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Identify That Tune

 
  

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Regrettable Juvenilia
09:21 / 25.06.07
Ha! Could it be Rihanna's Umbrella, ella, ella, ay?
 
 
matthew.
01:00 / 27.06.07
What's the name of the rap(?)hiphop(?) song playing anachronistically in the trailer for Ridley Scott's American Gangster? (That's the link to the trailer).

Flybs, I'm sure you know this one.
 
 
Mistoffelees
07:52 / 27.06.07
There are three old tunes haunting me, where I vaguely remember the videos, but not anything else, and I´d like to get them out of my system. Usually, I remember some lyrics fragments and can find it that way, but that doesn´t work here. All three are instrumentals.

The first is one centers around a funny looking guy who plays ecstatically grinning on his keyboards, he has obviously a really good time, just like the people all around him, the scene looks as forced as all the dance vibes in Matrix Reloaded. The tune repeats itself with slight variations again and again like an electronic Bolero (a big one hit wonder). This video is about ten, maybe even 15 years old.

The second is some techno tune, where there are several pierced and tattooed party people, all shown standing alone in the woods. And the end scene shows a buff Brad Pitt lookalike who throws his cigarette away as its starts pouring. This is from around 1998.

The third is also techno (or something similar) and shows a young woman driving her cabrio around some abandoned military base or runway. It seems to be really sunny, I remember lots of yellow and orange stills. This is also from around 1998.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
09:14 / 27.06.07
The first is one centers around a funny looking guy who plays ecstatically grinning on his keyboards, he has obviously a really good time, just like the people all around him, the scene looks as forced as all the dance vibes in Matrix Reloaded. The tune repeats itself with slight variations again and again like an electronic Bolero (a big one hit wonder). This video is about ten, maybe even 15 years old.

You don't mean Josh Wink's 'Higher State of Consciousness', by any chance? Did the guy in question have white dreadlocks?

matt, I'm at work all day which is annoying - did you catch any of the lyrics?
 
 
Mistoffelees
10:07 / 27.06.07
You don't mean Josh Wink's 'Higher State of Consciousness', by any chance? Did the guy in question have white dreadlocks?

Thank you for your answer, but that´s not it, and he didn´t have dreadlocks. This wasn´t a techno tune, just endless synthesizer melodies.
 
 
Mistoffelees
10:18 / 27.06.07
What's the name of the rap(?)hiphop(?) song playing anachronistically in the trailer for Ridley Scott's American Gangster? (That's the link to the trailer).

I´ve googled and so am not 100% sure, but it could be Jay-Z and Heart of the City (Ain't No Love).
 
 
Lugue
11:25 / 27.06.07
The second is some techno tune, where there are several pierced and tattooed party people, all shown standing alone in the woods. And the end scene shows a buff Brad Pitt lookalike who throws his cigarette away as its starts pouring. This is from around 1998.

This has to be Storm by, errm, Storm, right? Gosh, how I freaked out to this in my room at the time.
 
 
Mistoffelees
18:01 / 27.06.07
Yes! That´s it, Folia. Thank you, finally this puzzle has been finished. A friend of mine was obsessed with this video and that must have rubbed off on me somehow. The cabrio video was pretty much at the same time, btw.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
20:12 / 27.06.07
It is indeed 'Heart of the City' in that clip - I really want to see American Gangster now!
 
 
matthew.
20:53 / 27.06.07
I knew you'd know it Flyboy.

Happen to know what album it's from?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
23:31 / 27.06.07
The Blueprint - one of two albums with a colour in the title made by Jigga, also known as the two albums of his that I think are essentially listening.
 
 
matthew.
11:59 / 28.06.07
Man this is an awesome song. It makes me want to see American Gangster now as well. Except for the obligatory over-acting that the leads will shout at each other... the Pacino school of acting.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
17:00 / 05.07.07
They call me Uff
They call me Staceeeey

That's not my name
That's not my name


Which Uffie track is it?
 
 
Talas
18:59 / 05.07.07
Allmacto Regimat: Could it be "That's Not My Name" by the Ting Tings?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
19:15 / 05.07.07
If it is I've just lost Uffie cred.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
20:37 / 09.07.07
It was! And now, I need to know that Goldfrapp track. It's a cover, from before Black Cherry, I think. A cover of a famous song. Very ... slippery. Magical. A bit Eno-ey. I don't know, but it's a cover. Anyone?
 
