That thing you could’ve sworn you existed, remembered existed and how it has now turned into a great wonder of a chase to acquire again after so long. What is that thing for you?
Mine is discovering what music was played during an old internet radio show I still listen to was. The episodes I’m listening to are 21 years old now and for years I wondered what specific tracks were played on that show that I so want copies of. In one of the episodes, the host mentions that the backing music is from Digitally Imported now known as DI.FM.
However, that doesn’t do me any good since newer music is played now on that platform and with no hint or source telling me what tracks were played on that show in show notes or even word of mouth, I’ve no hope in tracking them down. So for so long, I’ve had to listen to this show’s episodes almost religiously, just because of the music that was played.
And my only hope now is tinkering with audio tools so I can figure a way to rip out the parts where the hosts are talking so it is just the music, then go around online asking people who’re more expert on the genre than I am to tell me, then find them and download them.
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Due to this post I just found mine.
For the longest time I’ve been trying to find a video that featured someone copying a VHS recording over and over again, each time loosing a little bit of quality.
The specific video featured a catchy song, but I couldn’t remember the song or any of the words. I’ve found a few different videos over the years but every time I found a video the song was wrong.
Every few years it’s jumped into my head and I’ve gone off looking for it, but could never quite figure it out.
This time I either put in just the right terms or the magic algorithm has moved it around,
It’s actually pretty cool, I remembered something very similar to this but it was from AVGN. It was uploaded, but taken down, of him showcasing the degrading video quality of a VHS, it was exactly something like this. It might’ve been a home video he did, where he or someone is punching another person while jogging down the street and everytime it played, the quality went down.
Makes me think of Disintegration Loops
I wonder if it was inspired by Alvin Lucier’s “I am Sitting in a Room”
We all have that one porn video.
I don’t because I did a siterip in like 2006-2007ish. I never lost that video.
Similar, but I’ve been saving quality content from FA, E6, etc for over 20 years now. First it was because DSL was awful (700kb/s) and images were small enough for storing, then it was for archival, now the last decadeish I have plex scan the directory whenever I drop this months downloads onto my server, and boom it’s my personal treasure trove, whenever I please. Come over, little TV show, maybe a movie, some snuggles and hey there look at this huge dragon I found last week~
So you didn’t truecrypt then forget the keyfile?
I have multiple!
It isn’t because they were completely unique or anything either, just that they had the right lighting and framing and reactions that really worked in a sea of similar stuff. Found a few of them over the years, but there are still a few out there haunting me.
Mine aren’t because they were perfect, just because I was on the cusp of manhood, and they imprinted on me like a duckling that thinks a pair of wellies are its mom.
Jordan Capri?
Mine: Pretty blonde girl with some piercings and knee-high rainbow socks doing a striptease to the song “Sail” by Awolnation. She was pretty and timed herself well to the song, it was hypnotic
Back around 1991 or so, I saw a promotional piece of art in a centerfold in a Nintendo Power magazine, which was a high-resolution and not-cropped version of the artwork that appears on the Secret of Mana title screen. I really liked the image, and wished that I could get a copy. I thought that someone must have scanned the art at some point, but couldn’t find it anywhere online. Back around 2023 — 32 years later — after repeated, sporadic hunts — I finally found a high-quality scan, and uploaded it to [email protected]:
https://lemmy.world/post/18353742
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4f16e6c1-2174-45fa-b9e9-c8ae6e1a3f7d.png
I promptly ran into another Threadiverse user in that thread who had been saying that he had been looking for the same thing for ages.
EDIT: Based on this Reddit post of a lower-quality version, the artist is Hiro Isono.
I remember this image too it’s so fucking badass.
In fact, like I did with the UNIX is Magic poster, I may take this image and get it printed up on a nice large, glossy poster and mount it because fuck I have missed this. Thank you for sharing.
Hah! Glad to hear that that’s another white whale harpooned, then!
I mean, I had completely forgotten about it entirely until you shared it and then the memory just blasted into my mind.
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One time in the early 2000s, I saw a commercial during Adult Swim on Cartoons Network and I’ve wanted to see it again ever since. It was for Virgin Mobile and it featured Ode to Joy or 1812 Overture plating over quick cuts of mundane objects which turn out to be innuendo… for body parts. I know it wasn’t delusion because I was at a friends house and also though it was epic.
Two things:
An article about a blockade of kayaks that were in an Eastern US port preventing warships from leaving the country to go to the war in Iraq. It was spearheaded by Quakers and was part of the impetus the Bush admin wanted to use to charge Quakers as terrorists. Quakers are one of the few religious groups that are by default conscientious objectors and cannot be drafted into the military due to the non-violence aspects of their religion. I have been able to find evidence that the Bush admin was toying with prosecuting Quakers, but not this specific event.
An article about musicians suing their record company for money made from suing individuals for file sharing. The record companies always argued that the people doing music piracy were stealing from the musicians, but the musicians had to sue their record company to see a penny of that money.
All together I have literally spent days and days over the years trying to find these. I have a fairly good memory and everything else I remember from that period of time I have been able to dig to find the source. These two elude me and it kills me.
There are various audio services that will identify music if you upload a clip. Sort of TinEye for audio. I can’t name a specific service, but they are out there. If you haven’t, you might give it a shot.
kagis
https://www.aha-music.com/identify-songs-music-recognition-online/
I can name a couple of apps that try to recognize songs from the microphone:
SoundHound - my favorite. For most songs I’ve used it for, it recognizes exactly where in the song it was and shows you the lyrics, highlighting the active line and updating live, so you can follow along.
Shazam - most popular and well-known (at least we’re I’m from)
Google - you can use the microphone to search. Has the best chance of recognizing songs through humming or singing in my experience.
