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resolved Anime Music Video About Girl And Robot Music
So, there was this music video I saw in around 2009 that was playing on some rhythm game installed at a Chuck E. Cheese.
It was animated in an anime style and follows this girl, who was running through a forest before she suddenly slips and winds up tumbling into this abandoned building. The building isn’t in the best condition with wires dangling everywhere, and she ends up meeting this little spherical robot (closest image I can think of is One-One from Infinity Train but with a different color palette).
A bunch of bigger and more intimidating looking robots end up activating and chase after the girl and the little robot while shooting lasers at them. The little robot ends up forcing the girl into an escape pod while leaving itself behind. It ends with the girl crying as the building explodes while the escape pod flies away.
Haven’t seen it since and it’s been driving me crazy.
Edited by RabbitsAreNeatresolved public domain piano song about a cat? Music
This is kind of a weird one, but I remember when I was a kid I took piano lesson's briefly. One of the songs had to do with a cat, and was kind of cute/funny, although I can't remember any actual lyrics, or I'd have looked them up.I assume it was public domain if the piano school was teaching it, but could be wrong. Also, I think it sounded kinda similar to "Lady Marmalade", as there is a scene in Beethoven (which I watched like a year before) where the babysitter sings that song, and for a while I misremembered her as singing the cat song I'm looking for instead.
Edited by Bootlebatresolved Iconic guitar song Music
There is this song I'm thinking off that I don't know the name off.
From experience I know the song/music is a classic and at least a decade old by now. It opens with an iconic guitar riff that continues throughout the song, being mostly instrumental but featuring a male voice, and it is in the minor key. If I could describe the mood, I'd say it sounds like an epic brawl of some sort is about to ensue.
This is about the best I can say about it, so I hope someone will recognize it.
Edit: I just remembered it is used in this video at around 2:12.
Edited by Eggy0resolved Song that says "As the day fades away" Music
There was this song I first heard on the radio in 1997. I would call it smooth jazz, or maybe soft rock. It had a female singer singing "As The Day Fades Away", which I'm pretty sure was the only lyrics in the song (at least I don't remember any others.)
resolved [Solved] dance party starts in a traffic jam? Music
Trying to ecover a music video for an EDM track. The video involves a traffic jam caused by two officers arresting a man. People start dancing, including a panhandler, a married couple with the wife pregnant and an older lady that starts humping an older man. Eventually the two police officers join in, and meanwhile two guys are freeing the arrested guy who than drives away in the patrol car.
Edited by Circeusresolved "Everybody do the ??? Dance" song Music
I once heard this song in a store in 2014 or 2015. It went something like "everybody do the wants it dance everybody do the wants it dance something something clap your hands everybody do the wants it dance” but because I don’t remember some of the lyrics (and I’m not sure if they really said “wants it”), I’m unable to find it, and this point, I’m convinced that I imagined it.
resolved [FOUND] DineAndDash music video Music
Song from the mid 1980s. I thought it was "Come On Eileen" or "Celtic Soul Brothers" by Dexys Midnight Runners, but having just seen those, I'm wrong. (Unless there's more than one version of the music videos?) The band in question are all scruffy lower class people like DMR presented themselves as in their "Eileen" period.
The video starts with the singer/main character in a small restaurant/diner having a meal. He sees a friend out the window and leaves, non-verbally telling the owner/waitress that he'll be back shortly to pay for his meal and leaving a package to demonstrate his commitment to coming back. He goes away and has a grand ol' time, and singing whatever song it is. We occasionally cut back to the diner where the waitress is getting concerned. Late that night, at more or less the end of the video, the waitress opens up the package to find it's just some old newspaper (or something), he never planned to come back!
I know this sounds kinda like A Ha's "Take On Me" but it isn't that.
Edited by randomsurferresolved Song similar to "Hazy Shade Of Winter" (solved, see last post) Music
This is gonna be a hard one but here goes: my dad had this record that I really liked to listen to when I was a kid circa 1990. There was this one song I really liked that was the final song on either side a or b (I forget if all the songs on the record were by the same group or not) singer was male, genre maybe rock or alternative. Can't remember any exact lyrics but I think the general meaning was something about no matter how hard he tries he can't do something. I think the band's name started with a D or a T but not sure.
Edited by Bootlebatresolved Cover of “Copacabana” (SOLVED) Music
I’m trying to find a cover of “Copacabana” that is distinctively quieter than the others. It doesn’t have trumpets or anything of the sort, but it does have an acoustic guitar. I keep hearing it, but whenever I try to Shazam it, it shows Barry Manilow’s original version.
EDIT: I found it: https://youtu.be/8_48DLTQfY8. Barry Manilow also made this.
