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For finding the un-googleable things that are on the tip of your tongue... That word... The name of that song... That movie...


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7. Music posts

Make it easy for people to help you by recording a vocaroo or providing an online synthesiser recording of your music. Describing musical notes as text without including a vocaroo or other playable link will get your post removed - this includes “do doo dooo” or other attempts at written music notation, including Solfège. This applies even if the singer doo-doo-doo’s the melody in the song. If there is a similar song to the one you are looking for, provide a link to that.

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Other helpful subreddits:

Got a physical object that you can't name? Try r/whatisthisthing.

Know what something is, but don't know where to find it? Try r/helpmefind.

Find a picture and wondering where it is? Try /r/whereisthis or /r/wherewasthistaken

NSFW question? Try submitting to r/tipofmypenis.

Looking for a video game? Try submitting r/tipofmyjoystick as well, but remember to mark your post solved if your question is answered over there.

Trying to come up with a name for something (whether it be your band or a school group), check out r/iNeedAName

Looking for similar things to something? Check out r/ifyoulikeblank

Need a good synonym or word recommendation for a writing piece you're working on? Check out r/whatstheword.

Trying to remember the name of a subreddit you've visited? Check out /r/findareddit.

Looking for a post you saw recently, or a while back? Check out /r/FindAPost.

Can't remember the name of your favorite teen book series? Check out /r/whatsthatbook.

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[TOMT][Video] Horse bolts of during sales pitch, carries fence with it

I believe the video is shot in the evening. A man narrates the qualities of a horse, presumably the one being recorded in a pen, for sale. The horse, for whatever reason, gets spooked and dashes off through/with the fence.

I do not recall whether I saw this video on reddit or youtube, but I did not see it on any other website.

2 Comments
2024/11/20
08:07 UTC

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[TOMT] Looking for a movie about guy leading a quest for super powers

Im looking for a movie or show that was set in modern time about a guy who leads a group of about six people on a quest to gain super powers. This guy has visions or something telling him that he needs to get this group of people together to go on this quest at one point he gets the people together, but they’re looking for the last person to finish their team. They stumble across this guy in the ocean and it turns out to be their missing piece of the puzzle for the last person on their team. Part of their quest was getting to an island(I think). The island tests them through many challenges and in one they’re on the edge of a cliff and two guys are arguing and almost start fighting. In the end, they all get super powers and are flying back to the ship that got them there and all of the crewmembers or the people standing by watching are in awe that they finished their quest and they got superpowers.

5 Comments
2024/11/20
08:06 UTC

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[TOMT] somewhere in the 1990s I belive US (video artist) Hello I'm trying to find a trippy videos from 90s I'm trying to find could I get some help please. I only know the name of one the albums he wrote a character he wrote and a scene.

So there was this video I found when I was younger and it starts with a bust of bachs head. And it says something like bach was a cool dude and then I can't rember much until the end of the video where it starts talking about a lavender lady. And then I know he made a album called Colors and it had some trippy songs on it and I think the last one was lavender girl. So if you could please help me find it that would be amazing it's been on my mind for a couple years also I lack any samples of the song so this might go against rule 7 please remove if so.

3 Comments
2024/11/20
08:06 UTC

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[TOMT][MUSIC] 2006 Era Rap/Hip Hop Song

I remember being in the backseat of my mother's car, and her boyfriend at the time kept giving me candies cause I would make him laugh because I thought the song said "shut up, get off of my lawn." I've spent almost 20 years trying to find this song.

It has to be around that time frame of music because I don't remember it giving off what I would now consider 90s rap or earlier.

The syllables in the song I believe match up exactly with the lyrics I misheard as a child.

2 Comments
2024/11/20
07:59 UTC

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[TOMT] EDM song by female singer

Ive got snippets of this song from way back that i just cant recall much of. I think its probably EDM or electronica? My best guess for the genre.

I've got a few vague phrases on my head, things like "are you really gonna take me there," and "my way" or "highway" or both?

