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This is pretty vague, but I'd love to find the songs, and I've seen things turn up successfully with less to go on than this:
1) A kind of hard rock/ Post-Grunge-ish song from the mid-90's that had this odd repeated break where the rest of the music would just stop and this odd music-box-like melody would play for a few seconds, then the rest of the music would start up again. Sort of like Stop and Go, but with one instrument suddenly jumping in that otherwise wasn't present in the song. No lyrics to go on, but I swear I remember either the band or song being called Mother Nature - googling that or plugging it in as a song title or band name on allmusic gets me nothing that sounds like it though.
2) Another mid-90's Alternative Rock song - the main thing I remember is it had a verse riff similar to "8:02 PM" by For Squirrels
, although I know for a fact it's not the same track. It did come out around the same time as the For Squirrels song though (1995 or so): I even remember a letter in a music magazine's reader mail pointing out the similarity. T He singer's voice kind of reminded me of John Linnell, but it definitely wasn't anything connected to They Might Be Giants. Again, no lyrics to go on.
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A few years ago, when I was going through my brief Anime phase I was obsessed with learning to play Anime music, naturally. Anyway, one website I came across had transcribed sheet music from a great many shows and movies. http://ichigos.com/
One song in particular has always caught my fancy however, the one entry found under "Clover." The only problem is I don't know the actual name of the song. I can find the sheets easy enough, and even have a midi file of the music (http://ichigos.com/res/getfile.php?id=668&type=midi)
, but I can't find the original song that the sheet was transcribed from. It's been bugging me for a long while and I'm beginning to think that it's just a song the artist wrote inspired by that anime. Any and all help would be much appreciated.
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This is a fairly recent song; I remember the video but none of the lyrics. Although some nagging part of me insists it was called "State of the Nation", You Tube isn't giving me anything that looks familiar. The band/singer are out in the woods (the lead vocalist had a big indie-dude beard), and in between cut-shots of them playing, they manage to round up a whole bunch of people and march through the woods waving the American flag with someone playing one of those military drums.
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What's playing in the first five seconds of this video
? I know it's "Come Go with Me"
by The Del-Vikings
, but the version in the video sounds different.
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There was a music video I remember from the 80's or early 90's. It was french, most likely from Quebec as it ran on Much Music, and the video had the camera going down (or backing out of) a corridor full of steampunk or animatronic... things; very weird, very surreal, but the music itself was catchy, but I can't remember any lyrics.
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Hopefully somoene knows this song:
I heard it on an "oldies" station a few years ago, but have not been able to find it looking on-line, since I don't recall the actual lyrics. The song was an upbeat (40's?) tune - maybe it was from a musical. The woman had a Rosemarie Cloony-type voice and she was asking what this other woman had, that she didn't have, (or what the other woman could do, that she couldn't do), etc. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
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A friend of mine is looking for a song; unfortunately, it's not of a genre I listen to, and she could really use some help! She says that the music video was set in a street and the main guy had medium length dreads. She described the musical style as a "combo of hip hop and techno" and the lyrics included something to the effect of "shake it" that repeated a lot.
Thanks!
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I remember a very small part of a song. It was kind of a 60s surf pop thing, more like Jan & Dean then the Beach boys (but it could be either) and the only lyrics i remember were something about the narrator being unable to race with somebody because they had a goldfish in the front seat. Despite the odd concept, google hasn't helped.
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I know the tune it is, but not much else—I've heard it in multiple places, and it sounds like E.S. Posthumus, but I don't think that's it.
The melody: http://www.sendspace.com/file/dre3x4
(MIDI file)
That bit is for vocals, with an orchestra bout it.
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Some song that goes "I paint a picture on the wall, of the beauty of it all, till the rain comes shining through" or something like that. I googled the lyrics a million times, got nothing but I've heard the song a million times before. I must be getting the lyrics wrong. It's kinda R&B-ish IIRC. Please help?
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I remember this song that was really catchy, but I could never quite find it anywhere I looked and I could never remember the lyrics. I remember towards the end of it, the singer repeated the lyrics "Top of the town" or "Talk of the town", I couldn't quite tell behind the badass combination of instruments accompanying them. It sounded late 80's, maybe early 90's, and it was fast-paced. That's all I got.
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All right, this is a song a bar DJ used to play. I’d estimate its date around the early 70s, possibly late 60s. It was a long song and had that long, "jam rock" sound of the era (not quite prog rock). The singer sang lyrics that went of the format “I’m so ___ for those who ___,” or something like that. I think I once found out that it was actually based on a classic poem, but I seem to have lost that information.
Anyway, I originally thought this was an early Deep Purple song because I know they did stuff like this back then and the singer sounds like Rod Evans. But I haven’t heard any early DP songs that match this one and it’s the main keyboard on it is an acoustic piano, not an organ.
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This one has been bugging me for quite some time. I can't remember how the song went, but I do remember parts of the video. It was about aliens (I think they were animated with claymation, or made to look like that) living in a city in a black and white world. and one of them invents glasses that lets him see in color. the only other thing I can remember is that it ends with a group of multicolor aliens riding a carousel, or something like that. Also I remember seeing it on Toonami's midnight run. Hope thats enough to go by.
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This one's driving me crazy. I guess you'd probably call it alt rock, and the music video starts with the camera going through a long yellow tube before stopping at the lead singer's face. Aside from that, I remember the following details: -Lyrics contained a lot of "-tion" words. -People singing in front of a brick wall. -Guy wearing a teddy bear head and no shirt flips off the camera. -Paint?
No idea when it came out, but probably early 2000s. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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It's an alt-rock song from the late 90s, probably around 98 or 99. The verses of the song were sung through some sort of voice distortion, then the chorus was more of a traditional rock song w/no voice distortion. The lyrics in one of the verses, from what I remember, was, "..and there was a big parade/and everybody got laid/and they (something? I think grow) so fast/(something distorted)." I also remember a verse that said something about a ship coming and "it burned all the books and the Chevrolets." Then the chorus started with, "if you believe in Saturn and Mars..."
I think the song was about a spaceship coming to a town and destroying it. I really hope someone else remembers this song and I'm not just crazy! It's been bugging me for years!
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I don't have all that much, I just remember a song where the lyrics were basically a series of faintly futuristic-sounding propaganda slogans, one of them being "The Beatings Will Continue until morale improves." It sticks in my mind, so it probably was a central part of the chorus, but I can't be 100% sure about that. Also, the music was some sort of industrial-sounding electronica, although my mind's a bit fuzzy on that bit too. '
Anybody got anything that might match?

There's a German band that may or may not still be prominent, but were at least active in the mid 2000's, who I remember only because they had several unusual music videos that I'd like to see again. One had the band members lifting signs that coincided with the lyrics the vocalist was singing; another one had a guy dress up as and hang out with native Americans towards the end; another one still was some strange Scooby Doo-esque cartoon where the band was followed around by a donkey.