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So I was reading the Standard Snippet page, and came upon Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity.
I don't recognize any of that song, except the fanfare at 0:19, which sounds extremely familiar, and now I need to know where it's from. Its entry on Standard Snippet just says "England at its pompous, grandiose best."
I might not have actually heard that exact song, but definitely something incredibly similar. I get most of my media intake from video games, so it was probably one of those. The game I've played most recently with a similarly orchestral soundtrack is Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, though I'm pretty sure it has an original score. Either way, I don't have it any more, so I can't check.
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I put this under music since I'm looking for a song, but it's part of a live-action TV or video thing. I'm looking for a song for kids about "necessity is the mother of invention". It's not "Mother Necessity" from Schoolhouse Rock since the tune is different and it actually used that whole phrase in the chorus. I probably heard it sometime in the early 90s, and it was probably on one of those sing-along tapes.
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I song I heard last week, being played for Halloween.
I'm having a hard time putting it into a genre. I don't feel like it fits neatly into any of the music genres I am familiar with. Not too fast, not too slow. Not too loud, not too quiet. Not too electronic.
If I remember right it emphasized a rhythm and a woman's voice. Maybe a plucked instrument as well. The lyrics were, if you listened, about a vampire and how difficult it was to be a vampire. I think the words "it's so hard" were repeated a few times. For example, it's so hard to find blood to drink, that sort of thing. Apart from the lyrics, the song didn't really sound like a "vampire song", it didn't have organs, creepy chords, or anything like that. Apart from the lyrics, it could have sounded rather upbeat.
This is the best description I can give because I don't know much about music theory. Maybe it was more "folky" than anything else.
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I was out today and heard a song on the radio. Didn't have Soundhound on me at the time, so I didn't catch this, but.
It sounded like an alt rock song, with lots of synths to the point of electronica, but with a rock base. It had a lot of Fruityloops sounding synth, but I don't think it was Shoegazing music. It was also a somewhat slow song, and sounded modern.
It had a female vocalist with an alto/lower voice, and I remember some of the lyrics as "When wrong is right and right is left and ?there is nothing left?" and about being almost home. Don't remember much else then that.
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a song, hails before the kpop invasion. around early 2000s probably,
don't remember the lyrics but i am 100% sure its not jpop and have doubts whether its korean.
anyway it had parts like:
laaaaaaaa - lalala lala lalala <some synth distortion>
<Motor Mouth sung verse> CHULA (echo)CHULA
<different Motor Mouth sung verse> CHULA (echo)CHULA
the synth distortion i can only put in words as "TEEE DUDEE DUDOOOT".
good freaking luck to anyone who wants to help. I understand it's very hard to ID these kinds of queries.
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Hi guys, I'm trying to help somebody else, re-posting a question from another site. It would be cool if you could help. Thanks in advance. :-)
"I have been trying to identifying this tune for years (see attached). It has the feel of a pop ballad. I have used song identifier apps on the internet, but none of them can identify it.
I have played it for people whom I thought might know it. They recognized the tune, but they couldn't name it.
The song was used in a wedding anniversary video for my grandparents 10 years ago (we didn't choose the music; we just sent all the pictures to a company who created the video).
I learned the opening by ear and recorded it myself on piano (sorry for the poor recording quality — I just used my cell phone). Interestingly, the first phrase of the melody is very similar to the Eighteenth Variation of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini.
Another frustrating thing is that one time the tune came on my brother's internet radio stream (Last.fm - similar to Pandora). However, he didn't bookmark it and forgot the name of the song or the artist. I checked his Last.fm activity log, but was still unable to identify it.
Does anyone know what this tune is? A link
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I'm guessing from the failure of google searches I have a few lyrics wrong, but I thought this song went "the thing about the kids from my generation/we always know what we want without hesitation." There's also a part that goes "this is my generation, yeah, yeah, yeah."
I know that it was used for a promo for Generation O back when that show existed, but I know I've heard it other times too.
