"What was that song, again?" (Song Searching)

No song in my head right now, but the last one was Talk Talk - It's My Life.
In other words, bump.

You know, there's always Yahoo Anwers ;)

Shazaam.

That often happens to me, but I'm good at remembering lyrics, so I just google them. When I don't remember the lyrics, I try to think about where I heard it, since 75% of the new songs I find come from TV series and Tunefind is a great website for that.

If you recall part of the lyrics, even a few uncommon words, you call use Lyrster to find the song.
It has helped me in the past almost always. For example, recognizable songs who titles I didn't know.

This is sooooo annoying with EDM

Once I was watching a stream on Twitch, it was Kerbal Space Program with a random playlist for background music. A really calm and sweet track started playing. A few seconds later I realized that I actually heard it before! I knew that song, I knew that it was a video game soundtrack and I knew that I loved it, but I just couldn't place it! The next track was already playing when I asked in chat but they couldn't tell what the previous one was. First I thought it was from UrU, but extensive searches proved otherwise. So, after a while, I started playing the VOD (while that same stream was still going), managed to find the part with that song and used SoundHound on a short but recognizable and relatively noise-free section. And I finally got it.

Ever had that happen to you?

Yes, it's part of the human condition. :-P I rarely have this with songs that have lyrics, because I'm good at memorizing those. But I often have it with classical music. It doesn't help that a lot of those pieces have no distinguishing titles and are just Opus something or other, or some part of some cello suite. Fortunately there's Musipedia's contour search.

Here's one I can barely remember. In fact, I only remember the intro to it.

It's a pop (possibly soft rock) song that starts with a snare beat every 3rd count and a mutl-faceted, single-note harmony. I can't remember if it's only keyboard(s), of if there is some electric guitar thrown in there, but my mind thinks it's keyboard chords (starting in D?). And then, somewhere in there, there's a male grunt thrown in for good measure. It goes something like this....

1, 2, 3, 4, (snare), 2, 3, 4 (repeat)
(chord), 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, (chord), 4, 1, 2, (chord), 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, (note), 2, (note), 4, (note), 2, (note), 4

Using phonetics...

dun...tap...dun-tap-dun...tap/Hnh!...duh duh duh, duh dun...tap...dun-tap-dun....tap....dun....tap...tap

Musically, I think the notes are D (rest) C#, D, (rest), F E D# D, C#, (rest), C, C# .

dont have anything stuck in my head as of yet but this is the last thing i was listening to The Cherry Coke$ -- Bullet For Vapid Beer for anyone wondering what language used in this song, it english :D

Most of the songs are in my playlist so I just stream through what I've been listening to recently in my playlist, or from a specific playlist, and eventually find it.

Adventure - Poison Diamonds from just yesterday.

This thread just reminded me of my favourite Foo Fighters song and I actually had to quickly look it up as I had indeed forgotten its name :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkgUClN9_k

The last time it happened to me the song was "Banditos" by The Refreshments and the time before that it was "Locked In The Trunk Of A Car" by The Tragically Hip.

Here's one that bothered me for a while. I didn't even play the game for that much, just the demo a couple of times, but the music is very catchy.

Looking for the name and artist of the first song in this YouTube video:
https://youtu.be/SiDSaNz1LQE

The song used to be one of the most-commonly used for YouTube videos, and you still hear if on the radio from time to time, but I never catch the words to it in the supermarket. All of my YouTube searches have failed to locate it.