Lyric Whoa Oh Oh Here We Go Again Hair Band
It'southward pretty common in music circles to see people who have spent literally decades trying to identify an obscure song on an old mixtape. They've had no luck Googling lyrics or playing the song into Soundhound, Shazam, or friends' ears. There are entire communities—on websites like Wat Zat Vocal?, Midomi, and Reddit—devoted to crowdsourcing the solutions.
Many times, without what felt like much piece of work, I've been able to successfully ID such songs for strangers. Not because I'thousand Brainypants McMusicface; to the contrary. In every case these have been songs and artists I'd never heard (or even heard of) before.
But the recordings contained the necessary clues and context, to which I applied some deductive reasoning and inquiry done on freely-bachelor websites. Here's how I've gone most information technology, in case crowdsourcing isn't working for you.
One example: Slicing Up Eyeballs posted this to both Facebook and Twitter.
Tin can yous ID this funky postal service-punk song taped off WNYU in the '80s?
A Slicing Upward Eyeballs reader sent us the post-obit note:
"I write from Deutschland so sad 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 at that place only did not hear the Name and Artist. Then i accept the Link here where y'all can listen to. If you don`t know it, maybe you can help usa with the Lyrics. We went them upward and down with no Result. Especially afterward the beginning words "Oh well oh welcome ….. This might be the Refrain of the Song because he repeats it often in this Song. I would exist very glad to become an answer from you because this Song is searched for more than 33 Years."
The mail was accompanied by the vocal's sound on Soundcloud (and had already been an open case on Wat Zat Song? for over five months).
1. Examine the audio 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 place and the ability to catalog your entire music drove), information technology's a powerful search engine. The Avant-garde 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 pinnacle.
Oh well, oh welcome [turncoat?] Sam
He said he was a killer homo
He doesn't care virtually your [love / life]
Then something about napalm? Sounds a scrap agit-prop. That commencement line repeats at the beginning of each poetry, giving at least part of it the potential to appear in the championship. A Track Title search for "oh well oh welcome" yielded 44 results which contained some combination of those keywords in their song titles (i.e. "oh", "well" and "welcome" might announced in 3 different song titles on a given album, not necessarily all in the same vocal title).
two. 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 too. Choosing Decade>1980 from the carte du jour down the left side of the search window narrows it down from 44 to vii.
As for genre, would Discogs take this filed under punk, funk, other? Those distinctions are subjective, which is why I opted not to use their filters for this step and instead eliminated results that plain weren't the genre I was looking for (i.due east. skip over the items with "gospel" and "soul" in the titles, as well as the "Hot Hits" compilation. If this song had ever been a hot hit, someone would have identified information technology by now). That left me with only i result to investigate:Maxi Dance Puddle Vol. 2 – Musikladen Eurotops.
NB: Discogs, due to the way its records are structured, returned three different iterations of this same anthology in the search results: i being the 'main folio' for that release/album and the other two detailing the split up formats of the release, CD and LP. All three are interchangeable for my purposes, and so no need to look at each.
3. Utilise streaming music resources to follow leads.
Given that my keywords were spread beyond 2 rails titles on this compilation—"Oh Well" (by an creative person of the aforementioned proper name), and another titled "Welcome, Car Gun"—and that my vocal inappreciably seemed similar guild fodder, this was probably a dead end but I was already here and decided to come across information technology through. The former championship was a ameliorate match to my lyric than the latter so I followed the hyperlink to the Discogs folio showing Oh Well's discography. The song "Oh Well", since it was released as a unmarried, had its own subpage with an embedded YouTube video, a quick scan of which proved information technology wasn't the song I was after.
"Machine gun" didn't appear in the lyrics of my song, and then it seemed casuistic to assume that the latter song had any relevance to my search. Dorsum to the drawing board.
4. Repeat steps ane-3 as needed.
I didn't bother pursuing the words "oh well" any further because, on their own, they but didn't experience distinctive or interesting enough to exist a title for this song. Instead, I turned my sights to "turncoat Sam." Few writers would be able to resist making such a unique plough of phrase the hook on which to hang a song, and then information technology had a amend chance of actualization in the title. But that search yielded only ii 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 down to merely the '80s still left about 2700 releases. Scanning the first page of l results, I eliminated anything immediately recognizable (e.yard. T. Male monarch'southward "Telegram Sam"), the strange language items, the ones patently in non-applicable genres like jazz, and ones in which Sam was inextricably paired with other words ("Play It Once again, Sam", etc.).
At the lesser of the folio my middle was drawn to a dark, arty tape comprehend 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.
It was for a single of a song chosen "Uncle Sam" by a grouping I'd never heard of, Rhythm of Life. Clicking through to that subpage showed that it was a United kingdom release from 1981, classified as New Moving ridge. 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 remember they were reasonably aligned with my target.
I searched YouTube for "Rhythm of Life Uncle Sam," which returned one upshot; after a brief pulsate intro that was missing from the original post, in that location was my vocal. Information technology wasn't "turncoat Sam" later all… it was "Oh well, oh welcome to Uncle Sam", with "to" and "Uncle" sung then close together as to sound similar one word.
