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I've got two, though one is pretty much a lost cause.
1. This played on a country station, maybe 10 years ago. It was sung by a male, and it was about finding a buffalo nickel, and realizing it only had three legs. I think I only heard it once, and I've been trying to figure out what it was since then, so I don't have much hope.
2. This, I have no idea how old it is, and can't even remember if it was sung by a man or a woman. The lyrics that I can remember (probably incorrectly) are: "I won't give up blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank I let you down" This is the chorus, I'm fairly certain. For the life of me, I can't remember the lines in the middle. I was reminded of this by Red's Feed the Machine. The line "We fall in line" has a similar tune to "I won't give up" (or whatever that first line is).
resolved [FOUND] DineAndDash music video Music
Song from the mid 1980s. I thought it was "Come On Eileen" or "Celtic Soul Brothers" by Dexys Midnight Runners, but having just seen those, I'm wrong. (Unless there's more than one version of the music videos?) The band in question are all scruffy lower class people like DMR presented themselves as in their "Eileen" period.
The video starts with the singer/main character in a small restaurant/diner having a meal. He sees a friend out the window and leaves, non-verbally telling the owner/waitress that he'll be back shortly to pay for his meal and leaving a package to demonstrate his commitment to coming back. He goes away and has a grand ol' time, and singing whatever song it is. We occasionally cut back to the diner where the waitress is getting concerned. Late that night, at more or less the end of the video, the waitress opens up the package to find it's just some old newspaper (or something), he never planned to come back!
I know this sounds kinda like A Ha's "Take On Me" but it isn't that.
Edited by randomsurferresolved No Title Music
In a recent episode of Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot, as Harmony Bear performs a heartfelt song, Grumpy Bear pulls out a couple of candles, which he and a human girl named Joy start waving. I feel like this is something I have seen in a music video or something of the sort somewhere before, but where? Or might it just be a general reference to "Candle in the Wind"? (NB: The episode, "Sad About You" is currently available on The Hub's website for viewing.)
resolved No Title Music
I'm not sure if this should go in the Music category since it's about a music video I saw on MTV.
Many years ago I saw a music video on MTV in the mid-1990s. I don't remember much about the song that played. I think it was some kind of electronic music (kind of like Orbital or The Crystal Method) but I could be wrong, and I remember the same syllables being repeated, but it didn't sound like English. In the video, a young girl would wander aimlessly and observe the world around her. She carried with her a cube shaped block, except that the cube was hollow with a square-shaped hole right through the middle. Like a cube with two opposite sides removed. When the girl looked through the cube, she would see something similar but different. I don't recall any of the things she looked at, but the viewpoint perspective would shift from third-person to the girl's first-person perspective, and then show the cube being lifted to her field of vision and what appeared through the cube's aperture was different from what she saw with her normal eyes. I think she would first see something mundane, then when she looked through the cube she would see something fantastic or surreal. At the end of the video, the music stops but the words are repeated. Again, it didn't sound like English, and it showed that an old woman was singing those words to a sleeping girl. I think the song was called Lullaby or something but I could be wrong about that. Lullaby being the only word I have to go on, it is very difficult for me to search for this on the web. I only saw this video once and it was probably 17 years ago or something like that, so I might have misremembered some things.
resolved No Title Music
There is this song I have been looking for since 2003. It is a hard rock song with a male singer and in the refrain he says something like "we need to renovate" or maybe "it's time to renovate" I am possibly remembering the words wrong but that was the general meaning of the lyrics: everything's old and worn out and we have to make new stuff.
Edited by Bootlebatresolved Song called something like "Feeling The Pressure". Music
Techno song from 2005 or so. Singer was male and the refrain was something like "I'm feeling the pressure" I remember the song sounded kind of like "Behind The Wheel" by Depeche Mode. For some reason I think the band name started with a P or Q but I could be remembering wrong.
Edited by Bootlebatresolved Song similar to "Hazy Shade Of Winter" (solved, see last post) Music
This is gonna be a hard one but here goes: my dad had this record that I really liked to listen to when I was a kid circa 1990. There was this one song I really liked that was the final song on either side a or b (I forget if all the songs on the record were by the same group or not) singer was male, genre maybe rock or alternative. Can't remember any exact lyrics but I think the general meaning was something about no matter how hard he tries he can't do something. I think the band's name started with a D or a T but not sure.
Edited by Bootlebatresolved No Title Music
It's a song I heard this week, but I don't have any idea how old the song is. It's sung by a woman. There were no English words I recognized. I think the entire song is in Spanish. I know very little Spanish, and the only words I recognized were "contra mundo" (possibly contra o mundo or something similar) in the chorus. It's possibly by a Mexican artist because I overheard a Mexican guy listening to this song. I don't know how to describe the genre of the song, possibly a ballad?
resolved Answer Song to The Thong Song Music
An Answer Song to Sisqo's "The Thong Song" done by a black female singer/rapper from 1999 or the early 2000s.
