“Something something, hot hot (?) ta da da, something something, hot hoooooot”

Has been stuck in my head for months now!

(By the way, “something” is always the same word, song from the 80s/90s I think, just in case there’s someone that can help 😂)

I got lucky in a sad way recently with discovering a song I’d had stuck in my head.

It was “Peter Gunn” by Duane Eddy, and I finally got the name of the song but only because of the news of his death.

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.

https://youtu.be/eS2mfeo-Ues

I ended up having to recreate it from memory in a DAW and used Google Assistant to identify it

If I knew enough about it to describe it in a comment, I wouldn’t have trouble searching for it.

Sorry, still looking. 30 years.

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.

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.

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 :-)

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZCCT8Cv62M

A pretty famous song from the 80s. I only remember the intro, which sounds similar to the intro of “Take my breath away” by “Berlin”. Just a bass, going Dum Dum - Dum Dum. I know nothing else, not even if the singer is male or female. Tried to find it a few times, no luck.

Also Conquest of Paradise for me! I had the tune randomly pop up in my head for well over a decade, probably close to two, without having any idea what it was. Every few years I tried finding out what it was, but at no avail. Online melody searches weren’t that good, and when I hummed the melody to people or played it on the piano, people either had no clue or, at best, were like “that sounds familiar but I have no idea what it is”. I even toyed with the idea that I had come up with the melody myself, though I did find it unlikely.

I can’t describe the happiness I felt when I finally discovered the actual song when I once again tried finding it, this time by humming into Google’s music search thing

Usually some soul-jazz post-bop joint but I can never figure out if it’s Cannonball Adderley or Lee Morgan.

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.

When I was a kid in 1992/93, I’d listen to the local hip-hop station. They’re play house music at night and there’d be a track that would come up that was super catchy. Being the early 90s, and late night radio of just hour long mixed music, they’d never call out the song title and there’s was no internet to look it up on a playlist or something. It also didn’t help that the song was basically nonsensical lyrics, so describing the song by it’s lyrics was pretty worthless. Though I did try to look for it through the years, I never had much luck. It was so strange to me that a seemingly popular song just disappeared like that.

At some point in the late 2000s, I managed to discover a forum that specialized in identifying songs. I happened to have a recording of the song on cassette from the days I’d sit by the radio with my thumb on the record button for when my favorite songs would come up. I uploaded a small clip of it for them to identify it. A few days later after some incorrectly identified songs, someone says, “Nightcrawlers- Push the Feeling On”. Damn! I was elated! I looked it up on YouTube and there it was, with a music video too! I was very happy that day.