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Synthetic Hermit posted:The guitar tone in this one is really close. Needs a bit less energy, though. Oh I know now it's definitely this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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wayfinder posted:Oh I know now it's definitely this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Heh, it certainly qualifies for the "no emotion" part. The singer isn't grating, though, just uninteresting. Here's a summary up to this point: A song that was once commonly heard in Canada, but didn't age well. The polished pop qualities of Some Kind Of Wonderful. The beat/rhythm of Paralyzer, but with less force. The guitar tone of No One Knows, but with a bit less energy. Utter background music aside from a catchy chorus in the vein of Truck Got Stuck and Istanbul. One plain, unemotional male singer, but not obnoxious. For a change, let's avoid well known rock acts for a bit, and try focusing on one hit wonders/party acts in the vein of Danzel.
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Sep 4, 2016 08:55
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I don't know if anyone's suggested it yet but "Paralyzer" immediately reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAp96n9iL_g Edit: I should really turn on youtube previews, I see someone else had the exact same thought. 
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Sep 4, 2016 10:33
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It's not Take Me Out, but thanks for bringing it up. I've been looking for that music video with the mechanical spinning legs for awhile.  Try suggesting mellower songs. Stuff just barely more exciting than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIYiGA_rIls
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Synthetic Hermit posted:It's not Take Me Out, but thanks for bringing it up. I've been looking for that music video with the mechanical spinning legs for awhile. Maybe it's something by Hedley, they are total corporate pop rock. The epitome of Canadian radio bullshit. I see their debut came out 11 years ago so although it's not matching your timeframe exactly it sure fits in with everything else
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Nope, not Hedley. Remember, the singer is unremarkable, but not obnoxious. Here's another clue for the hook. Imagine if a man sang the chorus of Madonna's "Music" a little softer, and a little faster.
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Sep 4, 2016 19:03
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Synthetic Hermit posted:The guitar tone in this one is really close. Needs a bit less energy, though. That definitely sounds like Cake, then. Maybe one of their songs? Never There or The Distance comes to mind.
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Cake is definitely a similar sound, but nope again. The singer is not deadpan. Think session singer, somebody who sounds good enough but has no personal investment in the song. The guitar has no twang. It's a completely generic rock rhythm guitar, in the vein of a basic keyboard sample. The beat is danceable, like a mediocre pop beat. There is nothing artistic about the song. It's like something from a mediocre hits compilation, but the catchy chorus is instantly recognizable. Here's another song with a similar chorus (the beat and singer are also kinda similar): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAHutq4iByw
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Sep 5, 2016 08:48
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This might make things easier. Find a song just like this, except with less energy, no rap, and a catchier chorus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWo-02Hsab4
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Sep 5, 2016 10:01
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This is not a specific song but a band. They were getting played a lot on the local npr music station recently and they annoyed the hell out of me, but now it's annoying me that I can't remember what they were called. They weren't local though and a probably getting some national attention atm. Their sound could be best described as amateurish pixies worship with a female lead singer who is desperately trying to sound like Kurt Cobain. The song that was played most has a stand out part where she does a drawn out "yeauggghhhh". I remember their name sounded like something picked out of a 90s grunge band name generator as well.
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NESguerilla posted:This is not a specific song but a band. They were getting played a lot on the local npr music station recently and they annoyed the hell out of me, but now it's annoying me that I can't remember what they were called. They weren't local though and a probably getting some national attention atm.
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Very good guess, but it's not Wolf Alice. I actually originally thought it was them and realized it was a different band, which is what originally spawned my post haha. They are more lo fi and the pixies influence is huge but pretty comparable to wolf Alice otherwise.
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Synthetic Hermit posted:The singer is not deadpan. Think session singer, somebody who sounds good enough but has no personal investment in the song. Five Beck guesses for today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMj0ogLTweU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxugaMpt1vU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPfmNxKLDG4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3rBVb3v4g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE
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Zogo posted:Five Beck guesses for today: I didn't think of Beck, but now that you mentioned him, I'm thinking E-Pro
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Sep 6, 2016 22:31
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Well, I'll say this much - the way Beck sounds on Where It's At is almost exactly what the singer in the mystery song sounds like. It's not any of those suggestions, or E-Pro, unfortunately. But I'll check some others and get back to y'all.
