Help identify this song, it's driving me mad....

Amadeus 2014

I'm having to throw myself on the collective wisdom of AH. Now I know I have no hope...

For the last few days I have had a song stuck in my head, I only half know the words to one line and it's going round and round and round and round. Please help me identify it so that I can listen to it and get rid of it forever from my head!

It's an older song, probably 80s, probably goth. It's not the Cure, the Smiths or any of those bands. Could be someone like the Teardrop Explodes?

It has a heavy bass line without a lot of other instrumentation and is sung by a man with a deep voice. The only line I half know is something like "if this is how the (story?) (goes / ends?) I'll (lose?) my mind"

Does anyone have any idea what it could be?

ohnonotgmail

Megadeth, How the story ends?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FUSHSbdtJY

El Weirdo

Junkyard Tom

Is it this?

eamonnq

No Regrets - Midge Ure version ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZME5Q11wig

Hoop66

Sounds like it might be "To Cut a Long Story short" - by spandau Ballet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKOV0MpYo8

anncoates

The Sundays - 'Here's where the story ends', maybe?

Goth?

The Mission? The Sisters of Mercy?

Sing it there

rameire

just download SoundHound on your phone and sing into you phone when the app is open, usually works for me.

snubbleste

ElChe32

I think it's something from Nin Huguen and the Huguen Notes.

Scroll through the songs on this cd, check out the artists, see what it's like...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Side-80s-Various-Artists/dp/tracks/B00008GER0/ref=dp_tracks_all_1/275-4964285-7487538#disc_1

kneemos

What genre is it in?

Zombienosh

I think this is the song you're looking for

ohnonotgmail

Zombienosh wrote: »

I think this is the song you're looking for

you should be banned for that

Amadeus 2014

Hoop66 wrote: »

Sounds like it might be "To Cut a Long Story short" - by spandau Ballet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKOV0MpYo8

You're a genius!! No idea how you got that from my description but thats the song, thanks!!

Hoop66

Amadeus 2014 wrote: »

You're a genius!! No idea how you got that from my description but thats the song, thanks!!

Clue's in the question...

ohnonotgmail

Hoop66 wrote: »

Clue's in the question...

still not sure how you got it from this description

It has a heavy bass line without a lot of other instrumentation and is sung by a man with a deep voice. The only line I half know is something like "if this is how the (story?) (goes / ends?) I'll (lose?) my mind"

one of the lines the OP half knew isnt even in the song.

eamonnq

Ahhh of course Spandau Ballet the well-known icons of goth.

biko

When the Sun Hits

Darude - Sandstorm.

Hoop66

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

still not sure how you got it from this description



one of the lines the OP half knew isnt even in the song.

As soon as I read his half-remembered lyric the "to cut a long story short I lost my mind" popped into my head.

* plays air keyboard *

Amadeus 2014

Amadeus 2014 wrote: »

You're a genius!! No idea how you got that from my description but thats the song, thanks!!

Goth?

I guess if a SB song sounded dark, that was the one, it was from a bit before their "True" days.

Cold War Kid

It actually does sound kinda goth/the darker sound of New Romantic for Spandau Ballet - it's one of their very early numbers. Brilliant song. I got it from the OP's description too, "story" and "lost my mind" - those are some of the main words in the chorus.

Hoop66

About the only decent song that Spandau ever did, although there's one or two others on Journey's to Glory that I quite like. It's much more spare and funky than the later stuff.

Hoop66

Hoop66 wrote: »

About the only decent song that Spandau ever did, although there's one or two others on Journey's to Glory that I quite like. It's much more spare and funky than the later stuff.

I actually liked the whole True/Only When You Leave phase.

I hate the way people think singing "Gold" is gas.

anncoates

Hoop66 wrote: »

About the only decent song that Spandau ever did, although there's one or two others on Journey's to Glory that I quite like. It's much more spare and funky than the later stuff.

To my shame, I kinda like I'll Fly For You.

Cold War Kid

Hoop66 wrote: »

About the only decent song that Spandau ever did, although there's one or two others on Journey's to Glory that I quite like. It's much more spare and funky than the later stuff.

Chant Number 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) is class IMO.

And feck it I like Through The Barricades too.