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help identify song in lying trailer

kewlio — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:41:24 -0800

can you identify the song in the lying trailer see http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/lying/

I know I've heard this before...

wongcorgi — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:53:03 -0800

Please help me ID this older rap/hip-hop song. I grabbed a portion of this song yesterday and its been bugging me since then. I've tried Shazam, Midomi, but theres just too much foreground noise.

It's fairly old, say late 90s? The intro sounds like Junior Mafia's "Get money". I swear its a Notorious BIG song but I've dug thru his library and can't find anything.

This is the chorus, there are rap verses but my recording gets worse in quality.

zshare link (mp3 auto plays)

Baby making music

jadepearl — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:30:04 -0800

songfilter: I heard the fragment of a song years ago and it is a long shot. Hope me! I heard this song years ago like circa 1999-2000 in the bay area and thought it was by Janis Joplin but no dice on the phrase lyric, "I just want to make sweet love to you" Style is similar to R&B Blues of Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings and Joplin's Move on Over.

I am horrible in tracking down music and hope that the powers of the green are strong enough to provide artist and song.

What is this contemporary classical mozarella music?

stereo — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:30:11 -0800

What is the music in this video?I've had no success with Shazam, Melodyhound or Google.

Name this tune?

MaudB — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:39:42 -0800

What is this tune? That's a friend of mine singing a bit from a tune that's stuck in her head driving her crazy. She said she thinks it might be from TV of the past, maybe the Ed Sullivan show or Ernie Kovacs.

Help me identify this unnamed song

drid9ghots — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:18:56 -0800

Help me identify the artist & title of this song. Several months ago I was looking at morecowbell.dj and I came across this song http://www.morecowbell.dj/listen?id=qdgBI. Whoever posted the song failed to include the artist & song title. I'm fairly certain it's Damon Albarn from Blur but I've been unable to nail down anything specific. I've attempted to google the lyrics and even used Shazam on my iPhone to assist identifying the track but I believe the addition of the cowbell has sullied the track.

Walks like Sigur Rós, talks like Sigur Rós, but ain't Sigur Rós.

starzero — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:20:24 -0800

Help me id a piece of music from the Skins Season 2 DVD. I recently watched season 2 of Skins on DVD and I'm looking for a piece of music from episode 4 (Michelle). It's the scene with Sid and Michelle on the beach, in the original tv broadcast the song used for was Untitled 3 (Samskeyti) by Sigur Rós.

Due to licensing issues there's a lot of different tracks on the DVD release and I quite liked the replacement, unfortunately I wasn't able to find out what it is called, my research on several Skins forums and Google came up with nothing.

Here's the tune in question on YouTube

Help Identify a Song

codybaldwin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:30:22 -0800

Help identifying a (probably free/bumper music) song (is this even possible). The song can be found in two places:
http://homepage.mac.com/littlelovers/index.html?_startPage=37

and in Season 2 Episode 6 of 12 oz mouse:
http://www.tv.com/12-oz.-mouse/auraphull/episode/874838/summary.html

it plays during the credits, and is a slightly different version of the first link.

Can anyone help me identify the producer of this song?

Help me identify this music to strip to.

Sully — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:22:25 -0800

Please help me identify this old song. There are no vocals, but lots of trumpets. It's a smoky standard that they often play in the movies when there is stripping, like on a stage. I first heard it on an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, namely, the "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang" episode and they play it at minutes 1:15 to 1:44.

Through some more internet searching, I read that it is also used in the movie "Back to the Future Part II" during the "dance" scene, but not having a copy of B2TFP2, am not able to cross-identify it.

I have, however, turned the music from the DS9 episode into a small mp3 that I have posted at the site Yousendit for the next week. Here is the download link:
http://www.yousendit.com/download/TTZuYkJ0OW5Qb0ozZUE9PQ

Any help anyone could give me would be much appreciated.
I plan to do a striptease for my girlfriend come Valentine's Day, and wanted a "clean copy" of this song to play while I did it.

Cheers.

ID Canuck TV Theme

canoehead — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:18:48 -0800

Does anyone know the theme music for the Canadian Fashion TV show ? (you know , with Jeannie Becker). It was used thru the 90's, I'm sure it was taken from an exisitng tune. They didnt reply to my email about it.

Help me identify this song: instrumental violin hip-hop.

archagon — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:05:35 -0800

What is the song in this video? Sounds like some sort of string-based (violin?) instrumental hip-hop.

