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

  • 28-04-2015 09:51AM
    #1
    Amadeus 2014
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭


    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?


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  • #2
    ohnonotgmail
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    Megadeth, How the story ends?

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


  • #3
    El Weirdo
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  • #4
    Junkyard Tom
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    Is it this?


  • #5
    eamonnq
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    No Regrets - Midge Ure version ??

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


  • #6
    Hoop66
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    Sounds like it might be "To Cut a Long Story short" - by spandau Ballet

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


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  • #7
    anncoates
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    The Sundays - 'Here's where the story ends', maybe?


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
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    Goth?

    The Mission? The Sisters of Mercy?


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
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    Sing it there


  • #10
    rameire
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    just download SoundHound on your phone and sing into you phone when the app is open, usually works for me.

    🌞 3.8kwp, 🌞 Clonee, Dub.🌞



  • #11
    snubbleste
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  • #12
    ElChe32
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    I think it's something from Nin Huguen and the Huguen Notes.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
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    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


  • #14
    kneemos
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    What genre is it in?


  • #15
    Zombienosh
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    I think this is the song you're looking for


  • #16
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,210 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Zombienosh wrote: »
    I think this is the song you're looking for

    you should be banned for that


  • #17
    Amadeus 2014
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭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!!


  • #18
    Hoop66
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    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...


  • #19
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,210 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    eamonnq
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    Ahhh of course Spandau Ballet the well-known icons of goth.


  • #21
    biko
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  • #22
    When the Sun Hits
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    Darude - Sandstorm.


  • #23
    Hoop66
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    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 *


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


  • #25
    Cold War Kid
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    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.


  • #26
    Hoop66
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    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.


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


  • #28
    anncoates
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    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.


  • #29
    Cold War Kid
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    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.


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