Church Lyrics filter: Help me find old Catholic Church music with Latin lyrics (with English translations) about about smiting the Devil. [more inside]
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey on Dec 13, 2009 - 5 answers

Looking for lyrics to the traditional piano song 'Remembrance' [more inside]
posted by Paragon on Dec 9, 2009 - 4 answers

The song Gimme Sympathy by Metric has a line: "After all of this is gone, who'd you rather be; the Beatles or the Rolling Stones." What would you interpret that to mean? [more inside]
posted by Lorc on Dec 5, 2009 - 26 answers

Argh! Please help me figure out this song fragment stuck in my head based on a clue or two. [more inside]
posted by Solon and Thanks on Nov 24, 2009 - 7 answers

Please help me ID a song from the 80's! [more inside]
posted by bookmammal on Oct 24, 2009 - 3 answers

Does anyone know the lyrics to Sir Smoke A Lot's rap song from Half-Baked? [more inside]
posted by leecohen on Sep 16, 2009 - 7 answers

Blur's Parklife. Huh? [more inside]
posted by Mountain Goatse on Sep 3, 2009 - 15 answers

What's the name of this possibly 1970s adult contemporary FM radio hit? [more inside]
posted by judomadonna on Jul 18, 2009 - 5 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

I'm trying to trace a song with the word "Electroencephalograph" or "Electroencephalogram" in the lyrics [more inside]
posted by Dub on Jun 30, 2009 - 11 answers

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? [more inside]
posted by benzenedream on Jun 12, 2009 - 12 answers

Was there a song with lyrics that rhymed 'Marx and Lenin' with 'stonewashed denim'? If I'm not imagining it, the song would probably date from the late '80s or early '90s. I'm thinking the band/singer was British, and was likely to have fallen somewhere under the alternative / indie umbrella. [more inside]
posted by misteraitch on May 4, 2009 - 4 answers

OldSongFilter: Help me find a song from my childhood! [more inside]
posted by Spyder's Game on Apr 23, 2009 - 9 answers

Name-this-song-filter: Soft, acoustic, Augustana-esque song with vague descriptions of lyrics. [more inside]
posted by Phire on Mar 30, 2009 - 3 answers

What song is this? In a song by the Butthole Surfers, there is an a capella break (with the eventual addition of a base drum) where Gibby is singing in a very rhythmic style reminiscent of an old blues number, and the lyrics at this point include "glory hallelujah" as the main refrain with an occasional rejoinder of "make you glad to see me" and possibly "Jesus is a monkey" or "the Lord is a monkey". [more inside]
posted by idiopath on Mar 9, 2009 - 13 answers

[Name-that-tune-Filter] Looking for the name and/or general translation of a Danish song my mother learned from friends as a child. [more inside]
posted by blueberry on Feb 6, 2009 - 5 answers

What in the world is Bruce Willis singing about in "Coming Right Up"? Sulfur preparation?? [more inside]
posted by arniec on Jan 6, 2009 - 4 answers

Russian-speaking mefites, could you please help me with the lyrics to this Manul (aka Pallas Cat) Song? [more inside]
posted by notquitemaryann on Dec 19, 2008 - 3 answers

When were the popular lyrics to Taps written? [more inside]
posted by cider on Jun 26, 2008 - 2 answers

What song is this? I only have the first line of the lyrics. "When you can't hold on and your will is mostly gone" or something like that. It's in 3/4 time, medium-slow soulful ballad, male singer...
posted by bingwah on Jun 11, 2008 - 17 answers

What song is this? Ethereal and moody vocals (not quite spy, not quite gothic, but leaning ecletic), jazz rock background, sounds a bit like early Goldfrapp, or Morphine, or maybe even Darling Violetta. (All pretty approximate.) Very rough lyrics: I call you Tracy, You get along, You lovely... sing me your song. I call you darling, I know it's strong. I bet... ...and on. Show goes on. Show goes on. I call you ... ... I call you Liza B. I wish I could see That maybe it's only my dream. It's only my dream. Show goes on. Show goes on. I miss... ...queen of bees (beasts?). That honey Suzie, bewitched by me. I think you're... what else can be? ... ... Be my promise breaker, ... delusion maker, ... I wish I could see, It's only my dream. Show goes on, The show goes on.
posted by brownbat on May 28, 2008 - 21 answers

ObviousFilter: What current hip-hop song has a chorus that goes "I'm rich, can't help the money I spend, (something something) car I'm driving..."? [more inside]
posted by kidsleepy on Dec 14, 2007 - 6 answers

Here we go again: partial lyric, name the song. The phrase "I'm a cyberspace commuter" is repeated several times. The chorus goes something like "ooh-ooh then I see you smile, and everything's fine... Ooh-ooh then I look at the sky and I see the sun shine" [more inside]
posted by nanojath on Sep 26, 2007 - 9 answers

Did I imagine this song from the 80's? [more inside]
posted by dersins on Jul 31, 2006 - 9 answers

My late grandfather (1916-2000) wrote a couple dozen pages of memoirs which he preceded with some untitled & unattributed verses which I suppose are either song lyrics or lines from a doggerel poem. No-one in the family recognizes them, and the subsequent pages cast no light on them. I'm curious to know their origin, but have had no success in finding them on-line. [more inside]
posted by misteraitch on Jan 5, 2006 - 6 answers

Has anyone heard this (incredibly strange) song before? (Lyrics only.) [more inside]
posted by Jofus on Nov 17, 2005 - 9 answers

"...find someone else to beg..." This is a lyric from a song that last.fm played for me just as I was leaving yesterday. I couldn't get it to show me the title (server and browser troubles) nor did Google or lyrics.* have anything for that phrase. It sounded somewhat like Semisonic, but I'm not sure. Any ideas what this song might be? Don't make me beg.
posted by codger on Aug 5, 2004 - 5 answers