"A more amusing false lead was the youtube commenter/facebook user who claimed the song was from an 80s adult film". - They hated him because he told them the truth. Even if it was unintentionally so.
the one consistent thing i learn from any of these 80's/90's lostwave lost media searches specifically is how many people in the 80's/90's had the exact same singing voice.
Now that you mention it, that trend kinda reminds me of the mid-atlantic accent used by actors in old films. Wonder if that style of singing has an actual name to it.
It's not exclusive to back then, either. Most popular male singers seem to have the same nasally high-pitched singing voice. I have a baritone voice, and it makes singing most pop songs nearly impossible.
Gotta love when someone is being about as rude as possible to you and then they say, “others won’t be as nice to you as I am.” Mate, most people are nicer than you are.
every single person contacted in other lost media cases ive seen literally just went "hey, sorry i didn't have it ;p hope you find what your looking for!!". the dude was just some loser who thinks did us some holy'er then thou justice for sending us a song
My 2 cents: When I first heard the clip, my impression was that it sounded EXACTLY like one of those 'fake songs' that would be used in TV shows (because they couldn't afford the rights to license anything real)...usually a hastily thrown together pretend song. That would explain the short clip, as a show might have dialogue etc that would cut it off. (as if the song were used as a background element in a scene....maybe at a concert or nightclub scene) TYou would hear this kind of stuff routinely in sitcoms or cop shows.
Heads up, usually it's called a sound-alike and I'm not sure if they're still terribly common, but there used to be companies dedicated to making these. I'd imagine it's hard to find records from any though.
I thought it sounded like a song heard in a "driving up to a location in a convertable" or " people dancing on a beach" song from a low budget mid to late 80s movie.
I've seen others say the drumset used in the song is too expensive to own for it to be fake, but this might fix that issue. If it was a short tune commissioned by a large company it could've been done by session musicians who own their own gear.
i just want to say that i appreciate you using more upbeat/chill video game songs in your videos instead of the ominous drones more common in a lot of lost media videos! especially since most lost media isnt scary, it's just... stuff! it makes for a more fun watching experience. the omori soundtrack my beloved
Right? Lost media is often portrayed as a sort of discount true crime, but that aesthetic really feels out of place when the lost media at hand is something like a 15 seconds clip of some funky tunes or a short episode of a sitcom or something.
this reminds me of something: If you've seen the Teen Titans GO! episode 40% 40% 20%, Cyborg is obsessed with a song by a band called B.E.R. "Night Begins to Shine". It's interesting because the song is not a "real" 80s song, or a "real" 80s band. It was recorded in 2005 by Carl Burnett (the B in B.E.R) as an 80s themed song, and put into a music library. They found it while working on the previous episode "Slumber Party" because it was also 80s themed, and thought it sounded like a cool band, and used it, not realizing it was just "music library" fodder, essentially. The internet made it massively popular, in part because of 40% 40% 20% (which has a badass music video). That said, it makes me wonder if it's hard to find this because it was possibly recorded for a music library. I mean, music library stuff has existed since before the internet.
Reminds me of when I used to go thrifting with my parents, I found some sound effect records from 1973, I can't remember exactly which ones, but some of the sounds I recognized from TV and even memes of recent times. One thing for sure was a blizzard like wind sound effect that they got from a much older record, as I distintly remember woody woodpecker using it
I feel bad for Carl if I’m being honest. Imagine trying to find a song only to be bombarded with extremely person questions and then being called a liar and an asshole because you rightfully didn’t want to give those answers. I’d go dormant too. Update: Damn bro.
@@cricketandgraham8644 I mean let's be real, most of the people involved are kids, especially since it got publicity on tiktok. You can't really expect children to have some common decency for others, especially when they're excited for something to be found that could give them attention.
@@cricketandgraham8644 It's because some people develop a weird sense of entitlement over online stuff; it's like they forget that they're interacting with another human being, instead treating them like they're some kind of information vending machine that took their dollar and is now holding out on them. And it's like, I get it, to some extent; you've got this question burning a hole in your brain, and you want to check under every possible rock for answers, but when it comes to people, some of those rocks are going to be shit like "the name of the street you grew up on", and you can't just expect everyone to be willing to divulge shit like that.
Imagine there’s probably 4 middle aged men, completely clueless to the fact that a demo they recorded in high school back in the 80’s has the internet going crazy. Edit: Well this is awkward....
@@raulortiz3871honestly the voice sounds kinda androgynous, like it could be a man or a woman. Which would check out for the 80s, a lot of male pop and rock stars from that era looked kinda effeminate.
Someone talking about how very nice and generous they are to someone thay are calling a loser while saying they need to get a life because their harmless hobby is "cringe" is the most internet thing to ever internet
2:33 His original post title was simply "Mid 80s, bad quality" You mentioned before that how the watzatsong site was hacked - well the people who hacked his profile changed the description, and mods changed it back, adding that bit in parenthesis at the end. Carl92 never called the song "Everybody knows that". Just wanted to point that out
@@lanister1104 It did initially at the beginning, and played it referencing the fact it was “lost media” totally threw me off. I figured out later that it was in reference too a different piece all together. Still don’t understand why they included that audio in the beginning and made it out like it was infact the lost peice. That’s where my confusion was. Thanks . The beginning 0:01 implied this was the lost piece.
Regarding that Japanese user with the compilation album, as someone who has covered quite a few Japanese lost media topics myself, I've found that Japan doesn't really have a dedicated lost media community over there. There's a pretty popular wiki for lost commercials specifically, but I have yet to encounter any centralized hub in for lost media/lostwave in Japanese. Some people are terrified of copyright-related repercussions/legal action (Japanese copyright law is mad strict and many unclaimed old film reels and music tracks are outright destroyed because the legality of holding them and not owning the rights is so complex. In my own search for the Akihabara tape song, I've found that the OP and owner of the tape had actually thrown out the original cassette tape with the song on it, and is a bit vague in correspondences. I feel they may just be apprehensive for legal reasons themselves. TLDR: I really wish Japan took media preservation more seriously. I've been simmering the idea of opening a Japanese language wiki for lost media and just adding articles myself to hopefully spread some awareness and interest.
Is that why I can't find the song "toi et moi" anywhere?? It was a japanese singer's song and I thought it had something to do with pokemon but i can't find it anywhere.
Fr, it's a shame so much Japanese music gets taken off RUclips because of copyright, even older songs. I uploaded a couple of things and while they're still available to watch, I think they're blocked in Japan itself due to copyright
I agree with this, there is tons of old anime lost and untranslated because japan did not release it and most copies have been destroyed or disappeared. Massive shame, theres even things like lost anime merchandise too where people have a picture of an item but you will absolutely never find any history on it.
As someone who is 27 and does volunteer archival work for a nearby town, comparing lost media, whether it’s film, comics or music, to CREEPYPASTAS…it makes my blood boil. I also very much enjoyed your work and Jorge’s help on this, it was astounding.
I have to imagine this person heard "lost media" and could only interpret it as those "lost episode" creepypastas that were everywhere 10 years ago. Certainly a needlessly hostile/crabby response though.
It doesn't help that nearly all lost media RUclips content uses creepy drone music 😂 If these people want to be taken seriously by the non-terminally online, they need to sell themselves as "digital humanitarians" or "music history-archivists".
One good thing about this search is that most of the dead end leads end up exposing people to musicians they never heard of, which is a pretty good silver lining in my opinion.
This is a great lead. Back in the 80s, I used to head to my local arcade and play Polybius for hours. My memory is foggy, but I swear I heard that song play when I finally beat the game.
@@zigzagintrusion It played just as the arcade's wallpaper began to swirl and I didn't feel so good anymore. The same thing can happen to listening to too much Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, as I recall.
Guy who uploads obscure music when someone comes to him asking if he knows of a piece of obscure music: (ಠ益ಠ) "I HATE YOU I HATE YOU FUCK OFF NOBODY CARES!!!"
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that A. Not everyone is into this sort of stuff and some people find it cringey. B. Getting pummeled with endless requests to release the song would be extremely annoying and would leave most people in a sour mood. To add to this, anyone that would have listened to a few of the songs from it and actually used their brains rather than simply looking at genres on discogs would easily deduce that the song in question would not be on the compilation simply because it is a vastly different style of music than the other songs on it.
Not being able to find lost media is so frustrating. I have almost a whole album of songs that no one knows where they're from. I've been searching for like a decade, I think.
