# Song ID -- No information **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394 "2011-05-01T17:45:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/1 "2011-05-01T17:45:55Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/2 "2011-05-02T00:42:31Z")
They’ve archived their playlists for a while now. Have you tried searching around the estimated date? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/3 "2011-05-02T00:52:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/4 "2011-05-02T01:48:32Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/5 "2011-05-02T01:52:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/6 "2011-05-02T02:18:56Z")
> [@DooWahDiddy](#): > > 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? Are you thinking of Baz Luhrmann’s [Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmAReOklwNY)? Or maybe Chris Rock’s [No Sex](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9yBPcn8IqU)? I don’t think that’s what the OP was asking about, but figured maybe it was what you were thinking of, **DooWahDiddy**. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/7 "2011-05-02T02:36:06Z")
Maybe it’s [Frontier Psychiatrist](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26bX0). ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/8 "2011-05-02T20:23:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Are you thinking of Baz Luhrmann’s [Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmAReOklwNY)? 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_. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/9 "2011-05-03T02:02:14Z")
Here’s some information about the song: > **[Wear Sunscreen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen)** > > "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young", commonly known by the title "Wear Sunscreen", is an essay written as a hypothetical commencement speech by columnist Mary Schmich, originally published in June 1997 in the Chicago Tribune. The essay, giving various pieces of advice on how to live a happier life and avoid common frustrations, spread massively via viral email, is often erroneously described as a commencement speech given by author Kurt Vonnegut at MIT. > The essay became the ... 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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/10 "2011-05-03T02:10:48Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Are you thinking of Baz Luhrmann’s [Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmAReOklwNY)? > > Or maybe Chris Rock’s [No Sex](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9yBPcn8IqU)? > > I don’t think that’s what the OP was asking about, but figured maybe it was what you were thinking of, **DooWahDiddy**. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > Maybe it’s [Frontier Psychiatrist](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26bX0). 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. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/11 "2011-05-03T03:28:54Z")
Sum41 ? Don’t know too many of their songs, though. ---
**Author:** ![FrustratedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@FrustratedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrustratedIdiot)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/12 "2011-05-03T05:18:49Z")
Nada Surf, “Popular” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6PVFw4kuG2A/hqdefault.jpg "Nada Surf - Popular") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PVFw4kuG2A) ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/13 "2011-05-03T08:23:46Z")
Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows The full version has a Spanish radio bit at the [end](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9WOBsPVjFE#t=4m13s). Very unlikely, but it was all I could think of. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/14 "2011-05-03T14:31:27Z")
I emailed KEXP, and it doesn’t ring a bell for the DJ. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/15 "2011-05-03T14:44:12Z")
Beastue Boys’ _Body Movin’_? ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/16 "2011-05-03T14:46:25Z")
[Jurassic 5](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf2qtXsTH84) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/17 "2011-05-03T15:38:16Z")
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](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz6ShSftDlI). 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**! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id-no-information/580394/18 "2011-05-03T23:29:03Z")
It’s not so much a song as a bunch of random stuff jammed together in the hope it might be something afterwards.