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miss wonderstarr

08:21 / 24.09.06

Sorry, I didn't see the Paul Hardcastle link. That sample isn't working for me but I will try to download the track. (I quite fancy hearing "The Wizard" again anyway!)

I suspect it isn't Hardcastle, from what I know of his sound, but thanks... interesting detection.

miss wonderstarr

08:52 / 24.09.06

...it seems to be an instrumental!

paranoidwriter waves hello

09:58 / 24.09.06

Mist, I could kiss you.

An ex of mine gave me two tapes of Al di Meola's music*, but hir handwriting made the "o" and "l" look like a "d". No wonder I've never been able to find Al di Meda in the shops (I kept forgetting to ask my ex where ze'd got the music from...)

I now feel both foolish and informed at the same time. Story of my life?

*I've listened to them so much, they've gone mega-hissy.

19:03 / 14.10.06

can anyone go look at l-dot's myspace and tell me what the tune is playing under his and westwood's chatter before the spitting?

it has a pretty obvious sample of please Mr postman, but that's as close as i've got.

17:46 / 17.10.06

I swear I heard a pop/folk cover of "Ghetto Superstar" the other day, or at least a song with the same choral refrain ("we could be lying in each others' a-rms") - it's entirely possible I'm going mad, but, anyone else heard this?

Also, if I hear Rehab by Amy Winehaus one more time, I may physically scream. There's nothing wrong with it as a song per se, it's just on so, so, so much at the moment.

Regrettable Juvenilia

19:22 / 17.10.06

I think you're talking about the song that 'Ghetto Superstar' samples/is based on, but I can't remember what it's called. Isn't it by... Kenny Rogers and someone?

20:30 / 17.10.06

it's called 'islands in the stream', and that someone was dolly parton, i believe.
it is also possible you have a reworking of the same song, one of which sage frances pretends is his answering machine message on healthy distrust.
i think his was about working on a farm.

i may have that last fact wrong.

20:32 / 17.10.06

i've just found a video of the bee gees doing it.
they wrote it, incidentally.

16:05 / 18.10.06

The sound you hear now is that of me slapping my forehead.

I woke up this morning, stepped out the door to go to work, and immediately thought "You plank, of course it was a sample" before I'd even checked Barbelith.

Thanks to all, anyway! I now do the dance of shame.

miss wonderstarr

17:08 / 02.11.06

I ended up watching a TV channel last week that seemed based around a show called "Trick My Truck", and in between featured country rock records. Anyway, one of them by chance really struck my tear ducts, and I scribbled down the title and singer on a piece of paper that I tossed away by accident when cleaning my hotel room.

All I remember is that it was a young woman with the surname SWILL, and the song was called something like "Jimmy McClane"; a boy's name anyway, with a Mc in it I think.

I'd very much like to hear it again and see if it was as pleasurably weepy as I felt the first time round. I think it's pretty recent.

20:22 / 02.11.06

Which episode was it?

miss wonderstarr

21:43 / 02.11.06

It was "Dale Lambrecht's Road Hog" but the song was played in some sort of country-rock MTV bit between episodes... I didn't really understand the channel but it seemed to only show "Trick My Truck" and music videos. I appreciate the try though! I'm going to have a look through the site to see if they mention this singer anywhere. Have had no promising results for anyone called "Swill" on amazon.com, google or soulseek.

miss wonderstarr

21:46 / 02.11.06

Maybe I just... maybe I just remembered the name wrong.

miss wonderstarr

21:47 / 02.11.06

Oh, I also watched "Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders: Making the Team" on CMT so it doesn't only show "Trick My Truck".

miss wonderstarr

22:02 / 02.11.06

OMG! what luck that I stumbled across this, against all the odds and after (probably drunkenly) misreading or misremembering the artist's name, scrawling it down and throwing it away!

taylor swift video

taylor swift video "tim mcgraw" is a great video on cmt love everything about talyor swift she is alsome. check her out on myspace.

miss wonderstarr

22:09 / 02.11.06

Thanks for the lead, grant... and thank you internet! I can't believe I've managed to track this down and watch the same video I caught by chance on CMT last week.

I do cry at the most pitiful nonsense.

14:04 / 21.11.06

balloon dance? there was a song, early 80s, 3 guys would do a dance while it played, with balloons covering thier privates? pretty sure it was british, would play on late night swedish television...

10:51 / 09.01.07

I've got one that's driving me berzoik. Try this:

- I think it's from an old musical
- Probably 1950s or 60s
- It's a waltz - a swirly, fairground style waltz
- The tune is similar to 'Carousel Waltz' from Carousel... but weirder. More floaty, carry-you-away in its carousel-ness
- It has lyrics
- It's either about a circus or fairground or carnival
- The first line is, I'm pretty sure: "Life is a [something or other - carnival?]"

Timing wise it's like this:

Daa da da, daa da da, daa da da, daaaaaa.

I've searched for "life is a carnival" "...circus" "...carousel" etc, but got nowt so far.

Help, pur-lease!

