# Help me ID this song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/438283 "2008-02-19T18:45:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/438283/1 "2008-02-19T18:45:54Z")
I’m afraid I haven’t got much to go on:[ul][li] Electronic music/synthesizer, female voice (kinda like Dido or Sade), very dreamy quality[_] Verses consisted of only a couple lines repeated (though each verse had different repeated lines). Only snippet I remember: “syllables into words” (or something like that, 2nd or 3rd verse). [_] Verses not in major key, and had a gradual descending line. Midtempo at its fastest, but also a little busy in terms of its production values[\*] In the middle–a bridge perhaps–there was a spoken word part by a man who sounded like he was talking from a radio broadcast (slight staticky interference). His lines were also repetitive, including “Thank You [something something]”[/ul]Heard this at a party, and since everyone nowadays simply plays a zillion MP3s on shuffle, no real way to narrow it down at all. So that’s all I got… ☹ [/li] Help! (I really liked it, as you could tell; found it quite catchy) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/438283/2 "2008-02-21T23:17:26Z")
Bump…? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/438283/3 "2008-02-22T00:13:39Z")
You should’ve archived it, guy. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/438283/4 "2008-02-22T00:14:58Z")
:sniff: I didn’t want to spoil the party, so I went… (and I know _that_’s not the song) ---
**Author:** ![born\_too\_late](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@born\_too\_late](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/born_too_late)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/438283/5 "2008-02-22T03:47:01Z")
Sounds like it could have been Mazzy Star, or Mono, or Alpha. Or a group from this decade that sounds like those groups. (The aforementioned ones are from the 90’s - I’m not too on top of the cutting edge lately.) ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/438283/6 "2008-02-22T03:55:06Z")
This is a WAG here, but figured it couldn’t hurt to post. Could it be eminem featuring Dido, with [Stan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQR6yBwFHQU)? Here’s Dido’s [Thank You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF8HdmlZKuA) as well. Is it something like those? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/438283/7 "2008-02-22T07:11:01Z")
[QUOTE=born too late] Sounds like it could have been Mazzy Star, or Mono, or Alpha. [/QUOTE] Or Portishead or Lamb or maybe even Sia, Curve, or Goldfrapp… I’m afraid you’re going to have to try to remember more of the words, **ArchiveGuy**. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/438283/8 "2008-02-22T17:37:45Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane] This is a WAG here, but figured it couldn’t hurt to post. Could it be eminem featuring Dido, with [Stan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQR6yBwFHQU)? Here’s Dido’s [Thank You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF8HdmlZKuA) as well. Is it something like those? [/QUOTE] The male voice wasn’t rap (neither was the female’s), and I may not be “hip”, but I haven’t been living under a rock 😛 , so no, it’s not M&M/Dido. I thought the thing that was particular about the song was the News Announcer Guy acting as a bridge. No singing, or even talking much in tune. And the sound quality was definitely altered to simulate that staticky sound for his bridge. I thought this alone might narrow things down a bit, unless it’s become a standard artistic convention nowadays. I also have no idea what the level of popularity of this song is. Still, thanks for the help…here’s hoping someone else might be able to add something more. I’ll listen to a couple of the other suggestions **born too late** and **elfkin477** suggested–since this is such a longshot anyway, I might as well see if any of those might resemble what I heard (to help narrow things further for the masses). Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/438283/9 "2008-02-22T20:19:44Z")
Your description sounds like Tricky’s [Black Steel](http://www.amazon.com/Maxinquaye-Tricky/dp/B000001E7V/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203711481&sr=1-1) , which has a staticky spoken male bridge part…