@@EmmysVerySeriousVideos Some story, trying to keep it short, link at the end. I had this album with no name, no song names, no date, and no band name. I had songs 3 to 8, not knowing how many songs were in the album. It was ripped from a CD using Windows Media Player. I had been asking around, music shops, friends, family, new people I met online about this album for years. Showing people the song files I had, explaining the metadata, etc. No luck for like 10 years. I posted on Reddit about 3 years ago looking for the songs, and then again after seeing this video. In the last post I made on Reddit regarding this , someone had actually finally found it! They used PicardBrainz (Sp?) to find it, which I attempted to use, as well as a friend, back 3 years ago to no avail. But they found it, and let me know, and even posted the link to the Bandcamp, to which I'm very grateful! Credit to FiveElementNinja. The artist is Techromancer. the album is Space Duel, and there were 8 named songs! Finally, I had everything I was searching for, for years. This album got me through good times and bad. I've listened to it a lot through the years. Here's the link to the Bandcamp. Some people would consider this experimental, or hipstery. It has a bit of chiptune-like sounds in it. Enjoy. c: techromancer.bandcamp.com/album/space-duel
@@EmmysVerySeriousVideos Some story, trying to keep it short, link at the end. I had this album with no name, no song names, no date, and no band name. I had songs 3 to 8, not knowing how many songs were in the album. It was ripped from a CD using Windows Media Player. I had been asking around, music shops, friends, family, new people I met online about this album for years. Showing people the song files I had, explaining the metadata, etc. No luck for like 10 years. I posted on Reddit about 3 years ago looking for the songs, and then again after seeing this video. In the last post I made on Reddit regarding this , someone had actually finally found it!
They used PicardBrainz (Sp?) to find it, which I attempted to use, as well as a friend, back 3 years ago to no avail. But they found it, and let me know, and even posted the link to the Bandcamp, to which I'm very grateful! Credit to FiveElementNinja. The artist is Techromancer. the album is Space Duel, and there were 8 named songs! Finally, I had everything I was searching for, for years. This album got me through good times and bad. I've listened to it a lot through the years. Here's the link to the Bandcamp. Some people would consider this experimental, or hipstery. It has a bit of chiptune-like sounds in it. Enjoy. c: techromancer.bandcamp.com/album/space-duel
A little explanation that is more than a few words; Everyone Knows that (Ulterior Motives) was indeed found. The recording that Carl played was featured in an Adult Film that I won't name, but you can find it after a little searching. The song itself was recorded by Christopher Booth who also goes by Christopher Saint. From what I know so far, he plans on trying to find the original recording without the... noises from said film. If he can't find that, he plans on re-recording it.
UPDATE! Everyone Knows That has now been found! It was discovered on a porno movie from 1986 called "Angels of Passion" and its played in the background of a sex scene. The official title is "Ulterior Motives" By Christopher Saint Booth. Your Welcome Kylie
The "NTSC frequency line" could have easily been baked in the original recording at the studio. Many studios have screens within the recording room, and it's very common to find ~15kHz frequencies in the recording caused by their presence during the recording session. Many commercially released tracks have this burned in. The notion that the presence of this line is necessarily due to how Carl92 recorded the sample himself is just not so. There are more holes in this whole thing: This frequency comes from the horizontal deflection yoke vibrating due to the powerful oscilating magnetic field it generates to move the elctron beam from left to right on the screen. NTSC does it at 15734Hz and PAL at 15625Hz That's about a 0.7% difference. How can they be so sure it's NTSC for certain and not PAL? Especially given the high probability that this was captured from audio or video tape, radio, or whatever, where this frequency could have shifted up or down by that much or even more. Kudos to the guy that had the knowledge to look for this, but it's just not as good a clue as he thought. In fact, I would say it can't be considered to be a clue at all.
I can suggest a Filipino 80s new wave pop band Rage Band could've made it. Maybe. Why? -Philippines using NTSC Format -Made pop songs between 1983-1988 and 1990 -Songs mostly in English -Sounds similar from their tracks -Made Jingles for brands in the 80s If you want to hear their tracks, its on their Soundcloud page, however full albums are still lost media.
Love this story. As an aside, this pink boombox was released in 2006 lol, probably 20 years after this song was recorded. Funny how it found a permanent association with an 80s hook.
A 27 year old claiming to be an old man telling people to "get off their lawn" is just silly. That's coming someone who's 45, and I don't think I'm ready for the "get off their lawn" bit even though my body is definitely showing some real signs of aging, now. This can be controversial, but as far as I can tell, there is no real meaning to life. So, the best thing you can do is provide a meaning, yourself. I've been there looking for a song from my childhood that I had no idea what it was called. If it gives your life a little spark, then it's all worth while.
To be honest, the response at 17:00 is so disheartening, but more so because no matter what draws folks into a new genre of music - the overall benefits of these searches are bringing more attention to non mainstream art and music and often recovery and archiving of lost or near lost media. I understand annoyance from being bombarded by questions and inquiries - but it seems that was not the cause of the ire - it was plain ole gatekeeping of a new and different generation/audience finding interest in a musician since it was tied to "annoying creepypasta searches" or w/e
He chalked finding lost pieces of media up to creppypasta bullshit. Clearly doesnt understand its not the same thing and is too ignorant to try and open up to something new
@@austinsmith7731Wait til he meets someone who tells him he's ruining the music industry by uploading songs, because digital uploads are never going to be as good (to them) as listening to vinyl records and he's "enabling" this ruination of music culture. He's prolly agree with them lol
It's extra annoying because that guy says he's only 27 and he acts like he's scolding little children. I guess since he associates lost media with creepypastas and general web horror, and is too proud or whatever to familiarise himself with what lost media actually is, he assumes we're all kids. I'm in my mid 30s and I absolutely love lost media/lostwave, but it isn't even that big of a deal how old we all are. I'm not gonna judge kids for loving creepypastas or whatever else they're into, and I'm also certainly not going to gatekeep anyone who wants to get into my favourite topics, no matter their age.
Everyone is saying it's from a commercial but what if it's originally from a movie and was made for a short scene? This happens sometimes. Ex. there was an episode from the Haunting Hour that I watched a reviewer's video on it and the intro for the episode included an original, short song played on a radio that the character was listening to. I forget the episode but it was one with Debby Ryan in it and it was clearly her singing a generic, one-off song. I mean there's also original full-made songs made for movies too. Scott Pilgrim is probably the most notable example but "Scotty Doesn't Know" is a song by Lustra made for the movie Euro Trip. I hope this makes sense because I feel like I'm having a hard time describing it. Like, instead of using an existing song the audio engineers made a new song exclusively for the movie. Oh, and sometimes when they do these the vocals are actually stock vocals from a library, but I guess we would've found them by now if that's the case? I was watching a video on Mad Magazine and its history and one of the one-off songs they used in the Mad 90s TV show had the same vocals from Scanty and Kneesocks theme because the "I want you to make believe it's the first time" lyrics were from a stock vocal thing and the two songs were just remixed completely different. I hope if this doesn't make sense, someone else can explain it better than me. 😅
Good point, I ran across a similar situation myself years ago. There's a particular variant of a song I haven't been able to find from a movie, it's not on the soundtrack nor was it released by the artist, and is listed as the same song on the credits and the soundtrack, even though they're distinctly different variants. Only a part of the song made it on the movie and was cut short.
True there's a Goosebumps episode called Dont fall asleep in the attic where a kid is being chased by "dream cops" in his dreams. & there is a scene where he's getting married to an older woman & song starts playing supposedly its a "cover" of another song but could never find it
@@Skinflaps_Meatslapperthis may sound really dumb, and i dont know if ur still looking for it, but i was in a really similar situation and shazam found it for me, just an idea idk if it’ll work or maybe you’ve tried idk😭
I just asked my mother who was in her 20s in the 80s if she’d heard this song before. She said that it has the same sort of generic rhythm and chord progression of that era (which could definitely point to why it sounds so familiar to everyone) and she said it could be a song from a Motown (the record company) girl group. She also said the grainy, low quality could be because it was recorded in a disco, concert or club or something. I don’t know if this could be a lead, but it may prove fruitful to dig really deep into the super underground girl groups of Motown’s from that era and see where it gets us. edit: OKAY GUYS YES I KNOW THAT ITS BEEN FOUND AND WHAT ITS ORIGIN IS 😭 but i never said my mum had HEARD it before, just that its rhythm is of that era which she recognised as she was in her 20s and yk how 80s music is LMFAO. so yeah just to clear that up 🫡
It may be from an acetate or cassette. It may be a girl band or female singer in a garage type of band who just did songs on their own and maybe a few bar gigs, broke up and the women got married and had kids. Women often do a band for a bit and then become mom's. Especially if the band is just a fun type of hobby and nothing serious. My advice I was giving too is to show the clip to people in their 50s and up who were kids to 25 back then obsessed with 80s punk/dance songs. Someone may know of the female herself. Maybe it's a starter band and song before they broke up to be a big band we know. 🙂
It's weird to think that this could be the favourite song of someone in this world, yet they have no idea that people are looking for it on the internet as the news hasn't reached them yet. That person could know everything about the band and singer.
