All posts tagged with music and song

Do women sing about cars? [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2008 - 33 answers

I heard this snippet of a song between scenes of a recent tv show. I really like the song, but I can't figure out the artist. [more inside]
posted on Jul 5, 2008 - 3 answers

I like singers with strange voices. I don't like novelty songs (e.g. Betty Boop) and I don't like "songs" that are so avant-garde that they're basically noise (e.g. someone screaming into a microphone). So I'm not looking for strange music. I'm looking for traditional (melodic) music sung by singers with non-traditional singing voices. Examples of what I like: Joanna Newsom, Leon Redbone, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Elaine Stritch. [more inside]
posted on Jun 22, 2008 - 104 answers

I really like the song "Grave's Disease" by Matt Pond PA, because it has a distinct "zhwub-zhwub" rhythm throughout. It's the sound of being inside the womb, listening to a baby's heartbeat. Are there other songs that use this type of sound? [more inside]
posted on Jun 19, 2008 - 10 answers

I'm trying to find a specific version of the song "P.S. I love you" and it's driving me insane..... [more inside]
posted on Jun 18, 2008 - 10 answers

What is the song used in the background of Apple's iPhone in the enterprise video? [more inside]
posted on Jun 9, 2008 - 3 answers

Yet another...help me find a this song after I supply you with really vague details about it question. But come on, it's fun! [more inside]
posted on May 24, 2008 - 24 answers

I'm driving cross country and am looking to make a mix CD for the road using songs about America. Ask Metafilter has previously tackled similar questions dealing with songs about Los Angeles, California, New York, New Jersey and even Europe, but what are some of the best songs about America?
posted on May 15, 2008 - 40 answers

Is there a website that categorizes songs by mood or subject? Searching iTunes for title words and hoping the title then corresponds to the lyrics/mood doesn't always give the best results. [more inside]
posted on Apr 8, 2008 - 5 answers

Does anyone know the name of the 2nd singer in this YouTube clip of Mongolian Urtiin Duu? [more inside]
posted on Mar 31, 2008 - 1 answers

MusicFilter: In the long version of the Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" (available on the 12") there is a female voice saying something in what I believe is Japanese. Can anyone translate that for me? Thanks. [more inside]
posted on Mar 20, 2008 - 27 answers

Portuguese Song translation! "Aganjú" Google translate is failing me, I suppose I could try Babelfish, but I'd much rather have a native speaker translate it, as translation (particularly with respect to music and poetry) is an art, rather than a cut-and-dried process. [more inside]
posted on Mar 10, 2008 - 8 answers

I would love to know what song this is. [Direct Link to 4.7 MB mp3] [Caution at work, song gets louder] [more inside]
posted on Mar 9, 2008 - 7 answers

Please help me identify this song/video from the mid-80s! [more inside]
posted on Mar 8, 2008 - 10 answers

How can I get "reverse earworm"? I have a song that I really like, but I've listened to it so many times, I seem to have lost the ability to hear it. [more inside]
posted on Mar 6, 2008 - 16 answers

Can you help me identify this song? [more inside]
posted on Mar 1, 2008 - 7 answers

My 9th grade son has taught himself guitar and he's thinking about entering the school talent show. He's trying to pick a good song that he can play and sing, and I'd like to help him out. What's a good song for one young man and an acoustic guitar and a high school audience? [more inside]
posted on Feb 22, 2008 - 45 answers

RussianShortwaveFilter. Yes, I'm back with yet another song ID in a foreign tongue... [more inside]
posted on Feb 15, 2008 - 9 answers

I am working on a series of promos for a national cable network and looking for some suggestions regarding music. They love the song from the Michael Mann's Miami Vice trailer: Numb/Encore by Linkin Park and Jay-Z. I'm looking for instrumental tracks with that feeling: serious, inspiring, melancholy, uplifting, energetic, modern, slick, etc. The promos involve beautiful slow-motion visuals with voiceover underneath. Thought I would turn to my favorite hive mind. Any suggestions? Thanks!
posted on Feb 15, 2008 - 14 answers

Good songs to lip-synch? [more inside]
posted on Feb 7, 2008 - 14 answers

Wedding Song Filter: I am searching for love songs that I can perform (on classical guitar) at a close friend's reception. It will be performed half in spanish, half in english. I'm a male in the mezzo-soprano to alto range, my guitar skills are novice-to-intermediate.
posted on Feb 4, 2008 - 7 answers

