Looking for songs about kissing, but without the obvious word 'kiss' in the title. Avoiding 'lips' would be good too.
posted by thatgirld
on Apr 10, 2013 -
33 answers
Asking for a friend, who says: I'm looking for a song called "Magazine" that I seem to recall was by a local San Francisco artist, popular in the 1996-1998 timeframe.
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posted by rhiannonstone
on Jan 10, 2013 -
3 answers
I am looking for the lyrics for Jean Lou as sung by Gillian Hills and written by Charles Aznavour. I've looked all over google but am at a loss - please help!
posted by lasamana
on Nov 29, 2012 -
1 answer
Looking for a list of old-timey popular standard songs to play (guitar/banjo/mandolin/harmonica, etc) with friends in the living room while we drink beer and let the kids jump around.
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posted by Slarty Bartfast
on Oct 20, 2012 -
24 answers
My family has an ongoing joke about finding the Christmas spider. Help me find songs that mention spiders!
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posted by dorey_oh
on Oct 1, 2012 -
26 answers
I'm looking for examples of songs that deal with poverty v. wealth in mate selection.
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posted by CoinOp
on Jul 13, 2012 -
42 answers
Seeking song reccommendations for a song circle/singalong in the woods. I want songs that are simple to teach, fun to sing, sound good, and
don't make you feel like a 10-year-old at summer camp. Drinking songs, sea shanties, rounds, folk songs, etc.
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posted by rivenwanderer
on Jun 18, 2012 -
21 answers
Can you help me find Spanish-language songs covered in Portuguese, and Portuguese-language songs covered in Spanish? Bonus points if the singers and songs are Latin American, and if the songs are available on YouTube or Spotify.
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posted by StrikeTheViol
on Apr 24, 2012 -
11 answers
For a project I'm doing, I'm looking for songs in Spanish that demonstrate
voseo (the use of the informal second-person singular pronoun
vos). This way of speaking isn't technically "standard" Spanish, so I don't exactly know how to search for songs that show this usage.
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posted by huxham
on Apr 15, 2012 -
15 answers
The "Pink Panther" theme and the "Peter Gunn" theme are both jazz pieces created by Henry Mancini in the 1960's. But musically, how are they similar? If I add Lalo Schifrin's "Mission Impossible" theme ... is this a particular flavor or genre of jazz? If I like these as music, what other pieces (that are not necessarily theme songs) would I like?
posted by musofire
on Feb 2, 2012 -
27 answers
Google Music is selling $4.99 albums, but songs are only 49 cents each. Help me beat the system by suggesting great albums that include just a handful of songs.
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posted by Knappster
on Dec 23, 2011 -
33 answers
iTunes missing tracks filter: What can I do when I see the exclamation mark beside a song in iTunes and when I click on the song, I get the message "Song X could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" Then, of course, it can't find it.
So I have two questions about this:
1. How can I find the songs that are currently tagged with that exclamation mark? I *know* I haven't deleted them.
2. How do I prevent this from happening in the future?
Tech details: Windows 7,about 17,000 songs, if that matters.
I'm sorry if this seems elementary, but I can't seem to find a straightforward answer to this in the forums.
Thank you *so much* everyone for bearing with me with this simple (but screamingly frustrating) question.
posted by purplesludge
on Nov 11, 2011 -
14 answers
Last Christmas, there was an indie guitar song that was really popular...help me figure out what it was!
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posted by whimsicalnymph
on Nov 4, 2011 -
6 answers
Bombastic, histrionic, over-the-top, emotionally cathartic songs? Preferably those especially good played LOUD.
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posted by vers
on Oct 15, 2011 -
79 answers
To get over a broken heart (me all in, she in 65%), I'm compiling a song list on Spotify. So far, I've got "In Too Deep" by Genesis and "Some Other Time," by Bill Evans and Tony Bennett.
Now I'm stuck. It seems that falling-in-love songs were more accessible to my mind than falling-out-of-love songs.
Any suggestions would be greatly if not sorely appreciated. If they help anyone out there, all the better.
Thanks.
posted by holdenjordahl
on Aug 5, 2011 -
53 answers
A few weeks ago I heard a song coming out of my neighbor's window that I remember well from my youth in the late 90s -- or not so well, as it turns out. The singer is Janet Jackson or someone very similar, and the lyrics are something like, 'we can be freak (s) (y)/we won't get much sleep (?)/ blah blah blah early morn. Pretty sexy. Help!
posted by sideofwry
on May 20, 2011 -
6 answers
SongFilter: Music along the lines of Eels' "Are You and Me Gonna Happen Soon?". Also like, and sharing the central, longing-filled theme of eagerness/waiting/emotional investment in a relationship that may or may not bear fruit of, Bright Eyes' "Make a Plan to Love Me" and Elliott Smith's "Say Yes". I look forward to you responses! Extra points for nominations falling under the indie umbrella.
posted by alexandermatheson
on Apr 3, 2011 -
12 answers
Please help me find the most life-affirming "Yeah!" and devastating "No!" in all of rock n' roll history.
