The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet - “Like The Wind” - Internet Mysteries
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- There is a song that no one on Earth seems to know where it comes from. This mystery goes back over 35 years and even the combined might of the internet cannot seem to solve the mystery of this song’s illusive origin. We don’t know the song’s true name, the artist, who recorded it, what album it was on if any, where it was originally recorded, we know literally nothing.
It's been called "Like the Wind", but that's just the name the internet has decided on, we don't know the real name or the artist.
EDIT: HUUUUGE UPDATE!!! 7StringGuitarPlayer found the outro song!!!! Thank you so much my friend! This scratches a 20 year old itch and I can finally hear the whole song!
It's called "Day in Day Out" by Mary Beats Jane! - • VHS VCR Interference N...
Thank you so much 7stringguitarplayer! Shoot this guy a sub and listen to his awesome riffs he's posted on his channel!! / @7stringguitarplayer
[UPDATE 1/9/2020] The final 30 seconds of the video which was purely a clip of the song referenced at the end of the script has been both recently identified and uploaded into the Content ID system and therefore had to be trimmed. Don't worry, all of the content you came for in viewing the video is still in there ;)
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The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet - Tales From the Internet - Whang! - 7/9/19
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Know Your Meme - The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
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The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet - Rolling Stone - 9/24/19
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Full Song - 7/12/19
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Here's links to my new album "Thorns" I released on Oct 1
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I recommend the following songs as a starting point:
- Falling Asleep
- Safer Below
- Weigh Me Down
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I don’t understand why this video is getting so many views lol it’s one of the first ones I ever did. I hope you’ll give some of my newer content a chance, the production has VASTLY improved. This one is so bad lol
RUclips recommended it to me after I watched “Dad”. Maybe that’s why? Love your channel!
It’s on our recommends... no one can really pinpoint RUclips’s recommended algorithm. Maybe you should do a video about that...
The great RUclips algorithm has spoken...you are the chosen one!
@@AlisonBryen Yup, same and glad it did
I watched the "human meat" video last night and woke up to this being on the front page of my recommended.
Everyone screwed up. Instead of asking "what's this song?" what Lydia should have done was post an incorrect artist and song title and just wait for some German new wave music snob to smugly correct her
Lmao
But we aren’t this bitchy😒
No we germans really are😄✌️
Hey, its not her fault, thats just something that happens, the internet sometimes leaves things like songs or videos as time goes on, its no one's fault.
True
I just Shazamed it. They have it listed as “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet” by The Very Unknown Band.
I did the same thing!
It's a lie. Someone put it on there to suck money out of the people who shazam it
@@leunrphantom9524 I didn’t buy the song
What the hell
@@R0GU351GN4L its not
Back in the late 80's and early 90's (89-92) there were a group of us foreigners living in and around Fujisawa, Japan. Most of us were teaching english (ESL). I think I know who this is. Kai Becker. He had a small home studio and called himself GGG for german guitar god. Almost all of us were guitarists and would play in the bars for free, just for fun. Kai was probably the better player of all of us and had gone to a school for both guitar and recording. After I made fun of his first recording he brought to a bar (song was called: do ya wanna dance with me...ya ya) and he overheard a Japanese music professional say to me "You are the best guitarist here" He pretty much went straight home and began working on this. I recognize the voice and play style, phrasing. Seems like I have heard this before. I remember he processed the vocals by putting it through a Korg reverb and something else. His voice wasn't naturally so low. If I recall he used the technique of recording the Vs at a slightly higher tempo then slowing the V track down and THEN mixing down with the instrumentation. I had a programmable Yamaha drum machine back then (still have it) and I think he had the same one. Sounds like it.
It certainly wasn't me.....but I remember my years I Japan vividly.....
@@kaibeckerguitar8822 😳 Damn! How cool of you to comment!
@@MyCatInABox U R welcome! I wonder though how come that there are people here who know about my time in Japan way back when....
@@kaibeckerguitar8822 hmm...kinda interesting, huh?
Maybe start checking for tiny cameras/microphones on your mantle at home?
But for real though, you obviously made an impression on a number of people with your singing/playing talent!
@@kaibeckerguitar8822 Internet is an amazing place... sometimes. Like right now. How'd you happen on this comment, and more importantly, what did you go to work on after the incident in the OP?
I've been a work in progress at the time you were already shredding XD
My grandfather's a vocalist and guitarist who informally retired last year, in his mid 60s. The 1980s was his era of music, and he's been the father figure in my life, so 1980s-2000s music was something I grew up with. After watching this video the first time, I immediately knew I had to show "Like the Wind" to him. While neither of us could identify the song or performer, watching my grandfather listen to this song was interesting. We sat in the living room and listened to it twice, just to see if anything came to mind. We both recognised the vocals, somewhat, but neither of us can place who they belonged to.
The theory I would like to raise, after discussing it with my grandfather, is that this might have been an example of a band sending in a demo tape of a mostly finished song. The radio station then aired it as a platform for the band to gauge interest in whether or not to polish the recording. Something that we both noted upon listening to it was that the vocals seemed... misplaced, in a way. It sounds like whoever mixed the audio, layered the instrumental of the song over the vocals, instead of the other way around. The vocals are quiet, and difficult to make out, whilst the instruments are as close to crystal clear as you can get from a 1980s era recording like this.
This is a very interesting mystery, as I've always considered music to be the one medium where practically everything is very well archived, and it's a medium that has personal value to me as the granddaughter of a musician. I hope, one day, that we can discover the origin of this song.