Anyone watched Dark, the Netflix Germany TV show? I swear the last scene had Lorde’s song as the background. But the last time I rewatched it, the song wasn’t there.
Edit:
Spoiler
It’s the scene where Jonas and Martha ceased to exist
That actually happens kinda frequently with some TV shows. For instance, The House MD theme song is famously Teardrop by Massive Attack, but some streaming platforms didn’t get the rights to that song, and they replace it with a very similar song. I was watching House with a friend a while back, on Netflix I believe, and remember thinking “Wait a sec, this isn’t Teardrop”, and sure enough the credits listed a completely different song for the opening.
Except that it’s usually documented. I’ve looked all over the internet and I could not find a single trace, I’m starting to doubt my sanity.
I remember watching Prison Break and Teardrop hit. It’s a trope in anime that when the OP (opening theme) hits mid-episode, shit is about to get real. And Teardrop was never Prison Break’s OP, but the scene had similar energy.
BBC cop drama Luther tried the same trick, playing Sia’s Breathe Me (what played over the epic Six Feet Under ending — widely considered the best ending of any TV show, ever) over the ending of an episode and it… kinda… fell flat. So it doesn’t always work.
I expected Good Doctor to have a Teardrop scene. Maybe the earthquake. Maybe the scene when a certain major character left the show. Especially since it’s made by David Shore, the guy who made House MD.
It’s funny because Massive Attack is not my kinda band at all. I have enjoyed electronic bands (Japan’s The Sixth Lie is considered one, and I love them) but generally don’t follow them. I do love some Teardrop, though. Maybe because of House MD? It’s just a cool song. Some of the electronic stuff in the Mortal Kombat (1995) soundtrack — KMFDM, and others — was cool, too.
I’m not familiar with it, but according to this, the last episode is “The Paradise”.
I assume that this is it:
Honestly, I’m not sure what you’re trying to tell me, as I already know all that. I have seen it to the end after all.
Anywho, the last time I’ve (re)watched it, it has What A Wonderful World by Soap & Skin, but what I remembered is that it had Perfect Places by Lorde.
I assumed that if you could check it, it’d either have the song or not.
Are any of these what you’re thinking about?
Nope. In place of What A Wonderful World by Soap & Skin, there was Perfect Places by Lorde, at least in my memory.
For years, mine was this gif I saw on UsVsTh3m in 2013. It had no context, and the only hint to its origin was the barely legible “29. 暑〜い!” overlay. I had a guess that this was from a Japanese TV talent show. I wanted to find the original video, but the trail went cold.
Years later, I don’t know how, I heard of a series of Japanese TV specials called Kesou Taishou, known overseas as Masquerade. UsVsTh3m got bought by the Mirror and their post was taken down, but I still had the gif. My Google Translate research skills had improved, so I looked up Masquerade on Japanese Wikipedia and searched all the episode guides for 暑〜い!, and in the shows from 2007, I found it! It was entry 29 in the 78th special, and it won third place there.
I try not to post things that don’t have a legal source, so I quietly updated my blog post and didn’t mention it anywhere else. Until…
Three months ago, my partner started getting YouTube recommendations for this show. I checked, and the show’s new official YouTube channel had just uploaded this performance a few days earlier. I made a better gif of it and posted it to [email protected] , and they liked it!
Mine is a youtube video where girl shares that she used to do extreme self deprecating humor like “oh, i dropped this thing, i should just kill myself” but tried flipping completely to “oh, i dropped this thing, guess it’s the price of having such nice skin and grace.” She noticed how it helped her improve her relation with her friends and weed out the bad ones. This video was profoundly influential to me but i didn’t realize until later so i didn’t save it at the time.
Mine is a video. In my memory it’s a well-produced, fast-paced, choreographed fight scene featuring the Power Rangers battling a band of generic goons for possession of some MacGuffin: a crystal or orb or whatever. The twist is, the whole thing is set to the song Run by Ghostface Killah. Every few years I look for it, and always come up empty-handed.
Could have been taken down due to a copyright complaint if it was using unlicensed commercial music.
That sounds dope as hell.
I think Run is Capadonna, not Ghostface, unsure if that’s helpful or not.
Run is definitely Ghostface & Jadakiss. It’s got a killer remix by Ratatat which is my favorite version. It’s also got one of my favorite lyrics of all time.
I can’t go to jail my mother cookin’ chicken for dinner! Damn!
Back in the early years of youtube there used to be an anituber that had super funny and cool content. He would review anime and had an anime avatar with a cape over his head. (The Avatar kinda looked like Cid “Shadow”) he would make super funny and witty vids and he was also very popular but than deleted all vids and disappeared.
I don’t remeber the name of the channel and many weebs I’ve talked to, don’t have a clue who I’m talking about.
I have smaller white whales, every year or so I remember something cool from some 4-5 years ago, usually quite niche, and I am rarely able to find it.
Yesterday, I remembered a music video from the lockdowns. Poppy music with a catchy refrain, the two artists on screen, singer and electric piano player, jungle inspired decorations. A pineapple on the keyboard. I’m sure if I could remember even a couple of words of the refrain I would be set… but somehow i remember that the artists were set in NY.
There was a Tetris type game, with falling pieces you had to rotate and line up, but the pieces were men and women. When they fit together in sex positions, they moaned.
I was 14 and it was hilarious.
If it was called anything but Sextris, they fucked up.
From my youth(I’m 39), I remember McDonalds having a pizza happy meal. I remember the commercial for it being a song with the lyrics “It’s a pizza happy meal, a pepperoni and cheese!” The song was to the tune of a very stereotypical “Italian” sounding tune. Now, there’s definitive evidence that a pizza happy meal existed but I cannot find that commercial or someone else who remembers that song.
