The Most Mysterious Song on The Internet | The Story of "Like The Wind"

[@NAETEMUSIC]

Leave a comment if any of you are interested in me releasing the synthesizer/drum machine version of "Like The Wind" I recorded to use as backing track, I'll post it up on my 2nd channel. Comment below if you're interested. EDIT: Ok after WAYYYY too many months here it is guys, feel free to use this royalty free in your videos just drop a link in the credits: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX-vgoGPmrFjqrM

[@dappidy3763]

yes plz

[@NAETEMUSIC]

@@dappidy3763 Aight I got one affirmative yes so I'm def gonna upload tonight for sure!

[@johnrunion5357]

sounds like an artist from germany called BLACK who had minor success with everything is coming up roses and it's a wonderful life.

[@dappidy3763]

also TY for mentioning Kino! I grew up listening to their band + the songs were very indicative of the history back then.

[@dappidy3763]

@@johnrunion5357 let's ask him then

[@herrrubezahl5554]

Somewhere in Germany there are a bunch of sixty year old men with ordinary jobs having no idea that thousands of people on the Internet discuss this song they recorded in their youth. They had a name for their pop group and they named the song, but if they were to google those names they won't find our discussions. I agree that it most likely was an East German band trying to sound like a British or American pop group.

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

PRETTY MUCH

[@dcallaway1]

Kind of poetic if you think about it

[@IsuiGtz]

Literally, exactly my thoughts.

[@jensbaranek8322]

As a German I agree to this assumption. The accent sounds to me typical german, as well as the diction and the syntax. Someone tried to translate German more or less literally to English. Therefore it is possible to translate this kind of English back to German and makes sense then, but I doubt this song text makes much sense to the native english speaker. I even assume an east german band: Keep in mind, that English, the language of the class enemy, was not much taught in the former eastern block. The radio station NDR is a public radio station, and the middle 80s was a weird time with a lot of experimantal chances.

[@thorstenwieszniewski6875]

Yes: Hartwig Schierbaum, Bernhard Lloyd and Frank Mertens. But they are around 65 now.

[@Jeremyak]

There must be countless songs that just disappeared into history, kind of sad.

[@arthurchadwell9267]

As an old actor, I can tell you that Artists create the best work they can in an effort to defy time. You put all you can into your work, hoping you will be remembered. Sculptors chisel stone, hoping it's not burned or crushed in an earthquake. Painters brush scenes of beauty, hoping it doesn't burn or rot or get left in a basement until artist and subject are forgotten. Singers and actors put all they can into a performance, only to have it vanish as soon as they finish- unless it's recorded. Even then, the recording must last and be remembered. Otherwise it vanishes, as Roy says at the climax of Blade Runner "...all those moments lost... like tears in rain..."

[@bogusjuan4998]

Most all the original TV shows are gone to history due to being taped over

[@DrEnzyme]

There's a really good podcast episode from "Reply All" called "The Case of the Missing Hit" that follows a similar piece of lost music. Worth a listen if you've got a spare hour.

[@baldmf6940]

Yeah ugga chagga song of my ancestors was fire

[@AndrewJ9673]

Almost all music before the early modern period is likely lost forever. Ancient societies definitely had music but we will never know of the songs themselves. I like to imagine Nero was banging on his fiddle when Rome burned.

[@Toughguysdontdance12]

The search is over. It has been found. It's called "Subways of your mind" by german band FEX.

[@KAOSGD621]

Its not just the most mysterious song its also the most copyright free song

[@NAETEMUSIC]

True, but believe it or not the backing track that I CREATED OUT OF WHOLECLOTH on my own because the original Like the Wind clashed with my script reading, some unscrupulous $#@% tried COPYRIGHT CLAIM ME. Everything WAYYY bigger KZbinr's than me say about KZbin's copyright system being messed up are right. Anyway, enjoy this version of Like The Wind I made if you so desire: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX-vgoGPmrFjqrM

[@wheedler]

Yeah, whenever people say they don't know who owns the rights to something, I just think the easiest way is to use it and see who can prove they own it.

[@MariaIsabellaZNN]

Aah thank you for making that, I like it a lot better.

[@B_Skizzle]

@@wheedler That's a neat idea, but I don’t think it'd work. See, when it comes to copyright strikes, the burden of proof isn’t on the claimant. Instead of making any real effort to verify incoming claims, KZbin would rather play it safe and believe them by default. That is to say, any old rando could claim the song and we'd have no way of knowing if it was legitimate. Isn’t the DMCA just _great?_

[@NAETEMUSIC]

@@B_Skizzle Literally. Unless claimant (who I will anonymize for now), who claimed the song can show me, actually, the guy who Like the Wind is alive and this mystery is solved! Then I will fight for the right ownership of MY WORK (unbelievable when you think about it) I think they thought they could be crafty and claim any song with that title in as the claim came in INSTANTLY. Unlucky for them I am certified insane and will fight it to the end.

[@KyrieFortune]

Here from a Doom custom map, of all places. I hope that we find who played this song so that they can get their rightful place in music history

[@Rockastorm]

Same

[@someoneunusual7186]

This song fits perfectly in there tbh, all the mystery behind the mod itself + the song is perfect

[@Crinlask]

happiness must be fought for, but I want pop

[@jypsyjewels2854]

same

[@little_ghostie]

same

[@delililala]

Why are these unknown songs always sooo good

[@cartridgetiltersofficial9311]

because they aren't main stream.

[@alastairward2774]

Who wants to find out more about songs that aren't catchy?

[@frozi7711]

​@@alastairward2774*raises hand* alot of non catchy songs have really cool meanings just from what I've heard and experienced

[@yadusolparterre]

Because nobody looks for the bad ones. Survivor bias.

[@K200-m7h]

Not the replies taking the comment literal

[@OlegDorbitt]

As a Russian I can confirm that accent sounds a bit Russian/Slavic, but nothing beyond that. Plus I'm pretty certain all the lyrics are in English, and not in Runglish or whatever. Edit: to clarify, the Slavic hint is pretty small. I'm just not that familiar with other accents. As many have pointed out in the replies, this accent is more likely German.

[@-Ryan_Gasoline-]

Я тоже это слышу, это точно английский

[@shaynecarter-murray3127]

Yea as someone who only knows English fluently, and has a tiny bit of German knowledge, i can understand pretty much everything that isnt mumbled. It just sounds like some garage band sent a tape in to a DJ, the DJ played it, noone really thought much about it, and it got "lost"

[@elrrosengarten6717]

Я филолог, занимаюсь углублённо языком, диалектологией, и пр. Здесь точно не восточнославянский акцент, да и не южнославянский. Вообще нет ничего общего в звукоизвлечении. Да, поющий явно поёт с акцентом, но это ближе куда-то к немцам, мб голландцам. Край - чехи, поляки, но это тоже вряд ли.

[@icemonkefordwick572]

I can hear English not the mix of german english and russian that he talked about

[@赤青白]

Yes the accent may sound a bit like Slavic, but as a Serb I can say it's definitely not Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian or Bulgarian.

[@Tser]

I like how the sound of analogue media has become inherently scary, described as haunting tape hisses and crackles. I grew up with them and nothing about them sounds creepy to me at all, but analogue horror is so popular now.

[@rabbitraisin]

Analogue media is beautiful. I remember the first time I heard black planet by sisters of mercy. It was like hearing something from another world. I was hooked to old 80s and analogue recordings ever since.

