Ask MetaFilter questions tagged with namethattune Questions tagged with 'namethattune' at Ask MetaFilter. Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:00:03 -0800 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:00:03 -0800 en-us 60 What concert band piece is this? I've had this song in my head all day and I can't think the title or composer! I remember playing it in concert band years ago but can't really recall much else besides the main motif. I've crudely recorded it on piano, it sounds like a romantic era piece (has alot of tempo fluctuation I didn't include) but can't recall much else besides that. Link to file: <a href="">link</a>,2014:site.257953 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:00:03 -0800 classicalmusic music namethattune resolved andruwjones26 Get this earworm out of my head! (and onto my ipod) I have a piece of a song stuck in my head and it's apparently not enough for google to be of any use. It's an 80's or 90's song, with a guy's voice sort of chanting "ooh ma ma way" in an african-y sounding way with a heavy bass line. I feel like it was used a lot in soundtracks to represent a journey or something like that, because it reminds me of solsbury hill. if anyone can name this song, i know it's you lovely mefites.,2013:site.253218 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:21:30 -0800 earworm music namethattune ohgoditsstuckinmyhead resolved song carlypennylane A Certain Irritating Soundtrack A friend of mine's been watching the anime "A Certain Scientific Railgun S", and he's been having trouble identifying one of the incidental music pieces. It's in episode 11, from 17:52 to 20:00--<a href="">what song is this</a> (mp3), used here, and which of the OSTs is it on, if any? He says he's searched them all, including a second Railgun S OST which apparently came out yesterday, but he can't seem to find it, though he admits that he might have missed it along the line. Any help you can offer he'd appreciate. Thanks!,2013:site.252775 Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:49:48 -0800 acertainscientificrailgun acertainscientificrailguns anime music namethattune originalsoundtrack ost song songfilter soundtrack toaru ToaruKagakunoRailgun ToaruKagakunoRailgunS ToaruKagakunoReerugan ToaruKagakunoReeruganS tune KChasm What are Mike &amp; the bots singing in Outlaw of Gor? There's a song Mike &amp; the bots half-coherently sing a couple of times in Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode 519 "Outlaw of Gor." What is it? <a href="">Video link here</a>. The song can be heard at 48:35 and 48:55.<br> <br> What is it? This has been bugging me for years.,2013:site.249670 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:56:57 -0800 3000 gor mst3k mystery namethattune outlaw science song theater prize bull octorok Name That Tune #964,323... Early 80's hip hop. The only fragment i can remember is a single male voice repeating (something like) "just a rockin and a shockin and a burnin it up/c'mon everybody, pump it up." Possibly Zulu Nation, but i think I've ruled out Trouble Funk's "Pump Me Up." Oh great hivemind, unfold your wisdom and kill this earworm for good!,2013:site.248788 Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:26:38 -0800 hiphop namethattune provocateur Name That [Yiddish] Tune! A friend heard <a href="">this 30-second clip of a Yiddish song</a> as an interstitial on a BBC Radio program. He asked me to identify it; I love it but have no clue. I would love to purchase more of this artist's music if you can tell me who they are?,2013:site.248132 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:13:08 -0800 namethattune song songidentification yiddish yiddishsong Pallas Athena What's this tune. March/Guinness edition. When you tell me the answer, I will likely nut-punch myself for forgetting it. I can play this damned song on the fiddle, yet can't remember it's name. From like :30-1:38 <a href=""> here</a>. And I know the name of the third reel as well. Little help?,2013:site.236576 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:13:36 -0800 beans chieftains irish medley namethattune reels resolved timsteil I once knew a dumb comedy song with these two interesting properties.... I once knew a dumb comedy song with these two interesting properties.... 1) It was a song in which the lyrics were just the title repeated over and over.<br> <br> 2) <b>This is the important one</b>: the number of notes in the tune was not evenly divisible by the number of words in the title. <br> <br> Let me demonstrate what I mean by #2. In the Weird Al song "This Song's Just Six Words Long," whose chorus has property #1 but not property #2, the chorus goes<br> <blockquote>This song's just six words long.<br> This song's just six words long.<br> This song's just six words long.<br> This song's just six words long.