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More like "music videos", I guess: You see, there's this eighties dance night I go to sometimes, where they have music videos projected on a screen behind the dance floor, but the videos are to completely different songs from what the DJ is playing. This one particularly stood out as being a Surreal Music Video - I mostly remember that it involved people wearing orange shirts with orange and white striped cones on their heads, who were riding on black gondolas. The videos usually are from the same time period the actual DJ set is, the eighties up to the early nineties, but it could even be something later than that; For instance, I've seen them throw in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon Of Choice" video once, presumably because Christopher Walken dancing around a hotel room and defying gravity is just that cool.
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Okay, so, it was a piece of music from the Pokémon anime's first season. It was more or less a rearrangement of the theme from the Pokemon Gyms from the video games... as a searingly awesome rock song that begins with an 80s-ish synth intro! It would usually be in the background whenever something particularly heroic, climactic, or just plain awesome was happening. Does anyone know the name of this tune?
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What is the music in the end of this video? Can't remember where it's from
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2011/06/22/the-human-spider-first-sequence/
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I'm looking for a song I once heard on the radio, what I remember:
- It is synth pop or electronica.
- A woman sings it.
- The melody is wistful but it's sung at a steady, slightly urgent tempo.
- It kind of sounds like a cross between Uriah Heeps "Lady in Black" and the St. Etienne version of "Only Love Can Break Your Heart."
- The lyrics have "from early in the evening till late in the morning" or something to that effect in them there is also mention of a "lady."
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Anyone know what the piece of music playing in the first three minutes or so in this clip
is? I’m assuming it’s some sort of audio library music, as I’ve heard it in a bunch of other situations. Incidentally, the music that starts playing after the three minute mark is “Rydeen” by Yellow Magic Orchestra.
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Anyone know the music used in this video? http://zanreosauce.tumblr.com/post/17122529056/blushingmochi-razzledazzy
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I'm trying to find the name of a pop song done by a female singer. She sounds kind of like the singer from Aqua. I'm not sure of the lyrics other than a chorus that goes something like, "I know, I believe [something]" and whole bunch of repetitions of "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh". It starts to sound like a chipmunk with the record skipping.
I don't actually like this song at all, but I just want to know WTF it's called.
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A song I heard that had a sort of religious undertone to it, it had an organ in it and was sung by a woman. I reminder she said that it was always darkest before the dawn and that she had a demon inside of her. There was a line in the background saying 'shake it' or 'shake it up' that repeated a lot
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I know that this was a song by They Might Be Giants, but hunting through their fan-run wiki has not helped me. In one of their songs, there's a bit that goes something like this:
"Remember that time in the past when we looked forward to the future, but all we saw was us looking into the past to that point when we looked at ourselves in the future?"
I don't remember the exact working. If I remember correctly, it's a total non-sequitur and unrelated to anything else in the song.
Any ideas?
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For lack of a better description, I do believe the song I'm looking for is by Radiohead, but I have searched many many many Radiohead songs to no avail, so it may be a band highly similar to them but still popular enough to recieve airplay. I heard it on the radio a few times some years ago, and bear with me, as the only way I can put it is through letters based on the pitch. The choruses speed up considerably, if that helps at all. Here's my best notation of how the verses go: "abd abd abd abd abdc zzzzzzzzzzzzzyyy"
And here's my poor attempt at converting the pre-chorus' guitar into symbols, with the commas being pauses that are about a beat long, and the spaces aren't pauses but are meant to show that the notes are seperate slightly shorter. Mind you, the chorus has the guitar put into overdrive, so it's not as mellow, but I'll use the same symbols and a few new ones: "abbaba, eddbabab abbaba, abba z, z"(x2)
The first time the pre-chorus riff above appears, it fades back into the verse, but the time(s) after that it continues on and vocals come in. I am dreadfully sorry if this is confusing, but it's the only available avenue and I like to track down old songs sometimes. 90 gallons of lasagna to the man or woman who knows what song I'm looking for!
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I saw a tutorial on You Tube that featured a very unusual song. It was entirely instrumental...no lyrics. It started out with electronic whooshes and whirs. Then it became a soft guitar song for about a minute or so. After a while, it sounded more like a rock song. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Sorry if I am being vague. If you would like me to elaborate some more just say so.
PS: The user who posted the video terminated his account and removed his videos.
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I'm trying to find a song with the lyrics "wash away". It was a very mellow song, and the style was sort of like the band Lifehouse. Not sure when the song came out but if I'd had to guess it was some time in the nineties. I googled the lyrics to try and find the song and it is not the following: Wash Away by Joe Purdy, Black Lab, Matt Costa, Billboard, T.S.O.L. or Alkaline Trio, nor is it Wash by Lifehouse or Wash Away Those Years by Creed. Help?
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So this is incredibly vague, sorry, so I won't be surprised if I don't get an answer. But hit me with your best shot! I heard this song at a friend's house. It had a dance beat, and obnoxiously high vocals. The song was definitely in English, but literally the vocals were so high I couldn't understand what they were saying. Knowing my friend it's probably an indie group, but that's not definite. Ok, Tv Tropers, Go!

I heard a song on the radio on Saturday night, possibly on the Northern Irish radio station U105. The lyrics talked about a drunken hero, and it was sung by a man. Any chance anyone knows it?