Yet another one of my crazy shortwave-radio song ID requests, this time (I believe) in Portuguese. Please check it out. [more inside]
posted on Feb 2, 2008 - 2 answers

Heard a great song at a US H&M...help me identify the name of it and the band who plays it. [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2008 - 3 answers

My mother used to sing a song to me as a child: "It's a rainy day / and we have to stay inside. / The rain is falling down / and we can't go out to play. / Why does it have to rain / anyway?" She swears it's from Sesame Street, but Google seems never to have heard of it. Who composed this song? Where could she have heard it from? Is it indeed Sesame Street?
posted on Jan 30, 2008 - 6 answers

Help me figure out the name of a song I just heard on NPR... [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2008 - 7 answers

The new IBM "Ideating" commercial...What is the music in the background? [more inside]
posted on Jan 9, 2008 - 16 answers

Help me identify a piece of choral music from Sydney's 2007 NYE fireworks. [more inside]
posted on Jan 1, 2008 - 2 answers

Can you think of any other blues-rock songs with the same rhythmic pattern as Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" and ZZ Top's "La Grange"?
posted on Dec 10, 2007 - 11 answers

Please help identify this song. [more inside]
posted on Dec 10, 2007 - 5 answers

Please help me find a song filter: Looking for the song Ada from Decatur. [more inside]
posted on Dec 3, 2007 - 3 answers

Indian Music Video: "It's like this woman and her daughter running across a beach wearing some flowing red thing [sari?] and then theres a part of it where she's chasing her daughter through like a really big empty desert-place." [more inside]
posted on Nov 16, 2007 - 5 answers

Is this a real song or a product of my imagination? [more inside]
posted on Oct 28, 2007 - 2 answers

Help me find this song which features a great number of answering machine messages over pretty guitars. Please? [more inside]
posted on Oct 18, 2007 - 4 answers

Help me find a Ray Charles song, please? [more inside]
posted on Oct 14, 2007 - 10 answers

Please help me identify this guitar riff (61KB MP3, poorly performed by myself). I believe it's from a song from the 60s or 70s. [more inside]
posted on Oct 3, 2007 - 4 answers

Best driving song? [more inside]
posted on Oct 1, 2007 - 82 answers

I'm looking for a recording of Edward Lear's song The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò. [more inside]
posted on Sep 21, 2007 - 3 answers

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.
posted on Sep 2, 2007 - 5 answers

HelpMeFindThisSongFilter: while in Italy I heard an Italian song that was a bit rap-ish, in the sense that the performers were more or less talking to the music. The only part of the lyrics I could discern was "La cosa nostra, la cosa nostra, la cosa nostra". I asked the lady behind the bar what it was and she couldn't tell me, but vaguely seemed to remember it was by & . Something like Paolo and Frederico, although most likely not those names. Help?
posted on Aug 27, 2007 - 8 answers

Suggest some 'love' songs with an uneasy obsessional edge to them? [more inside]
posted on Aug 22, 2007 - 103 answers

Please help me name this tune. It was featured in "Summer Games" for the Commodore 64, but it's not the Olympic theme song nor a national anthem (or is it?).
posted on Aug 17, 2007 - 7 answers

Identify a song in two seconds. (If it helps, I think it was featured in an episode of Nathan Barley.)
posted on Aug 2, 2007 - 5 answers

Looking for a song with the refrain, "On the raa-dee-oh, the raa-de-oh." [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2007 - 23 answers

Sound (or video with sound) clip of the "Happy Birthday" song ... sung in German? [more inside]
posted on Jun 28, 2007 - 3 answers

I need songs about cheating partners / lovers [more inside]
posted on Jun 5, 2007 - 40 answers

Does anyone know where I can find the theme song to the '80's PBS show "The Voyage of the Mimi"? [more inside]
posted on May 14, 2007 - 10 answers

Help me think of a song to illustrate the fifth stage of grief. [more inside]
posted on May 1, 2007 - 68 answers

Sexy sex song filter: Looking for artist/song name. Song is very sexy, has horns (kind of like Propellerheads' History Repeating) and a woman's voice cut in, saying things like "I find you very attractive", "Um, do you want to go to bed with me?" [more inside]
posted on Apr 10, 2007 - 7 answers

What are some songs about countries or cities in Europe?
posted on Apr 8, 2007 - 46 answers

SongFilter: Looking for an electro/grindcore song that features lyrics about Donkey Kong and metal. [more inside]
posted on Apr 1, 2007 - 6 answers

