The Search for The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet

[@thegeecyproject]

TMMS has been found, by a user of The Mysterious Song subreddit! The song is “Subways Of Your Mind” by the band FEX.

[@Dadwar_Real]

hell yeah, making history boys

[@RedVynil]

Is FEX initials or the actual name of the band?

[@Dadwar_Real]

@@RedVynil actual name i think

[@thelongboarddude95]

Why is this comment not pinned??

[@christiangoerz8815]

The radio-station NDR published a video with the band members from FEX: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnbGoqukjJl-jM0

[@arcusma]

I saw a comment saying “this song was so fire it burned all the evidence”

[@NarestWhal]

thats good

[@JohantheFunnyguy]

real

[@tomnicholls9016]

It has been found today. It is "Subways of Your Mind" by FEX

[@Mrnotpib]

A favorite joke about this song is “what’s your favorite song?” “I don’t know.”

[@deletdis6173]

My favorite song is the full version of RTP - Funky that was just released today.

[@Deiv.]

"its complicated"

[@Viper505repiV1]

A favorite of mine is "What are you listening to?" "I don't know"

[@ronan-outoftime]

"hey what's your favourite song?" "N/A"

[@Notsram77]

that is definitely a favorite joke

[@DestroyaMusic]

Finally a song you can play on KZbin without getting a DMCA takedown since absolutely nobody knows what it is

[@drorange2261]

I am sure a copyright scammer ... will claim copyright.

[@Olgasys]

Imagine KZbin sends it 😂

[@mfaizsyahmi]

​@@drorange2261 I hate the terms we're using for these scumbags. They're not trolls. They're profiting off of false claims, which makes it a fraud.

[@Moon-wolf0806]

@@drorange2261 if that happens the internet and lost media people, as well people who use it in there video's. (( mostly with lost media and who herd it during playing Myhouse.wad Will be very mad

[@alexneagoe6323]

It is in Apple Music now (since December 2023 ) as Blind the wind by Alvin Dean & Statues in motion

[@pamelaAlmaraz-yp6by]

i love how the people who started the whole search are actually present throughout the whole thing, unlike *COUGH COUGH* CARL92

[@ewychan]

For real. Where he at

[@thezootycooner]

@@ewychanprobably gooning

[@ewychan]

@@thezootycooner lmao

[@ozharms]

More like Freak92

[@patriceytvangoethem.d3051]

@@ozharms no troll92

[@ulischmidt03]

Ah a rare occasion you can play more than a nth of a song that is less than 100 years old without getting a copyright strike

[@SneedyKetler]

Iirc someone covered it on YT and got a copyright strike. I wonder what the hell happened next More bands should cover it to get the authors attention

[@midwestweirdo666]

Some trolls have tried to register it with ASCAP and BMI to make it come up with their bands on Shazam to bring attention to their actual music

[@whophd]

@@midwestweirdo666wow genius

[@jonnamechange6854]

@@SneedyKetler No band can cover it as the lyrics are unintelligible

[@ivok9846]

this is not true, yt bought tons and tons of songs anyone freely uses. proof? you can find complete iron maiden albums on non -iron maiden yt channels.... or megadeth, or thousands more... so it's probably quite the opposite....

[@TheDigitalApple]

Imagine an alternate world where this song is a music classic while we’re trying to find the title for All Star….truly a terrifying thought.

[@Mrnotpib]

Shrek: like that would ever happen! What a load of- {Toilet flushing, Kicks door open} Song: B l i n d t h e w i n d .

[@rileyweston236]

Hey now, All Star, let’s not let those kinda dark thoughts creep in alright

[@SkydrawnIV]

Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Did a great cover of All Star

[@earth_bound_misfit]

I feel like the equivalent known song for Like the Wind would be something like Love Will Tear Us Apart, it’s closer in genre and time. Maybe there’s another universe where the mysterious band was really influential on alternative music and they’re looking for Joy Division or Depeche Mode

[@musicalneptunian]

Tenacious D: if only we could remember the greatest song in the world...

[@Microtonal_Cats]

Shazam found it almost immediately and says it's "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" by "The Most Mysterious Band" lol.

[@Vexxter]

Wow, it was that easy!

[@xylogram4168]

Just tried this and no joke, that's exactly what Shazam discovered 😂

[@krisbrightspirals]

Case closed

[@JTAG123Slamma]

You are joking?

[@freeculture]

Same for SoundHound "The Most Mysterious Song Of Internet" unknown author

[@ib-dw5gy]

Have we checked 1980s porn

[@halinaszweda1097]

we didn't... yet

[@Reddols]

@@halinaszweda1097 we need to get someone to check 1980s porn lmao

[@NotDeetoWoods]

You’re trying to have a gooning session and accidentally find the most mysterious song on the internet.

[@joshuagraham_mof]

Nah, it‘s clearly a radio recording. Nice reference to EKT song though)

[@Glamy_Glamorous_Glam911]

Nah I think that's too 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂.

[@videooblivion]

Awesome video! I worked in radio for 25 years, back when you could still call up a station, ask for the program director or music director, and ask them for information about a song. Not only would we be happy to help, but we'd also send you free swag.

[@DDramKing]

This mystery song is "Subways of Your Mind" by FEX

[@Uneeej]

TMS and EKT being found in the same year is actually crazy

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

And How Long, Found My Mind, the Alice in Wonderland song, Johnny in the Park, Just a Game _and_ the backrooms photo. I hope Light the Lanterns will be next.

[@harisk1]

I am Greek and old enough to remember Statues in Motion. I had seen them live but hadn't bought their album. I also happen to know the drummer A. (Akis) Perdikis personally. I'll contact him and ask him if he remembers the song. Doubtful, after 40+ yrs. , but worth a try.

[@imagoof14]

Oh wow update when you can

[@harisk1]

@@imagoof14 will try

[@ИгорьБочанцев]

waiting for the answer@@harisk1

[@AtacamaHumanoid]

@@harisk1 just commenting so I get updated on this

[@Wongphee]

Any luck?

[@misfit492]

Based on the accent I'm thinking more German or western European, Grew up listening to a ton of 80s euro post punk songs thanks to my mom who grew up during the era.

[@L0REN0R2Z0RR0]

There's a similar story about a 90s song that They Might Be Giants fans only knew as "I Might Be Giants, Too". Someone had just handed the band a cassette with that song and they liked it and played it on their Dial-A-Song service and before shows. After 30 years, finally the artist has been discovered last year, and he didn't know himself that the band had gotten his song, which was supposed to be an enviromentalist anthem that he had named after the band, even without being a particularly big fan. He recently re-recorded it, very well, under the name "Louderman". It's a bit sad that the secret is not a secret anymore, but still it felt amazing to see it being solved after knowing the song for decades!

[@dbk78]

I believe I heard this story on an episode of Radiolab podcast

[@evanhouston7246]

I had no idea the artist's identity had been found. Thanks for the heads up!

[@gothstar8290]

Sad Lovers and Giants

[@imightbebiased9311]

That's not quite correct. The guy, Peter Stewart, says that he loves TMBG and enjoyed watching them in NYC, but that the song isn't about the band. It was just that the band's name had gotten stuck in his consciousness.

