My wife never knows the name of songs, even ones she knows backwards. She sometimes struggles to remember names too. She was once trying to say something about a very well-know harmonica-touting folk/rock legend with an unfortunate nose. She could remember that his first name was a common everyday one and that he was Jewish. She had a stab at it. Ever since, Bob Dylan has been known in our house as “Andy Cohen”.

As I discovered not long ago when I found myself in a similar no-sleep-for-those-with-a-wicked-memory predicament.

and this post is the ideal platform. I bought the Wilco CD Being there quite a few years ago. When i bought it there was a bonus 4 track ep cd with it. On this cd there was a piano based ballad about a film star - It was beautiful and undoubtedly the best thing Wilco ever did IMHO but someone nicked the bloody cd. Problem is I cant find it anywhere nor even any mention of it not even on the bands website. Anyone shed any light? More importantly if anyone has a copy and can burn it for me I would be eternally grateful etc etc.

On the wonderful speechification site (http://speechification.com/) they are currently sharing the Jarvis Cocker Musical Map of Sheffield which is well worth a listen. When you have listened to it can anyone tell me the piece of music playing when Jarvis is talking about the Moon Landing starting at 16:22. It's so familiar but I can't place it at all. Driving me to distraction.

early 90s, there was a song whose chorus went something like (and I'm sure this spelling is wrong) "Mr Doubalina, Mr Bob Doubalina". It was vaguely rap-ish, and I really liked it at the time. I could never find out who it was, though.

Anyone got any idea?

I'm trying to track down a rap album I once had that had on it a funny song/skit called "Da News" which included a weather report with the bizarre rhyme "...Thanks Harold; put away your winter apparel...". Any ideas as to what it was would be gratefully received. I posted this before once, but with no response. Worth another shot.

And also by the way, why is the brilliant song "THE WIND OF CHANGE" by ROBERT WYATT and the SWAPO singers (produced by Jerry Dammers) so darned difficult (or ridiculously expensive) to get hold of? Anyone prepared to divshare it would make my summer.

Probably from the 90's....its a family that are in the house, and they keep hearing noises in the back garden, it ends up being aliens and the last scene is of the alien in the house.
It was filmed on a hand-held camera.

Can't for the life of me remember what it was called.

Very sketchy details but that's all I have.

The joke (ho, ho) being that they are aliens.
(My masterful knowledge, I should add, is completely and entirely culled from reviews and probably only the headlines, so probably completely wrong........)

Title
Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998) (TV)
Also Known As:Alien Abduction: The McPherson Tape (UK)
Incident in Lake County

Synopsis
"After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142074/

I'd never heard of it before but I found it by searching for hand held camera and alien.

One link took me to a discussion on whether it was real or not! One of the posters said something like "Surely the fact it had credits at the end was a clue!"

It's apparently a Blair Witch Project type film with aliens instead of, well, The Blair Witch.

I would bet it's the one you're thinking of.

you can always try the songtapper website:

http://www.songtapper.com/

In my experience it's not very accurate (unless it's my tapping that's off the beat) but sometimes comes up with the right suggestion.

but not prepared to wade through several thousand albums to find it, but: On the BBC's old Sounds Of The Sixties AND I believe Dancing In The Street, there was footage of Grateful Dead being a bit far out. What I'd like to know is the song they're playing. The only vague bit I recognise is it mainly revolving around the rhymes of everyday/ hey etc. Please help.

There was no bonus EP with 'Being There' and I can't guess the song that Steve Turner's talking about (though it sounds a bit like the wonderful 'Venus Stop The Train' from the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot demos) but all of Wilco's bonus EPs can be downloaded, legally and for free, here: http://wilcoworld.net/records/bonus/ - all you have to do is register. Hope this helps.

Actually there was a bonus EP with "Being There" but it was one of those maddingly "Only available at selected retailers" offers. The tracks Outasite (outta Mind), Outamind (outtasite) Thirteen (big star cover, non lp) and Blasting Fonda (non lp)

the reference to "Mr Dobalina, Mr Bob Dobalina" extends back to the Monkees "Zilch" it was one of the four phrases in the spoken word round. I Think Peter Tork said this one.

I often get strange new bands with Spell check.

indie tune, on Peel late 80s. Something about 'the van with square wheels'. I remember it was amazing - any ideas?

Shrug - Neville Wanless EP?

... Paul Weller during the Style Council era.

No, no, not Dee Dee what's her name.

The spikey haired white chick who looked like a girl in your school; and who had a minor solo career.

... good to hear she's gainfully employed.

I'll head off to bed reassured now.

Chick??

I've been trying to find out the name of a French film which was on BBC2 a couple of years ago. It was probably made in the 90's. It starts off with two girls in a nightclub who get involved in a murder. The detective investigating the case falls in love with one of the girls. Unfortunately, that's about as much as I can remember. I taped it at the time but the tape ran out half way through the film. Does anybody know the name of this film?

If it was a philosophy professor it would sound like every French film ever made...Can't help sorry.

However in an aside, years ago I was given a tape by a friend who I lost touch with which had a song on it which I adored. Unfortunately I had no idea who actually sang it. On one of my first trips to that London town I was determined to get a hold of it. In my innocence I genuinely thought the nice staff at those Brewer St record shops would be able to help.