I'm trying to figure out the name of the song or band associated with a music video I saw on New York Noise about a year or so ago. It was an animated music video involving birds flying across the sky for a song that I believe was instrumental. I'm guessing the band might be Icelandic since the song was played when I went to a Bjork festival at a bar in Williamsburg.
posted on Mar 31, 2007 - 8 answers

Song lyrics filter: I'm looking for song lyrics that draw attention to the stupidity of following the predetermined life path that our parents or society tells us to go on. [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2007 - 39 answers

I keep hearing this song when I'm out and about in Australia. What is it? Humming included. [more inside]
posted on Feb 25, 2007 - 12 answers

Singing in Spanish filter: I need some feedback, por favor! [more inside]
posted on Feb 20, 2007 - 15 answers

City of God Filter: Please please help me find the name of the song (artist who performs it) that is playing during Benny's going away party at the club/disco. (NOT "Kung Foo Fighting") [more inside]
posted on Feb 13, 2007 - 4 answers

Can you identify this song used in This American Life? Starts at 19:18 and continues for the entire segment. [more inside]
posted on Feb 7, 2007 - 6 answers

Looking for a song artist name (may be Sanseverino) and/or translation and/or original French lyrics... [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2007 - 2 answers

LyricsFilter: Anybody remember this song from the mid-90's? It goes: I'm a dope fiend and I'm on drugs. I got it from Rico the neighborhood thug... What was the name of the song and who sung it?
posted on Jan 14, 2007 - 4 answers

Friends want to find the song, "Un Beso Es Todo" for their wedding. Know where I can find a recording/sheet music/mention of this song? [more inside]
posted on Jan 12, 2007 - 2 answers

I've seen many lists of essential indie bands and albums but never really a list of songs. What individual songs do you feel are absolutely essential for indie music fans? Old or new, any musical style. I'm interested in what you feel HAS to be mentioned when your favorite indie songs are discussed. Thanks....
posted on Jan 3, 2007 - 22 answers

IdentifyThisSongFilter: I have a recording of this song being performed by a local DJ a few years ago. He called it "The Lullaby Song" Searches for the lyrics give me nothing at all! [more inside]
posted on Dec 19, 2006 - 5 answers

"Ring ding ding!" - Christmas song artist/title? [more inside]
posted on Dec 8, 2006 - 8 answers

80'sDanceMusicFilter: "New York, New York, New York!" [more inside]
posted on Dec 6, 2006 - 14 answers

Can you tell me what type/genre of music this is? [more inside]
posted on Nov 24, 2006 - 4 answers

Does anyone know what song that is a remix of either the Mike Jones song "Know What I'm Saying" or has a sample of the hook in the song. It's kind of a clubby / workout type of song.
posted on Nov 17, 2006 - 2 answers

Name that poorly remembered song for me - something about wolves, maybe by 3 Mustapha 3 (but maybe not). It existed on an old mix tape from (I think) about 10 years ago, which may help date it. [more inside]
posted on Nov 15, 2006 - 5 answers

BluesFilter: A couple of years ago, a friend and I were flipping past the blues channel on XM radio, and stumbled across the one of the funniest songs I've ever heard. I want to find a copy for my friend for a Christmas gift. Of course, I have no idea what the song actually is. Help me, O HiveMind! [more inside]
posted on Nov 6, 2006 - 7 answers

Looking for a song a friend heard played at a club this time last year. The only thing he remembers about it is a lyric something like "Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the biggest QUEEN of them all?!" Anyone recognize it? Thanks in advance.
posted on Nov 6, 2006 - 4 answers

Name that (commercial) tune! Ask.com is currently running a television ad that features no spoken script. The ad begins "Why is Ask.com the fastest-growing search engine?" in white text against a red background, and the ad continues with snippets of newspaper reviews, etc. There is an electronic/techno background soundtrack. What song is playing, and is it available for purchase?
posted on Oct 27, 2006 - 3 answers

Name that song: "Been climbing trees / I skinned my knee". [more inside]
posted on Oct 24, 2006 - 6 answers

Can you help me find a song? [more inside]
posted on Oct 21, 2006 - 19 answers

Lonesome Joey Grinder? Help me identify this song. [more inside]
posted on Oct 21, 2006 - 5 answers

