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.
A techno mix made with Super Mario bros. from the early 2000s most likely from Napster or Kazaa. It wasn’t a melody from any of the Mario games, but it was constructed with sounds from it.
There’s a Kiwi reggae band called Fat Freddy’s Drop, and I got the mp3s of their first album Based on a True Story from a friend not too long after it came out. Later I lost them on an old HD, and when I went to get the album again most of the songs were different versions, and noticeably worse than what I remember. I’ve been able to track down a few of the old versions over the years but not all of them.
Part of the difficulty is not knowing what the versions I first heard were. They didn’t sound live so it’s not as simple as trying to find concert versions. Trying to find a specific version of a song can be more frustrating than not knowing what a song is entirely :/
As a kid I had heard Got my Mind Set on you by George Harrison on the radio once or twice.
A few years later when I was starting to listen to music for myself I heard the Weird Al parody, and wanted to track down the original. I didn’t remember any lyrics to the original so the best I could do was accost people with a very poorly sung chorus of “this song is just six words long.”
It didn’t go well. I didn’t find the original until the Internet had caught up enough for me to find it easily.
I had a similar arc with Downtown by Petula Clark. Thankfully without me trying to sing a parody chorus at anyone.
Years ago, I downloaded a relaxed-tempo, acoustic version of “Everlong” by the Foo Fighters, that was fantastic. I lost it when my stupid, proprietary NAS decided to re-initialize both RAID disks. I’ve searched repeatedly, but all that ever comes up is Dave Grohl’s solo performance on The Howard Stern Show.
Although the song is normally performed with electric guitars, vocalist/guitarist Dave Grohl’s solo acoustic variation gained popularity after an impromptu rendition on Howard Stern’s radio show in 1998.[19] The band has performed it acoustically since then and an acoustic performance concludes their 2006 live CD and DVD Skin and Bones. Additionally, an acoustic version was released on Foo Fighters’ 2009 Greatest Hits album.
The very first hit I get on YouTube is for the Greatest Hits version. Is that it?
Thanks, no, that’s not quite it. I remember that it was slightly swing-y, with a bit of a Postmodern Jukebox feel. I’m pretty sure it was the Foo Fighters, but it occurs to me that maybe it was a cover by another group, but I’d have no idea who.
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.
There was a song that played on the radio a really long time ago, I remember that someone had requested it, and I remember how it sounded, but not any of the lyrics. It sounded really heavenly, a woman with a highish voice was singing, and the song sounded really old fashioned but also kind of new at the same time. It sounded like nothing that would’ve played on the station it was playing on, it was actually kinda jarring in the best way possible. I wish I could find it!
The best way I can describe it is that it had a really similar vibe to Les Fleur by Minnie Riperton, particularly the quieter parts. The singer would end their vocals in an “ahh” kind of sound.
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.
Back in the early days of pirating, I found an acoustic version of The Cure's Jupiter Crash. It was beautiful. I tried for years to find it after losing my CD with it and eventually gave up.
Early 00’s I used to listen to my brothers playlist on Windows Media Player. One of the songs was a gloomy/trance(?) remix of classical music. He had named it (something) Beethoven mix.
On multiple occasions I tried searching for it. Both the mix and the original song to make the search easier. But since I’m not at home with classical music I couldn’t figure out either of them. Not sure if it even was one of Beethovens pieces.
White rapper, has a music video with him in his apartment drinking a beer with a tv tray, ridding with P diddy in a limo, under an overpass i think, a line in the song about a girl thinking he was mack miller. Been unable to find the guy/music after i deleted my old google/youtube account years ago.
YOU: What video had a white rapper riding around in a limo with P diddly?
ChatGPT: The video you’re referring to is “White Walls” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Schoolboy Q and Hollis. In the video, Macklemore rides around in a limo with Sean Combs, commonly known as P. Diddy.
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