14:43 / 09.01.07

Sounds like the title song to the musical "Cabaret" to me.

15:04 / 09.01.07

Thanks for having a stab, but it's not that one.

Think: swirly, waltzy. The lyrics are all about how life is a lot of going up and down and/or round and round.

15:12 / 09.01.07

Ok, now it sounds like "Windmills of Your Mind." It's not from a musical (that I know of) but it was a crucial part of the (original) "Thomas Crown Affair" soundtrack.

17:06 / 09.01.07

It's not this?

Or even this? (OK, probably not.)

Does the phrase "carnival parade" fit anywhere?

Hmm.

Probably not this one, either, although I love that song.

08:02 / 10.01.07

Thanks again, the two of you, but no, no, no and no. Don't matter, though, cos I've nailed the bastard!

The World is a Circle, from 'Lost Horizon'

(There's an MP3 of the tune on the left of the page)

It's less fairgroundy than I expected, but it's a Burt Bacharach tune so I imagine it's been done by various performers in a variety of styles; I probably heard a not-the-original-soundtrack version.

Thaddeus "B." Glands

20:57 / 07.02.07

This one's been driving me up the wall for too long now. It's from Green Wing, so could concievably just be part of the original score, but as soon as I heard it I recognised it instantly and I'm convinced I heard it on the radio sometime around the late nineties.

It's only played in short snatches throughout the show, usually what I think is the start of the track, and it's seems to be played whenever Caroline has a romantic moment with someone. It was played quite a lot in the housewarming party episode (possibly Season 1 Episode 5), when she was kissing or about to kiss Mac and Guy. It was also played quite extensively throughout the Christmas Special, again during romantic moments involving Caroline.

It starts with a simple organ part and then after about maybe two bars a guitar with a very warm, mellow tone comes in and plays a simple, laid-back, almost funky melody. After a bit of this a quite high pitched synth comes in and plays what sounds like the main theme of [that section of] the piece; a simple "descending" tune. It usually cuts out soon after this, when something happens to destroy the moment.

There may or may not be vocals later on, I'm honestly not sure. I seem to remember a male voice quietly speaking over it from when I first heard it but that may just be my imagination.

Any ideas?

12:08 / 12.02.07

No idea. Sorry.

Right then, it's an Aphex Twin tune, it's gentle and ambientish but it's not off Ambient Works 1 or 2, and it has a segment in the middle where all the sound drops out except for this...

BOOM* tick tick tick BOOM tick tick tick

It's so frustrating because I've always known it as Caustic Window 'cause that's what my mate told me it was called, but, of course, it isn't. In fact I'm pretty sure it's not on any of the Caustic Window EPs.

*Think bass rather than an explosion

12:32 / 13.02.07

Hayulp!

10:40 / 15.03.07

In a cab ride back on New Year's Eve, I heard this song on the radio. It may or may not have been old (it sounded like it was from the 40s or so? maybe?) but it was a pretty fast song, sort of country-ish, with a female singer singing about:

"Belinda(?) and the Devil and a chicken and a choking and bipping and a bopping and a ____ and a ____...."

Help!

18:28 / 20.03.07

Okay, I know the tune, but I need help identyfying the artist that covered it.

I think it might have been on KCRW that I heard it, and it was an old country and western singer doing a cover of "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash - acoustic, just him and his guitar - and it was fantastic -

Any help much appreciated.

Thank you.

miss wonderstarr

18:51 / 20.03.07

balloon dance? there was a song, early 80s, 3 guys would do a dance while it played, with balloons covering thier privates? pretty sure it was british, would play on late night swedish television...

Is this a request? I've seen those guys do it live a couple of times. I can sing you the tune.

21:52 / 03.05.07

Hmm, two twins - latinas, I think? -, very soft vocals, the track was... the track was.. oh, beats me; I'm pretty sure at the time it felt trendy and that the beat was, if I'm not confused, something like this one's. I'm not even sure I liked it, but I rather need to hear it now I've half-remembered it.

07:38 / 04.05.07

Two songs I'd like identifying - the version of All Along the Watchtower that played in the finale episodes of Battlestar Galactica Season Three, and a song by (I think) a black female singer from the seventies/early eighties which contains a line something like 'I thought you were a Jekyll but you were really Mr Hyde' or something similar. It's one of those 'I've been hard done by love' songs.

07:50 / 04.05.07

The BSG cover of All along the Watchtower was done by Bear McCreary, the composer of the series.

14:11 / 08.05.07

Maybe two or three years ago I was hearing a KRS1 song on the radio which featured a Japanese rapper spitting a verse, but I don't remember what the song was, and I'm having trouble finding info about it online.

16:36 / 08.05.07

Found it. It was KRS-1, Warren G, and the Japanese rapper was Lil' Ai, the song was "Let's Go" but I'm having trouble finding what album. Maybe it was a mixtape.

RichT's boring old name

08:49 / 25.06.07

Just found this on Gumtree..

CAN U HELP. THERE IS A LITTLE REWARD

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