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Cafe Society
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Well, practically no information.

I listen to KEXP at work. KEXP is a ‘college’ station that plays alternative music. About two or three years ago there was a song in the rotation that I liked. I can’t remember the tune or the lyrics. All I remember is this:
[ul][li]There was a spoken segment at the end, which sounded like it was lifted from an educational (science?) film.[/li][li]The band’s name had a number in it.[/ul][/li]The band may have been 5 For Fighting, but I am absolutely not sure. It very well may have been something else

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They’ve archived their playlists for a while now. Have you tried searching around the estimated date?

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Didn’t know that. I don’t remember exactly what year the song was played, and the radio would be on for eight hours each day. I was hoping someone would remember the spoken bit at the end.

Now that I think of it, it might not have been from an educational film. It might have been from a lecture.

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I totally remember what you’re talking about it, I just can’t place it. Was it big in the mid-'90s, and the guy is giving a list of advice…es? Sounds like the stereotypical “square man from the '20s”, à la the guy in Reefer Madness or something?

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I think so. But every time I try to bring it to mind it gets crowded out by the ‘Scoop the brains out of the head’ segment at the end of a Qkumba Zoo song.

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Are you thinking of Baz Luhrmann’s Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)?

Or maybe Chris Rock’s No Sex?

I don’t think that’s what the OP was asking about, but figured maybe it was what you were thinking of, DooWahDiddy.

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Maybe it’s Frontier Psychiatrist.

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Hey, that is what I was thinking of, thanks! And I had no idea it was Baz Luhrmann… that seems odd to me, but I’m not too familiar with his work outside of Moulin Rouge.

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Here’s some information about the song:

As you can see, the lyrics started as a column by Mary Schmich, but as it passed around (mostly on the Internet), an urban legend started that it was by Kurt Vonnegut. The music was based on a song called “Everybody’s Free (to Feel Good).” Luhrmann just put the words and music together.

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Nope, none of those.

I’m fairly sure the band had at least one number in its name. The guy at the end sounded like a lecturer – I think.

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Sum41 ?

Don’t know too many of their songs, though.

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Nada Surf, “Popular”

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Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows

The full version has a Spanish radio bit at the end. Very unlikely, but it was all I could think of.

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I emailed KEXP, and it doesn’t ring a bell for the DJ.

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Beastue Boys’ Body Movin’?

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Jurassic 5 used a professorial sounding cut on a bunch of their songs. Can’t find one right now that plays the whole “Edit…” thing at the end. That goes on for a while on the actual EP.

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Jurassic 5! I thought there was a five in it!

I’m working (no, really), and roomie is studying; so I was unable to play the song through. I think the song I’m trying to remember is The Lesson. I sampled the video, and it sounds familiar and unfamiliar. The name and the title are banging the gong. I’ll have to listed to it later.

Thanks, Paintcharge!

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It’s not so much a song as a bunch of random stuff jammed together in the hope it might be something afterwards.