# Help me ID this song based on a vague description

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 21, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song-based-on-a-vague-description/579159 "2011-04-21T01:03:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song-based-on-a-vague-description/579159/1 "2011-04-21T01:03:25Z")

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I heard a song on the local Jack FM (which means it can’t be that obscure), which was, I think, not in English, but who knows maybe I just couldn’t hear it. It sounded kind of like the Ramones, kind of like the Beach Boys, and had a very trademark Beach Boys-style vocal fill that could have been sampled, a whee–ee-ew that sounded like early Beach Boys.

I am pretty sure it was not Shonen Knife; wasn’t quite that raw and I think it was a guy on vocals (but it’s hard to be sure). I went through a lot of that band on iTunes and didn’t find it. It may not even be Japanese, I don’t know – it’s hard to explain, but the way the vocals were done I just have no idea what they were saying or what language it was in. I did think it was a cool song and want to find out who did it.

Annoyingly, the "recently played’ list on the radio station website skipped right over it.

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song-based-on-a-vague-description/579159/2 "2011-04-21T01:35:23Z")

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Wild-ass guess: [“Ca Plane Pour Moi”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsXknE8LOEI) by Plastic Bertrand.

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**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song-based-on-a-vague-description/579159/3 "2011-04-21T01:41:56Z")

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Damn you guys are good.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song-based-on-a-vague-description/579159/4 "2011-04-21T02:49:13Z")

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And in just over 30 minutes, too. 🙂

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**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song-based-on-a-vague-description/579159/5 "2011-04-21T13:10:54Z")

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> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#):
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> Wild-ass guess: [“Ca Plane Pour Moi”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsXknE8LOEI) by Plastic Bertrand.

Who _ARE_ you?

Didn’t this song appear in _National Lampoon’s European Vacation_ or was it _Eurotrip_?.