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Can someone tell which band played this background music?

3 points by rokhayakebe 17y ago

I apologize if this not Hacker related, but can anyone tell me which band played the background song starting at 1mn25s. Thanks.

jacquesm 17y ago
man that's a tough one. I can hear almost nothing, except for the opening chords, the 'oh-woo-woo-oh' and the words 'the world', preceded by 'across' or 'watch'. The lead singers voice reminds me of Tears for Fears somehow but the whole thing is drowning in the voices.
- rokhayakebe 17y ago
  That's the thing. If I could hear the lyrics it would be able to find the song. Thanks for giving a shot though. I will try Tears for Fears.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    I know almost all of Tears for Fears by heart and it isn't one of theirs, but the voice is close. The music is also definitely not Tears for Fears. I'll play it loud on the speakers tomorrow, see if I can catch some more of the lyrics. I run 'lirama.net', so I can use the songs database to do some queries that would be hard using google. (wildcards in the fragment, for instance). That womans voice is getting on my nerves, it is hard to try to tune her out while catching the underlying music. Incidentally, I found a song two days ago that I'd been looking for for over two decades, I heard it once on the radio and the melody stuck, I finally linked it to Tony Banks (genesys keyboardist) because of one small fragment in a different song by him. I can't describe the feeling of finally laying that to rest. (the song was called Portrait of Jerry Jackson, it's instrumental, which was a huge part of the problem). So I'm kind of motivated to find this one for you :)
    - rokhayakebe 17y ago
      Thanks a million Jacquesm. Fname found the song. You rock, man :). I am going over to listen to Tony Banks. If it lasted two decades, it must something. Cheers,
      - jacquesm 17y ago
        The three songs are 'From the undertow' from the album 'a curious feeling', and 'Jerry Jackson' and 'Portrait for Jerry Jackson' from the album 'a wicked lady'. There is a link between the first two (the instruments) and another between the last two (the theme). The weirdest thing about this whole affair is that I was literally doing nothing and the answer just jumped in to my head, that the instrumentation on the first song matched at least part of the second. It's that 'gong' like keyboard sound that did the trick. Once I'd found the second the third was easy because it is on the same record. Weirdest thing, memory. It's almost like an 'agent' got dispatched to match each and every 1 second fragment against every other long ago and suddenly a small match was found and reported. Tony banks is an interesting musician, he had a very prominent role in the creative direction that Genesis took. I've looked for an email for you so I can send you the mp3s (they're not perfect but good enough), save you some work in looking for them, but since you don't have an email address posted, mail me please (j@ww.com). Midomi is really great, but you'd have to have a sample first, I wonder now if you could make it work (or if it works already) on a whistled fragment, if that works then I could have found this a long time ago. I still have a few other songs that I'm looking for, but my memory of them is much more hazy than of this one so I doubt they'll ever surface.
        jacquesm 17y ago
        edit: that should have been 'of' not 'for' in Portrait of Jerry Jackson.
        rokhayakebe 17y ago
        My email is 1000app@gmail.com When I was a kid I remember hearing this song and it just stayed in my mind. Locked forever. I did not know its author, heck I did not even understand what the guy was talking about (I did not know any English then). I would constantly think of it. Several years passed, and one day I heard my uncle singing the melody. He told me the name once. Up until today that was one and only time I heard anyone say "Gerry Rafferty", and sure enough I never forgot. Now whenever I need to feel at peace and relaxed I fire up Gerry Rafferty Rown down the line. The weirdest thing about this whole affair is that I was literally doing nothing and the answer just jumped in to my head, that the instrumentation on the first song matched at least part of the second. It's that 'gong' like keyboard sound that did the trick. I love these very rare moments when the answer you have been looking for for a long time just comes to you. It is as if there is some magical force working for you, and the feeling is unbelievable. I guess after several years of waiting that must have been just fantastic. I am looking forward to those mp3s, let's hear that song that almost drove you crazy :).
fname 17y ago
Surprisingly, Midomi picked it up just by playing the only clear chorus part of the song. The group is Veckatimest, off their Grizzly Bear album. The song is Two Weeks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjecYugTbIQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjecYugTbIQ http://www.midomi.com/index.php?action=main.album&album_id=e081e00fef1e612026083ac1965bf35d&track_id=855da22358dce9254f99d32076712e4d&from=voice_search http://www.midomi.com/index.php?action=main.album&album_...
- rokhayakebe 17y ago
  Thank you very much fname. You just ended 3 days of banging my head against the table. Cheers,
  - fname 17y ago
    No problem, glad to help. Once I heard the song, I knew I've heard it elsewhere and had to track it down as well.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  Super! That's quite amazing, given how the voices drown out the music almost completely so that must have done the job on a surprisingly small fingerprint. Are the other songs in the video by the same band ? I woke up with a plan of attack based on checking the others first :)
  - fname 17y ago
    I never thought Midomi would pick it up with all of the background noise. I only used a small 5 second sample and it picked it with 100% accuracy. I tried the same that you wou would have tried jacquesm, by searching on the other songs in the video. Thinking the opening of the video was the same song, and was also the cleanest part of the video, Midomi should pick it up with ease. I was wrong -- it couldn't find it or the results were too broad to narrow it down to a specific track. So, I tried the actual track and surprisingly it found it.
    - 17y ago

