What are your picks for melancholy, lonely, time-stopping and heartachingly beautiful songs? [more inside]
posted by Lipstick Thespian on Oct 7, 2009 - 218 answers

Where can I find lists of the most popular Spanish top 40 music from summer, 2002? [more inside]
posted by bluejayk on Oct 10, 2007 - 4 answers

I'm looking for a sample pack of all of the words/letters/numbers/phonemes from a Speak n' Spell (and/or derivatives). I'm not looking for crazy circuit bent samples... just something I can piece together words/phrases out of. Surely someone has done this. [more inside]
posted by phrontist on Jan 20, 2007 - 9 answers

We are sending a capsule into deep space to carry a sample of America as it was in the 60's and 70's. We can include 12 CDs (or albums transferred to CD) to reflect popular music of the time (1960 through 1979.) What 12 CDs best represent what was happening then?
posted by leafwoman on Jul 28, 2006 - 26 answers

Looking for songs that have a wistful, bittersweet feel to them that captures the move from adolescence into "adult" life - eg the moments before leaving school, or before getting your first job. [more inside]
posted by greycap on May 11, 2006 - 97 answers

I love the sound of the clarinet. I'm looking for quiet, pensive, possibly melancholic music featuring this instrument. Any genre; preferably instrumental. I'm not looking for happy big-band jazz or Poulenc's chaotic clarinet sonata, though I appreciate both. [more inside]
posted by gentle on Jul 16, 2005 - 28 answers

Help Identify a Hip-Hop Sample. The artist is MF Doom, the album is MM...Food?, the track is "Kookies" (Amazon link; listen to track 15). I'm fairly sure it's from Sesame Street (or some other children's show, circa 1970s) -- if not the main theme, than an outro or something else. [more inside]
posted by kmel on Apr 30, 2005 - 12 answers