Song ID

Can someone please tell me the song which is being parodied in the new Halifax advert? Where they're all dancing around Bollywood style to "Make your money WORK just a little bit, SAVE just a little bit, BLAH just a little bit" or whatever it is. It's driving me nuts, I know I should know it, but I've got no clue.

Thanks...

Well, at least I like the Halifax version!

Although...what is this "tape" of which you speak? I'm not sure I have a clue what that is.

Man, what the hell is that music playing at 15:40 that sounds so familiar that it's driving me nuts.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5144419865661936788&ei=NBgSStqYPIf8rgK0ypkO&q=landscape+horizons+&hl=en

since that probably won't embed, here's a link

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5144419865661936788&ei=NBgSStqYPIf8rgK0ypkO&q=landscape+horizons+&hl=en

Since when did ILX automatically hyperlink addresses, that is really useful!

omg what is it?! my first thought is an interlude off some grandaddy album.

i've been unsuccessfully trying to find a version of "I Shall Be Released". apparantly there are over 80 different recordings of this song, way too many to search out on my connection.
The version i'm looking for was performed by (as i remember) a man, sounding not too dissimilar to paul weller, with an acoustic guitar.
Any ideas?
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Yeah, it's Tom Robinson Band, I reckons. B-side to "2-4-6-8"

xp, it ain't off 'under the western freeway'.

nor 'the sophtware slump'.

i tried to shazam it but couldn't figure out where the mic in my phone is, to hold the earbud against.

Xposts: Ah yes, that makes so much sense, thanks.

It is 'I Collect Coins' by Mercury Rev off Deserter's Songs. xp again.

What is the original synth pop tune that is sampled in the track playing in this vid?

The answer is something really obvious, but I can't get it in my head.

Anyone?

Trans X - Living On Video?

That's it, thanks!

I heard a song in a grocery store last week. I am fairly ignorant about pop music - before I started trying to track this song down I wouldn't have known the difference between Rihanna and Lady Gaga - and I don't know any of the lyrics.

- more R&B than anything, but with a slow 4/4 kick dance beat - possibly around 110bpm
- female singing, possibly some auto-tune, but it was subtle.
- T.I. style "heyy" "ooohhh"s every few lines.

this description sound a lot like T.I.'s Live Your Life, but I'm certain that this wasn't the song, both because the beat is way different, and because I had heard the T.I. song before, and feel I would have recognized it immediately. I also remember it being faster and more upbeat than Live Your Life is. I've listened to every remix of Live Your Life I could find, but all of them seemed too fast and trancey. It was definitely a good club song, though.

I've been through all of the iTunes top charts, and I just don't hear it. I ask myself what could be big enough to be on the grocery store's satellite radio feed, but isn't on any iTunes Top Charts?

okay this is REALLY obvious, but help

REALLY popular 80s rock song by female vocalist, with deep/husky voice.. think she was a one or two hit wonder

I have the song in my iTunes but I can't remember her name/what it's called right now so I can't find it and it's in my head

Tracy Chapman?

no she's white

Alannah Myles?

nope :(

bonnie tyler?

Yeah, most likely.

nope...okay it may actually be early 90s

i remember the video she had big blonde hair, and there was fog.. or something..maybe?

Heart?

Either "It's A Heartache" or "Bette Davis Eyes"?

TLI!

What's TLI? Too Little Information?

Cuz yeah, I'm lolling at she had big blonde hair, and there was fog.. or something..maybe?

mm hmm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7e75Mig25E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P8UxneDJE

oh, not a one-hit wonder

who did and/or what is the name of that spacey light housey song from ten years ago or so where the vocals (sung by a woman) are all about "time"? does that ring any bells for anyone, cos it bugs me that i can't figure out what it is?@

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAAldg3I3uQ

HUH. Do I wanna go OUT??

Bette Davis Eyes! THANK YOU!!

Uh, heard a weird, druggy, slow cover of Dawn Penn's "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)" on KCSB today and their site is down so I can't check the playlists - any ideas? Female vocals. I think.

