Millions LOVE This 80s Song But NOBODY Knows What it’s CALLED or WHO Sings it! | Professor of Rock

[@ProfessorofRock]

Poll: What is your pick for the STRANGEST song of the Rock Era?

[@catherine6653]

This is Ponderous by 2NU

[@peterd.9978]

Living on Video - Trans X

[@bobdavis4848]

"Ach Golgotha (Maldoror Is Dead)" by Current 93; if it even counts as a "song"!

[@christineml1476]

The Ramones “Every Time I Eat Vegetables It Makes Me Think Of You”

[@vehicle22]

D.O.A. by Bloodrock

[@TheDunestrider]

Someone else posted, on another video concerning this song is: "The fastest way to find out who created this song is to use it in an advertisement and wait to see who sues you."

[@flash001USA]

Lol but the idea would probably work.

[@buzzlight2nd1]

Probably why only a 2-second sampling (some of us might be able to identify that song, if enough of it was streamed on YT).

[@jamesfowley4114]

If they're still alive.

[@MattStryker]

THIS WAS NEARLY EXACTLY WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO POST!

[@TheRealRedRooster]

After 40 years????

[@danstone8783]

One thing we know for sure is that Don Henley was not involved with this song as there have been no lawsuits filed for playing parts of this song.

[@JohnHoganN8]

😂😂

[@catherine6653]

So true 😊

[@RBS_]

...ha-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! ....Knowing 'The Henley', this is SO TRUE!!

[@fredbriggs2225]

Or, on the same note, Tom Sholz.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha!

[@ChrisNS17]

It's been found!!! FEX - Subways Of Your Mind

[@GrimRockandRoll]

I just saw that today! FEX is a obscure band from Kiel, North Germany and there was an actual full demo with several tracks including this one and they have the proof between the music studio where they recorded it and have shown they have played it live as well. A youtuber called Horizon has the full demo tape posted.

[@AutoReport1]

It seems it was found by pure coincidence. Someone tracked down a band member they knew from an old article, heard the music and realized it was the lost song. It's since been registered, the band has been interviewed and better quality recordings uploaded.

[@bjako]

@@GrimRockandRoll All three songs from the demo are really good and worth a listen.

[@GrimRockandRoll]

@ I am going to sit and listen to them all soon.

[@fvrrljr]

*I Looked For This Comment!* *you beat me to it Bro' i knew i saw Professor of Rock cover this story even though i have been following it for 10 yrs* *Cerveza For You!!!* 🍺

[@shiroibasketshoes]

It's "Subways Of Your Mind" by FEX, from Kiel, Germany.

[@DaveNHJ]

There is some dude in his mid to late 60's living in Europe who avoids the internet and social media sitting in a coffee shop right now having no idea the world is listening to the song he wrote in 1984 about his ex-wfe.

[@NotHereToBeNice]

About his skateboard. Not wife--skateboard.

[@milanuzelac9980]

Hey ! That's me !!!

[@BismarckMandanBlog]

This song needs plenty of big market radio airplay. Obviously the internet isn’t where the answer lies.

[@jeremyrowe743]

I know the artist and the name of the song. Estonion band Beat Boy (Sven Lohmas) made it and its called "Bravely" I'll take my prize after you confirm

[@OlliGarch]

@@jeremyrowe743I guess we will see if you are right when the video ends I hope.

[@dbf1dware]

I am gobsmacked that someone out there found the background frequency linking the recording to the radio station, and that people out there could identify what synth was used. People are truly amazing.

[@Neevie-Styx]

If only people were as amazing as dogs. 😝🐶

[@strummercash5601]

@Neevie-Styx Honeybear (at left) and I both agree with you. Your comment has our total and complete endorsement.

[@daryldixon5280]

Welcome to America

[@daryldixon5280]

Welcome to America 🇺🇸!!!!!!!!!!!!!(w/o the UNITED STATES)

[@CamoShirt]

@@Neevie-Styx no dogs have entered this chat because they have no concept of internet/youtube/texting etc

[@KevyNova]

There are thousands upon thousands of bands that create great songs but never get discovered and eventually break up and fade away from memory. I knew some GREAT bands in the ‘80s and ‘90s who had songs that would’ve been hits had they had the right connections but unless you lived in a small area of New England, you’ve never heard them. One more reason why it’s important to support LOCAL MUSIC!

[@cynthiabujak2368]

Totally agree! Pay attention, and support local music! xx

[@asinromeo37]

Absolutely agree 100%! So much great music, the rest of the world will never know of, sitting on cassettes bought at bar gigs in my local area. 😢

[@Phoenix2312]

Very True.. and some even become Massive Stars without ever intending to or wanting to... I recall back in the late 1980's... There were Fairground Recording Booths, I believe they were mainly in the USA and Europe, You could record your own Music Track and Take it home... One chap did just that but left his Recording behind and someone picked it up and sent it to a Radio Station... It then got published and the hunt was on to find the Mysterious 'Steve "Silk" Hurley' The Song - JACK YOUR BODY - Became a Massive NUMBER1 HIT here in the UK... And trying to find him became a mission! In the end, Someone did... And he begged just to be left alone... He di not want to be Famous, He did not want a Music Career, It was just a bit of Fairground fun... I do hope after he was found he got at least some royalties - He deserved that at the very least even if he did not want the fame!

[@crochetchica4559]

Sounds a little like Modern English 🤔

[@davidpeck3912]

Read the book, Hitless Wonder

[@hgodvilla00]

Adam, the song was identified yesterday, after decades of questions without any answers. This is a band from Germany named FEX, and the title of the song is "Subways Of Your Mind." The entire song is on KZbin.

[@alenfranjic3124]

It was a magical time when on radio you could catch and record a totally unknown gems without knowing anything about the artist or the name of the song and just enjoy it ... fully

[@reesaserik3759]

You got that right! Did not have to worry about someone trying to sue you for copying the song on cassette. Also, back in the day, it did not make song artists starve (as it seems to do today). At least with me, I copied the song from the radio, then after listening to it several times, I would decide if I really liked it or if I got bored with it. If I liked it, I went to the store and actually bought the song, and often times it prompted me to buy other songs from that artist. So, if the artist was really good, the music was purchased as well as copied off the radio. Life was way simpler back in the day.

[@Ravuun]

I have a whole case of mixed tapes, many have made up song names for this exact reason

[@Romiman1]

Also have experienced it, but everytime hate it, having no chance to purchase it regularly (in decent audio quality). But about suing, yes I agree.

[@jamesmangiarella7139]

13:52

[@Cloxxki]

No bad music was made in Europe in the 80s. Good music coming out DJs' ears.

[@ralphkjb]

Somebody should remake this song without permission. Maybe then, this mystery artist will finally emerge and say “that’s MY song!”. I’m sure solving this mystery would be worth paying the royalty money.

[@TheDeadEndFriendsSound]

I already did… kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZa2pWSGp7t6j7ssi=YBvoEq239CQ_Yf_f

[@TheDeadEndFriendsSound]

I already did… kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZa2pWSGp7t6j7ssi=YBvoEq239CQ_Yf_f

[@EannaButler]

Crowdfund the lawsuit

[@TheDeadEndFriendsSound]

Already did... kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZa2pWSGp7t6j7ssi=d5FMLwn_AmAQ5wV0

[@GaryPiepho]

That's actually a good idea! 😅

[@Gambit-Lobo]

This is almost exactly what happened with my father and his band. They recorded a song, and then before the album ever got released, they broke up. The album got shelved, but decades later, an employee copied it to a tape which they shared copies of to friends, and it became an underground hit. It went unknown until the early 2000s when a man in a german record wanted answers. It was a wild experience shared with him that I still remember. I hope that this song gets the same answers. 🙏🏽

[@LouisCasas]

What is the song which your father and his band recorded?

[@asunachidory]

Yeah totally desperate to know now too 😂

[@ShonCope]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

[@imkluu]

Seems sus you didn't mention the songs you are talking about.

[@Cloxxki]

Receipts, please! Rodriguez recorded for a while and then disappeared from the music scene. In South Africa his music was interpreted differently and he became their Bob Dylan. Presumed looong dead. Fascinating and tragic story with some highlights when he was rediscovered as actually alive but mostly worn out from ultra hard labor in small demolotion jobs.

[@michaelmaiara4770]

It has been found! It is called "Subways Of Your Mind" by the band FEX.

