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Retroboy: Jul 12, 2006; Better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

rowebot44 posted:

Im looking for the artist and sone of a music video i saw. The video was set as a future western with kung fu moves and lasers. About the only lyrics i can rember are in the choris "no ones going to take me away. no ones going to....."

Muse - Knights Of Cydonia

Great track and video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV1bRfLHA3A

# ¿ Jun 17, 2007 01:29

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 17:38

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Artem posted:

In the Venture Brothers in the episode where the boys die and you see Dr. Venture going to all parts of the world and Brock chasing after him, it has that techno song in it that starts out slow and then kicks up when he is in that rave party. What song is this?

edit: This song, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmvYGMnQvdw

As mentioned above its certainly the Rozalla version going by the vocals. Was a pretty big hit in the UK (and guessing most of Europe) in 1991.

No idea what the remix is though - a lot trancier than the original and from the sounds of things Id hazard a guess that its from around 2002.

*EDIT

After a bit of detective work:

Aquagen Feat Rozalla - Everybody's Free [To Feel Good] Club Remix

And from 2002 as predicted

Retroboy fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Jun 17, 2007

# ¿ Jun 17, 2007 01:47

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OhToaster posted:

So I heard a song on someone's Myspace page (I forgot who) that starts off with a techno-ish beat and then a guy starts rapping. I'm pretty sure he was black, and after every line he goes nananananana.

Bit of a stab in the dark but try Green Velvet - La La Land.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2007 01:56

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Jonnty posted:

I'm looking for the name of a song which is reasonably recent (at most 5 years old). It's purely instrumental, or at the very least mostly, bar possibly beginning with someone saying something like 'this is the sound of the 60s'. The music video involved men on suits dancing and flying round an office, and if you're in the UK the BBC newsreaders parodied it one year on either Children in Need or Red Nose Day.

Thanks.

The description of the video sounds like Fatboy Slim - Weapon Of Choice. Stars Christopher Walken dancing and flying about an office. Dunno if the beeb ever parodied it though.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2007 13:00

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lewi posted:

The dance track from:
http://www.main-vision.com/video/detail.php?c=1&i=6c08ddf87c6922f6741bd3bad842cc0a328c5053
It's really popular but gently caress me if I know what it's called.

The file was broke for me - it did try and save as 'Sandstorm' for some reason. So Maybe its Darude - Sandstorm?

# ¿ Sep 18, 2007 14:27

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Butt Reactor posted:

Hopefully this hasn't been posted before, and that someone can answer this before it drives me nuts.

I was watching a documentary on burning man a couple days when the soundtrack for a crazy rave scene kicked into some techno. I've heard this before and I can't figure out what it's called It has a choir singing some Russian opera or piece and then getting remixed a bunch of times with a high BPM. The vocal part is familiar, anyone would recognize it since its been used in dramatic movies, plays, etc.

I'll help by starting out that it is NOT kalinka by DJ tiesto, or a variety of other stuff involving the Red Army Choir.

e: and after some youtube research it isn't neodammerung, and it could be German instead of Russian

Got a rough idea of how old it is? Bit of a stab in the dark but try Tin Tin Out - Strings For Yasmin.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2007 13:40

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Massive posted:

Calling all Leftfield fans, I need a track ID! What's the title of this second track?

http://www.tomato.co.uk/tomato.jsp?P=1234716220218490833520376568662044324125622&M=01_leftfield.mp4

Its the album version of 'Release The Pressure' - the opening track on the rather awesome 'Leftism'.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2007 23:54

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Massive posted:

Not to be a bitch but that sounds nothing like it...? Maybe I have a different version?

Hmm, I was assuming you meant the second track on the advert for the greatest hits as thats all that appears for me. There are a couple of greyed out buttons to the right but they dont seem to work.

If you could maybe manage to get a recording of it I could try identifying it.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2007 20:54

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GBart posted:

Wow. I actually started to do a new thread cause my eyes involuntarily skip over stickied threads for some reason.

Also, the song at the end of Rise of the MK 4 (flash movie on Newgrounds)

Both have been driving me nuts. Mars from Gustav Holst's the Planets was eluding me for a while but I found it finally, somehow.

Bach - Air For G String.

What Procul Harums A Whiter Shade Of Pale was based on.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2007 10:12

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roy harder posted:

It's probably from around 1994, and it's a dance/techno track. The main theme goes something like this:

I don't remember if there were any lyrics, so I can't really use google. Thanks in advance.

This is Vangelis - Pulstar

From 1976 though, so not sure who the dance version is by. Great track.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2007 21:09

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Actually just checked on Google and it appears Trance Atlantic Air Waves (whoever they are) covered it in 1998 and Scooter in 2003.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2007 21:12

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Rich White Lesbian posted:

I really need to know the name and/or artist of the song in this flash movie. Help a brother out?

Funky 4+1 - Rappin & Rockin the House.

Edit - Or not actually. Just relistened to Funky 4+1 and it has different lyrics. Sounds almost identical. drat now I need to know what it is!

