I would also be curious to hear how you eventually found it again!
One to start: Conquest for paradise by vangelis. Just randomly woke up one morning with the song plus title in my head
For anyone in this position, don’t forget [email protected] - maybe someone can help identify what you’re after.
On the Other place, one of my favourite time killers was to go through the various subs devoted to identifying music/movies/books/etc based on small clips, screenshots or even just descriptions.
Don’t think there are equivalents on Lemmy, but TipOfMyTongue can kind of serve that purpose :-)
Nice, thanks for the tip
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Old rave music mixtapes.
I had a tape labeled as “sluggo vs urban: annihilation” that I simply loved to death. The tapes are long gone and I never found the artists/DJs again.
It might not have exactly what you want, but there’s a fun Collection of rave tapes on Internet Archive
I remember listening to a metal song while I played my Xbox 360 back when i was in high school. Even back then I never knew the title since I stole it from my sister’s computer. Recently I’ve been racking my head against the wall trying to find it again and I kept googling one lyric I remember but it coming up as Purple Rain by Prince which was way off from the songs genre. I tried everything from trying to recreate the song on the piano, asking friends, googling and more googling. Eventually I just gave up until I watched a youtube video about metal songs without the metal. And, by PURE COINCIDENCE the song was in the video.
It was Walk by Pantera.
Oh, good song!
My main electronic music growing up was Hard-Trance and then DnB, but we had a friend who DJed House/Big Beat and he would drop this feelgood banger that would get us smiling.
Lost the name of it for about 7 years before someone knew what I was talking about, then I forgot the name for about another 10 years before getting it again.
Will never forget it now.
Tune was only known to us as the ‘RingKingKing song’ Link here
14 years ago when I was still relatively young and liked clubbing, a song popped up and swept all the playlists in my country. Clubs, radio stations, you name it. Catchy French song. It came and went so fast that I didn’t manage to memorise it. That was long before I even dreamed of having a smartphone. When I moved to UK a year later, nobody had any idea what song I’m trying to describe, like they never heard it.
Probably around 8 years ago I was roaming the streets of Porto with my ex, and a shop we passed had the song blasting from the speakers. Praise the smartphones, I used ‘what’s the song’ app and et voila: Stromae - alors on danse
I ended up having to recreate it from memory in a DAW and used Google Assistant to identify it
YOOO, that is genius!
damn, that is gold
the intro reminds me of the ftl soundtrack:
https://youtu.be/fWlHjpKmvh8?feature=shared&t=4845 (this and the “zoltan” song)
It took me like a million years to find Brainbug - Nightmare (Sinister Strings Mix) because I had only heard it in a oddball movie trailer and the song wasn’t used anywhere in the movie.
When I was a young teen, one of my friends gave me a floppy disk of midi song files she liked a lot but they mostly had names like “ANIME 2” so I had no idea where they came from. There was one on there I was particularly obsessed with but could never find. Then one serendipitous day, I did. It was The Destruction of Laputa from Castle in the Sky.
Edit: Or it was Sora from Escaflowne. There’s been a few times I heard an instrumental or non-English song with no source to go off of.
There’s a particular mix or mashup of ‘The Hanging Tree’ with some absolutely magical and trance inducing vocal chops. I’ve spent a buyer’s remorse amount of time searching for it with no prize.
It’s so good. Hearing it felt like being sucked off. Pls someone help.
I got lucky in a sad way recently with discovering a song I’d had stuck in my head.
It was “Peter Gunn” by Duane Eddy, and I finally got the name of the song but only because of the news of his death.
Usually some soul-jazz post-bop joint but I can never figure out if it’s Cannonball Adderley or Lee Morgan.
There’s this one blues song that had a line about a “sweet little thing” by a guy down in Louisiana doing this southern rock style blues. I liked the song in a situationship that ended weird, quit using the streaming service I discovered the song with, and now I can’t remember enough to find it.
Edit:
Tab Benoit "Little Girl Blues"
I tried plugging it in to the Mixtral 8×7B I have up right now and got it, or at least the name of the artist was right:
Question: There was a song I really liked that was from a guy down in Louisiana that sang in a bayou blues meets southern rock style. The chorus and maybe even the name of the song was something about a “sweet little thing”. I first heard it on Spotify around 2017. I remember looking up the guy’s name and he was touring around the USA at the time. Do you have any idea who I’m talking about?
Factual answer: The song is likely “Sweet Little Thing” by Tab Benoit, a blues musician from Louisiana known for his bayou-influenced sound. He has been actively touring in the United States since at least 2017. This information aligns with your description of the artist and song.
Not a song per say. But vague over used band names.
I’m really into synthwave right now and there are two artists I want to listen to. 1. Victim 2. Anne.
Good luck searching for these artists.
Anne was impossible for me. But is Victim this one?
Yes. I believe it is. I really don’t like Spotify but it’s better than nothing. Thank you.
My pleasure!
I had one like that a while back. I’d heard the song on Pandora a few times and liked it, but it was just background music while i was working. The tune was catchy, but I couldn’t remember the lyrics at all. I tried humming it into sound hound and stuff, but to no avail.
Finally my wife was playing Pandora when I came home from work and it was on.
Welcome Home, Son - Radical Face
Back in the late nineties I had the reverse problem. I heard a cover of Bakers Street by the Foo Fighters on an independent radio station. I knew it was from a Japanese version of The Colour and the Shape, but no one had the CD. (Actually it was the UK version of the single My Hero, but either I misheard or the DJ was wrong. No wonder I couldn’t find it.) Then, Napster happened. I’ve still got that song somewhere on an old HDD, in all its 128 Kbps glory
Creative use of search engines and possible lyrics have helped chip away at most of my list over the years. But two tough ones have been bouncing around my head since the early 90s.
One was a rap song I remembered from the radio with a really catchy hook. Then a few years ago during a birthday party the hook was suddenly just there blaring from the speakers, so I grabbed for my phone to search the audio. People yelled at me to put it away and keep dancing, but only I knew what was at stake! The song that was playing was Wilfredo Vargas - Abusadora, although clearly that’s not even remotely rap. But knowing that title, it wasn’t long before I found the song from my memory, which had sampled it. It turns out the original song is much better.
The second one was even more elusive, but it kind of nagged at me because even as a kid I had a sense of how massively popular this Spanish-language song was, so it felt like this one should be easy to find. But just a year or two ago I heard it blaring from the speakers while walking past a restaurant! Again with the audio search, I managed to identify it as Kaoma - Lambada and, whoops, my memory was wrong and it wasn’t even Spanish! But I was right about it being massively popular — plus the song has been widely covered, remixed and sampled (and even that popular version was itself a cover). Except none of this would have helped because the part of the song I thought was catchy was clearly not the iconic hook melody that everyone knows, so humming it for people never helped anyone get close to the answer.