[@aluminumfalcon552]

This video just helped me remember and solve a mystery of my own. One time in the late 80’s I was recording songs off the radio, there were a few songs that I had long since figured out, like Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me, and Genesis - Abacab, Whitesnake - Still of the Night, but there was one that eluded me for the longest time, though I stopped looking a long time ago, I just googled it today and found my mystery song Sammy Hagar - Remember the Heroes. I hadn’t heard it EVER since then, but when I just found it, my memory of the song has held for 35 years, didn’t forget a note.

[@michaelszewczyk9781]

I request that song on every national holiday. Now the station, WXRD, 103.9 (X-Rock) usually plays it without prompting.

[@buzzbomb67]

Great song, from the album Three Lock Box, 1983!

[@lostmymind2010]

One of my thoughts to this whole thing is it’s possibly part of someone’s demo tape. Back in the 70’s and 80’s a lot of people had opportunities to send their demo tapes to record labels to see if they could become a singer. Sometimes these demo tapes would be played on the radios to see what kind of a reaction listeners would get. I know I tried sending in a demo to a person years ago, obviously I didn’t go anywhere lol. But that’s what this could also be. The person that originally wrote/made the song might not even remember what the song is or was because they never got contacted and just dumped everything and moved on. The listener just happened to get lucky enough to record it and later tried to find the artist. No telling.

[@katycanino1566]

This is exactly what I think.

[@dameonnelson3543]

Tried that to nope it seems to of been 84 and it was random recorded but there's a German type

[@stevegraham3817]

You're the Voice by John Farnham was like that. His manager took the song to a dozen stations and some flat out refused to play it without listening to it. One station manager, music programmer, or whatever she was, was at least polite enough to listen to it in front of him, and didn't even get half a dozen lines into the song, rewound it, and made the DJ interrupt the schedule to play it. Yeah, random people with random songs at least had a random chance from time to time to hit a random audience. No chance of doing that in this day and age, unfortunately for us lucky enough to be raised on real musical talent.

[@amberconner32]

That was my first thought too.

[@savannahpaige3670]

Ive wrote 100s of songs, I'd never forget one. Its not like learning someone else's song.. It came from u! Its only when ur old and have become demented..

[@Inmatesixdoublefive321]

Have Fil on the Wings of Pegasus channel do a voice comparison between this and known voice samples. That would be interesting to see.

[@jenniferdnoseworthy2348]

Very good idea 😊

[@friedemannkemm63]

I had similar thoughts. With modern technology, there are many tools for analysis. And I like the way Fil uses them.

[@leeyaferguson9019]

YEAH!!!

[@glasswingbutterfly]

Fil is awesome... Rock!

[@jdaniels1313]

Fil of Wings of Pegasus for the win!! He could totally do this. Just have to get him interested in doing the voice comparison to the "persons of interest".

[@robertcarter3895]

Has anyone tried ENF analysis? Yes, there is a technology known as Electric Network Frequency (ENF) analysis that uses the frequency variations of the power grid's alternating current (AC) to determine the time and sometimes the location of a recording. ENF analysis leverages the small fluctuations in the power grid's frequency, which typically hovers around a nominal value (like 50 Hz or 60 Hz depending on the region). These fluctuations are unique over time and can be recorded incidentally in audio and video recordings as background noise. When a recording is made, the ENF signal can be extracted from it. By comparing the extracted ENF signal with a database of ENF signals collected from the power grid, it is possible to determine the exact time (and sometimes the location) when the recording was made. This method is used in forensic analysis to verify the authenticity of audio and video recordings.

[@XtianApi]

Are you freaking serious? That's amazing,

[@davidlane256]

Would those signals degrade from recording a re-recording of a copy of a recording? If it was recorded at 50 hz, And archived at 60hz, would that change the ENF signal?

[@bryanrobertson2207]

That's pretty cool.

[@JamesJBurt]

This will likely only give us the location that the bootleg tape was made, and we already know that. It was made in the living room of the guy who recorded it from the radio.

[@tincanbanditgunsmithing5720]

The meters that record that level of accuracy didn't exist much in the 1980s, even if they did, not likely that data was saved and is still retrievable.

[@deanaldridge4277]

Just release the song as your own, and make it a hit. Then sit back, and wait to see who sue's you in court. Problem solved.

[@MannyBrum]

Won't necessarily work. Tons of people released their own version of Ulterior Motives and the artist had no idea about any of it until the people searching for the song figured out who it was and contacted them. Now because the way the streaming services work, in order to get the song released officially they have to get the covers taken down or the official version will be flagged for takedown. They reached out to the people who covered it and were told to go F themselves.

[@TheDeadEndFriendsSound]

I already did. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZa2pWSGp7t6j7ssi=YBvoEq239CQ_Yf_f

[@TheDeadEndFriendsSound]

I already did… kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZa2pWSGp7t6j7ssi=YBvoEq239CQ_Yf_f

[@dougjenkins8749]

Sad but true

[@TheDeadEndFriendsSound]

Already did... kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZa2pWSGp7t6j7ssi=d5FMLwn_AmAQ5wV0

[@nairbvel]

I lived just outside of Brussels in the early 80s, returning to the US in August of 1984. I listened to a lot of local radio, and this mystery song sounds almost obscenely familiar. One of the problems was that local radio stations would periodically play "pirate" music from the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, as well as local one-shot bands that had a sad tendency to sound very much the same based upon genre. (I still have a 45rpm single literally handed to me by a total stranger on the street with the words, "Are you an American? I know you will love this, it's the first song from my band!" -- never heard of them before or since.) The possible sources of this particular track are legion... Maybe it's one of those things that we're simply never meant to know, just to keep life interesting. :-)

[@dukecraig2402]

I was in Germany and returned to the states in July of 84, that spring and early summer I heard a song a few times that to this day, even with the internet and KZbin, I still can't come across it, I heard it played by a DJ in a local bar over there once or twice and then one time when me and my friends were walking down a road a kid on a bicycle with a boom box tied on his handlebars peddled past us listening to it, whether he had it on tape or it was on the radio I do not know, 40 years later I can still pretty much remember the music and the lyrics to part of it and no matter how many times I've entered the lyrics I remember along with things like "1984 European song..." I can't find hide nor hair of it, the lyrics went something like this; "...she's my type of belly dancer..." "...I'm her form of necromancer..." Although they may be in the other order, it has been a long time. Do you have any recollection of a song like that from that time?

[@michs342]

@@dukecraig2402 Temporary Secretary by Paul McCartney maybe? Not quite the lyrics but the closest I could find and remember my self that might be matching what you wrote.

[@dukecraig2402]

@@michs342 I'll check it out but I doubt it, I don't recall the singer sounding anything like him. But thanks one way or the other, I appreciate the response.

[@HNScruffy]

@@dukecraig2402 Hey, just a wild guess, but try: The Twins - Ballet Dancer

[@Hollylivengood]

I love that. I live in south Tennessee, which has the bible belt reputation I know, but also is the home of some of the most unique fusions of music ever. Anyway, there are all kinds of kids here who learned music from their grand dads on the back porch, got classically trained, and love jazz and funkadelic, and they continue the tradition of all getting together on someone's back porch to jam. It's amazing. So it happened to me, like it happened to you, while I was bicycling home from work, a kid walked out in the street with his fiddle in the crook of his elbow and handed me a CD, saying it's not like y'r thinkin'. And got back on the porch to keep jamming with psychedelic/rock/[unk/ soul/bluegrass band. And it really wasn't like I was thinking, it was really good! But you'd never hear any of it on a radio.

[@georgeprice4212]

Plot twist: it’s 38 Special backing Falco with Thomas Dolby on synths.

[@marktait2371]

thats a good one yesterday driving im driving singing along dolby i scare myself would be good one for p.o.r.

[@aprilrich807]

😂

[@mikeparker3865]

and if you play it backward you discover who killed Kennedy

[@paradoxworkshop4659]

In

[@radzsing]

🤣

[@HighPower762]

As of a day or two ago, the mystery is solved. The name of the song is called Subways of the Mind by a German band called FEX and it was recorded in 1983!👍😎🤟 Adam you have to do a follow-up video on this. Apparently the girl Lydia that you talked about in your first video finally got in contact with the band and made the big reveal.

[@johnmaynardable]

I've never heard this song before, and yet it sounds like songs I've listened to thousands of times. Wild!

[@katarh]

Familiar chord progression, familiar instrumentation, and someone deliberately copying the styles of another singer = a doppelganger of a song that you've never heard before but yet still recognize instantly.