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# ¿ Nov 30, 2007 23:51

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Tostito posted:

A few years ago I was searching Limewire for "hardcore techno" or something like that, and I came across this song called BEST GODDAMN RAVE SONG. It turned out to be a cool trance song, and it's been kind of a cult hit with my friends for the past 4 years or so. I haven't really tried searching for whoever composed it..until now.

http://www.myspace.com/bblebsakamegarapstar

Listen to it there. Does anyone know who really wrote this song? It's been a mystery to me and my friends for years!

Im pretty sure its a variation of Airscape - L'esperanza.

No idea what remix it is though. Possibly Armin Van Buuren?

*Edit - Yup its the Armin Van Buuren Rising Star Mix.

Retroboy fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Dec 5, 2007

# ¿ Dec 5, 2007 16:21

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jeremiah johnson posted:

The song I'm thinking of was real popular in the mid ninety's. The only lyrics i can remember are something like "we left the children in the middle of the night" and then something about going to a place were the streets are paved in gold, and for some reason the beggining instrumental part of Hotel California always reminded me of it.

Maybe Fastball - The Way?

Its not the same wording but along those lines.

EDIT - doh, never noticed the new page.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2008 15:19

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deglaze|2 posted:

if it's back and forth on a ramp then i think it's on the propellerheads-drumsdecksandrockandroll album.

I am looking for a song with composed music and a female african american vocalist. The only line I can remember is either "a flower is born", or "a child is born" or something. Also the chorus is pretty dramatic because an actual chorus is singing it.
thanks

Minnie Riperton - Les Fleur?

Theres also a more recent 4 Hero cover version which is practically identical.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2008 03:42

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evensevenone posted:

The background music to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g6ms4ZWPDk

The movie isn't out yet so I can't check the credits.

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Wuthering Heights - score from the film Wuthering Heights (1992)

# ¿ Feb 10, 2008 04:37

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Dinictus posted:

I'm trying to look for the source of a particular sample used in a song.

DJLG, a Polish DJ if I'm not mistaken, has used in his/her 2006 ZAKONCZENIE WAKACI mix this tune. And I just can't place what it is, but I love it.

Could someone tell me who's responsible for this tune?

Basshunter - Now You're Gone

This was just at the top of the UK charts for the last month.

Previously released as 'Boten Anna' around parts of Europe.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2008 20:02

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invisiblelantern posted:

I heard this song at work today, and I can't figure it out for the life of me.

The song is sort of bouncy and upbeat, with a female singer with a higher, sweet sounding voice. Possibly mid-90s or later. The only lyrics that I caught were something along of the lines of "only he/she is good to(for?) me," although the refrains go: normal, fast fast, normal normal (da dada da da).

Any ideas?

Possibly Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me? Its from 1990 though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubxz0CK8XLA

# ¿ Feb 25, 2008 11:24

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ChaosTheory posted:

Can someone tell me what remix this is, and where I can download/buy it? I recorded it from the radio at least 12 years ago.

I know the sound byte at the beginning is from a famous announcer recording talking about Duke Ellington and his "jungle music". This is all thats left of it from an old tape where I was recording myself, and I realized too late that I taped over it.

This sounds remarkably like Doop - Doop which was a number 1 in the UK in 1994.

While its not this track (the original mix anyway), or anything off their only album Circus Droop (I just had a skim through) it might be a b side or remix they have done? Either that or an early version of their hit. Like I say it sounds a lot like it (big band samples over a dance beat)

I would say its either them or a copycat artist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvLDm8821jQ

# ¿ Feb 28, 2008 06:55

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Jinnigan posted:

this is less a song and more a website

but i distinctly remember a website where you could look up a song and it would tell you

a) what songs it sampled
b) what songs it's been sampled in

does anyone know what i'm talking about? it's like the-breaks or breaksource or the-beats or something like that.

I ask because I just got GZA's Liquid Swords finally and I'm trying to figure out where I've heard the keys sample in the background of Hell's Wind Staff/Killa Hills 10304 - I want to say maybe somewhere in Training Day?

http://www.the-breaks.com/

You even named it in your post! Handy little site.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2008 09:13

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stray posted:

Man, I miss search. Apologies if this has been asked yet, but does anyone know what the stereotypical "striptease" music you see in old movies is? It's some sort of brass band thing, with a trombone leading with a big "Wwwwwwwwah-wah-wah, wah wah wah wah" in the first couple of bars.

David Rose and His Orchestra - The Stripper

As seen in this brilliant sketch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXv8WW3Wjvw

# ¿ Aug 19, 2008 20:02

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for sale posted:

There's this one song on the radio that I think is catchy, really poppy R&B. It's sung by a male and female, both sound black and have british accents, or the girl at least does. Something about "american boy" or something, I can't really remember. The only reason I thought this vague description would yield anything is because it's getting alot of air time right now.

Other song is a techno track with it's main emphasis being this low male voice chanting "CO.....CAINE.....CO-CAINE" through the song.

Please help.

