# Help Identifying a Song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-a-song/364653 "2006-07-15T20:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-a-song/364653/1 "2006-07-15T20:41:00Z")
Need to find this song for the girlfriend. Here’s what I have: Little known all-girls band from the 80’s. Not even a one-hit wonder. The song is about a breakup and the girl is stalking the ex. It also has something to do with the gate to his house (she’s waiting at it or going through it). ---
**Author:** ![Kebert\_Xela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a87d85/32.png) [@Kebert\_Xela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kebert_Xela)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-a-song/364653/2 "2006-07-15T22:04:59Z")
Do you know any of the lyrics? If you can enter a line within quotation marks on Google you might get it as a search result. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-a-song/364653/3 "2006-07-15T23:18:53Z")
> [@Kebert Xela](#): > > Do you know any of the lyrics? If you can enter a line within quotation marks on Google you might get it as a search result. I know that and no, she does not remember any of the lyrics except something about “his gate” ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-a-song/364653/4 "2006-07-16T13:44:17Z")
My searches keep coming back to _Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?_: > [@](#): > > I am going to walk right up to his gate > To see if I can get it straight > Cause I want him > Oh yes I’m gonna ask him It’s been covered by numerous artists over the years, but it’s a jazz number. Which isn’t to say that pop group couldn’t have covered it, but it also doesn’t sound very stalkerish to me. But for “his gate” searches, this is the set of lyrics that is returned the most. Does she know whether the band was from the late or early '80s? ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-a-song/364653/5 "2006-07-16T14:04:36Z")
OK, this is a long shot, but could it possibly have been _I’ve Got a Brand New Pair of Roller Skates (You’ve Got a Brand New Key)_ that someone did a cover of? The song has the jilted girlfriend riding her bike up to the guy’s door (rather than the gate), calling him up, and generally being a creepy nuisance. It’s also been released as _Brand New Key_ to add to the confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-a-song/364653/6 "2006-07-16T14:05:59Z")
Whoops, [forgot lyrics.](http://www.lyricscafe.com/c/carter_deana/dc16.html) ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-a-song/364653/8 "2006-07-18T00:50:06Z")
More info. She now says that it was early 90’s (1991-1993 most probably). It was in bubblegum pop style a la Bangles (but this was a no name band). The band was similar to the girl bands Prince made during that time and she thinks it had 3 members. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-a-song/364653/9 "2006-07-18T00:56:17Z")
Hmm… I’d vote for _Missing_ by Everything but the Girl. Kinda moody: _I step off the train I’m walking down your street again and past your door But you don’t live there any more It’s years since you’ve been there But now you’ve disappeared somewhere Like outer space You’ve found some better place And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain_ ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-a-song/364653/10 "2006-07-18T01:25:24Z")
Nope not it ☹