[@reidboggs4344]

That’s the weirdest part about it to me. This song is good. It should have been a hit back in the day. Why did it disappear for 20 years?

[@jamesfowley4114]

Thee are thousands of songs that could have been hits collecting dust on shelves. Rick Beato has cases of them, and has done stories on at least one.

[@daryelthomas9414]

Reminds me of a movie soundtrack song

[@meliward105]

SAME!!!!

[@nocturnaldruid2191]

As an early Gen X Old School Goth, this song hits all the right spots. The fact that it’s such a mystery just makes it all the better. Thanks for covering this song.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for watching!

[@Del-Lebo]

Yup, 57 years old Electronica/Goth/Industrial dude and intrigued!!!!

[@Iridescence93]

I know right? I'm just pleased that a good song in a style I enjoy became popular like 30 years later. Sounds like Danse Society or something.

[@Del-Lebo]

@@Iridescence93 yup and Yes! 🥰💪👍

[@myrrhavm]

GenX goth?

[@jasonschubert6828]

I can remember fishing a chewed up cassette out of the bin (as you do) at a random house party in the late 80s and splicing it back together, only to find an awesome album on it that I could never identify. It was actually years later when I started going out with a girl who happened to be the sister of girl whose party it was! She did manage to identify the album (although she wasn't sure) and I did manage to find a single from it second hand. Further searches (through record stores at the time, I don't think I even had a computer!) did land me a copy of the LP, and I eventually even found a CD copy! It's funny though, every time I listen to it I can still hear in my mind the tape breaking up in the middle and the exact point where part of the song was missing on the original spliced together tape I had. The album: Body Language by De Mont

[@carriehinkel-gill4164]

Awesome share!

[@andrewmorrow6982]

So Easy was the single. I have the vinyl single of it somewhere.. You should see how Craig Morrison (the singer) has evolved now. Still in the industry.

[@Metalmonster56]

Should be called Schrodinger's song , because it both exists and doesn't exist at the same time.

[@jeffreymontgomery7516]

This song was written by a group removed from existence... It's the Mandella effect... except this one tape survived, and they can't stop it now. The universe will implode if we ever figure it out. :) (....or, perhaps, it already has.... )

[@JonInTexas-88]

Obviously, it's the lost Eddie and the Cruisers recording Season in Hell

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha!

[@loboblanco4426]

Spectacular!

[@Fiona2254]

Under rated comment!

[@karlshuler1011]

Eddie Lives

[@theboyx323]

EDDIE!!!EDDIE!!!EDDIE!!!EDDIE!!!

[@Stevelives13]

Its a glitch in the matrix, this song was a huge hit in an alternative dimension.

[@ProfessorofRock]

RIght!

[@rickyjoeshippyful]

like the movie Yesterday...instead of being on a nostalgia tour with a bunch of new musicians he's out on a farm somewhere.

[@dennis2966]

It was in the Upside Down.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Indeed!

[@Bahama3ay]

It was such a huge hit that it's notoriously dubbed as being *'The Most Well Known Song on the Internet'*

[@orbyfan]

One of the things that makes this puzzle so hard to solve is that the song sounds like so many other songs from the 1984-86 period.

[@ms_prescott_regrets]

I was thinking of Depeche Mode and Human League althought I know it's not him but that's what the voice reminded me of when I hear it.

[@tiffanymichaels2429]

@@ms_prescott_regrets wow! Depeche Mode was who first popped into my mind. Like you said it's obviously not them. But definitely sound and vibe.

[@ms_prescott_regrets]

@@tiffanymichaels2429 I wonder if we will ever find out who this singer was? It’s almost like a Twilight Zone episode

[@BruceWalther-s2l]

@@tiffanymichaels2429 I thought of that Depeche Mode, 80's sound too. Also, remember The Cutting Crew?

[@creoken8772]

@@ms_prescott_regrets On the tape the song just before the mysterious song is called "Twilight Zone" 19:38

[@Soopytwist]

As others have posted below, It was found yesterday (4th November 2024). It's called Subways of the Mind by FEX.

[@HenningUhle]

I grew up in the GDR back then. And I can confirm that everybody in the GDR who tried to speak or sing in English had such an accent. Also, the musical style might be the style of the Alternative Rock Scene of the GDR. So, for me the chances are high that this song has its origins in the GDR. I think of Bands like "Paranoia" or Sandow (Check out their song "Born In The GDR") and especially the Band "Die Art" (Check out their song "My History"). There are valid discussions on the internet that go like so: A band in the GDR recorded some music and could not place it on the GDR record label "AMIGA". A band member gave a relative from Western Germany a listen, and this relative took the cassette to Western Germany where she or he gave it to NDR. The rest is history. The problem: There is no proof for that. But the song is definitely recorded by a German band and because of the pronounciation chances are high that this song came from the eastside of the border.

[@sarahmayer7026]

I agree, the first time I heard this song, the accent stood out to me. It sounds like a German accent for sure. The NDR playing music from the GDR back then might explain why it sounds familiar, yet has not been identified for such a long time now. Whoever wrote and recorded this song might no longer be around or have reasons not to come forward. Well, there is hope, since it should still be hidden in the NDR archives, waiting to be found.

[@Grichal1981]

How likely is it that a Yamaha DX7 would have been available in the GDR during 1983/84 though?

[@GizzyDillespee]

​@@Grichal1981Maybe it was recorded later. They know it can't be earlier, because that's when the tape machime came out, that the kid used to record the mixtape. But, it could've been recorded a year or 2 later. There were 2 mixtapes with the song... the Prof should've posted both track listings. Over the next couple of years, Yamaha also put out other keyboards with FM, even arrangers and toy keyboards. Many were sold, but I wonder how quickly they made it to East Germany! Entertainment troupes travelled, and sports. I saw Japanese home keyboards in the background in Soviet videos and pics from some time in the 80s... maybe a couple of years later. I don't remember where, but if I see a keyboard, I usually try to ID it🤣. I haven't seen much East German footage.

[@sarahmayer7026]

@@Grichal1981 For as far as I know, it was available in the GDR. Even though it was expensive, professional bands were eager to have it.

[@HenningUhle]

​@@Grichal1981 Good point, but there were indeed bands in the GDR who worked with a DX7. As I said, there is no proof for what I wrote. It's only speculation I've captured.

[@LaManteca76]

"For every mystery there is someone out there who knows the truth. Perhaps someone watching tonight will come forward. Perhaps it's YOU..." Lol, I'm sorry I kept thinking of Unsolved Mysteries. 😅

[@ProfessorofRock]

I love it!

[@champdog76]

Hopefully we'll get an....UPDATE! (I'll see myself out...)

[@karlsenula9495]

We need Mulder and Scully ... The truth is out there ...

[@chrisrj9871]

@@ProfessorofRock - next time you do an internet mystery song like this, maybe make an "If you remember..." mention of Unsolved Mysteries in the beginning of the video?!

[@dennis2966]

@@karlsenula9495 Dang, that's exactly what I was thinking!

[@SJohnsen13]

I listened to the full song today. Some observations: 1) It does not sound professionally recorded, meaning it sounds more like a demo tape, probably engineered by the guitarist because the mix is heavy on the guitar and it sounds like it got the most attention both in quality and volume. The tom toms are not mic'd very well, they drop out noticeably on a few of the fills. Also, the vocals are somewhat buried and muddy. 2) The drumming was likely done by someone who was not a professional/studio drummer, or someone who played the drums on the side or as a second, or third instrument (again, perhaps the guitarist :D ), and the drummer was heavily influenced by the current trend to use drum machines in all of their glorious repetitiveness (many similarities to "The More You Live, The More You Love" by Flock of Seagulls). Except for the human inaccuracies, the whole drum track is predictable and typical for '83-'85, and it could have easily been programmed into a Roland TR-707. Many of the drum fills are off tempo or just kind of sloppy, and give the feeling as though the drummer wasn't quite sure of what to do for each fill. The tempo also speeds up at the end as the song goes into a slow fade, aided by the drumming speeding up a bit after each drum fill. I am guessing that the song was recorded around '84 by a semi-professional garage-type band that had aspirations of breaking into the New Wave scene. The song in general sounds like it was heavily influenced by many different New Wave bands. And for a twist, it also sounds like the guitarist was somewhat influenced by some Australian bands, such as Australian Crawl, which were popular in the early 80s. However, I could be wrong. :) It is pretty clear that the song fits right into the '82-'85 date range, and the vocalist sounds like he is somewhere between the age of 18 and 35, which means that in 2024, he would be ~60-to-77 years old. It is not unreasonable to consider that he may no longer be with us, or any of the other musicians in the band, assuming that there was a band.

