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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Aardvark on 23 Sep 2005, 10:09

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: Aardvark on 23 Sep 2005, 10:09

Right, this has been bugging a friend of mine for 2 years and is now bugging the hell out of me as well. Just what the hell is this song?

http://www.drarok.com/WTFISTHIS.mp3

His 'helpful' additional info extends to 'it's kind of old rock or something'. So feel free to help at least 2 people out by getting this, as well as probably earning the right to mock me for not knowing it in the first place when it turns out to be ridiculously obvious... :)

Oh and as this is my first post... hi, I guess :p

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: Micolithe on 23 Sep 2005, 12:40

It sounds vaugely familiar, and if that's true then it's probably some pop-punk song from the mid to late ninties, since, although I hate to admit it, it's what I listened to back then.

Good places to start might be Blink 182 or Sublime or something.

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: heretic on 23 Sep 2005, 13:06

it won't work for me, but i must say that i'm appauled that you would put blink 182 and sublime in the same category

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: Micolithe on 23 Sep 2005, 13:19

I didn't put them into any category, I just listed things I listened to when I was 12.

Geez, you indie kids and your genres.

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: 1patheticloser on 23 Sep 2005, 13:21

Well, I'm sure I've heard it before, but can't place a name for it. As for the recording you linked, that's you playing it, right?

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: Johnny C on 23 Sep 2005, 16:21

That's a generic 50's-rock-style chord progression if I ever heard one.

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: beatpunkus on 23 Sep 2005, 18:32

That would be crazy on you by Heart.

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: mediocrity_wire on 23 Sep 2005, 20:40

Terror Squad - Lean Back

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: Aardvark on 24 Sep 2005, 03:51

Quote from: 1patheticloser

Well, I'm sure I've heard it before, but can't place a name for it. As for the recording you linked, that's you playing it, right?

Not me, but definitely not the band. I'm assured that's EXACTLY how it sounds, however...

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: Everest on 24 Sep 2005, 05:48

It sounds remarkably much like a song by a totally unknown little pop punk band I once stumbled onto on PureVolume...

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: stale on 27 Sep 2005, 20:12

sounds like heart- 'crazy on you' to me

edit: didn't see beatpunkus already said it ;p

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: Aardvark on 28 Sep 2005, 09:14

Crazy On You is a LOT slower, also the distortion isn't just because he can't work an amp, that's actually how it sounds.

Title: Name that tune, kids!
Post by: Vlishgnath on 28 Sep 2005, 17:28

Eesh.  Man, the root progression is way generic.  Blink 182 used the major (3/5/7) variant of it in "Damnit", but not the scale that's with it in that mp3.  And it's definately not Heart, the riff in that song doesn't change it's root (http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/h/heart/crazy_on_you-tab.shtml).  Anyone verify "Terror Squad - Lean Back"?