Mike Worst
Ricky Stief - Everybody Get Down (Radio Edit) (1997)
updated
anacortesmusicproject.org/band/the-few
Indie rock band from Anacortes, WA, released on Olympia's K Records as part of the International Pop Underground series.
0:00 - Rollin' Like The Tide
3:10 - Friends
mixcloud.com/madeinthestates/made-in-the-states-38-september-24-1985
B-side of this Seattle band's second single
Part of a WZS quiz I did
discogs.com/artist/4938228-Dwindles
Unreleased demo from this Seattle band that would later become Pure Joy and Chemistry Set (not to be mistaken with that NJ group)
Part of a WZS quiz I did
discogs.com/release/1715677-Various-Methods-Of-Intimate-Plumbing
Posted December 2nd, 2007, no info
Lyrics:
That's the world I live in
Just sit alone now
It's all I wanna do
So just keep walking on
Tell me, tell me
Tell me, tell me
Tell me, tell me
Tell me, tell me
watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/20165.html
Uploaded on YouTube in March 15th 2009, using footage of the game Down In The Dumps (1996).
Don't let it die
I didn't let you down
I'm scared
Makes me down right there
Hold it down
We didn't get control
Run, run
Forgetting my [?] burns (Wow!)
Burn, burn
Why don't you feel the burn?
Burn, burn
Burn away (No way!)
Don't let it die
I didn't let you down
I'm scared
Makes me down right there (Hey!)
(Hey!)
Hold it
Hold it
Hold it
Hold it
Recorded from the radio in the 80s
Lyrics:
[?]
I'm gonna sit alone [?]
And work
[On holiday, holiday]
[On holiday, ?]
[?]
[On holiday, on a holiday, yeah]
youtu.be/oq93mQtrf_w
discogs.com/master/39555-The-Soup-Dragons-Crotch-Deep-Trash
myvinyldreams.wordpress.com/2021/06/22/the-soup-dragons-crotch-deep-trash-12
peel.fandom.com/wiki/19_September_1992
"And Go / Andrew" solved by Kurty
Beat Happening cover
Audio source: mixcloud.com/madeinthestates/flight-84-december-13-1984-hours-2-3
A song I decided to post for a WatZatSong quiz.
https://www.last.fm/music/Audition/Home
watzatsong.com/en/found/Audition+-Home-519649.html
Former shedrock lostwave
Posted October 8th 2011, no info.
Lyrics:
Look at my outlines
Do they satisfy?
So they were mainstream
You might disagree
Get on the train, enough success
Get on the train, enough success
I will meet you-
Upload before me: youtu.be/w7xLxk_o4Wc?list=RDw7xLxk_o4Wc
Posted September 29th 2010, from a CD the OP's boyfriend got in high school. Likely local to Chicago.
Lyrics:
Spare me a wish and be my fairy
My only one, my only one
Spare me a wish and be my fairy
Posted April 17th 2009, no info
Lyrics:
He met her at the swimming pool, the face was wet
The costume smelt of Ariel
Wasn't wearing makeup, she had perfect teeth, yeah
Saw each other every day for three long weeks
He kissed her on the promenade
Had a lot of freckles on her face and neck-
mixcloud.com/z0nk0ut/the-newave-zolocoaster-on-kvrx-austin-c2001-2002 (54:54-56:39)
youtu.be/5Oo3_baQmu0 (YouTube double)
Played on KVRX in 2001-2002 on a show called The NewWave Zolocoaster. Announced as "Who Knew" by an artist that phonetically sounds like Nemure but I can't find anything on it. Apparently on an album that sounds like "Nium."
UPDATE 7/4/2025: Zero Percent responded and said the artist is Nemir Naayem, but I don't know if the actual title of the song is "Who Knew" or "Nervous Man." I also can't find much on the "Naayem" album that he may have released back then.
youtu.be/kL6UHpBaoEU?t=64
archive.org/details/JANUARY-2001
From a punk mixtape labeled January 2001.
archive.org/details/JANUARY-2001
From a punk mixtape labeled January 2001.