Edited by randomsurferresolved Oldies song Music
I heard this song on the "oldies" radio station. As far as I know, they play songs from the 1950s through the 1970s. The words I remember are something like, "Have you heard the word?" or maybe, "Have you heard about the word?" which was in the chorus of the song. It was NOT the song "Surfin' Bird", nor was it "Have You Heard The Word?" by The Fut (which I found via web search). The song was mostly sung by a man, but there were backup singers as well, at least some of whom may have been women. After singing, "Have you heard the word?" the next line included a slang word that sounded a bit dated, but I can't remember what the word was. It was something like, "Have you heard the word? It's funky and groovy and fills you with joy" or somesuch example, since calling something "groovy" is a bit outdated. I don't remember much specific about the song, but I'd guess it was post-1960 hippie-inspired rock and roll, you might call it folk rock. It sounded similar to what I've heard from Grateful Dead.
I may have the words wrong, it could have been anything like, "Did you hear the word?" or something similar.
Edited by FerrousFaucetresolved song by Violent Femmes Music
This was a song that some people I occasionally hung out with in the early/mid 1980s would play on their boom boxes. They said it was by Violent Femmes; I very specifically recall that I was told that the band used a Mariachi bass (aka guitarrón mexicano). The thing is, I've just finished listening to every song that Wikipedia lists as being on their first two albums - plus the singles "Ugly" and "Gimmie the Car" - and none of them struck a chord with me, so to speak. The only thing I really remember is that the song has an Epic Riff, though I don't remember what the Riff sounded like, merely that it had one. The song "Blister in the Sun," their only song listed on this wiki as having an Epic Riff, doesn't sound familiar to me. I went off to school in 1985 and stopped hanging around with them, so it must have been released before that year.
Three options I see:
- It was a single that they recorded, and it's not listed on their Wikipedia page.
- It was a song incorrectly credited to Violent Femmes, in which case I'll probably never find it.
- It was indeed one of those songs from one of their first two albums, but The Fog of Ages has rendered it unfamiliar.
UPDATE 01/18/2024 I just found it by accident. "Add it up." IDK why I didn't know it was that one when I looked into it in 2016. Anyway, closing. (That's new since the last time I logged on.)
Edited by randomsurferresolved Old sounding song with funny line Music
Ok, I remember in about 2009 or so my mom was listening to a song (not sure if it was on the radio or a cd) that sounded pretty old (40s or 50s) though it could have just been Retraux. It had a male singer, was slow tempo, and had some funny line which was something like : "If I knew why the roses grow, I would know why the roses grow." which both my mom and I thought was pretty funny.
resolved 80s-sounding song Music
My mom used to play this song when I was a child, and I've never heard it since. All I can remember was one (recurring?) part of the song: a male singer sounding vaguely like Pat Sajak saying "I" and percussion between his vocals (the best way I can describe it in text is "I- (dun da dun) I- (dun da dun)"). I believe it was a slow romantic song, and there may have been a female singer for the verses. It sounded very 80s, though it could be from anywhere up to the mid-late 2000s (when I heard it). I thought it was by The B-52s for a while, but none of the songs on the one album we have match.
Edit: Memory's still fuzzy, but here's some more details that might help: genre's most likely pop (maybe softer/mellow rock), the "I-"s were spoken with something like a voice crack partway (electronically altered?), the percussion (most likely drums) definitely stood out from the rest of the melody, and I wanna say the instrumentation/overall tone sounded something like "Electrolite"
by R.E.M. (not a complete similarity of course).
resolved Chiptune music (SOLVED) Music
What's the chiptune music used in the background of the intro of this
Gigguk video?
resolved cover song in video Music
What is the song that starts at about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22VzWXoc1ZE&list=PLsCEXiXqx9ihM_rmHKKfrVbCdCdO2nBiC&index=26
34:00? I know it's a cover of Manic Strret Preachers- Australia but who does this version?
resolved Song with chorus "Steel on Steel, dust to dust. There's an iron horse in all of us" Music
I know this song exists, but even googling the chorus or parts of it in quotes turns up nothing. I also remember a long time ago looking for it and finding a few results, one of which was the song, however I don't remember the band and suspect it's really obscure. Anyway I first heard in the 90s if that helps, and it had a female singer. Here is me singing the chorus: https://vocaroo.com/norImWkPYvS
(I remember nothing else.)

Some music from the Mother series that I heard on youtube. I don't know if it was actually used in the games. It was in a minor key, it had a fast tempo, and it was melodic.
Edited by Twiddler