Song IDs circa 1991/92/93 - clubby-electro tune, industrial song, and another clubby track

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First song: I've tried Googling the lyrics several times before in the past few years and have never come up with anything. It's a fairly nocturnal-sounding clubby song somewhere that's not slow but not really mid-tempo either. It was a bit similar to New Order and OMD and had a soft male vocal (like a more sensitive Barney Sumner) and a rather icily feline-sounding female backup vocalist. It was on a tape my father made of Club Convergence (a program on the local college station here that played lots of underground club hits and remixes of them and whatnot, and this song might actually be a remix of the original). Each verse ended with some variant of: "Not that you needed me that much, I believed that your work had the healing touch..." and each chorus went, "Now, what am I gonna do when the happiness I had was made possible by you? You used me, you know it's the truth, so why should I believe in anything I do?" It's probably three and a half to four minutes long. This has been bugging me for well over a decade now. I've been able to find out what some other songs were from other Club Convergence tapes my father had (Nitzer Ebb's "Family Man", PWEI's "Wise Up Sucker (12" Youth Mix)", The Weathermen's "Freedom or Slavery") but this is one of the ones I've never found out. Actually, now that I think about it there are two others that have always bugged me that I've wanted to know about, and these will be more vague as they don't really have any lyrics.

The next song's a rather abrasive Front 242/Meat Beat Manifesto/Nitzer Ebb-type post-industrial song with slamming 4-on-the-floor beats (probably about 135-150 bpm) that has a lot of samples barking "It was all because of MONEY!" throughout. It's about three and a half to four minutes long as well, as is the next tune. This other song is rather clubby with a brisk tempo, acid-house piano breaks during the verses, and a rather disturbed/deviantly playful-sounding child's voice (probably a girl) that says "Don't you want to come out and play?" during the chorus like a less hesitant variant of the kid The Prodigy sampled from that public service announcement for "Charly".

Thank you in advance!

Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

THe second might be one of the remixes of KMFDM's "Money", I'd guess.

Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

the first might be the beloved?

mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

I went and examined those, and nope, but good guesses. In the first song, the guy's voice is softer and sultrier (if a bit more pensive) than the frontman for The Beloved. The second song doesn't have any sung lyrics and it's absolutely slammin'.

Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Any more suggestions?

Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

The first one sounded like Kon Kan's "I Beg Your Pardon" until the lyrics, which I don't think work... Sorry.

Never mind. It took me over 25 years to identify some tunes I had as a kid.

The 'kid' in Charly is Kenny Everett!

KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I know that Kon Kan song. Definitely not it.

Tracks extending back to 1989 might also work, by the way.

Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago)


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