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I've got this mix cd I received from an internet friend I long since lost contact with (and I also lost the tracklist), and there's a particular track on it that intrigues me. It's a short techno-ish piece, just over one minute thirty seconds long. It's mostly based around a sped up sample of the beat from "Kiss" by Prince, and also prominently samples that song's opening guitar riff and Prince's introductory "uh!" grunt. The vocals are heavily vocodered, and the only part I can make really make out is "...amplified, makes me feel so fine", and I'm not sure about the "amplified" part. It does seem to be a Single Stanza Song with Looped Lyrics. It starts and ends pretty abruptly, so I figure it was part of some kind of album where the tracks all segued into each other. Oh, and I looked up Prince on whosampled.com, and they don't have anything listed as sampling "Kiss". Might be something that was put out on the internet, not officially released.
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I remember watching this Flash animation from a short while back, which featured this flying brown object in a red cape with a happy face and stick arms and legs flying to the tune of a German-sounding electronic dance number. I'm trying to find that music, a word sounded something like "Zo-han-zo", but I don't remember much about it.
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Trying to remember a '90s song that would occasionally turn up on the local alternative station. It featured a female singer, and was arranged to sound like a 1950's or '60s French cabaret number, almost like something that would turn up in a French film from that period.
I believe the unknown chanteuse sang in English, but it just might have been French—unfortunately, that illustrates how vague my recollection of the song is. Any likely candidates?
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So I heard someone playing this song
(Ellie Goulding, "Lights", if you happen to have the audio memorized and don't need the link), which I know had never heard before, but for the first six seconds or so (before she actually says something), the audio sounded very familiar. I'm thinking that what I remember is an old song, and that this section is a Suspiciously Similar Song for that part. I've been trying to think of where I've heard that segment before, and something like Newgrounds or a commercial seems like the most likely candidate, but I'm not sure.
Thanks to anyone who knows, because it feels like those notes are haunting me.
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This may be the hardest-to-answer question in a long time. I remember this instrumental song on the radio in the early 1980's, but I have forgotten its title and the name of its artist. All I know is it was electronic music. All-electronic, no vocals, no guitars, drums or other instruments, just synthesizers and sequencers. It played on a hard rock station, and it was featured in some TV commercial with an Olympics theme. This track was featured on a radio show titled "For Headphones Only", which showcased new and old album rock songs that sounded great on stereo headphones. I want to find this track and its artist so I can enjoy hearing it again. Could someone post any guesses?
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In fifth grade, I was in chorus, and I remember we learned this song with two parts. Actually, I guess it would be more accurate to describe it as two songs that could be sung together (I don't really know the technical term for it). One of the songs was Suwanee River (Old Folks at Home), and the other one is the one I'm looking for. It was very similar, but slightly faster than Suwanee River, with different words, and honestly, I don't really know how to describe it other than that (I can hum it, but that won't really help). Does anyone know what this song might be?
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Does anyone know about a dance music song that has no lyrics except a (German-sounding) word/phrase with four syllables - the last of which ends with "-en" - that gets repeated several times during the song? I heard it on the radio late last year or early this year. I have heard it several times so it's probably somewhat popular, but I have no idea what that word/phrase is so I can't Google it.
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So this is incredibly vague, sorry, so I won't be surprised if I don't get an answer. But hit me with your best shot! I heard this song at a friend's house. It had a dance beat, and obnoxiously high vocals. The song was definitely in English, but literally the vocals were so high I couldn't understand what they were saying. Knowing my friend it's probably an indie group, but that's not definite. Ok, Tv Tropers, Go!
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I'm trying to find a song with the lyrics "wash away". It was a very mellow song, and the style was sort of like the band Lifehouse. Not sure when the song came out but if I'd had to guess it was some time in the nineties. I googled the lyrics to try and find the song and it is not the following: Wash Away by Joe Purdy, Black Lab, Matt Costa, Billboard, T.S.O.L. or Alkaline Trio, nor is it Wash by Lifehouse or Wash Away Those Years by Creed. Help?
