Help: this is driving me nuts

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:20 PM

Ok so there's a male vocalist that I can't remember the name of. Trouble is I'm drawing a total blank on his songs, too. Please list possibilities in this thread. He's got probably two popular songs, late 90s early 2000s probably. Sort of a semi-falsetto high range I think. I have this feeling that his first or last name starts with E or an E figures prominently in there or something.

I really wish I had more to go on, but that's all I've got. Well, it's definitely pop music, too. Not hard edge, kind of easy, lyrical style. HELP PLEASE I'M GOING CRAZY.

MikeVic · 08-02-2009, 10:21 PM

Alizee?

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:21 PM

focus please

sovereignstar · 08-02-2009, 10:22 PM

Do you know what he looks like physically? Like race?

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:24 PM

Sort of. Pretty sure longish brown hair w/beard and mustache. White dude.

sovereignstar · 08-02-2009, 10:25 PM

lolwhat? a dude with a beard and mustache that does pop?

Ronnie Dobbs2 · 08-02-2009, 10:27 PM

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:28 PM

help me fofc you're my only hope

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:30 PM

This may help. I was trying to think of a song he might have song and I thought I had one. I snapped and started singing "Fifteen there's still time for you" so I looked that up and nope, not even close. But that is *maybe?* the kind of music we are talking about. Not even 100% sure of that statement, but maybe it will get you started in the right direction. Halfway between that song and that Time of Your Life song by Green Day. If that makes any sense at all.

MikeVic · 08-02-2009, 10:33 PM

Beck?

stevew · 08-02-2009, 10:33 PM

Eric Neis?

MikeVic · 08-02-2009, 10:34 PM

Justin Timberlake?

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:34 PM

no to both

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:34 PM

no to justin timberlake

stevew · 08-02-2009, 10:35 PM

http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=492300
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Five for Fighting?

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:36 PM

No that song wasn't by this guy like I originally thought. This is definitely one guy and not a group.

JonInMiddleGA · 08-02-2009, 10:36 PM

Enrique Iglesias was the only "E" other than Elton John in the late 90's with a #1 pop song but the longish hair, beard, and mustache doesn't match up. And I'm guessing Eminem isn't the answer either.

I also finally found a list of the year end Hot 100's and didn't see anything that seemed like a match from 97 through 02 either. So if they were hits, they weren't to that stature.

I also checked a list of one-hit wonders from that era and didn't see anything there either.

MikeVic · 08-02-2009, 10:37 PM

Maybe MJ4H is drunk.

stevew · 08-02-2009, 10:37 PM

Mark Cohn?

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:37 PM

I'm not positive of the E thing it's just a feeling. I also get a little bit of a "Mc-" feeling. McDuffy or something (not mcduffy, just an example). I really am giving you everything I can think of.

stevew · 08-02-2009, 10:37 PM

Walking in Memphis

JonInMiddleGA · 08-02-2009, 10:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevew

Mark Cohn?

Hmm ... might work

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:40 PM

Not drunk. This guy just has one or two songs that I've always sort of liked and every time I've come across his name I've thought, ah ok, I'll need to remember that later and look him up and buy something of his, but I never remember his name or the songs when I'm somewhere that I can do something about it. I'm sitting here with the internet in front of me and I want to track the guy down and I'm TOTALLY blank. It's driving me up the wall. Every time I try to remember one of the songs, the stupid "Let Me Be Myself" Geico commercial comes on the TV again or something and all attempts at remembering obscure pop songs are hopeless.

please note: the geico commercial song is not related to the mystery guy at all, just an example of how hopeless this search is for me right now.

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:40 PM

No, and no. Nothing yet. I'm pretty positive I would insta-recognize the name.

stevew · 08-02-2009, 10:40 PM

he had 2 hits too.

JonInMiddleGA · 08-02-2009, 10:42 PM

Okay, let's see if we can narrow it down a little more.

Where did you hear the song? I'm thinking radio station here, trying to pin down the format. From your description of the song style, I can't say whether it's a Top 40 thing or an AC thing or Rockish thing or even a crossover country thing. That might at least start narrowing the field a little.

edit to add: Oops, you definitely said "pop" earlier but even that can be skewed; i.e. dance-leaning, AC-leaning, kid-pop leaning, whatever

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:43 PM

I'd say this is a pop/top 40 type radio station song.

edit: I can vaguely remember hearing the song on a tv ad for some compilation, too.

Lorena · 08-02-2009, 10:44 PM

Maybe this list will help - Category:American pop singers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:44 PM

Btw, thank you guys for at least trying to help. Thought it might be sort of fun for some of you, too, so I thought I might have a little chance trying this.

