Of Montreal - Heimsdalgate like a Promethean Curse

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OK. So at about 1:36 into this song (track 4 on the new album, the "Chemicals" song) Barnes goes "oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh" to the melody of some really well-known song, but I can't put my finger on what song it is. I feel like its something by The Who, maybe, but maybe not. It's driving me bonkers trying to figure out where that melody is from.

I'm sure SOMEONE out there can help me out.

Anyone?

― jeremy brownstein (jeremy b), Friday, 16 February 2007 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link

"Whole Lotta Love"

― m1cc1o (m1cc1o), Friday, 16 February 2007 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link

nope. definitely not 'whole lotta love'. (was that just a random guess?)

― jeremy b (jeremy b), Friday, 16 February 2007 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

"Carouselambra"

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Friday, 16 February 2007 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Not that either. Don't think it's a Led Zeppelin song.

― jeremy b (jeremy b), Friday, 16 February 2007 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link

"Hats Off to Harper"

okay seriously I just listened to it and couldn't detect any super-famous melody in it, just descending and ascending notes

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Friday, 16 February 2007 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

"Sugar Sugar" ?

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Friday, 16 February 2007 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link

no, not sugar sugar. I swear it's a familiar melody, maybe it's not as famous as I thought, but it's definitely intentional and definitely not just ascending/descending notes.

― jeremy b (jeremy b), Friday, 16 February 2007 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link

well good luck on your quest my friend, let us know

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Friday, 16 February 2007 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link

keep feeling fascination

― esoj@w3rk (esoj@w3rk), Friday, 16 February 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

keep feeling fascination is not what I'm thinkin of, but that's actually really close!

― jeremy b (jeremy b), Friday, 16 February 2007 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Dyer Mak'r
Black Dog
Video Killed the Radio Star
New Toy
Erotic City
I Wanna Be Your Man (Jesse Johnson)

if it's not that last one it should be, that song is awesome

― Jaufre Rudel (Jaufre Rudel), Friday, 16 February 2007 04:36 (seventeen years ago) link

It's "Heimdalsgate," not "Heimsdalgate." I certainly hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 16 February 2007 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link

definitely not just ascending/descending notes.

It goes down, down, down, down, up, up (scalar with one pentatonic-type third leap in there).

I don't recognize it either.

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Friday, 16 February 2007 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Of Montreal just played an in-store the other day at our place and he was wearing fake bling and his hair had way too much gel in it for being "just got out of bed" as he claimed.

Plus, his performance was awful. He, with a microphone and a PA system was drowned out by a toddler screaming in the back of the store.

Awful, awful, awful.

And really, did people thing Jew Nazi Dinosaurs falling from the sky were all that funny? because like people kept laughing, 'n stuff...

― novaheat (novaheat), Friday, 16 February 2007 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Something on that album has been reminding me of a Blondie song, Heart Of Glass or Call Me.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

But that ""oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh" is not giving me anything

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

The opening riff on track 6 is the one that's bugging me.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i like this band, but his song titles make me want to punch him.

― sir lord baltimore club music (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!

He's humming the melody from another Of Montreal song "Will You Come and Fetch Me" (from Satanic Panic in the Attic)!! The "oh oh oh oh oh oh oh" is actually the same melody as how he sings the lyrics "will you come and fetch me now" in the chorus. It's track 3 on Satanic Panic.

― jeremy b (jeremy b), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Ken, that song is like George McRae's "Rock Your Baby" in the key signature and tempo of Carol Douglas' "Doctor's Orders."

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

(That was my determination anyway! Other people pointed out the "Rock Your Baby" thing in the chord progression.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwgh_An-z40

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, of course. Thanks, Tim!

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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