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
This was a really neat watch!
I wonder if it was inspired by Alvin Lucier’s “I am Sitting in a Room”
We all have that one porn video.
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaAWdljhD5o
It’s not the same, but 2 girls wrestling while wet is also fun to watch.
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.
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 !gifs@lemmy.world , and they liked it!
My fav here so far, I also have this kind of research motivation and ability
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.
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.
In the BBC news many years ago I remember Peter Sissons calling the reporter John Pienaar John Penis and then quickly correcting himself. None of my friends or family actually heard or acknowledged it. And for years i couldn’t find anything on the internet until recently I found this one radio clip.
At long last I have proof that I’m more observant than everyone else, not crazy. Although that being said, I did spend an unhealthy amount of time looking.
When I was a young teen, I loved collecting MIDIs because I didn’t have a good way of getting music in other formats–I still had dial up, and didn’t know about other methods. Plus I mostly enjoyed songs from video games. There was one I found that had a very enchanting melody and I loved it to death. Kept it on its own special floppy disk. Inevitably, it got lost and I never could remember the name of the song or what game it came from. I did search but not knowing either of those things, and it being only a melody with no lyrics, made it difficult to find. Then, one day, while listening on Spotify, it just magically appeared.
Sora from Escaflowne :)
Sometime between 2005 and 2008, someone from explosm (the cyanide and happiness guys) did a thing in the forums where they’d draw a comic panel and the forum decided what happened next by voting in the thread. It’d go on for a few days, and by the end the stories were always wildly off the rails. They did it ~3 times. Sometime later, they lost all of their forums, which included these threads. I’ve always wondered if there’s an archive of those things somewhere. They were absolutely legendary.
Some late 90’s or early 2000’s time travel movie. If I describe the plot, you will tell me it is The Butterfly Effect. But it isn’t. I was trying to figure out what it was several years ago, tried watching The Butterfly Effect, and it was not the movie I was remembering, but it was similar enough in enough ways that I can’t find anything else. It feels kinda like how we had multiples sets of similar movies released in that time - Bug’s Life and Ants. Mission to Mars and Red Planet. Deep Impact and Armageddon. Dante’s Peak and Volcano. etc. (I sweat there was another tornado movie around the time of Twister but can’t find it so maybe I just regularly hallucinate movies?)
Are you perhaps thinking of Retroactive?
Makes me think of Shazaam! the 90s genie movie with Sinbad, in the sense that it “never existed.”
So I remember coming across this basic webpage that was just a song playing on loop with an animation in the center.
The song was this weird electronic loop with samples on top: baby coos, a few lines from some female rapper, various bloopy sounds. It changed a bunch.
The animation looked like old 90s 3d web animations, very pixelated. The object would rock back and forth, and periodically changed into a different object: an old CRT monitor, a dolphin, just random stuff.
The whole thing had a very Windows 98 sorta vibe, I think the name looked like a file name. That was the whole thing though, just this animation and music loop.
It was maybe 15 years ago. The song was pretty catchy, so every once in a while I try to find it, but I can’t even begin to think of how to search this.
Kind of reminds me of zombo.com but not quite
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.
Teardrop At Home
Theres an episode of The Office (US) thats been pruned on the UK Netflix for reasons I cant understand. When Pam has a baby, Micheal wants to hold her, and she makes him wash his hands. He dries it on his pants and she makes him wash them again. Its like a fairly pointless 10 second bit and its been cut. Like on purpose, it was there a couple of years ago.
My memory isn’t as perfect as it was so maybe theres more but that bit sticks out to me.
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.
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.
Oh! I have one. And it’s actually very white.
Back on ebaumsworld circa 2003 there was this flash interactive thing. It wasn’t quite a game, it wasn’t quite a video because it required interaction to progress. It involved men in suits doing strange things. Boxing, one would yell into a bullhorn if you clicked on him, had a drum beat behind it, black and I think red line art on a white background.
Exactly the kind of thing search engines are bad at finding, and I’ve even looked on the wayback machine and no dice.
About 15 years ago I googled “free games download” and stumbled upon a 3rd person gladiator game where mouse movement translated to slashing direction. Playing it was already fun but when I looked through the install folder I found all the texture files and customized the hell out of all the equipment. Basically this game was my first attempt at modding which has been a hobby of mine ever since. No idea what its name was or where I could look for it though.
Was it a flash game? I remember playing something called like blood and sandals a lot.
You mean Swords and Sandals? I don’t recall it having mouse movement as slashing motion as Venus mentioned, but I remember it had several iterations (S&S 1, 2, Crusader, 3), so maybe one of them had that
I remember this game. It came out in the 90s. I think it was called die by the sword.
Yeah that was it.
At a certain point, I forgot the name of an online store that sold a lot of cool modding gear. It was impossible to find with searches without the name, but I found an old tour of the warehouse in my very old files one day and it was called Lik-Sang. It’s so old, I probably don’t even have access to the email I used for those purchases anymore.
Not internet, but I a certain scene in an anime on Scifi channel always stuck with me. Eventually, I figured out it was Zeiram the Animation, but the scene had a different dub. That was the era when shows would sometimes have more then one English dub for one reason or another.
I also remember seeing an episode of Max Steel in the hotel room while on a family trip to Canada which had a different opening with a different explanation to how the MC got his powers. Chalking it up to some BS&P issue.
There was some AMVs I saw at Otakon that never got released online. A really good Kino’s Journey one, but I don’t remember the song at the moment.
Now I’m digging up obscure media from my brain. Apparently, it’s not lost media or even good, but I remember watching a prerelease of Game Over at a gaming con once. I guess one episode is lost media.
Shame Welcome to Eltingville never got a full series. CN sure got a lot of mileage out of playing the pilot for a show they opted not to continue.
edit: oh for fun. A friend of mine has been on the hunt for a version of Zorro he saw bits of as a kid. He’s never been able to figure out what version of it it was, even though every time he brings it up, we tell him it was actually The Princess Bride. Seriously, he wont watch The Princess Bride, but is convinced that it’s not what he saw.
Oh, and there’s allegedly a Japanese show that’s allegedly streaming on Japanese Amazon called Space Jobs. This is the trailer I found on a fansub torrent site.