[@leeguidry9850]

Fareal. I taped so many songs from nightly countdowns and dedication songs.... such a simple time.... I guess we always bootlegged music. Wasn’t just file sharing sites

[@steverogers8163]

the "analog" sound is being equated with old now. Old things are generally scarier than new things. This isn't even a new technique either. They were using old tape to tape reel to accomplish the same thing back in the 80s. The classic bit being running the tape all the way out so you get that flap, flap, flap noise after the tape reveals some important info. Though the digital age definitely adds a new element to it. Modern music/sound is so massively over produced there are essentially no audible errors in it anymore. So when there is an erroneous noise its very noticeable.

[@tlrlml]

Shhhhh! The children like their fear of things past... don't remind them people were just fine with those things at the time.

[@johnnybrowning8663]

I get the same sense when I hear audio from a phonograph.

[@KoolGamingWolf]

The song has been found! The song is Subways of Your Mind by FEX.

[@Mistabushi]

There were countless of indie bands in ex soviet block countries so there are dozens of similar songs from bands that no longer exist as people grew up, change career, moved on or just died. My pal worked in indie label /record studio in 80s/early 90s and have tons of demo cassettes from noname bands and most of them are real bangers.

[@Soniabegonia77]

It almost sounds like the singer of Rammstein

[@douglastriplett1083]

You should get him to post some of that!

[@Jasonradiation999]

Yes that is true..... but, someone gave a enough heart to make it...... someone knows who this is!

[@neothurmic3780]

I remember hearing that most punk bands in Germany broke up when the wall came down, seeing it as a sort of 'mission complete' so a lot of bands disappeared literally overnight

[@milascave2]

@@neothurmic3780 Hm. I read that East German punks DID NOT see the wall coming down, and the rampant Capitalism and appropriation of the East. German territory. As Mission Accomplished. They created alternative spaces, but then rioted when those spaces were sold, and they were kicked out. However, when techno came along, a lot of East German punks switched to that.

[@max6325974]

I believe that we will never know who truly made this song. I think that it’s likely that everyone involved / band member either doesn’t remember or is dead unfortunately EDIT 05/11/2024: I'm so happy to be wrong

[@arthurchadwell9267]

Maybe dead. No artist forgets his work. I used to be an actor and I remember whole pages of dialog from shows I did in 1983/84. You don't forget something like that.

[@_Content-Deleted_]

@@arthurchadwell9267maybe for you it’s more memorable since it’s a temporary thing

[@jedihunter176]

Dead? Come on, man, it wasn't that long ago. 80's was just 20 years ago, right? Right?

[@YGNX]

@@jedihunter176 >*Forty Years Ago* Ouch.

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

cmon don't be so pessimistic, maybe they're just not much in the internet

[@mvlad8725]

As a Russian born in the late 80's, and having grown up on Kino, DDT, etc. - I find your knowledge on this truly refreshing. It has the same light, yet moody style of Depeche Mode / Kino. What an unexpected treat!

[@emilmarynowski9967]

Statues in motion,,Like a wind,, 1982/83

[@MrAeral]

True. I'm russian too.

[@TheAidanodian]

Цой жив

[@ANNA_SNAP]

yes i instantly thought kino, its sooo similar...

[@Midnight-ACE]

Kino fan❤, respect

[@MetalMockingjay]

The bit about tape degradation is funny because a lot of radio stations used to play their music slightly faster than the original speed of the recording, so it's quite possible that the slowed down version sounds more like what was intended.

[@Jupiter-T]

What's the reason for playing it faster?

[@MetalMockingjay]

@@Jupiter-T A. It makes it sound more "exciting" B. It saves time

[@eadweard.]

​@@MetalMockingjay Is it desirable, on a radio show, to save time?

[@MetalMockingjay]

@@eadweard. Absolutely! The quicker you go, the more ads you can play, and the more requests you can take.

[@boojersey13]

I always would get extremely frustrated when I realized I was listening to a sped up station haha, I think the last one I've heard was around 5 years ago

[@SnowyRains]

Omg i know that feeling… i spent 25 years trying to figure out who sung some song on the radio and turned out to be a local band

[@mengmao2332]

at least you found out though!

[@SnowyRains]

@@mengmao2332 true that

[@AFellowCyberman]

This is so common, especially in the past it was very easy for some local band who never got popular outside of their area to have their song(s) played there a few times, and fall off the air and the only reason you might be able to find them is if someone recorded the song. There's probably countless amazing songs and bands that had the same fate.

[@Euphoria965]

can you tell me the name of the song? i'm curious so i wanna listen to it. although it may not be on youtube

[@SnowyRains]

@@Euphoria965 i don’t know the song in the video but the one i had always been looking for was… weddings parties anything - step in step out

[@kronos6948]

Something similar happened on Reddit. A Canadian redditor was looking for the name and artist of a song they had recorded on cassette. The song was Johan Lindell's "On The Roof". The post got so popular that the artist re released the song.

[@brettcooper3893]

Is that the same song James Taylor covered?

[@kronos6948]

@@brettcooper3893 No, it's a totally different song. You can search KZbin for Johan Lindell On the Roof and hear it's a different song.

[@hellskitchen10036]

Just listen to Donovan's "Catch the Wind" if you want good music!

[@UD503J]

"It's a tough fight, but happiness has to be fought for."

[@MCXL1140]

♥️

[@juniorkusma7937]

Myhouse.WAD ??

[@user-kq1zh4io7o]

cringe

[@MCXL1140]

@@juniorkusma7937 yes

[@bananana6420]

Non cringe

[@ConnorO74]

Sweet. It’s a good song so really it’s a shame that no one claimed it.

[@NAETEMUSIC]

Agreed. I am kind of in shock this has been going since 2019 and still we really don't have anymore leads than we did then

[@SimplyDuker]

@@NAETEMUSIC We have to make it to the big screens and see who's gonna claim it. Playing chicken with the copyright system is probably the most optimal option so far.

[@DRMINT-np1bj]

Hey! At least you can Use it in any video you want and No one Will Claim your video

[@NAETEMUSIC]

@@DRMINT-np1bj unfortunately my backing track which I posted on my second channel got claimed, but I am currently fighting it because uh I literally have the logic session that it was made in. Anyway enjoy if you desire: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX-vgoGPmrFjqrM

[@DRMINT-np1bj]

@@NAETEMUSIC Damn, claimed by who?

[@ansaac257]

We found it boys, the song is called “Subways of your mind” by the German band FEX. A reddit user just found it.

[@gregc2236]

My best guess is that it was an East German band, but not a mainstream band. Perhaps it was a university band who sent a demo to a West German radio station, and the DJ liked it enough to play it on air. If this is the case, the band members would likely be around 60 years old now, and probably oblivious to the fact their song they barely remember making in the 80s is attracting attention of the internet.

[@geno4492]

Side note, this song being called like the wind is rather fitting we know nothing about it, it’s artist is just like the wind.

[@chrlpolk]

Another side note is that bands of that era had the habit of intentionally not naming the song something obvious. Somewhere, once-musicians laments that “Breath of Angels” never gained any traction.

[@stephenlangsl67]

Or it could be from an alternate 1984 and just crossed over to this timeline.

[@Soopytwist]

It was found yesterday (4th November 2024). It's called Subways of the Mind by FEX.