That Darren segment had me absolutely stunned, the comparison legit sounded like it could have been from the same exact song it sounded so close. I was dead set on it being a female singer until I heard that, combine that with the tweet and that’s probably the closest lead y’all have found! I really hope it gets found so I can add it to my playlist!
Back in the 80's club DJ's or radio DJ's would be given "single" records from music labels, to play at clubs and create some buzz. You could of course just pick one up a record store yourself too. The singles would usually have a radio edit, extended version, and a dance remix. I have found more than a few of these singles from thrift stores. Some of them were absolute bops, even though it was from a obscure musician no one has ever heard of and only had a few thousand or hundreds of views on RUclips. The song in question had to of been recorded from a vinyl to tape then recorded back to a PC for whatever reason. There's an absolute mountain of these singles, finding this song would be like finding a needle in a hay stack. The vinyl is probably sitting in someones collection in Europe and they just don't know it.
Or even worse, it was just some short experiment that never became a full song, and we've just run across a trail of people sharing a cool mixtape of what's little more than samples.
I remember long time ago getting a single for under a buck, and unfortunately misplaced tape long ago and searching ever since but lyrics were about gatta get a Roughneck, and it was a female rapper singing, think it was titled Roughneck but that was in the late 80’s. It was really catchy and been trying to figure so I could use it in a short indie film, hopefully before my glioma takes over ... life... just gatta 😆
Great video. I was actually the person who got in touch with Rolling Stone as I thought it would make a great article. They emailed me back thanking me for giving them the heads up for bringing it to their attention as they looked into it and thought it sounded fascinating.
On the off-chance anyone is interested, the stock/background footage from about 5:50 to 6:10 is from River Falls Mall (circa 1993), which was in Clarksville, IN until it closed. The full video in higher quality is available on RUclips, and as of this posting can be easily found using the name of the mall and the year mentioned.
@@greatbritishedits6602Ah, now, I have that, it's a 12 inch. But the one I was after had a load of samples from TV and FIlm and a load of other songs from the era. I found it here watch?v=fqkkhj5zcjc :)
Probably just an old band who made a demo song that didn't get used or get any commercial success and the creators of the song probably just forgot about it this was most definitely a song before the internet blew up and is a relic of another time is how I look at it
@Orlen-zi6jy To actually answer your question, he probably isn’t. The Takeshita Ohta video he posted is 6 years old, which means he would be posting these videos Atleast 6 years ago, with the RUclips channel being made in 2014, and LastFM being made in 2012.
I think it's an early Savage Garden demo. Lots of artists have early songs that they consider embarrassing and would prefer to bury forever. (David Bowie, Trent Reznor, Billy Joel, Alanis Morissette...) I think this is another instance of exactly that. I think that Darren's tweet was his way of saying "Yup that's me" while still leaving the door open to a bit of ambiguity.
I don’t get this. This isn’t some super hard too find clip. The song is called Macintosh Plus, Remastered, the Original is by Diana Ross - “it’s your move” don’t understand why this is some big Easter egg.
I really think it’s darren hayes, the vocals sound so insanely similar. As a musician, im willing to bet that was a demo they tried to self record and realized it didn’t cut it, so they found a recording artist to help them and tried to bury his poor quality demos. I think him posting that vague status was basically him admitting it was him without actually doing it
Just one problem though...Savage Garden didn't form until 1993 and didn't relase their first album until 1997...who the hell was making music like that in the 90s? Even people who made new wave in the 80s didn't sound like that in the 90s lol. Some of your young folks do not realize this but there was nothing more uncool in the nineties than the eighties. The 80s didn't become cool again until 2000.
@@Chelaxim that doesn't mean it can't be darren/sound garden, though! plenty of bands have a sound that seems reminiscent of an era that isn't their own and is maybe seen as "uncool" in their time. if you listen to the clip of darren's early demos, you have to admit it sounds startingly like EKT. just because it would have been "uncool" for him to make an 80s sounding song doesn't mean it's impossible :]
I never watched "Saved By The Bell", but for some reason, that TV show came to mind when I heard this. Looked through a few and noticed similar music in an episode called Dance To The Max. The song was probably something by a television studio band.
That silence from Darren is so frustrating oh my god. It would take two seconds for him to type “yes it is me” or “no it isn’t me” That really does sound he’s the one too. Comparing it with those demos the vocals and sound quality really seem identical to my ears.
Yeah, I previously thought it wasn't him since his enunciation is usually so perfect and the EKT singer's is not. But those Savage Garden demos they played in this video...Only like 2 words were intelligible! So now we have 2 mysteries: 1. Who sang EKT? 2. When did Darren Hayes learn that letters form specific sounds? 🤣
@@AlfredoGomez-kp4cf Yeah but still, it would take very little effort on his part to confirm/deny it. We’re of course not entitled to a response or anything but it’s just annoying for people that are so invested in this search.
Im in a good mood scene we found Above The Clouds yesterday night. 2024 is going to be the year we find lots of lostwave but I think it's going to be a little bit longer until we find EKT
I’ve been waiting for your next upload- and seeing its a collab with Jorge makes it even more exciting! (Also the Blood type thing is because Japan believes blood types have an effect on your personality traits- its basically like a bands website having their members zodiac signs listed in their bios)
A slight correction: The second WatZatSong's post at 29:08 that got their audio track replaced with EKT still hasn't gone back to normal. I just checked and it's still a remastered version of EKT and not what the OP of that post had. (Although there's still a vocaroo link in the comments of that post.)
I'm not gonna lie, for being one of the most mysterious and elusive songs on the internet, it has become one of my favorites. EKT and all it's fan remakes are just so good and I really hope the real deal will be found this year. Edit: Y'all. Wtf was Carl doing???
McIntyre, Joey 😉 rabbit hole... Neponset (an area between N.Quincy, Dorchester, Southie..Boston Mass), it’s not far from Hyde Park, then following trail online leads to Hydeparkny (dot us) which is a place of a lot of riddles for everyone of all ages. Great to give riddles to teachers and have them ponder the questions answer. It’s a neuro plasticity exercise. Well, he did live in NY for a time before going to the west coast. Voice on track matches his younger voice, and everyone had a distinctive accent south of Boston. Hope you get an A in class, but at least a B+ for researching... good luck.
28:35 Thank you for mentioning my post on Reddit and thank the sub for finding it, who knows what song I might move onto but I shall move on “like the wind”
@@Gen_-6012 in the search it will only show videos posted before that date. You can also do it on google, discord, probably other places to. Its a commonly used thing a lot of search engines have.
@@Gen_-6012shown in the video. it's a search engine feature where when you type "before:" and then the year, the results will be from before that year
It actually blows my mind how much music I used to listen to never made it to the internet. Very common songs that were on CDs I had, that never made it to the streaming services or RUclips. I listened to a lot of punk bands in the 90s/00s that is all but gone now (except on the original CDs or vinyl). Not to mention the old 90s/00s method of having different “versions” of songs. I had a song stuck in my head, ironically I found on Napster long ago, and after a decade of searching, found the actual CD it was on (for those curious it was Canadian punk band DOA’s song Do Or Die. Anyways, I finally solved that mystery. But it was tougher than I thought it would be
There’s also a lot of albums that I used to listen to that bands purposely omitted from their streaming catalogues due to it being a different style than the rest of their catalogue (eg: punk first album but band went full-on metal later - therefore they just didn’t include the one random punk album - happened a lot).
Yeah we're definitely biting off more than we can chew here, we're basically chasing a ghost that may not even exist anymore.. But never doubt the power of the internet is what I've learnt.
@@Hester-l6k yep. And also the power of an ear worm. Had that song stuck in my head for so long and after a LOT of chasing, reaching out to members of the band, etc ended up finding it on a big risk (had to buy a new cd player and buy the CD on an online auction) just to have it maybe be the song. Thankful it was
There were songs I discovered on RUclips or Myspace around 2006 and put on on my iPod. Then my iPod got stolen. Some of those songs took years of jogging my memory to find them all over again. I'm still stumbling upon music I'd long forgotten about. There is one song I'm still desperately looking for and I remember the video fairly well, but not so much the song itself. I think I posted on Reddit about it once with no luck? One of the other songs that took me the longest to find was Agenda Su*c*de by The Faint. (Replace the stars with i's, I didn't want my comment removed.) It was a huge relief when I finally found it and I didn't even have audio clips, song names, band names, I was working entirely from my memory of pieces of lyrics. I've noticed Google is actually really terrible sometimes when searching more obscure band lyrics. So many times I've been looking for something and it's a common phrase that's in a ton of other songs.
