BMI repertoire search: New/mysterious tracktitles!

[Guido]

BMI, the company that collects license fees on behalf of musical artists, keeps a searchable database online of copyrighted material by registered artists.

I did a search on the Sandisons and a few interesting, unknown song titles came up.

These are: Blueberry, Flute Frum Thing, It's Too Orangey, Sdesis, Woice099 (alternate title Woice Zero Ninety Nine). And there's Nissan Statistics, but I think we all know what that is.

Can't really find anything on these titles by using Google and music websites, except for It's Too Orangey, Everything2.com says this:

Too Orangey for Crows

A late 80s television advertisement for Kia-Ora on British TV featured an animated cartoon character walking along swigging the drink. The commercial was a moment of inspired surrealism, as the character was followed by Looney Tunes-style cartoon characters, notably large crows in zoot suits requesting a drink.

"Hey mister, can I have some of your Kia-Ora ?"
"No, it's too orangey for crows. It's just for me and my dog"
"I'll be your dog!"

Cue jingle: We all adore-a, Kia-Ora

A wonderful, insane, magnificent example of advertising at the height of the 80s yuppy boom.

Wouldn't be surprised at all if Boards Of Canada sampled this.

Are these tracks music written by the Sandisons under an alias? Are these track titles of a new EP copyrighted in advance? Or what?

Research and discuss!

[Joebot Kill]

awesome find, man!

[eppers]

nice one

[harpoon dodger]

Radical!

[Alex440]

The Kia-Ora ad is here: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln8

I guess the name of the track was just a reference to it. I didn't even know it was the name of a drink, here in New Zealand we use it as a greeting. The other tracks could be ones they've only performed live, you can get royalties for performing your own song.
Anyway, good find!

[Korona 1969]

Yeah, amazing find!!

For what it's worth, the listing in numerical order:

4564309 An Eagle In Your Mind
4564865 Aquarius
4566178 Basefree
4566754 Bocuma
4569952 Chinook
4573839 Everything You Do Is A Balloon
4577927 Happy Cycling
4579396 Hi Scores
4579857 Iced Cooly
4581817 June 9th
4581891 Kaini Industries
4581989 Korona
4586547 Melissa Juice
4588556 Nlogax
4588701 Oirectine
4588707 Olson
4588739 One Very Important Thought
4588752 Open The Light
4588760 Orange Romeda
4588800 Pete Standing Alone
4590584 Roygbiv
4590588 Rue The Whirl
4591717 Seeya Later
4591969 Sixtyniner
4591971 Sixtyten
4591994 Smokes Quantity
4592035 Soylent Night
4593475 Telephasic Workshop
4593579 The Color of the Fire
4593800 Trapped
4593806 Triangles and Rhombuses
4594687 Turquoise Hexagon Sun
4594696 Twoism
4595643 Wildlife Analysis

5067655 Nissan Statistics

5325950 Sdesis
5332087 Woice099
5333593 Flute Frum Thing

5726373 Amo Bishop Roden
5736347 In a Beautiful Place out in the Country
5736523 Kid For Today
5746187 Zoetrope

5963320 A is to B as B is to C
5963480 Alpha and Omega
5963628 Beware The Friendly Stranger
5965668 Corsair
5965784 Dandelion
5965791 Dawn Chorus
5966473 Diving Station
5967954 Energy Warning
5968233 From One Source All Things Depend
5968420 Gyroscope
5968565 I Saw Drones
5971142 In The Annexe
5971288 Julie and Candy
5972471 Magic Window
5972552 Music is Math
5972697 Opening The Mouth
5972709 Over the Horizon Radar
5973398 Ready Lets Go
5978028 Sunshine Recorder
5978083 The Beach at Redpoint
5978092 The Devil is in the Details
5978120 The Smallest Weird Number
5979947 You Could Feel The Sky
5980008 1969

7846512 Into The Rainbow Vein
7846513 Chromakey Dreamcoat
7846514 Satellite Anthem Icarus
7846515 Peacock Tail
7846516 Dayvan Cowboy
7846517 A Moment of Clarity
7846518 84 Pontiac Dream
7846519 Sherbet Head
7846520 Oscar See Through Red Eye
7846521 Ataronchronon
7846522 Hey Saturday Sun
7846523 Constants are Changing
7846524 Slow This Bird Down
7846525 Tears from the Compound Eye
7846526 Farewell Fire
7846527 Macquarie Ridge

8157601 Left Side Drive
8157602 Heard From Telegraph Lines
8157603 Skyliner
8157604 Under the Coke Sign
8157605 Dayvan Cowboy Odd Nosdam Remix

8766404 1986 Summer Fire
8766405 Blueberry
8766406 It's Too Orangey

Last edited by Korona 1969 on Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[bleak.]

interesting - thanks!

[Archrival]

nice

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=EbBJrK4dK ... re=related

[A_Northern_Soul]

Interesting find, cheers.

[Opothecary]

5325950 Sdesis
5332087 Woice099
5333593 Flute Frum Thing

I wonder if these are some of the tunes that played on their old website (the one before the island navigation system)

[BunnyRabbit]

5325950 Sdesis
5332087 Woice099
5333593 Flute Frum Thing

I wonder if these are some of the tunes that played on their old website (the one before the island navigation system)

You might be onto something there. Hold on though don't those tracks already have names? YEah, Timeapple, Gann, etc.

I thought the bits from the Telecom Italia track maybe... It's tempting to think they were live tracks but it seems unlikley.

I was surpised that Trapped was in but not Midas Touch.

Also what happened with 1986 Summer Fire? Did they forget? Was it liceneced seperately on a compliation or something? Come to think of it how do we know what that track was called? As an un-named bonus track what's the source of the title we've been using?

[747Music]

very interesting.

[Guido]

Also what happened with 1986 Summer Fire? Did they forget? Was it liceneced seperately on a compliation or something? Come to think of it how do we know what that track was called? As an un-named bonus track what's the source of the title we've been using?

It's listed there, second entry on the BMI page I linked, and the title is official, as you can see it on the Twoism info page in the discography on the official site.

[Fredd-E]

EPIC find!

You should make an item on the bocpages wiki about this!

[Flyingpurplepeopleeater]

Nice! Maybe these are names for yet to be released tracks, they just got in early to copyright them incase anyone else used them. (As unlikely as Fruit Frum Thing seems...)

[Techboy]

Somebody suggested live songs and that sounds more viable to me.

[Shoes]

1986 Summer Fire copyrighted AFTER their last EP? Fuck. Potentially amazing news.

Though sampling the Kia-Ora track is something I can see them doing in the Old Tunes era, and not now.

[BunnyRabbit]

Yeah, no, I didn't mean it wasn't there. I mean it's number lists it as coming after, long after, all the other Twoism stuff. It's like they forgot to register it with BMI and then remembered suddenly last year sometime.

Too right about the website listing though, thanks.


Sampling the Ki-Ora ad, now, would be wheeling sky-high over the shark in a spangly cape, if you ask me. Unless, they're doing the music for a new Ki-Ora advert! I'll be your dog!

[rdy2bz]

Nice find. I'm curious whether we ever find out what tracks these are.

[hungry_manweaselbeast]

"too orangey for crows"

great advert

great find