[@benday1218]

Wow this is pure hauntology. Has a source in the Balkans been considered? There is an article in the Guardian newspaper that explores that scene ‘It was ridiculous. It was amazing’: the lost pop of 80s Yugoslavia'.

[@NAETEMUSIC]

Yugoslavia is somewhere I didn’t consider but is a really solid bet considering one of the other contenders people think it is is a Greek band called statues in motion

[@rossmum]

There were a few Yugoslav groups playing this style of music with English lyrics in the mid/late 80s, and there is definitely a strong resemblance in sound, so it's not a bad place to look. Worth noting that even for some of the stuff recorded in Serbo-Croatian, only very poor quality recordings survive (or were even made in the first place).

[@RedGarnett-n2p]

​@@NAETEMUSIC it is not statues in motion

[@RedGarnett-n2p]

​@@NAETEMUSIC jools Holland would be a good person to run this song by all those years he worked on the tube

[@tombombadil8142]

It does sound a lot like Bajaga and Instruktori... The accent does seem more south than east or west slavic (to the ears of a west slav).

[@F1BastiPH]

TMS FOUND!! FEX - Subways of your mind (1983)

[@ivanhardy-Birt1124]

Solved , on this day 4th of november 2024 , i can confirm this song previously known as like the wind has been identifed as subways of the mind by FEX

[@_maximus_prime_]

This song is like a liminal photo. It feels familiar and you could swear you heard it before, but something’s off about it.

[@KingRandor82]

Despite taking part in the search, myself, I will tell you right now--as an aficionado of the sound of the 80s--this song honest to God sounds like everything else at the time, it came out. This could've been played overhead at Sam Goody back in the day, and no one would've been any the wiser. We notice it *now* because of the spotlight finally put on it.

[@signedmixals]

It has a pretty similar chord progression and melody to Ace of Base - Beautiful Life. Which was quite a big hit in the 90s. Maybe that's why it sounds familiar to many.

[@_maximus_prime_]

@@signedmixals Funnily enough I’ve actually never even heard of that song. Not to argue your point though, it might still have some merit. I just still feel a sense of familiarity to it despite never hearing Beautiful Life. It might also be connected to the amount of early 80s rock I’ve listened to on late night car drives and bonfires with friends. As much as I love them, I have to admit a lot of rock songs from 1980-1984 sound incredibly similar and so that could very well be attributed to me feeling a sense of familiarity. The guitar intro doesn’t feel too out of place on an album like “Glass Houses” by Billy Joel from 1980 for example, and the vocals are in a very early 80s style with the intonation. That’s just my take on it all though, I’m not really an authority on this kinda thing so I could definitely be wrong about it.

[@_maximus_prime_]

@@KingRandor82 That is definitely true, it sounds like a lot early 80s rock songs. The guitar intro is what I think makes it feel the most familiar to me and I said before on signedmixals reply, it feels right at home on an album like “Glass Houses” by Billy Joel. If you’re familiar with the album, it especially reminds of the track Sleeping With the Television On for some reason, despite not really sounding that much like it. I guess that just goes to show how same-y early 80s music could get (I still absolutely love it though, don’t get me wrong)

[@KingRandor82]

@@_maximus_prime_ it's also why I don't think the track was actually recorded in '84, though the synthesizer could've been added later. No idiot would think recording THIS was a good idea past early 1983, at the very latest

[@steffimaier7297]

Feels like something from a dream that somehow made it into reality.

[@obscenity]

Its Like the Wind, by Statues In Motion.

[@letitbeknown2973]

Damn that shit hit different

[@SummerBreeeze]

YES!!!!

[@wandahastings8470]

Whoa... tangible. Cool concept. I like it.

[@nikdiklic]

@@obscenity No

[@samu7723]

I showed this song to my father who grew up in germany very close to the austrian border and he pointed out that the singer could have an austrian accent

[@Dogman_35]

People have speculated the song is dutch, so "some amorphous language that sounds like a mix of english, german, and russian" might be the funniest description of dutch that I've ever heard lol

[@nikodemospl870]

Even if this song is like a ghost, song really slaps Btw, imagine that after sending this song to radio station one of the band member says "Hey, did we write our band's name and title?"

[@whoareyou4565]

WOW .. the song fits it’s name.. “Like The Wind” not only in it’s appearance on air, but it’s lyrics and mysterious style. I think it would’ve been a great hit if it didn’t just blow in and out, haunting the airwaves “Like The Wind”, as it’s fateful destiny.

[@whoareyou4565]

These are the lyrics my friend! I thought I heard them, but wasn’t 💯, so I searched and found this lyric video…just thought you’d like to hear the words too..great song! There should be a revival to this recording..maybe a more resounding remaster?.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2Okf6CEgpqkps0

[@resqfreedom9308]

Like the wind or blind the wind!? It says both! Now a new KZbin conspiracy to go down the rabbit hole with 😂😂

[@sayckeone]

It's Ride the Wind.

[@MoonjumperReviews]

Now that you’ve played it towards the end of your video, I’m very relieved to have it confirmed that we’re NOT talking about Patrick Swayze’s “(She’s) Like the Wind” from “Dirty Dancing.” I feel old enough as it is than to be told by the internet that “no one can figure out the source of this song!” LOL 😅

[@CheriH-4321]

Or "Break Like The Wind" by Spinal Tap 😂

[@Neelo5000]

Or "Ride Like The Wind" by Christopher Cross

[@ocsrc]

Ride like the wind

[@CitizenCardigan]

Or Part of the Wind by Phil Ochs

[@Bahlzeron]

Ride the Wind - Poison

[@Pushing_Daisies]

If I have the funds, I may start buying up old German garage band’s records and possibly other tapes from the time. There is a possibility it’s sitting on some record that’s just waiting to be played

[@Frankie5Angels150]

If wasting your money is really your thing, you can just give it to me and solve both of our problems.

[@ThePeterGriffinGaming]

We did it guys. We finally found the song (its called Subways of Your Mind by FEX)

[@bhangrafan4480]

You seem to have no idea how many really great bands there are out there who get together, make a demo tape, then disappear without trace each member going their separate way. This is a story that happens every day. Perhaps a member of one such band had a buddy with conncetions to this German radio station, who managed to slip this in among the approved items on the playlist in the hope their musical efforts might get a reaction from the public. It happens. Not everyone who doesn't make it deserves not to make it. Penetrating the media, especially in those days, was tough, however good you were.

[@jenniferl.9947]

That was my thought exactly - this was probably someone/a garage band that was friends with the radio DJ that night.

[@119Agent]

Thousands of bands get radio play and have no internet existence at all. I have tons of demo tapes from my time at a radio station of bands that got played at least once but never did anything else.

[@shortymccutlery8919]

It's true, great bands form, make demos maybe even get local air play but that's as far as it goes. College radio stations in particular play lots of great obscure music.

[@hepphepps8356]

Exactly this. The number of bands coming and going and in the meantime recording a few demos sounding like this was staggering in those days. It is completely generic and there’s really no mystery to it at all. I could have been in that band myself for all I remember. Well, at least if it was a few years later. Or it could even be a fake art project type thing. We had a band like that 20 years ago, making up a fake story about and made the lost music of a french- trying to be american band around 1980. We did a couple of fake reunion shows for our closest friends and it was all just some fancy arty act. It lasted like 4 months, and now 20 years later, those recordings completely believeable to me as something from 1980.

[@bhangrafan4480]

@@hepphepps8356 interesting

[@herborty8658]

The Austrian musician Ronnie Urini aka Ronnie Rocket claimed to have produced that song in 1983 together with Austrian singer Christian Brandl (died in 1987) and himself on the drums. Urini registered the song at AKM (the Austrian collecting society). Its doubted by some but the singer's accent has something very distinctive Austrian to me. (I'm Austrian myself.) Edit: This is another record of singer Christian Brandl with his Band Chuzpe: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKC4qKyEerh8fdk

[@issacsantana6419]

Horrible news to see that the prime suspect singer of this legendary song died so many years ago, and here we are, without the possibility of confirmation from Christian Brandl himself.

[@benbrownjr.7626]

I love that even in the age of the internet, mystery still exists. I love this story and post!

[@RmationYT]

Yeah, it’s quite interesting.

[@wisdomaxolotl2766]

I love the "theory" that its from another dimension. It just seens like how that would play out.

[@wetwillyis_1881]

That’s the one I’m going with, mate.

[@collared]

​@@wetwillyis_1881it could very well be. god knows what the fuck cern is doing and how many times we switched dimensions. this is mostly a joke as im not into conspiracies but i would not be surprised if my joke is fr lol

[@johncongos1949]

Guitar String Theory?

[@wetwillyis_1881]

@@collared I know exactly where you're coming from, mate.

[@TheDeepThinker-sq3iy]

@@collared You know... all of this talk about getting launched into other dimensions has always seemed kinda off... on such a scale as something like that might be, I instead propose that WHATEVER is happening with Cern... has instead been affecting our MINDS probably more than anything to do with dimension-hopping shenanigans. think about it... EVERY single case of a mandella effect... its always something so incredibly ambiguous that could easily just be attributed to some form of misremembering.. but on the grand scale of just how many people seem to have this... it just seems more probable that our own memories themselves are somehow being tampered with RATHER than the idea that we've been getting launched into other dimensions. But WHICH one of these two scenarios is more likely?

[@RavenDai]

A few years back my dad did a lot of research into the East German rock bands of the 70s and 80s. The whole subject really is fascinating since a lot of Western music was broadcast from Berlin to deliberately cross the iron curtain and people on the other side picked up a lot of the music and got inspired to make their own. So you can find quite a few of the old Ossierock bands that have really similar sounds to other artists of the time. The sad part is we likely will never know fully about the song depending on the band and their politics. The DDR was brutal on tracking and controlling any messaging for public groups and there were people and whole bands that just got disappeared for daring to speak out against the state at the time. If you want an example of a group that we know about cause they were popular enough to not just erase try looking up anything about "Renft".

[@andyupton9643]

I was stationed in West Berlin from '84 to '86 and this sounds like East German rock that they were playing in the Discotechs at that time. Boy does that bring back memories. Great time.

[@DrFunkman]

IIRC 99 Red Balloons almost ended up this way. A person being interviewed on the station brought in the wrong tape, but everyone kept calling the radio to replay it so it eventually took off

[@brettcooper3893]

There are certain songs that took me decades to track down, songs that I had a muddy pre-teen memory of. And then one day, I'd hear it in a movie, generally, and then go to the credits for more information. Just about 4 years ago, I finally got a hold of the original studio version of "Talk Hard" by Stan Ridgway. It appeared in Pump Up The Volume, and it took nearly 3 decades for me to finally obtain it.

[@dancegregorydance6933]

Same thing happened to me. I remembered a classical song I heard as a child. Of course being classical it was a pain in the ass and spent most of my life not knowing what it was. I finally found it 5 years ago!

[@vedettes3624]

"Happiness has to be fought for."

[@user-RetardedMonke]

that’s why I’m here.

[@Rebelsk8s]

The song is Subways of your mind by FEX. They recently played it unplugged for NDR.

[@EAZY_CHEF]

Just think there are no more than 20 people who know the whole truth about this song

[@Latransient]

I like the idea that we have no idea where it came from. It’s kind of just the internet’s song now.

[@tlrlml]

It came from Humans, recording there voices and instruments... not very difficult to figure out!

[@REELWORKS12923]

Feels genuinely surreal the song was found after all this time

[@graveltheblock5578]

The song has seeped into the ears of countless strangers. One can say, it was Like The Wind.

[@eadweard.]

Boo. Rubbish.

[@Salithin]

Like the wind, it came running.

[@larkefedifero]

Or, " *She's* Like the Wind, " if you enjoy "Dirty Dancing!" 😝

[@1Nida]

Great Joke, Dad!

[@Andres33AU]

In the subway of our minds? haha

[@0raj0]

It was common practice in some radio stations (I don't know if this applies to NDR) to play some songs that were sent to them by completely random, unknown people making their own music, if the DJ found the song interesting. They have been usually played once or twice and nobody ever heard them anymore. Maybe it's one of such tracks. As many people have noticed here in the comments, NDR should have in their archives a list of songs they have played. If the exact date of the recording is known (is it?), they should be able to find what the song is. That's the first thing that comes to mind - contact NDR and ask them about it...

[@TDNA]

NDR also doesnt know who made it

[@ANDREI260690]

Yep, the NDR crew was contacted, and they stated they also don't know the author band

[@killaken2000]

My local metal station would play unsigned bands around midnight (say 12am to 3am). They had a name for the segment but I don't remember it. My friends and I would record it and pass the cassettes around at school. "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

[@tlrlml]

Was an old practice, yes. But, generally the word 'Demo' on a list of songs from 40 years ago isn't getting you anywhere.

[@arfived4]

​@@ANDREI260690 I've worked with 'legacy documentation', and would raise the following points: 1) Everyone who worked there at the time has, in all probability, either left or retired. There certainly won't be anyone who knows the song by ear from its original context. There will be no institutional knowledge, and you might as well ask a random member of the public than anyone who works there currently. 2) Any documentary proof is, in all likelihood, either on hard copy and stashed away in the deepest bowles of a storage facility, or was transferred to a medium like microfisch (or some other crude form of scanning) as soon as the technology became available to free up the storage space - it is highly unlikely that this information is available internally in a digital, searchable format. The only way to answer the question would be to send someone to trawl through endless piles of documents, looking for any obscure or unknown songs that fall within the sequence that was recorded, and then attempt to find a recording to verify if it is the right song, or not. This is something that would be incredibly time-consuming, and probably highly tedious, and given that it's just to satisfy the curiosity of some people on the internet, it's a lot more straightforward to just say you don't know, and leave it. I suspect that, if the records exist, this could be solved if they radio station were willing to let an amateur historian or archivist go through their documents.

[@springb0nnie837]

I love how the newer comments are just the newly found title and artist

[@angelic_slayer]

Like the wind (unknown) lyrics are English Like the wind You came runnin Seize the consequence of livin There’s no space There’s no tomorrow There’s no sense from Univision Check it in check it out For the sun goes down outside And don’t let it rain in the subways of your mind Like the wind You’re all summer Let a smile be your companion There’s no place There’s no sorrow Hear the young and restless freedom Check it in check it out When the sun goes down outside And don’t let it rain in the subways of your mind Check it in check it out As the sun goes down outside And don’t let it rain in the subways of your mind Check it in check it out When the summer rules Let it in let it out It’s the real you Check it in check it out When the summer rules Let it in let it out It’s the real you Nb: the song seems to be about reunification/

[@angelic_slayer]

From what I can infer- the recording is good quality but was done quickly - probably 8 track tape. There is only one track of Vox, no ADT ( artificial double tracking) which would of helped clean up the Ian Curtiss style vocal because they could of had a track of clean Vox mixed with the murky reverb Vox to punch out an annunciate the Vox. There was no extra track to use. He also flubbed the Vox on a couple of words and didn’t retract. It was quick.They got out of the studio quickly. It would have been mixed quickly and because they had no extra money they didn’t come back to use the 8 track master mix to overdub anything else. The tracking was done quickly because the drum track has a couple of parts where the drummer would have cleaned up the double flams and made them uniform. He changes flams. He also flubbed in the last section refrain. They would have gone again but time is money and the drum track was ok. Not a demo but not perfect.

