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openKids' Song About Standing Up For Your Rights Music
So some televisions have channels that play music (audio only), and they're all provided by Music Choice. One such channel was Toddler Tunes, which as you can expect, plays songs for young children. Somewhere in 2011-2013, I listened to this song on Toddler Tunes that went "I want to scream / I want to shout / I want to tell the world what I'm thinking about / Something something on my mind" It was sung by a chorus of kids and it was about standing up for your rights and stuff. It was most likely made during the 70s-90s. One other lyric I remember was a boy telling the president to get rid of guns and bombs. I don't know what this is called and I can't find it.
open[SOLVED] Cutesy French CGI music video from 2000s Music
Somewhere around 15 years ago I watched a music video on MTV (could've been a different music channel, but it was definitely on TV). The song wasn't in English, I think it might've been French? The music was very cheery and upbeat (very ear-wormy too), and the visuals were completely CGI animated. The characters weren't human-proportioned, they were more chibi-shaped, and I don't think there was any plot, they were just dancing around. The setting was outdoors, some kind of island, I think? I remember it being a total Sugar Bowl, very cutesy and pastel-colored.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Because I saw another troper asking about music videos and suddenly remembered this pastel nightmare, and now I can't get it out of my head.
Edited by Andarielopen"Ulterior motives" song Music
There's a clip of a song floating around the Internet that goes "Everyone knows that, you've got ulterior motives" Sounds like Wham! Or Culture club. Trying to find out the singer or title,maybe release year.
Edited by s2003openOld song? Music
As a huge Ready Jet Go! fan, I was shocked to hear a real song that sounded similar to the show's song, Space Racin
'. I heard it at an antique shop in February 2020, and it was driving me insane trying to figure out what the song was. Can anyone find an old rock/pop song (most likely 50s-60s) that sounds similar to Space Racin? Same melody and everything.
openCountry music song about a suicidal dad Music
I have part of a song stuck in my head that I think I heard about 20 years ago so the song is probably from the 1990s or earlier. The basic plot of the song is that a dad wants to commit suicide but his family keeps talking him out of it by pointing out how each method of killing himself will inconvenienced them. I think it starts with them begging him not to jump off the roof because it will take them so long to clean up the blood and the guts. And after that they tell him not to hang himself in the basement because the pipes can't hold his weight or some thing like that. I don't remember much else about the song. I think it was a country music song but I'm not 100% sure.
openAnimated music video from a few years back Music
I really distinctly remember this animated music video I used to watch (on Youtube) all the time back sometime in 2013-2015 or so, it had what looked like high detailed cutout paper(?) animation of a child running from a wolf and other creatures (or maybe the same one morphing into other things), at one point getting swallowed by a whale, and at the end ending up in a blank white space. The song itself I think had a beat very similar to Rolling in the Deep by Adele, but I can't remember anything else about it.
openA kpop music video with tanks and helicopters. Music
I saw a weird kpop music video on You Tube in the early 2010s.
The artist was a solo female singer with long black hair. The video was set in an Eastern European/Russian city ravaged by war where a crowd of refugees was walking past semi-destroyed buildings.
The singer wore a military uniform with a cap and black gloves, as she was singing on an airfield next to tanks and helicopters. The hardware looked Russian.
Please, help me to find it.
openAlbum with a bonus disc that's designed for sharing with friends Music
I was browsing a record store in the mid-2000s when I saw a CD where the packaging advertised an unusual promotional tool the artist decided to use. The album had a "bonus disc" that was just the first few songs on the album again, and a sticker on the case explained that you were supposed to give away the extra disc to a friend, who would hopefully like what they heard enough that they would buy the whole album themselves. Thing is I'm 90% sure this was Begin to Hope by Regina Spektor, but I can't seem to find any evidence online about this version of the album having existed. I am at least pretty sure of the 2000s time frame, and I'm under the impression it was some indie artist's first major label release, which Begin To Hope was for Regina.
openMusic from GT Countdown episode on breakthrough PC games Music
This
episode mostly uses music from discussed games as background, but some tracks seem to be from other uncredited sources. I'm most interested in the sources of music used in segments about #5 SimCity, #4 Civilization and #3 Ultima Online.
openA certain music from a old train documentary film (Solved) Music
The music in question is a bombastic and heroic-sounding music from (what I assume to be) a old documentary film about steam trains called The Golden Age of Steam Trains. Specifically, it can be heard from around
here
at between 5:47 to 7:29. If this music has a name, please let me know for sure!
openA jazzy little piece from the 90s Music
The chorus has been bouncing around in my head on and of for a while. I only remember the ending part of the song but this was in the 90s before Google so here we go. I remember fragments.
- Blonde lead singer, German
- Was a jazz singer but the song had some pop elements
- Was in the lates 90s?
- Was part of an jazz band, elder members of the band she was young like young woman they were middle ages.
- Fragments of lyrics " Maybe you will , maybe you wont" " Spend some time with me "
- Name of the band was something experiance.
Dying to find the name of the song.
openAlmost-Eurovision singer Music
Can't remember how many contests ago or which country — there was an artist who was supposed to go to Eurovision but got replaced by the powers that be with someone more generic before the competition. I remember people sharing his music around to give him more visibility but that's it. He was a twink if that helps
openCarl Orff-inspired bombastic song from Barbarian movie commercials-UPDATE: Solved! Music
There is a song I keep encountering that has a very Carl Orff inspired composition resembling "O Fortuna." I used to hear it back in the '90s all the time whenever a channel like TBS was going to show barbarian movies like "Beastmaster" or "Conan the Barbarian."
The song is featured in this scene of the 1993 Mark Hamill film "Time Runner." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugKeGfV0xnM)
I don't have a copy of this film and there doesn't seem to be any soundtrack information online.
It was also recently featured in "Archer" season 8 (the Dreamland season) episode 7 "Gramercy, Halberd!" during the car chase scene. I got so excited when it appeared and went to the net to see if the song was identified, but every "name that tune" type site cites the song as "O Fortuna" and it's NOT.
Can anyone please name this tune?
Edited by DarkwingDorkopenJ-Pop Album with Retro '80s Sound and Cover Music
A flash drive died and took my music wish list with it. What was the pop metal/arena rock album I was going to get from CD Japan that had a cover right out of the '80s with the singer posing downtown in punkish clothes? This would've been released somewhere in the 2000s or 2010s, but probably around 2007.
I know, I'm taking a long shot here.
openCatchy Anime Music Montage Music
It was a song, synced with multiple scenes taken from many animes, I remember that it started with a girl saying 'Kono' then multiple slaps. Eventually it was synced with swords clashing
Basically it is similar to this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGOBLZNBiVM
but with a different song.
openFlute and Synthesizer Instrumental Music
Back in '02 or '03 I downloaded a mislabelled song from Kazaa and burned it onto a C.D. It's a beautiful instrumental with synthesizers and (emulated?) flute. No one has recognized it yet. Audiotag couldn't help me, and I cant get Soundhound to work. You can listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqeWLEpgYlc
openUniquely sounding song sounds like could be strongly associated with a carnival/fairground Music
Hey, I'd been looking for this for a very long time. Basically, it's this song that, for whatever reason, sounds like it could be strongly associated with a carnival/fairground. It also evoked especially strong feelings of nostalgia, it might be related to a soundtrack of some sort though I'm not sure. I don't know if was a song traditionally/historically played in real life carnivals/fairgrounds but may've simply been themed around one. In my opinion at least, it was also a notably good song. I heard it in ~2008, in a vid related to someones wowTCG loot demonstration. Any help with finding this would be much appreciated as I've never been able to find it anywhere on the internet outside of that vid (now deleted/privated).
I also have a recreation of what I believe it sounded like, but since it's been 15+ years since I've heard it unfortunately it might not even sound like it whatsoever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMPqrLJgmyE
.
Thank you
openThis one song Music
This is a song that I think is from the 90s. It's in a minor key, and the refrain goes something like "And Iiiiiiiiiiiiii'm falling in love... Yes, Iiiiiiiiiiiiiii'm falling in love... with you..."
openSpanish theme, standard snippet Music
Trying to find music for Standard Snippet from this episode
of Police, Camera, Action!, appears from 0:42 to 0:57.
It's Spanish, but that's all I know.
But what's that music before I add it to that page?

Maybe around 15 or more years ago, I remember finding a link to a music journalism article online - the article was about a rock band whose album was held up by Executive Meddling, and the inciting incident was apparently the band refusing to record a Cover Version of "All You Need Is Love" for a commercial. I mainly remember this because 1) I think this article might have actually been my first exposure to the idea that Music Is Politics, and 2) not long after I saw a Chase Bank ad that used Nada Surf's version of "All You Need Is Love", making me wonder if that was the ad in question and if Nada Surf had accepted the offer this other band refused. Consulting the other wiki re: Nada Surf's version of "All You Need Is Love", this would have been around 2006.
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