Trying to think of a song

sanofi · 6 Sep 2011 at 16:08

This is a long shot but I'm trying to find the name of a song I heard a few days ago in a cafe. At the time I was trying to use Soundhound but there was too much background noise.

The beat goes like this:

daa daa, da, da, da, daa daa, da, da da, daa daa, da da, da

Male singer, very much a crooning tone, slow. My first thought was Damien Rice or David Gray. The beat is pretty much constant throughout the song with the words sung at each beat.

Edrof · 6 Sep 2011 at 16:17

sanofi said:
The beat goes like this:

daa daa, da, da, da, daa daa, da, da da, daa daa, da da, da

Male singer, very much a crooning tone, slow.

Well, that's narrowed it down to 'a song, by a man'.

sanofi · 6 Sep 2011 at 16:18

Forde said:
Well, that's narrowed it down to 'a song, by a man'.

Haha yeah I know. I wish I could give more info. It's really bugging my because I'm sure I know it.

Steve2000 · 6 Sep 2011 at 16:23

Eiffel 65?

Banzai_Joe · 6 Sep 2011 at 16:24

Steve2000 said:
Eiffel 65?

Lol, that was my first thought too.
I'm Blue ba da dee-umm, blue ba da -deeeee.

phil-k · 6 Sep 2011 at 16:25

I'm sure I remember a site on the internet where you could hum a tune into your microphone and it would come up with suggestions

sanofi · 6 Sep 2011 at 16:26

phil-k said:
I'm sure I remember a site on the internet where you could hum a tune into your microphone and it would come up with suggestions

Yeah apps like Soundhound let you do that too but I tried to no avail.

fez · 6 Sep 2011 at 17:36

Whenever I hear a song I like I make sure that I remember at least one sentence of the lyrics. There is literally not a song in the world that cannot be found by typing a line of it into google.

G-MAN2004 · 6 Sep 2011 at 17:54

2:42

Sorry.

sanofi · 6 Sep 2011 at 18:00

I should edit the beat to something more like:

daa daa, daaaaa, daaaaa, daaaaa,daa,daa,daaaaa,daaaaa,daaaaa

The short da's should have been much longer and slower. It's really mellow, almost acoustic.

QlimaxUK · 6 Sep 2011 at 18:40

sanofi said:
I should edit the beat to something more like:

daa daa, daaaaa, daaaaa, daaaaa,daa,daa,daaaaa,daaaaa,daaaaa

The short da's should have been much longer and slower. It's really mellow, almost acoustic.

nailed it?

rosso5792 · 6 Sep 2011 at 18:51

i dont know why but when i read the 'da da' part i thought of this

Edrof · 6 Sep 2011 at 19:14

What kind of radio station did you hear it on? Was it one that only played 'chart' stuff? Or was it one that played anything?

sanofi · 6 Sep 2011 at 21:15

I found it!

David Gray "This Years Love"

QlimaxUK · 6 Sep 2011 at 21:20

well done you!

but how was dadad ada daaaddaa aad adaaaaa a clue to that?

IceBus · 7 Sep 2011 at 08:50

sanofi said:
I found it!

David Gray "This Years Love"

OK... For future reference the way to describe this song is 'wavery male voice singing with just a piano.'

My new failsafe method for finding out song names that rarely fails is to pick the first four or five words of two lines or a verse or the chorus and Google it.

So for this song, I'd do 'turning circles cut like a knife lyrics' - which leads me to said David Gray song.

sanofi · 7 Sep 2011 at 14:15

IceBus said:
OK... For future reference the way to describe this song is 'wavery male voice singing with just a piano.'

My new failsafe method for finding out song names that rarely fails is to pick the first four or five words of two lines or a verse or the chorus and Google it.

So for this song, I'd do 'turning circles cut like a knife lyrics' - which leads me to said David Gray song.

I normally would google a line of it but for the life of me I could only remember the beat.