[@evilgenius97]

i hope this gets solved like the burning skier VHS from Malcolm in the Middle

[@tlrlml]

@@angelic_slayer I'm going to argue that the mixing is non-existent, or done by a complete amateur. If we go with a single recording, and not over-dub or tape damage (both believable alternatives!). It sounds like someone taped the parts and slapped them one on top of the other, with the expected results. It sounds to my ear (after the experience of losing hundreds of tapes to the simple, and expected, mechanics of tape damage over time) like a tape that sat in a box in a basement/attic/under a bed for 20 years or one that had been eaten and saved. Not hearing the rest of the tape, or the reverse side, makes all the difference in understanding what is really happening here!!!

[@wandahastings8470]

I'm wondering if it's a code...

[@crocve]

I don't think this is a "beyond the Iron Curtain" song. Many have concluded that a DX7 was used in this song, which was on sale starting on mid-1983. Warsaw Pact countries had very strict centrally planed economies and high trade restrictions, so I think it is unlikely a band from there would be able to have access to a DX7. Another problem is persecution and cultural restrictions: Gorbachev's reforms were gradual and applied only to the USSR. In other Warsaw Pact, those restrictions were maintained until the fall of those regimes (1989-1990). There were however exceptions, were artistic expression was much freer: Yugoslavia (not really part of the Warsaw Pact, but it was a non-aligned Cold War communist regime) and Hungary. Still, I am not sure if a band from those countries would be able to have access to a DX7. Ultimately, my belief is that the band who played this song is either German or from a Scandinavian country.

[@aliveslice]

I agree the accent doesn't feel like it could be Slavic, especially at that time. There isn't much of it to speak of, but the vocals are not very clear, German is the best guess to me.

[@wordupcameo5019]

As a German, especially from the East, I can assure: this is definitely NOT from East Germany. The GDR had a very organized music landscape with a very distinctive sound promoted by their main Rock Music school that anybody was promoted to attend if he wants to become a professional musician. You could deny that, and some did, like Feeling B, the band Rammsteim keyboarder Flake comes from. The DX7 wasn`t that much of an issue, if you knew the right people. Just getting anything better or different than the DX7 was a problem, though not impossible. The sound of this song is professional enough to be recognized, but unusual for GDR standards. Simply too much effects soften the sound. East German sound was more direct. Polish and Chechoslovakain sound was more weird, and Hungarian were on par with western standards, but too proud of their hungarian language. The song sounds al lot like modern St.Petersburg band "Brandenburg" - but, off course, they couldn`t exist in 1984...

[@CheriH-4321]

Some music artists were given the DX7 to play and promote in mid 1982.

[@elevatormaniacgames]

⁠@@CheriH-4321 Is that true? Well even if I’d doubt Yamaha would give it to this band. Probably someone big like Michael Jackson.

[@CheriH-4321]

@Chippo Only a few were given and they were prototypes and, to a musician/band that was using the GS1 (older generation prototype for the DX7.)

[@walterengler5709]

What I'm amazed at is NDR does not have records of what was played on that night. You will often find documents in these old companies and businesses related to government in the weirdest places stored LONG term.

[@_Stin_]

It never ceases to both amaze and worry me that there are people who think that everything humans have ever done is on the Internet (and searchable on Google's platform) and that if it isn't on the Internet, it's faked. Something about humanity really depresses me. When companies can sell their services and people buy the hype. When the Internet is oversold as a repository for all humanity, instead of being seen as it is - A misappropriated knowledge sharing network. Reality doesn't happen on-line. But many are misleading themselves, addicted to the powerful, simple idea of having the world and it's history, in it's entirety, accessible to a box. I suppose the zeitgeist has evolved. Paranoia and fear seem to fill in the cracks we open up by our distrust in others and reality. Not everything is on the Internet, and something's unavailability on-line doesn't negate it's existence.

[@cabnbeeschurgr]

I think it's mainly because the majority of record labels have put their own databases of their property on the internet. There is a lot of recorded stuff from the 20th century stored on the internet, especially past the 70s. So something that sounds like it should have been an 80s hit but is nameless and ownerless has piqued the curiosity of the 21st century audience.

[@TheSilmarillian]

I hear you

[@vicious6573]

I am also basically that "technology" and "social media" has done nothing but turned people ito hermits and essentially turned people into introverts who never see other or socialize face to face. That is not what the human mind is wired to exist like. It will be the downfall of all humanity.......sad.

[@ObeMossop]

I get what you’re saying but even if you can’t find the actual thing you can usually find footprints/fingerprints of that thing eg people reviewing or talking about that thing. It’s getting less common to find absolutely nothing about a large situation that occurred in the real world ripple to online

[@stranger7x]

Agreed. I had a song played on the local radio station about five times. They loved it, and I was humbled when they said it was “like nothing we’ve ever heard before”. I had an EP in the local record store, but no label or promotions. I just wrote a song about their radio show to get airtime and it worked. But then the radio show changed formats and DJs. I have a KZbin channel, a Facebook page, and profiles on other platforms, but if somebody taped my song off the radio in 1994 and tried to figure out who it was-there’s no way anyone could trace it to me. Currently, I play in a local scene here where there’s a boatload of amazing songwriters and musicians with original material as good or better than anything I hear on the radio, but most of it will never get played on the radio or heard by the masses. If you want to find new music, instead of playing Internet radio-go to a local open mic night! And support the musicians and creators you know so they can keep making beautiful things.

[@GialloRose]

Do you know anything about the mysterious band “Sardine House” and their rumored album “Pack of Lies,” said to be a collaboration of well known musicians who never officially published the album, but recorded it in a private studio, independently pressed it and passed it to others as gifts?

[@tetanusforbreakfast3500]

Subways Of Your Mind by FEX (from Kiel)

[@SanithDemil]

It's good that we at least have this song. There are countless songs, movies, and books that don't exist on the internet.

[@SansNeural]

One could argue that most songs don't exist at all. Yet.

[@stonedauzzie420]

I've got songs on some of my cassettes that I've either never been able to find online, or that songs gets pulled from the internet existence after I put it on tape

[@CatwaiiYT]

​@@stonedauzzie420share em

[@stonedauzzie420]

@@CatwaiiYT I'd have to find something to digitise it somehow

[@RFBG-u8b]

The song was literally found a few days ago. FEX-Subways of your mind

[@davidmoss6666]

I think an idea for this songs origin is that it may have been written by an indie band trying to get big. If someone from said possible band had a friend at the station they could have pulled some strings to get the song on the radio that night. As for why nobody would have spoken up till now, maybe all involved have passed away, not been aware of the search, or just do not care enough to give us a bone. It may be a disappointing end to the search that the answer is an unknown German indie band that will forever stay unknown but I think it is a very likely idea.

