# What song is this?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 12, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/681118 "2014-02-12T03:52:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sinisterniik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Sinisterniik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinisterniik)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/681118/1 "2014-02-12T03:52:02Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/681118/2 "2014-02-12T04:18:45Z")

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Moved to Cafe Society.

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**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:** [February 12, 2014, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/681118/3 "2014-02-12T07:43:02Z")

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You didn’t look very hard. It’s by [Enigma](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-LUe5EbY_M). It was probably a remix, but there certainly is a Freddie Mercury-sound to his voice.

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**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:** [February 12, 2014, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/681118/4 "2014-02-12T10:57:28Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> You didn’t look very hard. It’s by [Enigma](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-LUe5EbY_M). It was probably a remix, but there certainly is a Freddie Mercury-sound to his voice.

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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**Author:** ![Sinisterniik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Sinisterniik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinisterniik)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/681118/5 "2014-02-12T20:29:09Z")

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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\>