![]() I didn’t bother pursuing the words “oh well” any further because, on their own, they simply didn’t feel distinctive or interesting enough to be a title for this song. “Machine gun” didn’t appear in the lyrics of my song, so it seemed illogical to assume that the latter song had any relevance to my search. The song “Oh Well”, since it was released as a single, had its own subpage with an embedded YouTube video, a quick scan of which proved it wasn’t the song I was after. The former title was a better match to my lyric than the latter so I followed the hyperlink to the Discogs page showing Oh Well’s discography. Given that my keywords were spread across two track titles on this compilation-”Oh Well” (by an artist of the same name), and another titled “Welcome, Machine Gun”-and that my song hardly seemed like club fodder, this was probably a dead end but I was already here and decided to see it through. Use streaming music resources to follow leads. All three are interchangeable for my purposes, so no need to look at each. NB: Discogs, due to the way its records are structured, returned three different iterations of this same album in the search results: one being the ‘master page’ for that release/album and the other two detailing the separate formats of the release, CD and LP. That left me with only one result to investigate: Maxi Dance Pool Vol. If this song had ever been a hot hit, someone would have identified it by now). skip over the items with “gospel” and “soul” in the titles, as well as the “Hot Hits” compilation. Choosing Decade>1980 from the menu down the left side of the search window narrows it down from 44 to 7.Īs for genre, would Discogs have this filed under punk, funk, other? Those distinctions are subjective, which is why I opted not to use their filters for this step and instead eliminated results that obviously weren’t the genre I was looking for (i.e. The OP said the tape was from the ’80s and the recording screams ’80s as well. Filter the search results to items released in a specific decade, geographic region, or genre. “oh”, “well” and “welcome” might appear in three different song titles on a given album, not necessarily all in the same song title). That first line repeats at the beginning of each verse, giving at least part of it the potential to appear in the title. A Track Title search for “oh well oh welcome” yielded 44 results which contained some combination of those keywords in their song titles (i.e. Then something about napalm? Sounds a bit agit-prop. Since this song didn’t have a traditional chorus (where the title would usually repeat), I started making out the lyrics from the top. Examine the audio and lyrics for clues, and search for keywords on Discogs.ĭiscogs is a website database detailing musical artists’ discographies and, among other features (like its marketplace and the ability to catalog your entire music collection), it’s a powerful search engine. The Advanced Search, which is free to use without creating an account, allows you to look just within Track (song) Title. The post was accompanied by the song’s audio on Soundcloud (and had already been an open case on Wat Zat Song? for over five months). I would be very glad to get an answer from you because this Song is searched for more than 33 Years.” This might be the Refrain of the Song because he repeats it often in this Song. Especially after the beginning words “Oh well oh welcome …. If you don`t know it, maybe you can help us with the Lyrics. So i have the Link here where you can listen to. He heard a Song there but did not hear the Name and Artist. A Friend of mine was in America in the 80s and he listened to WNYU – FM. “I write from Germany so sorry if i put words wrong. One example: Slicing Up Eyeballs posted this to both Facebook and Twitter.Ĭan you ID this funky post-punk song taped off WNYU in the ’80s?Ī Slicing Up Eyeballs reader sent us the following note: In every instance these have been songs and artists I’d never heard (or even heard of) before.īut the recordings contained the necessary clues and context, to which I applied some deductive reasoning and research done on freely-available websites. Here’s how I’ve gone about it, in case crowdsourcing isn’t working for you. Not because I’m Brainypants McMusicface to the contrary. Many times, without what felt like much work, I’ve been able to successfully ID such songs for strangers. There are entire communities-on websites like Wat Zat Song?, Midomi, and Reddit-devoted to crowdsourcing the solutions. They’ve had no luck Googling lyrics or playing the song into Soundhound, Shazam, or friends’ ears. It’s pretty common in music circles to encounter people who have spent literally decades trying to identify an obscure song on an old mixtape.
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