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 (six years ago) link
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 (five 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 (three 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
where did you first hear it ?
― budo jeru, Monday, 21 September 2020 17:23 (three 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 (three years ago) link
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 feelVocals were kinda talky, soft spokenMay 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
"Up on Cripple Creek," by The Band?
― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Monday, 16 January 2023 01:07 (one year 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 (ten months ago) link
hear it*
elvis crespo - "suavemente"?
― c u (crüt), Saturday, 8 July 2023 17:01 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link
Not “Smooth,” by Santana (ft. Rob Thomas)?
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Saturday, 8 July 2023 17:24 (ten months ago) link
(I know that’s not Spanish vox…)
nope! thanks though
― budo jeru, Saturday, 8 July 2023 18:38 (ten months ago) link
The Blackout Allstars - "I Like It (Like That)"?
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Sunday, 9 July 2023 18:01 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link
And a number of xp Tracer Hand — Drivin N Cryin “Chain Reaction”?
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 22:42 (ten months ago) link
fucking hell that's it!!!!
GAUHHH!!!
thank you
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 22:46 (ten months 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 (nine months 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 (nine months 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 (nine months 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 (two months ago) link
It appears to be "Váyase al monte" performed by the Perez Prado Orchestra
― Josefa, Monday, 4 March 2024 18:07 (two months ago) link
Thank you! Source?
― budo jeru, Monday, 4 March 2024 20:54 (two 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 (two months ago) link
i was thinking of the Arsenio tune too! thanks for the link.
― budo jeru, Monday, 4 March 2024 21:26 (two months ago) link