I'm looking for examples of remixes that are better than the original songs from which they are remixed.
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posted by MuffinMan
on Oct 8, 2012 -
52 answers
Downtempo/Trip Hop/Chillout song stuck in my head in a huge way. It's something I've heard dozens of times before but now, of course, I can't identify it. It's got a male vocalist, possibly British-sounding. The song is somewhat popular - it may be on a bunch of compilations and chillout/downtempo internet radio stations.
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posted by neilkod
on Oct 2, 2012 -
28 answers
Need help identifying a classical song I hum to myself,possibly a piano piece, but can't remember what the name of it is or who made it. Link: http://youtu.be/PjnX9HgWueE
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posted by LittleNami
on Sep 30, 2012 -
4 answers
Romantic song sung by female singer, with lyrics like, "Why do I need stars when I have you"?
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posted by catburger
on Sep 28, 2012 -
4 answers
What is this song: slow, dreamy synth song with programmed drum beats that played, in the last year or so, over a commercial that I
believe featured a beach and was perhaps on MTV?
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posted by stresstwig
on Sep 22, 2012 -
5 answers
Can anybody identify
this Chinese language song? At least, we think it's Chinese. A friend of mine found it somewhere totally devoid of context, and now we're wondering what it is and where it's from. Any help you can give us would be just fine.
posted by KChasm
on Sep 19, 2012 -
6 answers
What are some songs or clips from songs that slowly build up by adding instruments one at a time and/or by featuring one instrument at a time?
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posted by ch3cooh
on Sep 15, 2012 -
27 answers
Can you please fill in the missing words of this old lullaby, and find a sound recording of someone singing it? it starts like this (the rest of what we know is after the jump): Sleep little babe in your nest, Silver clouds fade in the west, Flowers their soft petals close, Butterflies dream of the rose
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posted by andreapandrea
on Sep 3, 2012 -
2 answers
Identify-that-song-filter: What is the current top-40's rap song with sample of high-pictched male(?) indian singing looping repeatedly in the beat?
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posted by wrok
on Aug 26, 2012 -
7 answers
Song identification filter:
I heard a song on Los Angeles independent radio the other day that included lyrics from
"Feste's Song" from Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night. Some how my duckduckgofu hath failed. Details follow.
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posted by lalalana
on Aug 20, 2012 -
5 answers
Song ID help: spacey, dreampop, female vocalist(s), with the refrain 'memories of Atlantic blue.'
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posted by googly
on Aug 20, 2012 -
17 answers
Self-referential song by Mason Williams or Smothers Brothers 60's 70's; lyrics about the song structure, ex: "this is the bridge, it takes you to the end of the song", verse, chorus, etc., all in appropriate places.
Saw it performed on U.S. television in that era.
posted by jchinique
on Aug 7, 2012 -
9 answers
I'm looking for help with a very vague song identification for a song I heard in the early 2000s on FUSE/Much Music USA. Barring that, I'm looking for recommendations of websites that help identify songs.
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posted by capricorn
on Jul 31, 2012 -
2 answers
Can you identify this classic/blues rock song from a 4-bar GarageBand remake of a guitar melody?
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posted by germdisco
on Jul 24, 2012 -
3 answers
Turns out I really like to exercise to cheerleader/chanting/marching type pop songs. Can anyone recommend songs with that same kind of chorus/chanting and beat that isn't actually marching band music? Examples inside.
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posted by The Whelk
on Jul 23, 2012 -
60 answers
What vocalists sound like Fiona Apple? I'm trying to ID a song I heard recently in an Anthropologie store, and I don't have much to go on besides the voice.
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posted by xo
on Jul 16, 2012 -
9 answers
I heard an alternate version of Jason Mraz's "I Won't Give Up" on the radio that had a full band playing it with him or it was a remix, but I can't find it anywhere. My googlefu is failing me. Anyone know of a way to get a copy of that version (legally)?
posted by dyno04
on Jul 5, 2012 -
6 answers
For the past few days I have been trying to recollect the title of the song that has the line "You are like Gibraltar in a raging storm" or something similar, in it. And I believe this is followed by the line "Are you for real? " But this could also possibly be at the end of the verses of the song.