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Sep 6, 2016 23:00
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Maybe Beck's Mixed Bizness? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdqKQRhi6qU
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One more guess https://youtu.be/PHDYfoRYcqQ
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Abugadu posted:Maybe Beck's Mixed Bizness? Nope. Mystery song has no horn. I don't think It's Beck. I checked out a bunch of his stuff, and his music has a certain amount of "oomph" to it that the mystery song doesn't have. Look for stuff that has more of a lightweight, sorta dance-esque pop vibe to it, but with rock rhythm guitar. And by "rock rhythm guitar", I mean like this (but not quite as energetic). LL_Ghoul_J posted:One more guess https://youtu.be/PHDYfoRYcqQ Nope. Mystery song has no edge to it.
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I'm starting to think it's not late 90s and that it's some also-ran grebo abomination we're looking for
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Allen Wren posted:I'm starting to think it's not late 90s and that it's some also-ran grebo abomination we're looking for Grebo as in this? Hell no. There's nothing heavy about this song at all. Nor was there anything like that in the jukebox. The suggestions so far have provided me with some good examples of the sound, so here's an updated summary: A song that was once commonly heard in Canada, but didn't age well. The polished pop qualities of Sky - Some Kind Of Wonderful. A danceable beat in the vein of Paralyzer, but not as in-your-face. A rhythm guitar tone in the vein of No One Knows and Blitzkrieg Bop, but a little less energetic. Utter background music aside from a catchy chorus in the vein of Truck Got Stuck and Istanbul. One plain, unemotional male singer, but not obnoxious. Very similar to Beck as heard in Where It's At. No strong effects on the singer's voice, no rap, no horn section. A general vibe similar to 311 - Come Original, but more "friendly" sounding. Here's a series of compilations from back in the day. Might help put y'all in the right frame of mind. And if you need more context, everything in my original post still applies as well. Synthetic Hermit fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Sep 7, 2016 |
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I feel like it might be something by Ian Thornley, who feels like he could definitely fit into all of those categories. He's apparently big in Canada with two of his bands, Big Wreck and Thornley, but we didn't hear much of him in the states. Here are some of the songs he's done, to see if you feel a similar vibe. Thornley- Come Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXBY_nOlpnY Big Wreck- The Oaf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cLWvGs089s EDIT: Added another, which was apparently in the Big Shiny Tunes series: Big Wreck- That Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-AKI951poE Superrodan fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Sep 7, 2016 |
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I'm afraid that Thornley and Big Wreck are too heavy. The Oaf and That Song do fit the profile otherwise. Stay away from anything remotely grunge-sounding, and look for more "pleasant" songs, like this, but without the punk angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoC3PUBmhFs Synthetic Hermit fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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I posted this on other sites as well but I figured I'd give this a shot. I'm looking for a song I heard somewhere around 2006-2007. I even have sort of a history of it, but not enough for me to figure out the name of it. My friend used to have this song on a CD that he downloaded from some file sharing network. It was labelled "Matrix". It wasn't from the Matrix soundtrack and it had no lyrics, which made it hard to google for. For a while it's origins were lost. Eventually, maybe about six years ago through the magic combination of googling just the right things, I was able to find it again and learn its history. It was apparently a song that could be downloaded for free from a website that was set up to give away free music by artists who wanted to share their songs on the internet. Something like "Freemusic.com" or "Freemp3s.com". It wasn't the current "Free Music Archive" site, unless I'm severely misremembering. The song may have had the name "Matrix" in some forms of the artist name but the title was something else, and there were multiple versions and remixes. It was one of the most popular songs on the site and was even part of the site's wikipedia article (which is how I learned all of this). I recall the name of the specific remix of the song had something in it like "]|[" or "|||" (or some other stylized 3) to denote it was the third version, because after the song was so popular, the creator remade it as he got better at making music. I feel like I have so much information that I should be able to find this thing, since its origins were being one of the most popular songs on a popular music sharing site, but I'm having no luck.
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Superrodan posted:I posted this on other sites as well but I figured I'd give this a shot. I'm looking for a song I heard somewhere around 2006-2007. I even have sort of a history of it, but not enough for me to figure out the name of it. There are a kabillion variations of Matrix IIIs out there on free MP3 sites. What type of music are we talking about?