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lorena

Maybe this list will help - Category:American pop singers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

excellent, looked for something like that earlier. scanning now.

stevew · 08-02-2009, 10:46 PM

Jeff Buckley?

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:47 PM

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:47 PM

edwin something maybe?

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:48 PM

boom edwin mccain

Lorena · 08-02-2009, 10:49 PM

Edwin Mccain?

Lorena · 08-02-2009, 10:49 PM

cool!

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:50 PM

Have no idea what triggered that but it just shot back to me. Interesting to see the things I was right about (the E and Mc) and the things I was off on (I don't hear a lot of falsetto-ish stuff now).

SackAttack · 08-02-2009, 10:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MJ4H

Have no idea what triggered that but it just shot back to me. Interesting to see the things I was right about (the E and Mc) and the things I was off on (I don't hear a lot of falsetto-ish stuff now).

Squared?

stevew · 08-02-2009, 10:52 PM

this thread just went into the pop music shithole.

sovereignstar · 08-02-2009, 10:53 PM

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:53 PM

ur mom

JonInMiddleGA · 08-02-2009, 10:54 PM

I would never have gotten there with him. He's not someone I associate with "pop" at all, more of an AC or even light alt-rock guy

sovereignstar · 08-02-2009, 10:54 PM

no, ur mom!

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:55 PM

MJ4H · 08-02-2009, 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I would never have gotten there with him. He's not someone I associate with "pop" at all, more of an AC or even light alt-rock guy

yep right on. It is a tremendous frustration trying to come up with someone when you can't remember a single definitely accurate thing about them.

AgustusM · 08-02-2009, 11:03 PM

the youngsters have no idea, pre internet mundane stuff like this would take months or even years to figure out. I use to have long lists of things I would go to the Library and try to find.

Wolfpack · 08-02-2009, 11:38 PM

I can empathize. I remembered bits and pieces of songs from when I was a kid that would just randomly lodge into my head during the day and I could not for the life of me figure it out. Without the intarwebs, I'd have never been able to figure out that "Eye in the Sky" was a song by The Alan Parsons Project, for example (something I heard a lot on radio play as a kid, but never bothered to track who sang it and by the time I was old enough to really care about it, the song and the band had receded into history so I never researched it).

MikeVic · 08-03-2009, 03:16 AM

There was a song I heard once as a kid on the radio for the first time that was already old when I heard it (although I didn't know that), and it sounded so weird to me, the main part was stuck in my head forever... and it would screw me up in things I was doing.

A few years later I hear it again, and see it was Need You Tonight by INXS. Geez.

Danny · 08-03-2009, 03:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MJ4H

Ok so there's a male vocalist that I can't remember the name of. Trouble is I'm drawing a total blank on his songs, too. Please list possibilities in this thread. He's got probably two popular songs, late 90s early 2000s probably. Sort of a semi-falsetto high range I think. I have this feeling that his first or last name starts with E or an E figures prominently in there or something.

I really wish I had more to go on, but that's all I've got. Well, it's definitely pop music, too. Not hard edge, kind of easy, lyrical style. HELP PLEASE I'M GOING CRAZY.

Oh, considering this info, I would have to say you are thinking of Edwin McCain, he sings I'll be and I could not ask for more.

Poli · 08-03-2009, 06:10 AM

I bet MJ4H is happy marching band camp is ready to begin.

08-02-2009, 10:21 PM	#3
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	focus please __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 10:24 PM	#5
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	Sort of. Pretty sure longish brown hair w/beard and mustache. White dude. __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 10:27 PM	#7
Ronnie Dobbs2 Pro Rookie Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Bahston Mass	__________________ There's no I in Teamocil, at least not where you'd think

08-02-2009, 10:28 PM	#8
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	help me fofc you're my only hope __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 10:30 PM	#9
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	This may help. I was trying to think of a song he might have song and I thought I had one. I snapped and started singing "Fifteen there's still time for you" so I looked that up and nope, not even close. But that is maybe? the kind of music we are talking about. Not even 100% sure of that statement, but maybe it will get you started in the right direction. Halfway between that song and that Time of Your Life song by Green Day. If that makes any sense at all. __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona Last edited by MJ4H : 08-02-2009 at 10:31 PM.

08-02-2009, 10:21 PM	#2
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	Alizee?

08-02-2009, 10:22 PM	#4
sovereignstar Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2004	Do you know what he looks like physically? Like race?

08-02-2009, 10:25 PM	#6
sovereignstar Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2004	lolwhat? a dude with a beard and mustache that does pop?

08-02-2009, 10:33 PM	#10
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	Beck?

08-02-2009, 10:33 PM	#11
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	Eric Neis?