[Editor'south annotation: that video used to exist embedded right here so that you lot could hear it, but has since been removed from YouTube and not replaced. In fact, Rhythm of Life's "Uncle Sam" appears non to be bachelor on any legitimate streaming service—or for digital download—in the US, and can but be found on a ii-CD Paul Haig compilation from Brussels-based Les Disques du Crépuscule label. And that fact, dear reader—that the web giveth and the spider web taketh away—is a perfect case of why I always view my personal music library as more essential and comprehensive than whatever subscription-based streaming service tin hope to be.]
To be off-white, intuition played a part in arriving at the solution, as did good luck; if my song had appeared on the 50th page of "Sam" results instead of the first, would I have found it? (Non to mention other factors in my favor: that the song had lyrics at all, was sung in my native language, was from an era and genre of which I accept a decent if not comprehensive knowledge, etc.) All the same, this method has helped me solve half a dozen other mystery songs that had been plaguing people for 25+ years, where collective "Well, it kind of sounds like [artist proper name here]" guesswork failed.
Here's one more than example off the height of my caput, using the same steps—identifying the audio clues, lyrical clues, and parameters for the search.
Example #ii
Sound clues: a song taped off an American alt radio station in 1988. The artist sounded American, slightly roots-rockish but with sonic polish, and a scrap Paisley Cloak-and-dagger.
Lyrical clues: a mention of Jerry Falwell bolstered my notion that it'south American in origin. Focusing on the closest affair to a chorus, the only lyrics which repeat are variations of:
Any name you go by, she goes past now too
What else would she do?
She'southward got her last resorts in the mail
To box three 5 comma oh oh oh
The search: the terminal line was the all-time bet. The number 35,000 spoken in that manner, as its individual components, was then unusual that it took a while to realize that's what I was hearing, as opposed to the oh-oh-ohs simply being song punctuations. Existence 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 go airplay years after their release unless they've achieved some condition. Searching Discogs in two fields—Track Championship for "35,000", and Year for 1987—took me directly to it: "35,000" by Insiders, from an album chosen Ghost On the Embankment.
I'yard not surprised it eluded someone for decades; it was a deep album cut, not a unmarried, and information technology'due south not on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes or Amazon. I had to track it downwards on (at present-defunct) Grooveshark in guild to verify its identity.
Example #3, without audio
Once more, Slicing Upwards Eyeballs posted a reader's plea on Facebook.
Proper noun THAT TUNE: Scott'south having problem tracking down a song he used to have on a mixtape. Does this band 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 higher a buddy made me a killer mix tape. I lost the track listing after many moves, just have managed to chase down nigh all of the songs except ane. 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 accept a bingo- in TWO places.' And then it cuts into the song. That is all I recall. I tin tell you it was '93 or prior. Whatever assistance from the practiced folks who follow you lot would be fantastic."
Audio clues: none. This time there's neither a recorded snippet nor whatever indication in the OP'southward wording most what type of music it is.
Lyrical clues: just the spoken 'bingo' intro. At this signal, I don't even know whether the balance of the song has lyrics or is purely instrumental.
The search: I have two facts—the bingo intro and a release date no later than 1993—and one supposition: that the creative person is British, since in that location's no obvious reason for a not-UK artist to source a few seconds of audio from a British bingo hall. Of course there'south no guarantee that the vocal'due south title has bingo in information technology, just that'southward the simply practical starting point.
Searching Track Title for "bingo" yielded 2,848 results. I filtered those down to items released in the UK (since odds are proficient that an artist's work would be released first and foremost in their native state), which narrowed the results to 562. I applied a 2d filter in social club to see just items released in the 1990s, which reduced the results to 143. Then I clicked on the View options at the upper-right of the window to see the results as Text With Covers, which enabled me to see the release year for each item.
Ignoring annihilation released past 1993, I worked my way downward the first page of 50 results, clicking through to each detail's detailed release page and looking upward songs on YouTube (if they weren't already embedded in the Discogs page). Eventually I arrived at the album Attain past 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 near 3/4 of the way into it, pausing at the gaps between songs since I was interested but in the first of whatever given runway, and at the 21:32 mark is where I found my British bingo actor. All told, this process took me less than 30 minutes.
I thought I was washed, just something nagged at me: YouTube too has a standalone video of but the vocal "Bingo", and that spoken word clip doesn't appear in it at all, either at the first or the end. Further, the song in that video isn't the one post-obit the bingo hall clip in the full-album video!
After adding upwardly the track times seen on the Discogs page, I realized that 21:32 into the album puts you at the terminate of "Bingo," not the start of information technology. Therefore, if the OP is seeking the song that comes afterward the clip, it's really the next track on the anthology—"Ichola Buddha"—that's he's afterwards (and, when making the mixtape, his friend may have mistaken the bingo hall clip for the intro to that song 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 piece of work in every instance, simply I promise it'll exist a useful tool to help you lot go closer to solving your ain mystery song. If it does, I'd love to hear your stories almost where and when you originally came past a vocal, where the search took you over time, and how y'all arrived at a solution.
(cassette photo by Laurent Hoffmann)
Source: https://markfgriffin.com/2015/02/need-help-identifying-song/
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