UPDATE 6/26/2025: Solved by me!
https://musify.club/track/the-b-sides-i-wanna-be-old-school-12006524
discogs.com/release/2562956-The-B-Sides-The-B-Sides
Lyrics:
genius.com/The-b-sides-ca-i-wanna-be-old-school-lyrics
youtu.be/_oyAGLibAyw
discogs.com/master/2632676-Reifenstahl-Rex
youtu.be/sbOGrp9Kjzg
Really just making a public reupload of this one
Former shedrock lostwave, don't know if it had any placeholder
watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/469053.html
watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/518671.html (DOUBLE)
Posted September 21st, 2010. The full version is 2 minutes and 19 seconds long, but hasn't been posted.
UPDATE 7/10/2025: Solved by @JohnPeel3904!
youtu.be/kzQSlAZyBw4
Lyrics:
I go walking over you
And you know that you can fly
But I've never been confused
And you know that I know why
I never know why, why, never know why
Oh, you can try, try, try
And you can fly
watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/881654.html
Played by Peter Choyce on WMFO in 1985.
UPDATE 7/17/2025: Solved by mckiddie! Turns out Peter said the album title in the beginning
youtu.be/RTgs38WoVnE
discogs.com/release/2907024-The-Blackjacks-Dress-In-Black
Lyrics:
You've got the longest part of this hammer
And it's pounding down on my head
Or like the deepest darkest tunnel
Ain't no engines out of her head
It's not enough that I work with you (You) (Never let go)
What you want is to own me (True) (Never let go)
It's not enough that I'm true to you (You) (Never let go)
What you want is to own me (True)
Always the sharpest talent
And anything goes into my back
That's why I'm always on the defensive
That's why I always have to attack
It's not enough that I work with you (You) (Never let go)
What you want is to own me (True) (Never let go)
It's not enough that I'm true to you (You) (Never let go)
What you want is to own me (True)
Toss me into the current
And then you make me swim all upstream
I've nothing left but to think of
I've got nothing left but to dream
It's not enough that I work with you (You) (Never let go)
What you want is to own me (True) (Never let go)
It's not enough that I'm true to you (You) (Never let go)
What you want is to own me (True)
Well, it's not enough that I work with you (You) (Never let go)
What you want is to own me (True) (Never let go)
It's not enough that I'm true to you (You) (Never let go)
What you want, yeah yeah yeah
It's not enough that I work with you (Never let go)
What you want is to own me too (Never let go)
It's not enough that I'm true to you (Never let go)
What you want is to own me too
Never let go
Never let go
Never let go
Never let go
Please never let go
watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/881692.html
Uploaded by jhonsting on October 21st 2011, no artist credited
UPDATE 5/28/2025: Solved by Attentotten Potentaten
youtu.be/0jRWk4yqBYk
Lyrics:
In these days, I have given me some time
To think about a far off flight
Filling space like wandering around
And now I feel she's part of myself
In this light, I always find
A secret place in her mind
Without your voice, I want to run
I have to wait for your return, return
Return (x7)
Uncertain man, send it to my taste
I know this place, it's holy wine
Look my way, only far away in time
Our eyes will meet in the crater line
In this life
I always find
A secret place
In her mind
See the passion, [?] it never ends
And see it go to other hands
I can't play, but I can [?]
To share her dreams with someone else
Love the hemisphere's divide
I know we are two magnets but to [?]
Love the hemisphere's divide
I know we are two magnets but to [?]
tuneid.com/showthread.php?96726-track-ID-80s-post-punk-gothik-trash-near-quot-Malaria!-quot
discogs.com/group/thread/758086?message_id=7517901#7517901
Original upload: youtu.be/KLZAItRnmAY
OP has just recently posted the full version of this song!
Recorded from before 1990. OP says it sounds like the bands Malaria! and Matador.
"Electronic junk punk" from Los Angeles.
watzatsong.com/en/found/Babyland-Untitled+A2-857650.html
youtu.be/-HCAN3tjWok
0:00 - Safe Equals No Sound
3:39 - Untitled (A2)
5:57 - Test Pilot
9:58 - Untitled (B2)
Originally released in 2007 as part of a single for Cloudberry Records, as well as the "Valentine Vacancy" EP. different version from the one released on the album "The Long Wait Champion" in 2010
youtu.be/VZZ6GgxaAE8
watzatsong.com/en/found/Bedroom+Eyes-+Heres+One+For+You+Underdog+2007+Version+-53311.html
All songs range from 1985 to 1992
Normally I try my best to avoid posting some songs if q (or anyone else) has already posted them, but there are literally no leads for this user's songs, so here you go!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 A03 - "Sudden Start Punk Instrumental"
[song at beginning is Ahmed Adaweia - Ya Laiel Yabo El Shook]
0:30 A05 - [SOLVED] Behind The Smile - A Wish To Dream (1992)
(solved by: Sonolux on 6/7/2025)
youtu.be/QjwnK6r2DRU?t=316
1:00 A09 - [SOLVED] Indian Dream - Discarded (1992)
(solved by: Sonolux on 5/22/2025)
youtu.be/Qv0ZmgrRoq0
1:30 A11 - "Someone, Somewhere!"
