# Help me identify this pop instrumental please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 1, 2011, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468 "2011-11-01T06:10:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/61 "2017-04-05T01:29:45Z")

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The slight difference in the [album (and radio, I think) version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQyQU2rzaOM) sounds more like I remember.

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**Author:** ![Ccdm2008](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ccdm2008](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ccdm2008)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/62 "2017-05-17T04:11:36Z")

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OMG OMG, you guys helped me find a song I’ve been searching for for 2 years now. It was a song I used to skate to as a kid at the rink. It was rainforest. You all don’t know how I’ve been up In crazy looking for this song. Thank you thank you thank you.

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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/63 "2017-05-17T04:27:46Z")

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No problem.

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/64 "2017-05-17T12:41:21Z")

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> [@Nobody](#):
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> Finally found it. It doesn’t sound quite like I remember. Either I didn’t quite remember it correctly, or I heard a different version.
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> Hiroshima - [One Wish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJEzRA_FbFo)

For future reference – that song is almost entirely using a pentatonic scale (like, say, just the black keys), an allusion to its supposed East Asian-ness. That clue would have narrowed things down considerably! 😉

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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/65 "2017-05-17T23:07:07Z")

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Oh now you tell me.

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**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/66 "2017-05-17T23:53:38Z")

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> [@Nobody](#):
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> Finally found it. It doesn’t sound quite like I remember. Either I didn’t quite remember it correctly, or I heard a different version.
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> Hiroshima - [One Wish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJEzRA_FbFo)

Never heard it before but I dig it.

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