Edited by sudrictoonresolved Answer Song to The Thong Song Music
An Answer Song to Sisqo's "The Thong Song" done by a black female singer/rapper from 1999 or the early 2000s.
Edited by randomsurferresolved Name of song Music
Does anyone know the name of a technoish song. It goes "Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. Oh-oh-oh oh oh oh." I hear it a lot when I'm watching sporting events like hockey games.
resolved Classical(?) piece in a meme video, sounds like "Dance of the Knights" Music
What is the name of the music in this meme video? I'm pretty sure it's a classical piece. It sounds a bit like a C Minor version of Prokofiev's "Dance of the Knights," but the melody is clearly different.
Edited by DrNoPumaresolved [SOLVED] Old Italian-like song with English lyrics about Shadows(?) Music
I vaguely remember a certain song that sounded kind of like classic Italian or Spanish serenade. It was sung by a man. The instruments used certainly were a mandolin and an accordion. There was no percussion. From the lyrics I only remember first two words of the chorus: "Shadows never..."
The song is quite old. 50s or 60s of the 20th century.
Any ideas?
Edited by sohibilresolved (SOLVED) Christmas song I heard on the radio this morning Music
Ugh, this is so frustrating. I heard this Christmas song on the radio this morning that I had never heard before. I tried to remember some of the lyrics, but since I was driving, I couldn't focus too much on the song, and now I forget the lines I tried to remember.
The singer was a woman. Part of the song was about how "this is no summer day" or something, and then there was a line that went something like "I guess winter is here to stay."
It's not "Is Winter Here to Stay?" by Yoko Ono.
The song had a similar tempo and style to Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You", but it wasn't that either.
Edited by DrNoPumaresolved song by Violent Femmes Music
This was a song that some people I occasionally hung out with in the early/mid 1980s would play on their boom boxes. They said it was by Violent Femmes; I very specifically recall that I was told that the band used a Mariachi bass (aka guitarrón mexicano). The thing is, I've just finished listening to every song that Wikipedia lists as being on their first two albums - plus the singles "Ugly" and "Gimmie the Car" - and none of them struck a chord with me, so to speak. The only thing I really remember is that the song has an Epic Riff, though I don't remember what the Riff sounded like, merely that it had one. The song "Blister in the Sun," their only song listed on this wiki as having an Epic Riff, doesn't sound familiar to me. I went off to school in 1985 and stopped hanging around with them, so it must have been released before that year.
Three options I see:
- It was a single that they recorded, and it's not listed on their Wikipedia page.
- It was a song incorrectly credited to Violent Femmes, in which case I'll probably never find it.
- It was indeed one of those songs from one of their first two albums, but The Fog of Ages has rendered it unfamiliar.
UPDATE 01/18/2024 I just found it by accident. "Add it up." IDK why I didn't know it was that one when I looked into it in 2016. Anyway, closing. (That's new since the last time I logged on.)
Edited by randomsurferresolved Oldies song Music
I heard this song on the "oldies" radio station. As far as I know, they play songs from the 1950s through the 1970s. The words I remember are something like, "Have you heard the word?" or maybe, "Have you heard about the word?" which was in the chorus of the song. It was NOT the song "Surfin' Bird", nor was it "Have You Heard The Word?" by The Fut (which I found via web search). The song was mostly sung by a man, but there were backup singers as well, at least some of whom may have been women. After singing, "Have you heard the word?" the next line included a slang word that sounded a bit dated, but I can't remember what the word was. It was something like, "Have you heard the word? It's funky and groovy and fills you with joy" or somesuch example, since calling something "groovy" is a bit outdated. I don't remember much specific about the song, but I'd guess it was post-1960 hippie-inspired rock and roll, you might call it folk rock. It sounded similar to what I've heard from Grateful Dead.
I may have the words wrong, it could have been anything like, "Did you hear the word?" or something similar.
Edited by FerrousFaucet
There's this fan song for the Maximum Ride series that my sibling and I loved when we were kids, but don't remember the name of or where it was posted. I don't know all the lyrics, but I do remember the chorus:
Nevermore, I will fight to the end/ If you want something you don't pretend/ Not a piece of your game, not part of your lie/ Don't tell me you don't know I'm Maximum Ride
There was also a pre-chorus part that went:
Trust you nobody trusts you/ My game you'll never win it/ Let me guess, he's the first to die?/ Well just 'cause you can read minds/ Doesn't mean it's true, doesn't mean I care/ You know he's mine
I've tried asking some people in the MR fandom itself, but nobody seems to know of this song. If anyone here has any idea what I'm talking about, I would be so incredibly grateful for the name of the song/a link to it - it's been driving me crazy for almost two years now.
Edited by MissGemKnight