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I'm trying to find a song that was played on either Scuzz or Kerrang TV around the early to mid 2000s. I think the band were all female, and the song starts with them softly singing 'ahhh', repeating 4 notes a few times, then they start screaming 'AAAAHHH', as the music gets more intense. Then they start singing actual lyrics, none of which I can remember.
I remember the music video consists of the camera panning to the right, while the band members towards the left of the screen 'flash' off the screen and flash back towards the right of the camera view.
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Song that gets played a lot on 80's and 90's rock music stations. All I know about it is that the chorus says "Stand by me" and there's a harmonica in the chorus right after it says it and its one of those songs you clap along to. I looked up "Stand By Me and got Ben E King but I doubt the song is that old.
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I remember the story a song tells, but not much else.
It talks about a woman who is a convicted criminal (I seem to recall that she committed some heinous crimes) but "was a lady" because, while in the car taking her to jail, she did not cross her legs while wearing a dress/skirt.
That is all I can remember about it. I know it has been YEARS sense I've heard it, but I have no clue how many.
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I'd really like to know what the music is that plays from 27 seconds or so to the end of this video I stumbled across some time ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HP1GWJYeLI
The video itself is only 57 seconds long.
I love it. I think it would be perfect to end a story with on a And the Adventure Continues theme. It has a sense of finality to it and yet it's uplifting. I just have no idea what it is.
I sent a PM to the guy who made the video, but he told me he didn't know and he found the music just by searching 'relaxing music' on google. I searched around myself, but never found it. I also posted a couple of comments on the video but didn't get any answer.
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Thinking of a classical-music piece that often features in commercials. Believe it's an aria, but is just as often adapted as an instrumental. It's very common when someone's trying to communicate lushness or something specifically Italian.
Starts with a three sequences of rising triplet/flourish—half-note (sorry—I probably don't even have it in the right key):
"duddleluddlelah-DAAAAAH (E-F-A-C1-E1-F1)... duddleluddlelah-DAAAH (E-F-A-C1-F1-E1)... duddleluddlelah-DAAAH (E-F-A-C1-E1-D1)"
"duddleluddlelah-DAAAAAH (E-F-G-Bb-C1-E1)... duddleluddlelah-DAAAH (E-F-G-Bb-E1-D1) ... duddleluddlelah-DAAAH (E-F-G-Bb-D1-C1)"
"duddleluddlelah-DAAAAAH (E-F-A-C1-E1-F1)... duddleluddlelah-DAAAH (E-F-A-C1-F1-E1)... duddleluddlelah-DAAAH (E-F-A-C1-E1-D1)"
Then builds to an octave-higher sequence of slower triplets: "duh-duh duh-duh-duh (D1-E1-F1-E1-D1) DAHHHNN-duh-duh duh-duh-duh (C2-A1-G1-F1-D1-C1) duh-duh-duh duh-duh-duh-DAANNNHHH. (Bb1-G1-F1-E1-F1-G1-F1)"
Whew. Hope it rings some kind of bell.
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I'm looking for a piece of (vocal-less) music that used to be the background music on Eoin Colfer's website, probably around 2005 and earlier.
I've looked in the Wayback Machine, and the copies of the site from 2006 onward have music that's very different from the piece I remember. Before 2006 it doesn't seem to have any music; but the stored copies of the webpages are very incomplete and might be missing the music that was there. Either that or my memory is seriously faulty.
I thought I remembered that the site credits said the music was by Eoin's brother Niall, as the later music definitely was; but listening to the work of his I can find online, none of it even sounds similar in style to the piece I'm looking for.
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I have this music video in mind:
The song was a recent, symphonic rock song with male vocals. The music video consisted of people in animal costumes, the most prominent being a red-haired girl in a pink bunny hood, and a couple of others whom I can't remember, but I think one of them was male (and was in a bath). The clips of these, uhh, "furries" were entwined with clips of the (very attractive) lead singer, wearing a black coat with a huge collar, in front of a white skyscraper - which is appropriate, considering the lyrics talk about "the city". Then there's this army of people in black jumpers, black boots and rabbit masks. At one point, the lead singer is in the centre of this "rabbit army" singing. The bunch of "furries" encounter the band in this brown, forest-like set, then "the guy in the bath" pours this white substance onto the "pink bunny girl"'s arm. The video ends with the band, surrounded by the dead(?) furries, surrounded by the rabbit army.
ANY IDEAS?
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I have almost no information about this one, I am sorry. But this tune has been stuck in my head for several years.
It's from my childhood, over 30 years ago. I associate it for some reason with the Captain Kangaroo show, but that might be wrong (it could have been something that was on Captain Kangaroo just once, it is NOT the usual Captain Kangaroo theme). I think, but am not sure, it had something to do with some sort of machine or engine, maybe a train. Maybe some of the lyrics weren't actually words, but were sounds the machine made, like "pop! pop!"?
But I do remember the tune.
It basicially went
dum diddy dum dum/ dum dum/ dum diddy dum
A "dum" being a quarter note (or longer), and a "diddy" being two eighth notes. This rhythm would go on for two or three lines, then the next line went:
Bah bah bah dum dum/ dum dum dum dum dum.
With "baa" being a note held longer than a "dum". I have a vague memory that this line was sung by a higher pitched voice then the other lines, and all the voices were male. Like a barbershop quartet, with the last line sung by the tenor or counter-tenor. I think the last line went something like "(something) (does something) when (something else happens)"
I realize how silly this request is. I am not certain of anything I have said, except the tune itself, that has been stuck in my head for some time. I can whistle it or hum it, but that is a bit hard to do over the internet. And it is impossible to search for on the internet without any lyrics or anything else. But it has been bugging me for years.
