Examine the audio and lyrics for clues, and search for keywords on Discogs.ĭiscogs is a website database detailing musical artists’ discographies and, among other features (like its marketplace and the ability to catalog your entire music collection), it’s a powerful search engine. The Advanced Search, which is free to use without creating an account, allows you to look just within Track (song) Title. The post was accompanied by the song’s audio on Soundcloud (and had already been an open case on Wat Zat Song? for over five months). I would be very glad to get an answer from you because this Song is searched for more than 33 Years.” This might be the Refrain of the Song because he repeats it often in this Song. Especially after the beginning words “Oh well oh welcome …. If you don`t know it, maybe you can help us with the Lyrics. So i have the Link here where you can listen to. He heard a Song there but did not hear the Name and Artist.

A Friend of mine was in America in the 80s and he listened to WNYU – FM. “I write from Germany so sorry if i put words wrong. One example: Slicing Up Eyeballs posted this to both Facebook and Twitter.Ĭan you ID this funky post-punk song taped off WNYU in the ’80s?Ī Slicing Up Eyeballs reader sent us the following note: In every instance these have been songs and artists I’d never heard (or even heard of) before.īut the recordings contained the necessary clues and context, to which I applied some deductive reasoning and research done on freely-available websites. Here’s how I’ve gone about it, in case crowdsourcing isn’t working for you. Not because I’m Brainypants McMusicface to the contrary. Many times, without what felt like much work, I’ve been able to successfully ID such songs for strangers. There are entire communities-on websites like Wat Zat Song?, Midomi, and Reddit-devoted to crowdsourcing the solutions. They’ve had no luck Googling lyrics or playing the song into Soundhound, Shazam, or friends’ ears.

It’s pretty common in music circles to encounter people who have spent literally decades trying to identify an obscure song on an old mixtape.

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