Ask MetaFilter posts tagged with Song

One for the DiscoEarwormFilter

droplet — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:42:33 -0800

Can you identify this 1970s pop/disco/r&b song? I've had a weird earworm all day: one verse and a chorus from a 70s pop/r&b/disco sort of a song that I haven't heard in 30-some years, and I don't remember the title or anything; I was only a little girl when I heard it last. I can't find any info on it.

What I do remember is a lyric that's a goof on the nursery rhyme Old Mother Hubbard:

"Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her old dog a bone.
When she got there, the cupboard was bare, but the dog didn't care; wanna know why?
'Cause he boogied, boogied on down..."

Or something like that. Did this song exist? Who did this song?

Thanks.

Help me figure out this song

GrubbyUtter — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:49:40 -0800

Song Figuring Out Filter: a classicrock-ish song about some girl being evil. What's the one I'm thinking of? I want to figure out a song I heard several months ago and I only have a couple vague clues to help *you* help me figure it out. I don't have the tune either, sorry.

1. There is a male voice singing (exclusively, no other voices... not even background vocals I don't think, but who knows). I seem to have the impression that it was an older guy. Not some young kid or anything. I remember thinking that the guy singing sounded like he would look like The Dude (Big Lebowski). Not that that is at all helpful.

2. The song was about a woman being evil or of the devil, wicked, something like that.

3 It had sort of a classic rock feel to it. I want to say it reminded me of maybe ZZ Top and Canned Heat? It wasn't them though. Just had that vibe.

4. Here is a list of songs I've run into while trying to find it. These are not it obviously.

Cliff Richard - Devil Woman
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
Cradle Of Filth - Devil Woman
Marty Robbins-Devil Woman
The Doors - Woman is a Devil
E.L.O - Evil Woman
Eagles - Witchy Woman
Ringo Starr - Devil Woman

I haven't listened to, but I'm pretty sure it's also not, the Poison, or Hanoi Rocks, renditions of Devil Woman either. Lots of songs titled that huh?

It's been bugging me for such a long time! Hope somebody can help!

GeekTool issues

djgh — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:44:33 -0800

Get GeekTool to print in columns? I'm using GeekTool to print song lyrics on my desktop, with the following command:

osascript -e '''tell application "iTunes" to set currentLyrics to the lyrics of the current track'''

However, this prints everything in one long column. How can I get GeekTool to print excess output in a second (or even third) column?

Can anyone tell me the artist and title of this Korean song?

Fareed — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:30:39 -0800

Can anyone tell me the artist and title of this Korean song? Hey all:

This is my first post, so yay! Anyway, I have had this Korean song for a long time, but I'm not Korean and I don't speak Korean at all. Could someone who DOES have some experience with Korean language or culture tell me who the singer of this song is, and what the title is? If you can link me to a translation of the lyrics, and/or if you can link me to another site that hosts a copy of this song with the artist and title (so I can verify for myself), I would REALLY appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!!

Link: The song

Take my mother-in-law.... back to her childhood

handybitesize — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:02:47 -0800

Looking for a song/lullaby that my mother-in-law's mother used to sing to her. Memories are fading and I can only offer one line (or one rememberance of one line) You boys and girls are your mother's pearls possible with a Remember in front of it. My M-I-L is 70+ so we are looking for a song at least 60 years old, possibly Irish (family are). Web is offering nothing but we are not confident about the line.

I'm hoping one of you can make an old lady very happy, I'm sorry I can't offer any more details

Citizens of Glendale: Do not worry. He is dead.

Science! — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:33:01 -0800

What are the definitive lyrics to the chorus in the song "A Train Robbery" on Levon Helm's Dirt Farmer album? I've listened to this song a lot, and done some researching to figure it out, but I can't make out what a few words are and the internet gives conflicting answers even on fairly authoritative sites.
Here's the chorus:

1: But we won't touch that old woman
2: [Incomprehensible] and they claimed
3: They ain't offered no reward
4: For Frank and Jesse James
5: Frank and Jesse James

I hear the last word of line 1 as either 'pullman' or 'woman', the internet gives both, and either will work though I don't know how concerned the James Gang would be with the fate of a pullman porter.

