# Trying to find the name/artist of a song

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-artist-of-a-song/49926>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 14, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-artist-of-a-song/49926 "2001-01-14T00:14:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Badbug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Badbug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badbug)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-artist-of-a-song/49926/1 "2001-01-14T00:14:51Z")

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I am trying to find a song and the title and artist (s) are unknown to me. The last line of the song is something like “88 lines about 44 girls”. The male singer goes through 44 women he knew/dated and their peccadillos. Can anyone help me on this? 😃

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-artist-of-a-song/49926/2 "2001-01-14T01:18:21Z")

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You’d probably get a better response next time if you post to GQ. But anyway, it’s probably “88 Lines about 44 Women” by Campbell & The Nails.

[The Nails: 88 Lines About 44 Women](http://www.best.com/~sirlou/nails.html)  
[88 Lines About 44 Women](http://www.polyamory.org/~howard/Poly/songs/88_lines.html)  
[88 Lines About 44 Women](http://www.postalnauts.com/newwave/99-06-19/nails.html)

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**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-artist-of-a-song/49926/3 "2001-01-14T01:20:14Z")

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I think the name of the band that did it is called The Nails, and I know They Might Be Giants did a cover of it.

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**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-artist-of-a-song/49926/4 "2001-01-14T01:21:32Z")

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Damn! Too Slow!

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**Author:** ![Fanny\_May](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3be4f8/32.png) [@Fanny\_May](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fanny_May)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-artist-of-a-song/49926/5 "2001-01-14T19:52:11Z")

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Here’s a couple of search sites for next time:

**[International Lyrics Server Similarity Search](http://www.lyrics.ch/search/approx.htm)**  
**[Lyrics World - Serach by Title Artist or Lyrics](http://lyrics.natalnet.com.br/)**

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-artist-of-a-song/49926/6 "2001-01-15T00:26:50Z")

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Off to General Questions, should anyone still want to add something.

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**Author:** ![socialxray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@socialxray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/socialxray)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-artist-of-a-song/49926/7 "2001-01-15T03:04:33Z")

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To attest to the idiots on the Web (musical and in general) I once found a version of that song on Napster accredited to Nine Inch Nails. :rolleyes: