# A song I cannot identify **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-cannot-identify/362456 "2006-06-28T05:37:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Neur0mancer\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@Neur0mancer\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neur0mancer_1)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-cannot-identify/362456/1 "2006-06-28T05:37:53Z")
OK, I have tried every other means I can think of, and hope that someone out there among the TM can either figure this out, or suggest another avenue to pursue. First, the context. There is a CD I have that was made in the mid-90’s by the DJs at a Goth nightclub. There are three tracks, one by each DJ, and the songs in each are not individually identified in any way. One of the tracks has a song in the middle of it, and I want to know what it is (artist, title, etc.). I have tried playing the track for multiple professional Goth/industrial DJs, and all of them say “wow, that sounds familiar”, but not one has been able to identify it. I have tried Googling the lyrics, some of which are pretty distinctive, with no success. I’ll put in some of the lyrics here. Some I have trouble making out, because they are spoken by a distorted mechanical voice, and they will be entered in italics as the best approximation that I can put down from what I can hear: When you’re _sick to the bones dead_ connection \*donny \*doctors to tell you you’re screwed your dead hand needs resurrection and your feets tryin’ to shuffle you through shake up baby break up baby [repeat several times] listen to the sound of it when you’re stuck in the wrong place temptation fills you up till you don’t know what’s true _these habits_ need elimination open eyes, a positive view I’d be glad to send an mp3 of the song to anyone who wants to take a crack at it, or play it for a goth/industrial DJ they think might be able to figure it out. Email me at nur0mncr [at] yahoo [dot] com ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-cannot-identify/362456/2 "2006-06-28T11:41:38Z")
Moved to Cafe Society, our forum for the Arts. **samclem** ---
**Author:** ![Neur0mancer\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@Neur0mancer\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neur0mancer_1)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-cannot-identify/362456/3 "2006-06-28T20:10:07Z")
Sorry to have posted it in the wrong forum, and thanks for setting me straight. G ---
**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-cannot-identify/362456/4 "2006-06-28T20:43:43Z")
according to google cache [http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:NFI6P8n\_jDoJ:www.lexiconmagazine.com/NWC/Qustions.html+"shake+up+baby+"+lyrics&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=9](http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:NFI6P8n_jDoJ:www.lexiconmagazine.com/NWC/Qustions.html+%22shake+up+baby+%22+lyrics&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=9) bout 2/3 way down its Hallucination Generation by Gruesome Twosome ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-cannot-identify/362456/5 "2006-06-28T20:45:16Z")
I can’t tell you anything about the song, but I suspect the “_donny_” in line 2 is some variant of “don’t need”. My Google-fu didn’t turn up any matching lyrics, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-song-i-cannot-identify/362456/6 "2006-06-28T20:55:09Z")
Ahhhh, I was wondering the same thing for awhile, knew it was the Gruesome Twosome, never knew the name of the song.