[@ozharms]

Now they just need to find Gloria…

[@ryanpeterson6897]

I was in a band for 10 years, about 14 years ago. Our lead singer emailed a couple of months back, having stumbled upon some more recordings from back then that he found on an old hard drive. There were songs that I didn't even remember. We played those songs a million times but still, after 14 years, there were some I had just forgot about. I can imagine people having difficulty remembering certain details. But regardless, this is a wonderfully told, fascinating story.

[@TitaniumTurbine]

That’s gotta be a wild ride to listen back to those songs. What genre/kind of music did you all play? That’s been my thought as well, perhaps time has erased this song from the band and technician’s collective memory. I do find it kinda funny and sad, but more so ironic, that there could be some 60 year old out there who knows of or is so deeply involved in this search but they just cannot recall that they were actually in this band and/or directly involved in the recording of this song.

[@hhdhpublic]

Some big artist should sample the song and wait for the owner to come knocking for the royalties.

[@IgorYatskiv]

The original author of this song is no longer with us, I guess. That would have explained all the complexity of this search. Or just doesn't want to be found 🤷‍♂

[@nemesisjuggernaut7920]

Brilliant plan!

[@Eye_Exist]

@@IgorYatskiv it only means you get knocked by some random irrelevant holding company instead now milking the product.

[@IgorYatskiv]

@@Eye_Exist You can't milk someone else's cow.

[@Eye_Exist]

@@IgorYatskiv virtually every product that's original creator has died has been hoarded by a holding company. even lord of the rings is owned by one. half of the music here is owned by such company. the list is endless.

[@roonkolos]

Theres such a morbid irony in a song now being so popular and widespread althewhile no one knows who made it. Even those that made it seem to not know how popular it became Sad in a way

[@kevinrowland5753]

My guess is the artist has passed away by now if it’s a real song

[@roonkolos]

@kevinrowland5753 oh massive agree I honestly think we will never know the full story. But like said at the end of the vid, we still have it. At least there is that much

[@Deiv.]

​@@kevinrowland5753 i think the artist had move on and is living a different life, they may have heard of this search but dont wanna be involved in such stuff, just a guess too

[@rosemarysandcastle]

but its crap

[@abegarfield7030]

Something similar happened to Sixto Rodriguez. He released 2 albums, which got good reviews, then went back to working on building sites. He had no idea that he was the most popular artist in South Africa until filmmakers made a documentary about him decades later.

[@ajplays-gamesandmusic4568]

So, there's a disagreeable man in his 60s that swears it's not a DX7 on the track, and everyone assumed 1982 was the earliest it could have been recorded... but then they find a higher quality recording, on a tape that could have been dubbed as late as 1985... making the DX7 more likely. This detail should be looked into further.

[@seanmckelvey6618]

Tbh I think in the future we will find that this song is from later than we thought, and there was an error with the dates.

[@abegarfield7030]

​@@seanmckelvey6618 You're probably right. There's another song like this, who it is and what it's called is a mystery. Everyone thinks it's from '86/87 but the guitar is a Parker Fly, so it can't be earlier than 1992 because they didn't exist before then.

[@kennystevens2923]

​@@abegarfield7030What song are you referring to?

[@DaXande135]

One thing I know for sure is, that it was recorded from the German station, NDR 2 probably. You can see that when looking into the frequency spectrum, because there's a space with bareley any audio signal at around 10 kHz. Tho there were other German stations that show this 10k-hole too.

[@KnapfordMaster98]

There is simply no debate that its a DX7. I've personally used that preset on tracks of my own and it's very distinctive.

[@rabbitscooter]

She had good taste in music. I could actually have identified almost everything else on her compilation. On a personal note, I worked at a demo studio for time, and we actually once re-recorded the drums (I'm a drummer) and keyboards before submitting a single for inclusion on a compilation album because the original tracks by the band weren't great. We never told the band and they never asked even after the record was released. So you never know what happened between the original recording and being played on the radio.

[@samedman1]

There’s gonna be one dude out there in the future one day and just go: “oh! You mean XYZ by ABC? Yeah I have the cassette at home.” And the entire mistery is solved

[@VaIimity]

*Mystery

[@yohischannel]

@@VaIimityNobody cares, it’s a small mistake.

[@cpufreak101]

Mystery is solved. Subways of your mind - FEX

[@AMZOD]

I genuinely hope I don't die before this mystery gets solved.

[@Make_Pepe_Great_Again]

I'm hoping EKT gets found before my time is up

[@CaritasGothKaraoke]

I genuinely hope I don’t die.

[@coscwyite]

@@CaritasGothKaraoke I've got good news for all of your enemies and bad news for you

[@ivok9846]

yeah...we'll all die if this doesn't get resolved... you know, this just might be the most useless yt video in history of mankind, this whole affair is utter nonsense. who cares? why? this just proves people forget, and that's biggest news? Incredible. i'll just watch it till the end because it gets funnier by following web forums and reddit nonsense....

[@Dalek59862]

​@@ivok9846 remove your existential crisis.

[@ethan6882]

It’s really interesting to me that so many lost pieces of music like Fond my Mind, Panchiko - Deathmetal, Kenya Song, HLWIT, and so many others have been found, but the one that kinda started it all still remains elusive. Only other big one I can think of that still hasn’t been identified is EKT/Ulterior Motives, but that search started far more recently than this one.

[@deletdis6173]

DFHAD 🐈

[@13StJimmy]

Great too that not only been found but in the case of Panchiko became so popular they got back together wrote new music and even toured! I got to see them last year and it was amazing!

[@Lukronius]

It would be impossible to track down if it was created to be impossible to track down, created more recently by a band of nobodies to sound like a familiar sounding (but anonymous) band. After years or searching, I’m just wondering if that’s where we are. Don’t get me wrong; I’m sooo happy to be wrong. Just saying.

[@ethan6882]

@@Lukronius Considering how long ago the search started I don’t think that’s possible. That definitely could be the case for EKT though

[@NeurosisOsmosis]

@@Lukronius Yeah part of me wants to think it's a hoax, but the 10khz NDR line,and the mixtape matching the playlist from that time before the playlist was publicly released, seems impossible to fake. Unless Lydia worked or was close to someone who worked at NDR, and they've been setting up this crazy hoax since 2007, which seems super unlikely

[@emo1ife]

At least for this case we actually have the full song to listen too anytime we want even if we haven’t found the original artist unlike everyone knows that with just a small snippet

[@t0rya]

​@@disrespecc9678 damn bro chill out

[@shaiky1681]

​@@disrespecc9678you did, actually. Word choice goes a long way

[@djdef1le267]

Regardless of how we get treated online , we should put aside our differences & Unite in solving the Mysteries of Music !!