I'm so happy that EKT is getting so much recognition. It was the song that got me into Lostwave and has remained one of my top favorites. Maybe its due to 5 major Lostwave songs being found in ~2 months, or bias, but I really feel like this song will be found soon. At least, I hope it will
I found it interesting in the NTSC part, where the discussion primarily focused on carl92 traveling, didn't delve into the fact that Multi-standard TVs and Video players were a pretty common thing in Europe. Having imports and purchases from other countries was increasingly common and required the need for multi-standard capable TVs and Players. I was exposed to this when I lived in Germany in 95-97. A part of this was also triggered by European travel, especially after the establishment of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 provided freedom of movement, the subsequent 1995 Schengen Agreement eliminated border bureaucracy and created a common area only between Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Which gradually expanded and in 1999 travel within EU countries was generally passport free.
I may or may not have accidentally at least figured out the instrumental?! Idk if this is just me or if anyone else can hear very crazy similarities (down to the baselines and little instruments) but I think the instrumental background is a version of "Let’s here it for the Boy" by Deniece Williams. I was comparing the two by using instrumental versions people have created and the instrumental of Deniece Williams song. Both The songs uses the Linndrum and I swear this is the instrumental. A very big possibility here I think is that someone used it as a sample, changed some things (added or took away sounds instruments), and added their own original vocals to it. If this is actually it then we’d definitely be closer to finding who did the vocals unless it had always been that very small snippet of it. Like I said I could be wrong and it’s just very similar sounding but it just sounds way TOO similar.
I seriously just have this strong feeling EKT will be found this year or at least by 2025. I feel like someone will just find out everything and be like "yo, it's actually this song". I feel like the vocalist is Asian, probably not Japanese.
16:09 For anyone curious, the reason his blood type is mentioned is likely related to the fact that Japanese culture has somewhat prevalent superstitions about blood types affecting a person’s temperament (similar to how horoscopes/astrology are popular in the US and Europe). This is why, if you read manga, you may notice that it’s not uncommon for authors to include a character’s blood type on a character sheet
I am very very confident that the singer, from the short sound bite ...it's Corey Feldman. I've grown up with him since the 80s and listen to his recent music. Listen to his Today show performances and compare the voice.
sounds like singer is saying "you're counting on a shift in disguise" which makes more sense then "counting all the the sheep" (you say at 5:40 ) as the singer says "caught up in a world of lies" and also the everyone knows that (you got) ulterior motives
Kenya dance, HLWIT, Hell above the clouds was found yesterday. Been following EKT since the OG upload had 20k views, and i am hyped as fuck. We need to bring this one down
I have an idea for a game: Take a decently obscure song that you know, upload a low quality clip of it online and dare people to try and see if they can find it without the use of Shazam. If you acknowledge that you already know the title of the song, it could be really fun to be part of this little “lost” media scavenger hunt. Not to mention how funny it would be for the original poster seeing everyone searching in completely the wrong places.
y'all they found it 😳
EXCUSE ME?
@@witchuntt its from an adult film😭
ruclips.net/video/dUOKYrLBr0I/видео.htmlsi=ftNbbHp9F3bsZJD5
@@gitg4d576 GOD DAMN IT. Now we can’t have the full song. 💀
Fr or is it fake
"A more amusing false lead was the youtube commenter/facebook user who claimed the song was from an 80s adult film". - They hated him because he told them the truth. Even if it was unintentionally so.
We didn't listen, they were right all along 😔
They hated them because he spoke the truth
@@spotalarm1068 They said "Tell me the truth", but didn't believe the truth that was told 😩🙏
Fucking legend
You want the truth? You can't handle the truth
Imagine if carl came back after all this time, posted "nvm found it." and went silent again
Lmaoo sounds like a typical r/tipofmytongue user
If he doesn't say what it is, that would be r/satanirl
Thatd be funny as hell icl
What's nvm?
@@harleyrhodesbates shortened text version of nevermind
the one consistent thing i learn from any of these 80's/90's lostwave lost media searches specifically is how many people in the 80's/90's had the exact same singing voice.
It's funny 'cause it's true!
Like how everyone in the 50's sounded identical!
Now that you mention it, that trend kinda reminds me of the mid-atlantic accent used by actors in old films. Wonder if that style of singing has an actual name to it.
Well yeah, everyone knows that.
It's not exclusive to back then, either. Most popular male singers seem to have the same nasally high-pitched singing voice. I have a baritone voice, and it makes singing most pop songs nearly impossible.
Well, guess we know why Carl went silent now.
If Carl just admitted he was getting freaky while watching TV the search would’ve only lasted a few days.
@@Ayham4002 absolutely haha
💀💀💀☠️🏴☠️💀💀☠️☠️💀🏴☠️💀💀💀🏴☠️☠️💀🏴☠️💀💀💀💀🏴☠️🏴☠️
I think he was just testing the recorder while watching, forgot where it was from, and then asking people where it was from
@StarfywalkingTYPH this is most likely. I find it hard to believe that he was too embarrassed to admit it. Like. Why?
Gotta love when someone is being about as rude as possible to you and then they say, “others won’t be as nice to you as I am.” Mate, most people are nicer than you are.
i was gonna comment this, what an entitled stick up the ass to be referring to himself as nice ffs
every single person contacted in other lost media cases ive seen literally just went "hey, sorry i didn't have it ;p hope you find what your looking for!!". the dude was just some loser who thinks did us some holy'er then thou justice for sending us a song
That guy has issues wtf was his deal? Damn
Having worked on customer service, I have noticed that the rudest people usually think they are being nice.
i think hes just a lil bitter lol he sounds fun imho.
i think the entire internet owes an apology to the people who originally theorized it to be from a porno
My 2 cents: When I first heard the clip, my impression was that it sounded EXACTLY like one of those 'fake songs' that would be used in TV shows (because they couldn't afford the rights to license anything real)...usually a hastily thrown together pretend song. That would explain the short clip, as a show might have dialogue etc that would cut it off. (as if the song were used as a background element in a scene....maybe at a concert or nightclub scene) TYou would hear this kind of stuff routinely in sitcoms or cop shows.
Ooh, interesting theory!
Heads up, usually it's called a sound-alike and I'm not sure if they're still terribly common, but there used to be companies dedicated to making these. I'd imagine it's hard to find records from any though.
I thought it sounded like a song heard in a "driving up to a location in a convertable" or " people dancing on a beach" song from a low budget mid to late 80s movie.
I thought the same thing, like Saved By The Bell, or City Guys
I've seen others say the drumset used in the song is too expensive to own for it to be fake, but this might fix that issue. If it was a short tune commissioned by a large company it could've been done by session musicians who own their own gear.
13:56, HE TOLD THE INTERNET, WE NEED TO APOLOGIZE.
Funny how all this could’ve been avoided if carl just admitted he was gooning
92
Carl's a slave to the gooner-antics
It made it more fun to have to look for it tho
13:53 HE WAS RIGHT. HE. WAS. RIGHT. OH. MY GOD.
i just want to say that i appreciate you using more upbeat/chill video game songs in your videos instead of the ominous drones more common in a lot of lost media videos! especially since most lost media isnt scary, it's just... stuff! it makes for a more fun watching experience. the omori soundtrack my beloved
Yeah and the Macintosh Plus and Vaporwave intro made me smile.
I’m pretty sure they’re using the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack.
Right? Lost media is often portrayed as a sort of discount true crime, but that aesthetic really feels out of place when the lost media at hand is something like a 15 seconds clip of some funky tunes or a short episode of a sitcom or something.
@@yeahshush1 one of the tracks was very clearly the music that plays in the PSN shop for PlayStation Vita though… pleasant track
this reminds me of something: If you've seen the Teen Titans GO! episode 40% 40% 20%, Cyborg is obsessed with a song by a band called B.E.R. "Night Begins to Shine". It's interesting because the song is not a "real" 80s song, or a "real" 80s band. It was recorded in 2005 by Carl Burnett (the B in B.E.R) as an 80s themed song, and put into a music library. They found it while working on the previous episode "Slumber Party" because it was also 80s themed, and thought it sounded like a cool band, and used it, not realizing it was just "music library" fodder, essentially. The internet made it massively popular, in part because of 40% 40% 20% (which has a badass music video).
That said, it makes me wonder if it's hard to find this because it was possibly recorded for a music library. I mean, music library stuff has existed since before the internet.
Good point
love teen titans go, love 'night begins to shine'
True, true! I remember that song!
The night begins to shine goes so hard for no reason
Reminds me of when I used to go thrifting with my parents, I found some sound effect records from 1973, I can't remember exactly which ones, but some of the sounds I recognized from TV and even memes of recent times. One thing for sure was a blizzard like wind sound effect that they got from a much older record, as I distintly remember woody woodpecker using it
I feel bad for Carl if I’m being honest. Imagine trying to find a song only to be bombarded with extremely person questions and then being called a liar and an asshole because you rightfully didn’t want to give those answers. I’d go dormant too.
Update: Damn bro.
The idea of him being a liar or creating a hoax came out *after* he vanished, so he either doesn’t know or doesn’t care.
yeah a lot of people are being extremely aggressive over this, I can understand getting upset at Carl just going silent but come on.
