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BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#1: Sep 11th 2011 at 1:30:07 PM

Ever have a song that you sort of half-remember from when you were younger, and then you find it again years later? That just happened to me now with this.

And has happened to me with a lot of late 90's, early 2000's songs.

anyone else?

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
KitsuneInferno Jackass Detector from East Tennessee Since: Apr, 2009
Jackass Detector
#2: Sep 11th 2011 at 2:06:01 PM

My cousin used to play this constantly when I was nine and I didn't find out until much later that it was by Kid Rock's DJ.

edited 11th Sep '11 2:07:06 PM by KitsuneInferno

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.
BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#3: Sep 11th 2011 at 2:21:55 PM

Yeah, both Uncle Krackers being the same guy was kind of a shock to me too.

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine
dxman Since: Oct, 2009
#4: Sep 11th 2011 at 2:43:27 PM

"How to Save a Life" by the Fray. I heard it many times when I was 13 or something but then forgot about it until I heard it again a few months ago.

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lolacat Dead? You thought wrong from Vancouver Island Since: Mar, 2011
Dead? You thought wrong
#5: Sep 11th 2011 at 2:48:13 PM

Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#6: Sep 11th 2011 at 5:09:11 PM

I must've heard this song a billion times on the radio without knowing what it was, until I heard in a Todd In The Shadows video.

edited 11th Sep '11 5:09:53 PM by Wicked223

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#7: Sep 11th 2011 at 5:39:22 PM

This wasn't too recent, but "Sullivan" by Caroline's Spine was a minor hit when I was a teenager. I barely remembered it until I saw it mentioned on the music section of Tear Jerker. I'm not terribly big on Post-Grunge these days, but it does kind of deserve it's place there, especially because it's a true story:

edited 11th Sep '11 5:42:43 PM by MikeK

BoundByTheMoon Kvltvre Vvltvre from The Spanish Sahara Since: Jun, 2010
Kvltvre Vvltvre
#8: Sep 11th 2011 at 6:54:17 PM

Some songs from my nu-metal/alt-metal days keep coming back up. Fortunately, they're the good ones. (Otherwise, I'd probably just forget them anyway.)

There are snakes in the grass, so we'd better go hunting!
fifimcfeef A friend of Padraic from California Since: Jul, 2011
A friend of Padraic
#9: Sep 11th 2011 at 8:36:03 PM

This:

Yeah, Jason Kreis ain't exactly a soccer star.
MrMallard Since: Oct, 2010
#10: Sep 11th 2011 at 9:11:13 PM

"I Believe In A Thing Called love", by The Darkness. I found it with the assistance of (old) Frostwire and I now have their 1st album.

Also, "Electric Avenue". It's been stuck in my head since I was around 5, and I finally found out what it was called because of Pineapple Express.

Bananaquit Since: Jan, 2001
#11: Sep 11th 2011 at 11:34:49 PM

This song didn’t trouble the charts nationally but it was ALL OVER local radio circa 1979 (even the country stations played it!):

I distinctly remember going on a shopping trip with a friend and her mom and this was playing and we were singing along. When we got to our destination, my friend sang, “R-A-D-I-O-I-O-I-O,” in rhythm to rolling up the car window, making me laugh.

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#12: Sep 12th 2011 at 9:47:50 AM

This song might be too relatively new to fit in here, but hey, technically I was younger four years ago:

It was on the radio a lot in 2008 and I heard it in a bar yesterday. I was just about to hit ykts with the vague description of "Song from the mid-late 2000's that sort of sounds like The Strokes but isn't; there are lots of "ba ba ba" parts in the vocals and the riff sort of sounds like 'Rebel Rebel'. Then I remembered the lyric "Come on, come on, turn on your radio" and that was apparently enough to find it through google. I had no idea this would turn out to be the same band that did the Real Song Theme Tune for The OC.

edited 12th Sep '11 9:50:17 AM by MikeK

dxman Since: Oct, 2009
#13: Sep 12th 2011 at 11:20:17 AM

Here's one I heard too many times a few years ago and then forgot about until I heard it when I got my braces off today:

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