What if it's a song from a soundtrack from a movie that never released the soundtrack to the public? I remember in the 80s hearing songs in movies or played on the radio and never being able to find them because the movie did poorly and they they didn't send money on making an album. But when I did find obscure soundtracks, they tended to be German or Japanese imports.
That's very possible.
One example of such thing I could think of would be the soundtracks in a really cheesy 80's action flick called _Ninja III: The Domination_ which includes great tracks such as Sally Zapulla's Love Bites. Hovever, the song was listed in the end credits, just not released to the public by the company label.
INERT ??! can I get more info on this??
I had the same 'from a movie soundtrack' was the same thought I had while listening to the song. Would make sense if the movie never got big/released so the song lay forgotten. I could also see a case that maybe the studio decided to go with a different band/song for the bit and this track just sat around before eventually finding it's way out into the world...
I swear ive heard it on a movie is funny thing
"go to this timestamp to skip the song"
why would i miss an opportunity to listen to this absolute banger?
terminal 99999999 Honestly I figured most people had already heard the song before seeing my video! I’ve been pretty surprised in this. I know a few other channels had already done videos on this song and the only reason I felt like I had anything to add was because there was some new information at the time that I made it lol
The vocals are too distorted, like he's singing in a tunnel. It's not that great.
Angelus_Solus bruh. It’s good
@@angelus_solus is a great song...
@@angelus_solus Depeche Mode also did that to their voices and they have several good songs.
In the 80's they had small recording studios in shopping malls where you and your friends could walk in and record. They had voice synths and generic music. You could bring your own stuff too. This sounds exactly like a recording my friends and I made, just better. I'll also add, if it was somewhat good they'd play it on the local channel on an ametuer artist show.
@CoolForCats 7 I agree, a radio show or contest. This was a big thing in the 80's. It's how you'd get discovered. We didn't have internet and such.
I was going to say the same thing. It's definitely a tape that has minor stretching and seems cheaply made. I know many recording studios were out there in several cities such as Branson Missouri as an example. Good luck considering the millions of people that traveled through those studios in the late 80's and early 90's.
Carousel Mall in San Bernardino had one
Not a chance, brother. Never has a song come out of a mall studio that "polished" and with a great transition. Song could have been a legit top 100 in 1985. The mall studio tunes were total shit.
@Corby Dorian Have you ever heard any demo from the 80's? If anything, the quality and production value of this are much too high to actually be a demo. You used to record those with nothing but a single tape recorder which often had microphones not specialized for music but plain speech. It sounded like shit. Indeed I think the vocals came into this song in a different setting from the instrumental as well, but still very much could have been a demo from the 80s.
Maybe it's a song from another dimension that accidentally slipped into our reality
Are we talking Many Worlds Interpretation (timeline splits) or Multiverse (different laws of physics and/or chemistry)? I think it's the former.
The mandala effect?
Alex Munch I think you misspelled “The Carbonaro Effect”
@@masicbemester No need to be a douchebag, douchebag.
That’s it!
im definitely getting depeche mode and b-movie vibes from this
cecil ; was always saying it reminded me of Nowhere Girl, glad to see B Movie get a mention
It definitely sounds like B-Movie if B-Movie had been German and not British.
The voice sounds like DM but the music, not so much. It definitely has an 80s/90s feel. I feel like theres not enough keyboard for DM. Not their kind of keyboard sound.
B-Movie - Nice call... Loved that band..
My first thought too was "Sounds like Depeche Mode" or at least the voice does!
My grandmother was in advertising sales. When I was a kid, she would bring me records that the radfio station received from unknown artists. The radio stations just threw them out. I got some pretty cool music in the 60s by unknown artists this way. I would imagine that this is what this is. It sounds like something from the end of record days as well.
Do you still have any of those tapes? There may be some more unknown songs on there, especially if they're compilations.
I've never heard this before but hearing it it's like I've known it all my life or something. Huge sensation of deja vu and nostalgia
That's strange, because I feel like it is familiar too.
Same, I feel like I've heard it a hundred times but probably have never heard it...
How crazy it gave me that deja vu vibe as well i was instantly in the house i used to live in when i was a kid and a faded memory of ive heard that song before........ I think
The intro reminds me of the song 'I just died in your arms tonight'.
@@ohanneskamerkoseyan3157I love that song!
I found this channel a couple of days ago and you really got potential! btw this song sound like a Joy Division/Depeche Mode mix
I really hope you stick around! After my first video had such a positive response, it really felt like I have a knack for this kind of stuff and I really hope I can come up with some great stuff to keep you interested. I hope you’ll follow me on Twitter and that you would recommend me to your friends! This channel is only a few weeks old but it feels like the momentum is certainly building 😊
If I knew this was so mysterious as a kid I would be famous also as a kid I thought every good song was a hit but I was wrong also the radio station I was listening to they don't play that song often I do not know why, well I thought of revamping the legend beyond the grave to ask radio stations to put this on there radio station at any time they have to broadcast it saying (hello this is our song nobody els (plays song) . I hope some guys who tune in can copyright strike a radio station for coping this radio stations song then we can find a lead. Or we can have a auto dialler that can send a message really far the here's the message (hello do you know this song if you do skip by pressing 1 [plays song] call back at [phone number]
@@sammytimgaming2947, man! This auto dialer stuff is hot! Best idea so far... Hope some German/British patron take this load for us all!!
Socrates Bandeira I wonder how many calls back we will have saying I heard this song for reals
This is crazy, but fascinating! I, personally, got obssessed for the tune since I heard it!