2:00 A16 - "Live For Me"
2:30 B02 - "Argument Punk"
3:00 B03 - "Yeah, Boulder"
3:30 B11 - "Last Night"
TRACKLISTING
A01 - not on WZS
A02 - not on WZS
A03 - "Sudden Start Punk Instrumental"
A04 - not on WZS
A05 - "Waste Of Free Will"
A06 - Hogan's Heroes - First (1990)
A07 - Sticks And Stones - Rogue (1990)
A08 - not on WZS
A09 - "Stop My Feeling"
A10 - Blind Spot - Not The One (1990)
A11 - "Someone, Somewhere!"
A12 - not on WZS
A13 - 7 Inch Boots - Power Of My Voice (1990)
A14 - not on WZS
A15 - n.i.l.8 - Last Flash Of Paisley Pastel (1988)
A16 - "Live For Me"
B01 - not on WZS
B02 - "Argument Punk"
B03 - "Yeah, Boulder"
B04 - not on WZS
B05 - not on WZS
B06 - Crippled Youth - Walk Tall, Walk Straight (Live) (1986)
B07 - not on WZS
B08 - not on WZS
B09 - Victims Family - The Germ (1992)
B10 - not on WZS
B11 - "Last Night"
B12 - not on WZS
B13 - not on WZS
B14 - 4 Walls Falling - Values and Instabilities (1991)
B15 - not on WZS
B16 - not on WZS
B17 - Nations On Fire - Dedication (Live) (1991)
also "Those Things I Did Last Night"
Uploads before me:
youtu.be/8IIdnRQeOCs
youtu.be/53Fr0J_Ugbw
Posted January 19th 2008, no info
UPDATE 5/16/2025: Solved by Tiny Idols!
reverbnation.com/thegetawayteam/song/121979-i-regret
youtu.be/weOWzVPANDU
Lyrics:
I regret those things I did last night
Do better with the things I did tonight
Please learn to forgive before we forget
Caught up in the moment
Letting out today's best (Today's best)
Secrets that we keep to keep us
To keep us from the end
Over nothing
Well, nothing could hold me back
Folks spitting at the [?]
soundcloud.com/jeugregg/alternative-rock-heard-in-1996
youtu.be/IgmvqjHod6E
Recorded off of Fun Radio, specifically the program "Fun Radio fait du bruit" in 1996
Lyrics:
I am so weak
And you are so fine
I am the star
You are so scared
I am a [neither ?]
You are a mouse
You set me free
I feel so glad
I am so weird (I am dead)
I am so weird
I am so weird (Why don't you ever learn?)
I am so weird
I am so weird (I am dead)
I am so weird
I am so weird (Why don't you ever learn?)
I am so...
I am so fine
And you feel so weak
I am so scared
'Cause you are a star
I am the rat
You are the hook
You feel so glad
When I am in you
You are so weird (I am dead)
You are so weird
You are so weird (Why don't you ever learn?)
You are so weird
You are so weird (I am dead)
You are so weird
You are so weird (Why don't you ever learn?)
You are so...
Something, [photo-fuck ?] of mine (I didn't make [?])
Something that you shouldn't have could find (I wanna [?])
Something you will leave behind (Your head in the dark)
You are coming in my life
Something, [photo-fuck ?] of mine-
Another song by OP: youtu.be/Uvx0ja879LE
Recorded from college radio during the 90s. The YT video linked on WatZatSong is no longer available
Lyrics:
I've been a long time a-runnin'
I feel the words are comin'
I wonder where I'm goin' so I [?]