I once heard a radio program (probably on NPR or the BBC) about the song "Willow Weep for Me." They claimed it was an extraordinary song for two reasons: it was written by a woman (rare in 1932) and there was striking tempo change in the middle of the song. However, in most recordings, the musicians skip the tempo change. But on the show I listened to, they played a rare recoding that featured the change. I want that recording. [more inside]
posted on Oct 17, 2006 - 3 answers

This American Life has at least a dozen instrumentals that they use over and over as background music. The Happy Flute Song, the Things Are Kind of Tense Song, and so on. I've really grown to like many of them, but I cannot identify any of them. Can TAL fans identify any of the standard music beds?
posted on Oct 15, 2006 - 23 answers

Can anyone identify this music ? [more inside]
posted on Oct 14, 2006 - 9 answers

Help me create a playlist contemporary songs that mention / are about plants or animals (and aren't too sappy). [more inside]
posted on Oct 1, 2006 - 53 answers

I need a really dramatic, beautiful instrumental song, possibly with a big crescendo. [more inside]
posted on Sep 22, 2006 - 29 answers

I'm looking for the lyrics AND possibly an MP3 or recording of a "dirty" (funny) song I heard once... Language warning. :) Lyrics go: "Aw f*** it, I've got better things to do..." "All the years I've taken s**t would fill a bucket" etc... [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2006 - 3 answers

"Rock Me Mama," apparently a Bob Dylan unreleased track, also known as "Wagon Wheel" as played by Old Crow Medicine Show (and I'm sure the song has roots further back) - any music buffs know of this song and/or various recordings of it? [more inside]
posted on Sep 3, 2006 - 11 answers

What is the name of this song that has been driving my friend crazy trying to figure out? He made this in garageband to help his quest.
posted on Sep 2, 2006 - 4 answers

How do I make a (portion of a) living as a songwriter? [more inside]
posted on Aug 28, 2006 - 10 answers

Shhh! A mixcd about silence... [more inside]
posted on Aug 16, 2006 - 62 answers

What's-that-song filter. Anyone know the name of the song that plays in the first half of NBC's Jim-and-Pam centric commercial for the new season of "The Office"? [more inside]
posted on Aug 16, 2006 - 6 answers

A Year In Music: Songs with a month in the title, and with lyrics that feature a month prominently? [more inside]
posted on Aug 2, 2006 - 50 answers

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

Song I heard at a salsa club last night.. [more inside]
posted on Jul 13, 2006 - 14 answers

Mixtape filter: I need songs that reference any of the states of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah. [more inside]
posted on Jun 28, 2006 - 70 answers

songfilter: I am trying to compile a CD of pop/rock tunes that uses the bagpipes or its assorted cousins including keyboard fakery to achieve a celestial set of tones that only squeezing a bladder with a mouthpiece can provide. [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2006 - 33 answers

I need some help rediscovering the artist and title of a song from ten years ago or so - vague memories follow: [more inside]
posted on Jun 22, 2006 - 6 answers

For theatre (and other) projects, I sometimes need music that I can't find on CD. Is there a service that lets you email sheet music to a musician, who then a musician records the song and sends it back to you as an mp3? I'm looking instrumental music -- no vocals. Just a piano/keyboard is generally fine. [more inside]
posted on Jun 12, 2006 - 9 answers

can anyone identify the last kiss teaser (zach braff) music, thanks, yall rock
posted on Jun 9, 2006 - 7 answers

Are there any websites out there dedicated to analyzing the lyrics of popular music? [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2006 - 10 answers

Name this song. I also have the song for you to listen to if you'd like to. [more inside]
posted on May 26, 2006 - 6 answers

Hi, I just wanted to figure out the song to this video. If you could help me, it'd be great.
posted on May 25, 2006 - 4 answers

How does a musician learn to write better lyrics? [more inside]
posted on May 19, 2006 - 17 answers

Name that Song: Early nineties Phish? [more inside]
posted on Apr 4, 2006 - 4 answers

Asking for my wife... There's a Gap TV ad running in the U.S. this month, featuring a "Daddy-O" song. Any one know the artist and actual song title? Sorry I don't have more info.
posted on Mar 24, 2006 - 10 answers

RandomQuestionFilter: Where have I heard the lyric "Its 10 am do you know where your children are?" [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2006 - 17 answers

A question about a spooky musical composition. [more inside]
posted on Mar 9, 2006 - 6 answers

I'm looking for an extremely cheesy song played on the radio in the United States in the early 1980's. [more inside]
posted on Feb 27, 2006 - 10 answers

