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Identify That Tune

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20:20 / 29.01.06

That would be 'Ooh La La' by Goldfrapp, I believe.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

22:00 / 29.01.06

Thanks - it is indeed "Ooh La La". I half-suspected it would be her, without having really heard much Goldfrapp at all.

All Acting Regiment

01:48 / 04.02.06

Right then:

"Some thing some thing, some thing some thing, some thing some thingsomething ramma damma ding-dong"

"Ramma Damma Ding Dong" are the only words I can properly remember.

It's in a screechy, angry, v. young sounding American female vox over a new wave type backing that, between the chorus, strips down to just a rhythm and a harsh synth that sounds like the synth part in the breaks of Joy Division's These Days.

06:38 / 04.02.06

oooh I know this one!

Le Tigre - Deceptacon

Here are the lyrics.

All Acting Regiment

07:25 / 05.02.06

Cheers cheers. Oh and now there's naughty noises from next door! And I need to leave, and walk past that door to buy sammich! Ah well.

15:12 / 05.02.06

At the end of the trailer of Everything Is Illuminated, very big and a lot like the Arcade Fire singer in tone, this song is bewildering me...anyone have any ideas?

16:18 / 05.02.06

Totem Polish:

That´s How It Ends by DeVotchka.

You´re right, sounds like Arcade Fire. If you like the music in the movie (which is great, and I really liked the old man and his crazy dog), the travel guide is a musician from the band Gogol Bordello, and you can hear their music in the movie, too.

07:28 / 06.02.06

Do you know, it occurs to me that I never found out what that threadstarting tune was.

Ho hum.

08:35 / 02.03.06

Just bumping this to make people aware of it's presence.

Denfield started a similar thread a few years ago, but it's unlikely to show up on any searches as it was intended to answer a very particular question pertaining exclusively to holes in Jack's knowledge of music. The thread title and abstract do not refelct reflect any further utility.

23:27 / 03.03.06

There's a song on the BBC trailer for Zane Lowe, with the lyrics:

I remember, I remember when I lost my mind

and then

who do you, who do you think you are, ha ha ha
Bless your soul

I really need to know, please help.

There's a song in the sky movies trailer on Sky with no lyrics too, but I imagine I'd need to give you more than that...

00:16 / 04.03.06

Google tells me the Zane wossname song is called "Crazy," by an artist named Gnarls Barkley.

00:18 / 04.03.06

And holy cow—you can download it here.

02:23 / 04.03.06

I gots one! It's kind of a mellow song, with two singers, one male, one female. The male has a Jamaican accent (and reminds of Wyclef Jean) and the female kinda has a voice similar to (or is) Erykah Badu.

I remember a part where the two singers switch off in the chorus and sing "love you" at the end of each line. At one point, they say "love me." Real descriptive, I know.

And then there was a scat repeated throughout, which I think went something like "badu badi badu mmm-de de".

12:06 / 04.03.06

Thank you so much Jack. Playing it now. What a brilliant thread!

15:29 / 14.03.06

There's a lovely little tune on one of the BBC's current self-adverts. All I can remember of the ad is that there's a young black woman in it, and all I can tell you about the tune is that it consists of a guitar and a female vocalist, and the last line contains the words:

"One of these days I know that....der der der der der der... and say HELLO!"

It sounds like the kind of thing that is likely to be lumped in with the current wave of folky types (Devendra Banhart etc).

Any clues? It sounds soooo familiar, I suspect I might even have it on a compilation somewhere!

Bubblegum Death

21:50 / 15.03.06

I think this song is by Sting but does anyone know the title?
They used to play it on the muzak at work and all I know is the chorus:
I'm so happy and I can't stop crying
I'm laughing through my tears.

21:55 / 15.03.06

Oddly enough, that would be "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying." It's on Sting's album Mercury Falling.

Bubblegum Death

22:35 / 15.03.06

Thanks. I've looked for it on several albums and never found it; so I wasn't sure what the title was.

Does anyone know sings this slow,dirge-like cover of Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me". It's a female vocalist and I think it was a band, but I could be wrong.

09:34 / 16.03.06

Toad, I appreciate that the Internet can't always come to your aid, but seriously it took me all of three seconds to dig this up.

I Want You to Want Me
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"I Want You to Want Me" is a song by Cheap Trick, originally recorded in 1977 for their from their album In Color; a version from the band's 1978 album Live at Budokan subsequently became better known than the original. Words and music are by Rick Nielsen. It reached the top 10 in the US charts.

A cover version by Letters to Cleo features on the soundtrack of the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You.

Dwight Yoakam also covered the song on his 2000 album Tomorrow's Sounds Today. The song was featured in a 2002 Coca-Cola television commercial. Pop singer Lindsay Lohan recorded a version of the song for her 2005 album A Little More Personal (Raw).

