Track ID needed (late 80s/90s popular music) - Reward!

September 14, 2009 10:40 PM

Track ID needed (late 80s/90s popular music) - Reward for the finder!

I'll snail-mail a custom made present to anyone who finds this song.

Here's what I know about the song I'm trying to find.

- It was made in 1996 or earlier, and probably in the 90s.
- It's not by a "grunge-y" band
- It's made by a person/band that was relatively popular and well known, but the song itself is on the obscure side because it contains too much profanity/obscenity to receive radio play.
- It wasn't a hidden track on the album, just a normal track along with the rest
- It's intended to be sex-oriented and not relationship/love-oriented
- He doesn't remember it having featured prominently in any movies

Not much to go on :/

(For the curious, a friend who I'm flirting with said that there was a song a friend in high school played him when he was around 14-15 and if a woman ever sang him this song, he'd make out with them on the spot. It's not even a song that he particularly likes, he hasn't heard it in 10 years, and he doesn't own the album. But I've decided to make it a needle in a haystack personal mission.)

posted by groovinkim to media & arts (29 comments total)

ok, not much to go on here, but I'll throw out Liz Phair's awesome Flower.
posted by lalex at 10:47 PM on September 14 [1 favorite]

oh, YouTube audio. (totally NSFW)
posted by lalex at 10:57 PM on September 14 [1 favorite]

Everybody say "Hey...."
posted by dersins at 11:06 PM on September 14

I'd guess it is something off of the end of Broken.
posted by TimeDoctor at 11:15 PM on September 14

Dave Matthews Band "Crash into me" made in 1996. Questionable lyrics because of the "and I come into you", also post 2001, the crash into me bit was not so cute.
posted by b33j at 11:19 PM on September 14

I'd guess something by Sublime
posted by ValentineMaynard at 11:20 PM on September 14

Justify my love by Madonna (i can't find her video.)
According to wikipedia: "It caused international controversy due to the accompanying music video which was sexually explicit and even banned by MTV."
posted by b33j at 11:22 PM on September 14

Santeria by Sublime?

"If I could find that heine (?) with that sancho that she's got, I'd pop a cap in sancho and I'd slap her down."
posted by alona at 11:41 PM on September 14

Just to iterate on behalf of the OP:

the song itself is on the obscure side because it contains too much profanity/obscenity to receive radio play.
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 11:48 PM on September 14

Does he know the sex of the singer?
posted by setanor at 12:12 AM on September 15

do you know if it's a male or female singer?
posted by LobsterMitten at 12:21 AM on September 15

Prince, “Darling Nikki”?

If not, see if it's on this list of the Filthiest Lyrics of All Time.

Re: Darling Nikki and TheSecretDecoderRing's post - I was 4 years old in 1984, when the song was released, so I don't know if it got radio play or not.
posted by IndigoRain at 12:47 AM on September 15

Mr. Bungle's The Girls of Porn (1991), which begins: "Okay, all you pus-sucking motherfuckers out there ..."?
posted by benzenedream at 12:52 AM on September 15

Could it have been that Butthole Surfers track that got some radio play?
posted by GilloD at 2:47 AM on September 15

9 inch nails: Closer (1994) - pretty well known but fits your criteria.

The Beautiful South's 1996 Track "Don't Marry Her, Have Me" - contained came in a much less clean version on the Album.
posted by rongorongo at 3:42 AM on September 15

Sexy Mexican Maid by Red Hot Chili Peppers? Yeah, just throwin that out there..

This isn't much to go on. :/ Is he 100% sure it was obscure, or at least obscure for the reasons cited? Closer ("I Wanna Fuck You Like An Animal") got ridiculous airtime despite the explicit lyrics, albeit bleeped out. I'm trying to think of something blatantly dirtier, and only Mr. Bungle pops into my head.. but that isn't much of a make-out band, so seems unlikely. Anything to narrow this down would help.
posted by cj_ at 3:46 AM on September 15

How will we know when the correct song is guessed?
posted by MarvinJ at 4:20 AM on September 15

Seconding MarvinJ...there are wayyyy too many options out there and how are you gonna know which one is the right one until you try? What if it's wrong? Will you keep trying until you get the right one??

Anyways, this wikipedia article might be helpful.
posted by Gonestarfishing at 4:54 AM on September 15

Yeah, a few more details would be incredibly helpful: male or female singer? Any recollection of the song's style beyond "not grunge," e.g. rock, R&B, pop? Slow or fast? Any remembered lyrics at all?

For example, Madonna and Prince both had entire sex-themed albums released in the early 90s, could be any of those tracks.

Even NSync had a sexy non-single; although it's five years too late for your consideration, just throwing it out as an example. And I would probably make out with anyone who sang "Digital Get-Down" to me.
posted by Metroid Baby at 6:34 AM on September 15 [1 favorite]

Tori Amos - Precious Things
posted by Jaltcoh at 6:55 AM on September 15

Tori Amos - Icicle
posted by Jaltcoh at 6:56 AM on September 15

I vote "At a Medium Pace" off of Adam Sandler's record They're All Gonna Laugh at You!

1993, not "grunge-y", he was a relatively popular and well known performer at the time, the song is way too dirty to receive radio play, but ended up on tons of mix tapes in the mid 90s, it's not a hidden track (14 of 22), and it's totally sex-oriented. On top of all that, were I not happily married and some cute girl sang it to me all these years later I'd be mighty tempted to make out with her on the spot.
posted by togdon at 8:17 AM on September 15

R.E.M.'s "Star Me Kitten"
Divinyl's "I Touch Myself"
posted by aught at 8:22 AM on September 15

lalex, you are the winner.

i really enjoy the other suggestions though.

you guys are awesome.
posted by groovinkim at 9:17 AM on September 15

Oh man, I had a better song.

Berlin - Sex
posted by Funmonkey1 at 10:29 AM on September 15

groovinkim: in that case you will need to learn to overdub yourself when you whisper in his ear.
posted by rongorongo at 10:43 AM on September 15

I had a great one, too: Sublime's already been mentioned, but Carress Me Down fits the bill perfectly.

Also, b33j, you mention the lyrics "come into you" from Crash Into Me, but not "hike up your skirt a little more, and show your world to me"? Really?
posted by owtytrof at 10:48 AM on September 15

Seriously, first guess was correct?
posted by cj_ at 4:54 PM on September 15 [4 favorites]

for the record, groovinkim did indeed generously offer to send me a snail mail gift.
posted by lalex at 9:44 PM on September 18