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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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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.
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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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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?
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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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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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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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Having a time getting two music videos out of my head, well bits and pieces of music videos at any rate
- A CGI blue dog is being perused by its owner (possibly a CGI blue person) revealing CGI blue puppies.
- I’m pretty sure I saw this on MTV.
- A pop-esque song involving some dude, riding in a elevator resembling the Tardis and/or the thing from Charley and The Chocolate Factory being chased (or at least sung at) by a glowing face or mask.
- I know I saw this online, but I’m not even sure what language it was in.
Any help would be appreciated.
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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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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?

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.