2000s Songs I Have No Time to Get Up Again Lyrics
It'south pretty common in music circles to encounter people who have spent literally decades trying to place an obscure vocal on an old mixtape. They've had no luck Googling lyrics or playing the vocal into Soundhound, Shazam, or friends' ears. There are entire communities—on websites like Wat Zat Song?, Midomi, and Reddit—devoted to crowdsourcing the solutions.
Many times, without what felt similar much work, I've been able to successfully ID such songs for strangers. Non because I'grand Brainypants McMusicface; to the contrary. In every instance these have been songs and artists I'd never heard (or even heard of) earlier.
But the recordings independent the necessary clues and context, to which I applied some deductive reasoning and research washed on freely-available websites. Hither's how I've gone most it, in instance crowdsourcing isn't working for you.
One example: Slicing Up Eyeballs posted this to both Facebook and Twitter.
Tin can you ID this funky mail service-punk song taped off WNYU in the '80s?
A Slicing Upwards Eyeballs reader sent us the following note:
"I write from Deutschland so sorry if i put words wrong. A Friend of mine was in America in the 80s and he listened to WNYU – FM. He heard a Song there but did non hear the Name and Artist. And then i have the Link here where you can listen to. If you don`t know it, maybe you tin assistance the states with the Lyrics. We went them up and down with no Result. Peculiarly after the starting time words "Oh well oh welcome ….. This might be the Refrain of the Song because he repeats information technology frequently in this Song. I would be very glad to go an answer from y'all considering this Song is searched for more than 33 Years."
The post was accompanied by the song's audio on Soundcloud (and had already been an open up instance on Wat Zat Vocal? for over five months).
i. Examine the sound and lyrics for clues, and search for keywords on Discogs.
Discogs is a website database detailing musical artists' discographies and, among other features (like its market and the ability to catalog your entire music drove), information technology's a powerful search engine. The Advanced Search, which is free to use without creating an account, allows you to await just within Track (vocal) Title.
Since this song didn't have a traditional chorus (where the title would usually repeat), I started making out the lyrics from the peak.
Oh well, oh welcome [turncoat?] Sam
He said he was a killer man
He doesn't care about your [love / life]
So something about napalm? Sounds a bit agit-prop. That showtime line repeats at the showtime of each poesy, giving at least function of it the potential to appear in the title. A Track Title search for "oh well oh welcome" yielded 44 results which independent some combination of those keywords in their vocal titles (i.east. "oh", "well" and "welcome" might announced in three different song titles on a given anthology, not necessarily all in the same song title).
2. Filter the search results to items released in a specific decade, geographic region, or genre.
The OP said the tape was from the '80s and the recording screams '80s every bit well. Choosing Decade>1980 from the carte du jour downwardly the left side of the search window narrows it down from 44 to 7.
As for genre, would Discogs have this filed nether punk, funk, other? Those distinctions are subjective, which is why I opted not to utilise their filters for this step and instead eliminated results that patently weren't the genre I was looking for (i.east. skip over the items with "gospel" and "soul" in the titles, equally well every bit the "Hot Hits" compilation. If this song had ever been a hot hit, someone would have identified it by now). That left me with only one event to investigate:Maxi Trip the light fantastic toe Pool Vol. 2 – Musikladen Eurotops.
NB: Discogs, due to the manner its records are structured, returned 3 dissimilar iterations of this same album in the search results: one being the 'master folio' for that release/album and the other 2 detailing the separate formats of the release, CD and LP. All three are interchangeable for my purposes, and then no demand to look at each.
three. Use streaming music resources to follow leads.
Given that my keywords were spread beyond 2 rails titles on this compilation—"Oh Well" (by an artist of the same proper noun), and another titled "Welcome, Machine Gun"—and that my vocal hardly seemed similar society provender, this was probably a dead end only I was already here and decided to see it through. The sometime title was a meliorate match to my lyric than the latter and so I followed the hyperlink to the Discogs page showing Oh Well's discography. The vocal "Oh Well", since it was released as a single, had its own subpage with an embedded YouTube video, a quick browse of which proved information technology wasn't the song I was after.
