# Another song ID. Possibly 80s?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 25, 2014, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989 "2014-07-25T02:47:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989/21 "2014-07-25T03:34:37Z")
I’m not a big Billy Squire fan, I never would have figured that out. After I listed to that .wav file I went off in way the wrong direction. Dammit, I still going to find the song it reminds me of…
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989/22 "2014-07-25T03:39:29Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#):
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> This won’t answer your question, but (a) the melody sounds a hell of a lot like [this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf1e_kc6jUQ) and (b) you f—in’ rock, dude!
Cheers. One of the few recordings of me playing guitar. I’m a keyboardist, and this was way back in 2001 when I was screwing around at a friend’s place (cat sitting), and recorded a sketch with a couple different guitars, bass, and tapping the pads on some Alesis drum module. I heard the Billy Squire song years later and was like, wait a second! Did I subconsciously ripoff Billy Squire? Rocket from the Crypt was my immediate inspiration, I will admit.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989/23 "2014-07-25T03:41:15Z")
BTW, love the connection to “I Will Follow Him.” It never would have occurred to me, but, yeah, there’s a definite similarity there, too.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989/24 "2014-07-25T03:46:32Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> I’m not a big Billy Squire fan, I never would have figured that out. After I listed to that .wav file I went off in way the wrong direction. Dammit, I still going to find the song it reminds me of…
Nevermind, I’d swear it reminded me of a Smashing Pumpkin’s song. Despite the fun I just had reliving my high school days in 30 second youtube clips (I did love Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness), as it turns out, that .wav file sounds nothing like anything I could find (quickly anyways) that Billy Corgan ever recorded for the Pumpkins.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989/25 "2014-07-25T03:52:01Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> Nevermind, I’d swear it reminded me of a Smashing Pumpkin’s song. Despite the fun I just had reliving my high school days in 30 second youtube clips (I did love Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness), as it turns out, that .wav file sounds nothing like anything I could find (quickly anyways) that Billy Corgan ever recorded for the Pumpkins.
I’m a big Pumpkins fan, so it’s possible that was invading my subconscious. (Actually, the little acoustic-electric guitar arpeggio at the end of the sketch was inspired by “I am One,” if I remember correctly. Actually, now that I think of it, the “I Am One” chord progression is similar, too, and in the same key, though a lot faster with a different rhythm.)
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989/26 "2014-07-25T04:20:40Z")
[Jellybelly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVDuaIuGB_0) was the song I was thinking of.
Doesn’t really sound like it, but I haven’t heard it in 15 years.
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### Author:  [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989/27 "2014-07-25T04:25:25Z")
This isn’t it (can’t be, you would know it for sure), but that sounds an awful lot like “You Really Got Me” by the Kinks. [Van Halen did a cover, but I don’t think that’s the synth pop sound you’re looking for.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg1UG0GwIKc) Unfortunately, that’s the only thing close that’s stuck in my head right now so I can’t think of anything else!
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989/28 "2014-07-25T04:29:10Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> [Jellybelly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVDuaIuGB_0) was the song I was thinking of.
> Doesn’t really sound like it, but I haven’t heard it in 15 years.
Funny. That’s like one of my favorite Pumpkins songs. It was the first song I thought of, too, when you mentioned the Pumpkins connection, but it doesn’t have anything to do with that song.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989/29 "2014-07-25T04:31:58Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#):
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> This isn’t it (can’t be, you would know it for sure), but that sounds an awful lot like “You Really Got Me” by the Kinks. [Van Halen did a cover, but I don’t think that’s the synth pop sound you’re looking for.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg1UG0GwIKc) Unfortunately, that’s the only thing close that’s stuck in my head right now so I can’t think of anything else!
Oh, we’ve gotten a winner already. It was the Billy Squier (kept misspelling it before) song “Everybody Wants You.” “You Really Got Me” does have some similar elements with the bVII - I progression it’s got going on. But not quite it. That bIII is missing.
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### Author:  [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989/30 "2014-07-25T04:32:14Z")
Haha, or it’s that Billy Squire song. Left the preview window open way too long without refreshing. Got a little distracted.
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### Author:  [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absinthe_Anecdote)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989/31 "2014-07-25T13:33:13Z")
I thought Billy Squire was pretty fucking annoying in the 1980s, much to the dismay of my contemporaries.
When the 1990s rolled around and Beavis and Butthead throughly eviscerated him in numerous video commentaries, I felt a sense of vindication that has been all too rare in my life.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDgAdITNOoc)
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-song-id-possibly-80s/693989/32 "2014-07-25T14:16:57Z")
I’ve had The Stroke stuck in my head since yesterday, thanks guys.
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