08-02-2009, 10:34 PM	#12
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	Justin Timberlake?

08-02-2009, 10:34 PM	#13
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	no to both __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 10:34 PM	#14
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	no to justin timberlake __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 10:35 PM	#15
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=492300 ' Five for Fighting?

08-02-2009, 10:36 PM	#16
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	No that song wasn't by this guy like I originally thought. This is definitely one guy and not a group. __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 10:36 PM	#17
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	Enrique Iglesias was the only "E" other than Elton John in the late 90's with a #1 pop song but the longish hair, beard, and mustache doesn't match up. And I'm guessing Eminem isn't the answer either. I also finally found a list of the year end Hot 100's and didn't see anything that seemed like a match from 97 through 02 either. So if they were hits, they weren't to that stature. I also checked a list of one-hit wonders from that era and didn't see anything there either. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis Last edited by JonInMiddleGA : 08-02-2009 at 10:37 PM.

08-02-2009, 10:37 PM	#18
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	Maybe MJ4H is drunk.

08-02-2009, 10:40 PM	#23
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	Not drunk. This guy just has one or two songs that I've always sort of liked and every time I've come across his name I've thought, ah ok, I'll need to remember that later and look him up and buy something of his, but I never remember his name or the songs when I'm somewhere that I can do something about it. I'm sitting here with the internet in front of me and I want to track the guy down and I'm TOTALLY blank. It's driving me up the wall. Every time I try to remember one of the songs, the stupid "Let Me Be Myself" Geico commercial comes on the TV again or something and all attempts at remembering obscure pop songs are hopeless. please note: the geico commercial song is not related to the mystery guy at all, just an example of how hopeless this search is for me right now. __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 10:42 PM	#26
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	Okay, let's see if we can narrow it down a little more. Where did you hear the song? I'm thinking radio station here, trying to pin down the format. From your description of the song style, I can't say whether it's a Top 40 thing or an AC thing or Rockish thing or even a crossover country thing. That might at least start narrowing the field a little. edit to add: Oops, you definitely said "pop" earlier but even that can be skewed; i.e. dance-leaning, AC-leaning, kid-pop leaning, whatever __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis Last edited by JonInMiddleGA : 08-02-2009 at 10:44 PM.

08-02-2009, 10:43 PM	#27
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	I'd say this is a pop/top 40 type radio station song. edit: I can vaguely remember hearing the song on a tv ad for some compilation, too. __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona Last edited by MJ4H : 08-02-2009 at 10:43 PM.

08-02-2009, 10:44 PM	#28
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	Maybe this list will help - Category:American pop singers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

08-02-2009, 10:46 PM	#31
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	Jeff Buckley?

08-02-2009, 10:47 PM	#32
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	no __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 10:47 PM	#33
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	edwin something maybe? __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 10:48 PM	#34
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	boom edwin mccain __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 10:49 PM	#35
Lorena Unregistered Join Date: May 2004	Edwin Mccain?

08-02-2009, 10:50 PM	#37
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	Have no idea what triggered that but it just shot back to me. Interesting to see the things I was right about (the E and Mc) and the things I was off on (I don't hear a lot of falsetto-ish stuff now). __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 10:52 PM	#39
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	this thread just went into the pop music shithole.

08-02-2009, 10:53 PM	#40
sovereignstar Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2004	who?

08-02-2009, 10:53 PM	#41
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	ur mom __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 10:54 PM	#42
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	I would never have gotten there with him. He's not someone I associate with "pop" at all, more of an AC or even light alt-rock guy __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

08-02-2009, 10:55 PM	#44
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	NO U __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

08-02-2009, 11:03 PM	#46
AgustusM College Prospect Join Date: Dec 2003	the youngsters have no idea, pre internet mundane stuff like this would take months or even years to figure out. I use to have long lists of things I would go to the Library and try to find.

08-02-2009, 11:38 PM	#47
Wolfpack Pro Rookie Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Raleigh, NC	I can empathize. I remembered bits and pieces of songs from when I was a kid that would just randomly lodge into my head during the day and I could not for the life of me figure it out. Without the intarwebs, I'd have never been able to figure out that "Eye in the Sky" was a song by The Alan Parsons Project, for example (something I heard a lot on radio play as a kid, but never bothered to track who sang it and by the time I was old enough to really care about it, the song and the band had receded into history so I never researched it).

08-03-2009, 03:16 AM	#48
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	There was a song I heard once as a kid on the radio for the first time that was already old when I heard it (although I didn't know that), and it sounded so weird to me, the main part was stuck in my head forever... and it would screw me up in things I was doing. A few years later I hear it again, and see it was Need You Tonight by INXS. Geez.