Vague music help: 19-something, a something to something

October 29, 2008 6:46 AM

Vague music filter: I'm trying to find a song I can barely remember. I think it was dance/electronica. Probably early 90s. I think it was by an individual artist, not a group. A/the year featured heavily in the lyrics (ie; 19-something, a something to something) and I seem to remember the music video feeling like it was shot in the guy's basement. This was a hit (more or less) in Australia. There may have been a vocoder involved. Help?
posted by krisjohn to media & arts (8 comments total)

Boards of Canada, 1969?

Not early 90s, and no official video that I'm aware of, but it is electronica with vocoded lyrics featuring a 19-- date. Here's hoping 3 out of 5 ain't bad.
posted by googly at 7:14 AM on October 29, 2008

Likely not it, but...
Meat Beat Manifesto - 1979?
posted by davebush at 7:36 AM on October 29, 2008

Maybe some kind of remix of the Smashing Pumpkins' 1979? The original came out in 1995.
posted by echo target at 7:46 AM on October 29, 2008

N-n-n-n-n-19 by Paul Hardcastle in 1985?
posted by Etaoin Shrdlu at 7:54 AM on October 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

Is it Infinity by Guru Josh

'1990s: time to guru'
posted by TheOtherGuy at 8:44 AM on October 29, 2008

Seconding 19 by Paul Hardcastle. There were a couple vocoder effects in it. Most of the lyrics centered around facts from the Vietnam War. "The average age of a soldier in Vietnam was 19..."
posted by Thistledown at 10:00 AM on October 29, 2008

Shazam has an app that will recognize a song by a tune
posted by bargainhunter at 12:04 PM on October 29, 2008

Thank you TheOtherGuy!

(and to everyone else that had a go)
posted by krisjohn at 2:45 PM on October 29, 2008