[@kiki1573]

I think the internet is making this way more complex than it needs to be. There's many reasons why no one claimed this song. Maybe this was a song that wasn't meant to be released by a "group" that probably just recorded this just for fun and or experience. Maybe they feel no connection to the track and no desires to go public for personal reasons. Maybe it was all made by one person who's not even alive to claim it. Maybe they heard the broadcast and felt a sense of embarrassment because the track didn't sound as good as they thought it would be. Darius did claim he skipped over the DJ's song announcement. Sorry for the long comment. Just throwing some reasonable ideas out here.

I don't think this may have been recorded for fun and experience especially because it ended aired on a big radio show. The fact that this song has been broadcast specifically on maybe the biggest german musical radio program should make us say that this was meant to be something for the people who recorded this. That is the point that leaves me doubtful about the fact this could have been done "just for fun".

[@space_kat1]

i think this is all fake, period. the internet is filled with people with way too much time on their hands that just wanna have something to do and they found it with this song. i think its very suspicious that he skipped over the DJ's announcement of the song and he was the only one that seems to have ever heard it. a lot of things dont make sense with this story and im 100% convinced no one will ever show up cause its a completely fake thing

[@theoriginalbluey]

@@space_kat1 Not possible. I know Lydia and the hours she has put into research. It's really unfair for people to say this. They said it about 'For My Murder'... and then it's discovered that it's a John Peel session track by the band 3D. Stay optimistic!

[@eriknervik9003]

Well it’s not created by one person whether it’s authentic or a hoax. You have vocals, a drum and a guitar at least, and I think a bass. So that’s 4 people. Plus the synthesizer. So it’s a minimum of 5 people and that’s assuming that no one additional was involved in production. I lean towards hoax, since no one can confirm this actually played on the radio, but it was an unusually good production, this isn’t one person in their garage, it was clearly produced in studio with equipment

[@theoriginalbluey]

@@eriknervik9003 I am starting to think the radio station played a white label 7" most likely, and possibly the label that was about to release it fully maybe just simply ran out of money, or went overdrawn and had to discard it. My feeling is that there are literally 1 or 2 copies out there, or were at the time. We need to find those (possibly not very internet savvy) band members!

[@GiordanDiodato]

I feel like the problem with figuring out this song is that in 1984, New Wave had hit its peak and Synth pop would quickly take its place in mainstream radio music. Every pop band in the world had this kind of sound. The only way I could see this being figured out is if someone contacted a former DBR DJ and asked about the music. Edit: apparently the DJ at the time said he doesn't remember playing it and it could have been a demo, which honestly makes sense because the recording sounds very demo-like

[@ChristesII]

I've seen a million videos about this song, but I watched this one for an excuse to hear the song again.

[@briandrake5464]

It's been found! FEX - Subways of Your Mind.

[@EquinFrost]

Been getting into lots of horror stuff / phenomenons, came from that “my house” doom mod video that had this song in it, this genre is legendary

[@Rockastorm]

Same

[@zirconalian]

"Happiness has to be fought for" hit me so fucking hard, with this song playing AHAODMWHSNRH

[@RobertPayne556]

And while reading The House Of Leaves.

[@larkefedifero]

​@@RobertPayne556 ​ Which ALSO has had theoretical videos here on KZbin, showing how the space behind an open door on the back wall of the first floor in a house, leading back into a dark hallway, can be juxtaposed with the same space supposedly occupied by the backyard of that same house...without any type of conflict! I don't have the exact link, but it demonstrates such effect, as noted in the book, where, with the door open and dark hallway exposed, the person does a full run around the house, starting and ending in the front yard, to prove that both spaces are able to co-exist simultaneously. I think that idea is similar to the concept here, where this band could be from some kinda parallel world, having temporarily "slipped" over for a moment and then slipped back to its own reality, thus both existing and NOT existing in this world at the same time! I don't believe that, I'm just throwing out a theory of something that logically fits, potentially. 😉 Last, since I don't have many people to ask this to, was I right in thinking that the book was supposed to be read on three different levels, and that it acted as a kinda of spiral, not really ever ending, but just kinda picking up again from the start and continuing on, infinitely? That was *my* interpretation, and hopefully you can verify that on some level! The thing took me over a month to get through!! 😲

[@tlrlml]

You think this horror... Only because you don't understand; Tape degradation Tape reuse Over-dubbing Etc. Spooky scary, 'Kids before could do things we no longer understand, Be Afraid, BE VERY AFRAID!' _And the Xer walks away laughing, a hideous, scary laugh..._

[@JoeWere]

It is a czech band. Czech republic had a lot of popular imitations of western songs and being neighbours with Germany they had a lot of media trades including piracy, because behind the iron curtain there was no other option.

[@Frankie5Angels150]

Since the song never went anywhere, might we call it a “Canceled Czech”?

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Is there a website somewhere listing every known Czech band or musician? Could that help narrow down the search?

[@SevenHandsStranglingMe]

I feel like the title "Like The Wind" is perfect for a song that's been long forgotten.

[@innocentsmith6091]

A lot of people make songs few people will ever hear. A lot of bands never go anywhere. Who made the song is a mystery. Why no one knows is not really that mysterious.

[@NicolasSequeira]

Ah, yes... the song that kickstarted my career. Good times.

[@NAETEMUSIC]

Sh*t dude I'll check out your vid, I wish I had known you did a vid on this subject, as I felt like sourcing was relatively scant on this despite how epic and weird it is!

[@dwightd.eisenhower2031]

@@NAETEMUSIC don’t believe him, it is a troll

[@stockley_]

@@dwightd.eisenhower2031 I don't think it's a troll as much as it's him trying to make a joke and saying he's the one that made the song lol

[@larkefedifero]

Soooo...you're saying that *you* and your band wrote and recorded the song, as some kind of a demo or something, just to get some initial exposure...and you were somehow able to get someone you knew to slip it into the radio line-up that night in 1984? If so, well, that's quite a claim! 🤷‍♂

[@TheFlamingBridges]

You know I wrote the main hook. How do you sleep

[@germansalas6159]

FEX- Subways of Your Mind

[@BaronVonQuiply]

My favorite 80s song is 'Somebody That I Used To Know 1988' by Tronicbox. They completely replaced all the music and kept both vocals, turning it into a very pop-synth minor-key 80s rock song.

[@punkbnuyyy]

What if the Radio station operator just... slipped his own song onto the waves in the 80's?

[@Disbanded9998]

Yo we need to find an earlier tape of the radio to hear his voice so we know

[@silencemeviolateme6076]

Seems like it might be a guy he knew or something like that.

[@tlrlml]

@@Disbanded9998 That tape would not exist, unlike MP3, or even DVDs, tapes were reusable... and everyone did so until the tape got eaten! You don't seriously think that some kid from the 80s archived the original, when tapes were $2.50/half dozen..... and tapes were completely reusable...

[@Disbanded9998]

@@tlrlml srry i dont know anything about tapes

[@tlrlml]

@@Disbanded9998 That much is clear.

