This is going to be tough. It's bugged me for years that I can't
remember the name of this song. It's a 90's "one-hit wonder" _I
think_, but I've never seen it on such a list. The album cover had a
picture of a city block _I think_. The song was a
soft-almost-spoken-word rhyme that _might have_ mentioned something
about a plane with some sort of humming for the "chorus". I believe
the artist might have been named "Chris" _something_ ? It was one of
those single-musician produced poppy pieces. My best guess for release
would be around '95.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 21 Sep 2006 11:25 PDT

If you can remember any other lyrics, it may help in the search. Thanks.

Rainbow~

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 21 Sep 2006 19:32 PDT

I posted this as comment earlier but I should have posted it here. I
am reposting it in hopes that you are notified (assuming the
notification feature is working properly):

There is a 1999 song called "Lack of Color" by a band called 'Death
Cab For Cutie' that features the sound of a bus engine in the
background in which the singer almost speaks a poem type ballad
lamenting the loss of his estranged lover.

http://www.lyrics007.com/Death%20Cab%20For%20Cutie%20Lyrics/A%20Lack%20Of%20Color%20Lyrics.html

Could this be the song you are remembering? By the way, Death Cab For
Cutie's lead singer's name is Chris Walla.

Let me know...

Regards;
tutuzdad

Christopher Cross - Sailing?

The album cover isn't what you described but how about the Crash Test
Dummies?  The song is called MMM MMM MMM?

stanmartin: I'm sorry no. "Chris" is just an impression, but I could
be way off base. Nine Inch Nails, "industrial" music, had gotten
really popular around the time of this album, and this was one of many
albums with a very "produced" sound. As far as I know it was billed as
just this one guy in the "band".

amichalski: Nope. The lyrics up to the chorus are on the tip of my
tongue, but I just can't remember. Something like: "...and then
sitting in an aero-plane... do do do do dum dum" or something. Not
very helpful, I know. But the "humming" in the chorus was definitely
more of a "do do do" than a "mmm mmm mmm".

I remember a song with some of the lyrics (I think) ~

I heard the screaming jets,

la la la, lala ~

That is all I can think of right now, very late here 2:16am in the Land Down Under.

Cheers :)

SCREAMING JETS (Johnny Warman)
From the LP - Walking Into Mirrors

Last night, as I was dreaming,
I saw, the sky was bleeding.
I heard the screaming jets!
Last night, as I was crying,
I heard, the children dying.
I heard the screaming jets!
No more! No more!
I heard the screaming jets!

Last night, as I was crying,
I heard, the world was dying.
There's a ring, around the sun,
And it looks as though we're going back, to where it all begun?
I heard the screaming jets!
No more! No more!
I heard the screaming jets!

This is the song I am thinking of ssmoot-ga :)

There is a 1999 song called "Lack of Color" by a band called 'Death
Cab For Cutie' that features the sound of a bus engine in the
background in which the singer almost speaks a poem type ballad
lamenting the loss of his estranged lover.

http://www.lyrics007.com/Death%20Cab%20For%20Cutie%20Lyrics/A%20Lack%20Of%20Color%20Lyrics.html

Could this be the song you are remembering?

tutuzdad-ga

By the way, Death Cab For Cutie's lead singer's name is Chris Walla.

Let me know...

Regards;
tutuzdad

Sounds like a that song I think is titled Take A Walk On The Wild
Side?? There is that doo doo chorus and an english guy is
singsonging??

Did you first hear the song in the U.S. or somewhere else, like
England? Did you hear it on the radio, or did a friend play it for
you?

Maybe you're thinking of "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with
Money in My Hand" by Primitive Radio Gods