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posted by kryptos
on Jul 3, 2012 -
6 answers
Help me find a karaoke song that fits my personality and musical abilities!
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posted by jph
on Jun 22, 2012 -
12 answers
My grandfather is 91 and we're helping him plan his funeral. At it, he wants Hawaiian music played. Apparently it's the music he used to hear at dances (in New Zealand) when he met my grandmother in the late 30s/early 1940s. According to the BBC, there was a fad for Hawaiian music in wartime Britain, especially a band called Felix Mendelssohn and his Hawaiian Serenaders, but I can't find much by them. Any ideas? I guess it would be a slow dance kind of song.
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posted by curious zoe
on Jun 6, 2012 -
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I've had the chorus of this song semi-stuck in my head for years and when I finally thought to Google it yesterday, I came up with nothing. Well, almost nothing. So I'm counting on somebody here to finally help me identify the mysterious "ooh girl, lost in time" song.
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posted by prize bull octorok
on Apr 25, 2012 -
2 answers
What are some hip hop songs/albums/artists that use the sped-up RPM voices (like the Chimpmunk's sound) and/or horn samples well in their songs?
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posted by shortyJBot
on Apr 20, 2012 -
26 answers
Im writing a song right now on my acoustic guitar, my first song, and I'm a little stuck, I've got some good chord progressions, I know my key (C) I just dont know where to go from there
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posted by sizzil34
on Apr 3, 2012 -
6 answers
I don't really like hip hop (with the exception of older stuff like RUN DMC and Beastie Boys). However, once in a while I come across some tracks that I really enjoy, like these
two songs by Wiley and
this one by Azaelia Banks. Any other artists / tracks with a similar vibe that I should be listening to?
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posted by gertzedek
on Mar 22, 2012 -
7 answers
Extremely vague song description: I heard a woman playing acoustic guitar in Boston at South Station tonight. She was playing a fairly famous song from the 60's or 70's. The song is sung by a male with a deep scratchy voice, like hungover whiskey voice. He is singing powerfully and it is a powerful song. Not a happy song. It's a singer's song, not so much about the music. The song is definitely famous enough, but not something you would regularly hear, or hear at all on a classic rock radio station. I picture the man singing it to have a lot of facial hair. The lyrics may contain the word 'fire' or they may not.
posted by comatose
on Mar 8, 2012 -
26 answers
What is the name of the classical piece played in the background of the Act one segment
here? I know I've heard it before.
posted by nickhb
on Feb 28, 2012 -
6 answers
Is there a technical terminology that could describe different styles of popular singing, in the same way that linguists might describe accents? Try your hand at a couple of examples inside.
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Feb 17, 2012 -
4 answers
I've had part of a Kate Bush (?) song in my head for days & can't get it to "finish" and identify itself. At the end (or beginning?), a man (her dad or brother?) sings the first lines of "You Always Hurt the One You Love"... "the one you wouldn't hurt at all..." Googling has failed me. What's the song?
posted by dywypi
on Feb 15, 2012 -
3 answers
Looking for a song for our Wedding!
I have tried the
hum to identify sites, and googled like crazy with no luck.
The song is new (2011) and "car commercial popular". It has no lyrics and sounds kind of like something Sigur Ros would do. I know this offers nothing, but it is like, "Ahhhh, ummmmm, aaaaaaa uuuuu". It heard it on the radio, an "alternative" station.
Its starts slow and builds (all songs I guess), and is quite emotional. Men are doing the vocals, and my last little evidence is that on the movie, If a Tree Falls, toward the middle they play a short segment of a song that sounds identical to the band in question but not the song. I check every song on the credits but it is definitely not there.
Thanks all!
posted by Benzle
on Feb 10, 2012 -
15 answers
Please work your magic and help me think of this song, even though you'll pretty much have nothing to go on.
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posted by FirstMateKate
on Feb 6, 2012 -
17 answers
I'm looking for a sound file from a Kenny Everett record: Big architect in the sky.
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posted by b33j
on Feb 6, 2012 -
4 answers