It's got a very rapid pace, and the lead singer is female and I'm pretty sure it's only her the whole song.

😬

2 Comments
2024/11/20
07:43 UTC

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[TOMT] Set of paintings: giant caves

TL;DR: Seeking artist name from childhood wall art based only on wordy descriptions based on my decades-old recollection.

Hello redditors! I've got a shot in the dark for you.

I grew up with a set of paintings in my home that I can still see in my mind's eye. I would love to figure the name of the author, pieces, series, etc. I'm sure that details have been lost or misremembered through the years, but I'll do my best to describe.

Here is a conversation with Perplexity AI in which I couldn't find success. I'll rephrase the conversation below. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/hi-there-i-grew-up-with-severa-wkpAWKCWQIeC4VY846nFfA

We had a series of paintings displayed in my home in my youth (2000s, 2010s). They realistically depicted, in a blue/grey pallette, extremely large geographic features, often cave systems or cavelike features. A staple of these paintings were singular manmade objects such as a city, castle, or bridge, so distant from the viewer as to occupy a very small portion of the painting, holding little detail, and provide a context for the sheer size of these spaces. The primary aesthetic themes I remember are the absolute monstrous size of these spaces as evidenced by the discussed structures, and the shadowy, gloomy, ominous blues and greys. The (I assume) prints we had hanging were approximately 5 feet by 4 feet.

Some specific examples I recall:

  1. A walled city/castle is perched upon a rock that splits a waterfall within a cave. This city is tiny compared to this waterfall, which almost fills the width of the cave entrance. Natural light almost reaches the city, its remnants barely illuminating the wall upstream from the city. The viewer of the painting is viewing the scene from a mile or two away, and slightly above the city/top of waterfall.

  2. Two rock walls stretch high above the viewer on either side, seemingly endlessly into the darkness, like an ant looking up from the floor of a slot canyon (except made of something less sedimentary) at dusk. The floor of this 'canyon' is vegetated and possibly has a stream/river running through it? Several hundred feet above the viewer, and at least half a mile in the distance, stretches a stone footbridge between the two walls, looking miniaturized compared to the colossal size of these walls. The bridge is almost easily missed due to its size and distant haze. I may be mistaken, but the bridge seems barely manmade, as if carved out of the stone that may have previously been an arch between the walls.

  3. My memory of this one is the poorest of the three that I recall. The viewer is in the back of a humongous cave which is supported by several natural stone pillars (roughly hourglass shaped, with a small bit of tapering at the base and top), each a few hundred feet in diameter. Along the floor of the cave are a small number of houses dotted along a river/stream. These houses are so small that I imagine they would have to be mere pixels if viewed on a phone screen. I fail to recall whether one side of the cave is open to the sky, allowing natural light and shadows in from that angle, or if the scene is doused in shadow and cold blue hues, as if deep within the cave. It's possible that I've seen both versions of this somewhat popular type of scene.

My parents may have acquired these in Texas, Utah, Colorado, or Ontario. They could have just as easily ordered them, I'm sure. Just listing places they lived previous to/concurrent with these memories.

The information I've been able to get out of my mother (they've since become empty nesters, moved, and I guess been rid of those pieces or else these answers would be much easier to ascertain) is that the artist "may have been a Hans? Or a Z? Zen? Zed?" Very convincing. She mentioned 1980s as an age for the pieces, which would make sense, but I wouldn't rule out 70s or 90s, I suppose.

I wish I could take my mental image and put that memory here for you folks to see. But all you get is words, I suppose. Maybe a picture is worth a thousand words in this case!

Alright, TOMT, let's see what you've got.

I'll be happy with any input you've got. If one of you suckers can manage to pull this off, I'll owe you a drink.

2 Comments
2024/11/20
07:52 UTC

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[TOMT][SONG] 80'-90's ballad esque song with mostly acoustic guitar and sung with a slightly Irish or English accent.