Estelle Featuring Kanye West - American Boy

I doubt it but the second one could possibly be Renegade Soundwave - Cocaine Sex. Sure to be lots of songs that fit that decription however.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2008 10:32

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oxsnard posted:

There's this song that I can't remember. I saw a video for it on mtv2 a few months ago. The band is a 2-piece (guitar/drums). I think they're from LA. The music is this trippy awesome noise punk. I think the video had all these blurry motion effects, a bunch of kids and a bonfire or something. Hope someone knows what the gently caress I'm talking about.

MGMT - Time To Pretend

# ¿ Sep 18, 2008 21:25

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SuperS posted:

should be an easy one, instrumental track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FF3t8cS_mU

An instrumental version of Souls of Mischief - '93 Till Infinity:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=v5BZom3vY0g

# ¿ Oct 27, 2008 14:23

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homis the cat posted:

Ok this is for all the drum n bass heads out there, I was at the silent disco at bonnaroo 07 and heard some hard drum n bass song that had some MC/vocalist saying stuff like "Forced life, forced living" but apparently those aren't the lyrics as I've not been able to find the song... the guys voice sounded sort of higher pitched but sneering (sort of like the guy from Hate Dept but more snarly)

The Freestylers - Fast Life?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2y7t2wrv4

# ¿ Oct 30, 2008 16:46

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Inspector_71 posted:

I remember seeing a video years and years ago, where the entire song was "sung" by a piece of chewed bubblegum as it makes it way through life (or maybe just a day.) I can't remember anything else about the song except that, and that one scene in the video was the "make out and pass the gum" thing, and I'm pretty sure another took place at a prom.

Air - Playground Love

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eLnrXNXO1FE

From the film The Virgin Suicides

# ¿ Nov 25, 2008 10:47

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surrender posted:

This isn't quite an ID request as much as "please help me find a copy of this song" request

Last night on Sirius Chill, I heard an Underworld remix of Saint Etienne's "Cool Kids of Death," and I can't find somewhere to purchase this song. Any suggestions?

Its on a compilation of remixed Saint Etienne tracks called Casino Classics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Classics

Some other pretty good mixes on it.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2009 10:40

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Ninja fetus posted:

I remember a video for a song that I'd like to identify. In the video we see a surreal setting. There's a guy or a girl dancing with, I believe, an elephant head looking gasmask thing among other things. Very odd, surreal.

It's housemusic. Sounded a bit dreamy if I remember correctly. That's all I got, sorry.

Pete Heller - Big Love

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=416iiYA7wsU

# ¿ Jan 19, 2009 11:02

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Emmitt Nervend posted:

The track "W.C. Fields forever" from Firesign Theater starts with a guy saying "Take off your clothes and come on in!" I'm positive I've heard this before, in that exact voice, in that same inflection. The problem is that I can't remember if it was in a song or a radio station ID or something like that. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

You can listen to the full Firesign Theater track here: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Firesign+Theatre/_/W.C.+Fields+Forever

Its used in the Fatboy Slim remix of Royksopp - Eple

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbGOogS-asM

I'm sure its used on something else as well, similarly Skint/Big Beat Boutique orientated.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2009 21:07

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Shoeonhead22 posted:

I recently heard reggae covers of the Pink Floyd songs "Money" and "Time". Could somebody identify the artist?

Might have been this album you heard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dub_Side_of_the_Moon

# ¿ Feb 12, 2009 17:12

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the aftermath posted:

Anyone know the song in this video? Sounds familiar but I can't place it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqbpk1jDUpg

Royksopp - So Easy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RST4R1CEgLQ&feature=related

# ¿ Mar 6, 2009 00:03

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Forty posted:

This is kind of vague, but here goes:

The track I'm looking for is kind of odd. It's this guy telling short rhyming anecdotes about a long list of women over a minimalistic beat. It sounds kind of late-eighties. Each line in the song starts with the name of a different girl, for example, something like this:

"Kathy did a lot of drugs and became a junkie.
Jessie gossiped in the hall with all her little flunkies."

He just goes on and on with this long list of girls. Anyone know what song this is?

The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women

There are 2 versions of it ('82 and '84) with the earlier being the better in my opinion.

# ¿ May 28, 2009 15:22

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ACID POLICE posted:

Haha, this is the dumbest request, but it should be a popular 80's tune. Skip to 46:40 in this video. It's only there for like 10 seconds. It's some synth tune and I can't get it out of my head.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1630001170436508560

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

# ¿ Jun 26, 2009 12:26

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Datasmurf posted:

Was watching a commercial on Discovery HD for "Space Pioneers" the other night, when I heard this song:
http://sjurvaage.com/musikk/1.mp4
I know I've heard it before and that I have it somewhere, but I can't for the love of all that is goony figure out which song it is.

Moby - Go (Woodtick Mix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXwGN36VtR8

Which in itself samples Laura Palmers Theme from Twin Peaks.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2009 13:18

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 17:38

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F201 posted:

The song I'm thinking of has a bunch of quick guitar riffs that sound very electronic/retro, like they're being played on an SNES or something.

this guy samples it in "out of control" from :52 to about 1:20, but i can't find the sample list for that song.

http://www.myspace.com/classtronic

Daft Punk - Aerodynamic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14xgbeHsJXI

# ¿ Oct 20, 2009 12:54

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