[@Db_SpaceFace]

What's the mystery? I have literally thousands of high quality songs that only 30-40 people (or less) have heard. Within' 10 years time, I'd likely be the only people who remember their existence (minus the creators themselves). I could post them and it'd be the exact same scenario as this. The fact is, for everyone one musician who's music is remembered, there are hundreds of thousands who aren't. Most bands do their first recordings when they're playing gigs to handfuls of people on the local scene. Even when their recordings are amazing, the vast majority never go farther than that stage. So you have a dozen people with a copy of an EP or single by a local band they really liked, yet nobody else will remember who they are. Anyone who has been part of a music scene before will likely also laugh at the premise of this video. There is no mystery here, this song is literally no different to millions of others people have on demo cds by local bands sitting in storage, or their garage or wherever. I still have the cd/demo by the first underground band I caught live for example. The case is gone and the cd itself doesn't have the band name on it, it was their only release. Nobody can remember what their name was and likely never will. Rad tunes though. This is not an unusual or mysterious thing.

[@Damian-cilr2]

The appeal for unidentified songs for me is hearing them,since most that aren't completely lost sound really good,and some aren't in full so there's a reason to search for them,but this is in full so,no real reason to search for it,other than finding out who made the song and maybe the original lyrics,but otherwise its kinda pointless.

[@dreamagination-infinite]

Just a crazy and fun thought: what if the radio station picked up a signal from a parallel reality, in a frequency overlap/reality shift and the language in the song is an actual language spoken on that parallel Earth, a mix of English, Russian and German that developed over time due to historical events taking a different course (like WWII, if it happened there at all) that brought about a blending of those languages. -Just some fun thoughts on it, I love stretching the imagination. -Great Video!

[@tlrlml]

And then, there these people.........

[@PlanetMars2030]

@tlrlml what do you mean by “and then, there these people…….”? What’s the problem about thinking about parallel realities? We can’t talk about god or Jesus, and now we can’t talk about parallel realities, because someone has to ruin it all for us.

[@tlrlml]

@@PlanetMars2030 I believe in reality... and your response indicates you have real issues dealing with reality!

[@philosophik1267]

​@tlrlml you say you believe in reality, but what is real, and how do you know?

[@tlrlml]

@@philosophik1267 And here comes the philosopher to question everything... even the well understood.

[@FalseIDDNTY]

I just want this song on Apple Music tbh . I wanna listen to this late at night whilst going on a drive

[@NAETEMUSIC]

While its not exactly the original, feel free to download my version for free and do whatever you want with it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX-vgoGPmrFjqrM

[@thatguyalex2835]

I love 1980s new wave also. :) My mom introduced me to that stuff back in the 2000s, and it combines my three favorite genres, rock, indie and electronic.

[@Krackonis]

Just download it.

[@all.the.same.iProductions]

Hear hear. Impulsively wanna listen to it in my one way rocket to Mars like.

[@Frankie5Angels150]

“Whilst”? Do you even have cars in Shakespearean England?

[@redadamearth]

Considering it was on a West German station in '84, it's very likely that the DJ slipped in a track from a LOCAL band at the time - a band who may have literally just done something for a few months and recorded a song and there's just nothing of them left anymore. This was a pretty common thing, especially in Europe in the 80's and *especially* during the whole division between East and West Germany at the time. In FACT - a lot of WEST German DJ's would receive songs recorded in secret by EAST German songwriters and bands who couldn't release their stuff in East Germany in the Soviet Bloc - and considering that East Germany would often confiscate and DESTROY those things, it could very well be something like that, which means there's just never going to be any "record" of who this was.

[@ruthlessadmin]

Seems fairly safe to assume it was a small-time startup band that submitted their song to a radio station and/or maybe won a contest to get some air time. Perhaps we could find out what stations might have done stuff like that in the area. It's a long shot but sometimes businesses keep seemingly pointless information for decades (or a descendant may have boxes of files in their attic or something).

[@0raj0]

It is known what station aired it - it is mentioned in the video. I wonder why nobody has contacted the station and asked about it...

[@DrKirkDemenz]

Very cool. I can't help but be reminded of the Pete and Pete episode with a mysterious song.

[@NAETEMUSIC]

Omg the Adventures of Pete and Pete. You just triggered a primal memory there.

[@rizeorfall]

That band was the same band that did the show’s intro right? Polaris?

[@CoyoteCrush]

I know the feelings. In the early 00s i heard a song by some local band ive never been able to find. I was visiting Arkansas and it was kind of a post grunge Nirvana type song. Really they sounded like a band called Tripping Daisies but thats an obscure callback most people wouldn't know. The theme of the song was about being a teenaged awkward fuck up hated by your parents. The chorus was something like "Another perfect day in hell" and one of the lines in the verse went "I piss in a cup, so know one knows im awake". Its so obscure its not even on the internet lol

[@stephenlangsl67]

The song is most likely from an alternate timeline like the "Everyday Chemistry" album from the Beatles from a parallel timing in which The Beatles never broke up.

[@wandahastings8470]

This is so wild to think about but I love it. Fascinating

[@B-Nice]

Damn, we really at the point that if it isn't on the internet, it never existed 🤷🏽‍♀

[@JPSimen]

Naw.... it means it never became popular. Thats what it means. It exists.

[@DejRioD]

Good content man, you deserve more views :)

[@NAETEMUSIC]

Thank you so much! Hope It happens soon!

[@egi953]

Amazed you mention Kino. The voice instantly reminded me of Tsoi.

[@Frognungun]

when it comes to finding lost media, it's a tough journey, but happiness has to be fought for

[@ericMT]

This story is so frustrating. I’ve been following it for years. I just don’t think this one will be solved. The community got so close but yet they are still so far.

[@Chaingun]

Following THIS story. There is millions. Find small town radios all over the world in the 80s. They played local garage bands (actual music done by a group of people in a garage..) and that stuff has never been archived online, no radio sessions kept, nothing of it. Gone. So I don't know why you are all acting like this is a singular thing? My small town Berkshire town in the 1990's use to play local bands songs on their radio. I've never heard those songs since. They aren't mentioned online.

[@CodeBleu724]

@@Chaingun Similar thing I've been going through since 1987. A member supported Pittsburgh radio station, WYEP 91.3 had a show called Night Shades. One night I taped the show on my boombox and heard an instrumental track that to this day I can't find. It was a futuristic rock fusion track similar to the Japanese band Prism.

[@Mayflower-Yev]

@@ChaingunIt’s probably this song is in the internet, and not just lost forever.

[@Chaingun]

@@Mayflower-Yev a lot of those are too, and no one knows who did them, some local band in the area, not a big deal.

[@InfestedLice]

Ikr. I first heard of this story back in Dec of 2019/Jan of 2020. I was a sophomore in High School. The fact I graduated and this search is still going 🫠 kinda frustrating.

[@TropicsAndFood]

This is FEX - subways of your mind

[@xachillesx269]

I think (not 100% sure) the song was made by a very short-lived local band in Bremen 1984. I may have heard of a band called summer blues at that time (again not sure).

