# Identify this song for me

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-song-for-me/447453>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 30, 2008, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-song-for-me/447453 "2008-04-30T12:44:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mojo\_Pin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mojo\_Pin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo_Pin)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-song-for-me/447453/1 "2008-04-30T12:44:29Z")

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[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dqhPC57yB6o/hqdefault.jpg "who knows what this song is") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqhPC57yB6o)

Anyone know who that’s by?

For what it’s worth that song was labeled as a sublime song on the album Second Hand Smoke on a torrent.

or if people know similar music, recommendations are just as welcome

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-song-for-me/447453/2 "2008-04-30T16:06:18Z")

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I sat through the video, and I wish I’d spent that 3 minutes doing something else. I wouldn’t call it a song, it’s a groove that a song might later be built upon. I’d guess it took 9 minutes to lay it down. It’s in the style of thousands of unknown musicians. The visual part is repetitions of a still photo of a guy demonstrating that he understands the concept of “six.” He has an interesting hat and a necklace swiped from somebody’s swag lamp. I don’t recognize the guy, so, no, I can’t identify him. Sorry.

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**Author:** ![Mojo\_Pin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mojo\_Pin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo_Pin)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-song-for-me/447453/3 "2008-04-30T18:23:59Z")

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[QUOTE=AskNott]  
I sat through the video, and I wish I’d spent that 3 minutes doing something else. I wouldn’t call it a song, it’s a groove that a song might later be built upon. I’d guess it took 9 minutes to lay it down. It’s in the style of thousands of unknown musicians. The visual part is repetitions of a still photo of a guy demonstrating that he understands the concept of “six.” He has an interesting hat and a necklace swiped from somebody’s swag lamp. I don’t recognize the guy, so, no, I can’t identify him. Sorry.  
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😃 thanks for your time anyway  
i think ill be content to just let this die

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**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-song-for-me/447453/4 "2008-04-30T20:13:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Mojo Pin]  
😃 thanks for your time anyway  
i think ill be content to just let this die  
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Question, are you saying you like this and would like to find more like it?

If so I have some recomendations of similar stuff that is actually good. What you linked to…isn’t.

Check out [Ratatat](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0xfyxqyaldje~T1) [Plaid](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=PLAID&samples=1&sql=11:wvftxqugldte~T1)[Mouse on Mars](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jxfixqegldhe~T1) maybe even early [Beta Band](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hcfqxqwjldde~T1).

See also [Kraftwerk](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kifpxqe5ldde~T1), [Brian Eno](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:abfuxqe5ldhe~T1), [Phillip Glass](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=41:2378~T1) and [Erik Satie](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=41:7931~T1).

Ambient/electro/repetitive music and some of it’s early influences.

Check it out and see what you like.

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**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-song-for-me/447453/5 "2008-04-30T21:35:42Z")

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Sounds kind of like **Eon** to me.