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| x Flagpole Sitta | Peep Show |
"Flagpole Sitta" is a song by American rock band Harvey Danger from their 1997 debut album, Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?. It was released as a single in April 1998. The song gained popularity after Sean Nelson gave a copy of the album to a...
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| x Heartbeat | Heartbeat |
"Heartbeat" is a rockabilly song written by Bob Montgomery and Norman Petty and recorded originally by Buddy Holly in 1958. The B side of the single was "Well... All Right" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty, Jerry Allison, Joe Mauldin).
The last Buddy...
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| x You | Hollywood Seven |
"You" was the 9th single released by UK pop group, S Club 7 on 11 February 2002. The track was a very uptempo-retro number reminiscent of the group's third single "You're My Number One". The video was set in the 1950s and is described in the BeSt CD...
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| x I'll Be There for You | Friends |
"I'll Be There for You" is the title of a song recorded by the American pop rock duo The Rembrandts. It is best known as the theme song to the American sitcom Friends, which premiered during 1994 and ended in 2004. The song was also released as the...
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| x Quizás, Quizás, Quizás | Coupling |
"Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" (also known as "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" in English), is a popular song by Cuban songwriter Osvaldo Farres. Farrés wrote the music and original Spanish lyrics for the song which became a hit in 1947. The English lyrics...
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| x California | The O.C. |
"California" is a song by American alternative rock band Phantom Planet. It was released as a single from their second album The Guest in February 2002. The song was first heard on television on episode 8 of Fastlane, which was executive produced by...
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| x Up Where We Belong | NileCity 105,6 |
"Up Where We Belong" is the title of a song written by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Will Jennings. It was recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the 1982 film, An Officer and a Gentleman.
Richard Gere balked at shooting the ending...
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"Little Boxes" is a song written by Malvina Reynolds in 1962, which became a hit for her friend Pete Seeger in 1963.
The song is a political satire about the development of suburbia and associated conformist middle-class attitudes. It refers to...
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| x AYO Technology | Switzerland's Next Supermodel |
"Ayo Technology" is the fourth single from 50 Cent's third album, Curtis. The song, featuring Justin Timberlake and uncredited vocals from Timbaland, who also produced the song, was a hit in the United States and United Kingdom, where it charted at ...
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| x Deadwood | Russell Brand's Got Issues |
"Deadwood" is a song by the band Dirty Pretty Things. It was released as a single on July 10, 2006 and was the second to be released from the band's debut album Waterloo to Anywhere. The band recruited fans via their web site to appear for the...
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| x Obsession | Saturday Night's Main Event |
"Obsession" is a 1983 song covered in 1984 by the synthpop/New Wave group Animotion. The song hit number six in the United States, and number five in the United Kingdom in early 1985, helped by a distinctive video that received heavy rotation on MTV...
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| x Love Me or Hate Me | The Bad Girls Club |
"Love Me or Hate Me" is the sixth single from UK grime artist Lady Sovereign and the fourth from her debut album Public Warning. The single was confirmed for release by her official website and was released in October 2006 in the U.S. and 29 January...
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| x Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! | Gimme Gimme Gimme |
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)", originally titled "Been and Gone and Done It", is one of Swedish pop group ABBA's biggest euro disco hits. It was recorded and released in 1979 with "The King Has Lost His Crown" as the B-side. It...
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| x Living Dead Girl | ECW Hardcore TV |
"Living Dead Girl" is the second single from Rob Zombie's solo debut Hellbilly Deluxe. It was named after Jean Rollin's 1982 film. The line, "Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?" in the beginning of the song is...
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| x Dragula | ECW Hardcore TV |
"Dragula" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American musician Rob Zombie. It was released in August 1998 as the lead single from his solo debut Hellbilly Deluxe. Since its release it has become Zombie's most recognizable song as a...
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| x Thunder Kiss '65 | ECW Hardcore TV |
"Thunder Kiss '65" is the first and only official single from the album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 by White Zombie. The song can also be found on Rob Zombie's Past, Present & Future and the greatest hits album The Best of Rob Zombie.
The...
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| x Closer to God | ECW Hardcore TV |
"Closer" is a song written by Trent Reznor and featured on the 1994 Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral. In mid-1994, the song was released as the second single from the album. Most versions of the single are titled "Closer to God", a rare...
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| x Stand | Get a Life |
"Stand" is a song by R.E.M. released as the second single from the album Green in 1989. The song quickly rose up the charts, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming R.E.M.'s second top 10 hit in the United States. The song reached #48 on...
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| x Suicide Is Painless | M*A*S*H |
"Suicide Is Painless" is a song written by Johnny Mandel (music) and Mike Altman (lyrics), which is best known for being featured as the theme song for both the movie and TV series M*A*S*H. The actual title is "Song from M*A*S*H (Suicide is Painless...
