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A version of Paul Mc Cartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed" that I hear on the radio a lot but can't find anywhere when I search the internet. It was more hard rock than usual and had the singer screaming/belting out the chorus instead of singing it:
Baby I'm a man and maybe I'm a lonely man Whos in the middle of something That he dosent really understand Babe I'm a man and maybe you're the only woman Who could ever help me Baby wont you help to me understand
Only it sounds like he's singing "Midnight something" instead of "middle of something" due to screaming so hard. I don't know if its another version of Paul Mc Cartney himself or a cover. Please help?
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Does anyone know what the song is in the Simpson Christmas Stories (17x09) that Young!Grampa Simpson, Young!Mr Burns and Santa are dancing to when they are repairing Santa's sleigh? It must be something from the 1940's, probably charleston song or similar, because Grampa is doing the knee routine.
I cannot include an extract - I couldn't find it on youtube or anywhere else. Wikipedia is silent (altough I could swear I saw it there once). I've been Googling like crazy, but all that popped up were questions on this exact same thing.
I think it is something very famous. My reaction probably will be "I can't believe I forgot this", or "I never knew this composer wrote it".
Thanks in advance.
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Troper is going insane trying to figure out the title of this one bit of trailer music from this trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd71LWhCO4s&feature=g-vrec
The music is played roughly from :52 - 1:20
I've Googled for the music in the trailer, but can never find the name of that particular piece of music. Any help is loved! :)
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About 15 years ago, I used to watch the UK cable call-in music channels quite a lot, so I probably saw it on there.
All I remember is a time-lapsed storm in the video, and the very end of it used a variation of famous lines from the Dylan Thomas poem. "Do not go gentle into that dark night/Rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light". I think it didn't have vocals, but I could be wrong.
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I thought this would be easy to find, but so far no luck.
I'm looking for a performance by a British band. It might not technically be a "video". I remember seeing it on a British music show, that I am pretty sure would have been Top of the Pops. In the 1980's.
The band were just doing a normal performance, but then it would briefly cut to a film of British children, boys and girls, in school uniforms, singing the chorus. I think there were about 4 of these children, my memory is 2 boys and 2 girls. The chorus went "Come and play/[something] day!/Come and play/[something] day" I was pretty sure that the [something] was "circus", but I have been googling that with no luck, so I think I may be misrembering that word.
(It has absolutely nothing to do with the Sesame street song "Somebody come and play", which kept coming up on my google searches.)
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I heard a song on the radio that sounded exactly like the opening song of the videogame "Der Wurm" by Schenk & Horn, except played on the guitar. Here is a video I made a while ago about it(Song starts at 0:24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmQzZ_V4ew0&noredirect=1
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My grandma had this tape of Italian opera or folk songs and I don't speak Italian but I thought one of the songs (female singer) said "A little cup of tuna" in the chorus but it was sung in Italian, not English. Very slow paced song. Kinda like a Buffalax style interpretation of the song. Another song on the tape (male singer, but I could be wrong) sounded like it said "Die-A-Muh-Rinka". I don't know what that Italian word means. Any tropers familiar with the Italian language please help me out? I heard the songs in the early to mid 90's when my grandma had the tape.
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I was in Spain in the year 2001-02 and I remember a Gothic music video played loads on Spanish music TV. It was by a German band called "Die...something...something" All I remember was that at the start of it, a man walked up to the female lead-singer and plunged his hand into her chest and removed her heart. She was wearing white linen baggy clothes, barefoot and had black fingernails and toenails. I also remember as the song progressed, black spread from her and soon the whole room turned black.
As this was a Spanish/German thing, I don't expect anything to come back. However, I'm sure the Goth community on here can tell me something!
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Two songs I've been looking for for a while:
The first one is a slow, mellow song that has a lyric that goes "Well forget you, and forget you..." I know it sounds vague, but it seems like a pretty popular song right now (I've heard it a lot on the radio, and in public areas like malls and school) so I'm pretty sure someone can help me.
The second one is a fast rock song that I've heard quite a few times in the school hallways. The only lyrics I could catch are "...the blood stains on the table..." and "Baby, you're okay, you're okay, you're okay with me..." Those might not have been the exact lyrics, but they sound close to it.
Help?
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In the film The Patriot, what's the marching tune the British are playing when Benjamin Martin (Gibson) and Gabriel (Ledger) are watching the battle from the abandoned manor house? This song has been stuck in my head, and since I don't know any lyrics, just the tune, I can't find out the name of it, and it's bugging the crap out of me.
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A classic rock or possible R&B song that may be from the 70s. I have no lyrics to go by but there's a saxophone in it that goes "dit-dit-dit ditty ditty diiiih". Very uptempo song and I've heard it in a fast food restaurant and a bookstore but couldn't make out the lyrics to write them down. It is not Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. Nor is it that Electric Aunt Jemima song by Frank Zappa. Dit dit dit ditty ditty diiih is the tune the saxophone makes in the song, not the vocalist. I doubt its Huey Lewis And The News cause I'm familiar with most of their hit songs.
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Here's a song that's been stuck in my head since I first heard it as one of the songs they used to play at Toys R Us. It's a children's song that had the line "If we make a mistake, we can try to create something different and totally new!" as part of the chorus. I also think that the song also mentioned cookies. What is the name of this song, and where can I find it? It was really catchy, too!
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It was a song I heard. It would probably fit into the genre of Dance/Electronic, although it had rock elements like live drums and a guitar solo toward the end of the song. It was about mid-tempo and if I were to assign it a genre of dance music, it would probably be chillwave, although there were a few sharper, almost chiptune-style sounds that broke through the haziness. The song had a chorus that mentioned something about not recognizing yourself.

Some country songs I want to find out from when I used to listen to country music all the time:
A song I heard once in maybe Summer of 2009(MAYBE earlier) by a female singer that sounded like recent years and very upbeat about a girl who was a tomboy. I think Barbie and G.I. Joy MIGHT have both been mentioned.
An Alan Jackson song from mid 2005 that the music video had him driving a topless car.
A 2005 song by a male singer with "Listen to me sprout," or "Listen to me squirt," in the first verse.
A song by a female singer, I thought Dolly Parton about butterflies.
A song that began with something like "When I first met you I was a fairy princess."
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