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I saw a tutorial on You Tube that featured a very unusual song. It was entirely instrumental...no lyrics. It started out with electronic whooshes and whirs. Then it became a soft guitar song for about a minute or so. After a while, it sounded more like a rock song. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Sorry if I am being vague. If you would like me to elaborate some more just say so.
PS: The user who posted the video terminated his account and removed his videos.
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For lack of a better description, I do believe the song I'm looking for is by Radiohead, but I have searched many many many Radiohead songs to no avail, so it may be a band highly similar to them but still popular enough to recieve airplay. I heard it on the radio a few times some years ago, and bear with me, as the only way I can put it is through letters based on the pitch. The choruses speed up considerably, if that helps at all. Here's my best notation of how the verses go: "abd abd abd abd abdc zzzzzzzzzzzzzyyy"
And here's my poor attempt at converting the pre-chorus' guitar into symbols, with the commas being pauses that are about a beat long, and the spaces aren't pauses but are meant to show that the notes are seperate slightly shorter. Mind you, the chorus has the guitar put into overdrive, so it's not as mellow, but I'll use the same symbols and a few new ones: "abbaba, eddbabab abbaba, abba z, z"(x2)
The first time the pre-chorus riff above appears, it fades back into the verse, but the time(s) after that it continues on and vocals come in. I am dreadfully sorry if this is confusing, but it's the only available avenue and I like to track down old songs sometimes. 90 gallons of lasagna to the man or woman who knows what song I'm looking for!
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I know that this was a song by They Might Be Giants, but hunting through their fan-run wiki has not helped me. In one of their songs, there's a bit that goes something like this:
"Remember that time in the past when we looked forward to the future, but all we saw was us looking into the past to that point when we looked at ourselves in the future?"
I don't remember the exact working. If I remember correctly, it's a total non-sequitur and unrelated to anything else in the song.
Any ideas?
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A song I heard that had a sort of religious undertone to it, it had an organ in it and was sung by a woman. I reminder she said that it was always darkest before the dawn and that she had a demon inside of her. There was a line in the background saying 'shake it' or 'shake it up' that repeated a lot
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I'm trying to find the name of a pop song done by a female singer. She sounds kind of like the singer from Aqua. I'm not sure of the lyrics other than a chorus that goes something like, "I know, I believe [something]" and whole bunch of repetitions of "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh". It starts to sound like a chipmunk with the record skipping.
I don't actually like this song at all, but I just want to know WTF it's called.
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Anyone know the music used in this video? http://zanreosauce.tumblr.com/post/17122529056/blushingmochi-razzledazzy
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Anyone know what the piece of music playing in the first three minutes or so in this clip
is? I’m assuming it’s some sort of audio library music, as I’ve heard it in a bunch of other situations. Incidentally, the music that starts playing after the three minute mark is “Rydeen” by Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Ok, I have two music videos in mind. Both are CGI animated, though I can't remember the songs for them at all. I'm almost certain they were both shown on the uk channel "Pop!" I'm not entirely sure about the first one, but I know the second one definitely was.
The first one I remember seeing in either the late 90s or early 2000s. Unfortunately, since I was a small child back then, I can only remember one scene. It consisted of many robot characters, and only one human. The human was female, and appeared to be around 19 years old (I'm guessing). She was tall, slim, brown-skinned and had long, straight, black hair which was pulled back into a high ponytail. Her outfit consisted of black, skin-tight trousers, boots and a blue top. If I remember correctly, she also had large, silvery hoop earrings. One of the robots was orange/bronze in colour, and had large eyes. It was about the same height as the girl. The scene I remember involved the girl and the robot, along with several other robots, in a round, dark elevator, which ascended into a purple-tinted, glittery dance club.
The second one was from the early 2000s, and had shorter, "cuter" characters. It started off with a girl and her dog walking down a path. The girl had a green dress and brown hair in a ponytail. They came to a museum, where one of the exhibits was a (possibly dead) boy in a tank.. quite depressing, really. Next to it was a sign that said "do not touch". The girl begins daydreaming about being romantically involved with said boy. It is then revealed that, in her trance-like state, the girl had absent-mindedly touched the glass. The glass then proceeds to crack, and - surprise! - the boy is alive. They then begin a relationship.
Any ideas on what the songs could be?