Do one big bad favor
I'll try to catch you later
blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/11/men-with-no-iqs-true-black-metal-from-mississippi.html
B-Side: youtu.be/xOE41Wau8IM
Punk band from Jackson, Mississippi that consisted of three black guys. This (admittedly bad) rip was from their (unofficial) MySpace page and preserved now thanks to WFMU.
watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/876225.html
Played by Peter Choyce on KUSF in 1994. Announced as a single by the band "Passenger" titled "Bookmark," but there's seemingly no information online about the single.
Lyrics:
I know that you love those books sometimes
They treat you better than I do
But I know you're not so poor
You can't pay attention to me
And if that story's getting good
On the page that you've turned into your playground
I'm glad for you, it's just this once
I want you to read my mind instead
And it doesn't seem right to me
And I'm not even sure what my motives are
But I just wish you'd get a bookmark, save your place
And spend some time with me
Spend some time with me
[?] too real to you
And I'm just a character out of the chapter
But if you skip to the end, you'll find
There aren't any pages written anyway
And if I give up, you won't know
But all I wanted was a few of your words
Coming back in your mouth
[?] into your eyes
And it doesn't seem right to me
And I'm not even sure what my motives are
But I just wish you'd get a bookmark, save your place
And spend some time with me
Spend some time with me
Spend some time with me
Spend some time with me
From a 1993 album called "Pyramid Sessions," released on Big Moose Records. It's not on Discogs, and I don't know the full tracklisting of the album. From Brighton, UK, not related to the Scottish band Alex Kapranos was in before Franz Ferdinand.
watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/861511.html
http://www.gavinunderhill.co.uk/bmthbeat.htm
Synthpop band from Bournemouth, UK consisting of Ian Sandy, Eddie Moors and Marc Ford.
Former Barni lostwave:
youtu.be/K5qjMRyrwC0
youtu.be/wGSwso3d6Ig
Posted November 11th, 2017. From around 1970-1975, no other info.
UPDATE 7/23/2025: Confirmed to be Orfeo - Forget About The Past, but no audio yet
discogs.com/release/9679514-Orfeo-Hard-To-Please
Lyrics:
Still have some pages for tomorrow
Every [?] just to go
Woah
Forget about the past
Those little [?]
Forget about the past
[?]
Show regret and maybe we can borrow
Give them all we have to [clow ?]
Posted on October 8th, 2014, from an analog tape
UPDATE 4/10/2025: Solved by FatBird!
youtu.be/RvosOwSsqac?t=1875
Lyrics:
Late last night, I heard your voice
You woke me up after late last time
And I don't see ya from my house
It's in the bed, [?] for a while
I take a pill then drive my car
Turn on the engine, I sleep on the-
Posted on June 9th, 2018. From the 80's, no other info
Lyrics:
I want to see you
I can't deny
I want to feel you
You know that I can't lie
Original Upload Date: Feb 7, 2015
Formerly unidentified song that I had in my channel back in 2023. I found this music video on December 10th of that same year and it was reuploaded by Mysterious Voice, but since everything in his channel is gone now, thought I'd reupload it myself.
www.mixcloud.com/cance440/peter-on-wzbc-december-1-2000 (1:13:27-1:15:39)
Another lostwave from same show: youtu.be/3lHXlA3cbww
youtu.be/L4wjUQzvlgg
Played by Peter Choyce on WZBC on December 1st 2000, announced as "Slot/Why" (or Slot/y?) by The Loud Clappers, and apparently it comes from a CD sent by the band to WZBC. The Loud Clappers are on Bandcamp, but this song is not on it, they released a CDr around 2004 called "At The Smash Party," and they had a website at that time.
loudclappers.bandcamp.com/album/loud-clappers
archive.org/details/punk_planet_63/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22The+Loud+Clappers%22
web.archive.org/web/20041212202056/http://loudclappers.com
UPDATE 6/2/2025: Solved by Hinoyt & The Loud Clappers!
Lyrics:
Down in the back, my head is a [fin ?]
Dreams have been stumblin', under my skin
[Kids wearing ?] this stuff, pushed us around
Now in the bright light, we're molding it down
Best to get by
We're still reminded
No more sunrise
Nature's [?] to check their control
But just swallow them up and devour them whole
And we didn't seem to be talking out loud
So I lay down beside her and smile at the clouds
Just to look fine
We're still reminded
No more sunrise
You cannot [?]
Thrown out of bed, smashed on the floor
When I get it away, let's forget it was [?]
