the earliest years of Ska. Dwight's first professional band THE SHARKS recorded many Jamaican number one hits at Coxsone's studio...

The era of the late 70's through to the 90's saw a band called Roots Radics...

Etc, etc, etc.

can anybody identify the song playing at 14:30 in the clip below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2C3gn-Oca0

ah nm Gary Byrd

Heard a mid-90s alt-rock song by a female artist in the check-out line at the grocery store the other day. Sounded like a harder Liz Phair or Veruca Salt song, but not any song that I knew by them. It was decent, but the outro had this very repetitive dweedly-dweedly guitar solo that seemed pretty annoying in context. It was over before I had a chance open up Soundhound.

come on, you have to give us more than that

Sorry, I was talking to the cashier when I noticed it during the vocal part, waiting for my receipt when the solo started, and struggled to get my phone out before the song was over. To further expand on the guitar solo thing, it was a brief figure, just a few bars, full of hammer-ons and pull-offs or tapping that got repeated over and over again.

Tracy Bonham? K's Choice?

Those would definitely fit in genre-wise, but I'm not really familiar with much of their work.

Lyrics:

time is always forever changing
though i'm not aging
like shadows on the wall

Sounds a bit like Modern English. Anyone?

https://soundcloud.com/nivek-tek/john-kesslerariel-rechtshaid-and-justin-raisen-im-not-there

Sad! Though I suspected it might be new.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd0xG1FHxtM
^^tune that starts around 5:07 in this thrilling readalong does not seem to be on the official Mancini score - any ideas for what it might be? sounds a bit like the Giana Sisters theme

there's a flute-heavy instrumental that I associate with 70s ontario public broadcasting bumpers (is that even a thing?)
that sounds kind of like "the fool on the hill" but it's not "the fool on the hill" -- any guesses?

A song from mid-to-late eighties, I think. It has a proto-housey/synth pop backing, on top of which a woman describes all sorts of sexual activities she enjoys in a highly graphic way, using a lot of lewd words.

Sex (I'm a...) by Berlin?

No, it's not that... The song I'm talking about has more obscene lyrics, with plenty of F-words etc.

And IIRC the vocals were (mostly) spoken word, not sung.

Lords of Acid - I Sit on Acid?

(‘96 extended remix in particular)

No, it's not that either. IIRC the track is by a solo female artist, or at least released under a name that sounds like a solo artist. Also, I think it's someone fairly obscure, not anyone as well known as Lords of Acid. I'm fairly sure on ILM posted a Youtube link to the track, before that I'd never heard of it nor of the artist.

1992, but something off Jeannette Katt's Pink Mischief?

Karen Finley?

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/karen-finley/tales-of-taboo-belgian-waffles-the-yam-jam-the-naked-truth/

Synth Punk / 80's / Spoken Word by a Woman / Graphic, Lewd Lyrics

Oh man. I forgot about Karen Finley.

Yes, thank you, Moka! It was "Tales of Taboo" by Karen Finley I was looking for.

You’re welcome. It’s perhaps one of the most vulgar songs I’ve ever heard so it was the first single that came to mind based on your description.

1980s aor ballad with the chorus:

Love you!
*pause*
Love you!
*pause*
Love you!

Still can't find Canadian public TV song that isn't "fool on the hill" but
this is what I remember it sounding like:

https://vocaroo.com/eNtJbpieUJh

xp: This turned out to be Made to Love You by Gary Wright, off of The Dream Weaver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRgNDS7x4A

In the film Suburbia there's a horrible scratchy punk tune that directly quotes the intro to Yes' Roundabout, any ideas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMEWO8vNGEQ

There is a song I used to hear in the playlist at my old job, it had some kind of scat vocal and it was clearly the song that satan is singing to himself as he dances around your newly arrived soul when you get to hell. Any ideas?

I strongly doubt it's what you're looking for, but just from reading that description I now have Hell by the Squirrel Nut Zippers stuck in my head.

XXP - Thanks Dan!

Descent into the Inferno by Scraping Foetus off the Wheel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tKMo1H4zQ

No, it’s a wordless scat, like “dikadikadikadik-ah-ah” over and over again.

The satan thing was just what I pictured when I heard it.

Korn - Twist

Nope, it was more, sort of jazzy, I think, definitely not nu-metal. And the scat vocals, while not too far off from that, were a little more atmospheric and less intense.

I would have heard this song back in the mid-2000s but I don’t know how old it was at the time.

OK

I could've just Shazam'd it but there's a song that I don't actually know who it is and I hear it at least once a month (at the bar) and at every wedding and it's driving me crazy. It's like indie-jump-up music that has the syncopated feel of "Last Night" by The Strokes (but I think it's older) or "Valerie" by The Zutons (but faster) and has shiny late-90s production. The key lyric is when it slips into a Robert Smith moment and the singer sings "ba ba ba ba ba-da baa ba-da-ba ba ba ba-da baaa" over e-minor into F-major

This is not an admission of enjoyment of said song it just feels ubiquitous and yet I don't know who it is btw

That sounds like it might be The Jam's 'A Town Called Malice'?

Likely 2000s techno / electro tune, man with an English accent saying something like "I'm a cog / I'm a wheel / I'm a part of the machine". I'm almost certain the tune speeds up at some point.

An 80s girlpop hit that was on heavy rotation when I was a kid, a really big track. The melody is virtually identical to the opening lines of Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me”. It’s killing me! What’s that song?

FOUND IT, duh. Amy Grant “Baby, Baby”

The other day I heard the original song that gets sampled at the beginning of this tune, but didn't get a chance to note it down. Anyone know?

Spectre - Covert Dub

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