@@cricketandgraham8644 I mean let's be real, most of the people involved are kids, especially since it got publicity on tiktok. You can't really expect children to have some common decency for others, especially when they're excited for something to be found that could give them attention.
@@cricketandgraham8644 It's because some people develop a weird sense of entitlement over online stuff; it's like they forget that they're interacting with another human being, instead treating them like they're some kind of information vending machine that took their dollar and is now holding out on them.
And it's like, I get it, to some extent; you've got this question burning a hole in your brain, and you want to check under every possible rock for answers, but when it comes to people, some of those rocks are going to be shit like "the name of the street you grew up on", and you can't just expect everyone to be willing to divulge shit like that.
@@jamesruth100Exactly, people need to learn boundaries online separate from in-person boundaries.
Imagine there’s probably 4 middle aged men, completely clueless to the fact that a demo they recorded in high school back in the 80’s has the internet going crazy.
Edit: Well this is awkward....
Well it sounds like a woman is singing it tbh
@@raulortiz3871honestly the voice sounds kinda androgynous, like it could be a man or a woman. Which would check out for the 80s, a lot of male pop and rock stars from that era looked kinda effeminate.
And it turned out to be from an 80s porno 😂
It was in a porn movie...
Lol
That photo of the boombox is so unsettling for some reason.
i know man, also it was ai expanded which is weird.
gen z when they see a low quality image
@@pigeonman4979idk man. Shits a bit spooky
@@pigeonman4979😂😂😂
@@pigeonman4979 No for real 😂 it just looks like any random photo I could've taken of my record player as a 10 year old in the early 2000's
Someone talking about how very nice and generous they are to someone thay are calling a loser while saying they need to get a life because their harmless hobby is "cringe" is the most internet thing to ever internet
Ironically it was pretty cringe of that dude to complain so much over nothing.
plus him calling it creepypasta stuff was definitely something.
How is this dude 27 and unaware that Lostwave =/= Creepypasta 💀
What a asshole
Yeah what a dirtbag.
COMING BACK TO COMMENT SINCE ITS BEEN FOUND
the first comment since it was found
2:33 His original post title was simply "Mid 80s, bad quality"
You mentioned before that how the watzatsong site was hacked - well the people who hacked his profile changed the description, and mods changed it back, adding that bit in parenthesis at the end. Carl92 never called the song "Everybody knows that".
Just wanted to point that out
@@johnnylego807that’s not even the song this video is referring to. what are you on about
@@lanister1104 It did initially at the beginning, and played it referencing the fact it was “lost media” totally threw me off. I figured out later that it was in reference too a different piece all together. Still don’t understand why they included that audio in the beginning and made it out like it was infact the lost peice. That’s where my confusion was. Thanks . The beginning 0:01 implied this was the lost piece.
@@johnnylego807 you couldn't have just watched the rest of the video instead of jumping to conclusions
You’re never gonna believe this…
Regarding that Japanese user with the compilation album, as someone who has covered quite a few Japanese lost media topics myself, I've found that Japan doesn't really have a dedicated lost media community over there. There's a pretty popular wiki for lost commercials specifically, but I have yet to encounter any centralized hub in for lost media/lostwave in Japanese. Some people are terrified of copyright-related repercussions/legal action (Japanese copyright law is mad strict and many unclaimed old film reels and music tracks are outright destroyed because the legality of holding them and not owning the rights is so complex.
In my own search for the Akihabara tape song, I've found that the OP and owner of the tape had actually thrown out the original cassette tape with the song on it, and is a bit vague in correspondences. I feel they may just be apprehensive for legal reasons themselves.
TLDR: I really wish Japan took media preservation more seriously. I've been simmering the idea of opening a Japanese language wiki for lost media and just adding articles myself to hopefully spread some awareness and interest.
Media preservation is slowly taking a surgence over there
Is that why I can't find the song "toi et moi" anywhere?? It was a japanese singer's song and I thought it had something to do with pokemon but i can't find it anywhere.
Knowing all that we were so lucky Plastic Love survived. 😂
Fr, it's a shame so much Japanese music gets taken off RUclips because of copyright, even older songs. I uploaded a couple of things and while they're still available to watch, I think they're blocked in Japan itself due to copyright
I agree with this, there is tons of old anime lost and untranslated because japan did not release it and most copies have been destroyed or disappeared. Massive shame, theres even things like lost anime merchandise too where people have a picture of an item but you will absolutely never find any history on it.
"who claimed it was from an 80s adult film" haha right hope that isnt true...
🥰
Yeah…
As someone who is 27 and does volunteer archival work for a nearby town, comparing lost media, whether it’s film, comics or music, to CREEPYPASTAS…it makes my blood boil.
I also very much enjoyed your work and Jorge’s help on this, it was astounding.
I have to imagine this person heard "lost media" and could only interpret it as those "lost episode" creepypastas that were everywhere 10 years ago. Certainly a needlessly hostile/crabby response though.
It doesn't help that nearly all lost media RUclips content uses creepy drone music 😂
If these people want to be taken seriously by the non-terminally online, they need to sell themselves as "digital humanitarians" or "music history-archivists".
One good thing about this search is that most of the dead end leads end up exposing people to musicians they never heard of, which is a pretty good silver lining in my opinion.
I agree I recently was exposed to a rock band that I really like because of a simple Sfm animation from 15 years ago
Happened to me with Digital Girl!
honestly might look into Joes music fr 🙏
It also exposes them to corn too
Wasn't "Everybody Knows That" the song that played when you beat the arcade game Polybius? Someone should check.
definitely a lead that should not go unnoticed. might be a good shot at finding this song.
This is a great lead. Back in the 80s, I used to head to my local arcade and play Polybius for hours. My memory is foggy, but I swear I heard that song play when I finally beat the game.
@@zigzagintrusion It played just as the arcade's wallpaper began to swirl and I didn't feel so good anymore. The same thing can happen to listening to too much Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, as I recall.
RIGHT !!! Everybody needs to immediately investigate POLYBIUS, that's where you'll find the answer !
oooo deep cut! i see u
13:57 BABES THEY WERE TELLING THE TRUTH
Guy who uploads obscure music when someone comes to him asking if he knows of a piece of obscure music: (ಠ益ಠ) "I HATE YOU I HATE YOU FUCK OFF NOBODY CARES!!!"
Its because hes a MaTuRe AdUlT
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that
A. Not everyone is into this sort of stuff and some people find it cringey.
B. Getting pummeled with endless requests to release the song would be extremely annoying and would leave most people in a sour mood.
To add to this, anyone that would have listened to a few of the songs from it and actually used their brains rather than simply looking at genres on discogs would easily deduce that the song in question would not be on the compilation simply because it is a vastly different style of music than the other songs on it.
@@kandigloss6438 Dude it's not that hard though
".... Also heres the song: (link)"
@@kandigloss6438 if you think its easy to find, prove it by finding it yourself smh
13:47 Might want to look back into this....
Not being able to find lost media is so frustrating. I have almost a whole album of songs that no one knows where they're from. I've been searching for like a decade, I think.
Post them
@SynkkoBR I had a few times over the years. This vid actually prompted me to post again, and I found it!
@@Srcsqwrnwhat was it ??
@@EmmysVerySeriousVideos Some story, trying to keep it short, link at the end.
I had this album with no name, no song names, no date, and no band name. I had songs 3 to 8, not knowing how many songs were in the album. It was ripped from a CD using Windows Media Player.
I had been asking around, music shops, friends, family, new people I met online about this album for years. Showing people the song files I had, explaining the metadata, etc. No luck for like 10 years.
I posted on Reddit about 3 years ago looking for the songs, and then again after seeing this video.
In the last post I made on Reddit regarding this , someone had actually finally found it!
They used PicardBrainz (Sp?) to find it, which I attempted to use, as well as a friend, back 3 years ago to no avail.
But they found it, and let me know, and even posted the link to the Bandcamp, to which I'm very grateful! Credit to FiveElementNinja.
The artist is Techromancer. the album is Space Duel, and there were 8 named songs!
Finally, I had everything I was searching for, for years. This album got me through good times and bad. I've listened to it a lot through the years.
Here's the link to the Bandcamp.
Some people would consider this experimental, or hipstery. It has a bit of chiptune-like sounds in it.
Enjoy. c:
techromancer.bandcamp.com/album/space-duel
@@EmmysVerySeriousVideos Some story, trying to keep it short, link at the end.
I had this album with no name, no song names, no date, and no band name. I had songs 3 to 8, not knowing how many songs were in the album. It was ripped from a CD using Windows Media Player.
I had been asking around, music shops, friends, family, new people I met online about this album for years. Showing people the song files I had, explaining the metadata, etc. No luck for like 10 years.
I posted on Reddit about 3 years ago looking for the songs, and then again after seeing this video.