[@Spundingy]

This song is so mysterious not even KZbin’s copyright system cannot detect it as copyright

[@tlrlml]

It's not under copyright... There has to be an owner of a copyright, to claim a copyright!!! FFS

[@mewregaurdhissyfit7733]

Very nice piece of historical music trivia. Very good job you did as well. I'm 60 years old now, so I will tell you what happened with DJ's and private/small music stations, especially ones in Europe back then. 1. A lot of music that became hugely popular in the 80's was once "underground" music, because it was so different. But given the rise of Goths and Punk Rockers in the 80's, the music surfaced into mainstream, as they all did. 2. DJ's and private/small music stations, especially ones in Europe, would slip in a test recording from a new "on the scene" band......usally at night, as the big bosses were in bed and asleep. If the play garnered a lot of fanfare and phone calls, then the DJ could pose it to the boss as a new popular piece to play. If it didn't get any attention, then it was what it was and never played again. DJ's would also slip in their friends bands recordings here and there. Either to see if there was a listener response to it, or just to have their friends band played on the radio. More often that not, it was just a one time thing for a friend. 3. Are the DJs from the station still alive? Is the radio station still alive? Has any hisorical research been done on their records and play lists? Has any research been done in regards to the management or staff still being alive and possible to answer questions? If not, why? It is my opinion, after hearing all you stated in your video, this was just a "one time thing" a DJ did for a friend, or played because he was in the band as well. More than likely it never garnered any fanfare, because it sounds so much like all the other music going on at that time. The DJ may have mentioned the band, and like you said, the guy recording on tape just missed it or wasn't paying full attention. If he REALLY wanted the name of the band though, he could have just called the station and asked the DJ. Seeing as he never did, he obviously didn't think anything of it, being a stand out piece of music.......just a mystery of "who done it".

[@westie430]

I think this could be accurate actually.

[@ratsmacker8113]

ngl even after all this mystery, it's still a banger.

[@IChizukoI]

Russian here. Note that I'm not implying anything, just thinking. My friend got into AI voice changers and attempted to speak to me in Russian using one (I guess it was Voicemod for discord) that wasn't, you can say, tuned to be used with rus language, but with English. It sounded quite similar: awfully familiar, but it was actually incomprehensible. Just a memory👀💦 P.S. Came from Doom video. Interesting video, sounds cool

[@bearlamb5026]

The band you're looking for is called Far Out Magazine. It is a punk group from East Germany. I wasn't a punk rocker when I lived in West Berlin in 1987, but I found the punks pretty fascinating. A lot of West Berlin radio stations played the song, as the punk rocker was from East Berlin and was jailed due to his music. The band had several names to keep themselves hidden. Every time a band member left, they changed their name. Dresden on Fire was another punk name they used as one of the band members was from there. The punk rock group was arrested several times in East Germany as they were very anti-communist. It is someone's belief that the band member himself was tortured or killed in an East German prison by the communist left-leaning government, and anyone caught with their tapes would face up to 10 years in jail, so that's why no one remembers the song. If you ask former East Germans who are in the punk scene, they'll tell you about the story. A lot of them had a Saxon accent; that's why it sounds a bit Russian; it's just a different dialect. Now here's the strange thing: the song is blacklisted in Germany, as the lawyer who defended the punk group banned the song from German radios. I can't figure that one out. The guy's name is Gregor Florian Gysi (German pronunciation:) You see many people were taken by the government of East Germany that didn't fit their system. It is my strongest belief that the guy who wrote the song died in prison and the government is trying to cover it up. Just remember they still have a left-leaning government in Germany, and Gregor Gysi is still a politician.

[@tombotamist1174]

I hope this gets found, the song is an absolute banger

[@tlrlml]

You think it's a 'banger' because you think it's a mystery Thousands of songs (the genre was over-saturated at the time) you would pass on. The moment it's solved, your on to the next 'thing'!

[@matts9871]

​@@tlrlmlIt's always the ones who can't tell the difference between "your" and "you're" who think it's their job to be smartasses online. You must've learned mind-reading from the same institution where you learned how to write.

[@tlrlml]

@@matts9871 A GrammarNazi, how exciting. Why refute my statement when you can thumb through a dictionary?!?!

[@HeadOnAStick]

The playlist on the tape box insert says 4/1 on the top, probably meaning April 1st. Germans celebrate April 1st with pranks too, only instead of saying "April Fools!" they say "April April!". Probably just a coincidence, and I doubt I'm the first to notice this either.

[@elishafollet5347]

Ngl this whole situation around this song turning out to be an elaborate prank by a few bored Germans would be pretty funny lol

[@wheedler]

Did West Germany really love America so much that they used their dumb system for dates?

[@HeadOnAStick]

@404Usernamenotfound True. I didn't think about German date format. So it probably just means tape 1 of 4. Oh well, it was a fun thought while it lasted. Thanks for setting me straight.

[@pairpunchgaming1394]

My dad claims back in the 80s you could pay money to perform a song or play one on the radio and this was common in the 80s when people were trying to impress a girl in high school or something. My dads friend did this once in college to impress his crush and ask her out. Im just using that as an example but my dad said “I’m 70% certain this was just someone playing a song on a radio and this song was never played outside of that, this type of stuff happened quite often in the 80s and it just so happens the person just recorded one of those performances or unpopular bands being paid to be broadcasted on the radio” I think this would make a ton of sense cause if it was on youtube it would likely have been found by now, most lost songs like this and ekt as we know were on a completely different website. So this might be true for this one

[@lordoldboy]

This was fascinating. I love things like this - reminds me of the mysterious book called this was written for you. It seems completely impossible for something like a song or book to emerge from nowhere - there must be someone who knows where they’ve come from and it’s weird that in this age of internet we still can’t find them!

[@captainmarvel2058]

I used to have a 45, given to me by my aunt, about King Kong. As a child, I loved it. Sounded like it came from the Big Band era, with all the trumpets. The record broke long ago and despite diligent searching, I can find no referance to this song anywhere. Sad, as I would love to hear it again.

[@SchiesterMalG]

Big "T" Tyler - King Kong?

[@captainmarvel2058]

@@SchiesterMalG Nope, not that one.

[@captainmarvel2058]

@@justine_holloway I'm sure there was, but it was broken so long ago now that I don't remember.

[@MadRat70]

The Jimmy Castor Bunch from 1975

[@MadRat70]

Or from the 1966 cartoon theme song by Bob McFadden.

[@ElizabethRussell144]

This story reminds me of a Belgian pop band from the 80s called The Machines. They were on the same label as The Beatles, Parlophone, and two of their songs sound just like The Beattles. It is impossible to buy their music in America or find on streaming services. It took me many months before I could find their music for sale on the UK version of Amazon but that's the only place I can find it.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

I remember a lot of songs from my childhood that I can't remotely identify because I only know tiny bits of the lyrics. There's even one that I have on one of my mother's mixtapes that apparently does not exist.

[@MelanieCravens]

I understand about remembering snippets of lyrics and not the whole song. I have snippets that I remember of songs I sang in a school Christmas concert in the mid 70s. Don't know the titles. I've searched for years to find them and had no luck. Every few years I try again. Maybe someday....

[@Phaota]

I have a bunch of 80s songs by unknown artists on my YT channel. Being that they are from movies without proper credits, it makes identifying them much harder and a lot like this one.

[@vidaverde5047]

I think it would be useful to give a name to this kind of initiative, so it could become a movement and maybe go mainstream. People would start post obscure songs they recorded from the radio or some club decades ago and lots of artists would come out and claim their songs. The early 80's are a period I consider glorious for music. There was something dark but not evil in them, and also some underlying sensuality that cannot be replicated nowadays.

[@honeypie1764]

It sounds like they're saying, "I'm the wind, you can't run".

[@beansontoes]

It's sounds like "like the wind, you came ru-u-nning"

[@LouiseAttaque888]

The mystery surrounding it makes everything more interesting. It's a neverending fantasy.