# ID this obscure rock song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401 "2017-01-17T16:45:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/21 "2017-01-18T03:14:24Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > I’m no musician, but experimenting on a online piano leads me to believe the melody is: > > GFECDEA > FEDBCDG > EDCABCE > > That make any sense to ya?:rolleyes: Key of C major … that’s a clue … ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/22 "2017-01-18T03:17:45Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Key of C major … that’s a clue … Well, that’s assuming he’s remembering the correct key. The melody may be right, but the key wrong. Unless you have perfect pitch, it’s quite easy to transpose a melody. And it looks to me to be more likely to be A minor as given. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/23 "2017-01-18T03:39:23Z")
Total wild guess, but…‘Love Reign O’er Me’ by The Who? Solo is guitar and violins, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/24 "2017-01-18T04:10:58Z")
How about Baba O’Riley? ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/25 "2017-01-18T11:22:35Z")
Black Sabbath did a couple of songs that might be candidates: [Fluff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9kdZ07BCFQ) [Laguna Sunrise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LVUHNeqZeI) ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/26 "2017-01-18T12:19:16Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > Black Sabbath did a couple of songs that might be candidates: > > [Fluff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9kdZ07BCFQ) > > [Laguna Sunrise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LVUHNeqZeI) > [@Stephe96](#): > > Total wild guess, but…‘Love Reign O’er Me’ by The Who? Solo is guitar and violins, I guess. Excellent guesses gentlemen. 😃 It is probably a progressive rock song which fits the Moody Blues style. I don’t know - Pavlovs Dog? Nice song anyway [https://vimeo.com/37445612](https://vimeo.com/37445612) ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/27 "2017-01-18T15:14:54Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I’m guessing not the Moody Blues. They didn’t do a lot of long instrumental sequences in their recordings, and even back when I was a major Moodies fan, the only one I’d have considered memorable enough to play even as a ‘deep track’ sort of thing would have been “Beyond” off the _To Our Children’s Children’s Children_ album. And it isn’t anything like your description. Looking on youtube, there are apparently a lot of instrumental studio versions of their songs out there. But as you say, the only other Moody Blues instrumentals I can think of, such as The Voyage, don’t match the description. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/28 "2017-01-18T15:24:45Z")
Laguna Sunrise is _very_ close to what I heard. The spanish guitar was not so prominent. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/29 "2017-01-18T15:36:12Z")
Could it have been part two of Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well?” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b19PcuJsQbA/hqdefault.jpg "Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (Part 1 & 2)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b19PcuJsQbA) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/30 "2017-01-18T15:44:22Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > I’m no musician, but experimenting on a online piano leads me to believe the melody is: > > GFECDEA > FEDBCDG > EDCABCE > > That make any sense to ya?:rolleyes: So it’s a descending set of phrases, each phrase about as long as the one before it and starting one note lower than the previous phrase? Is the 7th note of each phrase (A, G and E, respectively) longer than the 6 notes that precede it? If not, is there some other reason that you cut the melody line at those points and made 3 lines of the melody? Approximately how LONG, in duration, is each phrase? Is GFECDEA (for example) a fast-moving sequence like J. Geils band’s “Centerfold” (“my angel is a centerfold”) or Zeppelin’s “Custard Pie” (“give me a piece of your custard pie”) or a medium-fast sequence like Kansas’ “Carry On Wayward Son” (“carry on my wayward son”) or the Doors’ “Light My Fire” (“come on baby light my fire”), or slower like Tom Petty’s “Free Falling” (“she’s a good girl, crazy like elvis”), or what? Edited to add: is the FIRST note of each sequence longer than the notes to follow? in other word G…FECDEA, F…EDBCDG etc? ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/31 "2017-01-18T15:48:13Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Key of C major … that’s a clue … “Lick my love pump”? No wait, that was D minor, the saddest key. Could it be “[quadrophenia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPlOaNQSpE)” or “[overture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHyrEGE4XuA)” or “[underture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgrd-O7pw5U)” by The Who. There are multiple sections in each of those that may fit the bill. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/32 "2017-01-18T15:54:58Z")
I heard a song on the local radio station a couple years ago and googled the lyrics and got zilch. It was a song I’d heard before several times, could not find the name of it or the band. I came here to SD and eventually it was determined it was done by a local or regional band in the 70’s or 80’s. Odd that there was absolutely nothing to be found online even with some lyrics. I hope you find out what the song is, it is maddening to not know. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/33 "2017-01-18T16:15:26Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > I’m no musician, but experimenting on a online piano leads me to believe the melody is: > > GFECDEA > FEDBCDG > EDCABCE > > That make any sense to ya?:rolleyes: Hmmm can’t help you there. Now, if you had said [EGBDF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Good_Boy_Deserves_Favour_(album)), it would definitely be a Moody Blues song. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/34 "2017-01-18T17:01:15Z")
Ok, I’m going to throw a wild guess out there. [Alone Again Or](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNcXFy8QTC4) by Love? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/35 "2017-01-18T18:12:44Z")
Is it the slow part of [Question](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlFNS2ieVaM)by the Moody Blues? (starts at 1:40) ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/36 "2017-01-18T18:37:04Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > Laguna Sunrise is _very_ close to what I heard. The spanish guitar was not so prominent. Maybe the last minute or so of [The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDVnjCwCYCs)? That’s what Laguna Sunrise reminds me of. ---
**Author:** ![Doubticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@Doubticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubticus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/37 "2017-01-18T19:40:49Z")
I’m guessing “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas. There’s a fairly long acoustic guitar/violin part in that song and it is a staple of classic rock. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/38 "2017-01-18T19:55:00Z")
> [@Doubticus](#): > > I’m guessing “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas. There’s a fairly long acoustic guitar/violin part in that song and it is a staple of classic rock. Don’t know if it’s right but this is an excellent guess! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/39 "2017-01-18T20:04:31Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Don’t know if it’s right but this is an excellent guess! Yeah, the melody contour kindasortabutnotquite follows the notes listed (although it’s not quite right), and [there is an extended version of it that is about 7 minutes long.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKFe1pW5IBw) But only a small portion of it (about a minute or so) is the instrumental interlude. I was wondering if it might be a chord progression like Am-G-E or Am-G-C or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401/40 "2017-01-18T21:17:50Z")
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the OP is intimately familiar with all the extremely well known songs mentioned here. He said it was a deep track. What most of you are offering up here are not deep tracks. Dust in the Wind: seriously? Sent from my adequate mobile device using Tapatalk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-obscure-rock-song/777401.md?page=3)