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posted by Shepherd
on Feb 24, 2011 -
45 answers
My husband and I are both a quarter Croatian. Both our respective families hail from around Dubrovnic, on the Dalmatian coast. Being from such diverse backgrounds, we appreciate this cultural heritage that we share in common. As such, we would very much like to be put into contact people who can provide us with fabrics, traditional musics, religious traditions and the like.
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posted by msali
on Feb 13, 2011 -
10 answers
Please tell me all the versions of "Here Comes the Bride" that you know - the sillier, the better.
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posted by peagood
on Dec 7, 2010 -
13 answers
What song did Jonathan Brookins walk out to tonight on The Ultimate Fighter Season 12 finale?
posted by aceyim
on Dec 5, 2010 -
2 answers
NameThatTuneFilter: heard a song earlier tonight while trying on shirts at Nordstrom Rack. Meant to Google the lyrics. Promptly forgot. Am now heartbroken.
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posted by julthumbscrew
on Nov 29, 2010 -
8 answers
This is incredibly vague, but metafilter is equally helpful for stuff like this! I heard a song with a male singer and the chorus was something like "I want to hear a symphony" and then how he wanted more out of life or a relationship.
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posted by shortyJBot
on Nov 10, 2010 -
6 answers
I need inspiration for a playlist - all songs about actors [OR by movie stars that don't normally sing]. So - Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood", works well, as does Clint Eastwood - "I talk to the trees". I prefer songs
about the stars, but
by is acceptable too.
posted by dash_slot-
on Sep 23, 2010 -
91 answers
Tomorrow the kids are going back to school. What song links can I click on after the magic bus rolls down my street and takes them away, to aptly celebrate my enduring the longest summer ever?
posted by maloon
on Sep 8, 2010 -
15 answers
Someone just sang a stupid song, to himself; he sits next to me at work. Which raises a question: Why do songs get stuck in our brains for days? What is the scientific explanation for this phenomena? Is it an affect of modern life on the individual? Do we fear of loneliness?
posted by lipsum
on Aug 31, 2010 -
8 answers
Help me find some rock songs about New York. I'm travelling to New York in a week and my travel buddy will be inflicting Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z on me at every possible opportunity, so I need a song to counterract it. Preferably in the rock, grunge or metal genres.
posted by Kris10_b
on Jul 6, 2010 -
49 answers
What is the soul(/funk) song that begins with the horn section playing "Frere Jacques" ("Are You Sleeping")?
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posted by ism
on Jun 11, 2010 -
7 answers
What songs start with a snare drum (like a military parade) or have a snare throughout the song?
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posted by birchhook
on May 24, 2010 -
35 answers
I'd like to sing some good Irish songs with a bunch of kids (I play the guitar) to have them learn something about Irish culture. Could you point at some meaningful, beautiful, traditional Irish songs ? (Tabs, melody, lyrics and background resources welcomed).
posted by nicolin
on May 5, 2010 -
11 answers
I need examples of gender-specific songs covered by singers of the opposite gender. For instance, Jack White's cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene".
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posted by domo
on Apr 19, 2010 -
114 answers
Corporate client wants to re-lyric a popular Broadway show tune and use it at a private meeting. Is this kosher?
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posted by madamjujujive
on Apr 7, 2010 -
9 answers
I am unable to find a song that I once had on my iPod. It's a post-rock number. Although there are no lyrics (that I recall, anyway), there
is an extended sample (I don't know from where) of a guy talking about a hot night when the power went out in his apartment complex. He talks about a woman who lit candles, and somehow in the end this leads to an apartment fire. The song feels like the soundtrack to a dream. My memory is not 100% on these details. It's been well over a year since I heard it. But the song was really good and I think about it now and then and I really miss having it. Anyone recognize it?
posted by Moody834
on Mar 28, 2010 -
4 answers
What the hell song do I have stuck
in my head???? (3gp, which should work in Windows Media Player and finer players.) Guy singing in that melody. Driving me insane.
posted by disillusioned
on Feb 15, 2010 -
2 answers
I'm "THAT" mom - and it's that time of year. It's time to plan the Spring Concert performance for a Kindergarten class, having a "Jungle" theme; and aside from the limitations imposed by circumstances, only one rule applies: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" has been banned after five consecutive years of being performed in every concert no matter what the theme.
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posted by peagood
on Jan 31, 2010 -
11 answers
ForgottenSongFilter: I am trying to help a friend recall a song, with dismal results (so far). All we know is that it is a hip hop/R&B/radio-pop type song, likely from the mid-1990s, with a female vocal in the chorus. The chorus is something along the lines of "This is the..." with a spelled out phrase following that, likely beginning with the letter L. There may or may not be "party sounds" in the background. HELP!?!
posted by broadway bill
on Dec 20, 2009 -
6 answers