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Well, it's not much as "music" as it is "song from a western Tv show".
It's a cartoon, and the beginning has two young boys (like most cartoons have, not offending any old fans who might read this), and one of them (with black hair, I believe) is singing the song. Another scene I think has him in a mecha too. I think the first part, or second part, starts with "Did you ever..." Or something. One line from the chorus I THINK says "Look out... (Something goes here, but my memory of the song is fairly dull) ...Me and you." I might be wrong with the "Me and you" bit. something that may also be a tiny bit helpful, one of the comments on the video was "I thought [Name, I've forgotten] was hot when I first saw him, but [Scene from video, told in similar ways to how most people say their favourite part of a video] Made me feel sorry for him."
I'm SURE it was a western cartoon. Also the first time I heard this song was from a club penguin video. Said video's long gone, but I can safely assume that I was in 2008, so it's not recent.
Sorry for taking so long (and for any mistakes, as I'm doing this on my I Pad.) Thanks for listening.
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I was thinking about a music video I remember seeing years and years ago, probably on MTV in the early-to-mid 90s, I think. I'm not really sure about too many of the specifics of the song, artist, or video, but what I can remember is that the song was from a movie, and the video was basically just scenes from that movie to sum up the story within the 3-minute time frame. I don't think it was a big, famous movie, because I had never heard of it before and I also didn't recognize the actors in the video. It was a love story, between a really generic-looking blonde girl, and a man with dark hair and a full beard. I'm not sure if he had the beard the whole time, but I think he did. Basically, the video shows them falling in love, and going through drama and stuff. I don't remember if it ends happily. I definitely remember a scene where the girl comes in and he's sitting on the floor and she puts her hands on his face and he looks at her like he can't believe she's there. This is driving me crazy, and I really hope somebody here can decipher this insane nonsense.
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I heard a song on the radio at the grocery store today. Only caught the end of it, but I want to know what it is. I could make out what I believe was the chorus, "You'll be there, you'll be the one to [something]." The something had a similar vowel sound to "break me down," but wasn't that exactly. It was sung by a male, who to me sounded similar to Rob Thomas.
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Could I please have some help figuring out the opening song in the last episode of NextG Poop, "NextG Poop and the (Supposedly) Last Crusade"? Here it is
, and the song begins at 0:21.
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What's the song used at the 15 sec mark in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw9X1BP-ays
or in 2:14 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-02nGzWBD4
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I've got this old, unlabeled mp3 on my hard drive I'd like to identify. It's indie rock, with a female vocalist who reminds me a little of Karen O or Emily Haines, but I'm pretty sure it's not actually a Yeah Yeah Yeahs song, though Metric is possible as I've heard less of them. No idea on when it was released, but just from the style I'd guess it was no earlier than 2000. The very beginning of the song is a few seconds of ambient noise that sort of sounds like a subway train pulling into a station, then some drums come in, and the first few lines of the song are sung over drums alone; for the rest of the verse the singer is accompanied by bass and drums only, and a lead guitar doesn't appear until the first chorus. There's a bit of Self-Backing Vocalist going on, most noticeably in the part of the first verse where it's just drum, bass and vocals, but I think I also hear a male voice doing chorus harmonies. If this sounds pretty vague, I can give you some lyrics, which google was no help on: The chorus is something like "Oh, my love, there's nothing to see / the old world is just beyond the sea", and some lines from the verses I can make out include "run from the coast until you reach the shore" and "I heard your name out here in the darkness" (which in a later verse becomes "It's all the same out here in the darkness").
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I've recetly remembered a snippet of a song from the past and I can't find it anywhere. I'm not sure with any of this, but I think it was a slow rock or metal song that might've been a theme song of a TV show. What I know for sure are the words "I'm going home" (or maybe "I'm coming home") at the end of a verse (maybe every verse). I think the entire song was about that, a man's long journey back home.