0ops ,

I remember hearing this song all the time on the radio when I was younger, of course I started hearing it less and less. After probably 7 or 8 years of not hearing the song once I caught the very end of it on a rock radio station. I was like "oh wow I remember this song". I tried to Shazam it but it ended right then, and I didn't know any of the lyrics. I tried humming it to my brother, no dice.

Probably a year or two later I hear it on the radio again (my local radio kinda stinks so I don't listen often). "Oh shit this is it". Go to Shazam it, song ends. "Fuck". This happened no joke like two or three more times over the next year or two, but then I finally got it: No one knows - Queens of the Stone Age

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.

Sabata11792 , (edited )
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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.

fiat_lux ,

A song evaded me for maybe 5 or 6 years once. I ended up having this same conversation about evasive songs with someone and did my best at an impression, because it's instrumental.

"Doo-d' Doo Doo, Doodoo Doo, Doo-d' Doo Doo, Doodoo Doo..."

The person I was talking to instantly said it was Eple - Röyksopp, and was entirely correct.

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

everett ,

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.

guyrocket ,
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Isn't there a way to find songs by inputting a melody? I thought that was a thing...

ETA: yes, it is a thing on several sites: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=find+song+by+melody&ia=web

udon OP ,

Question is how much of the melody you remember, how the interface to the service works and whether that fits your purpose, and how reliable it is. And of course, how distinct the tune even is.

verity_kindle ,
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"In The Meantime" by Chris Knight

HubertManne ,
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I still haven't found a british 80's rock song that had a pretty popular music video about a kid that grows up into a punk and disapoints his parents. "get on off to school, your son will grow up to be a fool" "hey mama, hey papa, im 19 now. handsome tall and strong" "why the hell do you look at me as if to say what went wrong". have used search and it was one of the things I did to test the limits of ai awhile back. I should check to see if the new chatbot versions can do better.

Spire ,

That's Bad Boys by Wham!

HubertManne ,
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oh man that is totally it. not sure why it was so hard for me to find as its not like wham is unknown. I thought it was from a must more esoteric group like the one that did the heavy heavy monster song

Nemo ,

"Sol Clap" by Quantic

Came up in my Spotify suggested and I was like "I know this song!"

RanchOnPancakes ,
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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByV9eCikkaU

fiat_lux ,

Now there's something I haven't heard in a million years. Thanks for helping me rediscover it!

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 ,
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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.

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!

    SirSamuel ,

    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

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