In the last post I made on Reddit regarding this , someone had actually finally found it!
They used PicardBrainz (Sp?) to find it, which I attempted to use, as well as a friend, back 3 years ago to no avail.
But they found it, and let me know, and even posted the link to the Bandcamp, to which I'm very grateful! Credit to FiveElementNinja.
The artist is Techromancer. the album is Space Duel, and there were 8 named songs!
Finally, I had everything I was searching for, for years. This album got me through good times and bad. I've listened to it a lot through the years.
Here's the link to the Bandcamp.
Some people would consider this experimental, or hipstery. It has a bit of chiptune-like sounds in it.
Enjoy. c:
techromancer.bandcamp.com/album/space-duel
A little explanation that is more than a few words;
Everyone Knows that (Ulterior Motives) was indeed found. The recording that Carl played was featured in an Adult Film that I won't name, but you can find it after a little searching.
The song itself was recorded by Christopher Booth who also goes by Christopher Saint. From what I know so far, he plans on trying to find the original recording without the... noises from said film. If he can't find that, he plans on re-recording it.
UPDATE! Everyone Knows That has now been found! It was discovered on a porno movie from 1986 called "Angels of Passion" and its played in the background of a sex scene. The official title is "Ulterior Motives" By Christopher Saint Booth. Your Welcome Kylie
well at least we know why carl left no details 😭
I’m literally sobbing it wasn’t a chip crunching it was a bed creaking
13:49 *THAT LEAD SORT OF BECAME TRUE*
NOT SORT OF IT WAS
11:28 "There is a reason why the clip is only 17 seconds"
Yeah, all the moaning.
lmao poor guy literally "sampled" the longest interval he possibly could to dodge all the moaning
The "NTSC frequency line" could have easily been baked in the original recording at the studio.
Many studios have screens within the recording room, and it's very common to find ~15kHz frequencies in the recording caused by their presence during the recording session. Many commercially released tracks have this burned in.
The notion that the presence of this line is necessarily due to how Carl92 recorded the sample himself is just not so.
There are more holes in this whole thing:
This frequency comes from the horizontal deflection yoke vibrating due to the powerful oscilating magnetic field it generates to move the elctron beam from left to right on the screen. NTSC does it at 15734Hz and PAL at 15625Hz
That's about a 0.7% difference. How can they be so sure it's NTSC for certain and not PAL? Especially given the high probability that this was captured from audio or video tape, radio, or whatever, where this frequency could have shifted up or down by that much or even more.
Kudos to the guy that had the knowledge to look for this, but it's just not as good a clue as he thought. In fact, I would say it can't be considered to be a clue at all.
Idk
You have a lot of intelligence… I’m honestly very confused by your 4th and 5th paragraphs but you seem like you know what you’re talking about 👍
@@michibmoon Thank you
This was so far over my head that it sounds like made-up gibberish, except I recognize some of the terms so I’m not so sure. 😅
@@Trizonese ok
13:53 “well that didn’t age quite so well “
I can suggest a Filipino 80s new wave pop band Rage Band could've made it. Maybe.
Why?
-Philippines using NTSC Format
-Made pop songs between 1983-1988 and 1990
-Songs mostly in English
-Sounds similar from their tracks
-Made Jingles for brands in the 80s
If you want to hear their tracks, its on their Soundcloud page, however full albums are still lost media.
Wait whats their band name? rage band?
it was from a porn film lol
i wish it was true..
Turns out the main lead wasn't NTSC, but NSFW.
No wonder carl disappeared...
Love this story. As an aside, this pink boombox was released in 2006 lol, probably 20 years after this song was recorded. Funny how it found a permanent association with an 80s hook.
Right? I find the boombox at 12:54 much more interesting, since it isn't just a different color of a variant that seemed omnipresent for a while.
it actually was 20 years after the song was made 😭🙏
i love the lyrics "everyone knows that she's got ulterior motives, tell me the truth" it reallyyyy sounds like a wham song and i love it
right??? i always thought it sounded a little like george michael
Heh
A 27 year old claiming to be an old man telling people to "get off their lawn" is just silly. That's coming someone who's 45, and I don't think I'm ready for the "get off their lawn" bit even though my body is definitely showing some real signs of aging, now. This can be controversial, but as far as I can tell, there is no real meaning to life. So, the best thing you can do is provide a meaning, yourself. I've been there looking for a song from my childhood that I had no idea what it was called. If it gives your life a little spark, then it's all worth while.
He really wanted to tell them to stop having fun
I think I get it now…
To people who claimed it was AI: how does it feel to be wrong about everything?
To be honest, the response at 17:00 is so disheartening, but more so because no matter what draws folks into a new genre of music - the overall benefits of these searches are bringing more attention to non mainstream art and music and often recovery and archiving of lost or near lost media. I understand annoyance from being bombarded by questions and inquiries - but it seems that was not the cause of the ire - it was plain ole gatekeeping of a new and different generation/audience finding interest in a musician since it was tied to "annoying creepypasta searches" or w/e
He chalked finding lost pieces of media up to creppypasta bullshit. Clearly doesnt understand its not the same thing and is too ignorant to try and open up to something new
@@austinsmith7731Wait til he meets someone who tells him he's ruining the music industry by uploading songs, because digital uploads are never going to be as good (to them) as listening to vinyl records and he's "enabling" this ruination of music culture.
He's prolly agree with them lol
It's extra annoying because that guy says he's only 27 and he acts like he's scolding little children. I guess since he associates lost media with creepypastas and general web horror, and is too proud or whatever to familiarise himself with what lost media actually is, he assumes we're all kids. I'm in my mid 30s and I absolutely love lost media/lostwave, but it isn't even that big of a deal how old we all are. I'm not gonna judge kids for loving creepypastas or whatever else they're into, and I'm also certainly not going to gatekeep anyone who wants to get into my favourite topics, no matter their age.
It's not disheartening, it's pathetic lmao. You can read the internalized loneliness in this mf 😂
that guy was a grade A a**hole
Plot twist: the singer is celebrity #6
Lmao I think I’d die from shock
the ultimate plot twist
Reddit would have a field day if this came true lmao
@@kstrofiiI would have a field day 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤭
At this point, I wouldn't even be surprised. Maybe moved on work on The Most Mysterious Song
Everyone is saying it's from a commercial but what if it's originally from a movie and was made for a short scene? This happens sometimes. Ex. there was an episode from the Haunting Hour that I watched a reviewer's video on it and the intro for the episode included an original, short song played on a radio that the character was listening to. I forget the episode but it was one with Debby Ryan in it and it was clearly her singing a generic, one-off song.
I mean there's also original full-made songs made for movies too. Scott Pilgrim is probably the most notable example but "Scotty Doesn't Know" is a song by Lustra made for the movie Euro Trip.
I hope this makes sense because I feel like I'm having a hard time describing it. Like, instead of using an existing song the audio engineers made a new song exclusively for the movie.
Oh, and sometimes when they do these the vocals are actually stock vocals from a library, but I guess we would've found them by now if that's the case? I was watching a video on Mad Magazine and its history and one of the one-off songs they used in the Mad 90s TV show had the same vocals from Scanty and Kneesocks theme because the "I want you to make believe it's the first time" lyrics were from a stock vocal thing and the two songs were just remixed completely different.
I hope if this doesn't make sense, someone else can explain it better than me.
😅
If anyone needs help with the spanish TV Schedule I think I can help
Good point, I ran across a similar situation myself years ago. There's a particular variant of a song I haven't been able to find from a movie, it's not on the soundtrack nor was it released by the artist, and is listed as the same song on the credits and the soundtrack, even though they're distinctly different variants. Only a part of the song made it on the movie and was cut short.
True there's a Goosebumps episode called Dont fall asleep in the attic where a kid is being chased by "dream cops" in his dreams. & there is a scene where he's getting married to an older woman & song starts playing supposedly its a "cover" of another song but could never find it
@@Skinflaps_Meatslapperthis may sound really dumb, and i dont know if ur still looking for it, but i was in a really similar situation and shazam found it for me, just an idea idk if it’ll work or maybe you’ve tried idk😭
it is in a movie scene! what type of movie.....
