Heard it once on fm radio maybe 79/80.
Can barely remember it musically, but the frenetic vocalist was almost shrieking out the lyrics:
Gotta get out
gotta get out
gotta get out
gotta get awayeeeyay
All I got.
I would be very surprised if that wasn’t it.
Hey, any excuse to listen to Nilsson!
*Put the lime in the coconut *
I even have the “Son Of Dracula” soundtrack.
Prefer “Jump Into The Fire” myself.
Not Nilsson. His voice was easy on the ears.
The singer I’m thinking of was considerably more on the psychotic side, especially how he went
“a-way-eee-yaaaaaay!!!” - totally aggreived to the point of being at the end of his rope.
If I had to take a stab at the genre I’d say New Wave, possibly quirky / atonal No Wave elements, or more Snakefinger / Splodgenessabounds / BB Gabor camp.
When I read the lyrics in the OP I heard them in my head in a kind of Steven Tyler screech. But I’m not a big Aerosmith fan so I don’t know if they
actually have a song like that.
(Sure wish “Gotta Get Up” was on my Nilsson compilation CD. Great song! I remember it being heavily featured in the Netflix series “Russian Doll”.)
Could there have been banjo in it? (I’m starting to think)
Not that I’m really expecting that to help a whole shitload.
Submitted for your consideration:
Could it have been The Ballad Of Dwight Frye by Alice Cooper?
It goes more like I gotta get out of here Igottagetoutofhere IGOTTAGETOUTOFHERE
About ten minutes after reading this thread a song came on…
Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler.
It had a lot of "gotta be"s.
Looking at the cover of that album makes me wonder, was Harry Nilsson the character model for Lance in Pulp Fiction?
Wow.
I don’t know, but he sure is channeling him.
I remember an article about Nillson, and the writer called him “almost proudly slovenly."
I think I know this one!
Billy Joel is screeching almost exactly this phrase during the fade-out of “A Room of Our Own.”
(The Nylon Curtain is one of my favorite albums.)
Another entry …
Well, that was the closest so far, I guess.
I’m quite sure that my guy never registered anything on the charts. Late 70’s/early 80’s indie kinda thing, with strong emphasis on the word indie .
Most definitely a very obscure number, which is probably why I’ve heard it only that one time. Too bad I can’t remember the rest of it worth squat.