[@Shinigumi]

@@disrespecc9678This song had already been dubbed TMMS years before Everyone Knows That started being investigated, and it actually has really good info summarizing the TMMS investigation so far. Definitely worth the watch if you had opted not to due to it not being about EKT. :)

[@Shinigumi]

@disrespecc9678 I wasn't being passive aggressive. I was being sincere. TMMS is a fascinating situation with a lot of similarities as far as the hunt for answers and sort of paved the way for some of the methods and mentalities for finding some of the lost media since, including EKT. Videos about TMMS might provide inspiration that could result in answers to EKT. And now, being fully, blatantly aggressive, shitting on people for being interested in the search and insulting the video itself for not revolving around the specific song you wanted is immature, and it's a you problem that it's not what you want. Not all content is made with you in mind. Get over yourself.

[@karafaunt4386]

I truly thing that L.T.D.5 made the song. The name "farewell" fits pretty well with the song lyrics (at least what I interpret) "take the consequence of leavin', there's no space, there's no tomorrow, there's no sent communications" I think these all fit pretty well with a couple that broke up or something like that.

[@Calc_Ulator]

I agree. It apparently is the only band unidentified on from the radio playlist, and we have this unidentified song 1=1.

[@guineapigheaded]

yeah, with the title and runtime matching so perfectly it's hard to miss really. just hope we are able to track down some info about the band in the future

[@secretmage]

My interpretation was that someone had died, possibly of suicide or a drug overdose. The afterlife is often described as a place of no space and no time and no orientation. In the lyrics the person seems to be leaving or already left their world or life. I feel the song was written as a memorial to someone, and out of respect the band used an alias band name. It is likely the dead person's family wanted to keep it all private and thus the song was not commercially released.

[@karafaunt4386]

@@secretmage thats a good theory

[@dlsgrowyt2208]

take the consequence of living*

[@82dorrin]

This story has a great ending. They found the band, FEX, and got them back together.

[@PedroBenolielBonito]

For my money, Statues in Motion were the real winners with this whole situation. Nobody knew who they were before TMMS, and now they're the talk of the Internet.

[@rlinders9972]

Literally about a year after Whang talked about SIM, I found a copy of their album in a high-street record (and clothing) shop in Liverpool. I bought it for £50.

[@UndoOfficial]

@@rlinders9972 That’s so skipity in Ohio

[@MrLapapa5]

I don't think so, not even Alvin Dean for his part, I think it's a German Democratic Republic band that sent a clandestine cassette.

[@filipedias7284]

Their LP is legit gas

[@simonbone]

@@MrLapapa5 It doesn't sound like any East German band of the time, and the DX7 means it would have had to be someone with pretty decent studio access. I've asked an East German music specialist and he didn't recognize it.

[@_mango_]

I guess you could say the original artist is gone, Like The Wind.

[@concorde__]

Whoever says that is one corny mfer

[@Acidlocuaz]

Not necessarly. Like when the same case for the song "how long" was not gone.but she was unaware the song was so desperatly search.

[@DeadEye3295]

​You missed the joke

[@liamverzosa9653]

Underrated comment

[@cpufreak101]

Not anymore!

[@glenmorrison8080]

13:51 Not only that, but the song is rather fully produced. Someone definitely spent a good chunk of change on that recording.

[@myrskylintu1]

I have listened it years and wondered as an ex-musician. They don't sound like beginners, these cats can play. Guitar is tight and heavily effected, there's chorus and flanger pedals. Recording has a quite high quality sound for 1984, sounds like they play in proper studio. Drummer has a large kit with lots of toms, not that usual at that time. Big expensive drum kit, many guitar pedals, guitar player has listened early U2 albums well. That main riff is very "edgey", style quite close to "i will follow". Dunno, it is interesting mystery.

[@embunchofnumbers]

Also picked up on the u2 flavour

[@mimetype]

I know who it is, it's Sergie and the Fart Inhalers

[@cpufreak101]

It was found. Subways of your mind - FEX

[@strathcarnagelackadaisical9597]

This brilliant video is where my interest in TMS was truly ignited, really well presented and left me absolutely dying to know who made the song and get involved with the search. For once the youtube algorithm was completely inspired and found me something I would never have searched for in a million years.

[@camthekidmcg2598]

If the Internet had an end credits it be the Most Mysterious Song. I've known about this for awhile and hope to see the original creators get the credit they deserve. It's a mad good song.

[@wkody7]

We read the same comment bro

[@runnersdialzero1244]

*It's a good song

[@chobies5383]

​@@runnersdialzero1244 "Johnny, the grass is green" is better

[@jinsu216]

​@@runnersdialzero1244*Mad good

[@DDramKing]

This mystery song is "Subways of Your Mind" by FEX

[@b4nd1t9]

So i guess we can now confirm Billy Knight was just straight up lying 🤣

[@tonyf3431]

in fairness, he _was_ continually bombarded with questions that wouldn't take no for an answer, from the sound of it.

[@mattwolf7698]

​@@tonyf3431I didn't like how people were so fixated on them, I correctly assumed that It had been a West German indie band that quickly faded away.

[@MichaelRacer]

The song has been identified as Subways of Your Mind by FEX.

[@RedVynil]

I'm in MY 60's and I still remember a LOT of stuff I did with my band in the `80's! There's a number of original songs that we played back in the early `80's and never touched again that I can STILL remember my drum parts for! I don't know about other locations but, around here, there were several home-made compilation albums floating around on cassette, most of which included songs by our local bands that never appeared on any other releases. Maybe that's what this song was part of. Both songs we submitted were recorded in the same studio but at completely different times and, except for Bob & I, with completely different people in the band. One of the songs we contributed only had me on tambourine and backing vocals, George, our bassist, on my guitar, Steve, a guitarist, on bass and Bob on vocals and hand claps. The other song, recorded months earlier, had me on drums, Bob on vocals, some German guy named, Victor on bass (we never saw him again after that session) and I think Steve on guitar but I'm not sure of that. At another session, Bob recorded a new song of his as a demo using only a friend of ours, Doug, on keyboards (including the drums). It would soon become a song that we played a lot as a band. So, it's possible this song was a kind of demo for SIM that just never got made BY SIM. There was also a bit of a revolving door on band members going on in the area so, someone would be in one band one day and another the next and another a few weeks later. Who knew who was gonna turn up in which band at any given time! In the 35 years our band was together, we had at LEAST 45 different members! There were at least 11 different members in the band in just the 5 years before I joined! At least another 25 in the next 5 years. So, the singer in this song may have been fronting for other bands when it was recorded.

[@guppy270]

I was never in a real band but around 1994, the year I first played bass (at age 24) I played with my cousin (guitar) and a revolving line up of our friends on keyboard. We “wrote” one song , an instrumental, and wrote out the bass part in tablature. It’s been 30 years (yipe!) but I can still perfectly remember every part of how that song went, including my entire bass part. Meanwhile I can’t recall what I had for breakfast lol.

[@RedVynil]

@@guppy270 Lol. I know what that's....what was I gonna say? My singer could tell me what song we played at which gig, where and when it was played and how badly it was played 20 or 30 years after the concert. I probably couldn't tell you what song we played 2 songs ago while on stage. Basically, to me, it just wasn't important enough to commit to memory.

[@cpufreak101]

Oh I hope this means the AMA with FEX is going to be great!