This song actually kinda slaps why did I expect it to be like rly scary
Together we have found cat killers, pedos, dead bodies, missing people and solved decades old cold cases. But this song.... THIS ONE SONG.... has defeated us all.
The song that defeated the best detective ever... the Internet
True
@@diegotavel5872 It's not over yet. Someone, SOMEWHERE, must have some knowledge about it.
It sounds like a non English speaker singing and he probably did the whole thing himself. The instruments are all electronic and simple, prob a drum machine. Might just be a demo that was self recorded one by one person, if it was from east Germany then it’s even less likely anyone finds it
I agree pretty much with your observations. Nothing out of the ordinary. Sounds like a demo. Cheese!!!!
That's exactly what I thought: There are millions of demo tapes out there where nobody knows who made them and when. The person who did this might be dead or simply not aware of the "hype".
This reminds me of "stock music" that would be played when you've been placed on hold or when a radio station loses its power and then flips to generators, playing a set list of generic songs. I hope we figure this out, though, because the generation involved with this song are hitting their twilight years and some may no longer even be alive.
It's meant to sound like it's from the 80's. Damn we ain't that old......yet. LoL
close - i got job on radio they recorded shows compilations to vcr long play thats why it has that effect then when no one worked they played the vcr all night as we did so it was like forever jukebox of crap old farts didnt care for this is from a film and released to video 8 years after made using song from 2 years b4 etc these assholes at radio station arent ones there then and are dumb young scummers hwod not care and these net world scums dont get it they see it all like a forevr template of your mind right now you tube world its not they killed our jobs our bands our lives and erarnings and all live at parents who should be forced into a war to be erased
I have a theory. What if Paul was the one that made the song and he hates it so much he never wants anyone to know it’s his song?
The Green Doggo of Wisdom you son of a bitch you cracked it haha
NightDocs Maybe i did lol
ruclips.net/video/MxaopAavlk0/видео.html
@@TheGreenDoggoOfWisdom maybe YOU'RE paul, and want to put the truth out there, but want to cover it up!
Viewbob Lol
Lol my german ass instantly thought: "hmmm this sounds like Neue Deutsche Welle (New german wave)". Surprised i was right when you said it was recorded off of a german radio station in the 80s. The radio it was aired on even is very near, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (northern germany broadcast).
nick cave bowie iggy many neu music westerners played berlin influencing europeans to sing in english and still do but with accent theres many styles doing it now like see cold transmission its a good remark to ponder but more complex as germans went west immigrant returned germany like hasslehof
Theory: Mystery Song Originated In East Germany
1. The song was written and performed by an underground band in East Germany. The lyrics of the song have the "feel" of someone living in a totalitarian society dreaming about escaping to freedom. The song has allusions to the Berlin Wall, underground tunnels and subversion against a totalitarian regime.
2. Someone smuggled a recording of the song into West Germany and somehow it made it's way to a German radio station where it got played.
3. The band who made the song were arrested by the East German secret police and disappeared. They were either executed or sent to a Siberian gulag for making "illegal" Western music which was banned in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. Any other copies of the song were considered treasonous propaganda and destroyed.
Actually, this happened more than once, especially in the 70s. On the flip side, it could be a recording by an officially government approved band. East Germany tried to have their own version of these that were available in West Germany
The song did originate on a german radio station I saw a later video on it and the guy at the station recognized it.
There was a synthesizer used produced in 1983 wich is confirmed, so the song is no younger than that
That sounds like a totally viable theory! The lyrics support it and the East German government didn't approve of expressions of freedom. I wouldn't be shocked if this theory turns out to be true.
Number 1) here was the same impression I got. The first verse is complaining about life under communism, and the second verse is about the potential for a brighter future in the West.
Man, I wish I had an internet army to track down the creators of all the originless songs I know of.
PosthumanHeresy Well... I have... *looks at subscriber count*... about 1400 soldiers. Bring more! Haha
@@NightDocs Well, you got one more from me. Saw the video in a playlist and literally did not even realize you were a smaller channel from the video itself.
4chan /mu/ might help you there
Lmao I was so excited about 1400 subscribers when I said that and now...
@@NightDocs And the more you get, the faster they come.
This is so interesting... how does a song that's completely unknown even exist?
The second one at the end of the video is unsolved too!
I know this song or I'm in a coma
Just like how there are master artists paintings out there that no one knows because they were unsigned. What is recognized or forgotten is not in our control.
SammytimGaming hi Sammy! I see you in many videos about this song!
@@NightDocs can you or have you reuploaded this anywhere for other people to hear? definently not gonna get much from just that.
Having been a radio deejay, musician, music producer, and record collector, this is a real mystery, since I do recall hearing this song before, on a Los Angeles FM radio station, either KMET or KLOS, in the mid-1980s. Wow.
It has that 1980-85 era sound, and of my favorite musical genre, Progressive Rock. A very memorable tune! Love its structure, instruments, and lyrics! In the,early '80s, Prog, which had been excitedly popular in the 1970s, was then being absorbed into the New Wave Rock scene, with excellent bands like Night Ranger, Strange Advance, Saga, etc. It sounds like it fits in that groove.
crap no one has that memory
It's not hard to imagine some little band back in the 80s recording a song, never to get back together again and move on towards different paths. I have a similar experience. Recorded a little song in a church recording studio with some friends in high school. Sounded pretty decent, but we never pursued music and went on different paths, but somewhere there is a recording of our music. I'm the only one that's technologically versed and keeps on the internet, but if I weren't, no one would be around to claim the song if it were blasted around the web. Could be a similar situation with this song?
