Please help me identify a long lost song.

December 6, 2006 1:49 PM

80'sDanceMusicFilter: "New York, New York, New York!"

My wife reminded me of this song last night. It sounds very "industrial" and if I remember correctly, in a very gruff voice, it repeated "New York, New York, New York!". Other possible lyrics are "City of Excitement" or "City of Enchantment". I believe it lists all of the boroughs, as well.

I want to say that it's by Gruesome Twosome, or Front 242. But I cannot seem to find it.

Thanks!

posted by lowfi to media & arts (14 comments total)

Nina Hagen perhaps?

whenever in town she used to work coat check as a lark at the Pyramid Club on Ave A...
posted by Mutant at 1:56 PM on December 6, 2006

That wasn't it. I don't believe that there's a womans voice in it at all.

Thanks, though!
posted by lowfi at 2:05 PM on December 6, 2006

microchip league.
posted by Kellydamnit at 2:07 PM on December 6, 2006

God I love that song!
It's Front242. I've got a very old rip from a very old mixtape.
"Be a part of it! Feel the heart of it! New York, New York, New York"

I also remember the line "city of the people, city of deceivers"

I'll be damned if I can find any good info online, though.
posted by zerokey at 2:16 PM on December 6, 2006

On postview...Damn ..Kellydamnit has it. For years I always thought it was Front242 (that's what my old mixtape says :)
posted by zerokey at 2:18 PM on December 6, 2006

Not 242, for sure. I own this on vinyl.

here's the Last FM link
posted by Kellydamnit at 2:20 PM on December 6, 2006

no worries... I'm an industrial DJ so this is kind of my thing. :)
(and, in case you were wondering, every single time I have ever had someone request this they thought it was 242 as well, if they even took a guess on the artist)
posted by Kellydamnit at 2:22 PM on December 6, 2006

Kellydamnit - I seriously envy your vinyl. (now that I have lost sufficient rivet-cred, time to email my friend who made said mixtape and correct our joint 16 year misnomer! :)
posted by zerokey at 2:28 PM on December 6, 2006

For sale on vinyl
Also available on CD
posted by rhizome at 2:36 PM on December 6, 2006

Seconding Microchip League.
posted by ktrey at 2:54 PM on December 6, 2006

Great song! Micro Chip league, another song by them - called communication - is pretty good too.
Heh I signed up just to answer this question because I like that song and by the time I got thru paypal Kellydamnit had it :)
posted by clanger at 3:04 PM on December 6, 2006

This question has made me temporarily insane. I remembered this song but couldn't remember it.... and dug around a little to try and find a place where I could hear it and found this 80's dance mix full of all sorts of memories from 198-sometime.
posted by dog food sugar at 3:44 PM on December 6, 2006

Thanks everyone! I can rest easy tonight.
posted by lowfi at 4:47 PM on December 6, 2006

listenable here. (5 MB mp3)
posted by gennessee at 2:21 PM on December 7, 2006