# Help me ID this Peter Gabriel soundalike song! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-gabriel-soundalike-song/247688 "2004-05-29T18:33:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-gabriel-soundalike-song/247688/1 "2004-05-29T18:33:48Z")
Ok this has been driving me crazy for a while now. At my cousin’s wedding in March, they played this great song that I loved. Reminded me of Peter Gabriel. Then at my girlfriend’s baby’s baptism party on Sunday, I heard it again. I meant to ask who it was, but forgot. She had 50 CD’s in on shuffle, so she’s at a loss. I’m pretty sure it’s a new song, but I don’t listen to much radio; just in the car and I’ve never heard it on the local “alternative” station. It sounded a lot like Peter Gabriel, had an _In Your Eyes_ kinda feel to it. It’s slow, but not really a ballad. My girlfriend thought it might be David Gray, or the new Train song, but neither of those are right. It had a slight… “islandy” feel to it, slow but upbeat. The chorus, I think was something like “…makes me feel like you do…” and it was like “la la LA LA… la la LAA LAA la”. Not that that helps. We ruled out the David Gray song, though it does sound like some of his stuff, _Babylon_ in particular. I wish I got more of the lyrics, because do you know how many hits “makes me feel like you” +lyrics brings up on Google? TOO MANY. From the Google search I can say with confidence it is not: Monica Genesis Cover Girls Jamiroquai Immature Ama Shola Bosson G-Sistah Diana Ross Nevergreen Warrant Bah! There’s _one_ that looks MAYBE like it COULD be… Dream Street - _You’re Taking Me Over_ or Ohne Namen - _Nobody_. But I haven’t been able to listen to either of them yet. It’s driving me crazy. I’m humming it nonstop and I’d love to grab it. It’s not \*I Grieve \* by Peter Gabriel, she thought that might be it cuz she had the City of Angels soundtrack on shuffle. But that’s a sad song, not something you’d play at a wedding! I think my cousin and his wife danced alone to it. Anyway. If anyone has any ideas, lemme know. I keep looking up suggestions and seeing if the lyrics fit the tune in my head. And yeah, I emailed my cousin to see if he recalled it, but haven’t gotten anything yet! ---
**Author:** ![Nesyut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@Nesyut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nesyut)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-gabriel-soundalike-song/247688/2 "2004-05-29T18:40:11Z")
My guess would be: Afro Celt Sound System : When you’re falling (Starring Peter Gabriel. It seems like it from your description, hope it helps! ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-gabriel-soundalike-song/247688/3 "2004-05-29T18:45:56Z")
OH OH! Sounds promising! I have to wait to get home to find an mp3 or whatnot of it… but the lyrics, they look kinda right, and it’s the type of song you’d hear at a wedding. Plus, Afro Celt Sound System looks like a group my cousin and his wife would dig. Can’t wait to see if this is it! ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-gabriel-soundalike-song/247688/4 "2004-05-29T19:30:28Z")
Aww. That wasn’t it. It’s that type of sound though… this song was slower, but had the same kinda “feel” to it. ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-gabriel-soundalike-song/247688/5 "2004-05-29T19:50:04Z")
Maybe it’s Modest Mouse and the song _Float On_. That has a Peter Gabriel feel to it. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-gabriel-soundalike-song/247688/6 "2008-11-20T18:28:56Z")
Soooo… the song turned out to be _With You Without You_ by Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, or Genesis. I know this for a fact, because I found it and downloaded the MP3 of it from SOMEWHERE but now apparently I dreamed it all, because I can’t find the MP3 or any hints on Google. Anyone? Yeah, zombie thread, but I wanted to solve the mystery and then realized it sorta still is! ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-peter-gabriel-soundalike-song/247688/7 "2008-11-20T18:36:12Z")
I found the mp3. It’s _Follow You Follow Me_. By Genesis. Heh.