Canadian punk band Propagandhi also covered this song as I Want Ü 2 Vant Me [1].

The first song of this name was made in the 60s by Tom Tall & Ginny Wright on the Chart label. However, it is not the same song.

People, please be prepared to do a tiny bit of work before you come to this thread.

09:39 / 16.03.06

Saveloy, after five minutes searching I've discovered that there are a bunch of songs called One of These Days. I suggest you have a poke round Google.

Could it be by Beck? He's recorded a song with that title.

10:06 / 16.03.06

Definitely not Beck, cos it's a woman singing, but thanks for having a go. I don't think anyone will get it unless they've seen the BBC ad in question and happened to know the song already.

Bubblegum Death

15:08 / 16.03.06

Boboss: Sorry, but I wasn't expecting anyone to actually look the information up. I figured if anyone knew it off the top of their head, they would tell me. If not, then I wouldn't get an answer.

The wikipedia article is a good starting point though, so thank you.

21:56 / 16.03.06

It's not so much the searching that bothers me - I quite like a bit of searching - it's searching for all of three seconds. I mean, if you really want to know what a tune is why not actually have a look for yourself? It would've taken less time to get that Wikipedia article (which may well feature the song in question - it looks pretty comprehensive) than it took for you to write your post.

Sorry if I'm coming off all grumpy. I'm more perplexed than pissed off.

Bubblegum Death

23:15 / 16.03.06

Because I hadn't thought about that song or the Sting song in ages; and when I saw this thread I was like," Ah, here we go!

I guess if I had been thinking about it beforehand, I would have looked it up myself.

00:20 / 18.03.06

Just don't mention the Hunger Breaks.

16:38 / 18.03.06

Yeah, I still haven't tracked that one down, but I'm assured it's evil.

Hydra vs Leviathan

21:28 / 13.05.06

I gots one! It's kind of a mellow song, with two singers, one male, one female. The male has a Jamaican accent (and reminds of Wyclef Jean) and the female kinda has a voice similar to (or is) Erykah Badu.

I remember a part where the two singers switch off in the chorus and sing "love you" at the end of each line. At one point, they say "love me." Real descriptive, I know.

And then there was a scat repeated throughout, which I think went something like "badu badi badu mmm-de de".

This sounds like it could possibly be "Shut Up" by (The?) Black Eyed Peas, although i could well be proved wrong...

One i have: what's the cheesy pop/dance tune, possibly by some "boy band" from the late 80s or early 90s, that contains the lyrics "I am not a woman, I am not a man, I am something that you'll never understand"? More than anything because i've had that lyric intermittently stuck in my head for quite a while, and, because i've been thinking a lot about transgender and intersex issues, would like to know the lyric's context...

23:30 / 13.05.06

That would be old-school Prince—"I Would Die 4 U," from the Purple Rain soundtrack. Amazing song—a hymn for the dancefloor.

Hydra vs Leviathan

12:42 / 14.05.06

Oh, cool, it's actually by someone who it's "credible" to like...

Although i have to say the version of the tune i heard was much, well, "poppier" sounding than i thought/expected old school Prince to be - almost like a Euro style dance/pop tune, or even the likes of Pet Shop Boys. Maybe a cover or a tune that sampled the Prince tune?

Anyway, thanks, i'll try to hunt down the original...

13:19 / 14.05.06

YouSendIt thingee here. There's an extended version that's live-in-the-studio, too...

And man, Prince fucking owned pop in the early 80s. Lots of minimal electro-grooves—he was doing the one-man-band thing a lot more, then—Controversy, the whole 1999 album, great whacks of Purple Rain, and even after—"Kiss," for example, a very bare, electronic pop with a funky guitar break: superduper poptacular, the best kind of crossover.

13:27 / 14.05.06

That being said, there was apparently an Ibiza-fied cover by an outfit called Space Cowboy. So maybe look for that...

22:53 / 20.05.06

I think this is a new song, but I'm not sure. It features lyrics about punk rockers wearing flowers in their hair, is incredibly catchy and features a female singer. It's a pretty basic acoustic backing track. For the life of me, I can't ever catch the name of the singer, or the name of the song.

Bubblegum Death

23:20 / 20.05.06

"I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker" by Sandi Thom. Here is her myspace page. Is this the song you're thinking of?

19:23 / 21.05.06

Yes! Finally, I know what her name is. Looks like her debut album is out now. Thanks, Undertoad.

Regrettable Juvenilia

20:39 / 21.05.06

That song must have the most offensively moronic lyrical content of any released this year. Yes Sandi, 1969 and 1978 were basically the same, both of them part of a magically Golden Age "When music really mattered". God I hate nostalgia.

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