This ain't your Auntie Dennitsa's harvest song. (Or maybe it is.)

mykescipark — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:02:44 -0800

Bulgarian speakers: What song is this? It's the first song you hear: a beguiling Bulgarian modern folklore arrangement for soloist and orchestra. But what's the name of the song? If you can't make out the lyrics (I can't), check the announcer between 3:17 - 3:58 for clues. I've asked all the Bulgarian-music experts I know, and Radio Bulgaria ain't sayin'.

ID song from "iPhone in the enterprise" video?

Asymptote — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:16:16 -0800

What is the song used in the background of Apple's iPhone in the enterprise video? It's intensely familiar which is why I'm especially bugged about not being able to figure out what it is.

My first thought was that it was Digital Droo. I can't find any of his songs that match. Maybe I heard on Groove Salad.

If the direct link to the video above stops working, you can click on "Watch the video" on the left of side of this page.

Thanks!

Identify this concert/track for me!

Artw — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:30:03 -0800

On BBC Radio 6 a few days ago, probably sometime late at night or early in the morning in British time (I was listening in the afternoon in the US) they were playing a concert recording of an artist who’s volcal style resembled a less coherent Amy Winehouse. One of the songs used part of tchaichovskys Romeo and Juliet for a hook, and it was all mostly soul/R&B type music. Any ideas what it was?

BoomBox Behind The Music?

burnmp3s — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:21:02 -0800

Can you identify this music video about a boombox's rise to and fall from fame? I saw a music video on MTV's 120 Minutes and I can't remember the name of the band or the song. I probably saw it sometime between 1999-2002.

The video started with a band performing onstage along with a boombox. The crowd liked the boombox more than the band, and the boombox became famous. Eventually the boombox started partying too much, which I think culminated with the boombox falling into a hottub and eletrocuting itself. The boombox recovered and started a comeback tour. At the boombox's first show of the comeback tour, somehow the fire alarm went off, and as all of the people tried to run out they stopped and started dancing to the fire alarm.

The video was not animated or CG, it was an actual boombox in all of the scenes. I don't remember the style of music at all, but I think it possibly was a dance song because I don't remember there being any lyrics.

What is this song with the sample from "39 Steps"?

churl — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:48:20 -0800

I would love to know what song this is. [Direct Link to 4.7 MB mp3] [Caution at work, song gets louder] Google tells me that the words of the lyrics/voiceover narration are from the opening of 39 Steps, but I don't know which version (if any). It doesn't sound exactly like the Hitchcock version, but that's the only version I could find to watch online and compare it against.

It came to me on an unlabeled mix CD from a friend. However, by the time I listened to and asked him to identify this song, he had forgotten it. Pressed, he thought that the song might be called "Oregon Grinder" -- he definitely specified "Oregon" and not "Organ" -- and the band called "Fear of Little Men".

However, the only "Oregon Grinder" I could find was by Hank Jones (obviously wrong), and I listened through both albums by Fear of Little Men and it did not appear on either of them.

He gave me the CD about two years ago, so the song must be pre-2006. That is everything I know.

I don't want to have Jack Dangers nightmares...

ostranenie — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:43:10 -0800

What was this Meat Beat Manifesto song with a long voice sample talking about prison life? A long time ago, I had a cassette of MBM's "Storm the Studio," and the aforementioned song was on it. I lost it, or it was stolen, or something (long before CD burners became cheap enough for anyone to buy, or else, well, you know...) A while back I bought the CD version of Storm the Studio and it had every track I remembered from the tape on it except my favorite song - what was that all about?! And what was this song called? And which CD is it (really) on that I can order and listen to it over and over?

If it helps I remember the song titles were versions of each other like "God O.D. Part I" "God O.D. Part II, God O.D. Part III" and "Strap Down Part I," "Strap Down Part II" etc.,

If I remember right it also had a chorus of guy-voices shouting "gods of war! gods of war!" (or maybe it was "dogs of war! dogs of war!") toward the end of the song.

Two Easy Country Music Questions

Bugbread — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:16:38 -0800

Two easy country music questions: 1) What is the name of the genre/subgenre of country music playing in the background of this clip from a TV show? 2) What artists/albums are there of this type of country music? Yes, I know this is batshit simple, but I've read descriptions of country subgenres (cowboy, honky-tonk, bluegrass, new country, etc.), and I can't mentally match the text descriptions with the music.