[@fstopPhotography]

You've made some pretty impressive observations. I hope the right person/people find your information and apply it. I'm sure it will help.

[@bettyparker3317]

These are such interesting, and knowledgeable, comments. Thanks for sharing!👏🙏

[@Muggashyte]

The sound issues could just as easily be attributed to the proliferation of Joy Division wannabe bands. The guitar riff sounds like someone really liked U2s “I Will Follow”, and went hard for that aesthetic. The singing has that: put the mic out here, and I’ll sing from in the motel bathroom/Bauhaus sound to it.

[@mbsnyderc]

Non of that is helpful in identifying who made the track and it's quite speculative.

[@sarahs5340]

Amazing observation. I think you are right and we may never know what garage band put the song together.

[@ktcroke]

The song is “Subways of the Mind” by the band FEX

[@StargirlPlaysGames]

All I know is that it sure sounds like a great song AND I think all of us who have ever made a mix tape can give HUGE respect to the fact that at least one of the reasons it's been lost to time is because the person recording it was impeccable at making mix tapes without the dj interrupting 😆👌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@xennial80sxberner]

It's not impeccable it's annoying as fuck, I love DJs it's a time capsule, and even then I thought it gave mixtapes a cool vibe to at least leave in 10-15 seconds of the DJ commentary

[@YochevedDesigns]

3 seconds in I immediately recognized this as German goth. It sounds so much like some CD's I picked up on my last trip to Munich. They were old school 80's compilations of bands that no one has ever heard of. I'll have to go through and see if I can find a match.

[@bennettgirard1047]

Did you find it?

[@danas3765]

How's the search going

[@ChristinaLVT]

I thought the same thing!

[@LewStewls]

@@Mindcrow Unlikely, but worth a try.

[@UberTheRandom]

@@Mindcrow Considering that it was played on a German radio station and has a goth sound to it, he very likely may. Definitely more of a chance than you at least.

[@kali550]

Professor, it’s been said many times but the amount of work and research you put into your videos is amazing!

[@chrisorsten]

I really think its one of 2 scenarios- 1 - All or most of the key members have died. 2 - They have moved on in life and do not want the attention.

[@gutsdozer]

We can't assume everyone is extremely online all day, every day. Some kids probably recorded a demo decades ago and sent it to some radio stations, but they're in their 60s/70s now and so they have no idea there's a "mystery" - more likely they're oblivious, not actively avoiding it or dead.

[@24get24give]

@@gutsdozer that is so true, I am online daily [mostly KZbin and Amazon] and I had no idea until this showed IP in my feed

[@Nobodyreallyatall]

Could be a pisstake of some guys from different bands playing who had access to the studio who kept it a mystery from the start.

[@benniedonald]

Sound track from a bad B movie.

[@thisdyingsoul76]

I'm online for several hours per day since 2001 and this is the first time I'm hearing of this song. I'm also the quintessential music nerd who spends most of this online time listening to and reading about music. I am always looking for obscure tracks and bands. It's entirely possible the creators of this track are avid internet users and have never encountered any discussions on the song.

[@timjones4850]

Thank you so much for this one! Here in England, anyone really into pop music knows, or should know, about Tony Burrows. Indeed, when I saw the title of this I knew instantly it would be about Tony. You are absolutely correct, at the time it just didn't register that so many songs were being sung by the same guy - it was some years later that all this came to light, and there was a feeling that Tony was not given the recognition he deserved. "Love Grows" is such an amazing song, it just emanates joy right from the start more than any other song I can think of (although "If Paradise Is Half As Nice" by Amen Corner comes close!) and I'm sure it will stay strong down the years. A great video, and surely a well-deserved boost for Tony's reputation. Thanks again!

[@rowanrobbins]

I don't understand your post. Are you claiming this song is by Burrows? No one mentioned him in the video, so...I'm confused. Since Burrows is so well known in England, why did no one there know this before now? Do you have proof? Please share.

[@Zillah82]

I mean as an avid listener of goth rock as a teenager, it sounds like so many singers I've heard. I feel like the demo quality of it makes it hard to tell too.

[@honoratagold]

Yeah, it's hard to identify the singer because so many singers were putting on this kind of fake deep voice in this era. This guy might not sound like this in other recordings.

[@doccolour]

There was a San Francisco area synth band in the early 1980's that put out a song I heard on the Quake radio station just a couple of times - and then never again. I didn’t recall the name of the song, but I remembered the unique name of the band, CHROME DINETTE. This mysterious song always stuck in my head. When the internet came along I did yearly searches for this song but to no avail… until, finally, someone uploaded the song to youtube in 2010! It’s called “Can’t Live Without You”. Hearing it again after 25+yrs was surreal and rewarding. I also heard their other single for the first time, “Robot Love” which I ended up liking even more.

[@cnph7067]

KQAK FM 99- best station in the Bay Area during its short run. Moving to KITS FM “Live 105” great time to be alive. Fav DJ- “Big Rick Stuart” also really enjoyed “Steve Masters” when he started on Live 105 Both stations played a lot of obscure new wave/modern bands on their late night and weekend programming. I sorta remember that band name.

[@doccolour]

@@cnph7067 Yes!! You couldn't be more correct. A great time to be alive indeed:)

[@dukecraig2402]

There's a song in Cheech and Chongs Next Movie that Chong is listening to during the part where he's sitting on his Harley in the house running it with a fan on his face and the exhaust piped out the window where it's dumping black soot all over his neighbors prize yellow roses (something being a long time Harley rider that I thoroughly approve of), in the song are the lyrics "Hell On Wheels" that are prominent enough that it's logical that's the name of the song. Like many things before the age of the internet the song was always a complete mystery, I'm pretty sure it's not even in the credits, but it's a good jam and people have always wondered about it, about 10 years ago I finally found an article on the internet about the song, it was written by someone in the entertainment business that was friends with those guy's, they just happened to stop in his place one day and heard it and wanted to put it in the movie they were making at the time, or something like that but either way it was one of those songs that never got released or on an album and it wasn't on KZbin. A few year's back I put a comment about the song in a KZbin video and not long afterwards someone posted a message to me telling me to recheck KZbin because apparently the creator of the song eventually posted it because of years of people talking about it and wanting to be able to listen to it, and don't you know when I entered "Cheech and Chong Hell on Wheels" here on KZbin there it was, after years of having to put the DVD in just to be able to hear 15 seconds of it the whole song can finally be heard. The internet isn't all bad.

[@msimon6808]

@@cnph7067 I was Chief Engineer at WTAO - it is still on the air.

[@msimon6808]

@@dukecraig2402 I designed the IO Board that went into the World's First BBS. You are welcome.

[@danadoozer9990]

This sounds EXACTLY like some obscure record I would have blind bought in the late 80s- early 90s!

[@buzzaard7036]

I bought a cassette tape called No Wave back in the early 80's and cannot find the songs on it.

[@MickSupper]

Yep, a pretty typical sound.

[@fstopPhotography]

This is possibly your most interesting video yet. The mystery behind this tune was fascinating. You painted a great picture on this for sure.

[@BillZBubb]

Sometime in the 80s I encountered a silly song that tickled my teenage ears. I could have heard it as a one-off from a local DJ, or from the Dr. Demento show. It wasn’t something getting regular airplay on my radio stations and disappeared into obscurity. Its tune would resurface in my brain every so often just teasing me. It took 15 or 20 years but I finally ran it down as Kipadota’s Wet Dream. Not exactly a candidate for the best thing you’ve never heard, but at least I exorcised that demon.

[@stephenkeever6029]

Thanks for posting this! I always wondered who did this song.

[@michaelhaines3451]

I had a VERY similar experience. For 40 years snippets of an unknown song would flash through my head. Finally cleared it up last year. The song was Mimi on the Beach.

[@theclearsounds3911]

I love that song! Sooooooooo funny with all those fish references! I bought the album in the 80's. If you wouldn't have known, and just called it some silly song with all kinds of fish jokes, I could have told you in a heartbeat.

[@BillZBubb]

@@michaelhaines3451 I’m looking it up.

