ace_garp ,
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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

anosym ,

20 days later and this is my favorite song currently. Thank you.

SwingingTheLamp ,

Years ago, I downloaded a relaxed-tempo, acoustic version of "Everlong" by the Foo Fighters, that was fantastic. I lost it when my stupid, proprietary NAS decided to re-initialize both RAID disks. I've searched repeatedly, but all that ever comes up is Dave Grohl's solo performance on The Howard Stern Show.

tal ,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everlong

Although the song is normally performed with electric guitars, vocalist/guitarist Dave Grohl's solo acoustic variation gained popularity after an impromptu rendition on Howard Stern's radio show in 1998.[19] The band has performed it acoustically since then and an acoustic performance concludes their 2006 live CD and DVD Skin and Bones. Additionally, an acoustic version was released on Foo Fighters' 2009 Greatest Hits album.

The very first hit I get on YouTube is for the Greatest Hits version. Is that it?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AAMgHB-1_Fo

SwingingTheLamp ,

Thanks, no, that's not quite it. I remember that it was slightly swing-y, with a bit of a Postmodern Jukebox feel. I'm pretty sure it was the Foo Fighters, but it occurs to me that maybe it was a cover by another group, but I'd have no idea who.

tal ,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Skin and Bones

This is the Skin and Bones one, but that's live, and I assume that you'd have probably remembered if it were live.

EDIT: Oh, I see what you mean. There are about a million acoustic covers of Everlong on YouTube done by other people.

SwingingTheLamp ,

Well, got-damn! You have inspired me to continue looking again, and here it is: Foo Fighters - Everlong (Live on 2 Meter Sessions, 1999)

tal ,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Congrats!

leds ,

Rest of the 2 Meter sessions are also worth a listen!

MenschlicherFehler ,

A pretty famous song from the 80s. I only remember the intro, which sounds similar to the intro of "Take my breath away" by "Berlin". Just a bass, going Dum Dum - Dum Dum. I know nothing else, not even if the singer is male or female. Tried to find it a few times, no luck.

udon OP ,

Probably wrong, but these two bangers roughly fit the description:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKhN1t_7PEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGUboLZx3Tk

MenschlicherFehler ,

Nope. But thanks for trying! :D

Spire ,

Could it be A Different Corner by George Michael?

MenschlicherFehler ,

Sadly not. But thanks for trying!

jinarched ,
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A techno mix made with Super Mario bros. from the early 2000s most likely from Napster or Kazaa. It wasn't a melody from any of the Mario games, but it was constructed with sounds from it.

Brkdncr ,

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.

felixwhynot ,
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It might not have exactly what you want, but there’s a fun Collection of rave tapes on Internet Archive

mechoman444 ,

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.

victorz ,

Anne was impossible for me. But is Victim this one?

Victim (SE)

mechoman444 ,

Yes. I believe it is. I really don't like Spotify but it's better than nothing. Thank you.

tal ,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

I don't know what services you like, but "victim se" seems to turn up hits elsewhere. The "se" makes it unique enough.

https://www.beatport.com/artist/victim-se/1080119/tracks

victorz ,

My pleasure!

AceFuzzLord ,
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Was a song I hadn't heard for well over a decade. Bought a Blu-ray player from a thrift store. Whoever got rid of it forgot to sign out of Pandora, which was pre installed on it alongside some Blockbuster program of all things. Ended up using the account because I figured nobody would care (otherwise the original account owner(s) might try to unlink the account from the device if possible) and the song randomly came on. Happened maybe almost a year ago.

It was The Middle by Jimmy Eat World.

snapoff ,

Sometimes I randomly think of this song and then that album will be the only thing I listen to, on repeat for days. It’s just so damn good.

Scubus ,

It just takes some time

tigeruppercut ,
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There's a Kiwi reggae band called Fat Freddy's Drop, and I got the mp3s of their first album Based on a True Story from a friend not too long after it came out. Later I lost them on an old HD, and when I went to get the album again most of the songs were different versions, and noticeably worse than what I remember. I've been able to track down a few of the old versions over the years but not all of them.

Part of the difficulty is not knowing what the versions I first heard were. They didn't sound live so it's not as simple as trying to find concert versions. Trying to find a specific version of a song can be more frustrating than not knowing what a song is entirely :/

ThisIsNotHim ,
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As a kid I had heard Got my Mind Set on you by George Harrison on the radio once or twice.

A few years later when I was starting to listen to music for myself I heard the Weird Al parody, and wanted to track down the original. I didn't remember any lyrics to the original so the best I could do was accost people with a very poorly sung chorus of "this song is just six words long."

It didn't go well. I didn't find the original until the Internet had caught up enough for me to find it easily.

I had a similar arc with Downtown by Petula Clark. Thankfully without me trying to sing a parody chorus at anyone.

other_cat , (edited )
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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.

tal ,
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It was The Destruction of Laputa from Castle in the Sky.

Edit: Or it was Sora from Escaflowne.

"The Destruction Of Laputa"

"Sora"

sanguinepar ,
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For anyone in this position, don't forget !tipofmytongue - 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 :-)

udon OP ,

Nice, thanks for the tip

sanguinepar ,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

👍

dditty ,
@dditty@lemm.ee avatar

Nice! I remember before smartphones listening to a local alternative radio station and then not always saying the names of the tracks and artists, so I would write down lyrics and then Google them when I got home.

femtech ,

White rapper, has a music video with him in his apartment drinking a beer with a tv tray, ridding with P diddy in a limo, under an overpass i think, a line in the song about a girl thinking he was mack miller. Been unable to find the guy/music after i deleted my old google/youtube account years ago.

Imprudent3449 ,

YOU: What video had a white rapper riding around in a limo with P diddly?

ChatGPT: The video you're referring to is "White Walls" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Schoolboy Q and Hollis. In the video, Macklemore rides around in a limo with Sean Combs, commonly known as P. Diddy.

Well, CHATGPT tried.

javasux ,

https://youtu.be/eS2mfeo-Ues

I ended up having to recreate it from memory in a DAW and used Google Assistant to identify it

udon OP ,

damn, that is gold

udon OP ,

the intro reminds me of the ftl soundtrack:

https://youtu.be/fWlHjpKmvh8?feature=shared&t=4845 (this and the "zoltan" song)

Mango ,

YOOO, that is genius!

SwingingTheLamp , (edited )

Aww, yeah, I still have the MP3 file that I downloaded from MP3.com back in the day! Less drum machine in that old mix.

ETA: This is the other one of two tunes from that site that I still play often.

Mango ,

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.

BonesOfTheMoon ,

On an episode of CSI, Snakes, there's a great Hispanic song, something about "Corazon". I never have quite figured out what it is but I really dig it.

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