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In high school I heard a string ensemble play a piece that I liked a lot, but I don't remember what it was called. I think it was Theme From something — maybe it was from a movie soundtrack?
I've uploaded an mp3 of myself (badly) singing what little I can remember of the tune — maybe someone will recognize it.
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Looking for a Country song I heard once. The name might have been something like "Circle of Love" or "Chain of Love." It either begins or ends with a guy giving a waitress an abnormally huge tip. Anyhow, either this waitress goes on to help someone, who helps someone else, etc, or this guy was the last guy in the chain of people who have been helped, and tells the waitress not to break the chain. Anyone have an idea? Oh, and it was sung by a man.
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My class listened to this song in French today. It was an upbeat (needless to say, FRENCH) pop song with a bubbly, colourful, live-action music video. There were subtitles for both the English AND French lyrics.
There were male vocals, and the lyrics were basically telling us how this guy's mother was telling him to get a life - and by "get a life", she meant DANCING.
Some of the lines (in English) were:
- Why are you wasting your life?
- Are you high or are you gay?
- Dance, dance, dance! (This line is repeated several times in the chorus.)
I'm sure my teacher showed it to us on You Tube. Any ideas on the actual name, though?
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Okay, so I found this on an amateur porn video, going back to it (I had it favorited, wish I had downloaded it now, the video kinda sucked but the song was worth going back for even though it didn't have it all) it has been deleted by the uploader. Anyway , it's a kinda rap song (I'm not very knowledgeable about rap, it's definitely rap of some sort but more a melodic style of it than is usually associated with rap)
The lyrics are (and don't provide me with any google search answers) First verse 'Have you ever walked in the rain ... thoughts rearranged was a stain on your brain... mediocre game change...' (can't remember that part very well, it's been a minute) what sounded like the chorus went like "I'm not a loser baby, but I haven't won in a while, let's walk through the rain together, it's like sunshine when you smile"
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When I was little, my dad showed me a DVD of 80's music videos that he'd compiled. One of which was the music video I have in mind. The song was of the New Wave genre, and the singer was an attractive male. The video consisted of him trying to build this golden jigsaw puzzle. Then there was a scene where he got the last piece off a sleeping, golden woman. Any ideas?
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I've got two, though one is pretty much a lost cause.
1. This played on a country station, maybe 10 years ago. It was sung by a male, and it was about finding a buffalo nickel, and realizing it only had three legs. I think I only heard it once, and I've been trying to figure out what it was since then, so I don't have much hope.
2. This, I have no idea how old it is, and can't even remember if it was sung by a man or a woman. The lyrics that I can remember (probably incorrectly) are: "I won't give up blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank I let you down" This is the chorus, I'm fairly certain. For the life of me, I can't remember the lines in the middle. I was reminded of this by Red's Feed the Machine. The line "We fall in line" has a similar tune to "I won't give up" (or whatever that first line is).
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Looking for a song and an artist (that are unrelated to each other) that seem to have eluded both my saved sessions and records on You Tube. I've searched pretty hard for both, so any help would be appreciated.
The song is dubstep, and probably from within the last year. It features a black woman in a long, flowing, navy dress; no special design or anything, from what I can remember. She provides the vocals. She's standing inside a dimly-lit ring of curtain-like cloths that match her dress. When she stops singing is when the dubstep is most evident, and at the same time, her dress starts to sort of levitate around her while the curtains billow. Once she starts singing again, everything returns to normal. Throughout the MV, there's clips of a white man with black dread locks and facial hair lighting fireworks or something at night, in the middle of what looks like a desert or open dirt clearing. (I'm not certain that his hair was really in traditional "dread locks" style, or that he had a lot of facial hair, but that's what I remember.) I don't remember the lyrics, but the tempo was slower, from what I remember.
The artist, I remember from an advertisement for her. It shows her as a pale white woman with black hair, in the same style as Lady Gaga in this picture
◊. She's against a white background, in profile, and I think the way she's posed is sort of like she's laying down. I don't think it showed past her shoulders. She was wearing something similar to a thin, white, turtleneck sweater.
I found both of these things on You Tube, but they've magically disappeared from my records, even though I'm fairly certain I saved them somewhere.
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a few weeks ago i was in my friend's car, and i heard a song playing (not sure if cd or radio) it was somewhat atmospheric and guitar effect-sy, female vocalist.
my friend said it was about a woman being shot in the face for cheating on her husband (cheery), and it reminded me a little like the nancy sinatra version of "my baby shot me down"
ring any bells with anyone?
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There's a TF2 server I play on that has a radio function, and every time I'm on that server, I always listen to the radio. Well, there are two songs I heard on there recently that I'd like to know:
The first one is a rock song. The lyrics go like "Mary Allain, I'm here to complain..." and "Mary Allain, I'm here to constrain..." (I think the girl's name in the song was Mary Allain, I know her last name kept rhyming with the words) I've tried typing these lyrics in on Google and Youtube, and couldn't find anything.
The second one is a rap song. I don't remember most of the lyrics, the only lyric I remember is "Just ________ and shake yo' aaaaaaaaaass..." I don't listen to much rap, but I liked this song.

This is a song used in detective/crime shows, I think it has a fairly long title that sounds classical, it's a kind of jazz-classical song, it's very recognizable to me as the song that would play right after the person is murdered, but before the theme song played. Also, the spotify album art for the song is a picture of pigeons taking flight.