[@jlaakso1706]

I had a similar experience with a song I had recorded off a local public radio many years ago in northern CA (I think) that ran a late night punk rock show. One song was catchy and for years I couldn't find out how did it and it drove me crazy! I had about given up when I came across it randomly - Wasted Youth - (Do The) Caveman

[@sethsmith8638]

It was the DJs own piece. He played it on air trying to get some traction, but got in trouble instead. He never mentioned it to anyone else out of shame.

[@ClarkAngevineGolf]

really solid consideration!

[@nactivep2635]

The band is called Fex and comes from Kiel in Germany, the song is called Subways Of Your Mind.

[@samanthareardon3330]

I'm so glad people are keeping this track alive! I feel sad sometimes thinking about how much "lost media" is out there. Especially when it s lost through greed, it's amazing how many people just keep things like this (audio and video) because they are the only ones who can have it. If it doesn't get digitized it fades, then degrades into dust forever😢

[@FarBeyondDriven1978]

It happens to music, books and videogames

[@Elle_55]

Some New Wave music lover might know

[@johnnycash578]

yep we and everything that ever was and will be is always dust in the end, life is very strange and really hard

[@samanthareardon3330]

@@FarBeyondDriven1978 Yeah, I recently tried to find an old show I used to watch when I was a kid, so I could show my kid. My search wasn't super exhaustive, but I'm a little worried about it. Maybe I'll ask Reddit at some point.

[@christineml1476]

GREAT song! Can't believe I hadn't heard it before now. If the Cure and the Sisters of Mercy had a vinyl child, it'd sound like this.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Good call!

[@philpeterson7182]

Sisters of Curecy

[@Disciple_Of_Lerxst]

I was thinking SOM as well.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

It sounds a lot like the Cure.

[@marktait2371]

odddest cure song i have is cult hero robert smith explains in liner notes my postman in club random pub mate im a cult hero hero

[@thecellulontriptometer4166]

I spent whole evenings recording The King Biscuit Flour Hour, and Radio 1990. Such great memories.

[@Edward-bd8iy]

I watched Night Flight on USA at the time. We couldn't afford the tier cable service required to get USA Network, but they "generously" made USA Network available on Friday/Saturday night on an empty basic channel.

[@kernjames]

Those were the good ole days.

[@woodelfm.2462]

Omg, I remember hearing that on the radio -- and thinking that 'King Biscuit' was a band and it was 'Flower Hour'. Never put together the words 'biscuit' and 'flour'. I am laughing so hard right now. (In my defense I was just a young teen back then discovering new bands every day, and I'd never heard of King Biscuit flour!)

[@JamesJBurt]

Here is some research someone can do: If you listen to the song in its entirety, you will notice that the ENGLISH lyrics do not always fit the music. It is extremely noticeable in some parts. This is an important clue! I am aware of this phenomenon because I subtitle German songs into English a little bit, and often find that the translation to English does not fit the music. In this song, the phrases "Check it In, Check it Out" seem to not match the music, and the singer has to rush the words to try to force it to fit. This is because when he translated from the original language to English, he ended up with a phrase that had MORE syllables than the original. Now compare that bit to the phrase "Take the consequence of living" which seems to match the music perfectly. We can conclude that when translated from the original language, this phrase had exactly the same number of syllables. More than that, it is likely that each word in the phrase had the same number of syllables. So, we can make a list of phrase translations that seem natural perfect matches, and translations that did NOT match (in number of syllables) and try to find the original language by comparing these. Phrases that seem to be translations because they do not match the music (wrong number of syllables, and the singer has to speed up to make it fit): -- "Check it in, Check it out" -- "It's the summer (of) blues" Phrases that seem "off" because the entire sentence has the same number of syllables, but the individual words do not: -- "And there's no Sorrow" -- The singer had to rush "and there's" and then stretch out "Sorrow". This tells us that in the original language, "Sorrow" is a longer word (possibly three syllables), while "and there's" is a shorter word (possibly a single syllable). Phrases that are simply bad translations these can be hints also. Look for literal translations that are non-sensical or very uncommon expressions in English: -- "Let a smile be your companion" Have some talented musicians from eastern European countries translate the English lyrics BACK to their native language and find out which translation seems to fit the music best. If a native speaker translates the lyrics back to his own language, and we find that the original words fit the music better, we may have discovered the native tongue of the song's composer.

[@paulstewart3665]

Awesome comment!

[@phylissleask849]

Genius 🎉

[@stephengagne2723]

Seems to have some of the feel of "Surrender" by Cheap Truck

[@th3d33pc4]

@@stephengagne2723 My goodness, thank you for saying this. I was going insane trying to remember what song it was on Guitar Hero where I had heard that little melody before. It is almost, if not exactly, the melody from Surrender. Which made me wonder about it possibly being discarded/hidden because the DJ realized how similar it was to Surrender and wanted to separate from potential liability. Now that you have confirmed to me that I'm not suffering a personal auditory hallucination, I think noticing that melody is rare and the possible line of inquiry should be brought to the attention of The Professor or those more able to follow up what can be gleaned from this info.

[@BattleCryForFreedom]

It's sounds more like "checking in, checking out."

[@barryrisper1166]

When I was a child, one of my earliest memories was riding with my dad, mom and sisters over the old Galveston causeway while "Things Can Only Get Better," played on the radio in the summer of 1985. It was my first time going to the beach, so the memory is kind of vivid. It wasn't until KZbin came along where I finally learned the title, because I only knew it as the "whoa, whoa, whoa," song

[@trishlarocca]

Howard Jones..

[@txsurfnturf]

Howard Jones. He recently released a new album, also re-released the old classics and is currently touring. Things can only get better Life in one day What is love No one is to blame Etc... ❤

[@josevillarreal5955]

YES! It wasn't until I had one of those digitial music channels randomly playing in the 2000s when this song popped up and I finally figured out the name 😂😂

[@debbiebowman4211]

I heard this song before. I live in the Chatsworth CA USA. I have been listening to the local college station 88:5 FM the Sound for years. Now known as the So Cal Sound. I've heard this song played probably more than once. I knew the words when I heard it. Contact Nick Hargrove a DJ there I think he's English and older. They are know for playing up and coming artists and older alternative music in this genre.

[@glenngebhard1575]

@@debbiebowman4211 hi, i am from chatsworth, too!! definitely the so cal sound and thank you for not saying "cali." no one from california EVER calls california "cali," bit we do say "so cal" or "bay area" for the north coast. never call san francisco "frisco" EVER either... just sayin'...❤ is the local station cal state northridge, or pierce community? great music comes from those college stations. i've lived in germany for years and i am pretty sure that this song could be tracked down by any former stasi from the former east germany...they know everything that was recorded. seriously.

[@duanedibbley5096]

It's WYLD STALLYNS and THE song that's gonna save us all! Excellent!!! 🤟😛🤙

[@javaskull]

I thought it was bbbff

[@trucksr4gurls]

Most excellent, dude!

[@certificateofvaccinationi.d.19]

We're not worthy

[@ddre75]

😂

[@daryelthomas9414]

Could have been on the movie soundtrack 😂 party on dudes

[@andrewgoss9013]

My unknown song was All of You by Don Felder. I heard it in the animated movie Heavy Metal (1981). The scene where the goofy aliens snort the nyborg and trip out. I was around 13 or 14 (1985-86) and probably shouldn't have been watching it, but whatever cable channel I had at the time played it regularly and I loved the song. It never occurred to me to find it in the credits. A few years later when I was building my music collection I remembered the song but had no way of finding it. Oddly, I couldn't find the movie in the video stores. Around 20 or so I found a bootleg copy of it in a local record store and was so happy I was finally going to find out who it was only to discover whoever made the bootleg cut the video just as the credits rolled. So now I had the song but not the artist. Thanks to the internet, I eventually found out it was Felder somewhere in the mid to late 90s.

[@ntilewills5679]

Funny story about HM, my brother and me convinced my mom to take us to see it, I was 12 my brother was 11...........need I say more.

[@andrewgoss9013]

@@ntilewills5679 Mmmmm, cartoon boobies 😆

[@MagnusOphiuchus-XIII]

I love that tune, and movie.

[@andrewgoss9013]

@@ntilewills5679 Mmmmm, cartoon boobies 😆

[@Edward-bd8iy]

When I saw the South Park episode where Kenny snorts the cat urine and goes on a Heavy Metal trip, I went off. My friend of more than 40 years had never seen the film and couldn't understand why I was going off. I'm trying to find an unmolested version of Heavy Metal so he can see it.

[@LukeLynch12T19]

Who's watching this video after the song was (apparently) finally identified in early November 2024?