Cue an entire day of me marching into various shops and saying "It goes like this; tang tang, a boogie bang, let's rock the house let's shock the house, alright! alright! Don't stop, dont stop don't rock the dop, shake a boom boom, shake a bang bang. Shake a boom boom bang bang rub a tumb tumb, go bang that bang to the beat of the drum" Over and over again, much to the hilarity of all and sundry. Imagine that all sung in a Glasweigan accent for maximum comedic effect.

However a very lovely person in Sounds Of The Universe did tell me it was "Let's Start 2 Dance Again" by Hamilton Bohannon which they had in stock. This is why that shop is still trading with some success...

Many years ago, on the night when Arsenal beat Liverpool with a last-ditch goal to win the Football League title, I was watching The La's at the Town & Country Club in Kentish Town. Blissfully oblivious to the fate that had befallen their fellow Scousers, Mavers and co. encored with what I'm pretty sure was a cover version.

It was a mid-tempo powerpop-style song (like The Raspberries, but I don't think it's one of theirs) and the anthemic chorus went:

'And I said baby baby baby
Baby baby baby
Baby baby baby
Won't you be my girl'

It was so catchy, I can remember it to this day, but I've never discovered what the song was called. Can anyone help?

badartdog, you're a wonderful person (or dog). I've just found a great Vibrators version on YouTube. I don't know how to do the embedding thing, but the link is

I see an iTunes download coming on when I get home.

(Ooh, it seems to have embedded itself. There's clever for you.)

Her love letters were like confetti, he ripped them up, his hands were sweaty...
What is the song? I need to know.

This has been bugging me for a while. Its a song and I know I really do know it, but its a list of dead people chanted over quite a driving musical background and includes names like Brendan Behan, then every now and again they finish a list with 'all dead'. Someone help !

Very Google-able - "All dead, yet still alive in endless time, endless art."

Hurrah, I got one!

Tangentially, while we are on subject of searches etc, can't resist posting this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17mund.html

Kind of William Gibson meets Gilliam's "Brazil" ...

"On a fog-drizzled Monday afternoon, this fading medieval city feels like a forgotten place. Apart from the obligatory Gothic cathedral, there is not much to see here except for a tiny storefront museum called the Mundaneum, tucked down a narrow street in the northeast corner of town. It feels like a fittingly secluded home for the legacy of one of technology’s lost pioneers: Paul Otlet.

In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the whole thing a “réseau,” which might be translated as “network” — or arguably, “web.”" etc

Particularly liked this:

"Otlet and LaFontaine eventually persuaded the Belgian government to support their project, proposing to build a “city of knowledge” that would bolster the government’s bid to become host of the League of Nations. The government granted them space in a government building, where Otlet expanded the operation. He hired more staff, and established a fee-based research service that allowed anyone in the world to submit a query via mail or telegraph — a kind of analog search engine. Inquiries poured in from all over the world, more than 1,500 a year, on topics as diverse as boomerangs and Bulgarian finance"

Kids today don't know they're born etc etc.

And now three more from The Electric Telescopes ...

A version used by The Chemical Brothers as an intro tape. Slow, mellow and jazzy. They loop the 'surrender to the void' before the band come on. Anyone have any ideas?

I was beginning to think I was going mad - I knew there was a bonus cd with Being there and Blasting Fonda is the track I was referring to. Just hope I can download it from the site once I have located it.
Would still like to strangle the little blighter who nicked it - just have to find out who it was.

I'd always thought it was called 'Boulders', but have found no reference to it online.. Basically, people are terrorised by ominous boulders which move and in one scene, someone tries to turn off a radio which is playing a creepy tune, but even with the radio off, the tune keeps playing... I've found a reference to something that sounds similar called 'Escape Into Night', but that was 60s and B&W and I'm sure my terrifying tv moment was '70s and in colour. But could be wrong. (Oh, btw, if my posting about the film 'Signs' shows, sorry, was an idea for the query about aliens in houses, but I hadn't seen yet that someone'd answered it, sorry!)

That's just got to be Children of the Stones, surely.

... play.com selling it even cheaper than amazon.

I saw this scarey moving stones TV series too, when I was eight years old. This is definitely it. Remember the bit where Marianne draws eyes on the stones? Or bars on Mark's window? The stones had nasty Dalekish voices, from memory. This is why I don't have a rockery.

I was thinking about this the other day. At the end of it, the stone "speaks" to a girl in a muffled sort of way. Unbelievably creepy - brr...

If it wasn't Children of the Stones you were thinking of, it might have been in a story the Tomorrow People. That Sci-Fi for kids thing on ITV in the 1970s. Mostly it was harmless piffle but sometimes it was scary - particuarly when Flintlock's drummer joined the cast.

This is why this should be a forum rather than a blog.

A thread like this can run and run on a forum but will die off in a couple of weeks on here.

The good folk at

http://chilled.cream.org/boards/

have threads that have been active for years.

Mid/late eighties organ-driven pop gem by (most likely) Australian combo, the name of which, I have to admit, has not been even in the vicinity of the tip of my tongue for quite some time. Anyone?