13:52 foreshadowing
I just asked my mother who was in her 20s in the 80s if she’d heard this song before. She said that it has the same sort of generic rhythm and chord progression of that era (which could definitely point to why it sounds so familiar to everyone) and she said it could be a song from a Motown (the record company) girl group. She also said the grainy, low quality could be because it was recorded in a disco, concert or club or something. I don’t know if this could be a lead, but it may prove fruitful to dig really deep into the super underground girl groups of Motown’s from that era and see where it gets us.
edit: OKAY GUYS YES I KNOW THAT ITS BEEN FOUND AND WHAT ITS ORIGIN IS 😭 but i never said my mum had HEARD it before, just that its rhythm is of that era which she recognised as she was in her 20s and yk how 80s music is LMFAO. so yeah just to clear that up 🫡
You should probably post this in a forum and not in the comment sections where it could be lost to time. Very helpful leads
It may be from an acetate or cassette. It may be a girl band or female singer in a garage type of band who just did songs on their own and maybe a few bar gigs, broke up and the women got married and had kids. Women often do a band for a bit and then become mom's. Especially if the band is just a fun type of hobby and nothing serious. My advice I was giving too is to show the clip to people in their 50s and up who were kids to 25 back then obsessed with 80s punk/dance songs. Someone may know of the female herself. Maybe it's a starter band and song before they broke up to be a big band we know. 🙂
Well, well, well... Your mother has a taste, I'll give her that lmao
@soyjoyy Indeed😈
It's weird to think that this could be the favourite song of someone in this world, yet they have no idea that people are looking for it on the internet as the news hasn't reached them yet. That person could know everything about the band and singer.
I would be concerned if this was anyone’s favorite song…💀
It’s bouta be my favorite song 🥴
Or it could be their favorite porno
How nice of Kylie Boggly for allowing a smaller channel like Blameitonjorge to collab. I hope he gains more subs and attention
Um Blameitonjorge has 900k subs😭
@@TimmyTheTinman🤓
97k is hardly a 'big channel'
@@TheRealHoltzybut then again it’s a lot. Yea compared to other RUclipsrs it ain’t much but it’s lowkey a huge goal mark for RUclipsrs
@@TheRealHoltzyIt’s satire
That Darren segment had me absolutely stunned, the comparison legit sounded like it could have been from the same exact song it sounded so close. I was dead set on it being a female singer until I heard that, combine that with the tweet and that’s probably the closest lead y’all have found! I really hope it gets found so I can add it to my playlist!
Exactly. Why the poster of this video and everyone else just let it go is beyond me.
Back in the 80's club DJ's or radio DJ's would be given "single" records from music labels, to play at clubs and create some buzz. You could of course just pick one up a record store yourself too. The singles would usually have a radio edit, extended version, and a dance remix. I have found more than a few of these singles from thrift stores. Some of them were absolute bops, even though it was from a obscure musician no one has ever heard of and only had a few thousand or hundreds of views on RUclips. The song in question had to of been recorded from a vinyl to tape then recorded back to a PC for whatever reason. There's an absolute mountain of these singles, finding this song would be like finding a needle in a hay stack. The vinyl is probably sitting in someones collection in Europe and they just don't know it.
Or even worse, it was just some short experiment that never became a full song, and we've just run across a trail of people sharing a cool mixtape of what's little more than samples.
do you own any
I remember long time ago getting a single for under a buck, and unfortunately misplaced tape long ago and searching ever since but lyrics were about gatta get a Roughneck, and it was a female rapper singing, think it was titled Roughneck but that was in the late 80’s. It was really catchy and been trying to figure so I could use it in a short indie film, hopefully before my glioma takes over ... life... just gatta 😆
Great video. I was actually the person who got in touch with Rolling Stone as I thought it would make a great article. They emailed me back thanking me for giving them the heads up for bringing it to their attention as they looked into it and thought it sounded fascinating.
On the off-chance anyone is interested, the stock/background footage from about 5:50 to 6:10 is from River Falls Mall (circa 1993), which was in Clarksville, IN until it closed. The full video in higher quality is available on RUclips, and as of this posting can be easily found using the name of the mall and the year mentioned.
Thank you! I actually was curious.
jorge collab is crazy omg congrats kylie
I guess we better start watching more old 1980s pornos to hopefully find more lostwave songs.
Probably
Can relate, took me ages (like 10s of years) to find an old 80s megamix of Tainted Love. Finally someone uploaded it on here and I happened across it.
Is that the one where tainted love transitions into where did our love go? Had trouble finding that for ages ahaha
@@greatbritishedits6602Ah, now, I have that, it's a 12 inch. But the one I was after had a load of samples from TV and FIlm and a load of other songs from the era. I found it here watch?v=fqkkhj5zcjc :)
Probably just an old band who made a demo song that didn't get used or get any commercial success and the creators of the song probably just forgot about it this was most definitely a song before the internet blew up and is a relic of another time is how I look at it
Watching this in hindsight is too funny, she even mentions the correct source at 13:45 😭
"im not like those other 27 year olds, I don't like creepy pastas. I'm a cool guy"
@Orlen-zi6jyhe is also apparently not 27 at all
@Orlen-zi6jy he is 14 lmaoo
@Orlen-zi6jy idk either why he claimed to be 27
@Orlen-zi6jy To actually answer your question, he probably isn’t. The Takeshita Ohta video he posted is 6 years old, which means he would be posting these videos Atleast 6 years ago, with the RUclips channel being made in 2014, and LastFM being made in 2012.
13:53 Well.. 😭
collab with blameitonjorge?? been around back when you had around 25k subs, damn this channel's gone far, happy for you!!!
thank you! :)
@@sombertoboggly20:20 what's the song playing in theback ground?
Carl was smart to disappear, man accidentally put his stash on blast
I think it's an early Savage Garden demo. Lots of artists have early songs that they consider embarrassing and would prefer to bury forever. (David Bowie, Trent Reznor, Billy Joel, Alanis Morissette...) I think this is another instance of exactly that. I think that Darren's tweet was his way of saying "Yup that's me" while still leaving the door open to a bit of ambiguity.
Heard of that, you have the link to his tweet?
I don’t get this. This isn’t some super hard too find clip. The song is called Macintosh Plus, Remastered, the Original is by Diana Ross - “it’s your move” don’t understand why this is some big Easter egg.
@@johnnylego807are you trolling?
@@konsama1315 hadnt watched the full video when i commented
@@IngenieroMan bro replied to multiple comments before watching more than a minute of the video
I really think it’s darren hayes, the vocals sound so insanely similar. As a musician, im willing to bet that was a demo they tried to self record and realized it didn’t cut it, so they found a recording artist to help them and tried to bury his poor quality demos. I think him posting that vague status was basically him admitting it was him without actually doing it
Exactly
Just one problem though...Savage Garden didn't form until 1993 and didn't relase their first album until 1997...who the hell was making music like that in the 90s?
Even people who made new wave in the 80s didn't sound like that in the 90s lol.
Some of your young folks do not realize this but there was nothing more uncool in the nineties than the eighties. The 80s didn't become cool again until 2000.
@@Chelaxim that doesn't mean it can't be darren/sound garden, though! plenty of bands have a sound that seems reminiscent of an era that isn't their own and is maybe seen as "uncool" in their time. if you listen to the clip of darren's early demos, you have to admit it sounds startingly like EKT. just because it would have been "uncool" for him to make an 80s sounding song doesn't mean it's impossible :]
Your very wrong....
Kinda ironic how this song is called “everyone knows that”
When nobody knows it
placeholder name but yeah
Apparently this has now been covered by The Guardian.
Seriously. This feels almost surreal.
can u give more info about it pls???
Oh no, what are they gonna say now?💀
14:03 if only they knew....
The false lead at 13:53 was unintentionally correct. But it was the wrong name.
'if blameitonjorje is involved, it's going to get solved' the prophecy has been proven true. Yet again.
I never watched "Saved By The Bell", but for some reason, that TV show came to mind when I heard this. Looked through a few and noticed similar music in an episode called Dance To The Max. The song was probably something by a television studio band.
Omg I loved save by the bell, it does kinda sound like it could come from that.
I haven’t seen it either but subcautiously thinking about it when you hear the song could mean something. I hope this gets recognized
13:47 SO HE WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG??
Bro was hella spot on and someone actually did go through films 💀
Damn...
Punches you for no reason
"im being nicer than most. if you were near another person, they would hit you instead."
17:45
That silence from Darren is so frustrating oh my god. It would take two seconds for him to type “yes it is me” or “no it isn’t me”
That really does sound he’s the one too. Comparing it with those demos the vocals and sound quality really seem identical to my ears.
Yeah, I previously thought it wasn't him since his enunciation is usually so perfect and the EKT singer's is not. But those Savage Garden demos they played in this video...Only like 2 words were intelligible! So now we have 2 mysteries:
1. Who sang EKT?
2. When did Darren Hayes learn that letters form specific sounds? 🤣
I'm his defense he probably just wanted to have some fun and didn't expect to be bombarded with so many people asking
@@AlfredoGomez-kp4cf Yeah but still, it would take very little effort on his part to confirm/deny it. We’re of course not entitled to a response or anything but it’s just annoying for people that are so invested in this search.
@@AlfredoGomez-kp4cf he had to know how popular it was if he didnt want to be annoyed in the frthe first place he would have just said yes or no
"I don't remember where this song came from" Yeah sure......