I don't remember much about this song, it has an acoustic guitar all the way through except for I believe one or two electric guitar solo interludes. The song is also melodic and fairly slow paced.

As for the lyrics all I can remember is one line saying "throughout the night"

I don't have the opportunity to provide a vocaroo right now, but I may soon.

If it helps the accent kinda reminds me of Golden Brown by the Stranglers, although not completely.

4 Comments
2024/11/20
07:49 UTC

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[TOMT][Internet video] a Little Dark Age edit of stereotypical English working class things

Or 'chav' things maybe? I remember Stansted airport, all-grey living rooms, stuff like Greggs and Tesco, a parka like the ones Oasis wear, photos of people with fake tan and noticeable veneers. I saw it on Twitter, maybe around the election in the UK and definitely within this year

2 Comments
2024/11/20
07:48 UTC

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[TOMT] A scifi book about a guy who climbs a theoretical mountain to be one with god?

Call me crazy but I saw a book list a long time ago about a sci fi book about drugs and god.

All I can remember are a few aspects of it.

-MC is a mathematician

-He takes drugs that send him into a state where he goes out into a universe

-Across this universe there is a mountain that is climbed by the likes of Albert Einstein and other geniuses

-Hitting the summit this mountain makes you one with god

Thanks in advance

2 Comments
2024/11/20
07:44 UTC

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[TOMT] Looking for 90s or 2000s Christmas Movie Name (Spoiler Alert)

I'm trying to find the name of a Christmas movies for the 90s or maybe 2000s. To my best recollection, a woman becomes a baby for a young girl and stays at her and dads home. When they decorate the tree, they pull out an heirloom tree topper that the "nanny" left with her daughter when she put her up for adoption. There is also an old man - I forget his role - but he hangs out with the girl and puts on a little show where they keep saying "kaboom...chick" as punchlines or something. Hopefully that's enough to go on and someone is familiar with this because I've spent years trying search words in google with no luck. Thanks in advance!

4 Comments
2024/11/20
07:42 UTC

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[TOMT] [YOUTUBE] A popular Youtube Documentary Channel where the style type changes every episode.

I cannot remember the contents of the channel at all, let alone find it, but I strongly remember that the style of the documentary changed every single episode drastically. From 2d to 3d animation and drastic changes in tone, style, and narrator. Like every episode was animated, voiced and written by a different person and the Channel itself was just a hosting site for them. All of them were high quality regardless.

My strongest memory was an incredible visual where a chess piece falls over or something to represent defection, and people in the comments were just amazed at the style.

2 Comments
2024/11/20
07:40 UTC

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[TOMT] Husker Du guitar riff

Recently listened to - Don’t Want to Know if you are lonely by Husker Du. The opening guitar riff prior to vocals reminded me of another rock song, but I’m drawing a blank. I believe it would be within the pop/post punk era. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

https://youtu.be/DxKcEurO5jA?feature=shared

4 Comments
2024/11/20
07:33 UTC

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[TOMT][ANIMATED SERIES] Need help finding an old cartoon/animated series

So just yesterday i remembered about and old animated series i used to watch as a kid, something like 10-14 years ago.

It was about this kid that find a bracelet of glove of some kind, which had Blue Gems on It, and can be activated with a certain frase and can give to the protagonist various kinds of tools(almost like generator Rex).

This kid was friend with a girl that helped him, or maybe It was his sister, and there was also this old wizard that made the mentor role. The antagonist always had on a helmet with purple eyes, had the Power of teleportation and used to Attack frequently this Hero Town, his base was built on a giant flying dragon in a kind of pirate theme, with cannons, fighters ship and all that.

The whole animated series was situated in the medievali era, with quite a lot of magic involvend.

The activation phrase was something about a amoth mage or something like that.

