# Masochistic song ID **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [May 21, 2021, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masochistic-song-id/942607 "2021-05-21T05:52:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masochistic-song-id/942607/1 "2021-05-21T05:52:21Z")
I say masochistic because the song has the worst beginning. In all cosmos. Heard it once, on the radio, maybe 45 years ago. IIVaguelyRC - a very sparse sounding beginning (instrumentally) with these beyond-absolutely-god-awful vocals warbling on about “On the re-_bound!_… On the re-_bound!_” I can’t remember, at all, what the rest of the song was like (late '70s R+B pop?), so I can’t provide much more to help locate this. Just the beginning. (On-ly the be-gi-ning…) I need to find this abomination, to put a name to it, to put a name to the beacon, the talisman, of untethered mediocrity, of soul-destroying musical lameness and ass-goblinage. IT musty be located. To be forever exorcised. ☮ peace, duly ☮ ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masochistic-song-id/942607/2 "2021-05-21T05:58:34Z")
Well there’s a song called _On the Rebound_ by Uriah Heep. Not quite 45-years-old, though. Seems to match other parts of your description. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fW2rKqZj_Cw/maxresdefault.jpg "URIAH HEEP - ON THE REBOUND - ABOMINOG.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW2rKqZj_Cw) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masochistic-song-id/942607/3 "2021-05-21T06:09:54Z")
Good try - I’m pretty sure the “OTR” line is sung only twice, to kick the song off, and never again in the song. It’s defintely not a chorus, like UH had. Yeah, it has more of an insipid, depressing, pedestrian UGH-ness to it; UH’s was too rockin’. The vocalist, _I think but am most likely wrong_, was a Black woman, the more I (yes, masochistically) run it through my increasingly beleaguered mind. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masochistic-song-id/942607/4 "2021-05-21T06:41:13Z")
Maybe it was the original… [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rwZ18jrXBnY/hqdefault.jpg "RUSS BALLARD - On The Rebound (Rockklassiker)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwZ18jrXBnY) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masochistic-song-id/942607/5 "2021-05-21T06:59:29Z")
Wow - that’s _exactly_ the beginning, I’m pretty sure. This means I mis-remembered the rest of the song to the point that it _does_ mention “OTR” many times throughout the rest of the song, and not just in the beginning. So I guess it _was_ more of a rocking thing then. 🤦‍♂️ And yes, that horrifyingly execrable twang in that vocal. It’s all coming back. In floods. Puke-laden ones. Thank-you, for not only locating IT but also setting me straight on how it actually went. I can now move forward, the closure most gratifying. ---
**Author:** ![its\_the\_daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@its\_the\_daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/its_the_daddy)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/masochistic-song-id/942607/6 "2021-05-21T08:27:23Z")
You sure it’s not this one? [Tom Lehrer - The Masochism Tango - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE)