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Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004
It's time I admit defeat. I had three songs I was going to ask about here, but after more careful listening I picked out the strains of "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" and dug up Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" for one of them (I was actually looking for this). WinAmp's Auto-Tag feature got me Jamiroquai's instrumental "Wolf In Sheep's Clothing" for the other. This last one, though, is kicking my rear end.

In December of 2009, I was doing some construction work in the basement of a house while another crew worked on the first floor. Their radio was tuned to some Spanish language station I'm not familiar with, and I found myself nodding my head to a catchy song that was playing. I had a little point and shoot camera on me, and recorded what I could of it: http://www.mediafire.com/?xfl2ltk9tiutigm

You'll hear handling noise occasionally as I fidget with the camera, but I tried my best to keep quiet and stay still. I'd have moved to a better spot, but I didn't know how long the song was and didn't want even more shuffling sounds to potentially drown out the ending. There's a very loud, metallic clanking starting at :55, and periodic sounds of footsteps and hammers throughout, so if you listen to the file, be careful turning the volume up.

Not being an audio expert, I've left the file unprocessed beyond extracting the AAC track from the video and converting it to MP3 for wider compatibility. I spent some time fiddling with the audio in Audacity, but beside finding the filtering didn't much help the sound, I realized the bigger problem is that I don't speak Spanish terribly well. And just my luck, the section with the least ambient noise is a guitar solo.

The lyric I keep hearing sounds like "oye cavarlo conmigo", but I get nothing in searches for that. I tried a Spanish rhyming dictionary, and didn't get anything when trying cazarlo, calmarlo, callarlo, caballo, or anything else that seemed like it might fit. Swapping "conmigo" with "contigo", and leaving off the "oye", didn't help either. The song could be about a woman hunting for the singer, or marrying him, or going horseback riding, I have no idea. If I could be sure of the lyrics, or if I could clearly hear the DJ starting at about 1:12, I'd probably be on my way to an answer, but no such luck.

I've been coming back to this every now and then over the past few years, but I keep coming up empty, and the melody is still stuck in my head. If anyone recognizes the tune, or speaks the language and can tell me what some of the lyrics are, I'd welcome the help.

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Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004
If not Emmy Rossum, I think that description also fits this version by The Bird & The Bee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvkp2QY4qEI

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Boat posted:

What the hell is that song that plays in all the old 1950s "this is how things will be in the future, this housewife is able to run her entire house on this nuclear reactor in the kitchen" type cartoons/info-things?

Probably Jack Beaver's "Workaday World":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHej-cvjso4

If not that one, you can probably find it in that user's other videos. Or the related videos, or just in a search for "Ren & Stimpy music"; there's quite a variety of famous old library music associated with the show.

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

justcola posted:

This song has been rattling around in my head for awhile. I think it's something to do with working, or Russia, or both. The song itself has a sort of rhythmic clanging throughout and I remember it being sang by a male with a high voice, perhaps. It's quite famous, I think, and I seem to remember it being on old bugs bunny stuff a bit.

Can't help with the second one, but is the first from Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjMHCzoneuM&t=60s

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Doctor Malaver posted:

I recently heard a house or lounge tune that was set to a male voice explaining music concepts and introducing instruments. The voice sounded like from some 50's educational tape. At one point, and maybe it was the chorus, he says something like "chin chin chk chk". Any ideas?

Club Des Belugas - Hip Hip Chin Chin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxmf2o3GotY

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Claeaus posted:

This is more "help me find a song similar to this sound"-request.

In KT Tunstall's new song Invisible Empire there is a very short weird intro before the song starts as can be heard in the first few seconds here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUGrnrr3WkE

That short part reminds me so much of some song (maybe from a game or something) but I can't put my finger on what exactly. Does this sound familiar to anybody else?

I may be reaching here, but the flute strikes me as vaguely resembling something from the Young Merlin soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOG9V-kN1T8

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Howmuch posted:

I just found a CD a friend gave me around 10-15 years ago and its in bad shape. The first song plays up til around the minute mark and then its unplayable.
The problem is that it's a ripped CD with 16 tracks by a band I can't remember the name of ("something" trees I think and I think the band is from california).
I've tried four different song identifier programs and none of them seem to recognize it.
I managed to get a small part of the first song

OGG file on filedropper:
http://www.filedropper.com/whatsongisthis

I can't pretend to have recognized it off the top of my head, but "Come to me summer, I miss you my friend" got me one Google result, apparently it's "Outdoor" by Planting Seeds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WvosaAKKF8

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Earl of Lavender posted:

I found a short, 'Benny-Hillesque' track a year or two ago, in some video I can't remember. I think it was, at the time, referred to as 'khajiit.m4a', but it must be some generic music because I just heard it in the background of a home renovation show on TV.

I uploaded it here. Anyone know what it is?

That seems to be "Stink Bomb" by Brian de Mercia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZebTp_v4DGM

It was featured in this Gametrailers video from TGS '11, showcasing the Skyrim character creation features (while you're there, please do enjoy the fascinating variety of humorless dolts in the comments): http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/zjrega/elder-scrolls-v--skyrim-tgs-11--character-creation--cam-

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Curtis of Nigeria posted:

Anyone recognize the audio clip here? Wanna perform this at upcoming wedding, step for step.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0LIN1xs-nc

"Keep On Lovin' Me" by The Whispers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6aRvVTSC0I

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Network42 posted:

This is a real longshot I think, but here goes.

I'm looking for a song from a 60s or 70s bollywood film but have no idea of the title. I've seen the video on youtube but it was way back in the day. The video features a dude in a gold vest and boots singing and eventually playing the sax. It's a pretty funky song and features lots of sax from what I remember. Got nothing else.

I'm going to guess Solla Solla Enna Perumai:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWpABztwc3s

Another Youtube video says the clip is from Ellam Inba Mayyam. The film is apparently from 1981, but with the gold vest, gold boots, and saxophone I can only assume it's the one you're after.

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Methanar posted:

I'm looking for an orchestral song with a title written in latin that probably means something like light angels heaven crusade etc.

The style is very much like Two Steps from Hell with heavy use of piano, group chanting, 'soft' drums and maybe flute-like instruments. The song started off with a windy sound and chanting leading off to a definite crescendo fairly early on and generally very intense from that point on. Not much is said in terms of lyrics (in English at least) as far as I remember.

Corner Stone Cues is another of those "trailer music" projects, maybe check out their stuff if you get a chance. "Gloriana" sounds like it kinda sorta almost halfway if you squint your ears fits the description:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Ff9ne0DLA

If not that, you can find a few more tracks on Youtube, but apparently there's also a CSC presence on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/corner-stone-cues

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

NESguerilla posted:

During the verse there is a bass line that sort of sounds like "in bloom" by nirvana and the chorus breaks out in more of an epic indie rock sound for lack of a better description.

The rest of your description seemed to fit, but I wasn't sure about the bass line. I went looking for the video to embed, though, and it seems like people in the comments agree about In Bloom. I think you're after "10,000 Emerald Pools", by BØRNS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4GrDOOIIbk

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

dokmo posted:

I once heard a version of Herbie Mann's "Memphis Underground" with vocals on top, consisting of two guys talking and singing about the girls walking by and how fine they are. Not a new track, the singers were definitely contemporaneous with the Herbie Mann recording. The only line I remember is "that girl's as soft as doctor's cotton". This has proved so hard for me to find I wonder if it was all a dream. Searching on variations of "herbie mann" "memphis underground" "vocals" "duets" "doctor's cotton" has brought no joy. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

I figured maybe "doctor's" was something people might forget when recalling the lyrics, so I tried searching for "herbie mann "as soft as cotton"" and got one result saying it's called "It's a Funky Thing", also by Herbie Mann:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmuQ3yco6Kc

I can't find a good quality version of Part 2, unfortunately. Someone else has uploaded their own Record Player Captured By On Camera Microphone recordings of both, though: Part 1 Part 2

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Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Hatesandwich posted:

For about the past three weeks I've been looking for a song shmorky uses in some of his stuff
in that time I've found three things
firstly: that it's by scattered brain, a user on the forums that for the life of me I cannot loving find

A Google site search of the forums shows a few quoted posts by someone named Scattered Brain whose sources are now signed with the name "super fart shooter": http://forums.somethingawful.com/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=33601 There's no site listed in that profile, but they seem to still be active, so I imagine you could get in touch.

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Josh Lyman posted:

The verses in Taylor Swift's "New Romantics", the parts where theres an echo/choral backing, remind me of another semi-recent song that might be sung by a male.

It is not Bastille's Pompeii.

Sounds a little bit like Carly Rae Jepsen's "I Really Like You" to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV5lzRHrGeg

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Cemetry Gator posted:

Okay, so I heard Can's "Turtles Have Short Legs" and I swear to God I've heard this piano riff somewhere else. Like, it's instantly familiar, but nothing I can do can place it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my8T7hB992k

The song is relatively obscure and hasn't ever really been readily available. So it can't be that I've just heard the song somewhere else. It's driving me crazy.

I had the same thing with that riff a few days ago and it drove me crazy for a bit; it's the driving test music from PaRappa the Rapper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TsqCNy6UU0

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

WHY BONER NOW posted:

What is the name of the genre of music you hear in cyberpunk video games, like Deus Ex. Sort of a low key synth. I started playing Xcom: Enemy Unknown and the headquarters music is rad as hell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvMN89NSFb0

I'm not sure if it's called anything from a music theory point of view, but I believe that kind of stuff is typically referred to as "MOD" or "tracker" music, after the type of file format and sequencer used to create it, respectively:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
https://modarchive.org/

Whether or not it constitutes its own genre I couldn't say. Honestly the only examples of it I'm at all familiar with are the Unreal/UT/Deus Ex soundtracks, by Alexander Brandon et al.

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Scionix posted:

There is an alternative/pop rock song I am trying to find that I am pretty sure is 90's(?) but might be early 2000's.

It would show up on my third eye blind Pandora station. The singer has this really boyish, almost hoarse voice, and I'm pretty sure the song is about a girl being better or too cool for him or something.

I could have sworn it was matchbox 20 but it's not, apparently. I want to say the art that came with the song had a guy with a darker skin tone (like Arabic/Indian) on it but not 100% on that.

This is driving me insane

The first thing that comes to mind as far as I Wish I Could Date Her songs from that era, and that for some reason I was reminded of by "She's So High", is Vertical Horizon's "Everything You Want":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZoD8JEFjAE

Not so sure about boyish, but I think "almost hoarse" is a good way to describe that guy's voice. The band's appearance in this particular art also kinda makes their skin tones darker: https://goo.gl/images/WQ7TfD

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Marching Powder posted:

someone please help. i don't even know if it's the official music video but it's a dance track that i'm sure was quite well known and the video was these old dudes dancing roller skates i think at a venice beach. maybe the word 'star' is either in the name of the band or the track. sorry for the extreme vagueness but i thought something this esoteric would have been quite easily google-able but nah.

There's an old Diet Coke commercial with a bunch of people dancing on roller skates; they're young, but it's shot at a beach and set to the tune of Paul Oakenfold's "Starry Eyed Surprise":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmBDeswu2dI

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Ok, I'm trying to think of an 80s song, and it sounds a LOT like the Neutron Dance by the Pointer Sisters, but that's not it. It's sort of a mix between that and maybe Holiday Road by Linsdey Buckingham. It was from an 80s comedy, and I *think* the movie starred John Candy, but even looking that up, I can't find anything, or maybe I'm just missing it. Now that I think of it, maybe it was Chevy Chase.

I remember a high-pitched synth playing five notes, each higher than the last, the fourth one being the longest (like, "bah bah bah baaaaah-bup"), and that'd repeat over a beat that, again, sounded a lot like The Neutron Dance or Holiday Road.

EDIT: Another sound-alike to this mystery song is the theme to the show The Edison Twins. It's in that 'everyone's happy and it's the 80s and we're all using the same beat' genre.

This is a real stretch, and only vaguely matches in one or two ways, but at this point I can't resist: is there any chance you're remembering the "do do do doooooo"s from Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero"? It's in Who's Harry Crumb, toward the end when he's riding the stair truck at the airport:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DPZ7FVV-Js

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Nuclear War posted:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=640282039862995 anyone know the song playing as they make this weird little art piece? Its literally impossible to search by lyrics, and sound hound gave up so this is my last shot. My girlfriend and I really liked it.

The Facebook user in question has a Youtube channel and an Instagram account, both of which have the same or similar content as the Facebook page, but neither of which seems to use the same music. That, combined with the lack of search results for very clear, unique snippets of the lyrics, makes me think it's some generic, royalty-free track, the kind social media sites offer up for users to avoid copyright issues with their videos. Have you checked the Facebook Sound Collection? I don't have an account, so I can't access it, but if it's anything like the Youtube Audio Library I'd imagine they'll let you sort by genre, search by title, that sort of thing. I'm assuming this one's named either "Reckless" or "Love You Reckless", by the sound of it.

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Lester Shy posted:

Anybody know what (classical?) song the guitarist is quoting here at 1:38:58?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPya80o-xyA&t=5939s

George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynEOo28lsbc

I'm only kind of embarrassed to say I got this solely because it reminded me of the opening of The Critic, and someone in the Youtube comments pointed out the resemblance:

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

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

overnightmike posted:

I'm trying to remember a novelty/comedy song I heard once in the late 80's or early 90s.

The song is a minimalist beat with a man narrating a strange day over the top. The chorus is him telling you about a phone call he receives, where the person on the other end is talking in a language he doesn't understand. He repeats a string of nonsense words ('ooo boppa siggi boppa un sin bow' or something). I can't remember any details about the song except the rhythm and general words of the nonsense chorus. This has been stuck in my head for literally three decades.

I may be veering a little far into "suggest any novelty song with gibberish lyrics" territory here, it's hardly a perfect match, but memories can twist over the course of 30 years...any chance this is "Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang" by Monte Video and The Cassettes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQ3eKcE-Fo

Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

The Voice of Labor posted:

I would like to know the name of the band that did this song.

it's called I feel alive (I will survive). I found an aiff of it in my mp3 folder last night. it has no metadata, just a thumbnail of the album art that's too small to make out. I don't know where it came from, but it's been in there like 10 years.

https://voca.ro/14pFaYPduY1o

Based on the general vibe of that track's production I took a shot in the dark and tried googling "I feel alive" "I will survive" soundcloud, which brought me to the SC account of one Ultimo Gecko.

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Crackmaster
Feb 6, 2004

Yoshi Jjang posted:

Is there a way to search for posts in this thread that contained links? Searching for things like "tindeck" only yields posts with just the word Tindeck but wouldn't retrieve URLs containing tindeck.

Just checked this to be sure, and it looks like if you enter "url" or better yet "http" in the search box at the top of the page, between the bookmark and GO buttons, you get posts with the URL tag or untagged links, respectively. Not sure if it's all possible results, but there's at least a couple pages of stuff to look through, and it might be a good place to start.

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