It very well could. Unless they have relatives, children, who are active on the internet, then they might have stumble upon it. There is still a hope.
Same with my dads band in the late 70s and early 80s, the tapes are somewhere, we just don’t know
Reply All podcast recently aired an episode regarding a mystery tune that was stuck in a guy's head from the late 90's. It didn't exist on the internet and this guy was going insane trying to find it. Rolling Stone wasn't even able to help... They were finally able to find the artist and they played the song and it was an amazing ending. It was catchy, but I guess not catchy enough and never had an official release. Anywho, someone is bound to know who this is at some point.
This episode was so sick, I love stuff like that.
I’d love to hear more about that song hunt but I can’t find anything on it
Man I got to be honest. At the 1:54 timer I was becoming anxious that you were going to Rick roll me,and I fell for it! 😕😒😟😖...😏.😄...😆👍
I can’t believe people still think that’s funny I would be so freaking mad hahaha
The 2010s trauma is real. Everyone was Rick Rolled
It sounds like The Cure and Depeche Mode had a baby.
And then Bauhaus and Joy Division said wait, I'm the father.
@@colonelkurtz2269 I was getting more early Laibach personally
Sounds more like The Damned or The Mission (U. K.)
Isn't this Wyld Stallyns? Bill Preston and Ted Logan from San Dimas, CA. Be excellent to each other!
Party on dudes!
This is the song that will unite the universe
Gosh how I wish this was solved.
I've got good news for you mate
It will be some day
@@theslayer4050 what's the news?
I heard this in my local area on radio/stereo stations in Ontario and Manitoulin Island can you ask any radio stations if they know this song then play it with a phone and with any other external device with RUclips then play the most mysterious song on the internet
Kneon Knight I do I take time
Sounds like like some of the songs my dad and his band recorded at their home studio.
Hahahah I thought the same, maybe one dude made this Song in his home studio and that's it
I was thinking the same thing.. I had a 4 track as a teenager..recorded tons of songs that are now lost
Jonas Christensen hell yea, someone else with an apple profile picture. Fucking finally!!
I know how to find out who wrote and sang the song. Have Trump use it in his election campaign. Blast it at rallies. In no time, someone will come out of the woodwork to issue a cease and desist letter. Mystery solved. 😂👍
Now this is brilliant!
LMAO - You're so right, people would be scrambling left and right trying to cancel whoever wrote, produced and performed that song.. I'm still laughing at your comment.. :)~
This song isn't alpha enough for trump.
Hahaha! Genius!
Ta Daa, nice response.
I'm so intrigued now, this is an awesome song!
I just watched the video you helped "That Chapter" on. Had to come check out your channel. Subscribed
Ditto. :)
Me too
Snap lol so glad the chapter mentioned this channel or i.wouldn't of.known about it
Same!
Same here , that chapter sent me. Also dubbed 👍
(none of this is real, I just wanted to make my own story and maybe someone else will like it to) Daniel Courtley (Vocals) Don Pickney (guitar) Sam Odberg (bass) Tim Bates (drums) Tom Spacey (keyboard) all members for the upcoming band Visions. A week after releasing their first album titled Whisper For Me, Daniel and Tim died in a car crash, Don and Sam died in a house fire, and Tom went missing. The only living person who knew any of them is Tim's brother Andrew, and he refused to give any information besides this except from an interview: "it was cursed from the beginning. As they were recording the songs Don's parents died, Sam had a divorce, and Daniel lost his little sister. After the album was made they had the first track broadcasted, and the physical album disappeared. After everyone in the band was gone, everyone outside of it started to die or disappear aswell, and I know if I tell you anything I'll be next." A month later Andrew was found dead in his home, with a pure black Vinyl sleeve with "Whisper For Me" written on the front in bold white writing. Unfortunately, it was empty. The band obviously never put anything else out, and the vinyl is lost to time, the sleeve was buried with Andrew, and no other songs have been found besides this one.
You're wasting your time here🎓
@@cynthiamclellan6745 listen here you ham sandwich time spent wasted you enjoy isn't time wasted. A wise ghoul taught me this🎓
I was thinking something along those exact same lines, just not as dark.
Guy sounds like he's singing in his bathroom
It's actually quite an unremarkable song for the period. Having lived through the early 80's... a time when the explosion of new sounds made a huge impact on social dynamics... I immediately recognized the sound as being of that period.
There are a number of similarities to the sounds of other bands at that time. Most notably, the Platinum Blonde signature guitar sound, which doesn't permeate nearly as much, but which is present from start to finish.
Until I heard the vocals, I thought maybe it was from England, where so many of the popular bands of that era came from. The singing seems more like what you could expect to come out if Germany, Poland or Eastern Europe. Keep in mind that it was also the height of the Cold War with the CCCP (USSR); and the music scene behind the iron curtain lagged behind what the West was experiencing. Musicians in all Communist controled countries were heavily inspired and influenced by the sounds they heard coming across the radio waves. It wasn't unusual for them to mimic the styles and sounds, but not having access to the same equipment/instruments dampened the final product.
In the West, cutting edge technology was far easier to obtain. The musical instruments and recording equipment weren't the same. That affected the sound that a band could achieve.