[@ianTnai]

This is as close to time traveling back to the 80s as it gets! A bonafide 80s song straight from the radio that no one can place.

[@pizzalordmarv07]

I’ve just started really watching this channel after having it recommended to me, and seeing you cover the topic of this song is so cool to me. I used to be so amazed and intrigued by this mystery, I’d ask everybody about it and try to hunt for the real artist as best as I could using my limited skills in doing things like this. I love these videos so much.

[@michaelwhitewolf10]

It is a German band out of berlin .I was stationed in Germany in the early 80s and I had copy of the vinyl I bought in Berlin at the open air market .I didn't bring back to the states because I only had so much baggage I could bring back so I gave it to a friend of mine named fritze. He said the album is called the wind.he say,s he still has it and it was played on dnr radio a few times in the mid 80s it had no other name only the wind.he said he will take picture of it and send it to me.

[@ryanwalker8233]

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[@0therv0ices]

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[@angushume2054]

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[@SatumangoTheGreat]

When you have the pictures, make sure to send it to this channel, please!

[@charlee1150]

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[@TheTuubster]

The german radio NDR just uncovered that it's "Subways of Your Mind" by FEX, a german band from Kiel, who recorded it 1983. The band reunited and played it live and unplugged on the radio. You find a report and video about this on NDR's website.

[@sleepyhollow783]

I wrote & played everything on it. Glad everyone likes it so much. Tune came to me while enjoying my skydiving hobby. It was a rush. Much love, -D. B. Cooper 😎

[@ethelbailey3794]

@sleepyhollow783 Haha! 2 mysteries solved at once 😂

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Haha!

[@HoonAgain]

Thanks to DB!! How there isn’t a good movie about DB with THIS song in it is the real mystery!!

[@mocat1]

😂💀 Well played.

[@BruceWalther-s2l]

Wait! Didn't you hook up with Kathryn Harold and ... Oh, nevermind ... wrong movie-matrix. Anyways, good to know you're safe😜

[@thomaslanghorst5738]

This song always convinces me that there must be hours of great songs out there I had no idea even existed

[@leinonibishop9480]

or thousands of great songs that have never even been released. you hear b-sides and demos sometimes and you wonder what the producer or the band was thinking not including those on the album. one of my favorite singers wrote a bunch of songs for a movie soundtrack but the director decided the songs were too powerful so he couldn't use them. he thought they would pull the viewer out of the movie and into the music. so the singer returned all the songs to his notebook and vowed to never release them.

[@RobertLuck-ij1yt]

​@@leinonibishop9480 .. and I hope my cohorts and I wrote some of them .. Music makes the World go 'round !! ...Enjoy it all !!

[@thomaslanghorst5738]

@@leinonibishop9480 Just out of curiosity: who are you talking about?

[@leinonibishop9480]

@@thomaslanghorst5738 the movie was Out of the Furnace (great movie with Christian Bale) and the singer is Eddie Vedder.

[@iluvj00]

hours of great music lost to "producers" of the 80s sent on tape format with the word "demo" written on them...

[@North145]

Love your videos. Growing up there was one song that haunted me because I could never figure out who sang it. All I knew was that it was guitar rock a little psychedelic sounding from probably the 60's. When I would hear it on the radio infrequently of course the DJ never announced which song and since I heard it so infrequently in its entirety I couldn't remember the lyrics, just the distinctive guitar riff. Years later in my mid 20's I was sitting at a quiet bar in Chicago with a friend, we were talking about music and I started complaining about the song I could never identify. I sang the guitar part to my friend and the man sitting a few stools down turned and said, oh that's Pictures of Matchstick Men by Status Quo, Camper Von Beethoven has a cover too. Just like that Mystery solved. The sad part is I knew of both bands but had no clue my mystery song tied them together.

[@jape1946]

Ironically, Staus Quo later recorded a song called "Mystery Song".

[@Zandanga]

I remember Pictures of Matchstick Men ... one of my favorites from way back in the day ... 👍

[@Edward-bd8iy]

I must be old, I remember both. A little boy with a musical ear on the Status Quo track, a grown man on the other.

[@DanielSnyder-bz8kp]

Bob Welch - Ebony Eyes...I used to hum it sometimes for 2 decades until i heard it playing over a supermarket speaker. I immediately went to the aisle closest to the speaker and finished the song underneath the speaker and memorized some of the lyrics. Then went home and googled it and was able to play it on youtube. I've since learned it on guitar and my girlfriend and I sing it . Another song that that happened to me was Walk Right In by the Rooftop singers I heard when i was a child.

[@jameswoodruff7182]

Been following this for a couple of years now. I really like this song and enjoy the mystery surrounding it. Adds to the aura. Amazing all the work that has gone into identifying this song. Glad you covered it Professor. I have you too thank for opening my ears to all sorts of new music. If this community cannot get it, I do not know who is left.

[@ddw1272]

It seems most likely that the German DJ's theory is correct. This was a song that was smuggled out from behind the Iron Curtain

[@simonbone]

The countries behind the Iron Curtain are not mysteries. East Germany, for example, had a rock scene and plenty of established artists (Puhdys, City, Silly, Pankow, Karat, etc.), some of whom were even popular in the west. Most of the music has since been rereleased in digital formats. So far no-one from there has claimed the mysterious song. The use of the Yamaha DX7 means that if an East German artist did record it, it would have had to be someone with really good connections, as only a couple of top artists had one in 1984, and average East Germans had no chance of buying one.

[@larslevinberget9558]

@@simonbone yes, they had their own synths, and it don't have to be a DX7!

[@TheStormpilgrim]

Someone risked life and limb to smuggle this band's demo to the free world and 40 years later, we can't even figure out who the band is. It's certainly plausible, but the irony of that is brutal.

[@simonbone]

@@larslevinberget9558 Nope, it's a DX7 using the presets.

[@simonbone]

@@TheStormpilgrim That's not how it worked.

[@TheSlowoldman]

A minute and a half in and I'm traumatized!!! The McDonalds hash browns were AWESOME, but my goodness the insides were hotter than the surface of the sun...... same with the apple pies!!!

[@catherine6653]

I am thinking about the first Happy Meal. 🍔🍟

[@mournblade1066]

Those apple pies are the stuff of legend: deep fried, it was like eating a scale model of an active volcano.

[@anselpeneloperainblossom-s3489]

@@mournblade1066I went to Australia in 2010. The best part of the trip? Deep fried McDonald’s cherry pie.

[@juliao1255]

Yes, especially the pies! I still have burn scars inside my mouth from eating those, but it didn't stop me! LOL

[@jameslaidler2152]

All about those hash browns myself.

[@AlanMcMullin-y1u]

*** Mystery Solved *** 1982 The Strangers - Blind the Wind *** You have to read the comments if you ask viewers to send in information!

[@wikster6630]

How did you find it? I paused this video, looked it up, and you seem to be correct . Cheers

[@leavingitblank9363]

I'll want a reputable source to verify that before I'll accept "mystery solved". Someone claiming he found it on a Russian web site, with no attributions, and "verified" album photo that's obviously not the band is a sketchy start.

[@patriciawhite6820]

I searched KZbin with your information, it sure seems like the song being played on this episode.

[@cillshot99]

hoax, the synth used in the song was made in 1983, so it would be impossible for the song to be earlier than that, also the lip smack at the end confirmes its just the same song reuploaded to look like it was solved

[@patriciawhite6820]

@@cillshot99 Thank you for your comment.

[@mr_tantrum5051]

Thanks for taking me back to the 80's. I have no idea what song this is, but your description of recording songs off the radio, using a dual tape deck to "remaster" a mix tape without DJ comments, etc. is exactly what I would spend hours of my evenings and weekends doing on my Pioneer dual cassette deck (I can't remember what model, but would have been in the same time period as this song).

[@treetopjones737]

Those of us without dual tape deck system would struggle to avoid recording commercials or the DJ chatter.

[@mattrogers6646]

I think most of us from the era of cassette tapes did this. I still remember my favorite mix tape when RHCP's"Under The Bridge" first hit the airwaves, and all my friends borrowed it to copy.

[@mr_tantrum5051]

@@treetopjones737 Yeah, DJ's talking over the beginning and ending of songs was a drag (I'm sure they did it on purpose). It was especially frustrating with songs that weren't on the regular rotation.

[@ridgerunner4943]

I still have mine! A Pioneer CT-604RS dual cassette recorder from the 1980s. Works perfectly!