Don't interrupt, it's gonna go
Without a light out, [?]
mixcloud.com/cance440/peter-on-kusf-march-22-1994 (2:31-6:39)
Upload before me: youtu.be/NDEYzSdysp8
Played by Peter Choyce on KUSF on March 22nd, 1994. Announced as "Sexy Satyr" by Zamboni from a local compilation presumably called "Quixotes" or something like that.
UPDATE 7/13/2025: No audio, but partially solved by Bloost Media as Sexy Seder by Tzamboni from the compilation "Quixotic: Heck, It's a Sampler of San Francisco Bands!"
ebay.com/itm/186626238502
UPDATE 7/18/2025: Still no audio just yet, but confirmed by band violinist Adrienne Biggs!
UPDATE 7/19/2025: HQ rip thanks to basketry!
youtu.be/48KdYYEuoQU
mixcloud.com/cance440/peter-choyce-on-wzbc-july-7 (1:05:46-1:09:49)
Played by Peter Choyce on WZBC on July 7th, 1992 (mistakenly typed in Mixcloud as 1990). References the L.A. riots. Peter announces the title of this one as "Easy To Be Hard," mentions Dave Herlihy from O Positive being the vocalist in this song, and seems to announce the group as "I Am The Svengali," which, according to him, has "taped here before here at 'ZBC, so [they] trust that name."
Samples identified:
youtu.be/ynoZY1npoYA?t=176
youtu.be/Q_vJH2nrMl8
youtu.be/tVidK2kagPA?t=46
UPDATE 6/19/2025: I got a response back from Dave Herlihy himself, and apparently he said it wasn't him on vocals. This leads me to believe that Peter Choyce made a mistake while announcing this track.
Lyrics:
(Knife pointing to you and then some-)
(Turning it and turning it and turning it and turning it inside, and once [?] get inside, you just [?])
(What is going on in L.A. must and will stop. I guarantee you.)
(Bullshit)
That boy just killed a man
And he deserved to die
I read it in the Bible
Pluck an eye out for an eye
Pluck-pluck
(Must be condemned)
Pluck an eye out for an eye
(Must be condemned)
We all know he's lying
Just to save his skinny ass
Let's strap the boy into the chair
Let go the lethal gas
It's easy to be hard
When you watch it on TV
It's easy to be hard
When it's there next to me
It's easy to be sure
What's wrong is wrong and right is right
It's easy to be hard
When you can turn it off at night
(One, two, three, kiss the wall)
(Let them know, let them know what time it is)
(Your eyes are playing tricks on you, my brother, okay?)
You say he was on a green card
Send him back from where he came
We've got to set a precedent
Or get more of the same
(I never saw such fine Americanism as is exhibited by you people)
My house to my car, my job, my wife
God bless my little girl
It's easy to be hard
When you watch it on TV
It's easy to be hard
When it's there next to me
It's easy to be sure
What's wrong is wrong and right is right
It's easy to be hard
When you can turn it off at night
(One, two, three, kiss the wall)
(One, two, three, kiss the wall)
(Put your hands on your head and face the wall)
Welfare state perpetuate
Corruption and deceit
It's time to cut these people off
And get them on their feet
(Can we all get along? Can we-can we get along?)
(Don't make any mistake about it, you've got the sympathy of the American people)
(Now don't you lose it)
(Now don't you lose it)
(Now don't-now don't-now don't you lose it)
(Don't you lose it)
Well, they don't kill each other off
That's all sex and drugs and hate
(Let them know, let them know what time it is)
(No justice in America, not for the flag)
It's easy to be hard
It's easy to be hard
It's easy to be sure
(There has been a miscarriage of justice)
(One, two, three, kiss the wall)
It's easy to be hard
(There you go)
It's easy to be hard
(Put your hands on your head)
It's easy to be sure
(Put your hands on your head)
It's easy to be hard
When you can turn it off at night
(One, two, three, kiss the wall)
German project from Andy Giorbino, Niki and Jäki Eldorado (Hildisch), with this 12" being their only release as Ivanhoe!, under the Zickzack label. This was already posted to YT, but it was at the wrong speed, so here's the full 12" again, this time at the correct speed.
