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-Blackadder-
Jan 2, 2007

Game....Blouses.
I'm looking for a song...
  • Rap song
  • mid-to-late 90's/early 2000's
  • Album cover has a black guy pointing his fist directly into the camera.
  • Slow beat with female huming and whistling in the background. ("hm hm hm hm hmmm, hm hm hm mhmmm", then the same beat in whistle)
  • I think(but can't be sure) it's a song on The Wire soundtrack, but don't focus too much on that because it could be wrong.

EDIT: Looks like I remembered it on my own.

For anyone curious (I hate when people post a question, figure out the answer on their own, then don't bother to mention it when they update their post for anyone else that might be reading) the song was:
From Then Till Now by Killah Priest and it wasn't The Wire soundtrack on heard it on, it was in the movie Ghost Dog.

-Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Oct 29, 2017

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the tingler
Jul 15, 2009
What's the song that's being teased by this keyboard solo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjHuQuYyOBM&t=69s

Kangra
May 7, 2012

burritonegro posted:

What's the song that's being teased by this keyboard solo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjHuQuYyOBM&t=69s

Runaway by Del Shannon (specifically the electric keyboard solo around a minute in).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S13mP_pfEc

the tingler
Jul 15, 2009
Yes! Thank you, song rules

Synthetic Hermit
Apr 4, 2012

mega survoltage!!!
Grimey Drawer

burritonegro posted:

What's the song that's being teased by this keyboard solo:

Reminded me of the midsection of Pipeline by The Chantays. Maybe they both stem from Runaway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omG-hZfN6zk

RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011

Kangra posted:

Runaway by Del Shannon (specifically the electric keyboard solo around a minute in).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S13mP_pfEc

The distinct solo was performed by Max Crook on something he referred to as a Musitron. It's a modified clavioline, which was a forerunner of the Mellotron.

Though it made Runaway a big hit, from what I've heard from Shannon, he really didn't use it again. Discogs credits Crook on the album "Little Town Flirt." It's been a long, long time since I listened to it, but don't remember anything near the Runaway sound on that album. "Hat's Off to Larry" kinda has a bit of it. Even the direct follow-up to Runaway, "Keep Searchin'" doesn't go for that sound.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames
Not to derail but one of my favorite quirky 80s indie bands, Scruffy the Cat, did a great cover of "Runaway":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bof8m1ZeFyw (for some reason, there's no YouTube of their studio version, it's on the Moons of Jupiter album")

Their original songs are just pure aural candy too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtg7aXZcG8M

e: and I just now discovered that, of all bands, Letters to Cleo covered that song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa4xdd-8EXU

precision fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Nov 6, 2017

Fingertips
Jul 30, 2006
Defender of the Internets

Fingertips posted:

Alright so I was working on the computer and a nostalgic song popped into my head. I can only remember the very first part of it. It has a high-reverb piano playing a single chord over and over really quickly, which then shifts chords, keeping the same fast playing. It is very relaxing not entirely electronic but definatly not live music. I called my brother up and he seems to think that it is named Lotus or something.

If anybody here can help me name this song that would be great. Its really bugging me!

If you guys want to know what song this was it was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBEx8MRpOt0

signalnoise
Mar 7, 2008

i was told my old av was distracting
What was the first rap song to have that "Rrrrrrrrrrrrah" at the end of a line

You know the one

!Klams
Dec 25, 2005

Squid Squad

signalnoise posted:

What was the first rap song to have that "Rrrrrrrrrrrrah" at the end of a line

You know the one

Its Method Man "Release Yo' Delf" isn't it?

Jazz Marimba
Jan 4, 2012

What song is he playing at 6:20?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNsyVIdOewM&t=380s

Paperhouse
Dec 31, 2008

I think
your hair
looks much
better
pushed
over to
one side

Sounds very similar to the verse melody in Sukiyaki, but he doesn't really play enough for me to be sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

It's from the theme song to a TV show, I want to say a really old Western type show, but I can't recall any more detail than that. Now it's driving me nuts too.

e: Or you may recognize it as the same melody as "What do you do with a drunken sailor"

precision fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Nov 12, 2017

Jazz Marimba
Jan 4, 2012

Paperhouse posted:

Sounds very similar to the verse melody in Sukiyaki, but he doesn't really play enough for me to be sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc

This! But I know it as done by Hiromi. But also I might know it from like eighty other things, because it's super popular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiyaki_(song)

Sweetwater Kill
Jun 7, 2006

La vierge Marie vous regarde.

precision posted:

It's from the theme song to a TV show, I want to say a really old Western type show, but I can't recall any more detail than that. Now it's driving me nuts too.

e: Or you may recognize it as the same melody as "What do you do with a drunken sailor"

Drunken Sailor is about right in my head too, but the first thing I thought of was this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EinAwyQ3Xc

It's such a short excerpt that it's hard to pin down though.