<br> </blockquote><br> But if it also had property #2, the chorus would have to go something like this:<br> <blockquote><br> This song's just seven short words.<br> Long this song's just seven short.<br> Words long this song's just seven.<br> Short words long this song's just.<br> </blockquote><br> <br> <br> So: when I was a kid I was exposed to some dumb comedy song with both property #1 and property #2. Being a ridiculously nerdy kid, I sat down and figured out what the properties were that made it "work" — and then, over the next decade or two, went and forgot the song itself. What song did I hear?,2012:site.231957 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:04:22 -0800 namethattune resolved and so but then, we Music, sweet music. What is the name of this piece of music from the <em>True Romance</em> soundtrack? Bonus round: where else have I heard it? I was watching <em>True Romance</em> last night, which I reckon I have not seen since it came out in 1993. There is a <a href="">piece of music</a> on the soundtrack which seems strangely familiar. I have a paralyzing suspicion that has been used elsewhere as well -- maybe in <em>Baraka</em>, maybe at some Olympics ceremony or something. Or perhaps it is one of those pieces reused endlessly in trailers. Any clues?,2012:site.231588 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 04:33:29 -0800 namethattune resolved soundtrack trueromance ricochet biscuit Name that tune: church video edition Name that tune: this morning, the guest preacher played a video about Myanmar. He was from <a href="">OMF International</a>. I remember too little of the song in the background to do a fruitful search: something something 'what does it mean to live this life' and something about a shore, maybe. Sung by a man, sparse instrumentation. Can you help me? I know video = YouTube search, but I'm on an iOS6 YouTube-less iPad and the mobile site doesn't work on school wifi.<br> <br> To my mind the demographics of 'listens to contemporary Christian music' and 'may have seen this video' and 'people on Metafilter' overlap to a <em>very</em> small extent, but hey, you're my best hope.,2012:site.225618 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 05:21:57 -0800 helpiforgotthatsong Namethattune resolved songfilter undue influence Name that mystery tune? Can anybody identify <a href="">this Chinese language song</a>? 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.,2012:site.224892 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:24:43 -0800 Chinese music namethattune resolved song songfilter tune KChasm What is this soooooong? Please help me figure out what this song is before my head explodes! The details (as best I can remember them, which isn't all that well):<br> <br> -a guy rapping/singing<br> <br> -hip hop song, upbeat and maybe a bit poppy<br> <br> -talks about performing, becoming famous/being a star<br> <br> -I have a really clear memory that he talks about one of those mirrors with the lights all around it - possibly that one of the lights is out?<br> <br> -I also feel like he mentions the people waiting in line outside to see him (though that might be me conflating it with another song)<br> <br> -Not super recent (def not within the past 2 years) but not really old either - I posted lyrics at some point as a status on facebook, so it must have been after 2005<br> <br> Not Eminem or Lupe Fiasco (already suggested and rejected by friends), or Maroon 5 (which oddly enough keeps being suggested despite my insistence that it includes rap).,2012:site.224449 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:54:38 -0800 hiphop namethattune resolved song brilliantine B is for Baffled Name that swingin' kid-appropriate tune! I was in some overpriced kids' store several months ago and on the overhead they were playing this really delightful song. It sounded like something from the 50's. It was a male and female duet, maybe Rosemary Clooney, maybe Doris Day, and some other guy whose voice I couldn't place. <br> <br> The lyrics were all built around the alphabet: A is for [something], B because I love you, C is for [something], and so forth. I wish I could remember the exact lyrics, and because I can't, my attempts at googling this are proving to be laughably futile. <br> <br> The song wasn't specifically aimed at kids; it was more like one of the cute novelty songs from that era like "Bushel and a Peck." <br> <br> Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I'd really like to include it on my kid's playlist, since she is all about the alphabet these days.,2012:site.218811 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:01:59 -0800 50s children childrensmusic music namethattune resolved songs shiu mai baby Help me identify this dance tune I heard on the radio a few weeks back. Need an pop / dance music