This song is probably on some grandpas cassette tape or vinyl record in hd quality, and we won’t even know it 😭
Grandpa has a porn addiction and now we know it
Call the cops on yo grandpa if he got this on cassette 💀
Granpa's old porn stash💀
13:46 little did we know
Crazy how they found and more crazy is WHERE they found it 😭😭
Im in a good mood scene we found Above The Clouds yesterday night. 2024 is going to be the year we find lots of lostwave but I think it's going to be a little bit longer until we find EKT
*since and *2024
Corrections aside, I agree. Maybe this will be the decade of lostwave.
@@tweeandcute283 yes, I'm living a year behind. Let me fix that.
ABOVE THE CLOUDS WAS FOUND???
Salsa
Carl legit had ulterior motives
6:51 I think it's hilarious this boombox blew up with the song because I literally owned this boombox when I was little
cool beans bro
I had this one in the kitchen, but blue
I’ve been waiting for your next upload- and seeing its a collab with Jorge makes it even more exciting!
(Also the Blood type thing is because Japan believes blood types have an effect on your personality traits- its basically like a bands website having their members zodiac signs listed in their bios)
A slight correction:
The second WatZatSong's post at 29:08 that got their audio track replaced with EKT still hasn't gone back to normal. I just checked and it's still a remastered version of EKT and not what the OP of that post had. (Although there's still a vocaroo link in the comments of that post.)
13:54 You prophet!!
I'm not gonna lie, for being one of the most mysterious and elusive songs on the internet, it has become one of my favorites. EKT and all it's fan remakes are just so good and I really hope the real deal will be found this year.
Edit: Y'all. Wtf was Carl doing???
I'm here because my professor was talking about it and made a joke that if anyone finds the song gets an A for the semester :b
Thats the nicest way of saying no one gets an a
@@Mesadly Perhaps
McIntyre, Joey 😉 rabbit hole... Neponset (an area between N.Quincy, Dorchester, Southie..Boston Mass), it’s not far from Hyde Park, then following trail online leads to Hydeparkny (dot us) which is a place of a lot of riddles for everyone of all ages. Great to give riddles to teachers and have them ponder the questions answer. It’s a neuro plasticity exercise. Well, he did live in NY for a time before going to the west coast. Voice on track matches his younger voice, and everyone had a distinctive accent south of Boston.
Hope you get an A in class, but at least a B+ for researching... good luck.
Sometimes it’s easier to study and work hard on your education
@@animula6908 yuup
Such a great documentary on EKT! Very nicely done, and thank you for sharing my Darren Hayes vocal comparison video!
28:35
Thank you for mentioning my post on Reddit and thank the sub for finding it, who knows what song I might move onto but I shall move on “like the wind”
i had no idea youtube had a "before:" function, thats awesome
Me neither. This is pretty helpful lol
It doesnt, at least not on mobile
What’s a “before” function
@@Gen_-6012 in the search it will only show videos posted before that date. You can also do it on google, discord, probably other places to. Its a commonly used thing a lot of search engines have.
@@Gen_-6012shown in the video. it's a search engine feature where when you type "before:" and then the year, the results will be from before that year
It actually blows my mind how much music I used to listen to never made it to the internet. Very common songs that were on CDs I had, that never made it to the streaming services or RUclips. I listened to a lot of punk bands in the 90s/00s that is all but gone now (except on the original CDs or vinyl). Not to mention the old 90s/00s method of having different “versions” of songs. I had a song stuck in my head, ironically I found on Napster long ago, and after a decade of searching, found the actual CD it was on (for those curious it was Canadian punk band DOA’s song Do Or Die. Anyways, I finally solved that mystery. But it was tougher than I thought it would be
There’s also a lot of albums that I used to listen to that bands purposely omitted from their streaming catalogues due to it being a different style than the rest of their catalogue (eg: punk first album but band went full-on metal later - therefore they just didn’t include the one random punk album - happened a lot).
Yeah we're definitely biting off more than we can chew here, we're basically chasing a ghost that may not even exist anymore.. But never doubt the power of the internet is what I've learnt.
@@Hester-l6k yep. And also the power of an ear worm. Had that song stuck in my head for so long and after a LOT of chasing, reaching out to members of the band, etc ended up finding it on a big risk (had to buy a new cd player and buy the CD on an online auction) just to have it maybe be the song. Thankful it was
There were songs I discovered on RUclips or Myspace around 2006 and put on on my iPod. Then my iPod got stolen. Some of those songs took years of jogging my memory to find them all over again. I'm still stumbling upon music I'd long forgotten about. There is one song I'm still desperately looking for and I remember the video fairly well, but not so much the song itself. I think I posted on Reddit about it once with no luck? One of the other songs that took me the longest to find was Agenda Su*c*de by The Faint. (Replace the stars with i's, I didn't want my comment removed.) It was a huge relief when I finally found it and I didn't even have audio clips, song names, band names, I was working entirely from my memory of pieces of lyrics. I've noticed Google is actually really terrible sometimes when searching more obscure band lyrics. So many times I've been looking for something and it's a common phrase that's in a ton of other songs.
I'm so happy that EKT is getting so much recognition. It was the song that got me into Lostwave and has remained one of my top favorites. Maybe its due to 5 major Lostwave songs being found in ~2 months, or bias, but I really feel like this song will be found soon. At least, I hope it will
I found it interesting in the NTSC part, where the discussion primarily focused on carl92 traveling, didn't delve into the fact that Multi-standard TVs and Video players were a pretty common thing in Europe. Having imports and purchases from other countries was increasingly common and required the need for multi-standard capable TVs and Players. I was exposed to this when I lived in Germany in 95-97. A part of this was also triggered by European travel, especially after the establishment of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 provided freedom of movement, the subsequent 1995 Schengen Agreement eliminated border bureaucracy and created a common area only between Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Which gradually expanded and in 1999 travel within EU countries was generally passport free.
or it could've just been part of the song's original recording
In a parallel universe, Everyone Knows That is a massive hit, and everyone is scrambling to find this mysterious "Take On Me/Take Me On".
i really hope the song gets found one day 😭 it hurts my heart that it hasn’t been found
reminding you its been found if you didnt know already
Banger music ❌ Music while Banging ✅
I may or may not have accidentally at least figured out the instrumental?! Idk if this is just me or if anyone else can hear very crazy similarities (down to the baselines and little instruments) but I think the instrumental background is a version of "Let’s here it for the Boy" by Deniece Williams. I was comparing the two by using instrumental versions people have created and the instrumental of Deniece Williams song. Both The songs uses the Linndrum and I swear this is the instrumental. A very big possibility here I think is that someone used it as a sample, changed some things (added or took away sounds instruments), and added their own original vocals to it. If this is actually it then we’d definitely be closer to finding who did the vocals unless it had always been that very small snippet of it. Like I said I could be wrong and it’s just very similar sounding but it just sounds way TOO similar.
yo do you have discord
I hope you're wrong but goddamn this song is good
@@extraglo what 😭
@@imdoomed.official I was replying to the comment above you
I seriously just have this strong feeling EKT will be found this year or at least by 2025. I feel like someone will just find out everything and be like "yo, it's actually this song". I feel like the vocalist is Asian, probably not Japanese.
fair point
Maybe Filipino?
@@flashfunk0373 Maybe! People on Reddit and other places EKT is covered, keep pointing out that it might be a Filipino accent
16:09 For anyone curious, the reason his blood type is mentioned is likely related to the fact that Japanese culture has somewhat prevalent superstitions about blood types affecting a person’s temperament (similar to how horoscopes/astrology are popular in the US and Europe). This is why, if you read manga, you may notice that it’s not uncommon for authors to include a character’s blood type on a character sheet
Congratz! it's found!
I am very very confident that the singer, from the short sound bite ...it's Corey Feldman. I've grown up with him since the 80s and listen to his recent music. Listen to his Today show performances and compare the voice.
I compared the voices and it sounds really similar to Cory!
It sounds like a weird television fake of 'Party all The time'
@@Laeiryn sharam
@@johnnylego807goofy. Watch the full video
@@johnnylego807 did you actually watch the video? that was just intro music, not the song being talked about
Bro was JORKIN it 💀
sounds like singer is saying "you're counting on a shift in disguise" which makes more sense then "counting all the the sheep" (you say at 5:40 ) as the singer says "caught up in a world of lies" and also the everyone knows that (you got) ulterior motives
someone should add this song into a movie and see if anybody sues them for adding this song to their movie.
(it's good idea but not good financially)
Kenya dance, HLWIT, Hell above the clouds was found yesterday. Been following EKT since the OG upload had 20k views, and i am hyped as fuck. We need to bring this one down
I have an idea for a game:
Take a decently obscure song that you know, upload a low quality clip of it online and dare people to try and see if they can find it without the use of Shazam. If you acknowledge that you already know the title of the song, it could be really fun to be part of this little “lost” media scavenger hunt. Not to mention how funny it would be for the original poster seeing everyone searching in completely the wrong places.