[@ConvincingPeople]

I'd wager that last guess is the correct one. If Alvin Dean wrote the song for Statues in Motion but it didn't wind up on the LP, it seems entirely plausible that he would have taken that song to the next band he was in and recorded it with them years later even if there were an earlier recording by Statues in Motion from those sessions with Billy Knight's playing which has yet to surface. The later version could then have wound up on a compilation, demo tape or small-run single which ultimately made its way to NDR.

[@Grazzt]

That's an interesting idea indeed 👍

[@siegebreakeriii]

Very plausible, I know of atleast one other example of an artist taking a song to a different band. The singer Dax Riggs took a song from their band Acid bath called "Dead Girl" to their next group, Agents of Oblivion, shortly after acid bath broke up. This kind of thing is not unheard of

[@ConvincingPeople]

@@siegebreakeriii I've actually done this myself. I was in a band throughout my late teens and into my very early twenties, and I took at least a handful of the songs that I initially wrote for that band and later repurposed them into songs for my own solo projects. In terms of examples which people actually care about, however, a pretty notable example would be how a number of songs on Colin Newman's early solo records ("Alone", "Inventory", most of Not To) as well as several on the first two Dome records ("Ritual View", "Cancel Your Order", "And Then…") originated as sketches for a fourth Wire album which was never recorded, some live performances and demos appearing on the infamous Document & Eyewitness and the later outtakes collection Turns & Strokes, among others.

[@cpufreak101]

​@@ConvincingPeoplecan report that, while a good guess, it was wrong.

[@averagecherryenjoyer]

it's been found! its 'subways of your mind' by FEX

[@mikewazowski350]

This was the most entertaining video on KZbin that I've watched, ever. I hung on every word waiting for the conclusion to be "we found it", but even not knowing the song makes it even more popular. I was in high school doing this period, but I didn't listen to this type of music so hearing it for the first time reminds me of songs which used to be played on the local stations on the weekends. Like "battle of the bands", where local bands trying to make it big, would submit their best song and each week callers would call in to vote for their favorite. Those bands and those songs are most likely lost to the ether, never to be heard again. 45 years later, those bands would have broken up, with band mates getting married and forgetting their past, or even passing away leaving behind unknown songs sitting in a closet or in a shoe box at a garage sale.

[@cpufreak101]

Only had to wait 7 months for you to get the answer Subways of your mind - FEX

[@jayrussell3796]

Somewhere, some person who was drunk with a studio in the 80's, is listening to this thinking "that's vaguely familiar..."

[@benjaminolson7206]

I've spent like five or six hours over the last couple days going down this rabbit hole while stuck home with Covid, and this video is the best, most informative summary I've encountered by far. For me the fascination of the song is that I, like many people, found it oddly familiar on first listen, like I'd been occasionally hearing it all my life, yet it's a near certainty I had never heard it before a few days ago.

[@Juliealdean]

That’s me now, have Covid and discovered this song this morning. I have spent hours watching every video.

[@TheDiamondCore]

ITS OVER NOW, WE DID IT

[@aperturius]

You know you're getting old when you hear a KZbinr explain to their audeince what Usenet is.

[@razoraz]

It was like the pre-reddit reddit. But decentralized and not subject to venture capitalist shenanigans. I'd assume it still exists in some form, though I lost track when IconFactory discontinued development of their app Unison which was the height of UX for accessing it in.. maybe the late 00's.

[@sandrafaith]

lol! Way oversimplified, but I laughed, too.

[@Blakbox92]

11:51 its kinda cool seeing how people would collect music for free back in the day, recording it off the radio and using a typewriter to make the tracklist, filling in the names and bands in pen as they find out the song's name and author

[@kensims4086]

I still record certain radio shows because nobody else does

[@FarOutJunk]

We were extremely cool kids.

[@RetroDoneRight]

Tape trading was much, much more popular for sharing music back then.

[@DoubleDguitar]

I even recorded tv show audio with my old radio shack tape machine.

[@jacobseal]

Even in the 90's we still did this before the advent of the CD burner.

[@pierluigizappala1157]

At this point you gotta wonder if this is some sorth of art project, by Alvin Deen perhaps. Maybe the song was intended to be authorless, wouldn’t be the first time an artist wanted to remain anonymous. “Like the wind” might be an allusion to that.

[@musicalneptunian]

Jack Black: it was the greatest song in the world...tribute.

[@whophd]

Could be. This was the era a musician burned £1 million just for “art”.

[@nikibordeaux]

​@@whophdThat was later, if you're referring to KLF.

[@crunkestgirl]

​@@musicalneptunianur goated for that tenacious d refrence

[@BellsCuriosityShop]

£1 million was burned by KLF in mid-90s, not the '80s

[@Bl4nk3d_53]

I was literally thinking about watching this video a few days ago, only to find out that the song was found today. For me, this is all completely surreal. Também, um salve pros meus manos brasileiros!

[@masked_majora6475]

Same here, was binging a bunch of videos about it, woke up the next day and in the middle of my shift at work I learn it was found On the most random of Monday’s

[@kingrex1931]

I think Alvin Dean is the singer, that he brought it to the band Statues in Motion, and they rejected the song. They might have made a demo or simply worked on the song and never recorded it. The recording we have could simply be Alvin Dean with a different band making a demo after Statues broke up. This would explain why Billy didn't recognize it at first (assuming that he did listen to the song). If it were a different recording, it might not have clicked with him that it was the song that Alvin brought to the band decades earlier. It could also be that this is Statues in Motion, and that Alvin took the demo when it wasn't used. It would also explain why it wasn't on the re-issue of Statues in Motion's album: the record company didn't have the demo.

[@wii-u-enjoyer]

a 38 minute video from the best lost media channel? count me in

[@Darxide23]

A reddit community splitting in two because of infighting? That never happens, say it ain't so! Also, I saved a lost song from being lost when nobody else remembered it existed besides (apparently) me. I do know exactly where it came from at least, so there's no mystery to it so it's far less "interesting." I put it on Archive as "Lillian Axe Ghost of Winter/True Believer Acoustic Medley" if anyone is interested. Great track, I just want more people to hear it.

[@TheSalami]

I’ll give it a listen, I like numetal

[@daisytapia7038]

That whole music video sequence in the beginning was f*cking rad~ 😎🎶✨️

[@Canleaf08]

Maybe the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv in Frankfurt could help you. They are housed on the HR's campus at the Dornbusch in the ARD Stern. The ARD Stern establishes links within the ARD's Network of radio stations to share radio programs. Sometimes it might be the case that NDR might not have made the program, but BR, HR, SDR, SWF, SFB or WDR at that time (SDR and SWF ceased existence in 2003 when they were merged into SWR), SFB was merged with the in 1990 founded ORB from Brandenburg around the same time and is now branded as RBB. The radio stations of the new federal states of the MDR might play "obscure" older songs from the 70s and 80s. It is strange for the NDR, since they have a HUGE collection of music. So it leaves us with the following options: 1. The DRA Deutsches Rundfunk Archive kept a recording with date and year and title, I did a tour in the ARD stern along with students, where they showed us how they preserve music and archiving broadcasts. 2. NDR took programms from one of the pre 1990 existing member stations via the ARD Stern. 3. NDR knows about the song from the music collection point of view. 4. This song is played on MDR by occasion. As said before, German radio is often playing songs unannounced. We do not know about the package, who announced that song.