 
Lugue
21:00 / 09.07.07
This, maybe?
 
 
iamus
01:32 / 13.07.07
Can anyone identify the tune that plays on this page?

I like it, but don't have a clue who it is.
 
 
Jack Fear
02:19 / 13.07.07
A quick look at the source code for the coldbacon page reveals that the band is Stereo Total, who are new to me. Another peek, this time at their AllMusic entry, tells me the song in question is "Amor a 3," from the album Party Anticonformista.

And you're right, it's a pretty hot jam.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
03:52 / 13.07.07
Those Goldfrapp videos are lovely, and I'm looking through them now, but the tune I was after isn't "Physical" - it's got a whistle over a spare blue beat, sort of like (fwa = soundo a whistle):

Fwa fwa fwa fwa fwa fwa

Fwa fwa fwaaa fwaaa

It was used in Monkey Dust, for that guy who goes home to his wife, claims to have been in Lord of the Rings but has actually signed up to be a cum-bucket.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
03:52 / 13.07.07
AHHHHH!


LOVELY HEAD!!!!

There we are!
 
 
All Acting Regiment
03:57 / 13.07.07
And it's HER VOICE, not a whistle or a theremin!
 
 
iamus
10:16 / 13.07.07
the song in question is "Amor a 3," from the album Party Anticonformista.


Aha!
Thanks muchly Jack! I think I might need to investigate them.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
11:12 / 18.07.07
So, after a march (probably) from classical music. It's strings, it's in a minor key, and it rises sparsely up the minor 5ths and sounds important and sad. It might be Wagner but I'm not sure.

Dum da dum da Dim da dum-da, dum da dum da Dim Daaum

...if that's any use.
 
 
grant
00:55 / 14.09.07
Wow - someone has built a song search site where you just hum a few bars.
 
 
Jack Fear
14:00 / 14.09.07
Allmacto: That's not a hell of a lot to work from, but I'll play a hunch—might it be the first movement of Henryk Gorecki's Third Symphony? Starts very low, in the double basses, works its way up in the repeats, strings added in fifth-based harmonies, yes very sad, yes very important sounding...

More sound samples here.
 
 
Janean Patience
17:25 / 23.09.07
This should be an easy one. A Nas tune which samples a blues track extensively for the chorus. Quite recent, but I don't think from the last album, and it must have been a single because I saw the video. I've tried Google, honestly I have.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
08:19 / 24.09.07
It's called 'I Love My Dad' by Nas & His Dad.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
08:21 / 24.09.07
(It's actually called 'Bridging The Gap' - pretty sure that's the one you mean, anyway.)
 
 
Janean Patience
10:56 / 24.09.07
Ooo, it is Nas and his dad as well. Truly hip hop's just like a lovely family. I'll download later and confirm it's the right one, thanks very much.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:55 / 24.09.07
It's not the right one in the sense of being much cop, I have to say. From the album in question, you want 'Thief's Theme' for that.
 
 
GogMickGog
15:37 / 24.09.07
A boyfriend of a chum of mine had a rap record where the central shtick was that the M.C. was a self-proclaimed nerdy, bookish Jew in the Woody Allen mode. He riffed on things from sex and women to classical philosophers. It was a regular spin during parties that summer and I'd be mad keen to find out the name - difficult, as said boyfriend is now very much outta the picture.

I particularly remember a skit called something like 'the new room-mate', where the M.C. arrives at college to discover he is sharing his room with a black student and then tries to convince him of street credentials.

Any ideas?
 
 
grant
18:54 / 24.09.07
Sounds like either MC Frontalot or (more likely) MC Paul Barman.
 
 
Janean Patience
20:03 / 24.09.07
That was the Nas song I was after. I'll try Thief's Theme, though obviously it'll never be as good as Illmatic etc etc five stars in the Source
 
 
*
04:19 / 25.09.07
*mumbling to self* Bluesy-indie-pop sounding female vocalist... "there's no something something" moonlight? There's no moonlight? Moon? I was listening to it in a shop, recognized it, and can't for the life of me remember what the hell it was I was hearing!
 
  

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