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| x Are You Gonna Be My Girl | Jack Dee Live at the Apollo |
"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" is a song by the Australian rock band Jet, featured on their 2003 album Get Born. It was the first single from the album, released in 2003 in Australia and the UK, and in 2004 in the United States. Written by Nic Cester &...
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| x Everybody Wants to Rule the World | Dennis Miller Live |
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a song by the English New Wave band Tears for Fears.
It was the band's ninth single release in the United Kingdom (the third from their second LP: Songs from the Big Chair) and seventh UK Top 40 chart hit,...
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| x Sunrise | Sunrise |
"(Reach Up for The) Sunrise" is a song by Duran Duran, the first single from the album Astronaut and their 31st single overall. It was the first single since "A View to a Kill" in 1985 to feature all five of the original members of the band.
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| x Love Theme from MST3K | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | ||
| x Goodness Gracious Me | Goodness Gracious Me |
"Goodness Gracious Me" is a comedy song recorded by Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren, and was a top 5 UK single in 1960. It features Sellers acting the role of an Indian doctor, and Loren of his wealthy Italian patient – who fall in love.
The song was...
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| x How Soon Is Now? | Charmed |
"How Soon Is Now?" is a song by the British alternative rock band The Smiths. Written by Smiths singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr, it was originally a B-side of the 1984 single "William, It Was Really Nothing". "How Soon Is Now?" was...
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| x Come Fly with Me | Airline |
"Come Fly with Me" is a 1957 popular song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
"Come Fly with Me" was written for Frank Sinatra, and was the title track of his 1958 album of the same name. The song sets the tone for the rest of...
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| x Reach | LA 7 |
"Reach" is a song by S Club 7, released as a single on 22 May 2000. "Reach" is an up-tempo track co-written by Cathy Dennis and Andrew Todd (of British electro-rock band Republica fame). The lyrics were probably inspired by a Shirley Bassey double A...
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| x One of Us | Joan of Arcadia |
"One of Us" is a song written by Eric Bazilian (of The Hooters) and originally released by Joan Osborne. Released in March 1995 on the album Relish and produced by Rick Chertoff, it became a top 40 hit in November of that year.
Bazilian discussed...
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| x Superman | Scrubs |
“Superman” is a song by the American band Lazlo Bane, from their album All the Time in the World. It was written by Lazlo Bane and Pondy Doorcan. It is most noted for being the theme song to the American TV series Scrubs. It samples "Impeach The...
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| x Good Lovin' | Doctor Doctor |
For the similarly titled Tammy Wynette song, see Good Lovin' (Makes It Right).
"Good Lovin'" is a song written by Rudy Clark and Arthur Resnick that was a number one hit single for The Young Rascals in 1966.
The song was first recorded in early 1965...
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| x Born to Be Wild | NASCAR on TNT |
"Born to Be Wild" is a rock song written by Mars Bonfire and made famous by the Canadian-American rock band Steppenwolf. It is often used in popular culture to denote a biker appearance or attitude. It is sometimes described as the first heavy metal...
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| x Lift | The Biggest Loser Australia |
"Lift" is the second single by Australian singer Shannon Noll from his second album of the same name. The boxing-themed video clip for this song was shot in an unused warehouse in Sydney's Marrickville by Australian director Anthony Rose, who also...
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| x Rescue Me | Rescue Me |
"Rescue Me" is a song written by Fontella Bass, Raynard Miner and Carl William Smith. In 1965, it was released as a single by Fontella Bass. It would prove the biggest hit of Bass' career, reaching #1 on the R&B; charts for four weeks and placing at...
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"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is a popular English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early nineteenth-century English poem, "The Star" by Jane Taylor. The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a...
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| x Falling (Twin Peaks Theme) | Twin Peaks | ||
| x Viva Las Vegas | Father of the Pride |
"Viva Las Vegas" is a 1964 song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman and recorded by Elvis Presley for his Viva Las Vegas film vehicle of that year. It has since become widely known and often performed by others.
Released as the b-side of the "What...
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| x Oh! Gravity | The Life of Ryan |
"Oh! Gravity." is a song written and recorded by the American rock band Switchfoot, and is the title track from their sixth studio album of the same name. The song was officially released to radio in late October 2006, but was made available for...
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| x The Ballad of Serenity | Firefly | ||
| x The Muppet Show Theme | The Muppet Show | ||
| x Mickey | Princess Nikki |
"Mickey" is a 1982 U.S. new wave song recorded by singer and choreographer Toni Basil. Written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn as "Kitty", it was first recorded by UK popular music group Racey during 1979 appearing on their debut album Smash and...