Back to the vocals: While visiting relatives in Germany, my uncle would play his radio, tuned to stations in Berlin and East Germany. I recall hearing songs that has similar vocal track: a few men, singing with low, rich tones, but almost in a monotonous manner. This may be indicative of the culture where such singing styles were prevalent.
i discovered this mystery thanks to your video and now i'm obsessed... thank you :D
How cool would it be to be the writer/singer/band, watching all of this happen… Knowing you are part of such a neat mystery. LOL if I were responsible for this song I very well might not say anything anyway.… I feel like people enjoy a good mystery that is not necessarily dark. Plus, how good of a good feeling to know that people love your song so much they cannot get it out of their head and make it a life mission to track down who you are… LOL, so cool! Thank you for posting a “lighthearted“ mystery. Usually I enjoy true crime and darker things but this was a much needed relief from that as life this week has been dark enough. Stay safe everyone
I have a theory...perhaps it was written by a band local to the area where the radio station broadcasted. Sometimes radio stations might play songs from unknown bands known only locally, particularly back before they became far more mainstream and were free to play almost anything they fancied. As for why they haven't been found, perhaps the artist either has no idea anyone's looking for the origins of their song...or they're tragically deceased. This was almost 40 years ago. They could have gotten old or sick or been involved in a tragic accident. There have been many older bands I gained interest in only to discover that they only released one or two albums before breaking up or that key members died, causing the band to lose interest in continuing.
Also I hope someone finds the artist at some point. I really like it. I might have to yoink a copy of it.
the whole thing reminds me of the story of the beatles album from an alternate reality called "everyday chemistry". apparently the beatles didnt break up in the other reality and this album was put out in that reality but somehow made its way to ours.
turns out it was just an extremely clever mish-mash of beatles songs just reorganized into original songs using small samples of many songs to create their sound.
thats what i think this is. another well done mish-mash of 80s music.
I'm very skeptical this is an actual song from the 80s. On first listen I got a strong Fleetwood Mac vibe from some of the beat. It could have been made with various backing tracks spliced together. The vocals don't match up with the rest of the song very well in my opinion. I taped a lot of songs of the radio in the 80s and I don't remember any of them sounding anywhere near this clear even with my semi professional JVC deck and this tape would be 20+ years old as of the 2007 clip posting.
Crazy I just read your comment because 2 days I ago I heard of this for the first time from Reignbot's channel
(Edit: this wasn't intended to be a reply. I apologize.)
Why do people keep claiming it's AI? At no point during the song's alleged capture, rediscovery, posting online, or even at the time of this comment, has AI been sophisticated enough to create a full coherent song at this level of quality. You can listen to recent 'AI extended songs' and see that for yourself, it ALWAYS devolves into hellish incoherent samples.
As for this being a mashup, well, that doesn't mean anything if we still haven't found the source for the vocals.
I am on the side that we're not likely to find the song's true origin. Not unless there's some crate-digger going to boot-sales in and around Germany who may come across a decrepit cassette in a box of junk. If the artist hasn't come forward yet, after all the coverage the track has received, they likely won't or can't for one reason or another.
My mind went straight to flock of seagulls. lol
I was expecting a creepy song like Horses but damn this is a bop
And Horses isn't?
Who is Horses by? I only know the Patti Smith album.
@@burnlastsunday it's by David Byrne. He made it for an art film I can't recall the name of at the moment.
@@spugintrntl Ah. Thank you.
@@burnlastsunday no problem.
Sounds like a poorly recorded demo probably recorded on a 4 track cassette recorder like a Tascam or Fostex. I lived in Germany in the 80s and there were so many bands around at the time that sounded just like this. It could have been any of them. The drums sound like the old Simmons electric kits.
As an 80s kid I have to say it's strange how familiar this song seems even though I just discovered it (and this channel) tonight. I found a lyric video for it and can't help but continuously hit replay. It vibes with me on a DEEP level.
Such a master piece to my ears.
It sounds like a band that might get gigs on the pier in Lost Boys. Maybe 2 stages down from oily sax guy.
funny love that video its like karate kid beach scene but i went europe 82 found it all like that in athens
Sounds like The Damned. Really good song, deserves to be recognised
funny
I really hope you do more mystery videos like this!!
Song Lyrics:
Like the wind
You came here running
Take the consequence of leaving
There's no space
There's no tomorrow
There's no sent communications
Check it in, check it out
Or the sun will never shine
They're a long way away
In the subways of your mind
Like the wind
You're going somewhere
Let a smile be your companion
There's no place
And there's no sorrow
Hear the young and restless dreaming
Check it in, check it out
Where the sun will never shine
They're a long way away
In the subways of your mind
Check it in, check it out
Or the sun will never shine
They're a long way away
In the subways of your mind
Check it in, check it out
It's the summer blues
Tear it in, tear it out
It's the real excuse
Check it in, check it out
It's the summer blues
Tear it in, tear it out
It's the real excuse
Check it in, check it out
It's the summer blues
Tear it in, tear it out
It's the real excuse
Check it in, check it out
It's the summer blues
Tear it in, tear it out
It's the real excuse
So…I’m sure you know Paul, who was the guy who found a Cassette with this mysterious song, and was the guy who asked the internet if they knew the song.
Paul actually posted a few images showing the writing on the old 1984 Cassette, and, on the Cassette, wrote “Blind the Wind”.
I think that’s what the lyrics are. “Blind the Wind, you came here runnin’.” And not “Like the Wind”.
The outro song is day in day out by marry beats jane
Somebody beat you to it! It’s in the description, but good work! 😊
Sounds like the kind of 80’s song you’d hear in a low budget action movie back in the day layered over a montage of a hero training for his big bad guy take down scene.
