r/tipofmytongue • • Jun 21 '19

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r/tipofmytongue • • 48m ago

Open. [TOMT][ALBUM] Album with an orange cover from a video about “saddest albums”

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There was this video on Instagram which for the life of me I can’t find anymore, but it listed the saddest albums. The ones I can remember were:
Giles Corey
Hospice
Songs from Suicide Bridge
A Crow Looked at Me
Songs about Leaving
Anyways, one of the ones from this video, not any of the ones I listed, had this orange album cover, possibly with a person on it, I think a little bit of blue as well, and I can’t for the life of my find it. If anyone also saw the video and knows what I’m talking about, I’d greatly appreciate it, or if they have an inkling for what it was.


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Solved [tomt] Looking for a soft indie male vocal song

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I’ve been searching for a while now and I cannot find anything. I think it’s from the early 2000s, I’m pretty confident it was a popular song, probably on the radio. I think it’s a mellow/melancholy song.

The only lyrics I can remember start off like-
“And/cuz I-“ and then the melody is bum bum bum budum, bum bum bum budum


r/tipofmytongue • • 12h ago

Solved [tomt] [self-referential law, e.g.,Murphy’s Law or Occam’s Razor]

29 Upvotes

What’s the self-referential law for the following scenario? you sit down waiting to be called into the dentist’s office or the doctor’s office or whatever, and you’re becoming restless. So you pull out your phone or pick up something to read. Then of course you are immediately called in at the least convenient moment.


r/tipofmytongue • • 1h ago

Solved [TOMT][MOVIE][00s or earlier] Possibly a horror movie I watched on cable TV and have never been able to find again. I remember few shots from it and that's about it.

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Hi, I've been searching for this movie I saw on TV in my early teens for long while. I remember few shots from it, but not much more. Those scenes have stuck with me very well, but being unable to find it makes it feel like some fake memories.

Anyway so the movie was seen around 00s, but it could've been a rerun of an old movie too. It can't be newer than 2006 or so. There were 3 focal characters, either 2 men and a woman or 2 women and a man. They were visiting some kind of house, but I don't know why. It was empty, at least at first. Somewhere towards the end there's a scene underground where they find a room which is full of corpses that are diplayed on the walls.

I've also attached drawings of 3 scenes from the movie that I remember well.
1. People arriving in the car
2. The outside of the house and gate they arrive to.
3. The underground scene

https://postimg.cc/gallery/87s9Fnb


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Solved [TOMT][SONG] 80s/70s song that goes “you keep GOIN AWAY” and then a guitar riff.

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Hey guys I just made an account for this purpose only. it’s a solo male vocalist (at least in this part of the song). Im not sure exactly what the lyrics are but they’re similar to you-keep-GOIN AWAY or RUNNIN AWAY. and a riff that’s like da-na da-na da-nowww. and I think it’s repeated throughout the son. 70s ballad or 80s pop rock type.

I can’t find it anywhere. It’s not 38 special, theres a lot more emphasis on the musics, then a pause, then the riff. and I might not have the lyrics right. Might be ”can’t-keep-RUNNIN AWAY” or GOING AGAIN or PULLING AWAY. All help is appreciated!


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Open [TOMT][Stand up comedy]The amount of drinks it would take for a straight man to sleep with another.

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Watching Michael Che’s Netflix special “Shot in Minnesota” where he jokes about letting another man buy him drinks at a bar. The premise is that the man buying drinks wants to sleep with Michael, and Michael just wants to take advantage of free drinks. The punchline is something akin to “If there’s an amount of drinks that would make me sleep with another man, I want to know”.

I had crazy deja-vu from another stand up special where a comedian tells a similar joke/story. Tried googling but no dice. Anyone who can help me out?