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Superrodan posted:I feel like I have so much information that I should be able to find this thing, since its origins were being one of the most popular songs on a popular music sharing site, but I'm having no luck. What genre is it/what does it sound like?
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WAR DOGS OF SOCHI posted:There are a kabillion variations of Matrix IIIs out there on free MP3 sites. What type of music are we talking about? Synthetic Hermit posted:What genre is it/what does it sound like? Sorry, I found it. It was mislabelled as Matrix when it was really called Grid ]|[. I ended up finding it by searching wikipedia instead of google for mp3.com which led me to the wikipedia article for The Cynic Project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBPu0aWdgxs
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This is a reach, but is the mystery song pepper by butthole surfers? It's not corporate rock but he does a deadpan thing over not too rocky rock and it got played a lot for a bit in the early 2000s
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life is a joke posted:This is a reach, but is the mystery song pepper by butthole surfers? It's not corporate rock but he does a deadpan thing over not too rocky rock and it got played a lot for a bit in the early 2000s Nope. I think that may have been suggested already. The singer in the mystery song is plain and unemotional, but not deadpan. Also, remember that we're looking for a fairly lightweight song. Nothing punky or grungey. Synthetic Hermit fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Sep 10, 2016 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1UU9iZsRa4&t=2821s Any chance someone could please identify this loving song playing while the Nazi military is on parade? It sounds so drat familiar but Shazam and such can't recognize it. It sounds like Wagner maybe?
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It's a song from a kids toy commercial from the late 80's or early 90's. It's sung by a kid and sort of climaxes with him going "and the head of a BUM-BLE-BEEE!" He sings in a ridiculous overwrought voice. It sounded pretty comparable to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdximU6Ao00
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Ok this is a huge hail mary here, and might not even be in the true spirit of the thread. If anyone remembers the famous Rocky Lockridge cry from Intervention, well ages ago I remember a radio talk/comedy show playing an incredible remix of it. There were several iconic songs where the singer yells/screams and they substituted the cry in it instead. Im fairly sure one of them was Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song. I dont know if this was a bit they just created on the fly for the show, or if they just discovered it on the internet. So if anyone knows who made it or where I could find it, I would be forever grateful (and really impressed).
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Found another song similar to my mystery song. Eve 6 - Inside Out However, it doesn't have enough pop influence, the chorus isn't nearly catchy enough, and the singer's a bit too emotional. Synthetic Hermit fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Sep 12, 2016 |
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Lakedaimon posted:Ok this is a huge hail mary here, and might not even be in the true spirit of the thread. If anyone remembers the famous Rocky Lockridge cry from Intervention, well ages ago I remember a radio talk/comedy show playing an incredible remix of it. There were several iconic songs where the singer yells/screams and they substituted the cry in it instead. Im fairly sure one of them was Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song. I dont know if this was a bit they just created on the fly for the show, or if they just discovered it on the internet. So if anyone knows who made it or where I could find it, I would be forever grateful (and really impressed). I'm going to assume what you were listening to was Drew and Mike. I don't know if they made it or where they got it, but if you go to this archive of their past shows and get the November 4, 2010 episode, it starts at about 144 minutes in.
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Synthetic Hermit posted:Found another song similar to my mystery song. It's been so long I can't remember if these have been recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8b4xYbEugo
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Zogo posted:It's been so long I can't remember if these have been recommended: It's neither of those. Way too much emotion in the first, but the second has the right pop vibe to it.
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Synthetic Hermit posted:It's neither of those. Way too much emotion in the first, but the second has the right pop vibe to it. Perhaps this? Not a huge hit, but it got around a bit on the airwaves. Soul Coughing - Circles
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DrTempest posted:Perhaps this? Not a huge hit, but it got around a bit on the airwaves. In terms of style and flow, this one's getting really close, but the singer's a bit too obnoxious, and the sound isn't polished enough.
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Synthetic Hermit posted:In terms of style and flow, this one's getting really close, but the singer's a bit too obnoxious, and the sound isn't polished enough. For reference, we're looking for this level of production polish.
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Thr only other one that's remotely close I can think is Fastball's The Way. Perhaps that?
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