Extremely vague song description: I heard a woman playing acoustic guitar in Boston at South Station tonight. She was playing a fairly famous song from the 60's or 70's. The song is sung by a male with a deep scratchy voice, like hungover whiskey voice. He is singing powerfully and it is a powerful song. Not a happy song. It's a singer's song, not so much about the music. The song is definitely famous enough, but not something you would regularly hear, or hear at all on a classic rock radio station. I picture the man singing it to have a lot of facial hair. The lyrics may contain the word 'fire' or they may not.
posted by comatose
on Mar 8, 2012 -
26 answers
I am desperately trying to remember a song from a mix-tape around 1996 that involved a male singing in a quiet, resigned, almost-verging-on-happy-about-giving-up tone about how he was going to just stay inside and live his do-nothing life in his crappy run-down home and drink tea with a dormouse. Something to that effect. Minimalist sound, kind of plinky and plonky.
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posted by thegreatfleecircus
on Dec 22, 2011 -
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Longshot Music Filter: Please help me identify this (asian?) song from this short, poor quality recording.
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posted by forforf
on Sep 10, 2011 -
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Help me identify this mystery song that played on my iPhone so I don't think I'm crazy.
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posted by xtine
on May 19, 2011 -
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Last night on the way home from work I was listening to Cosmic Commander's Sonic Radio on Faction. I heard a song and would really like to find out who did it.
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posted by theichibun
on Feb 28, 2011 -
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Help my father identify two songs he recorded off the radio in the late 80's / early 90's. One is bluegrass and the other is alternative rock.
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posted by wivy
on Dec 4, 2010 -
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Can anyone help me identify this song, given a description of the first 45ish seconds (no lyrics)?
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posted by mekily
on Sep 27, 2010 -
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Name-that-song filter. Male singer, lyrics (I think) contain the line: "as big as Saskatchewan, you're never going to see me again." Any ideas? Not much more inside, I'm afraid.
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posted by the cat's pyjamas
on Jul 20, 2010 -
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Anyone know
this song? Sorry, I only have that excerpt.) Sounds like a 1960s folk-pop tune. In case you don't feel like downloading it, the lyrics are along these lines:
I gotta get the world off my back / Pretty soon I'm gonna crack / so I gotta get the world offa my back somehow ... I grew up and looked around me and I saw that the world was in a mess / thousands of hungry people, children starving in wars, injustice, and everybody kept picking on me ...
I had no luck searching with the lyrics online. Thanks for any help you can provide!
posted by ktoad
on Jan 8, 2009 -
3 answers
SongIDFilter: Can anyone identify
this song? It's from a compilation CD, and I have no distinguishing information other than the song itself. It sounds quite familiar, but no-one I've asked has been able to place it. It seems rather cinematic, making me think that it's from a film score, but that's really all I have to go on. Any leads would be much appreciated.
posted by zachlipton
on Mar 2, 2008 -
4 answers
Canadian song alert: I'm trying to remember a tune that was played incessantly on Canadian (or at least, St. Lawrence Valley-area) commercial radio sometime in the 1990s. [MI]
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posted by skoosh
on Oct 17, 2004 -
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