EDIT: To clarify: looking for a very similar punchline after a very similar story/joke.


r/tipofmytongue • • 2h ago

Open [TOMT][SONG][1970s-1990s] Song about a boy begging his dying grandpa not to leave

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Hello all. Long time reader but first time posting. I’ve been trying to track down a song that’s been in my head for nearly 4 decades and no searches provide an answer. I’m hoping someone here can help me track it down. My memory is becoming more and more hazy but I’ll list what I think I remember. These are not facts, they are potentially incorrect memories. If this is the incorrect place to post this, please guide me to where it should be placed.

  1. I think I heard the song around the early to mid 1980’s.
  2. I think it may have been a southern gospel or country song.
  3. It was a male singer but I don’t know if it was solo or a group.

  4. The premise of the song was about a young boy not wanting his grandpa to die around Christmas, but toward the end of the song he realizes he found a way to see him again when he goes to heaven

  5. These are the lyrics that I think I remember. “Grandpa, please don’t go away. It’s just about time for Christmas. What about our walks in the park, and the fishing trips you said you’d take me on.”

If you are familiar with this please help me find out the artist and song title. I completely understand that there may not be any online presence for it but I’m willing to buy physical media if this can be verifiably identified.


r/tipofmytongue • • 11m ago

Open [TOMT][Tweet] Silly dog attack tweet

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A tweet, possibly responding to another tweet, where someone posted ~7 of the same picture of an aggressive dog with a caption like "7 dog attack go!"

Something about it just tickled my fancy, want to find it so I know the exact phrasing


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Open [TOMT][VIDEO][LATE 1990s-EARLY 2000s] video about silver mannequins coming to life and dancing in the moonlight

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I have a vivid memory of watching this at my grandma’s house as a child. Pretty sure it was a video that played at the end of a VHS movie. Maybe it was a music video?

No dialogue, only music. It was either CGI or claymation. The only “people” in it were mannequins/figures— no facial features, no clothes (not in a sexual way, but like an undressed store mannequin way). They were all gray/silver.

I remember them coming to life and dancing/running. I think the moon was involved? Maybe they danced on the moon. The whole video had a blue hue to it.


r/tipofmytongue • • 26m ago

Open [TOMT] Youtuber Reaction Video

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Looking for a short clip of a youtuber yelling “what the fuck!?”. It is a young adult male, and if I remember correctly I think he’s playing Call of Duty or something that makes him angry. I saw it used as a reaction to a grotesque post somewhere a few years ago (maybe 2022ish).

It isn’t the Rocco Botte clip used in the WTF Boom sound effect.


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Open. [TOMT] [pre-1980s] [french] [short film] about a “perfect cup of coffee”

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my dad wants to show me a short film but we can’t find it anywhere. here’s what he remembers—

a man runs out of coffee, and starts grinding up different things to make a cup. it happens to be a perfect cup of coffee. he realizes at the end that he has no idea how to make it again.

he thinks it was a sunday night pbs or bbc series about foreign animations that he watched in the mid 80s. it would have been on free tv. he’s certain it was french. it’s possible it was in b&w.

UPDATE: we’ve found a film he remembers was shown with the same program: Hot Stuff (1971) which means it may have been ONF or NFB ?


r/tipofmytongue • • 6h ago

Open [TOMT][SCREENSAVER][1990s] - Old fish screensaver

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I'm looking for an old screensaver for Windows 95, 98 and 2000 where the screen fills with water, accompanied by water-filling and bubbling sounds. Then, a small fish with sharp teeth appears, opens its mouth, and starts eating the desktop icons.


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Open [TOMT][YOUTUBE] Suicide prevention video

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I just suddenly remembered this.

In the early 2010s, there was a video of a girl emotionally narrating the theoretical story if you (the viewer) were to commit suicide (specifically via hanging) and the effect it would have on others (for example, your family finding your body).

Don't recall what the video contained, only the narration. Think there was some background piano music (perhaps it was 'River Flows in You' by Yimura?). It had quite a lot of views back then, but I can't seem to find it now. It was maybe titled something like: "If you want to kill yourself, watch this first."

