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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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
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
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!
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 ended up having to recreate it from memory in a DAW and used Google Assistant to identify it
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)
YOOO, that is genius!
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.
Usually some soul-jazz post-bop joint but I can never figure out if it’s Cannonball Adderley or Lee Morgan.
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 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.
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.
Early 00’s I used to listen to my brothers playlist on Windows Media Player. One of the songs was a gloomy/trance(?) remix of classical music. He had named it (something) Beethoven mix.
On multiple occasions I tried searching for it. Both the mix and the original song to make the search easier. But since I’m not at home with classical music I couldn’t figure out either of them. Not sure if it even was one of Beethovens pieces.
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