This channel has such great content and this song is awsome I watch it just to listen to though I have watched this video in its entirety keep it up this channel is gonna do great
While it was playing, I thought it had to be German. The tracks are so out of balance it had to be amateur or a demo. But listen, it's a joy to discover a mystery that doesn't involve a violent crime. So thanks
Yeah...the vocal was not real prominent. Guitar chords sounded a bit like early Boston. But that sure wasn't Brad Delp on the vocal.
I'd swear I used to hear that on the radio in Colorado back in the 80s.
Kinda sounds like Billy Idol's voice to me. I like it.
@Kneon Knight Something members of the military brought from Germany to their next duty station?
yea that billy idol im sure of it. he made some songs for tv movies back in the day and i remember hearing this in a movie, but cant quit remember the movie.
I’m not trying to offend anyone or anything, but I have trouble believing these claims that the song is definitely Idol and that it was played regularly in Colorado as people have been extensively trying to find the origins of this song and if either of those claims were true people would be making a huge stink over it and I have yet to hear Billy Idol make even a passing remark on the song and the only radio station lead in be heard is from Germany. You guys could totally be telling the truth, but I’ve been following the search for a while and this is the absolute first I’ve heard anyone mention this which would be weird if it was commonly played.
I get heavy the cure vibes from the song.
The singer doesn't sound nothing like billy Idol !! My first thought was the lead singer of Rammstein, way back in the day.. but who knows ??
It took three videos but I finally subbed. When I did I was astounded to see you only had 33K subs. That will be changing I imagine. Cheers.
I stumbled upon your channel by chance. And the song sounds a lot like (Lake of Tears - Forever Autumn album).
Love the video and yes SUBSCRIBED cheers =))
I have luck, because I live in Germany, in the city Lüneburg near hamburg to be direct, I can help with the research, NDR, that was the radio station, I already asked them if I can do the research or at least helping them, but they wouldn't let me, but they said I was to young(16) to help, but I am still trying, I, or we will solve this mystery, even if will take ages
Tag me when you find out.
Your Majesty no it definitely sounds like a non englsh speaker made it.
She probably forgot about the song 😂
There is this song by a man named Christopher Cross, he did a song called Ride like the wind.
Upon listening to it, though its more polished and clean. Though the beat is slightly different, it still matches the beat heard here.
This COULD be an early version of the song BEFORE the more polished Ride like the wind was created.
No friggin way.
It can't be. TMMS was produced in 1983-84. RLTW was produced in 1979.
@@bicuber8399 thats not true, it could've been produced anytime from the 70's-80's, it was only *played* in 1983-84
C’mon man…you might as well say it was Aretha Franklin
Ha! Good thing I read your update. I was like, man that is about a second and a half of the song he wants identified and that seems impossible. Didn't realize it had been content ID'd and no longer a part of the video. I really wanted to help but wouldn't have known that track anyways.
I also want to say that my friend in Nashville used to send me boxes of cassette tapes he got out of dumpsters behind music companies and record companies and such. I couldn't believe how these were unknown artists and their music was thrown away. Most of it was of the caliber of what you hear on the radio. Some even better. It was a real eye opener to the music business.
thats cause it used to be 10 000 releases a year published only enough fir top 40 so to make room they dumped alot as tapes took up room weighty in boxes too so basically today its 10 million releases a wekk from bedroom internet coccoon modernist mummy boy weasels
Yeah, can we say "The Sisters of Mercy?" It sure sounds like an early version of their music.
Nah, not the Sisters. Am a big fan, especially of their early period, which sounded nothing like this. Their early period is like a mixture of Berlin period Bowie, Joy Division and early the Psychedelic Furs. Also, they were heavily bootlegged throughout the 80s, with many unofficially released songs doing the rounds (Driver, Good Things, Wide Receiver, etc). If this were in any way associated with the Sisters, their fans would be all over it already (like the obscure techno album by SSV that was never officially released: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSV_(band) ).
@Tragic Creature Ghost Rider was a number they performed regularly in the early to mid 80s. There's a lot of versions floating around. Sister Ray is another cover they performed regularly. Both are pretty cool. I love early Sisters, this is a really cool encapsulation of the period: ruclips.net/video/__ec58GyEd8/видео.html
Yo this shit slaps wtf
I was a musician myself and have a good ear for identifying music. The style of this song reminds me of what was called "Ruta Del Bacalao" that existed in the 80' in Valencia, Spain. It was a time when Valencia was the go to place for dance clubs, way before Ibiza took the lead.
It was a musical movement fueled by high quantities of mescaline, alcohol and hashish. People from different parts of Spain and Europe (in my case from Italy), travelled back and forth between their place and Valencia to take part in a party that started Friday night and continued uninterrupted until Monday morning, no sleep.
The name "Ruta Del Bacalao" (translated into English as Cod Route) was given at the time because at the end of the 3-day party, that unfolded between various bars, night clubs and beach bars with DJs, the participants returned to their place of residence with a face resembling a dead cod, due to the combination of high levels of consumptions of alcohol, mescaline, hashish and lack of sleep. Those who could, would travel back to Valencia the next Friday to start all over again, thus creating a sort of route.
The timing of the release of the song, as mentioned in your video, coincides exactly with the first years of the "Ruta del Bacalao". After the first few years of the 80' the "Ruta" continued, but the drugs changed and so did the music style, tending more and more towards electronic and finally techno music.