A friend describes to me a vaguely bluesy song he heard on KZXK (excellent commercial free classic rock format out of Doney Park, AZ) with lyrics that go something like "I got love in my heart for drugs". He says "Shoot me up with soul" was another line. Google has been no help, and of course the radio station barely has any web presence- though I did find it is owned by a very interesting man named Ted Tucker. I think he creates all the playlists, but I can't find much information on him, either. Please help?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZSmGaFBmk
the peppy, rhythmic, flute-y instrumental jam at the start
so good!

Zap Mama - Babanzele

oh man thank you! i really didn't think that was enough to go on. & am psyched to see there's an ILX thread. xxx

I woke up with the beginning of a piece of music I can't quite place in my head.
it's a two chord piano sequence, similar to the piano in James Blake's 'Limit To Your Love' but it's not that song. I'm almost certain it's the lead track from an album from an established act that came out within the last ten years. at first I thought it might Ambulance by Blur because the chord sequence is similar, but there's no piano in that song.
I know that's vague. but can anyone help?

cant make out the vocals enough to start searching possible titles on this little fellow on the green

http://www100.zippyshare.com/v/tu7JXAbi/file.html

Female singer, new wave song recorded from Canadian radio in the early 80s sometime and mislabelled apparently. Any ideas?

https://soundcloud.com/treatment-x/da-da-band-everything-is-right

late 80s early 90s mid-tempo radio synthpop. mumbly, breathy male lyrics. singing something like "alllll myyyy liiiife" or "allll myyy miiiind" or possibly both?

Or maybe it's "my whole life"?

Bouncy little lead synth line.

psychedelic furs - love my way (?)

You nailed it! I didn't even get the words remotely right.

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.

Early 80s track. Band and title are wrong. Possibly Canadian. Anyone recognise?

https://soundcloud.com/treatment-x/da-da-band-everything-is-right

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 go
got 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?

fyi it was Lenny Kravitz's 2018 single Low. hurts 2 get kravitzed so hard :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EldVJhGZpDc

https://vocaroo.com/d2XWzhyWDDB

beautiful obscure French chanson.

amazing song

have been trying word combinations, but nobody seems to have added the lyrics somewhere, anywhere, online. :o

where did you first hear it ?

asking for a friend! i said i'd put the link up on ILX the all-knowing forum :P

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 feel
Vocals were kinda talky, soft spoken
May 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.

whoops the notes of the slide guitar chorus hook should be: C (hold) C-B-C-E-G (hold)

Help! What song is in the first 45 seconds of this video?

https://www.facebook.com/kait.midgett/videos/10224531063842667/

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?

"Up on Cripple Creek," by The Band?

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

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

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.

hear it*

elvis crespo - "suavemente"?

no, it's more midtempo, closer in tempo and feel to "i need to know"

Not “Smooth,” by Santana (ft. Rob Thomas)?

(I know that’s not Spanish vox…)

nope! thanks though

The Blackout Allstars - "I Like It (Like That)"?

nope.

starting to drive me crazy. i might have to record a little clip of the melody.

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 end
any ideas?

budo j, is this too obvious?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mPV9f6tGWI

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?

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.

And a number of xp Tracer Hand — Drivin N Cryin “Chain Reaction”?

fucking hell that's it!!!!

GAUHHH!!!

thank you

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!<

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.

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

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

It appears to be "Váyase al monte" performed by the Perez Prado Orchestra

Thank you! Source?

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.

i was thinking of the Arsenio tune too! thanks for the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZOep0ncI6c

Probably a long shot, but I am going to post this here in case someone recognises it. New wave/synth pop/dark wave-type song taped off San Francisco radio station Quake in 1982. Thought to have been recorded around that time. People have been searching for years but nobody has figured it out yet. Could be a local San Francisco band.
I think it's quite a cool track that's worth a listen anyway, so I will share it here.