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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