# Can you recognize these songs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 29, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143 "2008-10-29T21:01:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/1 "2008-10-29T21:01:08Z")
I have some songs burnt on a cd by a mate, but without any kind of naming. I quite like some of them and would like to investigate further, but have no idea who the artists are. [noparse][http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206816\_vj2vq](http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206816_vj2vq) /unknown1.mp3]unknown1.mp3[/noparse] [noparse][http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206817\_476rn/unknown3.mp3](http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206817_476rn/unknown3.mp3)]unknown3.mp3[/noparse] [noparse][http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206819\_rwxh4/unknown2.mp3](http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206819_rwxh4/unknown2.mp3)]unknown2.mp3[/noparse] ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/2 "2008-10-29T22:08:49Z")
> [@unspun](#): > > I have some songs burnt on a cd by a mate, but without any kind of naming. I quite like some of them and would like to investigate further, but have no idea who the artists are. > [noparse][http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206816\_vj2vq](http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206816_vj2vq) /unknown1.mp3[/noparse] > [noparse][http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206817\_476rn/unknown3.mp3[/noparse]](http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206817_476rn/unknown3.mp3%5B/noparse%5D) > [noparse][http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206819\_rwxh4/unknown2.mp3[/noparse]](http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206819_rwxh4/unknown2.mp3%5B/noparse%5D) The first one didn’t work for me. The other two seemed like they were deliberately stripped of most of the identifying detail, which made them pretty generic. So, no idea. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/3 "2008-10-29T22:47:26Z")
The third one sounds like it comes from _Now That’s What I Call Porn Music!_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/4 "2008-10-29T23:46:56Z")
The first one didn’t work for me either. The other two sound like mostly synthetic, like a guitar player who is really good with ProTools made his own CD. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/5 "2008-10-29T23:54:00Z")
Unknown2 is “In 3s” off the Beastie Boys album “Check Your Head.” ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/6 "2008-10-30T00:39:34Z")
Song 1 sounds vaguely like _Surfing With The Alien_-era Joe Satriani, but the song doesn’t seem to match any on that album. Song 2 has got that Metallica-esque chord slow song chord progression to it, with a Dream Theater-type rhythm section and production to it, but it’s certainly _not_ the former, and I’m not familiar enough with the latter, although it sounds a little too straightforward to be Dream Theater. ---
**Author:** ![Mitijea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mitijea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mitijea)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/7 "2008-10-30T14:05:16Z")
Unknown3 sounds like something Robert Fripp/Adrian Belew\* might make (with a cross of Metallica there at the beginning). I was thinking it was a remake of a Crimson King song off Larks Tongues In Aspic. \*Not sure which had this sound - always getting them mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/8 "2008-10-30T20:12:04Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Unknown2 is “In 3s” off the Beastie Boys album “Check Your Head.” Thanks! (one of maybe three BB albums I don’t have :rolleyes:) They really do some kick-ass instrumentals. Link for the first one again: [noparse][http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206816\_vj2vq/unknown1.mp3[/noparse]](http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1206816_vj2vq/unknown1.mp3%5B/noparse%5D) (a space had crept into the address) 1 and 3 both sound very Vai/Satch-like, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t either of them… I’m thinking it’s some relatively unknown soloists. > [@jsgoddess](#): > > The other two seemed like they were deliberately stripped of most of the identifying detail I edited them and just uploaded the first minute or so, didn’t want any trouble with the local law 😉 I figure if someone knows the songs it’s enough. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/9 "2008-10-30T20:17:11Z")
Unknown 3 sounds so very familiar to me…but I can’t place it - are there any vocals in the full version? ---
**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/10 "2008-10-31T20:14:27Z")
no, they’re all completely instrumental. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/11 "2008-10-31T20:31:29Z")
Well, I’ve passed along the links to some guitar geek friends of mine who listen to that type of guitar instrumental music, and nobody has any idea. Other than comments that the first one sounds kinda like Satch, but with a different tone, a suggestion of Gary Hoey has been thrown out there for the other tune, but none of the Hoey tunes I’ve heard on iTunes really sound like it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/12 "2008-10-31T21:52:38Z")
Could you link to songs that don’t download automatically? I don’t appreciate getting an automatic, unwarned download (which all of your links are, **unspun** ). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/13 "2008-10-31T23:38:24Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Could you link to songs that don’t download automatically? I don’t appreciate getting an automatic, unwarned download (which all of your links are, **unspun** ). They play in-browser here for me. If your browser is configured to download mp3s (which they are, obviously, given their extension and link) then what do you expect? I don’t think you can exactly admonish **unspun** for this. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-recognize-these-songs/470143/14 "2008-10-31T23:55:25Z")
Moderator comment: Since these links are automatic downloads, I’ve un-parsed them so no one goes there accidentally. No blame to **unspun** , just being precautious about links.