I hear line 2 as "he's/she's Southern and afraid. That may work because showing deference to a Southern woman would be in line for them (or at least their mythos)

Looking for an animated French music video and song from a few years back

zaebiz — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:11:20 -0800

What is the name of that French song from maybe five years back which had an animated music video of a little girl running through the pastures and playing? After a certain time, she stops playing, and she exits what turns out to be a big stage. A line of children are waiting their turn to enter the stage and play. I am pretty sure there was a link to it on Metafilter too back then. It seemed to paint a gloomy picture of the future.

Giddy giddy git goo

Daddy-O — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:49:24 -0800

When my daughter was young, she was taught a Danish or Finnish (IIRC] song. This was over 20 years ago, and she can't remember the words. Now she has a child of her own, and it would be cool to teach our granddaughter to sing it. The first 2 lines went something like this:

Giddy giddy git goo
Bumpy mordy banky

If anyone knows the words to this nonsense children's song, I would sure like some help.

MusicFilter: Help me identify this song!

philosophygeek — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:14:10 -0800

Can you help me identify this song?

For your birthday, let's duet

strangememes — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:18:27 -0800

[KaraokeFilter] Karaoke night tonight and one of the group has a birthday at midnight. Help me find something special to sing! She loves to sing too, so this can be a duet. Heck, it can be a group number, we've got plenty of people coming. Any special karaoke-able, birthday-ish songs out there? Or any other ideas on making tonight's karaoke memorable for her?

If it helps, she's turning 27.

Video Spawned the Radio Star

BE ADEQUITE — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:22:43 -0800

I'm working on a list of movies that have spawned notable band names and song titles. Dead on is great, esoteric is just fine. No Weird Al or other humorists, please. Can you help?

Works About The Relationship Between Fathers and Sons?

Jaybo — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:49:19 -0800

I'm the first-time father of a one-year old boy. Having recently finished "The Road" and "The Prince of Frogtown" and enjoyed the movie "The Kite Runner", I'm looking for suggestions of other books (or movies or songs) that are about the relationship between fathers and sons. I'll throw in a quote from "The Prince of Frogtown" to help illustrate the type of thing I'm looking for:

"You learn to stand the smell of sour-apple bubblegum and the company of a boy who jabs you in the your belly before he makes himself comfortable, and tells you that you are "comfy", not to be mean but just stating a fact. Then, just when you get used to it, not minding it so much, it all vanishes, and the little boy you launched in the air stands at your shoulder like a man, and when you turn to say something you find yourself looking right into his eyes."

What is the name of this French song?

chillmost — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:27:34 -0800

What is this song I heard in my high school French class? This was about 17 years ago so the memory is hazy. If I remember correctly, it was about 2 people (man and woman?, husband and wife?) who were falsely accused of spying and were executed. I want to say that their names were Nicol and Bart. In fact that is what I always remembered the title of the song to be, "Nicole et Bart" and it was written in morial to them, but I'm not getting any close hits with google. I think the main melody went something like this.

The first line of text started, "Maintenant, Nicole et Bart..." something something dans nos coeurs (into our hearts?) I think the recording was from the 60's or 70's.

It might be easy to find if I could remember the correct French spelling.
My French language skills have been pushed out of my brain and replaced by German. Typisch.
Nur ein Scherz!

Trying to identify Washington State bird by sound heard at night.

DCTapeworm — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:03:34 -0800

Please help me identify this bird in Washington State (nocturnal). I didn't see it, but I heard it. It was a long screech, starting at a low pitch, and ending at a high pitch. The screech lasted a full second or so. There was one right in front of my house, and another in the backyard. If it helps for region, I'm out in Snohomish where there's tons of pine trees around.

Please help me identify this Brazilian pop song

gentle — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:23:24 -0800

Please help me identify this pop song. It sounds Brazilian, probably from the 1960s or '70s.

find an operatic version of this folk favorite?

parmanparman — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:05:38 -0800

Can you help me find an mp3/dvd/mp4/n-e-thing of the operatic and maybe-BBC Last Night of the Proms rendition of Stephen Foster's Camptown Races? I have only seen this once on Classic Arts Showcase, but its an operatic version of the folksong Camptown Races. I have pinned it down to what I think is the BBC Last Night of the Proms 2000, but what I can find of that online either cuts it out or doesn't mention it.

