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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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Another song, though my first one is still a no-go. This one is a slow sad country song that sounds from the 40s/50s/60s. I think it wasn't a big name artist like Hank Williams or Johnny Cash, but i can't be sure. The singer was singing about how his love had left him and he was whispering her name 'For all the wolves to hear' (I thought that might be the title, but google hasn't helped) and then something about waiting for her to knock on his door and how he stayed right where she left him.
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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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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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This is kind of a tough one, because what I remember isn't a song or music video, just an odd quirk of a band's discography: While doing a Wiki Walk through All Music Guide, I found the page of a band where their bio said that originally, the band had wanted to change their name every time they put out a new album, but always give their albums the same title (you know, the opposite of what bands normally do). After doing this for their first two albums, they decided it was a stupid idea and stuck to one band name from then on. Anyone know who this band might be?
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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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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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I saw the end of this music video...it had this baby with bright green, like unnatural green eyes, there was this naked guy walking around with his hands shaking too. It had a note-thing at the end that said "love Axl Rose" or "to Axl rose", something like that. I tried looking up Guns n roses music videos but if this was one of them, I didn't spot it.
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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 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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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.
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There's this one song I heard on the radio around 2000 (pretty sure it was 2000) in south Texas, right near the Mexican border. I'm almost positive it was in Spanish (EDIT: and the vocalist was male), and it had a very fast beat to it, drum-heavy if I remember right. Here the tune I remember being the chorus
, and this was also in there
. If I remember right there were a few lines that ended in "Gracias, senor" in the non-chorus bits. Any info? It's been bugging me for years.
Another song I'd like to know more about is this one I heard in an FYE, that was basically this old Irish guy... rapping, for lack of a better word. Well, more like spoken word most of the time. In between several lines (what may be considered the chorus) he'd ask "Do you 'something something something', 'something'? Do you 'something something something?" I think. (EDIT: It was not a comedic song in any way; done entirely seriously.) Anyone know an artist who does this, or, even better, the song I'm thinking of?
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I remember a song, what I think may be a famous rock/pop song that has an upbeat tempo and singers that sound happy, and its sounds sort of newish, probably not from before the eighties. I can only remeber the chorus, but it was very distinct, and it went like "tu-ra-loo-ra-too-ra-loo-rightnow" or something like that. Searching those lyrics only get me an Irish lullaby and something from (Pakistan?), which are not what I was looking for.
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A song I saw on MTV around January/February 2002 (or was it 2003?) with an old man playing guitar, a nostalgic song which I very vaguely remember was about old-time friends he lost or perhaps about other memories. I also vaguely remember he was sitting on a tall chair while playing the guitar.

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?