Please help me, i can't get my head around it

6 Comments
2024/11/20
07:30 UTC

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[TOMT] [Generic short music "lick"] Name of the short "lick" of music associated with gothic horror, used in cartoons or parodies mostly

Its one of those "licks" that instantly associates a scene with something, being dracula-esque horror or horror adjacent parodies or themes, although it's not really used anymore, much because of how "cheap" it sounds to reuse that specific piece, I guess. Heard at that start of this song: Enigma - Sadeness (Part II). Much like how the "Oriental riff" used to be used to indicate anything asian, not used anymore because its vaguely racist. Is there a name for this specifically?

4 Comments
2024/11/20
07:30 UTC

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[TOMT][MOVIE] Japanese movie named after an apartment number that follows a woman that really loves to cook

I think I saw this movie in the mid 90s... pretty sure it was Japanese but possibly Korean. it starts with a married woman who loves to cook, and somehow she gets very pissed at her husband, so she cooks his dog and feeds it to him. they get divorced and she ends up in an apartment building. she cooks food and gives it to one of her neighbors who is super skinny. she notices later that the food is in the trash... she eventually finds out that neighbor has issues and survives on supplements only, and if I remember right they make a deal where the cook will kill her and cook/eat her. the last scene is her talking to the cops about her missing neighbor as it pans in on things in her freezer that appear to be frozen body parts... I don't remember if they figured out she killed the neighbor. I believe the title was the neighbors apartment number

2 Comments
2024/11/20
07:20 UTC

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[TOMT][MEME][2017-2023] rick and morty SLAP

rick raises his hand in the air slowly and slaps mortys face into the ground as it bounces off

Slap Of God

3 Comments
2024/11/20
07:23 UTC

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[TOMT][BOOK] Children's book about golden eagles?

I remember a book I read all the time around 2010-2012 (although could be from as early as the 90's) about various anthropomorphic animals learning to protect the eggs of a golden eagle. It had all kinds of animals but the main characters were these, hedgehogs or porcupines or something similar with droopy eyes.

I remember it ended with a native american turning into the golden eagle, which freaked me out as a little kid.

2 Comments
2024/11/20
07:21 UTC

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[TOMT][MUSIC] Need Help Finding A Sample

So I just found this song and I'd love to know if the intro spoken sample is from some other media. I've tried searching the quotes but to no avail. Thanks in advance for any help! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rxfzvQZHBA

2 Comments
2024/11/20
07:17 UTC

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[TOMT] a movie about a magic sae shell

I remember it starting with a the main characters mom telling them a story about the sea I think then we cut to later where the mom is dead and the main boy and his sister are sent to live with thar grandma this is really all I remember it was animated and I think used to be on Netflix I've look on thar and I can't find it Oh thar was also this one scene I remember where the kids where fighting over a shell the mom left for them please help

5 Comments
2024/11/20
07:07 UTC

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[TOMT][ALBUM] Music album with two gingers on the cover, standing in front of a white(or light) background

I think they are a man and woman, maybe siblings. I think its a sort of 2012 ish indie electro song that I'm remembering mainly.

I think the band name has a K in it, and might start with a The

3 Comments
2024/11/20
06:57 UTC

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[TOMT] Song from video

6 Comments
2024/11/20
06:54 UTC

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[TOMT] [music] the only spooky background music that it feels like every YouTuber used

I swear it was in every fnaf game theory but I can’t find it now.

Here’s my poor attempt at humming it https://voca.ro/1kXfZuR9GtHd

4 Comments
2024/11/20
06:55 UTC

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[TOMT][MUSIC] What is the music being played in the background during this video?

6 Comments
2024/11/20
06:50 UTC

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[TOMT] [SONG] [2010s] Looking for a rap song “my trap ain’t got no numbers on it”

Looking for a rap song I only have a vague recollection of. My best friend died in 2017 and he had a song that he loved and I hated at the time but I’ve been trying to since he died. Google hasn’t been real successful but I’m hoping someone here knows it. Lyrics I can mostly remember include: “my trap ain’t got no mailbox…my trap ain’t got no numbers on it…. [words I don’t remember] But you can drive around [and look] (I think)”. It’s not my usual type of music so I may well have messed up the lyrics but I often think of him and wish I could play it. He listened to a lot of indie rappers, gangster rap and small artists. I will be eternally grateful for any help anyone can give.

