Please Help Identify This Song

That song sucks donkey dick.

That doesn’t help.

Would gracenote be able to analyze the CD and tell you what song it is? It sounds familiar to me, but I can't find it at all

So, any luck, OP? It's driving me a little crazy now. I can't find it by searching the lyrics. I checked a bunch of artists with voices similar to the singer, and nothing.

You've infected me, dammit!

Thank you for trying to help. I greatly appreciate it.

I also did lyrics look ups.

I think if I could figure out the first line of the chorus, the title is in there.

“Someone presents bottle thin nails”????????

I am completely clueless as to what she’s really singing on the first line of the chorus.

But I do think we will solve the mystery if we decipher that line.

I need moves like Robert Langdon!

Yeah, I've been straining to decipher the lyrics, too. The singer needs to E-NUN-CI-ATE better.

I can understand almost everything except for that first line of the chorus.

Her voice reminds me of a few other artists but no clue who she is.

The first line of the chorus is : Someone who becomes something else, by reason of association.

I've been working on transcribing the lyrics, but I am having trouble with the second and fourth lines of the chorus. The first I am sure of - and she repeats it a lot at the end of the song - here is what I have so far:

By letting matters slide the climb into decline is just one smooth continuous motion

Oooh, dangling in the dream midway to the extreme from the accidental to the conventional

You become someone who stands for something else by reason of association

Never apply? the message to self implied? behind the implication

Someone who stands for something else by reason of association

Never to hear the message implied, divide? behind the implication

Boxes and boxes, fear is my sphere

Hunting and hiding, digressing each year

Weeping and laughing and gasping for air

Stuck like and oyster, seems so unfair

Someone who stands for something else by reason of association

Never apply? the message to self implied? behind the implication

Someone who stands for something else by reason of association

Never apply the message implied, divide? behind the implication

Words in your head, like voices underwater there’s no escaping the destiny of repetition

Between what you said and what you wouldn’t, shouldn’t couldn’t, didn’t

You really wanted to say you became

Someone who stands for something else by reason of association

Never apply? the message to self implied? behind the implication

Someone who stands for something else by reason of association

Never to hear the message implied, divide? behind the implication

Boxes and boxes, fear is my sphere

Hunting and hiding, digressing each year

Weeping and laughing and gasping for air

Surpressed like a jester, with ? Seems so unfair

Someone who stands for something else by reason of association

Never apply? the message to self implied? behind the implication

Someone who stands for something else by reason of association

Never to hear the message implied, divide? behind the implication

Obvious question, OP, but can someone at Gap HQ help with the CD listing (and the other months' lists you're missing)? Presumably their Marketing people will have a record of it/them.

Ooh cool!

I’m going to listen to the song in the morning and then try to find a title on Discogs. I’ve deciphered many others that way.

I thought it was “Spirits not spears!” Oops!

Thanks so much for your help!

No, Gap has zero records. They have helped me completely.

They gave me those few CDs they found lying around the NYC headquarters and paid me to decipher all of the songs since there were no playlists with the CDs just dates.

Also, the company which created the playlists and CDs had a server upgrade a few years back which wiped out all of their older records.

She is singing a lot of multisyllabic words very quickly, and a lot of the lyrics are not your typical song lyrics. She is especially fast in the chorus, and is singing percussively. I really hope you find it, because I really want to know who sings this song now!

The President of Gap Inc. instructed several teams of people to help me in my quest, so I know Gap did their best.

Plus, they thought the playlists would be a great thing for their historical archives since music is linked to Gap in many ways.

Some of the lyrics are borrowed, intentionally or unintentionally. For instance, "Words in your head, like voices underwater" comes from [italic]Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit[/italic] by Jeanette Winterson.

When I Shazamed it, I got "Forming the Base" by Fox Techno, but there is nothing I can find online to confirm that this is the song.

I don't think Fox Techno recorded this song.

Yeah, it didn't seem right... I can't find a recording of that song, or even a mention of it online anywhere. I'm tipping it's a glitch in Shazam. Odd!

It’s a crummy song why do you care?

The playlist went to GapBody stores in the last week of February 2004. Therefore, this song might have been released in January or February 2004, it's most likely from 2003.

I was really sure this was Lina but I can't find any song of hers from 2004 and before that fits the length of around 4:46.

OP, try Reddit!

What category/etc. on Reddit?

I put it in Name That Song on Reddit.

Thanks for the suggestion!

I Googled some of the lyrics and came up with a Datalounge thread on this topic from January 2019. OP, have you been searching for this song since last year?

I've been searching since September 2017 when Gap sent the CDs to me which had no playlists with them.

I'm very happy that guys are helping me here in this thread!

[quote]Around this time in Fall 2017, Gap told me they had found nothing in their archives concerning playlists except for the October 2003 Playlists for Gap, GapBody, GapKids and babyGap. That was it. Nothing was saved. However, they did find about 30 CDs which were labeled various months but did not have playlists accompanying them. Gap contracted me to decipher the songs and artists on the CDs and make replica playlists for them. Four CDs made up one full playlist, so I ended up with seven full playlists from 2004 and 2005 that I did not have again yet, plus half of the July 2002 Gap/GapBody playlist.

The song is work bitch by Britney Spears.

Any other ideas on how to spread the word?

Super exciting news coming soon!

George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - 7/5/1984 - Capitol Theatre (Official)

Oooops! Wrong song. Sorry.

Where is the news?

It is still coming.

I was told about what is happening last Friday, so, hopefully, it will start sometime this week.

It definitely has to do with Gap, Gap Playlists, and me. Very big visibility!

"By letting them to slide, to climb into decline, it's just one smooth continuous motion" Is what I got from that first line.

It sounds like a European song, which might not have been released in the States.

That happened a lot with Gap playlists.

I should be able to figure it out on Discogs if I had a title.

Any luck with the identification?

I have an album by a group called Summerhill that came out in 2007. I downloaded it off of some sketchy website, and I have never been able to find out anything about the band. The album is listed on Discogs and apparently the band is from Denmark, but there is no wikipedia entry, nothing on allmusic, nothing on YouTube. Shazam recognizes the song Parking Lane from the album, but as far as most of the internet goes, the album might as well not exist.

This song seems to fit into the same category.

There are about four more from those 2004 CDs Gap gave me that are completely unknown to the world.

Gap even had advance songs from albums that ended up shelved at the last minute instead of being released.

Fun news tomorrow!

Any clues???

Why would you turn your comments off on the song if you want help OP?

Sounds like Israeli singer Ofra Haza

An internet search of some of the lyrics I could decipher brought me to...this DL thread!

I turned off the comments to all of my dozens of videos because of MAGAt freepers commenting on several of my Stevie Nicks videos.

I forgot to turn the comments back on for this one video.

Of course, the link to my Gap In-Store Playlists blog is still on there, and anyone who knows the artist or song can easily contact me there.