[@xD3adKl0wnx]

Wild! I never expected to see this song on your channel, thanks for helping to try and solve the mystery!

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

This was a pleasant surprise.

[@markwaldron8954]

So this is basically the Voynich Manuscript of 80s rock.

[@Gizathecat2]

Good one!

[@NotHereToBeNice]

Good anaology!

[@martinjaramillo2429]

Nice reference 🌺

[@VikingMale]

Except you can understand what they are saying…

[@mariamartinusz9699]

😂😂😂

[@hernandomunoz1726]

I spent about 40 years without knowing the name of another song. But in one of your videos I finally found out its name and who sang it. You were actually interviewing him (Martin Page). The song was Go for it and the band Q-feel.

[@TheronC2]

I'm an historian. The laws of entropy guarantee that ultimately all knowledge will be lost. And frankly, most historical information is already lost. A small band that no body knows, and even the members don't care too much about any more because it was a brief moment decades ago - yeah, so easy to be lost. Did anybody involved write anything down? And if they did, did it survive? I'll just note that that no eye-witness accounts of Alexander of Macedon (or the Great, if you prefer) survive to the present. Kudos to the researcher who figures this out, but don't be surprised if there is no answer, ever.

[@wingracer1614]

Stick to history, physics isn't your bag. Look up conservation of information. Other than that, you're not wrong.

[@TheronC2]

@@wingracer1614 I don't understand your point. The laws of entropy guarantee that all information will be lost eventually. And we historians are used to working with the few scraps that survive.

[@NeilAloha]

@@wingracer1614 "You should stop all this bruhaha about it. It's a classic song from INTEMPESTIVE TROLLS. The only reason you can't find the recordings is the contention on the copyrights. Ed Gerszon ( born and raised in East Germany) did the vocals and guitar. She claims he wrote the song solely. D.B. Lloyd ( bass, keyboards) has always sustained. She wrote the lyrics. Gary Bell (drums) owns the master tape, But on that ill faded trip to Sweden in winter time, back in 1984, allegedly driving to Paul studios where he would do the remaster. That's the reason The vocals are mixed, so detached from the bulk of the song. Gerszon publish the song at Editions Jannick, Dresden,, but Debbie Lloyd did the same elsewhere in the UK. as long as all band members are dead there's no future developments to this song and all this left of " The Doggy Laughed" and "Pasewalk Strut" our recordings on friends hands." - User GraachAhim

[@wingracer1614]

@@NeilAloha None of that has anything to do with the laws of physics.

[@over-educated-sp]

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is. - William Poundstone

[@DanielDunn]

What an amazing story. Everything pretty much lines up with exactly what I was doing in the mid 80s, editing tapes to make playlists I likes, getting rid of DJs, and so forth. This is really awesome and cool stuff.

[@jezmez68]

I heard about this about 3 months ago and am enthralled! This was recorded on the radio while I lived in Germany, and that sound is the sound of the time. Pretty great.

[@andrewcarter3367]

A true rock-n-roll X-File. Thanks, Professor!

[@marsguyphil]

I had a similar case. I recorded a song off the radio, then never heard it again. I could remember the station, and I could remember the lyrics, but eventually I lost the mix tape, and spent years searching for it on lyrics sites. I was beginning to think I imagined the whole thing, or it was a Mandela Effect thing, when just last week, I finally identified the song and artist: "Kick It Down" by Jaime Kyle, who only recently had a kind of renaissance and began putting her stuff on KZbin... then I went on to find out that she'd also written one of my favorite songs, "Stranded", which was recorded by Heart for "Brigade". Nice to know that even after so long, there's still new music to find.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Never heard of her!

[@suzybearheart530]

Well, now I'm off to check out Jamie Kyle!

[@jvidalw]

something similar happened to me, decades later I finally discovered it was "on the upside" by Xena.

[@zyante1]

I watched a movie in 2020 where there was a song that I liked. I couldn’t find it anywhere but I contacted someone involved with the movie and they sent me the sound cloud of the track. It’s the only place where it exists besides the movie, as the band didn’t make an album.

[@Mr.Beverly]

If you play this song backwards, it says, “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”

[@bobquack1]

😂😂

[@KiltedHammer]

The Hulkster says, "Don't forget to take your vitamins"

[@jimfritz2087]

Ralphie was not happy . ☕️

[@TLowGrrreen]

A lousy commercial... son of a bitch!😂😂

[@markiefufu]

This is why I love this channel. It's not just stories about the songs we grew up with, but mysteries like these. BTW: Golden Earring's Twilight Zone is one of my all time favorite songs, even is the video is goofy.

[@Edward-bd8iy]

It was 1982/83 and the art of the video was still a novelty. There were some absolute gems such as the Randy Andy "We Are People" video and the Ah-Ha "Take On Me" video... and then there were ones such as "Automatic Man" and "Twilight Zone" which were great tunes but really stupid vids. Beavis and Butthead roasted the "Breakin' the Law" video on one episode while acknowledging their admiration of the song.

[@wallyscott1310]

yeah - the replay loop of the Nazi girls in leather pants cracked me up when was showing to my son who getting into 80s music lore.

[@Brian316G]

Definitely 80's. Its possible whoever made it is sadly gone now. Its so strange nobody would step up with proof they recorded it over all these years. Very mysterious. Love the channel.

[@Cloxxki]

One claim to have recorded it, is interesting. Multiple, with the wrong date...even more so.

[@KC-xr2tm]

When I was a kid, McDonald's didn't serve anything for breakfast.

[@NDR-hn3ue]

You remember that too

[@KC-xr2tm]

@@NDR-hn3ue Yes, I do.

[@johndelconte9915]

I don’t think anyone would want it back then.

[@christheghostwriter]

When were you a kid? McDonald's started selling the Egg McMuffin in the early 1970s. I'm 57, born in '66, and I remember the Egg McMuffin from childhood

[@johndelconte9915]

@@christheghostwriter what’s your point?

[@crusherbmx]

Some one will pop up, realizing that his demo tape that went nowhere in 1984 is now something of a hit.

[@raresaturn]

It's gotta be from an album.. all the other tracks played along side it are album tracks

[@masterq2.033]

Rodriguez, was working construction while his Cold Fact recordings unknown to him were bigger than the Stones or the Beatles across the Atlantic.

[@arthurchadwell9267]

Unless they are dead... 😢

[@shinyrubber]

play the FKing song then !!!!!!!

[@izzpop781]

Could only like your comment once unfortunately! So....... 👍 x infinity 😄

[@Lordvestage1313]

Because it would get copyrighted from the actual band.... So..🤔

[@robertgilpin477]

I agree. This guy waste so much fun time talking about it never f****** tells us who it is. Jesus christ! Just spit it out already!

[@TheRoadWarriorUSA]

@@robertgilpin477he would tell us who the band was if he knew. But nobody knows.

[@MarkMay-cr6bv]

@@robertgilpin477 Take an anger-management class and then settle down, Beavis.

[@jeware1971]

Wait, I heard this songs once in a London nightclub in 1992 when i took a trip with a college group and we went out and checked out the nightscene of London. The DJ played this song and said this is a song straight from East Berlin. I didn't know this was a mysterious song... but, I took some notes that night for a journal i was writing for the class and wrote, "Some 80s tunes still thrive overseas. Like Canada, they are behind a bit. The band Naucttune "Check IN" sounds like the synth-band from the 80s." So that's what i have.... I scoured the internet and didn't find the band, Nauctune (I don't know if the spelling is even remotely correct.) The band might be one of those that recorded in underground radio, as this DJ played European underground stuff.

[@kimberlina68]

Flock of Seagulls are from England?

[@BMXAuthority]

Without question the best channel on KZbin. I must have sent at least 50 people to this channel. Keep it up Adam. You literally are the next Casey Kasem.

[@elishaeickhoff5040]

I wish Adam Reader was hosting New Year's Rockin' Eve (the late, great Dick Clark's former gig), rather than Ryan Seacrest. Mario Lopez would be the only other person suitable for the job.

[@jeanettethomas5806]

One song that stumped me for years that I recorded off college radio and onto a cassette here in Cleveland in the early aughts was, I eventually found out, the Persecution and Restoration of Dean Moriarty by Aztec Two-Step. It's an AMAZING song, still one of my favorites, and the artist and its origins were unknown to me for at least ten years!

[@gwts1171]

Aztec Two-Step are a really cool band!

[@jeanettethomas5806]

@@gwts1171 definitely, and not known widely enough!

