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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?
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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a few weeks ago i was in my friend's car, and i heard a song playing (not sure if cd or radio) it was somewhat atmospheric and guitar effect-sy, female vocalist.
my friend said it was about a woman being shot in the face for cheating on her husband (cheery), and it reminded me a little like the nancy sinatra version of "my baby shot me down"
ring any bells with anyone?
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Looking for a song and an artist (that are unrelated to each other) that seem to have eluded both my saved sessions and records on You Tube. I've searched pretty hard for both, so any help would be appreciated.
The song is dubstep, and probably from within the last year. It features a black woman in a long, flowing, navy dress; no special design or anything, from what I can remember. She provides the vocals. She's standing inside a dimly-lit ring of curtain-like cloths that match her dress. When she stops singing is when the dubstep is most evident, and at the same time, her dress starts to sort of levitate around her while the curtains billow. Once she starts singing again, everything returns to normal. Throughout the MV, there's clips of a white man with black dread locks and facial hair lighting fireworks or something at night, in the middle of what looks like a desert or open dirt clearing. (I'm not certain that his hair was really in traditional "dread locks" style, or that he had a lot of facial hair, but that's what I remember.) I don't remember the lyrics, but the tempo was slower, from what I remember.
The artist, I remember from an advertisement for her. It shows her as a pale white woman with black hair, in the same style as Lady Gaga in this picture
◊. She's against a white background, in profile, and I think the way she's posed is sort of like she's laying down. I don't think it showed past her shoulders. She was wearing something similar to a thin, white, turtleneck sweater.
I found both of these things on You Tube, but they've magically disappeared from my records, even though I'm fairly certain I saved them somewhere.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have almost no information about this one, I am sorry. But this tune has been stuck in my head for several years.
It's from my childhood, over 30 years ago. I associate it for some reason with the Captain Kangaroo show, but that might be wrong (it could have been something that was on Captain Kangaroo just once, it is NOT the usual Captain Kangaroo theme). I think, but am not sure, it had something to do with some sort of machine or engine, maybe a train. Maybe some of the lyrics weren't actually words, but were sounds the machine made, like "pop! pop!"?
But I do remember the tune.
It basicially went
dum diddy dum dum/ dum dum/ dum diddy dum
A "dum" being a quarter note (or longer), and a "diddy" being two eighth notes. This rhythm would go on for two or three lines, then the next line went:
Bah bah bah dum dum/ dum dum dum dum dum.
With "baa" being a note held longer than a "dum". I have a vague memory that this line was sung by a higher pitched voice then the other lines, and all the voices were male. Like a barbershop quartet, with the last line sung by the tenor or counter-tenor. I think the last line went something like "(something) (does something) when (something else happens)"
I realize how silly this request is. I am not certain of anything I have said, except the tune itself, that has been stuck in my head for some time. I can whistle it or hum it, but that is a bit hard to do over the internet. And it is impossible to search for on the internet without any lyrics or anything else. But it has been bugging me for years.

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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