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This CGI music video I saw in the early 2000's. It had a teenager riding a motorcycle with what I think were police chasing him. The teenager was designed with blue skin, which made him slightly resemble a hologram. I can't remember the music, but the visuals were more prominent anyway.
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Once again, the school has played a song over the PA that is making me curious as all get out.
It's a Spanish pop rock sung, sung by a female. The song opens with an ethereal synth, much like Nena's "99 Red Balloons", and has the word "chocolate" (pronounced "choh-coh-lah-tay", not "chaw-cu-liht") in the chorus.
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I know this is going to seem to vague, but I've been hearing this song everywhere lately (even on the phone, when they put me on hold!) so I suposse it must be a recent hit or something, but I'm not sure. I have no idea what the lyrics are, but at the very end there's a tune very similar to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", only very slightly modified. And I do have a vague memory of accidentally clicking on a music video on Youtube last year and getting that same song. Im not completely sure but I think there was a rather androginous guy with face paint in the video- I can´t be sure because I closed the browser almost at the same time as I realized (dont know if correctly) that it was that darn song! Any ideas?
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Looking for a music video I remember seeing once on TV as a kid. The video is about a male voyeur who follows 3 young women in dresses around and films them on his camera. The women eventually discover him and smash his camera, after which they tie him to a tree and dance around him.
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Alright, I'm looking for a song again. I actually remembered some of the lyrics and googled, and apparently it's the text of 'A Dream within a Dream' by Edgar Allan Poe. If I recall right, the lyrics were the entire poem without any changes. It was sung by a woman and I think the only instrument was a piano. A friend sent it to me about 9 years ago but I cannot find it again. I do remember the melody however and might upload a snip of me singing it later.
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Gonna be a hard one but here goes: when I was a little kid (late 80's/early 90s) there was this record I had that was a single and all I can remember about it is: the genre was sort of soft rock maybe, it had a male singer, and either the band name or song name had "Orion" in the title, and that might have been the whole title. I tried searching for it but that word is too common it seems. It is NOT Metallica- Orion if anyone is thinking that.
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There was this tape I had as a kind circa 1992. All the songs were by the same group, male singer, genre maybe rock. I forget the band name and only song I remember the name of was just called "the spirit". I tried looking up that song name but only got songs called "the spirit of (something)" for example. I think the band name might have started with a G but could be wrong.
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I'm looking for a German song from the mid to late 00's I believe, with a somewhat Scooby Doo-esque animated music video, just replace Scooby with a donkey.
The same band also did a video with this guy who dresses up as a Native American and a bunch of people lifting up signs with the song lyrics.
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I know this is kind of vague, but what's that one song used for lots of action scenes, that goes DUN! DUNDUNDUN! DUNDUNDUN! DUNDUNDUNNN! EDIT: It's the one in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fva1Qa-WS_A
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I heard a neat chiptune song playing at Pier 1 today. It started with regular beats that were like bursts of white noise. Reminded me of "Seven Years in Tibet" by David Bowie. There was sprightly piano playing under the beats. Then it turned into a chiptune song with loud and clear beeps playing the main melody, plus some other sounds that reminded me of the game Duck Hunt. The vocals were really quiet compared to the music. The only lyric I could make out clearly was "same street." There was another part that might have been "across the ocean." The song ended with a very long fadeout.
Does this description sound familiar? I know the lack of lyrics will make identification difficult.
Updated: Think Postal Service. I don't know if it was that band, but it was quite similar.
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A house/moombahton/big room/whatever-electronic-genre-it-is song blasted over the school announcements. There's some obnoxious "We-we-wer-wer-wern-wer-wer" squeaking that first plays normally, but when the song suddenly slows down, it plays more slowly and at some points the squeaking plays backwards.
There is no vocals in the song whatsoever.
I have no interest in the song itself because it does not suit my musical tastes, but I am curious to know what it is.
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I saw an old record in a thrift store once, and I really only wanted to find it so I could add it as an example of Visual Pun, since it had a memorably cheesy one on the cover. For the sake of making description easier, let's say the name of the artist was Bob Johnson: the title of the album would then be Bob Johnson's Back! note there might not have been an exclamation point, but I feel like there was one, and the cover art had the performer on stage, facing away from the camera... See, because the title can be read as "Bob Johnson is back" or "the back of Bob Johnson". I have no idea of the genre, but "Bob Johnson" was depicted holding an acoustic guitar, so he was presumably a musician of some kind, rather than, say, a stand-up comedian. Something about the artwork style and the way the performer was dressed said "seventies country" to me, but I could be completely off on genre or time period, since it's not like I actually heard the music.
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That little riff that is mainly associated with the Old West. I can't really write it down but this song has it at about :59 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faK2psDa4dY&index=15&list=PLD133D3F9B75BECAB
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Looking for a music remix that used footage and audio from several old movies. A very eclectic mix including The Freaks and The Car, using the " There was no driver in The Car" line and the The Freaks dinner scene.
It's a couple of years old and was on Youtube ( making me worry whether some bugger might have reported it for copyright reasons).
Can't really say much about the style - it was just audio sampling from the films.