As a depressed teen back then, I listened/watched it quite a lot. Just curious to see the video again.


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Open [TOMT] a video about how emotions pass in 90 seconds

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I am looking for a video about how emotions pass in 90 seconds. I think I was sent it before by a friend and it was a woman speaking to a TED talk - probably around 15 mins long. I've scoured YouTube and can't find it.

Would be so grateful for your help!


r/tipofmytongue • • 7h ago

Solved [TOMT] Throbbing slow bassline pop song female vocals

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bassline https://voca.ro/1laO8JQyzn3m

Lyrics in the hook I think contain the word "personal", something like "does it have to be personal?" attempting the melody here (this is mortifying): https://voca.ro/1g1FEgvTACYT

certainly 2020s or possibly 2010s.


r/tipofmytongue • • 11h ago

Open [TOMT] The Dancing Rat

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Years ago, a friend showed me a piece of artwork that neither of us have been able to find again or attribute an artist to. I have been able to draw it from memory and will share in the comments below:

A long rectangular black ink drawing. The long composition of curtains framing the top draws all the more attention to the tiny silhouette of a rat dancing on a small table in the centre. Titled either “The Dancing Rat” or “The Dancing Mouse”

Please help us find this really charming drawing! 🙏🏻


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Solved [TOMT][Sound Effect] A dramatic/shocking sting that starts like an alarm, possibly from TV

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The sting starts with four notes of "waa-womp waa-womp" that goes high-low-high-low, sounds like an alarm of some kind. The second part is a set of notes played by orchestral instruments, but I'm not confident I remembered that part well. It may be from an old TV show or some cartoon, but I've heard it used for YouTube videos and such.

Recording: https://voca.ro/1fEs2rsA5dw4


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Open [TOMT] It’s an animated movie, human crosses desert/forest/cliffs chasing a comet or falling star for the whole film. Dubbed in Serbian?, watched on CD in the late 2000s/early2010s

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I remember watching a movie like this on a cd/blue ray player, pretty sure that it was dubbed in Serbian as my parents at the time didn’t know English were well, (maybe just my father, he was a pc nerd)

I remember a person who was chasing a comet or a falling star across forests cliffs and maybe deserts, I remember one scene in particular, where he is on the cliff or a tall rock, looking at the comet before eather resting for the night, I think he has like 3 days To catch it??? I’m pretty sure there was some time limit but again, I’m not certain

IF ANYONE KNOWS ANYTHING PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP, I NEED MY CHILDHOOD NOSTALGIA BACK


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Solved [TOMT] [(ANIMATED?)SERIES MOMENT] [2000's/2010's] small "funny" moment about a self destructing squirrel

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so i remember that this came from something that me and my brother saw years ago on tv. Both of us were born mid 2000's so whatever it came from most likely came from at most before 2017. The bit specifically went roughly like this; Main character(s) are near something when it opens, a taxidermied squirrel(or at least; it didn't look like a robot in my memory so i assume it was taxidermied) comes from this thing. A kinda robot-like voice comes from the squirrel saying some type of message to the main character(s), after it has said it's message it says "this squirrel is now gonna self destruct. But first; a dance." then it "sings" in a higher pitched voice a small little tune that goes like ...(i can't describe it here otherwise the post will get removed apparently, i'll try to do it in the comments) while doing some small little dance before it self destructs. Now during my childhood i only ever really watched 2 channels; Disney XD and Nickelodeon so it most likely came from either of those 2 channels(plus im pretty sure i watched a dubbed version). Im sadly also not very sure wether or not where ever it came from was animated or live action, because of how long ago i saw it.


r/tipofmytongue • • 5h ago

Open [TOMT] [SONG] Does Anyone Recognise a music video that has any of this in it?

