I would like to find more songs with lyrics that express life philosophies in terms of food.
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posted by phunniemee
on May 24, 2011 -
41 answers
Music filter - heard a song I liked and only caught snippets of the lyrics, "winter wonderland", "wanted to hold your hand", and "beers". Help?!
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posted by Acer_saccharum
on May 12, 2011 -
6 answers
what song is this? synthpop-sounding, melodic and upbeat but slightly melancholic as well. from what i can remember of the chorus may have been something about "rosanna" (not TOTO!). more vague descriptors within...
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posted by austere
on Apr 29, 2011 -
5 answers
Help me find songs about love or close friendship that contain lyrics about something other than the
feeeeeelings the couple has for each another.
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posted by Gori Girl
on Apr 28, 2011 -
54 answers
I would like to display Karaoke lyrics over a
live webcam feed. This means I might need a skype (or equivalent) plugin that plays the music & lyrics,
or find some karaoke software with the ability to display lyrics over a transparent background. (That is, to have windowless karaoke display, and run the webcam feed behind it. )
All the software (I can find) to play
.CDG (karaoke lyric standard) files forces them to be played with an image background, or over a video file.
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posted by 0bvious
on Mar 10, 2011 -
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Again moved by the shimmery beauty of Broken Social Scene's "Market Fresh", after not listening to it for a long time, I decided to look up the song lyrics. I'm interested in people's interpretation of them..
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posted by robobrent
on Mar 6, 2011 -
4 answers
Can you help me find a recording of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" with the ORIGINAL original lyrics?
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posted by foursentences
on Dec 25, 2010 -
6 answers
The Books have a song called "
Free Translator" (
YouTube link) in which the somewhat nonsensical
lyrics started out as a "very well known folk song", but were passed through free web translators again and again until they became something completely different. Does anyone know/can anyone figure out what the original song was? It will be harder than it sounds. The answer does not appear to be on the internet yet...
posted by PercussivePaul
on Dec 6, 2010 -
13 answers
Help me find the lyrics to the song
Les abeilles by Léo Delibes (1836-1891).
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posted by Omon Ra
on Nov 23, 2010 -
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This is incredibly vague, but metafilter is equally helpful for stuff like this! I heard a song with a male singer and the chorus was something like "I want to hear a symphony" and then how he wanted more out of life or a relationship.
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posted by shortyJBot
on Nov 10, 2010 -
6 answers
What is the meaning of the lyrics in Nat King Cole's "Straighten up and fly right?"
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posted by binturong
on Jul 28, 2010 -
6 answers
I'm looking for references to (and especially celebrations of) smart girls in music.
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posted by troika
on Jul 20, 2010 -
33 answers
Name-that-song filter. Male singer, lyrics (I think) contain the line: "as big as Saskatchewan, you're never going to see me again." Any ideas? Not much more inside, I'm afraid.
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posted by the cat's pyjamas
on Jul 20, 2010 -
4 answers
What is the song from the 1960s or so with the funny male name in it? I was explaining to some friends the other day that when I was a kid I thought Simon & Garfunkel was one guy, Simon N. Garfunkel - a funny name like that funny man's name in some song from around the same time (sixties or seventies, but it could have been a fifties song). I can't think of the name or the song, though. Anyone?
posted by tamaraster
on Jun 15, 2010 -
22 answers
[Geezer Filter:] Help me dredge up the name of a rock ballad from around 1969-1970?
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posted by crayon
on Jun 4, 2010 -
16 answers
Why can't I "hear" lyrics to songs? I know they're there, but I don't notice them the same way other people do.
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posted by circular
on May 22, 2010 -
25 answers
I love the Neil Young track "For the Turnstiles." It's a great performance of a great song. I walk around the house singing it, annoying my wife and frightening my children. But I've got to come to grips with the fact that I can't quite decipher whatever the literal meaning of the lyrics might be. Can you help me?
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posted by e.e. coli
on Dec 19, 2009 -
11 answers
What is the earliest known use of "baby" to address or refer to a lover in American song lyrics?
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posted by Joe Beese
on Sep 4, 2009 -
10 answers
60s song filter: We are trying to find the song from the 60s (?) that is about a car/motorcycle crash. The song has singing and a narrative part if memory serves. At one point the girl screams: "Lookout! Lookout! Lookout! Lookout!"
posted by Drasher
on Jul 12, 2009 -
16 answers
Country Song-ID help: very little to go on. A friend was in
a bar in Nashville last weekend, and wants to ID a song she heard (DJ, not live music). The only lyric she remembers is "stay off my hit list". Not much to go on, I know. I assume it's a recent song, but can't guarantee that. Googling hasn't helped. Thanks for any help you can give!
Hmm..posting at 7:30 on July 3rd might not be the best idea. Oh well.
posted by inigo2
on Jul 3, 2009 -
2 answers
What are those Bulgarian women singing about? I love listening to Bulgarian women's choir music, such as this piece
here. However, I haven't been able to find lyrics or even descriptions of what they're singing about (in general, not just this particular song). Anyone have a clue?
posted by zachawry
on Jun 30, 2009 -
4 answers
I'm trying to find a song I heard a couple of years ago on public radio. All I remember is that it was maybe folk/bluegrass, and it was a guy singing about the red-headed woman that he loved, but in the end he revealed that she was a red-head from all the blood pouring over her blond hair.
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posted by ictow
on Jun 29, 2009 -
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Just a fun one (though I am serious in asking it): What one question would you ask Elvis Costello? I'll see him at a thing on Monday, want to ask a great question. I like him a lot, have some ideers, but surely the Hive Mind can come up with at least one question that's Beyond Belief.
posted by ambient2
on Jun 21, 2009 -
42 answers
My wife has become infatuated with a learned pig from long ago, and now wants to play a historical song from 1785 honoring it on the piano, but we have only a fragment of the full song. Where might I find the full score?
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posted by benzenedream
on Jun 12, 2009 -
12 answers
Ethiopia/Amharic Filter: I created a vacation video of my trip to Ethiopia and used the song,
Mekeyershin Salawq by the famous Ethiopian singer Alemayehu Eshete. What is the song about? (Link to song inside)
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posted by cptspalding
on May 25, 2009 -
1 answer
Name-That-Tune Filter: uptempo pop/rock, female vocalist, and the hook contains the lyric "I just wanna know, where did she go?" Or something like it…
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posted by Metroid Baby
on Apr 8, 2009 -
7 answers
Name-this-song-filter: Soft, acoustic, Augustana-esque song with vague descriptions of lyrics.
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posted by Phire
on Mar 30, 2009 -
3 answers
In "Thunder Road", the lyric "Roy Orbison singing for the lonely, hey that's me and I want you only, don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again" can be interpreted differently depending on where you break the line, before or after the word "only".
Is there a name for this particular poetic device? Do you know of other examples?
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posted by griffey
on Mar 7, 2009 -
8 answers
