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wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Alris posted:

Ok, this is a really odd one and I'll be astonished if anyone can actually find it so bear with me.

Sometime in 2002 or 2003 I went with a group of friends to a fashion show in Sydney. It was an extremely... alternate fashion show, with lots of goths, latex clothing, chains and a guy dressed as a zebra. As we were all just out of high school everyone thought it was equal parts bizarre and hilarious and as a consequence we had a great night. Now, over the years it's always been thought of fondly, and one of the running jokes in our circle is the song that played during the overweight girl wearing tight latex hot pants section of the show. It's main distinguishing features were 1. Just about every word in it was some variation of a woman saying "gently caress me harder" and 2. There was a break in the middle with nothing apart from a woman moaning.

That's everything I can think of, I honestly don't expect anyone to find it but if it rings any bells I'll be in your debt!

Lil Louis - French Kiss has a break like that, but I don't think it has lyrics... Maybe some remix?

# ¿ Aug 24, 2014 15:56

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 01:51

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

That's a really really common chord progression so it makes sense that it sounds familiar. One well known song that uses the same progression is Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game"

# ¿ Nov 16, 2014 21:36

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

I would love to help you but the way you sing, everything sounds like a smooth jazz version of greensleeves or something

# ¿ Nov 28, 2014 12:48

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

It's obviously the theme from The Munsters

# ¿ Jan 10, 2015 00:43

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Bitter Mushroom posted:

Can someone help me identify the chord pattern in this Kinks song? What else is it in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuGFlP5Duuw

Makes me think of something medieval and its niggling me

This is completely unhelpful but around the 1 minute mark there is a bit that reminds me of the The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way

Other than that, some similarities to Seal - Kiss from a Rose? But a different chord progression.

wayfinder fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Jan 27, 2015

# ¿ Jan 27, 2015 20:24

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

The Mash posted:

Curiously, I'm also looking for a French song, though definitely not the same one. I overheard this at a restaurant and I know I've heard it before a few times. It could be from a movie perhaps. It's an RnB song from what sounded like a group of male singers. It sounded very cheesy 90's-ish or maybe like something Boyz II Men could have made. My guess would be that it's from the late 90s or early 00s and I'm reasonably sure it was somewhat of a big hit when it came out. Basically I'm asking for ideas for what might have been the biggest French RnB hits of the early 00s.

Here's a starting point: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_de_chanteurs_de_RnB_francophones

# ¿ May 21, 2015 12:31

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Sounds like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQuEqwQ2I4

# ¿ Jun 19, 2015 11:07

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

I love that none of the proposals so far, except the last, have been techno

# ¿ Jul 26, 2015 22:42

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

The Leck posted:

I swear I've heard the melody from the chorus to Bitterblue by Cat Stevens somewhere before. Starting from about 0:15 to 0:35. Any thoughts on something that has a vocal melody sounding like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7oZ5THKdj8

Sounds like Scissor Sisters if they used a guitar in place of a piano

# ¿ Sep 10, 2015 09:31

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Probably Don Giovanni, the statue of the commendatore?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYjqz7nToY&t=9600s

# ¿ Oct 18, 2015 09:06

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Wheat Loaf posted:

Can anyone tell me what song the snippet Beyonc� sings halfway through this video is from? I'm sure I recognise it from somewhere.

The lyrics are from her own D�j� vu

# ¿ Oct 18, 2015 18:15

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

I'm thinking The Prodigy - Breathe (ca 0:55)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teikt7l96u4

# ¿ Nov 9, 2015 09:38

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Army of Lovers?

# ¿ Jan 21, 2016 11:09

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Is it Portishead - Machine Gun?

# ¿ May 13, 2016 00:09

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Can anyone help me identify the background track from Extra Gear episode 4, starts about 10 minutes in and plays for a good minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXfPZCM0tJY&t=578s

# ¿ Jun 23, 2016 10:17

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

It's probably this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B32yjbCSVpU

# ¿ Sep 2, 2016 19:49

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Synthetic Hermit posted:

The guitar tone in this one is really close. Needs a bit less energy, though.

I need to emphasize the "no emotion" part. The singing barely qualifies as singing. It's like a sermon, with the only variance happening in the upbeat chorus. And as for the melody of that hook, this is the closest example that I can think of right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk

Oh I know now it's definitely this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

# ¿ Sep 4, 2016 08:00

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

How about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sPUpKGI1Z4

# ¿ Dec 6, 2016 12:29

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Stinky_Pete posted:

Hi, I've been listening to a lot of They Might Be Giants, and in this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ4J-jvDAuQ

the melody for

When you're following an angel
Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building?
Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead
Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things

sounds really familiar. Can anyone tell me where else that melody is used?

It made me think of Men At Work - Down Under

# ¿ Feb 22, 2017 21:41

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Tenterhooks posted:

Looking for a song based entirely on the music video - I was at the gym and saw it on a screen that was far away. I was wearing headphones so couldn't hear anything but it looked like it'd be pop / chart within the last 5 years.

As far as I could tell, the video features a girl with black hair singing / dancing in the street during the daytime. She's wearing a red skirt (maybe shorts) at the start and a red dress that she swishes around with her dancing at the end. There might've been backing dancers in some / all of the scenes too. Bright, cheerful, not particularly edgy. The main reason I remember it is that I thought it looked like a Carly Rae Jepsen video that I hadn't seen before and, being a big CRJ fan, I thought it'd be easy enough to look up when I got home.

Checking YouTube, it doesn't seem like it's one of hers and now I'm wondering what the hell it was. I expect it's bad but, y'know, it's bugging me.

Was it this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmYT79tPvLg

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 19:15

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Adimeadozen posted:

I've tried looking for a song every so often- it came up on my friend's Spotify, and we had a "wait is that..." moment- we looked at the name, promptly forgot about it and didn't think about it for a week or so and since then, it's like it never existed.

So as best as I could tell it was a cover of the River Lullaby song from Prince of Egypt or had a very very similar but slowed down melody, except with a male singer and in German. It came up in a spotify channel full of german rock and metal if that helps?

It's not this, is it?

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

# ¿ May 27, 2017 04:35

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

This isn't it, I just wanted an excuse to post the track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_EfzgW9T1k

# ¿ Aug 1, 2017 11:10

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

lllllllllllllllllll posted:

Hm, bit of a guilty pleasure: Dry techno music, a European, possibly German artist using his actual name, the album (or the first track) is called pilot (or pilots?). The CD's cover has an airliner in black and white on it. Less than ten years old and definitely on youtube (not Kalkbrenner). Thought it was easy to find this again, but no such luck.

Is it this? Oliver Schories:

# ¿ Jan 17, 2018 13:31

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UskDupcLM0M

# ¿ Feb 6, 2018 21:27

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

I'm also hearing a little "Nothing Else Matters"

# ¿ May 5, 2018 11:22

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 01:51

wayfinder: Jul 7, 2003

Kristneder posted:

Can someone help me identify this piece of music?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9i2tfswkjp47vct/unknown_music.wav?dl=0

Sorry about the bad quality. The original segment had a lot of voiceover that I tried to remove.

Shazam and Soundhound couldn't find it.

Take your pick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

# ¿ Jun 10, 2018 18:51

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