Travic
May 27, 2007

Getting nowhere fast
nvm found it

Travic fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Nov 13, 2017

fletcher
Jun 27, 2003

ken park is my favorite movie

Cybernetic Crumb
Anybody know what song this is? My friend recorded it in a Chipotle. I was thinking DIIV but he said it was a female singer.

https://soundcloud.com/fletchowns/what-song-is-this

Travic
May 27, 2007

Getting nowhere fast
I had another song I was trying to find. It was from the early 90s or late 80s. For some reason I think it was Phil Collins, but I may be wrong and I certainly can't find it among his work.

The only concrete thing I can remember is that the music video had the singer on a grassy mountain-top/hill singing.

Cultural Marxist
Jun 29, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Travic posted:

I had another song I was trying to find. It was from the early 90s or late 80s. For some reason I think it was Phil Collins, but I may be wrong and I certainly can't find it among his work.

The only concrete thing I can remember is that the music video had the singer on a grassy mountain-top/hill singing.

Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill?

Travic
May 27, 2007

Getting nowhere fast

That's not it unfortunately, but that is a song I'd forgotten about so thanks.

Kangra
May 7, 2012

Any chance of it being Alive and Kicking by Simple Minds? It's the whole band, and not quite a mountain-top, however.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljIQo1OHkTI


I'm trying to figure out the name of a song that's being used in a commercial recently, and I've heard used in movies/TV before but never really paid attention to the lyrics. The song is very toe-tapping and bouncy. Probably from the 1970s. I thought I heard the words 'handle' and maybe rhymed with 'candle'. The first few notes (tonally) roughly match 'Bang a Gong'.

The commercial it's in is for some crap food chain restaurant, I think, maybe selling baked potatoes? I heard it from another room but the song under it was immediately recognizable.

!Klams
Dec 25, 2005

Squid Squad

Kangra posted:

Any chance of it being Alive and Kicking by Simple Minds? It's the whole band, and not quite a mountain-top, however.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljIQo1OHkTI


I'm trying to figure out the name of a song that's being used in a commercial recently, and I've heard used in movies/TV before but never really paid attention to the lyrics. The song is very toe-tapping and bouncy. Probably from the 1970s. I thought I heard the words 'handle' and maybe rhymed with 'candle'. The first few notes (tonally) roughly match 'Bang a Gong'.

The commercial it's in is for some crap food chain restaurant, I think, maybe selling baked potatoes? I heard it from another room but the song under it was immediately recognizable.

/edit:
I misinterpreted your post, ignore me, sorry.

So that this isn't an ENTIRELY useless post. Is there any chance it's "Can you feel it" by Jackson 5? (No, obviously not, sorry.)

!Klams fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Nov 20, 2017

Fierce Brosnan
Feb 16, 2010

I have seen into the future
Everyone is slightly older

Kangra posted:

I thought I heard the words 'handle' and maybe rhymed with 'candle'.

The first thing that comes to mind is Hard To Handle

Kangra
May 7, 2012

Figured it out: "You Make My Dreams" by Hall & Oates. Don't know about the commercial, but don't really care.

Synthetic Hermit
Apr 4, 2012

mega survoltage!!!
Grimey Drawer

Kangra posted:

Figured it out: "You Make My Dreams" by Hall & Oates. Don't know about the commercial, but don't really care.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wrMP/applebees-topped-steak-and-twisted-potatoes-dreams-come-true

I was going to suggest it, but I didn't think it sounded bouncy or 70s enough.

Travic
May 27, 2007

Getting nowhere fast

Kangra posted:

Any chance of it being Alive and Kicking by Simple Minds? It's the whole band, and not quite a mountain-top, however.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljIQo1OHkTI

That's not it either unfortunately. I have this crystal clear picture in my head I wish I could share with you.

I had originally thought I found it with River of Dreams by Billy Joel, but the music video does not match. But it had the same type of sound. Very upbeat and inspirational.

RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011

I sincerely doubt it's No Rain, but it was the first thing I could think of with a grassy hill. Definitely not a Phil Collins/Billy Joel vibe. Or Queen's Breakthru, which isn't exactly a hill, but the band on a train going through the countryside?

The Billy Joel video is really reminding me of something else, but I can't think of it.

(After a few minutes I've realized it was also Billy Joel. The beat of the chorus is similar to My Life.)

Travic
May 27, 2007

Getting nowhere fast

RC and Moon Pie posted:

I sincerely doubt it's No Rain, but it was the first thing I could think of with a grassy hill. Definitely not a Phil Collins/Billy Joel vibe. Or Queen's Breakthru, which isn't exactly a hill, but the band on a train going through the countryside?

The Billy Joel video is really reminding me of something else, but I can't think of it.

(After a few minutes I've realized it was also Billy Joel. The beat of the chorus is similar to My Life.)

No it's not those. Sorry. I didn't give you much to go on.

Cultural Marxist
Jun 29, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Upbeat?
Inspirational?
80s?
Singer outdoors?

Safety Dance

Travic
May 27, 2007

Getting nowhere fast

Cultural Marxist posted:

Upbeat?
Inspirational?
80s?
Singer outdoors?

Safety Dance

Of course! How could I have been so foolish?

Sorry no. :)

I want to find it mainly because it is the first song I heard as a child that I actively remember liking. Unfortunately that means it was so long ago I can't remember jackshit about it.

Cultural Marxist
Jun 29, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Travic posted:

Of course! How could I have been so foolish?

Sorry no. :)

I know, I’m sorry :)

Cyril Sneer
Aug 8, 2004

Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.
Looking for a song with lyrics something like,

"this is the house I could see myself dying in"
and
"all I want are a couple of cool friends"

I heard it in an American Eagle store, which always has a lot of indie-electro stuff on. It actually sounded a lot like an LCD Soundsystem song, but I'm *pretty sure* it wasn't.

Any help would be great!

wyoming
Jun 7, 2010

Like a television
tuned to a dead channel.

Travic posted:

I had another song I was trying to find. It was from the early 90s or late 80s. For some reason I think it was Phil Collins, but I may be wrong and I certainly can't find it among his work.

The only concrete thing I can remember is that the music video had the singer on a grassy mountain-top/hill singing.

Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence has a lot wandering around mountains and grassy hills.

https://vimeo.com/7381071

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Cyril Sneer posted:

Looking for a song with lyrics something like,

"this is the house I could see myself dying in"
and
"all I want are a couple of cool friends"

I heard it in an American Eagle store, which always has a lot of indie-electro stuff on. It actually sounded a lot like an LCD Soundsystem song, but I'm *pretty sure* it wasn't.

Any help would be great!

Those sound like lyrics The National would have, but they don't really sound like LCD Soundsystem.

Jazz Marimba
Jan 4, 2012

A song that quotes part of the melody of Ring Around the Rosie, and none of the words. Might be sung on nonsense syllables, might not.

buddhanc
Feb 16, 2010

I love the song that plays when you go to this video. It started playing randomly on a sidebar advertisement thing and I can't get it out of my head. Help please friends

https://www.inc.com/video/3-easy-things-you-can-do-today-to-become-a-better-version-of-yourself.html

Paperhouse
Dec 31, 2008

I think
your hair
looks much
better
pushed
over to
one side

buddhanc posted:

I love the song that plays when you go to this video. It started playing randomly on a sidebar advertisement thing and I can't get it out of my head. Help please friends

https://www.inc.com/video/3-easy-things-you-can-do-today-to-become-a-better-version-of-yourself.html

It's almost certainly some royalty free thing made for people to use in their online videos rather than an actual song released by a musician or band

buddhanc
Feb 16, 2010

Paperhouse posted:

It's almost certainly some royalty free thing made for people to use in their online videos rather than an actual song released by a musician or band

That's disappointing, appreciate the quick answer though. It's just the type of music I listen to while I read :(

Travic
May 27, 2007

Getting nowhere fast

wyoming posted:

Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence has a lot wandering around mountains and grassy hills.

https://vimeo.com/7381071

Sorry that's not it either.

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precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames
I'm now 100% convinced I've heard that "this is the house I could see myself dying in" song. drat it, thread.

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