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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.
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Thinking of a classical-music piece that often features in commercials. Believe it's an aria, but is just as often adapted as an instrumental. It's very common when someone's trying to communicate lushness or something specifically Italian.
Starts with a three sequences of rising triplet/flourish—half-note (sorry—I probably don't even have it in the right key):
"duddleluddlelah-DAAAAAH (E-F-A-C1-E1-F1)... duddleluddlelah-DAAAH (E-F-A-C1-F1-E1)... duddleluddlelah-DAAAH (E-F-A-C1-E1-D1)"
"duddleluddlelah-DAAAAAH (E-F-G-Bb-C1-E1)... duddleluddlelah-DAAAH (E-F-G-Bb-E1-D1) ... duddleluddlelah-DAAAH (E-F-G-Bb-D1-C1)"
"duddleluddlelah-DAAAAAH (E-F-A-C1-E1-F1)... duddleluddlelah-DAAAH (E-F-A-C1-F1-E1)... duddleluddlelah-DAAAH (E-F-A-C1-E1-D1)"
Then builds to an octave-higher sequence of slower triplets: "duh-duh duh-duh-duh (D1-E1-F1-E1-D1) DAHHHNN-duh-duh duh-duh-duh (C2-A1-G1-F1-D1-C1) duh-duh-duh duh-duh-duh-DAANNNHHH. (Bb1-G1-F1-E1-F1-G1-F1)"
Whew. Hope it rings some kind of bell.
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I'd really like to know what the music is that plays from 27 seconds or so to the end of this video I stumbled across some time ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HP1GWJYeLI
The video itself is only 57 seconds long.
I love it. I think it would be perfect to end a story with on a And the Adventure Continues theme. It has a sense of finality to it and yet it's uplifting. I just have no idea what it is.
I sent a PM to the guy who made the video, but he told me he didn't know and he found the music just by searching 'relaxing music' on google. I searched around myself, but never found it. I also posted a couple of comments on the video but didn't get any answer.
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I remember the story a song tells, but not much else.
It talks about a woman who is a convicted criminal (I seem to recall that she committed some heinous crimes) but "was a lady" because, while in the car taking her to jail, she did not cross her legs while wearing a dress/skirt.
That is all I can remember about it. I know it has been YEARS sense I've heard it, but I have no clue how many.
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Song that gets played a lot on 80's and 90's rock music stations. All I know about it is that the chorus says "Stand by me" and there's a harmonica in the chorus right after it says it and its one of those songs you clap along to. I looked up "Stand By Me and got Ben E King but I doubt the song is that old.
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I'm trying to find a song that was played on either Scuzz or Kerrang TV around the early to mid 2000s. I think the band were all female, and the song starts with them softly singing 'ahhh', repeating 4 notes a few times, then they start screaming 'AAAAHHH', as the music gets more intense. Then they start singing actual lyrics, none of which I can remember.
I remember the music video consists of the camera panning to the right, while the band members towards the left of the screen 'flash' off the screen and flash back towards the right of the camera view.
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This is a song used in detective/crime shows, I think it has a fairly long title that sounds classical, it's a kind of jazz-classical song, it's very recognizable to me as the song that would play right after the person is murdered, but before the theme song played. Also, the spotify album art for the song is a picture of pigeons taking flight.
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I posted this a while ago along with another query, but after zilch responses for this video I had given up searching. However, a strange dream has prompted me to try again. It is a CGI animated music video, though I can't remember the song for it at all. I'm almost certain it was shown on the uk channel "Pop!" on a programme known as "Pop Party".
As I said, I searched for it along with another video in mind, which turned out to be "Look At Us Now" by Northern Heightz. Obviously that song wasn't mainstream, yet it was found... but I'm not too hopeful about THIS video being found.
Anyway, this 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.
Any ideas?
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I was in Spain in the year 2001-02 and I remember a Gothic music video played loads on Spanish music TV. It was by a German band called "Die...something...something" All I remember was that at the start of it, a man walked up to the female lead-singer and plunged his hand into her chest and removed her heart. She was wearing white linen baggy clothes, barefoot and had black fingernails and toenails. I also remember as the song progressed, black spread from her and soon the whole room turned black.
As this was a Spanish/German thing, I don't expect anything to come back. However, I'm sure the Goth community on here can tell me something!