[@dezraq]

I can't wait for Part Two of this song. Subways of your Mind. Either way I love the first video you made. ♥️

[@stardmg]

there's a similar case but a bit more modern (early to mid 2000s) with a song referred to as "White Trash". It's an aggressive nu-metal style song that was shared around on P2P file sharing services way back in the day, usually under the incorrect artist and song title. It's completely unknown who recorded it or where it came from. The full song isn't even found, it has a long intro with someone making a speech about prejudice, and then the song plays, but it cuts suddenly at around 2 and a half minutes. Whang! made a video about it.

[@meganhancock8934]

One of my favorite lost songs. I really hope we find out who made it

[@ericoberman5697]

Nikki Sixx's band Brides Of Destruction had a song "White Trash", but I don't think that's the one you mean

[@Olgasys]

Ministry just released a white trash track too.

[@chrisevans1255]

This song is Dean. At the start of this video, after listening to the track without any other info, I said to myself "that's an Australian song". I don't know if I could put into words what my ears know, but I have listened to Australian music almost all my life, and I was born mid-sixties, so my exposure to this era of music is extremely high. Now I have read elsewhere that Dean was described as a "Greek-Australian", even the accent of the singer makes total sense to me. Despite the long whodunnit segment in this clip, which aims very far from Australia, the conviction never left me. This is an Australian song.

[@hamc9477]

I got the same vibes as you

[@chrisevans1255]

@@hamc9477 yeh, shades of Iva Davies perhaps. You can't mistake that Great Southern Land soundscape.

[@GustavoSantos88]

How did it get to NDR, a German station on the other side of the world? If it was a worldwide hit, sure quite normal, but it is not!

[@chrisevans1255]

@@GustavoSantos88 ​@GustavoSantos88 Are you a Gen-X music-head? I'm guessing not, otherwise you could answer your own question.

[@hamc9477]

@@GustavoSantos88 the folks involved with Aus music from that era are a different breed - both the artists and the fans. It might have something to do with the cultural isolation from the rest of the world, but I can imagine some suburban kids all wrapped up in the post punk / new wave scene of that era writing this song, and also positively *striving* to get it played on a European station. There's a large element of "cultural cringe" in the history of Aus music (even still today) where external validation is needed for a band to get attention at home, which was even more prevalent in the era this song is from. I have absolutely no proof that this song was by an Aus band, but I'm also doubtful it's a path explored by the people investigating the origins of the song- because it sounds so implausible. It wouldn't surprise me at all if I went down the local dive bar where the younguns are permitted to gig, and showed the song to that music obsessed guy in his 50s whose always hanging out and hanging unnecessary shit on the new local bands and they were all like "um, you fool, this is obviously Band X and I have it on 7 inch, they were big in Europe when I went on my gap year whilst studying fine arts- why have you not heard of them? Also can you buy me a pint?"

[@jeepmega629]

Mark my words: We will find this song one day, and that day will be glorious.

[@cpufreak101]

It was found, and November 4th is now cemented in internet history

[@DJPastaYaY]

Very interesting video! Makes me think of all the other songs that exist out there that we don't even know of.

[@cpufreak101]

This one was found, now it's no longer a matter of "if" but "when" for any other lost song.

[@DJPastaYaY]

@ Indeed!

[@ulricvoncatalyst1507]

L.T.D.5 were a five-piece outfit from the early '80s, all of whom were London Taxi Drivers. Saw them opening for the Comsat Angels at the Hope & Anchor, then again on the same bill as The Mekons at some Poly way out east (maybe Woolwich?), where they were actually billed as 5 London Taxi Drivers.

[@554466551]

Possible match or did they sound nothing like The Mysterious Song?

[@himwo.]

Did they sound similar in any way?

[@florian-schmidt]

Complete BS. Comsat Angels only played at The Hope & Anchor once, 22.09.1980 to be precise, on a double bill with The Fixx.

[@ulricvoncatalyst1507]

@@florian-schmidt You seem like a nice, friendly sort. Fancy meeting up for a pint later?

[@MetxsightseerRailfan]

The Boondocks 2003 Pilot was found this month.

[@CovenantAgentLazarus]

Prove it

[@jadedheartsz]

@@CovenantAgentLazarus no joke it's on Internet Archive look it up.

[@MetxsightseerRailfan]

@@CovenantAgentLazarus kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5DJpqd3rtGqrM0

[@Kal_g]

​@@CovenantAgentLazarus kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5DJpqd3rtGqrM0si=SIqSvfRVvl9m0KGt

[@wayge]

​@@CovenantAgentLazarusjust use the search bar 😂😂

[@Make_Pepe_Great_Again]

Despite the name, it goes hard af. Kinda like how ironic Everyone Knows That is, it goes hard and has so many parodies and covers that people create, and yet nobody can find the original.

[@koollazy]

EKT does indeed go "hard"

[@Make_Pepe_Great_Again]

@@koollazy goddamnit

[@jacksonpriestap3685]

💀

[@smallcircles8744]

Reminds me of a good friends band from 83; The Parts, out of Texarkana. His band made an ep and a couple tracks got airplay locally and sorta regionally. The band broke up; went separate ways, and my friend ended up opening up some local record stores [1 still remains; he retired and moved to LA] He gave me a physical copy of the ep about 15 years ago and I can promise you it would have been lost forever had he not given me the 45 [and an unreleased acutal album on cassette] So sorta almost the opposite situation here but still; there is so much lost music out there that was once popular enough to get airplay and a contract that is now lost or not known.

[@jacobseal]

Yeah pre-internet a TON of underground bands that were likely pretty good are just totally lost to time.

[@daved2352]

In 2002 a friend showed me a cool funky guitar riff and I would occasionally play it and wonder what song it was from, then in 2008 a guy I used to hang and get high with heard me play it and joined in on bass and told me what it was but I was too high to remember. Finally in 2024 working as a sound engineer I heard the song on a playlist between bands and rushed to look on spotify and write it down. I now know that it was Long Train Runnin by the Doobie Brothers.

[@allenhuffman]

Due to the explosion of “me too” videos that just regurgitate the same information over and over, I had stopped watching them. But I figured this would be a good one. And it was. Lots of stuff I hadn’t heard before.

[@PedroBenolielBonito]

Yeah, same. I was expecting the same five facts about Lydia and the tape, etc. and I ended up learning about an entire new band, a cranky keyboardist and some conveniently dead German New Wave musicians.

[@stevebragg4256]

It seems the only way to find out who this is to release the song commercially in a movie or TV show and people will come out of the woodwork with hands held out wanting their cut of the residuals.

[@allenhuffman]

@@stevebragg4256 And THAT is a great idea ;-) Someone could write it in to a TV show or movie and see what happens. I'm a bit surprised all the copies on KZbin, etc. haven't already triggered this.

[@djdef1le267]

Only I , recently stumbled upon this tune had it not been for me watching Videos about EKT

[@dandrechesterfield5411]

what do you mean "me too" videos?