The track "I! Trifft Die Grapellis" was, in fact, the unknown indie instrumental played by John Peel.
youtu.be/irYZqz5Q9aQ
00:00 - Nur Keine Angst
02:37 - I! Trifft Die Grapellis
05:25 - I! In Polen
09:20 - I! Auf Den Spuren Grosser Ahnen
12:33 - Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
15:09 - I! Jagt Mini-Mädchen
19:01 - I! Will Nach Hause
mixcloud.com/cance440/peter-on-wmbr-november-21-2002-assassination-anniversary-show (25:56-30:46)
Played by Peter Choyce on WMBR on November 21st 2002, on a special show commemorating the 39th anniversary of the JFK assassination one day early.
UPDATE 3/30/2025: Solved by marktrail!
youtube.com/watch?v=i0VulEh1NWM
Lyrics (really needs reworking):
Dallas, Texas, November 22nd, '63
The blackest day in American history
In a town with the right [?]
Of a man who's [?]
It's just the right place to kill John F. Kennedy
They think that you're a [?]
[?] where you're standing
Money could be made
A hero could be saved
Fighting [?]
[?]
Scandals in the [?]
[?]
[?] what we know
We know the fatal shot was real
But the testimony's taken
From the testimony given [?]
When the [bone has got the eyeball ?]
And the facts' lookin too [?]
And anything left [?] will get thrown away
A bullet in the [?]
[?] in the back
[?] they saw in Dallas
Someone walking by
Thought he had been [?]
The autopsy is false
This evidence is only [?]
If you'd only read, you would see all the tears [?]
And that's what they told you, there's just no way it can be
So this is the American story
And it's not one of glory
They killed the president, the conspiracy's bigger than you know
John F. Kennedy, we know [?], you tried
John F. Kennedy, [?] save the earth, you tried
John F. Kennedy, you did what was right, you tried
John F. Kennedy, someone has said you must die
And the world will be fooled by your most elaborate lie
John F. Kennedy, [?] make a move
Again, [?] there was nothing you could do but [?]
And John F. Kennedy, someone has said you shall die
And John F. Kennedy, before you, the people will cry
And John F. Kennedy, before you, the world will cry
John F. Kennedy, this world may [?]
Then make a move and [?] taking control
[?] will never ever know
And John F. Kennedy, a man for the people, you cry
And John F. Kennedy, a man for this country, you cry
And John F. Kennedy, a man for the world, you cry
mixcloud.com/cance440/peter-choyce-on-wmbr-2002-perhaps (44:41-46:31)
Played by Peter Choyce on WMBR in 2002. Not announced, but it's very likely "She's In My Skin" by The Collisions considering that they're a band from Massachusetts and you can call up radio stations in the Boston area to play their songs in their website, WMBR included.
druglessdouglas.com/ofap/pl/4_24_02.html
web.archive.org/web/20030805152641/http://www.thecollisions.com
Lyrics:
I thought that we were sinking
I knew that gun was loaded
She pointed that thing at me
My fucking mind exploded
And now my soul is searching
I feel my fingers burning
She's taming lions
I have the big bad wolf inside me
And now the smoke is clearing
I see her in the distance
Her eyes are burning through me
I hear her calling to me
"Come sit next to the fire"
I sit next to the fire
Goddamn your friends
They have the devil in them
"Come sit next to the fire"
I sit next to the fire
She's! In! My! Skin!
I let her get too close
I let her get too close
She's! In! My! Skin!
I let her get too close
I let her get too close
It's in the east, I chew my sword
I try my best to praise the Lord
And all His grace and wisdom
We can't defeat the system
We got away with something
It hurts to tell the truth now
I got away with something
I hear her calling to me
"Come sit next to the fire"
I sit next to the fire
Goddamn your friends
They have the devil in them
"Come sit next to the fire"
I sit next to the fire
She's! In! My! Skin!
I let her get too close
I let her get too close
She's! In! My! Skin-
www.mixcloud.com/cance440/peter-on-wers-january-3-1981 (45:50-50:14)
Played by Peter Choyce on WERS on January 3rd, 1981. Peter announces the band as B.J., Beth, & The Breakdowns but doesn't say what the title is. His announcement is definitely correct, however. The group consists of B.J. Plattner and Beth Caurant, and they've made a video for another song titled "Rude Girls Don't Make Coffee."
youtu.be/SWY_hVaxLJQ
UPDATE 6/6/2025: Title confirmed by B.J. Plattner and Isara108 (B.J.'s daughter)
Lyrics:
I wanna be a star, I wanna go far
I wanna die [?], people falling at my feet, oh yeah
I wanna be a star
I want coke on my nose, leather clothes
Lash with the [pope ?], and that's when I came home, oh yeah
I wanna be a star
I wanna be in a position not to make a decision
Let someone do it for me, get lots of money, oh yeah
'Cause that's a real star
She doesn't know where she's going now
She hardly knows that she's down
But her anger isn't showing
Can she carry on?