Anyway, I believe the composer of the piece was Percy Grainger, but I might be completely wrong. Maybe you remember it? I would be grateful if you helped me find it or a confirmed reference of it.

mystery acoustic song id

null terminated — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:59:59 -0800

Acoustic male song id question I heard a song on the radio Sunday in New Jersey around 8:30pm that I'd like to identify. It was acoustic and male and the only words I can remember go something (though probably not exactly) like "my (girl | lady), she's not a fair-weather fan". I've searched all variations of that but nothing seemed to match. I hadn't heard the song before but have no idea if it's recent or not. The general theme of the song seemed to have been being rich or successful and having lots of friends, then losing that but having his lady stick by him (I'm not positive of this either, because I only caught the end of the song). Thanks a lot!

What song is in this video?

majikstreet — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:20:14 -0800

Asking for a friend: What song is in this video?

This song is stuck to me like glue.

overglow — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:49:28 -0800

Help me find this indie pop duet that includes lyrics like "I'm gonna stick with you... stick like glue." So, last April (or maybe March) I was in a Starbucks and I heard this song that I really liked. I asked the staff about it, but by that time the next song had started and they couldn't tell me what the previous song was because the playlist was computerized and random. It was a male female duet, with a cheerful, summery feel, maybe with a little bit of vaudeville or roots music flavor. As I said above, the chorus included lines like "I'm gonna stick with you..." and something about glue. I don't remember the other lyrics, but I think there were some other cutesy metaphors for love too. I've tried Googling and searching on All Music to no avail--I know it's not the Elvis song or the Lou Reed song or the Angel song. I'm hoping one of you has heard this song and knows who sings it.

She Drove A Yellow Convertible - ?

coffeefilter — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:26:33 -0800

(Song ID) - Yellow Convertible song - Can anyone tell me, or point me to the full lyrics and tablature or sheet music for the Yellow Convertible song? She drove a yellow convertible, she drove it mighty fine .... At least I think that's what it was. She drove a yellow convertible, she drove it mighty fine. She drove all across the universe, she got back just in time ...

Might have been a campfire song, or a driving song.

[Can't find it with Google - I know it exists - I didn't imagine it ...]

Someone took a picture / of Kate Moss doing lines / Now she's being victimized / for imaginary crimes

TheNewWazoo — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:33:23 -0800

Does anyone have a good download link for the entirety of thepartyparty's tracks? I remember I used to have 8 or 9 different remixes, but the website seems to have whittled that down to only 5, and with no clean download links. I need my "Dick is a Killer"!

Do women sing about cars?

GrammarMoses — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:23:23 -0800

Do women sing about cars? Just now I heard Margo Thunder's cover of "Expressway to Your Heart" and it made me realize that I almost never hear women singing automobile-themed songs. I have easily heard hundreds of car songs during my life - of which two were performed by women. (The other one: Lucinda Williams' "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.") I think there's an essay in this, maybe, if the thesis holds up. So I'm asking you for additional examples: If I get lots, the theory goes out the window; if indeed there are very few, that'll help me prove my point.

Reading Rainbow Music Needed

dinty_moore — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:18:29 -0800

Searching for a song filter: looking for a song that played on Reading Rainbow in 1988. I'm looking for a way to listen to 'the pasta song' from Reading Rainbow: The Robbery at the Diamond Dog Diner. I'm not picky as to how-if it's available streaming somewhere or if I can buy it on cassette. I've been looking for a few hours with no luck, so any help would be appreciated!

I can('t) name that tune in 9 seconds!

shakobe — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:40:50 -0800

I heard this snippet of a song between scenes of a recent tv show. I really like the song, but I can't figure out the artist. I have tried googling the lyrics and I've looked at various "songs on tv shows" sites, as well as forums for the show ("Unhitched" episode 1).

I figured if anyone can solve it--metafilter can! :)

Link to mystery song clip

Can you identify this cover of Toxic I heard?

chudmonkey — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:24:51 -0800

Can you help me find this vaguely-described song featuring/based on a cover of Britney Spear's Toxic? I was listening to an online radio station called Flavor Mix on Monday, June 23 when I heard the tail-end of a song. What I heard was a verse of some fairly generic rapping by (at least) one male performer, followed by a soulful, smoky rendition of the chorus of Toxic by a female voice.

Britney's Toxic has been covered extensively, but I've only been able to come across versions by Yael Naim, Local H and Blowsight, and none of them are the song I heard.

Flavormix.de is a little hard for me to navigate because of the language barrier and some confusing cross-domain links, so I had no luck using that site to find track-listings or anything.

I'd love to hear that track again - thanks in advance for any help!