2000s Songs I Have No Time to Get Up Again Lyrics

It's pretty mutual in music circles to come across people who have spent literally decades trying to identify an obscure song on an quondam 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 Song?, Midomi, and Reddit—devoted to crowdsourcing the solutions.

Many times, without what felt like much work, I've been able to successfully ID such songs for strangers. Not because I'one thousand Brainypants McMusicface; to the contrary. In every instance these accept been songs and artists I'd never heard (or fifty-fifty heard of) before.

But the recordings independent the necessary clues and context, to which I applied some deductive reasoning and inquiry done on freely-available websites. Hither'southward how I've gone about it, in case crowdsourcing isn't working for you.

Ane instance: Slicing Up Eyeballs posted this to both Facebook and Twitter.

Tin you ID this funky postal service-punk song taped off WNYU in the '80s?

A Slicing Upwards Eyeballs reader sent u.s.a. the following note:

"I write from Germany 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 not hear the Proper name and Artist. And then i have the Link here where you lot tin can heed to. If y'all don`t know it, perchance you lot can help us with the Lyrics. Nosotros went them up and downward with no Result. Peculiarly after the outset words "Oh well oh welcome ….. This might be the Refrain of the Song because he repeats information technology often in this Song. I would be very glad to get an reply from y'all because this Vocal is searched for more than than 33 Years."

The post was accompanied by the song's audio on Soundcloud (and had already been an open up example on Wat Zat Song? for over five months).

one. 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 marketplace and the ability to catalog your entire music drove), it's a powerful search engine. The Avant-garde Search, which is complimentary to utilize without creating an business relationship, allows you to look just within Track (song) Championship.

Since this song didn't accept a traditional chorus (where the title would normally echo), I started making out the lyrics from the top.

Oh well, oh welcome [turncoat?] Sam
He said he was a killer man
He doesn't care about your [love / life]

And then something virtually napalm? Sounds a fleck agit-prop. That first line repeats at the commencement of each verse, giving at least office of it the potential to appear in the title. A Rail 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 unlike song titles on a given album, non 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 also. Choosing Decade>1980 from the menu downwardly the left side of the search window narrows it down from 44 to 7.

Every bit for genre, would Discogs have this filed under punk, funk, other? Those distinctions are subjective, which is why I opted not to use their filters for this stride and instead eliminated results that obviously weren't the genre I was looking for (i.e. 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 it by now). That left me with only one result to investigate:Maxi Dance Pool Vol. two – Musikladen Eurotops.

NB: Discogs, due to the mode its records are structured, returned three unlike iterations of this same album in the search results: ane existence the 'master page' for that release/anthology and the other two detailing the split up formats of the release, CD and LP. All three are interchangeable for my purposes, then no demand to await at each.

iii. Utilize streaming music resource to follow leads.

Given that my keywords were spread across two track titles on this compilation—"Oh Well" (by an artist of the same proper noun), and another titled "Welcome, Automobile Gun"—and that my song inappreciably seemed similar club provender, this was probably a dead end but I was already here and decided to run across it through. The onetime title was a better lucifer to my lyric than the latter so I followed the hyperlink to the Discogs page showing Oh Well'south discography. The song "Oh Well", since information technology was released equally a single, had its own subpage with an embedded YouTube video, a quick browse of which proved it wasn't the song I was later on.

"Machine gun" didn't appear in the lyrics of my song, so information technology seemed illogical to assume that the latter vocal had any relevance to my search. Back to the drawing board.

four. Echo steps 1-three as needed.

I didn't bother pursuing the words "oh well" any farther because, on their ain, they only didn't experience distinctive or interesting enough to be a championship for this song. Instead, I turned my sights to "turncoat Sam." Few writers would exist able to resist making such a unique plough of phrase the hook on which to hang a song, so it had a improve hazard of appearing in the championship. Merely that search yielded merely two results, which were apace ruled out. Additional searches for "turncoat" and "welcome turncoat" were similarly fruitless.

Out of other options, I searched for "Sam". Filtering downward to just the '80s still left nearly 2700 releases. Scanning the outset folio of 50 results, I eliminated annihilation immediately recognizable (e.yard. T. King'south "Telegram Sam"), the foreign linguistic communication items, the ones patently in non-applicable genres like jazz, and ones in which Sam was inextricably paired with other words ("Play It Over again, Sam", etc.).

At the bottom of the page my eye was fatigued to a nighttime, arty record embrace 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 unsaid.

Information technology was for a single of a vocal called "Uncle Sam" past a group I'd never heard of, Rhythm of Life. Clicking through to that subpage showed that it was a Great 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 hither (Josef Thousand, Cabaret Voltaire), I knew plenty to think they were reasonably aligned with my target.

I searched YouTube for "Rhythm of Life Uncle Sam," which returned i outcome; after a cursory pulsate intro that was missing from the original post, there was my song. It wasn't "turncoat Sam" after all… it was "Oh well, oh welcome to Uncle Sam", with "to" and "Uncle" sung so close together as to sound like one give-and-take.

