I'm tired of not knowing what this song is! Ba-dum-dum.

October 24, 2009 5:45 AM

Please help me identify a song I heard about 10-12 years ago. Not much to go on inside.

I definitely heard the song between the years 1997 and 2000. It sounded kind of like Nirvana, the chorus was something like "Ohhhhhhh, I'm tired" with a little bit of harmony. It was *not* "Pennyroyal Tea", which is what comes up in Google when I type in "Nirvana i'm tired".

posted by Lucinda to society & culture (7 comments total)

Any chance it's the Pixies' "I've Been Tired"?
posted by escabeche at 5:57 AM on October 24

Do you recall any of the melody? Would you be able to hum at least 10 seconds of it? If so you may be able to use a service such as midomi to identify it. It is FREE and does not require any registration. It uses Flash to access your microphone and will try and match what your input with that of other users. I have had amazing success with it. Just this week I was able to identify an unknown song I heard and had been humming all week just by whistling the Saxophone part.
posted by wannalol at 6:19 AM on October 24 [1 favorite has favorites]

Wake Me Up by Rusty? [video preceded by ad]
posted by reegmo at 6:27 AM on October 24

seconding reegmo with the Rusty tune.
posted by stavx at 7:14 AM on October 24

Weezer, "Tired of Sex"?. Definitely has a grungy edge to it. Off Pinkerton, which was released in late 1996.
posted by drlith at 7:22 AM on October 24

you heard the song between 1997 and 2000, but was the song released then?

Two songs that popped have popped into my head:

'Waking Up Tired' by the Hoodoo Gurus. (More New Wave than grungy Nirvana though)
'Tired of Waking Up Tired' by the Diodes. (80s Punk)
posted by TheOtherGuy at 8:20 AM on October 24

That's it! Wow, thank you so, so, so, much! Yay!
posted by Lucinda at 8:24 AM on October 24