[@drfsupercenter]

Hi, quick correction, you kept saying 10 hertz frequency - it's actually 10kHz. Cassette tapes aren't high-fidelity enough to record frequencies as low as 10kHz, most start around 100. And I doubt FM radio went that low either. So yeah, you forgot the "kilo" before that. Also, as someone who's active on TMS2 - the original Discord server was set to read-only because it got really toxic, people were harassing and even doxxing Lydia and Darius, and other moderators got busy with life and stopped moderating the chat. TMS2 started for more discussion without the toxicity. Your description made it sound like minor disagreements, not cases of stalking where police were involved, which is what happened.

[@NightmareEclipse]

The toxicity in the initial discord server was what made me mute it and ignore the search for a while. I didn’t know all of the details about the initial closure, but I remember hearing that one of the main mods was stalked as well, making them want to drop out of the search, and a beloved member of the community/server had passed. It’s unfortunate that this search has attracted such horrible people and caused so much infighting in the community

[@hannahblurp9360]

I'm not sure where you're getting "minor disagreements" from. It's pretty clear from him mentioning things like a passed guys family being harassed that it wasn't minor disagreements

[@chickenfizz]

100? A cassette tape will get down to 30Hz no problem, finding speakers to reproduce that might be more difficult though. But yes, you're right in that it's 10kHz, he clearly didn't understand the technical side of it, he said something like "everything below that frequency was reduced slightly", that's not right. The line is a notch, it means that a narrow band around 10kHz is reduced in level, everything above it is fine (until the FM 15kHz LPF) and everything below it is fine. Small dips like this are incredibly difficult to hear.

[@drfsupercenter]

@@hannahblurp9360 yeah I assume you're talking to the OP because I clarified it was a lot more than minor disagreements.

[@drfsupercenter]

@@chickenfizz yeah I suppose a tape can get down to 30Hz, probably depends on the quality of the tape though. The more copies you make the worse it gets

[@JohnBainbridge0]

Did you include the entire song hoping to get a copyright strike? 😄

[@victormunoz3931]

That would be a pretty funny pay-off for such a search.

[@deletdis6173]

Right?

[@ShadowJinjoYu]

The song is kinda in public domain with nobody owning the rights to it

[@antisoda]

@@ShadowJinjoYu That won't keep some enterprising slumbag from claiming copyright though. Plenty of stories of people getting copyright-struck posting public domain audio recordings made by NASA and similar.

[@Cengert1979]

I think its safe to say that the biggest clue we got is Alvin Dean's voice - the probability that it's him singing on that song is too high to dismiss - so I guess every investigation has to start with what he did after Statues in Motion broke up, where we went and who he made music with

[@frozenuruguayball6436]

I believe it was made by Alvin dean made the song post-SIM

[@NyanCatHerder]

I feel like he's the most likely possibility for the song's creator. If so, he might have created an earlier version with Statues in Motion that wasn't as radio friendly and was lost forever, then produced this version with an unknown band (which might have actually been LTD5) and had it played on DNR as a promo for a project that he never followed through with.

[@cpufreak101]

​@@NyanCatHerderdamn only took a week for you to be proven wrong lmao

[@NyanCatHerder]

@@cpufreak101 I've never been happier to be wrong, tbh. A one-time radio play of a song from a failed side project would have probably never been found.

[@GenerationDigital]

The beauty of this whole mystery is that we get to enjoy it over and over whether or not we ever find out who created it.

[@bryangarcia5599]

The funniest thing about all of this is, of course, that even Content ID doesn't recognise the song. _...Yet._

[@karlo125]

I had Joke that only time copyright strike would help a KZbinr

[@ShadowJinjoYu]

The song is basically copyright free same as all others in lost wave

[@reidye]

please find me when this song is discovered. I’ve been searching for what feels like years.

[@cpufreak101]

It was found. Subways of your mind - FEX

[@patrickmcneil9180]

I'm not a lost media expert at all so this is my first time hearing this song. What's wild is... how "familiar" it is. It's not like I know it, but it sounds like a song you should know. I.e, I don't know it but it sounds like it was a hit. If you just played the song without the backstory, I'd just assume it was a top 10 hit in Europe that never made it over to Canada where I am.

[@colonialwaster6978]

Its guitar melody resembles the melody from "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" which indeed was a top hit, probably that's why.

[@Storm1312]

The word you're looking for is 'generic', it's generic sounding.

[@1pcfred]

That's a common thing people say about The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet. It sounds like something you've heard before but can't quite remember. I can't say that about it myself but I can't say I haven't heard it said. It does sound like a lot of things too.

[@mattwolf7698]

​@@colonialwaster6978and the kinda faded voice is pretty Depeche Mode-like

[@smoguli]

@@1pcfred so it's kind of a "liminal space" song?

[@oxelaroost]

This was the most unexpected THRILLING 38min.. Im supposed to be working.. Could not let it go.. This video actually came up as a suggestion i accidentally saved it to my playlist instead of a completely different one about another topic.. Didnt have time to undo.. Coz i was just not interested.. Later..playing the list.. It started.. Thank you.. What a great surprise.. Im subscribed and sharing with family too.. 😊

[@malaki_moose]

AFTER 6 YEARS IT'S BEEN FOUND

[@ShadowJinjoYu]

17 years actually

[@onlinefriend3889]

@@ShadowJinjoYu 40 actually

[@DDramKing]

@@onlinefriend3889 17 years, because the song was searched for since 2007. Before that, no one searched for the song.

[@SvenGold]

@@DDramKing actually, you could argue, that Darius (brother of Lydia who posted it in 2007) who recorded it in 1984 searched for the origins of this song since '84

[@trelard]

The date of a cassettes production doesn't preclude it isn't the song. A cassette can be recorded to another, for whatever reason, later than the original songs recording. It's not like there wasn't an abundance of blank tapes.

[@CaptainJZH]

Although, they were claiming it's authenticity because of the date on the label - if it's being redubbed to another tape wouldn't you write that date instead of the original recording date?

[@shiwomino5775]

@@CaptainJZHPersonally, if I were dubbing a copy of another tape that was labeled with a specific recording date, I’d write that same date on the copy, because that’s when it was recorded. Wouldn’t make much sense to specify the date it was copied.

[@guppy270]

I was looking for a song I saw on the USA Networks’ Night Flight” show-for over 25 years. Nobody knew what the hell I was taking about. Finally, I made a post on the Steve Hoffman Forum, lamely trying to describe the scat type singing at the end of the song. Amazingly, within minutes someone correctly identified the song! I was so freaking happy, especially since I now knew I wasn’t crazy, lol The song was called “Don’t Nobody Move, This is a Heist”

[@EdwinvandenAkker]

Here in The Netherlands there is this man on the radio, who is almost the human carnation of Shazam: Gerard Ekdom. You only have to describe a couple of things… and he comes up with the name of the song, the singer/band and even some anekdotes. I often worked with Gerard, quite some time ago. But he still amazes me, when I hear him on the radio.

[@1991AF]

Well, ask him then!

[@GustavoSantos88]

Hem wel bellen.

[@Skyrilla]

Ik zou zeggen mail Gerard Ekdom hierover.