I'm not looking for country music that pushes any boundaries or opens up new territory, nor for originators. I was raised in Texas, but my family was from the north, so we didn't listen to country at home, and neither did any of my friends. However, you'd hear it occasionally in stores/bars/offices/whathaveyou. Now I live in Japan, and I've got some nostalgia going. I'd like to listen to some plain ole country of this style, like what I imagine one would hear on a random country station. So I'm looking for good but typical country music, not historically important or cutting edge stuff.

(I tried googling the few lyrics I could hear, but I didn't get a single hit, so I suspect the music was written specifically for the show to avoid royalty payment needs. Also, the TV show's closing credits don't mention the artist, nor do discussions online about the music in the show)

Help Identify This Tune

Bugbread — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:53:54 -0800

I've heard the melody that starts at the 5:22 position in this clip a million times before, but I don't know where or what it is (skip to 6:20 to get at the really memorable and obvious point, as the tune starts building slowly). What is the name of the piece, and who is it by? (I see in the comments that someone is discussing a Godspeed You Black Emperor song, but I take it that's a piece used elsewhere in the segment, right?)

Find-a-song: answering machine messages over guitars!

wemayfreeze — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:37:33 -0800

Help me find this song which features a great number of answering machine messages over pretty guitars. Please? This song was put on an unlabeled mix for me years ago and I've been wonderin' wonderin' wonderin' ever since.

nobody did some great research in this AskMe into some of the numbers and people mentioned, which may not be necessary but which is worth quoting, anyhow:For the two phone numbers given without an area code, it seems the area code is 586, which is in Michigan:

First sample
"calling from....office..to give you the dates of the test": 758-0390 -- a cardiologist's office

Middle bit from Bob Nelson: 264-2300, Bethesda Church, where "Bob/Phyllis Nelson" are in charge of "Senior Ministries."
Thanks!

What (movie) theme is this?

codger — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:12:19 -0800

What (movie) theme is this? What is this? (mp3 link on zshare)

Somebody's going to know this within the first two notes, if not the very first one. I heard this in Tezaab (around 2:27 when Munna turns himself in) and I know it's an easily recognizable theme.

For some reason Brando came to mind, but I tried everything I could find (in Midi) from The Godfather and no dice. Past that I'm not sure what to try.

Playing it on Tunespotting yielded nothing even close. Likewise any other of the topmost results in Google for "melody search engine".

Again, here's the mp3 link: http://www.zshare.net/audio/4044017f7c3c30/

Another "what's this song?" question.

jenfullmoon — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:31:15 -0800

Another "what's this song?" question. Google-fu and music search engines failed me. Lyrics that I can remember of it are inside. This is a song I heard at the gym, taught by an instructor that's quit, so I can't ask her what the heck it's called. It was for a cardio class, so it was some kind of pop tune.

Chorus lyrics go something like this:

"It was perfectly normal,
just one little problem,
the fact that it turns out
you don't really want it (? or me?)
My love is a fortress
My love is in bloom"
(two more lines I don't know what they were saying after that)

Right before the chorus, there's some lines about "does it have to be sooooo long, long, long, long..."

Whoooooooooooooooooooooooo does the f@%$!ing track?!

phrontist — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:39:50 -0800

I can't believe I'm going to blow a question this, but here goes: I keep hearing this really lame hip pop track that features the artist calling out: Whooooooooooooooooo? Yoooooooooooooooooou! and then some references to superman. It's stuck in my head. I can't seem to google it. I've listened to everything on the charts. Help me go to sleep.

Johnny Mathis version of "Always and Forever" ?

leticia — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:42:05 -0800

Did Johnny Mathis sing "Always and Forever"? Anyone know where I can find it (ie, CD, download)? Looking -- on very short notice, ie, within 24 hours -- for someone's wedding song to play at their 25th anniversary celebration/renewal of vows. I'm told it's "Always and Forever" by Johnny Mathis. But the "Always and Forever" I know is sung by Earth Wind & Fire.

I've done some web searching on this and coming up empty handed. So I would really appreciate any help in identifying/finding this tune.

Identify a song in three seconds

ed\26h — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:18:45 -0800

Identify a song in two seconds. (If it helps, I think it was featured in an episode of Nathan Barley.)