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
When I was a young teen, one of my friends gave me a floppy disk of midi song files she liked a lot but they mostly had names like “ANIME 2” so I had no idea where they came from. There was one on there I was particularly obsessed with but could never find. Then one serendipitous day, I did. It was The Destruction of Laputa from Castle in the Sky.
Edit: Or it was Sora from Escaflowne. There’s been a few times I heard an instrumental or non-English song with no source to go off of.
It was The Destruction of Laputa from Castle in the Sky.
Edit: Or it was Sora from Escaflowne.
“Sora”
I ended up having to recreate it from memory in a DAW and used Google Assistant to identify it
damn, that is gold
If I knew enough about it to describe it in a comment, I wouldn’t have trouble searching for it.
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
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!
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
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.
There’s this one blues song that had a line about a “sweet little thing” by a guy down in Louisiana doing this southern rock style blues. I liked the song in a situationship that ended weird, quit using the streaming service I discovered the song with, and now I can’t remember enough to find it.
Edit:
Tab Benoit "Little Girl Blues"
I tried plugging it in to the Mixtral 8×7B I have up right now and got it, or at least the name of the artist was right:
Question: There was a song I really liked that was from a guy down in Louisiana that sang in a bayou blues meets southern rock style. The chorus and maybe even the name of the song was something about a “sweet little thing”. I first heard it on Spotify around 2017. I remember looking up the guy’s name and he was touring around the USA at the time. Do you have any idea who I’m talking about?
Factual answer: The song is likely “Sweet Little Thing” by Tab Benoit, a blues musician from Louisiana known for his bayou-influenced sound. He has been actively touring in the United States since at least 2017. This information aligns with your description of the artist and song.
There’s a particular mix or mashup of ‘The Hanging Tree’ with some absolutely magical and trance inducing vocal chops. I’ve spent a buyer’s remorse amount of time searching for it with no prize.
It’s so good. Hearing it felt like being sucked off. Pls someone help.
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.
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
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.
“Sol Clap” by Quantic
Came up in my Spotify suggested and I was like “I know this song!”
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
20 days later and this is my favorite song currently. Thank you.
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
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.
