What is this song?

[bayswater]

Can anyone identify this? The main line is shown below, and as I recall, the song consists of variations and inversions. Possibly a top 40 song from the 80s? (By OMD?) Or maybe I just made up.

Anyone, someone wants to make use of it, but I thought it best to see what it is first.

[greg328]

hmmm--I don't recognize it and I know ALMOST ALL THE 80'S TUNES!

Can you provide other sections of the song?

Greg

[bayswater]

I can't recall any more of it with any certainty. I've tried to play around with it and come up with more phrases that sound right, but without success.

[cuttime]

Sounds a lot earlier than the '80s. Reminiscent of The Holles?

[bayswater]

Yes, that's possible. The 80s might just have been the first time I heard it.

[mhschmieder]

Same here; I know a fair chunk of the 80's and don't recognize it as being from that era. Stylistically, it feels more like 60's, or even ska.

[stubbsonic]

I shazamed it and something came up with Asian characters. I listened and it was a similar melody in Am, but not similar enough to be a match-- I think it may have been picked because I played it on guitar.

[bayswater]

thanks for looking.

It's not necessarily in Am, btw -- I just used Am to accommodate my limited keyboard skills. Probably Bm -- wasn't everything in the 80s in Bm? The instruments were mainly electronic in my recollection which is why someone suggested to me it might be OMD, but I can't find an OMD track that is similar.

[mhschmieder]

I have everything OMD ever did, including their two revivals. It's possible that in that presentation format, I wouldn't recognize every single tune of theirs, but it just doesn't ring a bell. And it doesn't seem very synth-likely either.

Maybe from a pop band that pulled a lot from the past and from other genres, like Culture Club? I never liked that band so don't know their material very well; I had to learn two or three of their songs for a gig and that's as far as it went.

Another band that I never liked and only learned what I had to for gigs, is Spandau Ballet. Much of their stuff is a bit meandering, but not in a jazz-influenced way such as is the case for Talk Talk. Their melodies don't really stick in my head, just as the one you entered doesn't feel strong to me.

[bayswater]

Yes, I listened to everything I could find from OMD and its not them. I'll have a go at Spandau Ballet. I've asked a number of other people about it, and if Culture Club was a possibility I think one of them would have said something.

[mhschmieder]

Pet Shop Boys, if it isn't a major single. Their material varies a lot more than many realize, and at times they are almost in OMD territory.

I only have their Greatest Hits for the early period, then every album from their revival to the present day. They keep evolving. But I mostly only liked the hits from their early, more famous period. So I wouldn't necessarily recognize a melody from an album track of that era.

[Oleg Vostyakov]

Can anyone identify this? The main line is shown below, and as I recall, the song consists of variations and inversions. Possibly a top 40 song from the 80s? (By OMD?) Or maybe I just made up.

Anyone, someone wants to make use of it, but I thought it best to see what it is first.

Man there is not enough quantity here to recognize the song

[James Steele]

And the rocker guy pops up to ask: OMD?

[bayswater]

That’s what I thought in the first place but haven’t been able to find an OMD song like it. The original reason for asking was not because it mattered exactly who it is, but whether a song we were recording was original. It sounded familiar to me.

[bdr]

Reminiscent of a Nik Kershaw tune but can't remember which one.