enthusiast to identify a current song. Includes live <a href="">amnesia cover version</a> of what I think was the chorus. Upbeat dance song. Female singer. The last five notes IIRC came out as "...when I'm a-lo-one" in the lyrics. Thanks!,2012:site.214487 Thu, 03 May 2012 16:22:36 -0800 dance identify music namethattune resolved circular What is this hypnotic dance/track? What is the name of this dance/trance song I heard only once? It's a slow groove, trance in feel. A woman is singing. She's repeating lyrics that go something like this (paraphrased from weak memory): "The sun comes at the day, the moon comes out at the night". I think the specific lyrics are about the sun chasing the moon chasing the sun chasing the moon, etc etc. <br> <br> It was not in movie or performance, but a random number in a club a few years ago.<br> <br> Any ideas?,2012:site.205427 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:47:16 -0800 dance music namethattune trance Brandon Blatcher What is this song? Name <a href="">this</a> tune. I've got a song stuck in my head that I think I heard on the Muppets. I tried Soundhound and Shazaam and could not get any results. My rendition may be somewhat inaccurate but I feel like the core of it is there. Any leads? Thanks alls yalls.,2012:site.205195 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:11:03 -0800 gonzo kermit kermitthefrog misspiggy muppets namethattune piece song tune tunestunes Couldn't count on you anyway <a href="">The Broken Earth</a> is a song incorrectly attributed to Nick Drake or The Soft Machine. But who actually wrote/performed it? From my googlefu I have seen speculation that it is Kevin Ayers, Red House Painters and a half dozen others, but the music and voice never quite fit.,2011:site.194754 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:07:06 -0800 namethattune nickdrake munchingzombie you know, the mercurochrome song, the french one, with kalimba ... Heard a catchy as-all-get-out song on CJBC-FM <a href="">Espace musique</a> early this afternoon. All I remember:<ul><li> In French</li><li> Female singer</li><li> Had kalimba/mbira featured pretty heavily</li><li> Had "mercurochrome" and perhaps "petit pansement" in the lyrics.</li></ul>Anyone able to ID it, please?,2011:site.190274 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:49:07 -0800 cjbc-fm french kalimba mbira mercurochrome namethattune resolved song scruss Interesting set of chord changes -- what was the name of the song? Ska band with a horn section. Prominent piano (?) chords on the off-beat, following the pattern <tt>I i i iv</tt>. No, that's not a typo: the first tonic chord is major, the rest are minor. Name that tune?,2011:site.189263 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:05:19 -0800 changes chords music namethattune resolved ska nebulawindphone Name that classical tune! Most TI-99 games used classical tunes for their music. I'm trying to identify the main theme from the game Alpiner, which can be found <a href="">here</a>. I'm also trying to identify the tune that plays when you conquer the last mountain, which I couldn't find online but reproduced from memory <a href="">here</a>. Any ideas? I whistled both of these songs to my wife, who's a classical flautist, and now she's mad at me because she can ALMOST identify them but not quite and she'll have them stuck in her head too until we figure them out. :)<br> <br> I was hoping either one or both tunes were from Strauss's "Alpine Symphony"; I wasn't able to find either melody skimming the symphony, but I might've skipped over them.,2011:site.184233 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:25:49 -0800 classicalmusic namethattune resolved luvcraft Help me name that diva! Help me name that tune! My neighbor begins his day by listening to diva music. Most of it isn't really up my alley, except this one song, which I've been trying to place for weeks. I can't hear any of the lyrics well enough to google them, but the melody is great.<br> <br> It's a female vocalist singing in a contemporary soul style. I made a quick mp3 of me goofily singing the melody:<br> <br> <a href="">goofy doo-doo-doo</a><br> <br> Can anyone tell me what song it is? The part I recorded is the chorus, and it repeats a few times at the end of the song. The vowel sounds of the various held notes are all different - the first is a long A, the next a long E, etc.<br> <br> And for anyone wondering why I don't knock and ask him - first, I think he'd be a little unnerved that I can hear his music all the time, and second there was a weird situation where he was reading my mail, so I'd rather not engage.