(SongFilter) Dear mother recently lamented that she could die happy if only she could find a song (perhaps from her childhood in the 50s?) that names all the presidents. A key lyric seems to be "Doin my homework with you." An old woman's hyperbole to be sure, but we do try to please our parents. [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2006 - 15 answers

Looking for songs about math! My girlfriend's sister just got into a Ph.D. program for mathematics and we're making her a mix CD to help celebrate. Poppy indie rock especially good. [more inside]
posted on Feb 23, 2006 - 68 answers

Please help identify a song from a couple seconds of humming (752kb .aif). [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2006 - 10 answers

The only words I know are: "I'm in the money... I'm in the money" and then it goes doo-doo-doo etc. [more inside]
posted on Feb 14, 2006 - 20 answers

While watching the olympics I've seen a few ads with Visa's new slogan, "Life Takes Visa" and I really like the song playing in the background. It seems like a pop/rock song (with a little classical in there too), though it may have been composed specifically for the commercial. So my question: if you've seen the ad, do you know what song that is? (And where I could get it? - hopefully iTunes)
posted on Feb 11, 2006 - 10 answers

Name that tune please :: PBS is great, and the songs in their promos are actually just as good. Currently running is a promo that ends with the words; "Be More ~ ThirteenHD" (this is PBS Thirteen's High-Def channel which they broadcast in NYC & possibly elsewhere?). The music which accompanies it is a piece that I'd classify as sort of a Blues/Rock/Jazz instrumental. My Question: Name that tune!?! [more inside]
posted on Jan 31, 2006 - 2 answers

Name that song filter: 1990s, female artist, line "...into the quagmire" [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2006 - 7 answers

Looking for pop music in the last 20 years that make use of a choir where normally it is just a single singer, examples below. U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten Madonna - Like a Prayer Rolling Stones - Can't Always Get What You Want
posted on Jan 30, 2006 - 37 answers

Need mp3/MIDI/any audio for an old Christian song by Jon Byron called "We Are the Family of God" [more inside]
posted on Dec 16, 2005 - 1 answers

OK music geeks. I was having lunch the other day and this song came over the speakers. I knew that I'd heard it before, but I didn't know who sang it. Sorry about the lousy recording quality, but it was loud in Chipotle and the recorder on my phone is crappy. Anyway, if you can make it out and identify this song for me, that would be great... because it's stuck in my head! Click here to listen.
posted on Dec 12, 2005 - 21 answers

I was in Mexico City and went to Lipstick, a cute loungy gay bar and they played this song that I cannot for the life of me find. It had a female singer, and was a kinda dance/pop/gay song, thought dont remember if it was in english or not, but the chorus was this catchy whistling tune that everyone in the bar knew as they imitated the whistling in a funny/cute/innocent way. Anyone know what Im talking about?
posted on Dec 9, 2005 - 6 answers

SONGFILTER: need people who can read musical notes to help me find the name of this opera-esque song! [more inside]
posted on Dec 8, 2005 - 6 answers

My close friends are about to finalize their adoption of a baby from Saratov, Russia. The baby has spent some time in an orphanage in Saratov, and I think a nice gift for him would be a CD of songs that might have been sung to him during his infancy. Can anyone recommend a good source for Russian children's music?
posted on Oct 28, 2005 - 6 answers

Name that tune!! It was used in commercials to advertise the HBO film "Empire Falls", and now to advertise a new show coming in the fall - E-Ring maybe? Anyway - it's kind of pop-rock sounding, male vocal. Lyrics: Something like - even when you cannot hear me ... I'll be right beside you dear.
posted on Jul 20, 2005 - 3 answers

Wedding filter: We're a couple getting married with good taste in music help us pick our wedding song... [more inside]
posted on Jul 16, 2005 - 55 answers

Needed: "Romantic songs of the 1930s/40s/50s that are very easy to play on guitar". My brother has asked me to sing "something" at his mostly secular wedding on August 13. No piano available, *maybe* a guitar player of unknown skill level. He seems to want something romantic and 1930s-50s American pop. He's mentioned "It's Only a Paper Moon" with enthusiasm, but I'm not sure that would be easy enough to play on guitar. [more inside]
posted on Jul 11, 2005 - 12 answers

