For the record, “Oh Well” is said at the end of each verse.
Also, did you hear the complete nine minute version songwhich includes a long instrumental section that wouldn’t be out of place in a spaghetti Western scored by Ennio Morricone?
Good song but your finger slipped over one key: Toby Beau.
I heard “New Slang” by the Shins one time on the radio. Normally if you get a few of the lyrics you can google that shit. I’ve recovered several songs this way.
But the mumbling lyrics were completely indecipherable and I didn’t have anything. A couple years later I got watched “Garden State”. Problem solved.
Oh, I forgot another one that was a bit of a bear to find: Neil Sedaka’s “The Immigrant”.
What I knew of the damn song was that it was a politically-loaded folksie ballad kind of thing, about how America had once been the place you could go, tempest-tossed, to have a chance and to have freedom, but that those days of America-as-refuge were kind of gone:
[QUOTE=The Lyrics I Remembered]
There was a time when strangers were welcome here,
Music would play, they tell me, the days were clean and clear,
{something…},
…and there was so much room
the people would come from everywhere.
[/quote]
… and folks kept telling me, over and over, "It’s called ‘The Immigrant’s Song’ ". And I’d go search that and end up listening to Led Zeppelin’s song by that name. So I’d go back on the boards and say “No, not even close, yeesh what’s the matter with you people, it’s like folk-rock not ass-kicking hard rock!”
… and eventually a couple folks said “I think maybe it’s Neil Sedaka”. And by then, having been pointed to Led Zeppelin so often, I was thinking not so highly of people’s acumen, and I was thinking “Neil Sedaka?? Mister "come a down doobie doo down down breaking up is hard to do??? The guy who sings ‘oooh I hear laughter in the rain’, THAT Neil Sedaka??? C’mon, can someone make a serious suggestion please? C’mon it’s not heavy metal and it’s not easy listening saccharine pop, it’s the kind of music that would be played alongside of Joan Baez or Bob Dylan or something…”
But yeah, it’s really Neil Sedaka.
Wait, didn’t you have that famous OOOOOO EEEEEEE song? Solved by Nzinga, I believe.
My father liked a certain song, and then he passed away when I was ten. About 20 years later, I figured out what it was: “Dirty Water,” by the Standells. Makes sense – he was in grad school in Boston in 1966.
indeed:
(gets a little heated, here, at points)
(start it at 0:42)
My city’s record stores weren’t quite burgeoning with new punk bands’ records as early as they should have been, so it could have been as late as '79 when I had a good blast of one of the first punk numbers I heard, by a band called The Skids:
I’ll never forget buddy running the record store where I heard the song - totally laying passive-aggressive power strips on his staff - looking egg-fucking-ZACTLY like Rupert Holmes, with the whole hair, tinted glasses and beard bit, and saying shit like “hey!” and “ok let’s make it happen”. I’m sure he would have felt right at home as part of the cast of WKRP.
Hilariously iconic memory of seeing him strut self-indulgently down a record aisle, and going “ok - this is going to fucking ROCK” as that song got under way, and much louder than they normally played stuff there. Some of the customers were somewhat taken aback, and I remember thinking how much the tune did seriously kick ass, and very intrigued whenever it veered suddenly into the much, MUCH different-sounding, mellower, quirky “other part” (I call it “other part” because I’m not sure whether to call it a bridge or a refrain or verse…at least definitely not the chorus)
An eye-opener for this kid.
And then not hearing it again till about 18 years later on a college radio station, immediately bringing Rupert back to mind, and how much I thought it still legitimately “rocked”.
Dear God, I can’t believe I forgot Gal, You a Lead, TOP.
As long as I’m attaching SDMB URLs, here’s the one for the Jon Secada…
Your Skids song just led me to another recovery:
Lene Lovich - Lucky Number
Thanks!This thread actually inspired me to go looking for one of my lost loved songs. I’m so embarrassed now about my taste in music when I was 13/14.
So there was this obscure song that was never a hit at all, by the Steve Miller Band. And I recall loving it because it was such a departure from the whole “Fly Like An Eagle” thing, which I was already sick of back then.
I just found it on YouTube, listened through once and wondered just what in the everlovin’ fuck was I thinking? Maybe because it was a little funky and somewhat slightly danceable? Seriously, it sounds like he borrowed a drum machine from Prince and just left it on whatever settings Prince had last used. Nearest I can figure is my little teenaged mind was blown because it was such a departure from SMB’s previous sound.
So I think I’m just going to dump this one back in the wayback machine and hope it stays there where it belongs as a forgotten moment in music.
Back when I was a young tyke there was this song I liked by the Stampeders-“Sweet City Woman”. I didn’t hear it again for a decade and a half, then a local oldies station stuck it into their mix.
One of my song recoveries was one I heard once or twice on the radio but never when the DJ was in the mood to tell the audience what they were playing. Sometimes DJ were too hip for that. :rolleyes: Anyway, years later I found out it was Fleetwood Mac’s Secondhand News Great song, and still rarely played on radio.