[@wrpmtro4808]

I actually believe it to be an old demo by the finnish artist Cisse Häkkinen. He played bass in a rock n roll trio called Hurriganes, while also having a solo career throughout the 70's and 80's. In the 80's his band Hurriganes started to experiment alot more with their music, using synthesizers etc. And I think Cisse might have recorded this as a demo during this time period. Listen to Cisse's tracks "A little love story" and "Sä sekoitit mun pään" just to hear the similarities in voice, accent and use of reverb (Hurriganes were infamous in scandinavia for singing in english while being pretty bad at it) I know this has Cisse has been mentioned and discussed in the Mysterious Song subreddit, but I dont know if it has been debunked or not. I just still really hear the similarities

[@MrToddsimmers]

Robert ward Band. He was stationed in Germany. He is from Larwill Indiana, He lives in Sarasota Florida now. I was recorded on a Teac Reel to Reel. He is my uncle.

[@DMJoeBing]

Get him on here.

[@sportsygirl8]

What was the name of the song?

[@MactacFPV]

OK, so this would be huge if true - the whole internet has been trying to find out the info on the artist. Can you elaborate? can you get him to respond and provide some background, and maybe post any other recordings he has? You can't just come on here and say this without providing much more info!!

[@DeezNuts-xz7hy]

Troll Alert

[@ObnoxiousNox]

Even Shazam calls it "The Most Mysterious Song On the Internet" by the Most Mysterious Band.

[@AnthonySforza]

Hahaha, finally. I have been scrolling forever to see if anyone tried this. Sitting here like "No... I cant be THAT much smarter than everyone else, SOMEONE has had to try it"

[@DukesMusic84]

This band is like the DB Cooper of rock n'roll, it might be better if we NEVER find out who did it.

[@schrodingerszombie2401]

Did you know that DB Cooper was NOT the name used by the hijacker? The name he used was Dan Cooper. DB Cooper was a name checked out by the FBI that they thought may have been the Dan Cooper they were looking for. Reporters heard it and for some reason started using it.

[@juliao1255]

I like the comparison.

[@MisterJWJ71]

The comparison is funny because, just like the D.B. Cooper case you have people claiming they did it but there is no actual evidence let alone proof.

[@sthubbins4038]

“The authorities said best leave it… unsolved.” -Nigel Tufnel

[@shanester1832]

What's the best case scenario, them reuniting and doing a concert for Good Morning America? Not cool. It would never live up to the expectations of people that have been searching for it. Here's the singer, an accountant.

[@bendowson3124]

My theory: Statues in Motion recorded a demo of the song in 1982 in a style more similar to the other songs on the album. Then, after the band broke up, Alvin Dean formed a new band and recorded the version we know. By this point, he’d lost contact with Billy Knight and Billy’s fussy memory has caused him to confuse the two recordings thinking they’re one and the same.

[@stpaulimdog]

It would be that Billy was mistaken about the date. Maybe an out take from the next album rather than the 1982 album. I remember DX7s back then being new in 1986 and a friend showing his off. I was in college music school at the time.

[@GtrMatt]

​@@stpaulimdogDX7 was released in '83.

[@biglew1161]

By chance I Just found out who this is today and remembered watching this video a few months ago. The group is was FEX and the song is called "Subways of Your Mind"

[@todddenio3200]

It would be easier to find someone who can identify it if more than 3 seconds was played

[@trippinbawls88]

You have several hints as to where to find it on youtube without him getting in trouble for using it lmfao. The most mysterious song on the internet, blind the wind, like the wind.... try typing a few of these into your search bar. Effort seems to be lacking in the general population these days.

[@trippinbawls88]

KZbin channel is systemica. Took me 3 seconds to find it man.

[@jeremiahdavis360]

​@@trippinbawls88I think it's the knowledge that's lacking

[@genostellar]

@@trippinbawls88 "You have several hints as to where to find it on youtube without him getting in trouble for using it lmfao." If he got in trouble for using it, then he'd find the maker of the song, wouldn't he?

[@genostellar]

@@trippinbawls88 At least we'd know who did the song.

[@Infinitesimal-ho7it]

Another suggestion (I don't know what has been suggested by everyone else on the internet, so this probably is not new): find out what underground and small label bands were playing contemporary to that song and see if any of those musicians would recognize it. It might have been a local hit somewhere, and the musicians of the same time and locales were often playing the same gigs or supported each other. I suggest this because I heard of shoegaze bands often went to each others' shows in support of each other.

[@jcmac47]

That seems like a excellent idea! Don't know if it was suggested before, but makes sense.

[@brigade911]

we don't even know the country or region

[@Del-Lebo]

At 58 years old... and a huge fan of that style of music, I am intrigued, must hear the wole song...and just revel in the mystery! It sounds so familiar, but that's what so many bands sounded like in that specific time frame! I love my life and the things I've seen and heard!

[@blaster-zy7xx]

You can hear the whole thing on KZbin. I think it is listed as most mysterious song. I have heard it. I think it also goes by “like the wind”

[@bpabustan]

Adam - the song is found! Subways Of Your Mind - FEX

[@gorblimeyguv]

It's the mystery that is so fascinating. It will be a massive anticlimax when it's found.

[@video2000_TV]

and no one will listen to it again cause it'ss entirely mediocre in the first place

[@brianhotaling5849]

Mysteries are always more about the journey, than the destination.

[@blebhan8213]

It's that song that Al Bundy couldn't figure out. You know, the one that goes "hmm-hmm-him"...

[@loginregional]

Not going to do it... argh! Go to _HIM_

[@laurallewien2165]

Anna!

[@karlsenula9495]

😂

[@jasonrackawack9369]

😂🤣😅😉👍

[@bigal1863]

LOL Al Bundy is my spirit animal

[@HummingBird-q5g]

This song sounds like a collaboration between the bands Love and Rockets, and Ministry. Especially with their albums at that time. Thank you for all the amazing excellent content. You teach me, enabling me to appreciate songs more, and enable me to appreciate growing up in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. And you enable me to appreciate songs of all eras. I hope you have a great day. Popo.

[@KiltedHammer]

I am not really hearing Daniel Ash in this one. I can see how you can get to this musically though.

[@HummingBird-q5g]

@@KiltedHammer Right on! Musically this is what this mysterious 80's song reminded me of. I hope someone finds out who they are. I sense they are probably an underground band that was so good they were played on the radio locally. I would love to hear more music from this mysterious 80's band. I think this why everyone is so interested in finding out who they are. They are really excellent music. Thank you for your reply. I hope you have a great day. John.

[@wallyscott1310]

Good ear! I forgot about Ministry and musically I can hear it

[@HummingBird-q5g]

@@wallyscott1310 Thank you. I think it might be someone different, and I can hear these bands within this song. I hope they find the creator (s) of this song. I hope you have a great day. John

[@jetsilveravenger]

Looks like a followup video is needed. I'm almost a bit disappointed the mystery has been solved but it will be interesting to find out what led to the breakthrough. I first heard the song and learned its unknown status sometime in 2012 or 2013 and forgot about it for years until about a year ago i saw youtube video about a custom level of the videogame Doom someone made that was very weird and trippy and included a secret area that featured the song playing on the radio of a car or truck that was parked there. It really added the mysterious atmosphere.

[@futureidol83]

Reminds me of the German synth-pop band Camouflage, like an early demo of theirs. Interestingly in 83-84 they went under the name Licensed Technology, and they had a 4th member (Martin Kähling) who perhaps played guitar, hence the more guitar driven sound. Also many electronic/synth based bands did often compose melodies on guitar before translating it onto synth. As far as I know they never released anything under the Licensed Technology name, so could it be one of their demos? It's likely not them as Camouflage is still somewhat active and would have claimed it (I believe Marcus Meyn was asked about it and according to Reddit did not claim it as his), but I can see it being a similar German group with the faux English accent thing going on. Maybe they only ever recorded the one demo single and disbanded soon after. But it sounds amazing considering it's recorded from the radio.

[@pugil1st]

Hi Adam. I'm Chris LaForce, born at the beginning of the 60s, and I enjoy your channel a lot. I am really familiar with The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet since my son told me about it roughly a year ago. I too have had songs from my childhood I had to search for a while to identify. One example was the kid's song Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. Turns out it was the Kissoons' version I'd heard as a youngster and not Middle of the Road's.

[@MetFan37]

Yes - Middle of the Road went to #1 in the UK, but it was the Mac and Katie Kissoon version that went top twenty in the states.