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Today in a shop I caught a glimpse of a music video, but I didn't get the name of the song. What I saw from the video was a typical young couple doing typical stuff like going to the beach and an ice cream parlor. The last shot of the video was them taking selfies and holding hands as they walk away from the camera. Seems to be a recent, mainstream song, does anyone know?
Edit: forget it, I already found it: "Lovin So Hard" by Becky G.
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Very sad Tear Jerker Kasane Teto Utauloid song that I saw on Youtube a few years ago. There was no video, just a picture.
The picture was possibly of Teto crying, or smiling with tearful eyes. I'm pretty sure there was a white backdrop.
The title was in Japanese and I can't remember any of the words. I think it had a lot of piano.
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What's the name of the song that plays in the background in the first few minutes of this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdiod3qCKEg
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This is an odd case, because I think I might have made this up a long time ago. All I can remember is one line that goes "I am the sun, and the moon, and the stars." That's it! I can remember how the melody of that line goes: "I (C) am (D) the (E flat) sun (G) and (F) the (E flat) moon (D) and (D) the (F) stars (E flat)."
I tried looking up these lyrics on a Lyric Finder website, but I couldn't find anything, which supports my theory that this is a wild goose chase and I just made this line up. However, it sounds to me like something out of a contemporary Christian song. (The "I", of course, would be referring to God.)
So, is this a real song, or did I compose a line of music without realizing it?
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I heard a song on the radio on the way home that was an early classic-rock style song, that was like "the train- don't come 'round here anymore" at the end of the chorus, and there is a guitar beat that sounds like the one in "Rock This Town". I tried every variation of the lyrics I could think of, maybe I misheard them, but I wanted to listen to the full song and can't find it. Does anyone know what it could be?
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This was a cassette tape I had as a kid. It was mostly the Disney characters—Goofy, Donald, Daisy, Mickey, Minnie and so on—singing old songs with new Disney lyrics. The melodies were from "My Bonnie is Over The Ocean," "The Hokey Pokey," "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt," "All When The Saints Go Marchin' In," "Bicycle Built For Two," "Oh Susannah," and so on.
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These are a few music videos I've seen projected on stage at a club's DJ night, so I have no idea what the actual music sounds like. If that description sounds familiar, it's because I've asked about two other videos I saw under the same circumstances (I identified one, but not the other).
1) very much a Surreal Music Video: It involves the band standing in front of a white or grey backdrop, while mirror effects distort their appearances in various Body Horror or Uncanny Valley-ish ways. Some bits of "Gun" by Chvrches reminded me of it, but that's not the right video. I seem to remember that it also involved a dead octopus/squid somehow? If it helps any, the lineup included a few women and a bald man. It looked like something pretty contemporary in terms of production value.
2) This one I would guess to be from the eighties: The singer is a man (who I think is dressed in a suit), and it starts out as a simple Performance Video with him miming in front of a microphone stand. Then a very colorfully dressed woman keeps getting in front of the camera and trying to upstage him. About halfway through, she accidentally runs into him and knocks him out; after trying to convince the audience that everything is okay by kneeling down and trying to move the singer's mouth around to the lyrics, she takes over miming herself, with the singer still prostrate beside the microphone. At the very end of the video, the singer manages to get up, and this causes the woman herself to faint; the last shot of the video is the singer dragging her offstage.
3) Also probably from the eighties. It's set at some sort of peep show; the singer has very short, bleached blonde hair, and she's also portraying the dancer. Most of it alternates between her doing Three Minutes of Writhing, reaction shots of the men leering at her, and a little boy in a suit and bowler hat standing outside of the club, looking at the posters. Eventually, the woman comes out of the club dressed identically to the boy; they dance around to the music together for a while, then walk off into the sunset. At one point during the "walking into the sunset" part, the boy playfully knocks the woman's hat off and she has to go retrieve it.
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There's a song that seems to be quite popular with radio stations these days: I usually hear it in more crowded places like malls and restaurants, and can't pick out the lyrics, but what I can here is a recorder-like instrument repeating this one bar over and over again. What's this song called?
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What game is the linked music track from? (1:04 in case the link is screwed up.) It sounds ridiculously, obnoxiously familiar.
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Okay, so I unfortunately don't have that much information to describe this one. I was in a restaurant at the time, so I can't really describe much of the song itself, but I'm fairly certain it was some kind of indie rock. The music video was playing, though, so I can put down what I remember about it.
-It took place in what looked like a small banquet hall, completely empty, except for the band, ~maybe~ a small group of people facing them, and in the center there was a dead/unconscious girl dressed in white, lying on a table. -The band included basic stuff, a lead singer, guitarist, bassist, pianist... but also had a decent sized section for brass instruments and strings. -There was one guy, I'm not sure what instrument he was playing (could have been maybe guitar/bass or drums) who was completely bald, except he had a very prominent beard. -One guy in the brass section (playing the saxophone) had long, straight hair and a semi-curly mustache/goatee combo. -Everyone was well-dressed in suits, but the lead singer might have been wearing a knitted cap with his. Come to think of it, if you've ever seen Series/Bones, he looked a lot like one of the interns... the guy who was always depressing and being a total downer. -There was only one woman in the band who was predominantly shown (I think). She was the pianist. She had a gray(?) piano, short-ish hair and was wearing a ton of black eye shadow. -The guitarist/bassist was wearing a black fedora. To clarify, I think it was an actual fedora, as opposed to a trilby, or whatever.
The final detail that I must stress: There is a very solid possibility that this group is Mexican or some other form of Latin American. I live in Mexico, and the restaurant seemed to only be playing Spanish songs. I didn't hear any of the words, so I can't confirm that, though, but it's a solid possibility. Sorry for the overly-long post, but this is kind of bugging me.
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I remember this weird music video I saw as a kid where they were in this large room with people dancing, and this one guy pulled off his skin and then throughout the song was pulling off his muscles one at a time. At the end of the video he was a skeleton and swinging around his skin or something over his head. I have no idea what the song was though, I only remember the video because it was weird and creeped me out. Does anyone know the song?
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I'm looking for a song I found on youtube last year. It was slightly punk-ish indie rock, I guess. A rather small unknown band, but had a not bad view count. The singer was female, and I'm pretty sure she had short red hair. I remember the chorus, which went 'give me shelter, cause the slightest of breezes could knock me off my feet right now, and I don't wanna be on the ground', not too sure about that last part. I cannot find anything with those lyrics. I'm even pretty sure it was called 'Shelter' but still no success.
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Song by someone who sounds like Lonnie Donagan, or perhaps Donagan himself. At one point he's scatting and gets interrupted by a beatnick/hippie/whatever. Both characters are done by the singer. The dialog goes something like:
- Singer: What are you doing?Hippie: Oh, you know, I'm just rockin' it man, I'm really groovin' it man.Singer: Well you just stop "rockin' it" and "groovin' it" "man."
Not "Rock Island Line" or "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bepost Overnight?)"
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I'm trying to find a song that I heard in the early 2000's. It was by a female singer, and part of the song had some whispering (sounding like French). The song was on an American classic hits station, so it was probably released in the 80's or 90's.