Can someone tell which band played this background music?
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I apologize if this not Hacker related, but can anyone tell me which band played the background song starting at 1mn25s. Thanks.
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The group is Veckatimest, off their Grizzly Bear album. The song is Two Weeks.
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 :)
So, I tried the actual track and surprisingly it found it.
Funny we caught on to the same plan of attack :)
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.
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 :)
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.
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 :).