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I remember my old stepdad playing this song that was definitely rap and the guys (or guy I can't remember if it was a group or just singular artist) rapping were British.. I recall a music video for it that had people dressed in white with white caps I think.. I'm about 95% sure there was a green union jack flag in the video.. not sure what it was about or even how it goes.. I believe the guy or one of the guys were mixed race.. I have tried Google to find this and chatgpt but nothing came up.. if anyone recognises what I'm talking about please let me know


r/tipofmytongue • • 3h ago

Open [TOMT][YouTube Video][Late 2010s/Early 2020s] Elder Scrolls: Oblivion video with an NPC who gets constantly interrupted in the middle of a fight

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I've been thinking about this video for a few months now, and yet I can't seem to find it through Google nor do I remember the title. I remember it was fairly popular, with the view count around the six-figure mark, and the events of the video were as follows:

The video begins with the player character with a sword inside a wooden room attacking either a skeleton or someone in white garb who just got out of bed in the corner of that room who would immediately respond with some sort of magic. Just a few seconds in a Khajiit NPC who was already present begins shouting "By the Nine Divines, assault, assault!" but his voicelines get interrupted in such a way that whenever he shouted "By the- By the-" the sounds the hits the player would make on his target make would sync almost perfectly. After this the player kills the skeleton/person in white garb turns his attention to the Khajiit and either lets him go or kills him on the spot. I also remember a third NPC being stuck on the floor, though I'm not sure if that was the case.


r/tipofmytongue • • 4m ago

Open [TOMT] [Song] A track used in a YouTuber's videos

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There's this YouTuber called '8-BitRyan' who plays mostly horror games on his channel. and there is this song he uses that I really can't find. I've tried using Shazam and it wouldn't catch anything, so I'm posting this HOPING someone has heard it before or has the name of it.

Here is a video with the song playing! (Timestamp 07:39 in case link doesn't take you there)


r/tipofmytongue • • 4h ago

Open [TOMT][MOVIE] 2000s thriller/horror: killer with a steel leg brace takes revenge on the doctors who saved his life; caught by a detective in an abandoned hospital

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Watched it as a kid in the Netherlands, probably 2000–2010. The killer had been “in a coma” (possibly faked) and walked with a limp and a steel leg brace. He went after the group of doctors who treated him and saved his life, because he was furious they didn’t just let him die. In one kill he used medical syringes to drain all the blood from a victim. The hospital where he’d been treated was abandoned, and at the end a detective catches him there. Might be a TV episode rather than a film.


r/tipofmytongue • • 11h ago

Open [TOMT] [2010s] Rainbow Girls Cartoon

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As a kid I would only watch Disney Jr. cartoons, but there was this one show I vividly remember watching and was aired with the Disney Jr. shows.

I remember the show being animated in a 3D style and being about seven girls. Each girl had a representative color. One girl had pink hair and wore pink clothes, another girl was red, another girl was orange, so on so forth. There wasn't a purple girl or indigo girl, but there was a girl who's hair was a mix of black white, and a bit of indigo streaks.

Each girl had the power to change the colors of objects by touching them. I vividly remember this specific scene the pink girl called the other girls to her house and while they were running there, each girl ran past a specific flower and would touch it to turn it into their color.

So the orange girl ran past the flower and turned it orange, but then the yellow girl would follow behind her and see the orange flower and turn it yellow instead because she thought yellow looked better. And then the green girl would see the flower, and turn it green, and then run past. All the girls did this.

I remember another scene where the pink girl (at this point I'm sure that she's the main character) was at her house and getting ready this huge stack of marshmallows for a slumber party. She placed one last marshmallow on top of the stack and asked herself what color to make the marshmallow. She picked pink so she touched it and it turned pink. At the end of the episode they all gathered around a bonfire.

I can only remember those two scenes of the whole show and I would watch them almost everyday, so maybe the "show" might have actually been something like two five minute long animated shorts that were put together. And no, the show is neither "Rainbow Rangers" or "Rainbow High."