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resolved ''Sounds Like a Melody'' techno cover. Music
In early 90's there was a techno cover version of Alphaville's song Sounds Like a Melody. Any idea on who performed it?
resolved male artist in movie backlot? Music
I'm trying to remember a pop/dance music video - Male singer - Could be a band, but only one artist is featured in the actual video - He's dancing and interacting with movie props and equipments in a movie backlot - E.g. artificial rain, camera cranes etc. - The actual decor seems to be mostly a western movie of some sort - Actors in costume and movie technicians are constantly moving in and out of the picture - This is NOT the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot (i.e. not Why don't you get a job)
resolved A video clip about not sleeping at night Music
Hello, i'm here because i've got a melody stuck in me head but i can't find out the title of the song. All i can remember is that it was about being a night owl and the singer in the videoclip was a white guy wearing Mc Hammer style gold parachute pants. I know its slim but i also know internet can do miracles, so thank you if my very lackluster description somehow ring a bell to you. Have a nice night
resolved Unknown Eastern European song Music
I just found this video on Youtube which is titled "My Wandering Fire".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsxY1QDl9S4
Apparently this was recording on some Easter European channel in the 90s and the english lyrics are these:
"My wandering fire Lost without a trace In a foreign land The weaving wind sometimes Bitter smoke brings me
My wandering fire Shines brightly in the wrong place It warms the wrong people Doesn't it follow him Follow my frozen laughter Isn't he the one My frozen laughter is following him"
But the artist, year and album is unknown. Does anyone know who this is?
resolved common scary classical tune Music
There's this common classical tune that often plays in things when it's supposed to be scary/suspenseful. It plays at the beginning of "Intergalactic" by Beastie Boys before the actual song starts, for one. What is it?
resolved 80s pop song Music
I remember hearing this 80s pop song over the PA at a grocery store once. All I remember is that it had two deadpan-ish-sounding singers, one of them a male and a female, and kinda sounded like early The Human League. Once lyric I vaguely remember is the singer commenting about something being "made in Japan".
Does anybody know which song it could be?
resolved Trance album I heard in 2003 Music
There was this trance album i heard in 2003 that I swear had something about "gog magog" in the title, although a search for that on Discogs only turns up one result, and it's not it. Anyway, I remember the songs were mostly instrumental. The second track was called "the race", although that's too generic to search for. I remember a song later on the album was called "creature from outer space" and had a sample of a man's voice saying "creature from outer space" right at the beginning. Finally, while I can't remember the name of the final track, I remember it had some weird samples, like a man's voice saying "ahhh, the smell of plastic", and later what sounded like a cartoon character saying things like "This is an execution" and "say your prayers". I thought it would be easy to find it again with all I remembered but I can't, so here I am.
resolved Obscure soundtrack Music
Anyone knows the score which plays in Alloy Arena
? I admit the music is harder to hear at times but this is the best I could find. I also heard the track in a different game but that one is NSFW, so I can't post links to it here - even if I still could find it. This stuff is rather old.
resolved Paaaaraaaadise! Music
Can anyone make out what the song is this toy clown fish is singing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB-h6OBCdFk
I remember looking at and listening to this toy in a Cracker Barrel store nearly 20 years ago, but my mind has been stumped trying to identify this song. Unfortunately, the potato quality of this video doesn't really help, but even so, I remember the recording used for the fish was rather unintelligible anyway (as is usually the case with cheap talking/singing toys); I just know that the loop ended with that elongated and stretched out, "Paaaaaaraaaadise!"
resolved Upbeat version of "My Heart Will Go On" Music
It has the same words, but it's faster and more upbeat. It's sung by a black guy who does a falsetto vocalization near the end of the song, and there's a small band playing the instruments, and having a great time. I for the life of me CANNOT remember who did it, and I've looked it up with different keywords, but I can't find it. Can anyone help?
resolved 80s music video with a broken bust Music
I can't remember the name of a song. 80s to early 90s. Dance track, and not a particularly obscure one either. Possibly black-and-white for drama. The music video opens with a plaster bust exploding on the floor.
Edited by Circeusresolved Lightning strike music video Music
I found a bunch of gifs clipped from a music video that I suspect is from around late 1980s/early 1990s.
It appears to be a guy with long hair and a red bandana, playing an orange V-shaped guitar, on top of a skyscraper at "night" and a specisl effects lightning strike comes down behind him.
I found the gifs on Whats App under "fall down hole" but I couldn't find anything searching just that. Any thoughts?
resolved "Soldier" song Music
This
joke video is an I. M. Meen-themed parody of some song I don't know. I can barely make out any of the original lyrics under the vocals there, the title "one meen soldier" is too generic for any leads, YouTube's auto-music finder didn't turn up anything, and it's the video itself has barely any views, resulting in only one comment that isn't a reference.
What song is this?
resolved A song from the 80s about a guy scared of a monster Music
A few months ago, I was riding in my friend's car when a song came onto a radio station that only plays sons from The '80s that really stuck with me that I unfortunately can't remember the name of. It's basically about this one guy who thinks about a monster and is worried about it coming for him, so he calls his friend to tell them about it, only to hear them get eaten by the monster over the phone.
resolved Trying to find a country song that my stepdad was playing . Music
Lyrics include "Baby lay your loving on me" and "wanna kiss your lips and tears away." Google didn't show anything.
Edit: Found on You Tube. It's Diamond Rio.
Edited by sassyelliott2403resolved Song from the Karate kid Music
What song from the Karate Kid has the lyrics "Memories can fade so fast"?

This is kind of a weird one, but I remember when I was a kid I took piano lesson's briefly. One of the songs had to do with a cat, and was kind of cute/funny, although I can't remember any actual lyrics, or I'd have looked them up.I assume it was public domain if the piano school was teaching it, but could be wrong. Also, I think it sounded kinda similar to "Lady Marmalade", as there is a scene in Beethoven (which I watched like a year before) where the babysitter sings that song, and for a while I misremembered her as singing the cat song I'm looking for instead.
Edited by Bootlebat