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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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

For anyone in this position, don't forget [email protected] - 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 :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

20 days later and this is my favorite song currently. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everlong

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?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AAMgHB-1_Fo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Skin and Bones

This is the Skin and Bones one, but that's live, and I assume that you'd have probably remembered if it were live.

EDIT: Oh, I see what you mean. There are about a million acoustic covers of Everlong on YouTube done by other people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, got-damn! You have inspired me to continue looking again, and here it is: Foo Fighters - Everlong (Live on 2 Meter Sessions, 1999)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Rest of the 2 Meter sessions are also worth a listen!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It just takes some time

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

I remember a song that still rings in my mind to this day and I remember watching it way back when MuchMusic existed on cable in my country. I just don't know the lyrics, I don't know the band. The only vivid thing I remember was parts of it's music video and I tried going off on that.

With the way search engines are today, it's hard to find results when all you've got is vague details. It sucks even more when you know exactly what you're talking about but the search engine drags in irrelevant contexts to what you're looking for.

I was only ever once able to find another seemingly lost track I heard of that I also only knew the sound but nothing of the lyrics or band. The only way I found that was through a lyric site, that I also forgot about. It was this industrial song that turned out to be 'War' by Wumpscut.