[Editor's note: that video used to be 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 not to be bachelor on any legitimate streaming service—or for digital download—in the U.s., and can simply be plant on a two-CD Paul Haig compilation from Brussels-based Les Disques du Crépuscule label. And that fact, dear reader—that the spider web giveth and the web taketh away—is a perfect example of why I ever view my personal music library as more essential and comprehensive than any subscription-based streaming service can hope to exist.]

To be off-white, intuition played a part in arriving at the solution, equally did expert luck; if my vocal had appeared on the 50th page of "Sam" results instead of the start, would I have establish it? (Not 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 have a decent if not comprehensive noesis, etc.) Still, this method has helped me solve half a dozen other mystery songs that had been plaguing people for 25+ years, where commonage "Well, it kind of sounds like [artist proper name here]" guesswork failed.

Here's i more case off the meridian of my head, using the same steps—identifying the audio clues, lyrical clues, and parameters for the search.

Example #two

Audio 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 bit Paisley Underground.

Lyrical clues: a mention of Jerry Falwell bolstered my notion that it's American in origin. Focusing on the closest thing to a chorus, the only lyrics which echo are variations of:

Whatever name you become by, she goes by now too
What else would she exercise?
She's got her final resorts in the mail
To box three 5 comma oh oh oh

The search: the last line was the best bet. The number 35,000 spoken in that way, every bit its private components, was and so unusual that information technology took a while to realize that's what I was hearing, as opposed to the oh-oh-ohs simply being vocal punctuations. Beingness tricky and unique, it was the most obvious hook. And radio being a contemporary medium, the song was probably either released in '87 or '88; songs mostly don't go airplay years after their release unless they've achieved some status. Searching Discogs in ii fields—Track Championship for "35,000", and Year for 1987—took me direct to it: "35,000" by Insiders, from an album called Ghost On the Beach.

I'm not surprised it eluded someone for decades; it was a deep album cut, non a unmarried, and it'southward not on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes or Amazon. I had to runway it downwards on (now-defunct) Grooveshark in order to verify its identity.

Example #3, without audio

Again, Slicing Up Eyeballs posted a reader's plea on Facebook.

Name THAT TUNE: Scott's having problem tracking down a song he used to take on a mixtape. Does this ring a bong for anyone?

"I have what seems to be the common 'I had a mix record years agone, what the hell was that song' problem. '93 in college a buddy made me a killer mix tape. I lost the track listing afterward many moves, but have managed to hunt downwardly almost all of the songs except ane. Hither'south what I remember:

"The song begins with a prune of a British man calling bingo. He mentions i number and then says 'blue? 22. We have a bingo- in TWO places.' And so it cuts into the song. That is all I remember. I can tell y'all it was '93 or prior. Any help from the skilful folks who follow you would be fantastic."

Audio clues: none. This time there'due south neither a recorded snippet nor any indication in the OP's diction near what type of music it is.

Lyrical clues: just the spoken 'bingo' intro. At this point, I don't even know whether the rest of the vocal has lyrics or is purely instrumental.

The search: I accept two facts—the bingo intro and a release appointment no later than 1993—and ane supposition: that the artist is British, since there's no obvious reason for a non-UK creative person to source a few seconds of sound from a British bingo hall. Of course there's no guarantee that the vocal'south title has bingo in it, but that'due south the only practical starting betoken.

Searching Track Championship for "bingo" yielded 2,848 results. I filtered those downwardly to items released in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland (since odds are good that an artist's work would be released first and foremost in their native country), which narrowed the results to 562. I applied a 2nd filter in club to run across simply items released in the 1990s, which reduced the results to 143. So I clicked on the View options at the upper-correct of the window to meet the results equally Text With Covers, which enabled me to see the release year for each item.

Ignoring annihilation released past 1993, I worked my way downwardly the first page of 50 results, clicking through to each item'due south detailed release page and looking upwards songs on YouTube (if they weren't already embedded in the Discogs page). Eventually I arrived at the album Achieve past Snuff, released in 1992.

Since the release page featured a YouTube video of the full album and "Bingo" was rails nine of twelve, I scrubbed about 3/4 of the way into it, pausing at the gaps betwixt songs since I was interested only in the beginning of any given rails, and at the 21:32 marker is where I found my British bingo player. All told, this process took me less than 30 minutes.

I thought I was done, just something nagged at me: YouTube also has a standalone video of just the song "Bingo", and that spoken word clip doesn't appear in it at all, either at the outset or the end. Further, the vocal in that video isn't the one post-obit the bingo hall clip in the total-album video!

Subsequently adding up the track times seen on the Discogs folio, I realized that 21:32 into the anthology puts you at the end of "Bingo," not the beginning of it. Therefore, if the OP is seeking the song that comes subsequently the clip, it's really the next track on the album—"Ichola Buddha"—that's he's after (and, when making the mixtape, his friend may accept mistaken the bingo hall clip for the intro to that song instead of what it really is: the tail end of "Bingo").

Obviously my method is dependent on certain factors—not to mention some luck and intuition—and won't work in every instance, but I hope it'll be a useful tool to assist you lot become closer to solving your own mystery vocal. If it does, I'd love to hear your stories about where and when yous originally came by a vocal, where the search took you over time, and how y'all arrived at a solution.

(cassette photograph by Laurent Hoffmann)

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Source: https://markfgriffin.com/2015/02/need-help-identifying-song/

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