What's this famous jazz/big band/swing dancing song? [more inside]
posted on Aug 7, 2008 - 8 answers

I’m looking for a song I heard a few years ago. It was some kind of techno song, and I remember a spoken line that sounded awfully like "My name is Benny the killer fuck beef truck." I have a feeling those aren’t the actual lyrics. [more inside]
posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 3 answers

Name that science-fiction story (yes, another one): I recall reading an SF short story in which everyone carries around a little gadget that always tells them what to do, which everyone willingly obeys, and without which everyone is helpless. I think the gadgets were called "little brother." The story probably dates back to the 50s or 60s (I read it in the 80s—this has nothing to do with Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother," which I have not read).
posted on Jul 14, 2008 - 14 answers

Name that tune [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2008 - 11 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 on May 28, 2008 - 16 answers

What is the song that plays in Apple iDVD's "Travel" theme? (it is the same song that plays in this video of piglets.) [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2008 - 2 answers

Do you recognize this melody? I remember an elementary school friend playing this during his lessons about 15 years ago. This is a 20 second recording of how I remember it now.
posted on Apr 10, 2008 - 15 answers

Can anyone identify the repeated clip of music in this flash movie? Warning: this is more difficult than these things usually are. WARNING: STROBING LIGHTS, ALSO SORT OF OFFENSIVE TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY.
posted on Apr 8, 2008 - 8 answers

Help me identify this joyous yet infuriatingly non-English choral song! [more inside]
posted on Jan 15, 2008 - 9 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

Another "what's this song?" question. Google-fu and music search engines failed me. Lyrics that I can remember of it are inside. [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2007 - 9 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

Name that tune! H&M on State Street in Chicago plays this song all the time and every time I go in, I try to get enough lyrics to look it up on the internet and I always fail. Girl singer (not Fiona Apple, but has the same rough edge and approximate range. Her tone is sweeter, though). The first lyric is something like "you've got her picture. you've got her picture. you've got her picture on your wall" and I think there's something about scars toward the end of the song. [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2007 - 10 answers

what song is this? in the music video for it, a guy is at a cafe, the waitress is middle-aged, tired and dressed kind of like princess leia, and a biker storms in and looks kind of like darth vader. the guy and kinda-darth fight, naturally.
posted on Apr 12, 2007 - 3 answers

what song is this? in the music video for it, a girl walks around at night holding a small heart, she meets a guy and as the night progresses the heart gets bigger and bigger. haven't seen it in more than five years but i remember really liking both the song and the video!
posted on Apr 5, 2007 - 2 answers

While on a road trip through Texas, I heard a song on the radio about watching the NCAA tournament on one TV while the bombing of Baghad was happening on another TV in the Las Vegas Airport. Can anyone name the artist/title of this song? It was a nice, bluesy song. [more inside]
posted on Dec 30, 2006 - 4 answers

Name that tune. This [mp3, 100 Kb] is a shamefully crude MIDI reconstruction of part of the tune in question. I'd place it around 1975, Moog type Top 100 pop music; sounds something like Hot Butter but is not. Any ideas what it is?
posted on Dec 19, 2006 - 6 answers

Remember Cher's "Believe" from a few years ago ("Do you believe in life after love?") I heard an ironic, great version of it on the radio yesterday. I couldn't find it in the station playlists. It has a male vocalist and uses the same vocodor distortion effect on the chorus as the Cher version. Who is it? (PS, it isn't The Luxury Liners.)
posted on Nov 8, 2006 - 7 answers

Help me find this rap song.. the chorus is something like "20% sweat, 30% tears, 50% ambition, 10% dreams.." and on the verses, each rapper talks about how great his co-rappers are, not about himself. [more inside]
posted on Nov 4, 2006 - 2 answers

EarwigFilter: Identify what I'm whistling here because it's in my head and I'm going insane. [more inside]
posted on Aug 6, 2006 - 17 answers

What is this mystery song?
posted on Jul 12, 2006 - 5 answers

What song is this? [more inside]
posted on Jun 27, 2006 - 21 answers

I found this adidas ad over at YouTube (It's the one with the shoes running all over town).. The song is super catchy.. (and the ad isn't half bad either).. Can anyone tell me what the song is?
posted on Jun 11, 2006 - 3 answers

Can you help me figure out which version of 'Rocky Top' I'm thinking of? [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2006 - 4 answers

Name this modern Heavy Metal band or Song [more inside]
posted on Mar 25, 2006 - 6 answers

What is the music in this quicktime movie? [embedded QT w/ audio-- duh.] [more inside]
posted on Mar 9, 2006 - 3 answers

Recently movie theaters 'round here were showing a Coke ad that had some interesting music. The ad was a series of stills telling a story of someone going back in time and giving [the hated product] to various people, running out, pissing off Genghis Khan, etc. The music wasn't in English, sounded Eastern European to my ignorant ears. It had a male voice and a sort of swinging sound. They don't seem to be playing this ad anymore here. What was the music?
posted on Feb 11, 2006 - 8 answers

Can anyone identify this melody? (350 kB .WAV, whistled here) [more inside]
posted on Dec 19, 2005 - 18 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

Name that tune: pop classical/easy listening, possibly from the 1940s, often heard accompanying black and white images of post-war domestic bliss on TV. Not Holiday For Strings. Here's an mp3 of the first bit, ham-fistedly cobbled together from memory using the gift of MIDI (and unlikely to be note-for-note accurate).
posted on Jun 5, 2005 - 4 answers

Can you name these tunes?
1. This one sounds like movie music, but I haven't been able to track it down.

2. I think this is the bonus track on Spell's "Mississippi" album. Can anyone verify?

3. This was recorded off a college radio station in Lowell MA in the early 90s. It's a mix of a song, and a woman speaking about pleasuring herself (the "I am satisfied" parts..... Can anyone find the source of either?
4. And another one from the same mix tape...
posted on Jul 15, 2004 - 12 answers

OK, so there's this ice cream truck that's been around my block about a dozen or so times in the last hour. It's playing this really obnoxious song that starts/ends with a woman saying 'Hello' and there's a couple of breaks with a horn and a whistle doing 4 consecutive beats. What is this?
posted on Jun 29, 2004 - 17 answers