[@edvardeishen]

@@Skyrilla Emailed him?

[@NotinMyBudget]

The reason this song can't be identified is because it's written in the future!

[@DDramKing]

This mystery song is "Subways of Your Mind" by FEX

[@crunchyfrog555]

I can absolutely empathise with this search. I have been a record collector since the late 1970s, and later became a DJ (partly because of my record collection). Back then though I was familiar with trudging round fairs and searching magazines, when it came to DJing and having to build up a collection for taking on the road, I got asked to play certain songs and was told not the title or anything but things like "oh you know, the one that goes like this...". And I've have to work out what the hell they meant, and then if I didn't have it, I'd have to try and find it. Many songs back then didn't stay in print for long, so trying to order a new copy could be impossible, which made trying to trudge round the old fairs again to strike lucky. It was sometimes a pain in the arse, especially if the song that you were after never made the charts but became popular afterwards. One personal hatred I have is for the song "Our love won't be denied" by Len Boone. A song I despised, but had to play and took me ages to find out what the damned thing was even called.

[@DaYoda191]

I've felt convinced for a while it was simply a demo or part of an EP by a local band that rented some studio time to record the song, but ultimately never went any further than that in there music careers. It's possible those who did make it have just never been made aware of this search, simply leaving music behind decades ago. It's possible they're dead too. It's very common for radio stations of that era to occasionally play a song by a local band looking for some exposure. It's also very common for that exposure to do very little and the band fades away without officially releasing anything. I just don't think after all this time anyone will come forward with any hard evidence that they were the ones who wrote and recorded it. It will forever remain a mystery with lots of theories but nothing proven.

[@colonialwaster6978]

My thoughts exactly. Just some local band that only recorded this one song and somehow succeeded to get it played on the radio but nothing came out of it. Band members might be dead by now. The original tape might be lost or destroyed. Zero evidence. But the song is still there which is great.

[@mjriemen]

My feeling is the same… Some German or possibly Greek guys now in their 60’s who dont get online much, made the song and released it on a 7”… they could provide all the answers, but they have zero idea how popular the song is now. And really no reason to.

[@yngvardforskvist]

​@@mjriemenPeople seem to miss one possibility - the author(s) could well be alive and even stumble upon the song - and don't recognise their own piece, don't remember they've ever composed, played and recorded it.

[@jecarlin]

Or they are alive and well, know people are looking for who wrote their song, but are keeping their lips sealed and keeping this a mystery. @@yngvardforskvist

[@springbloom5940]

There's tons of well produced local music from the 90s, that Ive gone crazy trying to source and its just gone.

[@theo2dd]

At around 30:18, you can hear a song in Lydia's lost tape called "Birthday Song." Since I was an exchange student in 1985 in Poland, I've been searching for a German song that was played during our "disco nights" at the local club in Rynek Glowny. This is the first lead I've come across since then. Would anyone happen to know who performed that particular song? Thank you!

[@YuutaTogashi0707]

I think the tape is uploaded on internet archive

[@cherrybombbeanie]

I think it’s referring to birthday by the sugarcubes! a band formed by björk and her then husband before she went solo!

[@almishti]

I was feeling really blue today (no in-joke intended) and this vid came up quite randomly. I started watching out of boredom and a fitting level of moroseness for my old school goth gen x self and I wasn't expecting much. But after a bit the amount of obsessive detective work spent by so many people in searching for this song's origins, and its first appearance on an early 80s mix tape started reminding me of the days when I would get so obsessive and excited over hearing and investigating cool songs that i didn't know the origins of. Eventually this video made me start to smile and the story is really very interesting. I'm glad I stayed with this to the..."end?" and thanks for making this. Also, at 16:08 I'm really impressed and happy to see Don't Move Like That by one of my favorite obscure bands Chrome, out of San Francisco, on a German dj's playlist from 1984! That's super cool. :D

[@JdkdkGhghjg]

“They say I’m am the one , but Blind the Wind is not my song. Alright that is my song”- Statues in Motion

[@Cminorputitincminor]

That bit at the end about the song never being lost…maybe I’m too invested in lost media but I nearly teared up. Amazing video, thank you!

[@user-oc7jh3hw6e]

I was looking for a video about this and found this 15 hours after it was uploaded. Thanks for uploading it!

[@ChaunceyGardener]

I did not know that the search started with a Brazilian! We brazilians have no shortage of unidentified songs like 'Fond My Mind' (Feels Like a Wish) was and the elusive Chapolin Polka BGM that it's another decade long search with a deep history.

[@jadedheartsz]

speaking of Brazil i'm currently trying to find all the episodes of the short-lived UPN Sci-fi TV series "Freedom" as several episodes went unaired in the U.S. but did air in a number of countries overseas including Brazil and I heard that show is still occasionally shown over there, is that true? If so is there any possible way you can upload those missing episodes(8-13) online?

[@ChaunceyGardener]

​@@jadedheartszI looked into it a little bit. Here it was called "Freedom: Além de qualquer liberdade" and was shown on SBT with Brazilian portuguese dubbing. I don't know its current status.

[@PedroBenolielBonito]

Wait, Chapolin as in, the bug superhero from Chaves? He has a song?

[@ChaunceyGardener]

@@PedroBenolielBonito the song featured in its famous Brazilian opening is unidentified and partially lost.

[@SkateboardRanch]

Great work, definitely the best documentary on the subject that i had the pleasure to watch! Thank you!

[@meakimon]

Thanks for that final part of the video. You're reminding me of a song that I will never hear again. I have tried humming it to one of those music searchers. I found a unlabeled CD on the side of the road in Tønsberg, close to the trainstation. There were lots of techno pieces, but one of them had this haunting upbeat melody of someone's song sampled into a "doot doot doot" sound. This gave it a melody. I have never heard it again, and I think it was just someone's home made attempt at music. I sadly lost the CD, along with most of my CDs, when my roommates had to move houses while I was working in the US for a year. It really stings, since I still have the song stuck in my head. XD

[@ashsherod6321]

so it turns out Billy Knight was full of shit after all

[@HippoOnABicycle]

I think the only way this will get solved is if they put the song in a major movie, prompting whoever wrote the song to sue for royalties, and have to prove they wrote the song to get said royalties

[@LambentSonata]

I suspect the reason this song has never been identified is that the authors are dead, left no estate, and didn't tell anyone they wrote it, because they figured no one would be interested. If that's the case, we'll likely never identify this song, and it will become just one of millions of pieces of human music which are lost to human history for various reasons. I think vastly more pieces of music have been lost forever than have become famous. For example, the song "Amethyst Eyes" which I wrote. When I die, my internet accounts will be purged and all records of my music will vanish. But if someone recorded that song on a mix tape or mp3 and later tries to identify it, no one will know who created it or when. Or, for that matter, who wrote "O Donny Boy"? Unknown, except for the fact that the melody was taken from the older instrumental song "Londonderry Air". But who wrote Londonderry Air? No one knows; the answer is forever lost in the mists of time. Who composed "La Folia"? No one knows. Who composed the dance tunes in Michael Praetorius's "Terpsichore"? No one knows (Praetorious just collected and arranged them). Or, what about the music of 100,000 years ago? Know one knows what it sounded like, what the melodies were, what the lyrics were, or who composed the music and wrote the lyrics, and no one ever well. And yet, I'm quite sure humans had lots of music 100,000 years ago. But sadly, it's all forever lost in the sands of time. As are the authors of "Like The Wind", most likely.

