What song is this?

Cafe Society
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I heard a song, but only the beginning of a song. I thought that it was Queen, but after scanning my father’s extensive Queen collection, I couldn’t find it.

It’s a very slow rock power ballad from the late 70s or 80s that starts with a series of synth pads (3 or 4 chords). A voice enters in the lower range of a tenor singer, “I’m asking why.” The line is echoed, repeated, and then echoed again.

The vocal phrase is a pick-up that comes in on the upbeat of beat 3 (…+4+1+). It’s straight eighth notes ending with “why” on the downbeat of 1. I think “I’m ask-ing wh-y” is “fa fa fa fa me” or at least those intervals.

What song is this?

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Moved to Cafe Society.

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You didn’t look very hard. It’s by Enigma. It was probably a remix, but there certainly is a Freddie Mercury-sound to his voice.

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That song is from 1996, but other than that it might fit the bill.

Also, despite the Youtube video title, the song is actually just called Why!..; it’s from their album Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi.

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Oh, I guess that’s it. I thought I heard the song from the start, so I was looking for something with a it in the first verse, not the chorus. I also thought it was from a band that I knew. I’ve never heard of Enigma.

Sorry for the trouble, Internet. </thread>