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I've heard the same piece of music in two completely unrelated videos:
- A Hub commercial
for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- A creativebrief video
about Nokia's chatterboxing with The Annoying Orange
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A commercial I saw in the early-mid 90's that played a medley of these soft easy listening songs. One of the songs I heard sounded like it was saying "Sam Deem Juan" and then it went Wooooooooooooaaaaaahhhhh....oooooh...oooh, It had a female singer and she wear singing it in a whisper-like voice. I think she was on a beach while singing it. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I doubt that's the ACTUAL name of the song, just a mondegreen. I'm not into that type of music but I get the song stuck in my head every now and then.
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There's a piece of music that someone I know has stuck in their head but they can't remember the title, a fact which is currently bugging the hell out of them. Therefore I've taken it upon myself to ask the troper hive mind on their behalf.
Their description is as follows: "All I remember is it sounded like a bloke 'yodelling' the melody part and was the kind of tune advertising agencies usually play over footage of rainforests or similar. Don't know if it's part of a longer tune, an advert, a film / tv tune or anything. It has no lyrics that I remember apart from the guy doing variations of "Aye aye ayeeee" "
I think I know which one they mean, and I'm pretty sure that it was played over an ad for an insurance company or something like that in the early-mid nineties and that the vocalist was female instead of a guy, but as I'm not telepathic I'm not certain about that.
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This one is really random, and probably really hard.
When I was a kid (between ages 4 and 8, 1995-99) I would go to a Vacation Bible School at one of the local churches. I was hoping someone might have heard the some of the songs.
1. A song about Moses. Chorus went "Moses, Moses, grab your staff/Moses, Moses, hold it high/ something something/where the land is dry.
2. A song about Jonah. "Turn back, Jonah, turn around./You're going the wrong way now."
3. A song about the three boys in the furnace. "Shadrach, Meshach, Abednago/three faithful boys who wanted to know/the love of the Lord. It was NOT by Louis Armstrong.
The songs were also sold on white casseste tapes, and we bought one of the years. One of the songs from the year we bought (I'm looking for the year before that one) went "Love is pateint, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast. It is not proud, it is not rude, it is not self seeking. Love is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs, love does not delight in evil - but rejoices in the truth." Repeat, then "It always protects *clap clap* always trusts *clap clap* always hopes *clap clap* always perserveres *do the wave*.
Like I said, hard. It's also very vague, and I haven't yet been able to find it. Can anyone help me?
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this one is complicated I don't really remenber the lyrics, I think it was something like "away now"
It was sung by a black woman, and it featured her and two white guys who fought over her. Strangely enough it was basically a giant billboard where they put their faces on the holes, sometimes you could see the backstage. They changed their places to different holes to represent a different scenes, some of those scenes included a travel to the beach in wich one of the white guys (who has perma stubble) trips the other guy, throwing ice cream to the girl on her chest, eventually he is abandoned and seen crying while holding the ice cream. This is what I remenber please help!
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There's this song I've been hearing lately, I think in a Geico commercial? I'm not sure what commercial it is. But I remember hearing it in the movie Matilda, when little Matilda gets up and makes breakfast for herself and stuff like that. I don't know what it's called and I'm trying to figure that out. Does anyone know? I really appreciate any help :)
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A few months ago I was listening to a station that plays mainstream, popular music. I heard a song sung by people with pronounced English accents, and there was part of the song mentioning something along the lines of "He drinks (name of alcoholic beverage), he drinks (name of alcoholic beverage), ect...". The lead singer was male, and I think there were multiple people. It sounded like it came from a parody show. I swear that after it was over the DJ said it was called something along the lines of "Tub Chugging". Does anyone know what this might have been? Thanks.
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Here's a song that's been stuck in my head since I first heard it as one of the songs they used to play at Toys R Us. It's a children's song that had the line "If we make a mistake, we can try to create something different and totally new!" as part of the chorus. I also think that the song also mentioned cookies. What is the name of this song, and where can I find it? It was really catchy, too!

I have this music video in mind:
The song was a recent, symphonic rock song with male vocals. The music video consisted of people in animal costumes, the most prominent being a red-haired girl in a pink bunny hood, and a couple of others whom I can't remember, but I think one of them was male (and was in a bath). The clips of these, uhh, "furries" were entwined with clips of the (very attractive) lead singer, wearing a black coat with a huge collar, in front of a white skyscraper - which is appropriate, considering the lyrics talk about "the city". Then there's this army of people in black jumpers, black boots and rabbit masks. At one point, the lead singer is in the centre of this "rabbit army" singing. The bunch of "furries" encounter the band in this brown, forest-like set, then "the guy in the bath" pours this white substance onto the "pink bunny girl"'s arm. The video ends with the band, surrounded by the dead(?) furries, surrounded by the rabbit army.
ANY IDEAS?