"Automobile gun" didn't appear in the lyrics of my song, then it seemed illogical to presume that the latter song had any relevance to my search. Back to the drawing lath.
iv. Repeat steps 1-iii as needed.
I didn't bother pursuing the words "oh well" whatsoever further because, on their own, they only didn't feel distinctive or interesting enough to be a title for this song. Instead, I turned my sights to "turncoat Sam." Few writers would be able to resist making such a unique turn of phrase the hook on which to hang a song, so it had a better hazard of actualization in the championship. Just that search yielded merely 2 results, which were quickly ruled out. Boosted searches for "turncoat" and "welcome turncoat" were similarly fruitless.
Out of other options, I searched for "Sam". Filtering downward to only the '80s still left virtually 2700 releases. Scanning the start page of 50 results, I eliminated annihilation immediately recognizable (e.thou. T. Rex'south "Telegram Sam"), the strange language items, the ones obviously in not-applicative genres like jazz, and ones in which Sam was inextricably paired with other words ("Play Information technology Over again, Sam", etc.).
At the bottom of the page my middle was drawn to a nighttime, arty tape cover that seemed to fit the vibe I was looking for—what looked like a monoprint of a face that was disjointed, disfigured, with violence or chaos implied.
Information technology was for a single of a song called "Uncle Sam" by a group I'd never heard of, Rhythm of Life. Clicking through to that subpage showed that it was a Britain release from 1981, classified as New Wave. On this type of page, Discogs displays suggestions of similar artists; while I wasn't intimately familiar with the ones listed here (Josef K, Cabaret Voltaire), I knew enough to call up they were reasonably aligned with my target.
I searched YouTube for "Rhythm of Life Uncle Sam," which returned one result; after a brief drum intro that was missing from the original post, there was my vocal. Information technology wasn't "turncoat Sam" after all… it was "Oh well, oh welcome to Uncle Sam", with "to" and "Uncle" sung and then close together as to sound like one word.
[Editor'southward annotation: that video used to be embedded right here so that you could hear it, just has since been removed from YouTube and not replaced. In fact, Rhythm of Life'due south "Uncle Sam" appears not to be available on any legitimate streaming service—or for digital download—in the United states, and can just be constitute on a 2-CD Paul Haig compilation from Brussels-based Les Disques du Crépuscule label. And that fact, dear reader—that the web giveth and the web taketh abroad—is a perfect example of why I ever view my personal music library every bit more than essential and comprehensive than any subscription-based streaming service tin can hope to be.]
To be fair, intuition played a part in arriving at the solution, equally did good luck; if my song had appeared on the 50th page of "Sam" results instead of the first, would I have found it? (Not to mention other factors in my favor: that the song had lyrics at all, was sung in my native linguistic communication, was from an era and genre of which I take a decent if not comprehensive knowledge, etc.) Nevertheless, this method has helped me solve one-half a dozen other mystery songs that had been plaguing people for 25+ years, where collective "Well, it kind of sounds similar [artist name hither]" guesswork failed.
Hither's 1 more case off the tiptop of my head, using the same steps—identifying the audio clues, lyrical clues, and parameters for the search.
Example #2
Audio clues: a song taped off an American alt radio station in 1988. The artist sounded American, slightly roots-rockish only with sonic smoothen, and a chip Paisley Undercover.
Lyrical clues: a mention of Jerry Falwell bolstered my notion that it'due south American in origin. Focusing on the closest affair to a chorus, the only lyrics which echo are variations of:
Whatever name you lot go by, she goes past now too
What else would she do?
