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.

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.

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.

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.

sanofi · 6 Sep 2011 at 21:15

I found it!

David Gray "This Years Love"

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.