Comments on: Help me remember this song from the mid 90s

Question: Help me remember this song from the mid 90s

DandyRandy — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:16:39 -0800

I need some help rediscovering the artist and title of a song from ten years ago or so - vague memories follow:

The song starts off as if you're listening to the first verse through a tinny speaker, then comes on full very suddenly at the second verse. It starts in a minor key, had a vaguely Spanish flavor to it, and I think the chorus (in a major key) refers to 'the road" in its lyrics.

KFOG in San Francisco used to play it quite a lot, so I guess you'd call it Modern Rock ten years ago, and I'd like to hear it again, but haven't got a clue even to what the song is about. Help me, MeFi!

By: cmyk

cmyk — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:21:34 -0800

Is it this?

By: DandyRandy

DandyRandy — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:24:50 -0800

Wow! - 5 minutes! Indeed it is, and thank you, cmyk.

Ain't MeFi Fun!

By: evariste

evariste — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:04:36 -0800

Wow, I'd forgotten all about that song. It was a fun little late 90's song.

By: tentacle

tentacle — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:24:22 -0800

And all this time I had thought it was Elvis Costello. Glad to know the real deal now!

By: witchstone

witchstone — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:40:59 -0800

I wouldn't really call them a one-hit wonder, though. Their song Fire Escape was pretty popular as well (they have 2 singers in the band which is why the singer sounds different in those songs). So I guess we could call them a 2 hit wonder.

By: chococat

chococat — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:17:32 -0800

That song was pretty much a rip-off of Tom Jones' "Delilah," no?