She'south got her concluding resorts in the post
To box three five comma oh oh oh
The search: the last line was the all-time bet. The number 35,000 spoken in that way, as its individual components, was so unusual that it took a while to realize that's what I was hearing, as opposed to the oh-oh-ohs simply being vocal punctuations. Being catchy and unique, it was the most obvious hook. And radio existence a contemporary medium, the song was probably either released in '87 or '88; songs generally don't get airplay years subsequently their release unless they've accomplished some status. Searching Discogs in two fields—Track Title for "35,000", and Twelvemonth for 1987—took me straight to information technology: "35,000" by Insiders, from an album called Ghost On the Beach.
I'm non surprised it eluded someone for decades; information technology was a deep anthology cut, not a unmarried, and it's not on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes or Amazon. I had to track it down on (now-defunct) Grooveshark in order to verify its identity.
Example #iii, without audio
Again, Slicing Upwardly Eyeballs posted a reader's plea on Facebook.
NAME THAT TUNE: Scott'southward having trouble tracking down a vocal he used to have on a mixtape. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
"I have what seems to be the common 'I had a mix tape years ago, what the hell was that song' problem. '93 in college a buddy made me a killer mix tape. I lost the rails list afterwards many moves, but have managed to chase down well-nigh all of the songs except one. Here's what I remember:
"The song begins with a clip of a British man calling bingo. He mentions one number and so says 'blue? 22. Nosotros have a bingo- in TWO places.' So it cuts into the vocal. That is all I remember. I can tell you information technology was '93 or prior. Any assistance from the practiced folks who follow you lot would be fantastic."
Audio clues: none. This fourth dimension there's neither a recorded snippet nor any indication in the OP's diction about what type of music it is.
Lyrical clues: simply the spoken 'bingo' intro. At this point, I don't fifty-fifty know whether the rest of the vocal has lyrics or is purely instrumental.
The search: I have two facts—the bingo intro and a release appointment no afterwards than 1993—and 1 assumption: that the creative person is British, since at that place's no obvious reason for a non-Great britain artist to source a few seconds of audio from a British bingo hall. Of class there'due south no guarantee that the song'southward title has bingo in information technology, only that'due south the only practical starting betoken.
Searching Track Title for "bingo" yielded 2,848 results. I filtered those downwards to items released in the UK (since odds are skillful that an creative person's work would exist released showtime and foremost in their native country), which narrowed the results to 562. I applied a second filter in order to see only items released in the 1990s, which reduced the results to 143. So I clicked on the View options at the upper-right of the window to see the results equally Text With Covers, which enabled me to run into the release year for each item.
Ignoring anything released past 1993, I worked my way downwards the first page of fifty results, clicking through to each detail's detailed release folio and looking upward songs on YouTube (if they weren't already embedded in the Discogs page). Eventually I arrived at the album Reach by Snuff, released in 1992.
Since the release page featured a YouTube video of the full album and "Bingo" was track nine of twelve, I scrubbed nigh 3/iv of the way into it, pausing at the gaps between songs since I was interested only in the beginning of any given track, and at the 21:32 mark is where I found my British bingo player. All told, this process took me less than 30 minutes.
I thought I was done, but something nagged at me: YouTube likewise has a standalone video of just the song "Bingo", and that spoken give-and-take clip doesn't appear in it at all, either at the beginning or the end. Further, the song in that video isn't the ane following the bingo hall clip in the full-anthology video!
Subsequently adding upwards the track times seen on the Discogs page, I realized that 21:32 into the album puts you at the end of "Bingo," not the commencement of it. Therefore, if the OP is seeking the song that comes after the clip, it's really the adjacent track on the album—"Ichola Buddha"—that's he'south afterwards (and, when making the mixtape, his friend may have mistaken the bingo hall clip for the intro to that vocal instead of what it really is: the tail terminate of "Bingo").
Obviously my method is dependent on certain factors—not to mention some luck and intuition—and won't work in every instance, merely I hope it'll be a useful tool to aid you get closer to solving your own mystery song. If it does, I'd love to hear your stories nigh where and when y'all originally came by a vocal, where the search took you lot over time, and how you lot arrived at a solution.
(cassette photo by Laurent Hoffmann)
Source: https://markfgriffin.com/2015/02/need-help-identifying-song/
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