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Use this thread to post fragments of songs or ideas or video clips you once saw and now need them to be identified.

Andrew (enneff), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

My boss is looking for a song that he saw the video to. It was a metal-ish song with a black lead singer, with a video featuring American college kids, cheerleaders, etc and then juxtaposed with the same kids wearing army fatigues. It was called "to the dear departed" or something along those lines.

Anyone?

Andrew (enneff), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link

KoЯn?

Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

After seeing Michael Mayer at Cielo in New York on 5/30/2007, I went searching for this crazy, dirty, hard-hitting glockenspiel track he played mid-way thru the set. I finally found a *snippet* of it on a youtube clip:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GKag27qm1V0

Can anyone ID this track??
Ive searched stores like Juno in the UK and the Kompakt mp3 site, to no avail.. Please help if you can!
thanks!

nfk, Sunday, 1 July 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

something (recentish?) that sampled the weird synth bridge from Stevie Wonder's "Superwoman"

beggin-ass keith (The Reverend), Monday, 15 December 2008 05:44 (fifteen years ago) link

kanye + nas - we major

krut1s blow (and what), Monday, 15 December 2008 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link

naw

beggin-ass keith (The Reverend), Monday, 15 December 2008 05:56 (fifteen years ago) link

never even noticed that sampling "Superwoman" and not sure I hear it

beggin-ass keith (The Reverend), Monday, 15 December 2008 05:56 (fifteen years ago) link

Back in the 90's I saw a video on MTV, and I've never seen or heard it again. It had a house beat, on top of which a black guy did the famous monologue (don't know who originally wrote it): "When you're born, you're pink. When you're sick, you're green. When you're scared, you're white. When you're embarrassed, you're red... [And so on]. When I'm born I'm black. When I'm sick, I'm black. When I'm scared, I'm black. When I'm embarrassed, I'm black... [etc.] And you have the guts to call me colored?!"

Does anyone know what tune this is? Also, can you tell me where this monologue originally comes from, because I've definitely heard it somewhere else too?

Tuomas, Monday, 15 December 2008 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Anyone?

Tuomas, Monday, 30 March 2009 10:33 (fifteen years ago) link

???

Dom Cry For Me, Passantino (NickB), Monday, 30 March 2009 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah, that's it! Thanks! I think the mix in the video was more minimal, but it's definitely same tune.

Does anyone know where that monologue comes from originally?

Tuomas, Monday, 30 March 2009 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Have a look on YouTube for Tongue Forest, there were about three different mixes of that one track. Think the speech was originally by Malcolm X, could be wrong.

Dom Cry For Me, Passantino (NickB), Monday, 30 March 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

ok, what on earth is that really slamming deep house track which liberally samples 'babe i'm gonna leave you' by led zep??

juniper jazz (haitch), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link

five months pass...

What are these? I think the second one (track 26) might be the Headcoatees, but I'm not sure.

http://www.mediafire.com/?nwymyk4mtzk
http://www.mediafire.com/?oyzjnyjedmy

Giorgio Marauder (I eat cannibals), Friday, 13 November 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link

five years pass...

This song has been in a commercial for the past six months, maybe longer, and the part of it they play is almost exclusively this Train In Vain-reminiscent bass riff.

I heard the song in full at a Coffee Bean last week and it had 00s-era faux-teen pop girls singing over what sounded like an indie rawk song. Or that's what it sounded like distorted from the crowd noise. Anyway, I'm guessing the song is newish.

Cunga, Sunday, 26 April 2015 04:16 (eight years ago) link

commercial might be for a bank. It's been used for a series of commercials. Maybe even a car.

Cunga, Sunday, 26 April 2015 04:18 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeXBiXcEBkY

Cunga, Sunday, 26 April 2015 04:43 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

This song caught my ear today, in TK Maxx (so assume not under the radar, could be very well known) but don't have a smartphone/Shazam.
Current-ish sounding pop song, female singer who sounds vocally a bit like Kate Nash or Rose Elinor Dougall, chorus sounds like
Things are not a little / Things are not a little / Something something something / Things are not a little. If was in key of C, progression would be C / D / F / C.

Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Thursday, 4 June 2015 19:33 (eight years ago) link

Bumping for first and only time, in case any at-lunch UK ILMers can help.

Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Monday, 8 June 2015 12:11 (eight years ago) link

five months pass...

Does anyone know the name of this song - very disco-y (maybe even Italo?) where the chorus is something like "This is funky reggae music" over and over, and later in the song the singer(s) say something like "feel the african sound" and "feel the jazz sound" or something like that. It was playing distantly in the background of a room I was in.

The main thing I noted was that it *wasn't* actually funky reggae music.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Your Ribs are My Ladder, Thursday, 12 November 2015 14:33 (eight years ago) link

I remember thinking at the time it kind of reminded me of "Don Quichotte" by Magazine 60, for a reference point...

Your Ribs are My Ladder, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link

nine months pass...

who are these early-mid-'80s pop musicians?

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/pic_mysterious_zpstvz8iefb.jpg

Shakey δσς (sic), Monday, 29 August 2016 02:55 (seven years ago) link

Sha Na Meh?

Hideous Lump, Monday, 29 August 2016 03:20 (seven years ago) link

Anyone know? Familiar but I can't place them. Thought maybe Pookiesnackenburger, The Vulcans or The Swinging Cats.

everything, Monday, 29 August 2016 16:28 (seven years ago) link

four weeks pass...

*bump*

Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 September 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link


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