https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxsivbXOVCY
This song came out on an album released this year, and the record sleeve says it's an original composition, but I'm pretty sure the piano bit comes from some much older tune. Can you identify it, it's right at beginning of the song, and plays throughout it.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 December 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago)
Anyone?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago)
I listened and didn't recognize it. It sounds kind of almost ~so~ generic that it might be triggering some deja entendu?
― men, ugh (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago)
Could be...
― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vk5keNbRc
― Grampsy, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago)
No, that's not it.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago)
I think maybe it vaguely reminds you of one of Satie's Gymnopides?
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago)
Yeah, Satie was my first thought... But I still feel like I've heard those same chords played in that same way (first slowly, then in faster tempo - what's the musical term for that?) somewhere.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago)
It's not technically a faster tempo on bars 3 or 4, in fact, the tempo slows. It's just moving from stately quarter notes to running eighth notes. There's a glitch in the loop that makes it sound old-timey
― men, ugh (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 13 December 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEWswHtQUkc
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 13 December 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFYNfgrjUVI
― cock chirea, Friday, 14 December 2012 02:51 (twelve years ago)
Okay, I have another piano bit in my head that feels incredibly familiar, yet I can't quite place:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tgS_5XEYCc
In this song (The Real Thing: "You to Me Are Everything (The Decade Remix)") there's a memorable piano riff that begins at 1:11 and plays until 1:30. I'm pretty sure that an intro for some well-known '80s TV series has a very similar piano riff, because whenever I hear that Real Thing song, I immediately think of eighties television... But I can't remember what series it is, so maybe you can help?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 18:06 (five years ago)
Could it be the theme to Hill Street Blues?
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 18:25 (five years ago)
Don’t know why you chose this remix version from 1986 when that same piano riff is in the 1976 original (preceding any 80s TV series). I could picture it in one of those theme tunes though.Not sure if it’s relevant to your question, but Wikipedia tells me this: “A Finnish version entitled "Ei enempää voi pyytää" ("He can ask no more") was recorded in 1978 by Petri Pettersson.”
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 18:35 (five years ago)
does sound like Hill Street Blues
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:37 (five years ago)
Yeah, I think it must be the Hill Street Blues theme that I'm thinking of, since it was on Finnish TV in the eighties and I watched it as a kid. Thanks!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 05:22 (five years ago)
While we’re at it:
https://youtu.be/NnYsk7jfUTEEmeli Sande - being
I swear I’ve heard the backing piano or something very similar before, is it a sample? It’s driving me crazy that I can’t remember.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 06:05 (five years ago)
i can't help you, but this is a jam. new name to me.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:31 (five years ago)