During the early 80' many bands sprung up and disappeared in Spain to cater to the musical taste of this crowd... and shared the same lifestyle. So it is very possible that the band members who released this song might be dead or in some psychiatric ward by now.
That's probably why it has been impossible to find out who they are up until now.
I just sent the link to this video to a friend of mine who's the greatest expert of the "Ruta" I know, you might hear back from him sooner or later.
Meanwhile I subscribed to your channel.
Interesting. Please update us!
@@yavrielsechelle7431 my friend listened to the song and confirmed that the style was right, but unfortunately he had never heard it before 😒
Goth like sisters of mercy or even like inkubus sukkubus, ghostdance, Rosetta stone it's got that vibe
Back in 80s and 90s there were some underground music bands that recorded music at home and never published. Some cool local djs who knew the bands would air their stuff but you would never be able to find the songs. Some of them were great. This happened specially in ussr, east germany, eastern block, middle east, and places like that. But you would think the dj would remember this, unless he received the track from another dj who received it from the artist. If thats the case, unless the artist is still alive or even cares, or somehow stumbles upon this video we will never know.
tape release demo to get show etc by giving to venue onwer who gave to radio guy for event promo pay off
This is a damn good recording for an early 80's German radio rip. It's an absolute banger, & I hope we find whoever sang this. You'd be surprised how many semi-popular songs got completely forgotten after a summer of constant playing, especially in the pre-internet age. We tend to only hear the 'absolute best of' (AKA best-selling) songs of certain decades once they become 'oldies...' If you've ever thought "Damn, music was way better back then!" it's probably because you weren't there to witness the crap or blah-tastic lows. While I like this song, it's style is awful familiar to the Depeche Mode style popular in Germany back then, so it likely was forgotten in favor of the bigger hits.
Did music companies do that thing back then where they'd pay DJs/stations a certain amount to keep a song regularly playing? I know my mom said that's how 70's radio in Detroit used to work in some areas, but idk if that's true. Maybe without becoming insanely popular in a year with already big hits, this song couldn't afford to be spoon-fed to us like whatever overplayed garbage big-fat-record-label put out. So, maybe that meas they were a local band that acted as their own label, or worked under a small local label.
its not german theyre australian working class immigrant kids who did hair shock style 80s pre fat n old worker look
Damn your outro song goes so fire thanks for that!
Amazing song. It will get a place in my playlist for sure.
I genuinely have no idea how this song didn't take off, it sounds fantastic. My best guess is either that the band never released it publicly or somehow...idk died, or the lead of the ban died. Maybe some kind of melancholy Michael Jackson thing where he passed and left behind tons of unreleased songs people (read: Sony) are only beginning to cypher through.
It’s just not that remarkable for the era it came out, ya know?
You know there's no known artist for the song because it would have been claimed right away 👍
I was happily living my life, completely unaware of the existence of this song. My bliss is gone now that I know that there is a nameless song sung by a nameless band out there. Damn you for this. Damn you to heyullll!
Subbed though.
did they ask the person who found the full song? i feel like that would be the best lead, and i was waiting for that information in the video and it was just completely glossed over.
That’s some 80’s mixing. The Casio drowns out the lyrics. I can hardly hear what they are singing. Which that makes me sad. But if this came on the radio I’d rock out to it. Because it’s got some 80’s bad mixing, but it still slaps.
Sounds a bit like Depeche Mode, Camouflage or Erasure
I mean, it ends up sounding at least a bit like most new wave/post punk acts of that school because of the vocals and instrumentation.
yup i was thinking it sounds like a combination of depeche mode and modern english (of "stop the world and melt with you" fame).
I was going to say that this has major Camouflage vibes to me!! I'm absolutely certain that, like Camouflage, this was a German band.
Your right on with Camouflage.
I think its safe to say that this song is unfinished or is meant to be a backing track. The lead vocal is missing. Those vocals are backing vocals that are probably a clone of the lead vocals but an octave down and maybe with elements of harmony here and there.
That song is like insanely nostalgic feeling, and I feel the name of the song and band is on the tip of my tongue but just can’t grasp it
That's an Ian Curtis demo from 1977 before he signed with Factory Records. After he died a bunch of his unreleased stuff hit the bootleg market. I'm 70% sure.
not true, dx7 was released in 83. that patch is specific to that keyboard. so gotta be sometime after that
@@jenostililpogo5347 wow, way to know your keyboards 😳
He sounds a lot like Ian, but the music is so 80s indie/goth it could not have been recorded in 1977. Stylistically anachronistic.
I couldn't understand s word in that song !
Peter Garret and Jim Moginie of the rock band "Midnight Oil" did a couple of demo tracks for a side project and did a limited release in the European market. That song was one of them.
Journey's Dream After Dream is another example; the soundtrack to a Japanese movie apparently never released. The album is very rare.
Are you sure you didnt mean: "Shes like the wind"
Thats the real banger 😎
Ba dum ttsssshhhhhhhhh
This is for you ->⭐️
@@NightDocs 😭😭😭 omg i just wanna thank Patrick Swayze for help making this joke possible
Thank you soo much!😁😁
the song is actually a damn banger
Definitely 80’s ish!! Tear it in tear it out! Great tune but I don’t recall hearing it back then!
To be honest, I thought it was going to be Clan Of Xymox for some reason. I was hoping that it was, because I love them and would have been thrilled to hear an unknown track by them. If you don’t know them, check out their song “Stranger”, or “A Day”, from their first album (I think), from back in the
early-mid 1980s. Their newer stuff was pretty damned good, too- check out the songs “Obsession” and “Evelyn”, and then from around 1999, “Jasmine And Rose”, which I at first thought was the Sisters Of Mercy, as it totally sounded like them. Anyway- thanks for the great video, and I hope that I made at least one new fan of Xymox here🙂
no way xymox was better
The voices are not similar.