Hip Hop song identification needed. Help me identify a hip hop song from the movie Be Cool. When Vince Vaughn is riding in the back of his car, and The Rock is driving, there is a hip hop song playing. The only lyrics you can hear are "walla walla walla bang bang. walla walla bang bang". Who is that? Hint: It's not that Witch Doctor song for kids, in case you were gonna be funny ;) ps: It's about 46:30 into the movie if you happen to have it on DVD.
posted on Jun 27, 2005 - 5 answers

What songs, pieces of music or audio tracks contain the best drum solos ... ever
posted on May 26, 2005 - 51 answers

What recent song features a female vocalist, with lyrics like "The better you feel / The more you'll heal / The better you'll be / The more you'll see"?
posted on Mar 28, 2005 - 3 answers

How do musicians write songs? Do they typically write the words then the music to those words...or the other way around? Or does it happen spontaneously so that some artists do it either way depending on their influence?
posted on Mar 16, 2005 - 17 answers

Chatting with a muscal friend, I was stumped on a topic we wandered into: Excluding the obvious (American Pie, Sweet Home Alabama) what are your favorite songs about other songs (or failing that music in general)?
posted on Mar 14, 2005 - 116 answers

What rock songs incorporate a key change?
posted on Jan 5, 2005 - 56 answers

In the song "Don't Get Gassed," Erick Sermon (under the name Def Squad presents Erick Onasis) delivers this line:

I'm off the hook like 27th Street between 11th and 12th / All by myself

Where in Manhattan is this referring to, specifically? What's the significance of this location?
posted on Jan 4, 2005 - 10 answers

What are the saddest songs ever?
posted on Nov 16, 2004 - 99 answers

Matt's thread about God Bless America reminded me: When I was a kid and Kate Smith had a hit record of God Bless America, there was talk that she had a follow-up song that was never released called God Is An American. I have never been able to track it down, but it might be suitable for today if the recording exists. Has anyone ever heard of it? Or failing that can someone write one quick and get it online?
posted on Oct 21, 2004 - 4 answers

Song name! I can't remember practically anything about a song except that it was sung by a woman, say alto range, and contains the words "sing a lovely song" sung such that "sing" was held for longer than any other syllable in that phrase and "love" was sharply higher than any other note in the phrase, and I think held for less time than "a", "ly" and "song", "song" being held but not for as long as "sing". I realize that's not much to go on, but maybe someone has an idea? Also, I might be wrong about it being sung by a woman, and possibly everything else.
posted on Sep 10, 2004 - 6 answers

SongLyricFilter : I heard a song on a local semi-indie radio show, and would like to know who it was. I remember precious few details, however. Sparse arrangement, just a singer and a guitar at first. I remember the phrase "space and time" coming up a lot, and something like "I could write a long letter."

Sorry to be so vague. Any ideas?
posted on Aug 28, 2004 - 8 answers

Can anyone help identify a Russian song of which I have only a very hazy drunken recollection? [more...]
posted on Aug 25, 2004 - 7 answers

I'm looking for irresistible dance songs, songs that get you out of your seat and shaking it. Can you remember the best song you've ever danced to? (bonus points for obscure or genre-bending tracks)
posted on Aug 5, 2004 - 41 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 on Aug 5, 2004 - 5 answers

Attention mid-90s earworm pop fans: Alizee's "Moi Lolita" was widely released in 2002, but I swear I recognize that bass-line, and it's driving me absolutely crazy. Can anyone figure out what song I'm thinking of? I'm guessing something like Ace of Base, Aqua or even Daft Punk...
posted on Jul 14, 2004 - 15 answers

So, now that napster and audiogalaxy are long dead, where would you go online to find a really obscure song (like "Softcore" by Maurice and the Cliches, for example)?
posted on Jun 29, 2004 - 10 answers

Over the past few months, I have occasionally seen a commercial for a vacation cruise. I can't recall the name of the cruise, but Norwegian fiords are featured prominently. What really has my interest is the song featured in the ad. It's a classic example of trying to remember a song, but not being able to, and it's driving me crazy. The tune has an ethereal quality to it, and the singer is female. If anyone has even the vaguest idea of what I'm talking about, please end my suffering, and tell me who sings the damn song!

Please.
posted on Apr 28, 2004 - 7 answers

Long ago I asked a question about locating a hard to find song. Well, I finally did, but it is on a SoundScan CD. Any way to listen to it? [more inside]
posted on Mar 29, 2004 - 1 answers

Any suggestions for songs about long distance relationships?
posted on Jan 5, 2004 - 38 answers

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