5 Comments
2024/11/20
06:40 UTC

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[TOMT][KIDS SHOW][2000-NOW] Trying to find this show from my childhood.

The show was an animated kids show, with 3d models (I think). I remember that the story was about the main character who is in a zombie apocalypse and his brother died somehow at the start of the apocalypse. He gets infected in that same incident but its a plot twist and the viewers don't find out about this until the end of the show I'm pretty sure. I also remember that he had this love interest who he liked but she didn't start liking him back until later in the series. The love interest also had a sister who liked the main character but got totally brushed off. There was also a side character with glasses and a big built side character call axel or something like that, he started off as a villain if I remember correctly. I also remember the 3d models being very chibi in the show. I remember it having a super interesting story line and character dynamics for a kids show.

5 Comments
2024/11/20
06:42 UTC

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[TOMT] [Youtube channel] [2012-2015] Old minecraft series that was enchanted/fantasy themed.

For years I've been remembering this one channel I used to watch and I can barely remember it, but it was a girl who had a high-ish pitched voice and an accent. I remember there being a fantasy texture pack and her house had an area on top of water, and I swear her username had fae or elf in it or something related to fairies im not really sure.. I know this isn't much context but mind you I was a kid and I have poor memory😭 I would really like to find this series because I loved it and would watch it after school every day.

2 Comments
2024/11/20
06:40 UTC

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[TOMT][BOOK] short horror novel about AI/robots(?) pretending to be humans on a dating site online?

2 Comments
2024/11/20
06:36 UTC

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[TOMT] [SONG] I can't search the title of this song

So last night my friends and I had a night out in one of the restaurants here in our city and they play good music. One of the songs caught my attention and it goes like this "I was so cool without you, cause I could feel hurt by you" it's not verbatim cause my friends and other ppl were talking around me. The singer's voice was a man and it has this party vibe and beat. Tried searching what I heard and got Foolish by Ashanti but it was not it. Please help me out TYIA!

7 Comments
2024/11/20
06:33 UTC

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[TOMT][VIDEO][200s-2010s] Video of girl dancing in bottle?

Hey I can't find this video for the life of me but like. There's this old vine thats sometime used on twitter of this girl freezing a photo of herself holding a bottle and then overlaying herself dancing sped up to genie in a bottle that one song? The clip is only a couple seconds long but i can't find it. If anyone can link it i will slay ty

2 Comments
2024/11/20
05:42 UTC

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[TOMT] twitter “bot” account that turns out to be the soul of a girl in a cult worshipping the internet

this is really niche but i really can’t remember the name of the account. a few months ago i saw a twitter thread about this account that looked like a bot account and if u know what those usually are, they’re usually OF advertisements or malware schemes but this one was different. it talked like a bot but also like a human and would actually respond to things. i think it had the default blue banner and a seemingly google image of a girl with long brown hair looking at the camera on a dock, i think in a white dress. the thread went over information people investigating it had found. it never stated it it was an arg or not, but regardless it was really interesting. there were a lot of accounts, but one of the main things was transferring a dead soul into the internet through i think a neocities or a twitter account (the bot). it was a small group (i think 5-6 girls) who worshipped this entity that i can’t recall the name of either, i think it embodied the internet. one of the girls died of a supposed suicide and one of the girls decided to transfer her soul into either a neocities site or a twitter account (i think it was the account) but something went wrong and i think she got stuck. she wrote about it on her blog which, again, i can’t recall the name of. i do know that the girls had chatlogs in i think html where they discussed things such as the dead girl and how to get her out, i think the dead girl could communicate in there too. there was a fake wikipedia page for their god made on neocities too. other then that i really can’t remember, if anyone could help me find this i’d really appreciate it. thanks!

6 Comments
2024/11/20
06:22 UTC

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