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wyoming: Jun 7, 2010; Like a television
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Okay, I'm looking for a music video.
It premiered on MTV2 around 2000/2001. I can't remember too much about the band or the song other than they might have sounded like the generic rock that was popular at the time the Hives, the Strokes, etc...
But the video was pretty cool, it featured the band standing in front of wallpaper sort of like this:

and at one point they held giant crayons up the wallpaper, and the wallpaper moved while they stood in place and made all these crazy and violent designs.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2010 23:49

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 12:41

wyoming: Jun 7, 2010; Like a television
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HoldYourFire posted:

Closest I can get is "Do What You Want" by OK Go but it doesn't seem to match up too closely. Maybe you have two videos confused or something?

Not it, I have come across it in my search for that video though

I guess i should clarify, each member of the band was in front of a different piece of wallpaper, different colour, different design...
And then they just did this neat trick where the wallpaper moved independently of the guys standing in front of it.

I remember seeing a brief interview with the band talking about how much they loved the effect, and said the director wanted to keep how he did it secret or some such thing.
So it might have premiered on 120 minutes or something.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2010 12:02

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StrungOutFlip posted:

A little broad and generic but I'll give it a shot. Heard a song on the radio that plays obscure indie music. The song is fairly new I believe, has female vocals and it sounds like something from the Sgt. Peppers album - very whimsical and has a sort of "lucy in the sky with diamonds/being for the benefit of mr kite" feel to it (in terms of instrumentation). Don't know if her other songs sound like this but the one I heard definitely sounds like something that would come out of Sgt peppers.

Bat For Lashes or Florence + the Machine would be my guesses.

wyoming fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Jul 14, 2010

# ¿ Jul 14, 2010 22:01

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TheWintergreen posted:

I'm 90% sure I heard this on some indie rock station on Sirius XM radio, but it may be from a recent movie or commercial.

I remember the chorus is a group of young males singing basically "Bah da bah da, da da da da, dah dah bah dah" but they start out higher, then go lower, then lower again, then they start to go back up.

I think the first time, there is some music playing when they do the chorus, then later in the song, it's just the chorus singing that.

It's indie-alternative-pop but it still has a very radio friendly sound to it.

The first time the singer (male) starts to sing something, he sings "Lately, I feel that...", although I may be wrong, and the lyrics may be off.

Eh, it's not exactly what you described, but this was the first thing that came to mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exg_b0B-RFs

I have one though, can anyone tell me what the "Away Away" part of this song is from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBTnzopA3ao

# ¿ Nov 24, 2010 13:35

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Tshirt Ninja posted:

There's some rave band that may or may not be British with both female and male vocalists that uses a lot of early video game sound effects as their beats. Like Megaman sound effects turned into their beats. The vocals are usually heavily stereo distorted, sometimes beyond coherency. Any help?

:( perhaps.
http://colonopenbracket.bandcamp.com

# ¿ Dec 3, 2010 11:56

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wharf cat posted:

A song that sounded like something out of the 1950's came on NPR.
Lyrics, which are horribly off:
What does a man need to survive in this world?
Other men.
What does he do with them?
He eats them whole.

A woman, in an opera-ish voice sings the chorus, too.

Sounds like "Second Threepenny Finale" from 3 Penny Opera.
It's been covered by Tom Waits, Pet Shop Boys, and others as "What Keeps Mankind Alive?"

# ¿ Dec 12, 2010 16:00

wyoming: Jun 7, 2010; Like a television
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I'm looking for a music video, early 2000's.
The video features the band in front of this black Victorian wallpaper, and then there are different shots of each of them holding giant crayons up to the wall, the band member and and camera move together while wallpaper stays in place. Something like that, it was an interesting effect.
Don't remember any of the lyrics, but I think they sounded similar to the Strokes, the Hives, the... all those bands that were popular at the time.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2012 12:58

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Droxis posted:

I was hobbling through the grocery store for a few forgotten items when I recognized the song that was playing. Rather, I recognized that I remember hearing it ages ago and liked it. Now the only lyric that I can remember is "And what did you get?" followed by a few more lyrics and then again with the "And what did you get?"

It's driving me goddamn crazy. Mashing the lyrics into google and youtube isn't yielding any results, so maybe I am misremembering the lyric? It sounded like a 90s song and was pretty upbeat, too.

It's from 2007, but reminds me of this Paramore song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kz6hNDlEEg

# ¿ Jan 29, 2012 02:06

wyoming: Jun 7, 2010; Like a television
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I heard a song that sounded a lot like the Decemberists, it repeated the name Lucy, and possibly Regina.
The only lines I remember are "If you've come for love" and "I've found my place"

# ¿ Jan 31, 2012 15:34

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Popcorn posted:

This is a slightly backwards one... the chorus of Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye reminds me heavily of an old song from the 70s or 80s. I keep thinking Peter Gabriel, but I can't place it. Does anyone else get deja vu?

edit: it's not a general thing, it's the chord change/melody specifically.

I've had the same problem with this song, other than Peter Gabriel, its always reminded me a bit of the Police.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2012 05:06

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Pilchenstein posted:

I can remember a song from around 1996, where the chorus is "Boom shalock, boom boom shalock, something something something". I've never been able to track it down because all any search turns up is House of Pain and it's not House of Pain.

A friend of a friend had the album and I want to say the band name had "boys" in it. Maybe.