3 points by rokhayakebe 17y ago

I apologize if this not Hacker related, but can anyone tell me which band played the background song starting at 1mn25s. Thanks.

jacquesm 17y ago

man that's a tough one. I can hear almost nothing, except for the opening chords, the 'oh-woo-woo-oh' and the words 'the world', preceded by 'across' or 'watch'. The lead singers voice reminds me of Tears for Fears somehow but the whole thing is drowning in the voices.

rokhayakebe 17y ago
That's the thing. If I could hear the lyrics it would be able to find the song. Thanks for giving a shot though. I will try Tears for Fears.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  I know almost all of Tears for Fears by heart and it isn't one of theirs, but the voice is close. The music is also definitely not Tears for Fears. I'll play it loud on the speakers tomorrow, see if I can catch some more of the lyrics. I run 'lirama.net', so I can use the songs database to do some queries that would be hard using google. (wildcards in the fragment, for instance). That womans voice is getting on my nerves, it is hard to try to tune her out while catching the underlying music. Incidentally, I found a song two days ago that I'd been looking for for over two decades, I heard it once on the radio and the melody stuck, I finally linked it to Tony Banks (genesys keyboardist) because of one small fragment in a different song by him. I can't describe the feeling of finally laying that to rest. (the song was called Portrait of Jerry Jackson, it's instrumental, which was a huge part of the problem). So I'm kind of motivated to find this one for you :)
  - rokhayakebe 17y ago
    Thanks a million Jacquesm. Fname found the song. You rock, man :). I am going over to listen to Tony Banks. If it lasted two decades, it must something. Cheers,
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      The three songs are 'From the undertow' from the album 'a curious feeling', and 'Jerry Jackson' and 'Portrait for Jerry Jackson' from the album 'a wicked lady'. There is a link between the first two (the instruments) and another between the last two (the theme). The weirdest thing about this whole affair is that I was literally doing nothing and the answer just jumped in to my head, that the instrumentation on the first song matched at least part of the second. It's that 'gong' like keyboard sound that did the trick. Once I'd found the second the third was easy because it is on the same record. Weirdest thing, memory. It's almost like an 'agent' got dispatched to match each and every 1 second fragment against every other long ago and suddenly a small match was found and reported. Tony banks is an interesting musician, he had a very prominent role in the creative direction that Genesis took. I've looked for an email for you so I can send you the mp3s (they're not perfect but good enough), save you some work in looking for them, but since you don't have an email address posted, mail me please (j@ww.com). Midomi is really great, but you'd have to have a sample first, I wonder now if you could make it work (or if it works already) on a whistled fragment, if that works then I could have found this a long time ago. I still have a few other songs that I'm looking for, but my memory of them is much more hazy than of this one so I doubt they'll ever surface.
      - jacquesm 17y ago
        edit: that should have been 'of' not 'for' in Portrait of Jerry Jackson.
      - rokhayakebe 17y ago
        My email is 1000app@gmail.com When I was a kid I remember hearing this song and it just stayed in my mind. Locked forever. I did not know its author, heck I did not even understand what the guy was talking about (I did not know any English then). I would constantly think of it. Several years passed, and one day I heard my uncle singing the melody. He told me the name once. Up until today that was one and only time I heard anyone say "Gerry Rafferty", and sure enough I never forgot. Now whenever I need to feel at peace and relaxed I fire up Gerry Rafferty Rown down the line. The weirdest thing about this whole affair is that I was literally doing nothing and the answer just jumped in to my head, that the instrumentation on the first song matched at least part of the second. It's that 'gong' like keyboard sound that did the trick. I love these very rare moments when the answer you have been looking for for a long time just comes to you. It is as if there is some magical force working for you, and the feeling is unbelievable. I guess after several years of waiting that must have been just fantastic. I am looking forward to those mp3s, let's hear that song that almost drove you crazy :).

fname 17y ago

Surprisingly, Midomi picked it up just by playing the only clear chorus part of the song. The group is Veckatimest, off their Grizzly Bear album. The song is Two Weeks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjecYugTbIQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjecYugTbIQ http://www.midomi.com/index.php?action=main.album&album_id=e081e00fef1e612026083ac1965bf35d&track_id=855da22358dce9254f99d32076712e4d&from=voice_search http://www.midomi.com/index.php?action=main.album&album_...

rokhayakebe 17y ago
Thank you very much fname. You just ended 3 days of banging my head against the table. Cheers,
- fname 17y ago
  No problem, glad to help. Once I heard the song, I knew I've heard it elsewhere and had to track it down as well.
jacquesm 17y ago
Super! That's quite amazing, given how the voices drown out the music almost completely so that must have done the job on a surprisingly small fingerprint. Are the other songs in the video by the same band ? I woke up with a plan of attack based on checking the others first :)
- fname 17y ago
  I never thought Midomi would pick it up with all of the background noise. I only used a small 5 second sample and it picked it with 100% accuracy. I tried the same that you wou would have tried jacquesm, by searching on the other songs in the video. Thinking the opening of the video was the same song, and was also the cleanest part of the video, Midomi should pick it up with ease. I was wrong -- it couldn't find it or the results were too broad to narrow it down to a specific track. So, I tried the actual track and surprisingly it found it.
  - 17y ago