I would also be curious to hear how you eventually found it again!
One to start: Conquest for paradise by vangelis. Just randomly woke up one morning with the song plus title in my head
Was a song I hadn’t heard for well over a decade. Bought a Blu-ray player from a thrift store. Whoever got rid of it forgot to sign out of Pandora, which was pre installed on it alongside some Blockbuster program of all things. Ended up using the account because I figured nobody would care (otherwise the original account owner(s) might try to unlink the account from the device if possible) and the song randomly came on. Happened maybe almost a year ago.
It was The Middle by Jimmy Eat World.
Sometimes I randomly think of this song and then that album will be the only thing I listen to, on repeat for days. It’s just so damn good.
It just takes some time
For anyone in this position, don’t forget !tipofmytongue@lemmy.world - maybe someone can help identify what you’re after.
On the Other place, one of my favourite time killers was to go through the various subs devoted to identifying music/movies/books/etc based on small clips, screenshots or even just descriptions.
Don’t think there are equivalents on Lemmy, but TipOfMyTongue can kind of serve that purpose :-)
Nice, thanks for the tip
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Nice! I remember before smartphones listening to a local alternative radio station and then not always saying the names of the tracks and artists, so I would write down lyrics and then Google them when I got home.
A song evaded me for maybe 5 or 6 years once. I ended up having this same conversation about evasive songs with someone and did my best at an impression, because it’s instrumental.
“Doo-d’ Doo Doo, Doodoo Doo, Doo-d’ Doo Doo, Doodoo Doo…”
The person I was talking to instantly said it was Eple - Röyksopp, and was entirely correct.
I remember listening to a metal song while I played my Xbox 360 back when i was in high school. Even back then I never knew the title since I stole it from my sister’s computer. Recently I’ve been racking my head against the wall trying to find it again and I kept googling one lyric I remember but it coming up as Purple Rain by Prince which was way off from the songs genre. I tried everything from trying to recreate the song on the piano, asking friends, googling and more googling. Eventually I just gave up until I watched a youtube video about metal songs without the metal. And, by PURE COINCIDENCE the song was in the video.
It was Walk by Pantera.
Oh, good song!
Old rave music mixtapes.
I had a tape labeled as “sluggo vs urban: annihilation” that I simply loved to death. The tapes are long gone and I never found the artists/DJs again.
It might not have exactly what you want, but there’s a fun Collection of rave tapes on Internet Archive
I ended up having to recreate it from memory in a DAW and used Google Assistant to identify it
Aww, yeah, I still have the MP3 file that I downloaded from MP3.com back in the day! Less drum machine in that old mix.
ETA: This is the other one of two tunes from that site that I still play often.
damn, that is gold
the intro reminds me of the ftl soundtrack:
https://youtu.be/fWlHjpKmvh8?feature=shared&t=4845 (this and the “zoltan” song)
YOOO, that is genius!
My main electronic music growing up was Hard-Trance and then DnB, but we had a friend who DJed House/Big Beat and he would drop this feelgood banger that would get us smiling.
Lost the name of it for about 7 years before someone knew what I was talking about, then I forgot the name for about another 10 years before getting it again.
Will never forget it now.
Tune was only known to us as the ‘RingKingKing song’ Link here
I remember hearing this song all the time on the radio when I was younger, of course I started hearing it less and less. After probably 7 or 8 years of not hearing the song once I caught the very end of it on a rock radio station. I was like “oh wow I remember this song”. I tried to Shazam it but it ended right then, and I didn’t know any of the lyrics. I tried humming it to my brother, no dice.
Probably a year or two later I hear it on the radio again (my local radio kinda stinks so I don’t listen often). “Oh shit this is it”. Go to Shazam it, song ends. “Fuck”. This happened no joke like two or three more times over the next year or two, but then I finally got it: No one knows - Queens of the Stone Age
14 years ago when I was still relatively young and liked clubbing, a song popped up and swept all the playlists in my country. Clubs, radio stations, you name it. Catchy French song. It came and went so fast that I didn’t manage to memorise it. That was long before I even dreamed of having a smartphone. When I moved to UK a year later, nobody had any idea what song I’m trying to describe, like they never heard it.
Probably around 8 years ago I was roaming the streets of Porto with my ex, and a shop we passed had the song blasting from the speakers. Praise the smartphones, I used ‘what’s the song’ app and et voila: Stromae - alors on danse
I had no clue Stromae had been around that long. I just discovered that song last year.
Dude looks so young in that video.
It took me like a million years to find Brainbug - Nightmare (Sinister Strings Mix) because I had only heard it in a oddball movie trailer and the song wasn’t used anywhere in the movie.
Now there’s something I haven’t heard in a million years. Thanks for helping me rediscover it!
Sorry, still looking. 30 years.
let me know when you got it
Isn’t there a way to find songs by inputting a melody? I thought that was a thing…
ETA: yes, it is a thing on several sites: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=find+song+by+melody&ia=web
Question is how much of the melody you remember, how the interface to the service works and whether that fits your purpose, and how reliable it is. And of course, how distinct the tune even is.
“Something something, hot hot (?) ta da da, something something, hot hoooooot”
Has been stuck in my head for months now!
(By the way, “something” is always the same word, song from the 80s/90s I think, just in case there’s someone that can help 😂)
could you narrow it down to a genre? :D
I would call it a summer song? Like the kind of song you’ll hear a ton one summer and that will be pretty much it…
Do the melody on vocaroo
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https://youtu.be/rkpG4XApJ28?si=k1XSftPTdyofGfej
Sounds like “Too Shy” by Kajagoogoo
Oh my God, fucking finally 😱
Thank you!
That sounds familiar…but the first song coming to mind is not very similar (and also newer - “Pretty In Possible” by Caroline Polachek)
It’ll think more about it today
I been trying to find one for a while. Its from a metal band and may be on a relatively new abum. I tried search, ai, looking though history and can’t for the life of me find anything past a fragment of lyrics I can vaugly understand. I think IRS from a rather mainstream band but not one I’m familiar enough with.
I don’t remember enough and most of its hard to understand the lyrics are close in sound but likely wrong AF.Screaming:
… The more i see the less i feel. Reminding my self it not real…(no not Slipknot but its very similar sound to that lyric but Slipknot overwritten what I remembered since its sounds so damn close)A slower section of the song, a whispery voice sings something along the lines of:
“…can you feel me from the side lines, friend”
May have been ~can you see me in the (spotlight or distance) friend.
I got lucky in a sad way recently with discovering a song I’d had stuck in my head.
It was “Peter Gunn” by Duane Eddy, and I finally got the name of the song but only because of the news of his death.