Whoomp There It is by Tag Team
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FPimCmbX8

Click here for the relevant part.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2012 20:13

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Fatkraken posted:

There's a cover version of the Zombies "she's not there" that I SWEAR exists but it doesn't seem to be one of the well known ones.
is the original, but I'm SURE I've heard a cover which is much slower, more chill-out style, and as far as I know doesn't include the lines on from "now let me tell you 'bout the way she looked....." to the start of the repeat (ie, everything after the first "she's not there"). Style wise it's be something more along the lines of moby, morcheeba, Massive Attack or Portishead. It may have been used in a UK TV show or advert

Malcolm McLaren's About Her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTydVDfa-Kc

# ¿ Dec 5, 2012 17:12

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Tipme posted:

Searching for a song, female singer, I want to say Gwen Stefani or No doubt, but it definitely sounds like her. It was a fast rock type song, Chorus has fast singing where it's like the singing was too fast for me to hear anything.

Words
oh whoa oh oh whoa oh
words
oh whoa oh whoa oh

Well, I don't know how much it sounds like Gwen Stefani, but that reminds me of the chorus to Sleater-Kinney's Entertain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxRu7fwR24

# ¿ Mar 1, 2013 19:57

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Rubies posted:

Need help with a song from somewhere between 2000-2010... I forget how the beginning goes but near the end it switches to half as fast and the singer is like "am I going crazy? am I going loving crazy? Doesn't anyone around here speak English? Everyone's acting like I'm loving crazy or something! Doesn't anyone speak English here??!?!?" He's not singing anymore, just yelling it like he's surrounded by people who cant hear him.

Getting a lot of hits for em's "my dad's gone crazy" and some other unrelated stuff. This might have been a NYC or Boston band. Any ideas?

Hello? Is this thing on? by !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPqHXr_XFbc

One of my favourites.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 10:37

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ToxicSlurpee posted:

Pandora used to send me a song that was so ridiculous I just had to love it. It was a kind of techno-y thing with a guy singing in a sort of Russian accent. It was about cosmonauts. The closest I remember to the lyrics went something like "I am the cosmonaut/I'm in the rocket (rocking?) spot/I'm going to take a chance on the big time." A chorus of women sometimes repeated it. Google lyric searches haven't turned it up and Pandora hasn't thrown it at me for a while.

In my infinite wisdom I managed to forget which station it was on and what it was called.

That would be Cosmonaut by Sweet Snacks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWlCTKZkdE

# ¿ Jul 13, 2015 11:12

wyoming: Jun 7, 2010; Like a television
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Looking for two videos, both came out early 00s.

One had a video of a guy on a date with his blow-up doll, only it kept trying to murder him, the only lyrics I remember are something about how she's a killer loose on the streets.
Musically and visually kind of reminds me of Clinic's Walking With Thee.

The other video was some rock band performing in front of a black wall, at some point they start drawing on it with crayons, but it's a neat looking effect where they were standing still and the wall and camera were moving together. Seem to remember them sounding like The Strokes.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2016 19:21

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Erebus posted:

The Crystal Method - Murder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIMtIGqCxv4

Oh wow, The Crystal Method. Thank you kindly!

# ¿ Feb 14, 2016 23:51

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I'm just gonna guess Sleater-Kinney.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxRu7fwR24

# ¿ Mar 20, 2016 05:18

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syntaxfunction posted:

I'm trying to place the guitar in the first part of this video. It's on the tip of my tongue but for the life of me I don't remember.

Santeria by Sublime.

TehCount posted:

Heard this pop type song today, I'm guessing it is recent. Sounded like female singing, upbeat, party-like. The chorus has a humming type sound which repeats like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk0Ms0dhhdg

Well a long shot, but it's what your video reminded me of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E

# ¿ Mar 27, 2016 10:34

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RC and Moon Pie posted:

Almost has to be a 1970s song because of the 1970s-sounding production. It's something I heard on an oldies station.

Male artist singing solo.

Chorus has "go to the city" or "in the city."

The word "move" might be in the chorus as well. Perhaps "move to the city."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgtHflRV0cc

# ¿ Aug 2, 2017 04:15

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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

# ¿ Nov 23, 2017 13:42

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Robokomodo posted:

Can someone point me towards the Har Mar Superstar song that says something about heat sensitive pants on a woman showing him where the action is or something along those lines?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWPOIbdlovQ
"Hypercolor tells me where my baby is hot
Cause I can see your sweatpants gettin' dark in the crotch"

# ¿ Jan 30, 2018 11:07

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Alan Smithee posted:

am I crazy or does Childish Gambino's Redbone sample another song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp7eSUU9oy8

The oldschool chime that kicks it off

According to https://www.whosampled.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb-Qs2QHz_Y

# ¿ Jun 30, 2019 04:36

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13Pandora13 posted:

I *think* the chorus lead in is "I'm the best, motherfucker," with the end of "motherfucker" really stretched out and growly. Fit in well with the generic early 2000s hard rock/industrial/nu-metal thing going on in the era.

Perhaps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8V0r_sK2fw

# ¿ Dec 11, 2019 19:54

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Bioshuffle posted:

I'm looking for a music video where the female singer is dancing around a red cave in a school uniform. I believe there may be a satanic character present and during certain parts of her choreographed routine, there is a tracer line type deal happening.

So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn3cHUtNZKo

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 12:41

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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

There's a particular bit of instrumental classical music that is very common to old Looney Tunes cartoons. Here's a sequence I made for it: https://onlinesequencer.net/1963974

Does anyone know the title? It's driving me nuts because you can't search online for tunes; only titles.

Didn't think I knew the name of it, just that it's the stereotypical spring song, and welp.
Felix Mendelssohn : Spring Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mz5Rtx-Eu0

# ¿ Apr 8, 2021 21:38

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