I wanna be rude, I wanna be a scene
I wanna drive to the [?] and [?] the way
I wanna be a star
People think I'm crazy, ah ha ha ha ha ha ha
But I don't care, I say what's there
And that's it, I'm a star
I wanna be unkind, a simple no-mind
I wanna [step right please ?], a real sleaze!
Yeah, I wanna be a star
She doesn't know where she's going now
She hardly knows that she's down
But her anger isn't showing
Can she carry on?
Travel the university, flicking people with my purse
Throw my money everywhere, never seem to care
Now that's a real star
There's people all around me, they're [?]
I don't know anyone's name, but it's all part of fame, ha ha ha ha
Yeah, I'm a star
You see, I don't need anyone, my insides are going on
I don't hear a word said, I might as well be dead soon now
Now that I'm a star
(I don't need anyone, my insides are going on) I don't need anyone, my insides are going on
(I don't hear a word said, I might as well be dead for now) I don't hear a word said, I might as well be dead
Well (Now that you're star)
Don't need anyone, insides going on
Don't hear a word said, I might as well be dead soon now
Now that I'm a star
Don't need anyone, insides going on
Don't hear a word said, I might as well be dead
Posted August 28th 2011, no info.
Lyrics:
It's swirling in your mind
As you travel back in time
And finally, you start to see
How blind you were to reality
And everything is different now
Through new eyes, it becomes clear
Everything you feared before
It fades away with-
Posted August 28th 2011, no info.
Lyrics:
I will dance with you tonight
With one foot left on the ground
One foot left on the ground
Take a second walk with me
Let you decide, it's your call
You decide, it's your call
Posted September 3rd 2011, no info.
Lyrics:
People have been saying that I'm out of luck
I [?] you're on your way, I guess [?]
At this point, I'll find my way
Greater than my life, it's my duty
Through the ones who proudly take my pride
My money lust and all my time
But there's one thing that covers me
It's that I look for brand new gold
There's a fire running in my soul
mixcloud.com/cance440/peter-choyce-on-wzbc-christmas-1996 (52:58)
mixcloud.com/cance440/peter-on-kxlu-july-4-2011 (41:13)
Folk tune from Cambridge, MA singer-songwriter Richard Johnson. Peter Choyce has played this song at least two times, one on WZBC in 1996 and one on KXLU in 2011, and this recording is from the 2011 KXLU broadcast. Hopefully you can bear the slight sound of CD rot, though. It'll do for now until a better rip comes around.
watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/36000.html [deleted]
Posted March 20th 2010, first sample was deleted. According to the comments of the deleted sample, this song was sent to the OP among a collection of songs by a friend.
"bien en fait c\\'est un ami qui m\\'a envoyé beaucoup de musiques dont celle ci .. et ca doit etre une chanson qu\\'il ..."
UPDATE 3/23/2025: Solved by Randolurker!
No, it’s not the same Paramore with Hayley Williams.
youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ilMN35HVY
Lyrics:
She comes here all the way from [Sunnyslope ?]
Into the city
I see my [searching ?] wasted youth
She asked me if I ever knew your baby
I say, "never"
I see-
[...]
And if you're home
Never drift and sleep another dream
At all, you need time, you've been mad all day
And if you're home
Never drift and sleep another dream
At all, you need time, you've been mad all day
This kind of modern life is much too [?]
Don't remind the [?]
Never drift a-
Not related to the Siouxsie song...
Posted August 11th 2016, no info
UPDATE 3/23/2025: Solved by Murphy and me. It's the same woman behind "Hey Mickey"
youtu.be/VDXkovOfF8E
Lyrics:
I dreamed about you in the bed last night
I closed my eyes and then I turned out the lights
I was spellbound
You were not around
When I woke up, I was all alone
Took your picture by the telephone
Looking groovy
I was so-


