Kecessa ,

"Something something, hot hot (?) ta da da, something something, hot hoooooot"

Has been stuck in my head for months now!

(By the way, "something" is always the same word, song from the 80s/90s I think, just in case there's someone that can help 😂)

udon OP ,

could you narrow it down to a genre? :D

Kecessa ,

I would call it a summer song? Like the kind of song you'll hear a ton one summer and that will be pretty much it...

glimse ,

Do the melody on vocaroo

https://vocaroo.com/

Kecessa ,

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    glimse ,

    That sounds familiar...but the first song coming to mind is not very similar (and also newer - "Pretty In Possible" by Caroline Polachek)

    It'll think more about it today

    rowrowrowyourboat ,

    https://youtu.be/rkpG4XApJ28?si=k1XSftPTdyofGfej

    Sounds like "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo

    Kecessa ,

    Oh my God, fucking finally 😱

    Thank you!

    jinarched ,
    @jinarched@lemm.ee avatar

    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.

    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!

    Corno ,
    @Corno@lemm.ee avatar

    There was a song that played on the radio a really long time ago, I remember that someone had requested it, and I remember how it sounded, but not any of the lyrics. It sounded really heavenly, a woman with a highish voice was singing, and the song sounded really old fashioned but also kind of new at the same time. It sounded like nothing that would've played on the station it was playing on, it was actually kinda jarring in the best way possible. I wish I could find it!

    The best way I can describe it is that it had a really similar vibe to Les Fleur by Minnie Riperton, particularly the quieter parts. The singer would end their vocals in an "ahh" kind of sound.

    other_cat , (edited )
    @other_cat@lemmy.world avatar

    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 ,
    @tal@lemmy.today avatar

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

    Edit: Or it was Sora from Escaflowne.

    "The Destruction Of Laputa"

    "Sora"

    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!

    Sabata11792 , (edited )
    @Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

    I been trying to find one for a while. Its from a metal band and may be on a relatively new abum. I tried search, ai, looking though history and can't for the life of me find anything past a fragment of lyrics I can vaugly understand. I think IRS from a rather mainstream band but not one I'm familiar enough with.
    I don't remember enough and most of its hard to understand the lyrics are close in sound but likely wrong AF.

    Screaming:
    ... The more i see the less i feel. Reminding my self it not real...(no not Slipknot but its very similar sound to that lyric but Slipknot overwritten what I remembered since its sounds so damn close)

    A slower section of the song, a whispery voice sings something along the lines of:

    "...can you feel me from the side lines, friend"

    May have been ~can you see me in the (spotlight or distance) friend.

    Skua ,

    She's a Star by James. The only part I could remember was the "star" part of the chorus, which is not exactly an easy lyric to decipher when you hear it on a supermarket radio. Eventually I found it by buying a James CD and running into that track by chance

    observantTrapezium ,
    @observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca avatar

    I had the tune to Men of Harlech stuck in my head for almost 20 years, then I randomly watched a video about Wales that used it, and I was able to make the connection from there.

    Jackthelad ,

    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.

    wandermind , (edited )

    Also Conquest of Paradise for me! I had the tune randomly pop up in my head for well over a decade, probably close to two, without having any idea what it was. Every few years I tried finding out what it was, but to no avail. Online melody searches weren't that good, and when I hummed the melody to people or played it on the piano, people either had no clue or, at best, were like "that sounds familiar but I have no idea what it is". I even toyed with the idea that I had come up with the melody myself, though I did find it unlikely.

    I can't describe the happiness I felt when I finally discovered the actual song when I once again tried finding it, this time by humming into Google's music search thing

    udon OP ,

    Besides not finding the song, I was very sure it was played in a key scene in a weird fantasy movie/show I watched as a kid. Found the song but not the movie, yet

    Num10ck ,

    wasnt it the main theme of 1492?

    udon OP , (edited )

    Yes, but I specifically remember a scene in a mordor-like setting. A witch/queen kind of character is sitting in a carriage that is part of a longer caravan with her servants. Some dude (maybe the main character?) talks to her, tries to convince her that being good is good. But she denies, drives away with her entire caravan, end of movie.

    I don't think that would happen in a movie about discovering America?

    To be fair though, I was maybe ~8 at the time and might have mixed a few things together. So maybe that movie doesn't even exist

    j4k3 , (edited )
    @j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

    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.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZCCT8Cv62M

    ThisIsNotHim ,
    @ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz avatar

    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.

    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.

    Aggravationstation ,

    Took me years to find Ievan polkka

    udon OP ,

    Ah, the good old "girl randomly spinning a leek" song

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMrfBa_848I

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