Sounds like an 80's song, like a B-side to a group like 'Midnight Oil'. Definitely in the 'punk rockish' feel. I like it. 💖
If you haven’t heard the song this video’s about, don’t skip it! It’s a total bop! Baskerville needs his head checked, the dingus.
I Shazamed it and it came up with The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet(Remastered) by The Very Unknown Band. lol. Unfortunately not available on Apple Music in the US :(
I now have Erasure's "Always" stuck in my head for no reason.
I'm not even mad. That music video is a riot.
It's early version of "always"
Sounds like 1980's band BLANCMANGE. Check out their song "DONT
TELL ME "
big pun the vocals sound similar but the music sounds too pop like
Not really. This sounds more like the German band Camouflage.
@@ladyi7609 that would explain everything. Imagine Camouflage camouflaging so hard they camouflaged their very existence
@@ladyi7609 not to be confused with the Swedish or Norwegian band the camouflage that changed their name to the tapirs
The outro song is going to drive me nuts now. Sounds kinda like Earshot.
They added it to a list of unknown songs on the /r/mostmysterioussong subreddit! Hopefully somebody can tell us what it is, I've been trying to find it for 20 years!!
@@NightDocs man i really want to know that song at the end now. i was looking around for it quite a bit yesterday. i think most songs statistically are probably hard to find. i think its just that most people listen to songs that are at least somewhat in the mainstream so its easy to find on the internet
7stringguitarplayer yeah it’s been living rent free in my head for about 20 years now! Lol
@@NightDocs is it just that small clip you have?
7stringguitarplayer unfortunately yes :/ I don’t even have the full song
BROOO THE SONG IS FREAKING AMAZING!!!!!! imma put it in my playlist
It could be a small independent band that did a demo that didn't really do much except get played on german radio once, after awhile they probably disbanded.
Was that from Xanadu? Early 1980's film about super human flying females that left colorful trails as they flew beyond the speed of light.
I'm from that era, and it typically sounds like just another band from that era. I would be amazed if you found the composer and performer if they're one and the same. There is a chance this band may have died with the death of the musician. AIDS and drugs destroyed a number of aspiring musicians around that period. This sounds VERY difficult. You'll just have to see if the right person can come along and remember that track. You've got yourself a real mystery. I'm writing this for Mike as a tribute to him. He was an aspiring musician who acquired AIDS around the late 80's and committed suicide because he was afraid of a slow painful death. I thought his music had potential, but it just wasn't his time.
Like the Wind ( BEST LYRICS)
Unknown Artist ( 1985 )
Play at 1.25 SPEED🧡💛❤️
Like the wind, you came running
Take the consequence of living
There's no space, there's no tomorrow
There’s no sense for communication
Check it in, check it out
Or the sun will never shine
There a long dirty way
In the subways of your mind
Like the wind, you're going somewhere
Let a smile be your companion
There's no place, and there's no sorrow
In the young and restless screaming
Check it in, check it out
Or the sun will never shine
There a long dirty way
In the subways of your mind
Check it in, check it out
Or the sun will never shine
There a long dirty way
In the subways of your mind
Check it in, check it out
With the sun or moon
Tell it in, tell it out
'Cause I'm reading you
Check it in, check it out
With the sun or moon
Tell it in, tell it out
'Cause I'm reading you
Check it in, check it out
With the sun or moon
Tell it in, tell it out
'Cause I'm reading you
Check it in, check it out
With the sun or moon
Tell it in, tell it out
'Cause I'm reading you
You probably don't need any more ideas but something that might be up your alley is the story of the ship ss baychimo, the ship was left abandoned in ice in 1931 and was seen off on from then until 1969. They started a research in trying to find it in 2006......btw I love the channel
My absolute first reaction in 1 second was I have heard this before. Can't put a finger on it but I have. p.s I was very much alive in 1982-84.
THis is so fascinating. Stuff like this has driven me to be almost psychotic in archiving things. I once built a playlist on RUclips of thousands of songs from every tape and CD I used to own. When I couldn't find the music on RUclips I uploaded it (So I have some somewhat obscure 90's Christian techno and stuff that isn't anywhere else online) I was a DJ at my college radio station for 2 summers in 99 and 2000 and they had a "Crap Bin" of music that bands would send trying to get airtime. The crap bin was free for DJs and so I would come home with box fulls of CDs of junk no one has ever heard of. So I know some pretty obscure stuff...Sorry though...this song just sounds like an unknown band riding the pop 80's rock & new wave
i would wager that this was just some kids fooling around in a basement making music. tons of small basement punk bands in the 80s trying to hop onboard the depeche mode-esque train, *particularly* in germany at that time. the new wave scene was huge, and small local bands were popping up everywhere. maybe they sent it to the local radio station, who thought it was good and played it, then they never really made anything else that got preserved. if it was just some teenagers fooling around in a very amateur short-lived high school or early college band, then in the modern day they may never have heard of this mystery surrounding their song since they'd be middle aged now and possibly not very internet savvy, and their band may never have gotten big enough to actually put its name anywhere official. i honestly can't imagine it's anything else.
the song at the end is Mary Beats Jane - Day in Day out during the guitar solo
Amazing catch! Great band also.