Does anyone have any recommendations for somewhat recent (post-2000) TV or movie popular music soundtracks (or some other kind of compilation)? I tend to like alternative rock, but I'm open to any genre. [more inside]
posted by cosmic.osmo on Nov 15, 2009 - 15 answers

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree is pretty unusual, in that its a romantic song about a recently released convict. It seems to be based on an urban legend, or possibly true story (see the wikipedia link). So my question is: Can we work out what the dude was in prison for? [more inside]
posted by memebake on Nov 1, 2009 - 26 answers

Track ID needed (late 80s/90s popular music) - Reward for the finder! [more inside]
posted by groovinkim on Sep 14, 2009 - 29 answers

I'm looking for French-language versions of well-known English-language pop songs. Any genre or era. (Bonus points for French versions of the New Wave songs from my youth...) My wife and I are learning French together, and I think this would be a fun way to add some color to that process.
posted by jdroth on Aug 3, 2009 - 32 answers

I'm interested in finding more upbeat-sounding synthpop or alt/pop singles with electronic elements for my music library. [more inside]
posted by mccarty.tim on May 31, 2009 - 40 answers

Why exactly is the appeal of those notorious four chords in pop music? I hear them everywhere, and I am starting to lose my shit. [more inside]
posted by Beardman on May 29, 2009 - 39 answers

Name-That-Tune Filter: uptempo pop/rock, female vocalist, and the hook contains the lyric "I just wanna know, where did she go?" Or something like it… [more inside]
posted by Metroid Baby on Apr 8, 2009 - 7 answers

I have been enlisted to DJ a high school dance. I need some cool, danceable music that I won't feel ashamed for playing. Now, I myself am a high school student, but my musical tastes deviate a little from what most of my compatriots would consider danceable. Whereas they listen to Basshunter, I listen to Selected Ambient Works 85-92, for example. However, I cannot play music that people will not like. Some suggestions? [more inside]
posted by Bahro on Mar 27, 2009 - 40 answers

What did the old Pearl Beer "waterfall billboard" on I-35 in Dallas say in 1996? Am I crazy in thinking that the lyrics in the chorus of the Butthole Surfers song "Pepper" made direct reference to the text of the sign? [more inside]
posted by unknowncommand on Mar 7, 2009 - 2 answers

Back in '95 while I was in Thailand on a movie shoot, one of the locals on the crew was playing some bubble gum-sounding Thai pop music I found kind of catchy. I would like to find it again, but I don't know what it was. I asked him the name of the band at the time and he said what I took to be either Mister Moss or Mister Mars. Either way, I can't find it. Does it ring a bell?
posted by jfrancis on Jan 5, 2009 - 3 answers

Peppy indie/foreign pop? [more inside]
posted by sondrialiac on Dec 29, 2008 - 23 answers

There's this whole group of British pop songs that sound like the chorus to the song "Elenore" by The Turtles. Only I'm not British and don't know them. Do you? [more inside]
posted by rileyray3000 on Nov 29, 2008 - 23 answers

Tracks based around Pachabel's Canon... does an even vaguely complete list exist? [more inside]
posted by twine42 on Jul 2, 2008 - 21 answers

What are some brilliant songs that suffered from (or were totally ruined by) poor studio production? [more inside]
posted by cadastral on Mar 11, 2008 - 57 answers

A coworker of mine is trying to remember/identify a pop song from the 1940s, but all she has is some lyrics. [more inside]
posted by JanetLand on Jan 29, 2007 - 4 answers

GirlPowerPopSongFilter: Songs like Unwritten, by Natasha Bedingfield? [more inside]
posted by ClaudiaCenter on Nov 24, 2006 - 20 answers

What are the lyrics of the Metric song Police and the Private about? Drug addiction? Prostitution? Post-9/11 security? I have listened to it 50 times and it's driving me completely nuts; I can't figure it out. The last lines seems to undo the above meanings.
posted by luriete on Nov 23, 2006 - 2 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 by Alison on Feb 27, 2006 - 10 answers

Yet another wedding music question: my sister has asked me to help her out by compiling a list of "standards and pop songs" for the DJ to play at her wedding. Because my taste in music is stuck in the Depeche Mode/New Order/The Cure era, I have no idea how to compile this list. [more inside]
posted by necessitas on Jan 1, 2006 - 15 answers

Why are so many country music songs (compared to pop songs) titled with complete sentences? [more inside]
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on Nov 11, 2005 - 11 answers

Can anyone help identify this song currently in heavy rotation on New Zealand radio stations (and possibly elsewhere)? [more inside]
posted by Admiral Haddock on Oct 26, 2005 - 4 answers

What's the difference between Pop and Rock? [More Inside.] [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Aug 15, 2004 - 37 answers

Suggestions of French pop tunes/artists? I know a very kind, lovely 11 year-old girl who is recovering from hip surgery in a dull, rural town. She'll be going to France on an exchange next year, and I'd like to take her there a little early, via a mix-CD. She likes Garbage, Sheryl Crow, Blink 182, Alanis Morrisette and India Arie. Can you help me make something...uh... hip?
posted by stonerose on Mar 16, 2004 - 37 answers