# Please Help ID This Song - Very Little Info **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100 "2013-08-25T01:22:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/1 "2013-08-25T01:22:58Z")
So I was at the gym the other day and I heard a song which sounded pretty good but I have no idea what it is. 1. It was a classic rock kind of song. 2. It sounded kinda like the Grateful Dead 3. The chorus of the song sounded like the singer (Jerry Garcia?) was singing “CJ” or “See Jay” or something like that. Any ideas? TIA ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/2 "2013-08-25T01:39:23Z")
Casey Jones? If it was the Dead, there’s only so many of their songs that get regular (relatively speaking) play on the radio, but that’s one of them. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/3 "2013-08-25T01:47:34Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Casey Jones? Is that the song with the line “Riding that train, high on cocaine”? If so, that was not it. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/4 "2013-08-25T01:55:24Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > Is that the song with the line “Riding that train, high on cocaine”? > > If so, that was not it. “Driving that train”, but yeah. I was thinking: See Jay…See Kay…Kay See. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/5 "2013-08-25T04:22:38Z")
See Jay…Touch of Gray? Or, Last Dance with Mary Jane? (Not Dead - Tom Petty) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/6 "2013-08-25T04:48:45Z")
[The Last DJ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOd3tan59BE) by Tom Petty? Pulling up the YouTube link for this song, if you didn’t know the title or haven’t heard the song, “There goes the last DJ” sorta kinda sounds like “There goes the las…CJ”, especially if you heard it once and got CJ stuck in your head. So if that’s it, that’s what the OP heard. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/7 "2013-08-25T05:15:43Z")
[Sweet Jane](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkumhBVPGdg)? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/8 "2013-08-25T07:05:49Z")
Don’t suppose it is British singer Robbie Williams [Rock DJ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnO3nijfYmU) but he’s big in gyms everywhere but America. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/9 "2013-08-25T09:06:10Z")
> [@Just\_Ed](#): > > [Sweet Jane](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkumhBVPGdg)? Yes, that’s it! Excellent job, thank you! It does sound a bit different without the sounds of exercise equipment in the background. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/10 "2013-08-25T11:04:31Z")
The Velvet Underground sound like the Grateful Dead now, does it, and Lou Reed sounds like Jerry Garcia? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/11 "2013-08-25T11:08:21Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > The Velvet Underground sound like the Grateful Dead now, does it, and Lou Reed sounds like Jerry Garcia? :eek: And remarkably, both of them sound a LOT like the Rolling Stones! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/12 "2013-08-25T12:06:13Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Lou Reed sounds like Jerry Garcia? :eek: I’d imagine both Lou and Jerry taking equal offense.🆒 ---
**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:** [August 25, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/13 "2013-08-25T14:40:45Z")
Well, to be fair, it’s probably the grooviest of the Velvet Underground’s songs. I don’t think there’s anything like it on White Light/White Heat, for instance. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/14 "2013-08-25T14:43:36Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > The Velvet Underground sound like the Grateful Dead now, does it, and Lou Reed sounds like Jerry Garcia? :eek: It’s the heroin. You do enough and everything slows down to the same beat. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/15 "2013-08-25T14:44:27Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > The Velvet Underground sound like the Grateful Dead now, does it, and Lou Reed sounds like Jerry Garcia? :eek: Lol, keep in mind that the gym is a pretty noisy place with all of the exercise machines running, weights clanking, and so on. But there still seems to me to be a vague similarity in musical style. Am I the only one who hears it? ---
**Author:** ![Girlundone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Girlundone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlundone)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/16 "2013-08-25T14:52:39Z")
Lou Reed doesn’t sound like Jerry Garcia to me. He sounds like Bob Dylan. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/17 "2013-08-25T17:03:06Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > But there still seems to me to be a vague similarity in musical style. Am I the only one who hears it? I can hear it in the first 20 seconds of the video **Just Ed** linked to, but not the rest of the song. I know _Sweet Jane_ and wouldn’t have thought Dead, though. The Dead also cover _Queen Jane Approximately_: Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane? Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane? But Weir sings this. Jerry does sing _Truckin’_: What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? She lost her sparkle, you know she isn’t the same Living on reds, vitamin C and cocaine all a friend can say is “ain’t it a shame” But that’s the only mention of sweet Jane. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/18 "2013-08-25T17:43:32Z")
> [@Just\_Ed](#): > > [Sweet Jane](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkumhBVPGdg)? Slow clap…very impressive. I would _never_ have made that connection. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/19 "2013-08-25T23:34:03Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > Yes, that’s it! Excellent job, thank you! It does sound a bit different without the sounds of exercise equipment in the background. > [@WordMan](#): > > Slow clap…very impressive. I would _never_ have made that connection. You’re welcome, and thanks. Don’t know why, but it was the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the OP. Lou does kinda sorta sound like he’s singing “CJ” in the chorus sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100/20 "2013-08-26T01:09:05Z")
I am continually impressed at the vast reservoir of musical knowledge on the Dope. If only someone could identify the source of “Huckleberry Raskolnikov, the All-American Boy with the Marxist orientation” (not a song, but a radio skit). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-id-this-song-very-little-info/667100.md?page=2)