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Music video from the '90s, in which a monster wants to be nice to some kids, but they're all scared of him (he even is pushing a kid on a swing, but the swing comes back empty).
The band's name was a 3-letter "abbreviation" (abbreviation for what I don't know). I know this because in the video they were arranging three letters until it spelled out the "name" of the band. Also had a scene of a record rolling down the street, to the band's DJ.
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A hip-hop/rap style song from the early 2000s that samples a distinctive riff on the violin. The sample sounds very similar to, or is sampled from, part of Adrian Johnston's score for the Stephen Poliakoff mini-series Shooting the Past, specifically the section from 0:40 to 0:55 here:
https://youtu.be/qc9Ga3JVtFY?t=40
albeit with a faster tempo if I remember.
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Probably close to ten or nine years ago, I heard a Christmas song on the radio. It was really similar to the David Bowie Christmas song where he is singing "Peace On Earth" over Bing Crosby singing "Little Drummer Boy", but instead it was a Christmas song being sung over news reports of bad things. The Christmas song might have been "Silent Night". I remember thinking it was really deep. I have never heard that song again since, but my family remembers it so I know I'm not dreaming. Anyone?
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The name of the song is "Girls" but I don't know the name of the musician/group. Came out in the early 1980s. The Music Video takes place in the girls' locker room, and at least one boy in the boys' locker room has a peephole in his locker looking into the girls' room.
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This one is tough because of how much information I have, but how vague it is.
It is a cover of a Western Song, a ballad of sorts if I am correct, that was a fairly common one in America. However, it is a cover in Swedish or some Scandinavian language.
The title is also in Swedish, and the singer was/is a indie folk artist, and this appeared on one of his albums.
He has a wikipedia page, and if I am correct, the original song is somewhere on TV Tropes, albeit, in English.
The album it was on was the only hyperlinked album on the Singer's page.
There is a You Tube video of it, but it only had close to about 400 views or so last time I saw it, which was admittedly a long time ago. It is a grainy low quality video.
The title MAY have something to do with guns, but skutja and jaegar both seem wrong, however they may be an element in the title.
It is a compound name.
Thanks in advance!
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Okay, so I remember going to a movie theatre. Before the movie begun, they were playing some music and stuff. There was a certain song in perticular that I liked though, but could not find the title of.
All I remember is a certain lyric "It's like your the one who thinks I'm strange and I'm the one going insane" or something like that. It also said the word "Girl" alot. Anyone help me here?
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Does anyone know the names of the songs at 4:21 and 6:55 of this Supermarioglitchy4 video? I tried asking on the video's page, but the only person who responded was very uncooperative.
By the way, if you aren't familiar with SMG4, note that his videos can be VERY NSFW.
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They play this song at the store where I work, so I actually know a several of the lyrics, but google has completely failed me for some reason. The sound really reminds me of Smash Mouth, but I'm not super convinced that it's them.
Anyway, it starts off with, "If I had to do it all again, I'd do it all the same. I wouldn't change a single thing, Even when I was to blame."
Then the chorus goes something like, "The situation got [?] clear [....] Got to get myself right out of here."
And another verse goes: "Now I'm fully grown, But I know where it's at. Somehow I stayed thin While other guys got fat."
Any ideas?
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I know this is a longshot, but what the heck...
Back in the 90s I had a classical music compilation on cassette (remember those, kids?) that was "creepy" music. It had Danse Macabre, Funeral March Of A Marionette, In The Hall Of The Mountain King, O Fortuna, A Night On Bald Mountain, and other "creepy classics" all on one cassette. I'd LOVE to find a copy of that again, on CD.
Searching the individual pieces on eBay, Amazon, and Google only returns the operas and symphonies they came from, not the compilation.
Any suggestions, or does anyone know the name of the compilation?
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A few Youtube commenters and I want to find the source of a short music clip playing in a You Tube Poop from 2:54 through 3:10. (warning in advance, whole video is Nightmare Fuel, link below will autoplay at 2:50 and it gets considerably louder and flashier at 3:14 onwards)
https://youtu.be/sN6N4k1dcTA?t=170
It's not anything from the Salad Fingers animations as another commenter suggested. It's possible it could be a distortion of something else, but of what, I still have no clue.
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I'm looking for a song I found on audiosurf a few years ago, 2010 or 2011. It was the recommended song of the week or something. I'm pretty sure it was Spanish or if not, a very similar sounding language. Sung by a woman. I then looked for the song on youtube and found another rendition of it. I believe it was a spanish folk song but this version from audiosurf sounded a bit more modern. I find it hard to describe the song but one thing I remember is that during the refrain, there would be a short part a capella or at least with notably less instruments.
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Where can I find this song? http://youtu.be/VaqKM7OWt1o?t=13m57s I know it's a remix of the Hammer Bros. theme from Mario 3, but I can't seem to find it anywhere!
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This is gonna be a hard one but here goes: There was this video in 2008 of World Of Warcraft that showed a paladin soloing Onyxia with some really overpowered new power they had. Anyway I remember the video had a trance song I really liked in the background. It had lyrics but I can't for the life of me remember any. I couldn't tell if the singer was male or female. The video may or may not still be on youtube.
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The music video: A woman changes in a Mens room, thinking its only other occupant is blind.
That's all I can remember—not the song, lyrics, tune, or even if it was an advert for something else. But I remember there being music and her dancing to it as she changed.
It starts off with her entering a men's washroom. She notices a young black gentleman sitting at one end, but he is holding a thin white cane and wearing dark glasses—apparently, he is blind.
Thus, she strips down to her underwear, puts on her makeup, and puts on her other outfit in full "view" of this fellow. All the while his expression remains dispassionate, and he makes no reaction to what is going on in front of him.
At the end of the video, she leaves. Moments later, an older black gentleman—presumably the younger's father—feels his way out of the bathroom stall; the younger hands the older man the cane and grins broadly, revealing he's -not- blind and just got quite the show.
I heard this song at the mall last week and it won't leave my head. It was a techno remix of "Jingle Bells."
It sounded like drum machines and effects added to an old big band recording. There were no vocals. For two long passages a two-note bass cadence was repeated over and over counterpointed by a repeated snippet from the verse. The first time it was a violin playing the "dashing through the snow" part.
I realize the odds of finding this are slim, since it's one of the most-performed songs in history and the version I heard might have been some store muzak that was never widely released.