A new 'identify a song' thread'.

[Glebe]

Can anyone identify a really upbeat song, I think by a kind of indie pop band, with an annoyingly catchy harmony chorus that goes kinda 'Ba-bap-bap-ba, bap-bap-bap-bap-ba, bap-bap-ba"? I think it had a load of drums going on, maybe some brass, and I think the video featured the blokes in the band just standing there singing during the chorus... I think it was out in the early '00s. I've been sleuthing like mad on the Googles and the YouTube, but I cannae get no joy.

[Steven]

'Ba-bap-bap-ba, bap-bap-bap-bap-ba, bap-bap-ba"?

We're seriously meant to go off this as a clue?

Get to https://vocaroo.com/ ya big bollix.

[Sgt. Duckie]

Divine Comedy's National Express has some bap bap bap bap baps?

[boki]

'Ba-bap-bap-ba, bap-bap-bap-bap-ba, bap-bap-ba

It's obviously not your song, but I can't help but think of this now, you substantial git.

[Glebe]

We're seriously meant to go off this as a clue?

Get to https://vocaroo.com/ ya big bollix.

Yeah, fair enough. I'll get round to it.

Divine Comedy's National Express has some bap bap bap bap baps?

Not it, but cheers for the suggestion Ducks.

[Colin Sanction]

Stereophonics - Have A Nice Day https://youtu.be/3TFdHi8E-h4?t=1m4s ???

[Glebe]

Stereophonics - Have A Nice Day https://youtu.be/3TFdHi8E-h4?t=1m4s ???

Not it, thanks for the suggestion though K!

[Better Midlands]

Hard Fi - Hard To Beat?

https://youtu.be/ch6qy0qdifc

Or the awesome remix

https://youtu.be/xoQBzY-r_zs

[non capisco]

'Ba-bap-bap-ba, bap-bap-bap-bap-ba, bap-bap-ba"?

Not early 2000s by any stretch of the imagination but that is phonetically exactly how the middle eight of 'Are You Blue Or Are You Blind?' by The Bluetones goes.

[Glebe]

Suggestions much appreciated lads, but the mystery continues! It was more of a fun kinda song.

[phantom_power]

Herman Loves Pauline?

[Panbaams]

Another "not really the early 2000s" but there's a few Lightning Seeds singles that could fit the bill.

Unless you've misremembered the date and genre completely and the actual answer is Scatman John.

[Darles Chickens]

Another "not really the early 2000s" but there's a few Lightning Seeds singles that could fit the bill.

That was my first thought too.

Lightning Seeds - Lucky You
https://youtu.be/oxf9gf9kHXA?t=3m20s

Are the bap bap baps the actual vocals, or are they a kind of instrumental hook played on the brass or something?

[Crabwalk]

A few years older, but 'You and Me Song' by The Wannadies?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VVOA86thkM

[sevendaughters]

Grizzly Bear, 'Two Weeks'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjecYugTbIQ

[Norton Canes]

Can we at least have some idea of how your baps fit into a bar?

[Brundle-Fly]

Up beat, brassy and bar ba bahs at the 1:30 mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpZ8xiii7xA

[wosl]

Time period's way out, but I'm going for Greatness And Perfection.  One of the best bah-bap-bah choruses.

[Fabian Thomsett]

Probably isn't Until The Led by Vic Chesnutt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vca5ZqfHzAE but I'll suggest it anyway.

[Fabian Thomsett]

90% of Julian Cope songs have a bah bah bah chorus.

[Annie Labuntur]

Ba-bap-bap-ba, bap-bap-bap-bap-ba, bap-bap-ba

[sweeper]

SFA - Northern Lites?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1h3VSQjf8

Vid description doesn't fit, mind ...

[Steven]

Post a vocaroo of you doing it you big git.

It's what Open Mike would want.

[Glebe]

Again, thanks for the suggestions, but no... I actually could be wrong about the chorus being actually bap ba's, but that's how I remember it.

[Beep Cleep Chimney]

Is it 'Strumpet' by My Life Story from 1997? 

Brass and baah-bap-baaaah chorus from 1:10 onwards.

https://youtu.be/G85L4TjTPv8?t=1m9s

[Dr Rock]

Aw come on, I want to identify the song but we need more information than this. Use one of those recording sites to sing the tune as you remember. Ta x

[Glebe]

Is it 'Strumpet' by My Life Story from 1997? 

Brass and baah-bap-baaaah chorus from 1:10 onwards.

https://youtu.be/G85L4TjTPv8?t=1m9s

That's the closet so far. Not as melodramatic though.

[sweeper]

Belle and Sebastian - Legal Man?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQtDjR255qY

[RicoMNKN]

Bit earlier, but Boo Radley's Lazarus?
Ba ba baa-ing, and brass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gZB1J7ejhA

[Dr Rock]

Belle and Sebastian - Legal Man?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQtDjR255qY

Ooh I reckon you've got it.