<br> <br> Thanks!,2011:site.179200 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:14:27 -0800 namethattune resolved song soul donblood name that tune: an ancient transmission from Mars... So... nineteen years ago I recorded the top 30 countdown on Mars FM, a radio station in L.A. Four years ago I dumped those cassette tape recordings to MP3, and in the process I found <a href="">this song</a> that I've been wondering about all this time. The end of the tape comes right as the announcer is about to say what it is. All I can tell you, which I highly doubt will help at all, is that it was #16 on the Mars FM Top 30 for January 4th, 1992. I asked some friends about it at the time, but nobody knew what it was, and Tunatic wasn't able to decipher it, so I forgot about it for a while, but just the other day I remembered it for some strange reason, so now I'm posting it here to Ask MeFi. Can anyone name this early-90s rave anthem?,2011:site.178801 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:51:31 -0800 namethattune luvcraft Name the sappy, instrumental tune, whose basic melody I'm humming. Can you name this slow, sappy, mostly-instrumental song (and its artist) from the last decade? So I've known the melody from this mostly-instrumental song for years, but I don't often hear it, though it does seem to randomly get stuck in my head from time to time. It doesn't have many lyrics as I remember it, and I don't remember the few lyrics that it does have, though if I heard them I'd probably recognize them. I believe it was popular somewhere around 5 years ago, though that's just a guess. It's sort of a slow, sappy instrumental song which I believe is mostly played on the piano. It's very melodic. The melody seems to just repeat over and over, if I recall correctly.<br> <br> Knowing that the above description is certainly not going to get you far in helping me on this quest, I've recorded myself humming the basic melody of the song (MP3, linked below). The hummed melody is just the unique part as I recalled it, so if you played the hummed melody over and over, you'd essentially have the song if my recollection is indeed accurate. In any case, I hope the tune is familiar to you.<br> <br><br> <br> Also, perhaps to make this question more useful to others, if you know of any web service that can guess a tune from a recording of humming or whistling, that'd be cool to know, as well. The only music-guessing resources I know of are the apps like Shazam for the iPhone, but you must be hearing the actual song for it to work. I did attempt to use Shazam with just humming, but it failed miserably... :\<br> <br> Thanks in advance!,2011:site.178458 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:24:34 -0800 humming melody namethattune song tune unknown purefusion Name That Song, Round 10,872 NameThatTuneFilter: heard a song earlier tonight while trying on shirts at Nordstrom Rack. Meant to Google the lyrics. Promptly forgot. Am now heartbroken. From what I remember...<br> <br> - Song had a Pete Yorn-ish sound/feel, but a little more "mainstream" sounding. Single male vocalist, guitars, alt-rock-esque - neither too heavy nor fancy, but awfully catchy.<br> - The tone was sorta defiant/regretful.<br> - The only lyrics snippets I remember - and am probably MISremembering - are "change is good" repeated a few times, and the main chorus/theme (repeated a bunch of times)... something like "I'm not gonna/won't/can't fit/slip/change into the mold/something you've got/made for me". I am PRETTY sure the world "darling" or "darlin'" was used at one point. TERRIBLY DESCRIPTIVE, I KNOW. <br> <br> First person to Name That Tune and soothe my poor brain gets a cookie.,2010:site.171804 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:48:00 -0800 lyrics namethattune resolved songs julthumbscrew What is this promo/movie trailer music that sounds like Aaron Copland? Please help me identify this Aaron Copland-esque music I keep hearing. On <a href="">CBC Radio One</a> right now they are using a very Aaron Copland-esque piece of music behind one of their promos for some upcoming show (which I can never seem to catch the name of). It's sweeping, grand, orchestral stuff. After listening to a whole lot of Aaron Copland music on YouTube, I am fairly certain that it isn't actually Aaron Copland but rather a soundalike, like the <em>West Wing</em> theme (which I thought it was at first--I checked and it's definitely not).<br> <br> To make matters more frustrating, I have also heard this piece in movie trailers recently but cannot for the life of me remember which ones. ARGGH.<br> <br> Anyway, in my desperation, I have <a href="">recorded an online keyboard version</a> of the main melody. Obviously this does not replicate the grand sweeping orchestral nature of the original, but it's the best I can produce.<br> <br> Please help! This is driving me nuts.,2010:site.171604 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:48:12 -0800 aaroncopland music musicidentification namethattune resolved hurdy gurdy girl