Get this earworm out of my head! (and onto my ipod)

December 5, 2013 7:21 PM

I have a piece of a song stuck in my head and it's apparently not enough for google to be of any use. It's an 80's or 90's song, with a guy's voice sort of chanting "ooh ma ma way" in an african-y sounding way with a heavy bass line. I feel like it was used a lot in soundtracks to represent a journey or something like that, because it reminds me of solsbury hill. if anyone can name this song, i know it's you lovely mefites.
posted by carlypennylane to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

Best answer: Yes - look here, there's nothing up my sleeve...hmm...I see it...yes, it's getting clearer...is this your card?
posted by FAMOUS MONSTER at 7:24 PM on December 5, 2013 [8 favorites]

Best answer: Rusted Root, Send Me On My Way.
posted by Miko at 7:24 PM on December 5, 2013 [5 favorites]

Diamonds on the soles of her shoes?
posted by kdern at 7:25 PM on December 5, 2013 [1 favorite]

If it reminds you of Solsbury Hill, it's not Biko is it?
posted by tyllwin at 7:28 PM on December 5, 2013

Response by poster: 3 minutes flat. i've said it before, but i'll say it again: i love you, ask metafilter.

(it was rusted root, but to the others, your suggestions are also very similar. i smell a playlist?)
posted by carlypennylane at 7:28 PM on December 5, 2013 [1 favorite]

That multiculti sound was definitely a thing at the time.
posted by Miko at 8:07 PM on December 5, 2013

That Rusted Root cut has also been on several commercials before, even this year.
posted by those are my balloons at 11:24 PM on December 6, 2013

And other media.
posted by those are my balloons at 11:26 PM on December 6, 2013