[@PADARM]

@@LambentSonata noo🤧

[@mario_caligiuri]

@@LambentSonatathat’s so sad

[@cpufreak101]

​@@LambentSonatanope, band members are all alive!

[@LambentSonata]

@@cpufreak101 : As of 3 days ago (4 Nov 2024), this mystery has apparently been solved, and it seems the band (named "FEX") still lives, and that the song was actually titled "Subways Of Your Mind".

[@havvacuppa]

I like to play this track when I'm DJing, not least because occasionally someone will run up in a panic and ask, "do you know what this song is????", to which I'll innocently reply, "This? Oh, it's not famous, it was my uncle's old band back in the 80s...."

[@StarstruckChiroMusic]

NOOOOOOOOO XD

[@MladenPostruznik]

Al Bundy: "Which song is this, mmmmmmmmmmm...himmm". Salesman: "Easy, Anna, The Beatles".

[@mikedepue]

The secret to youtube video creation: only use mysterious lost media music as your background music, so it'll never be copyright claimed, and if it ever is, SURPRISE! You found the artist! 😂

[@ugencz8364]

One problem that I have with this search is how everybody's focused on the little we have. It's like a tunnel vision, because there's also a high possibility that some evidence can be found by a sheer coincidence, somewhere completely out of the way of search.

[@Ajcine]

that happens with " how long" by Paula Toledo

[@tomeq82]

exactly, I was a bit shocked of the narrowness of the search. Eg. digging into detail after detail but lacking overall overview and context (eg. genre search, different countries, trying to figure out the style etc. etc.) I think searchers made a lot of work but in the very narrow range.

[@TitaniumTurbine]

You all are welcome to join in on the search. Researchers were trying to clear the mentioned leads that seemed most probable and many have searched well outside the box. I invite you guys to check out the r/TheMysteriousSong subreddit and see for yourselves the depth of the search. A 38 minute video could not possibly cover all of the community’s work for the last 6-7 years.

[@shiwomino5775]

You’re more than welcome to join in the search if you have smarter methods to put into motion (no statues necessary)

[@ugencz8364]

@@shiwomino5775 I've done a lot of search, especially in the early years of it.

[@tomnicholls9016]

It has been found today. It is "Subways of Your Mind" by FEX

[@ONE-lj5xh]

For me "or the sun will never shine" is a critical reference to a line of the national anthem of the GDR (German Democratic Republic) where it says: "...daß die sonne schön wie nie über deutschland scheint." which can be translated to: "...that the sun shines more beautifully than ever over Germany."

Ok, this is really amazing, but don't we have anyone else IN THE WORLD that ever listened to the song by that time?

[@KiwiCatherineJemma]

Much is made of the synthesizer being used, a Yamaha DX7, and the official public release date of that model being mid 1983. (It might not make a difference in this case, but...) We should keep an open mind that an existing Yamaha customer, such as a recording studio, whoever, MIGHT have gotten an early "pre-release" model (for what nowadays might be called "Beta-testing"). Pre-production models might be in a different looking case, but contain the same circuitry components inside and still function like the, later released to the public model DX7.

[@AndiieRose]

gonna run this song by my parents, worth a shot

[@SlickBlackCadillac]

They said "oh that one? The most mysterious song on Usenet"

[@DDramKing]

@@SlickBlackCadillac They said "This mystery song is "Subways of Your Mind" by FEX"

[@ozharms]

You truly deserve more subs. This was a fantastic video.

[@SuperMarioJustin4]

You need to update this!

[@bartbluemusic]

I personally feel we will never know who sang it, though it is hard to argue that Alvin Dean wasn't the singer. I believe he was too. The good news is, we still have the actual song with us, the entire song. It would've been even more frustrating had we only been left with the intial snippit. Enjoyed your video.

[@xsnys13]

If this mystery ever gets solved, everyone will be excited and relieved for a moment, but you will feel sad that there’s nothing meaningful left to chase.

[@cpufreak101]

2024 has been *the* year of lostwave, and you're actually correct, it feels like all the big mysteries are getting solved

[@GeflyLostwave]

FEX - Subways of Your Mind (1984)

[@berendharmsen]

I have one that has been haunting me for literally decades: In the early 80s, I used to have a cassette tape that I confiscated from my mother. On one side was the Beatles' Abby Road album and on the other side an album by a vocal group; rock with great harmonies. I loved that tape and it was my entrance into loving all things Beatles. But I could never find out who the band on the other side was. Several friends of mine got equally intrigued and we started borrowing LP's from the library, finding bands that sounded similar, sometimes almost sure we knew, but never 'those songs' from that tape. We considered all combinations of Crosy, Stills, Nash & Young; Steve Miller; Steely Dan - I can't even remember what. Discovered lots of great music, but never that tape. We gave up. When findings songs online became a thing I occasionally would try to 'sing the song to sound hound', or type in large swathes of lyrics that I remembered. I would ask in forums. Never really exhaustively, but regularly. My most recent attempt was asking ChatGPT, who recognised my lyrics quite confidently as being from Steely Dan, even telling me it was the album 'Nightfly' - which it isn't. Given the subject of the video, perhaps someone reading this happens to know. Here's a bit of a lyric remember and I often try in seaches: "The queen wrote me a letter, said 'you owe me some bread' for playing in your rock-and-rollin' band The guy I went to see didn't look much like the queen to me, nobody dug it when I bowed and kissed his hand" Anyone? Been wondering about this for forty years...

[@kimberlyvespa]

Those lyrics sound vaguely familiar, but I cannot recall who that is!

[@brawdygordii]

Ok, so I'm presuming if you like "all things Beatles" you will have checked out bands like Badfinger? Unfortunately, I've recently sold my music book on all Apple Label recordings otherwise I could have checked through for those lyrics. However, if your search is fruitless on the internet it doesn't look too hopeful. Maybe instead of confiscating the tape from your mother, you could have asked her who the band was? After all, "Your Mother Should Know...AaaAh....Your Mother should know"

[@berendharmsen]

@@kimberlyvespaIn my head, I hear all the harmonies, all the musical parts, in fragments. Lost the tape (it might still be 'somewhere' around) over two decades ago; probably still in the previous century 🙂 I have resigned to probably humming the songs on my death bed without knowing who they were...

[@berendharmsen]

@@brawdygordiiI did ask my mother, both when we were trying to identify the songs long ago and later after I lost the tape. But she couldn't even remember how she got the tape, let alone what was on the flip side of the Abbey Road recording. Now that I'm saying this, I suddenly have a thought about one of her younger brothers possibly recording it for her back then. I'll have to look into that... It's not Badfinger; they're great, but too...symphonic? The band on the tape is more folk style. But good suggestion!

[@boxxytrolley]

Could it be Mott the Hoople?