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| x Nasty Girl | Germany's Next Top Model |
"Nasty Girl" is a song by rapper The Notorious B.I.G. It was released in 2005 in the US and on January 16, 2006 in the UK. The single reached #1 in the United Kingdom (this being his first #1 in the country, just under a year after "rival" rapper...
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| x I Don't Want to Wait | Dawson's Creek |
"I Don't Want to Wait" is a song written, performed and produced by Paula Cole. It was Cole's second single from her album This Fire and later served as the opening theme for the TV-series Dawson's Creek. The single was #10 on the 1998 Hot 100...
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| x Handbags and Gladrags | The Office |
"Handbags and Gladrags" is the name of a song written in 1967 by Mike d'Abo, who was then the lead singer of Manfred Mann. D'Abo describes the song as "saying to a teenage girl that the way to happiness is not through being trendy. There are deeper...
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| x Burkhard Dallwitz | Underbelly |
Burkhard von Dallwitz (born 1959) is a German-born composer based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born near Frankfurt and began ten years of classical piano training at the age of eight. By thirteen he was writing songs and music, and from fifteen,...
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| x Lovin' Each Day | Ford Super Sunday |
"Lovin' Each Day" is the fourth and final single released from Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating's debut solo album, Ronan. The song was written by Gregg Alexander and Rick Nowels. The song was only included on the re-release of the album, before...
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| x Lord Give Me A Sign | DMX: Soul of a Man |
"Lord Give Me a Sign" is the second single by the American rapper DMX, taken from his album Year of the Dog...Again.
Even though the album cover has the RIAA Parental Advisory sticker, this song has no profanities. This is most likely due to DMX's...
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| x Gone up in Flames | The Inbetweeners |
"Gone Up in Flames" is the debut single by the English rock band Morning Runner, first released on 1 August 2005. It reached number 39 on the United Kingdom Singles Chart. The song was featured on the band's debut album, Wilderness Is Paradise Now,...
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| x I Don't Want to Be | One Tree Hill |
"I Don't Want to Be" is a song by Gavin DeGraw appearing on his 2003 debut album Chariot. It was released as a single in Australia in 2004, and in the UK in 2005.
The single became DeGraw's biggest hit to date, mainly due to the premiere of One Tree...
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| x Mr. Blue Sky | LAX |
"Mr. Blue Sky" is a song by English rock group Electric Light Orchestra, featured on the band's seventh studio album Out of the Blue (1977). Written and produced by frontman Jeff Lynne, the song forms the fourth and final track of the "Concerto for...
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| x Australia | Renford Rejects |
"Australia" was released by Manic Street Preachers on 2 December 1996, and was the fourth single release from the Everything Must Go album of May that same year. The sentiment of the song is that Australia is just about the furthest one can go to...
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| x Theme from Star Trek | Star Trek: The Original Series |
"Theme from Star Trek" (originally scored under the title "Where No Man Has Gone Before") is an instrumental musical piece written by Alexander Courage for Star Trek, the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry and originally...
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| x Opportunities | Beauty and the Geek |
"Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" is a song by UK duo Pet Shop Boys, released as a single in 1985 and then in 1986, gaining greater popularity in both the UK and U.S. with its second release.
Written as a satire of Thatcherism and its...
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| x Come Clean | Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County |
"Come Clean" is a song recorded by American recording artist Hilary Duff. The song was written by Kara DioGuardi and John Shanks, and produced by latter for Duff's second studio album, Metamorphosis (2003). The song contains influences of...
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| x Alcanzar una estrella | Alcanzar una estrella |
Alcanzar una estrella is one of the two theme songs for the telenovela of 1991 Alcanzar una estrella. It was written by Ricardo Arjona and performed by the telenovela's lead actress Mariana Garza.
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| x Doctor Who theme music | Doctor Who |
The Doctor Who theme is a piece of music composed by Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Created in 1963, it was one of the first electronic music signature tunes for television, and after nearly five...
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| x Peace, Love, and Understanding | Aliens in America |
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" is a 1970s song written by English singer/songwriter Nick Lowe and recorded in the best-known version by Elvis Costello.
The song was originally released in 1974 on the album The New...
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| x Smile | Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon |
"Smile" is a song based on an instrumental theme used in the soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie Modern Times. Chaplin composed the music, while John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the lyrics and title in 1954. In the lyrics, the singer...
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| x Miami Vice Theme | Miami Vice |
The musical piece Miami Vice Theme was created and performed by Jan Hammer as the theme to the television series Miami Vice. It was first presented as part of the television broadcast of the show in September 1984 and released as a single in 1985,...
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