I MADE AN UPDATE VIDEO ON THIS MYSTERY!! ruclips.net/video/ClJU_IYIg6E/видео.html The full mysterious song can be found here: ruclips.net/video/9Y3JUmERfY8/видео.html If you hate the slow narration just speed up the video lol (was going for a spooky voice) Midnight Sympathy: ruclips.net/video/HBLRkhujw6Q/видео.html The OP's blog: tekibaka.asks.jp/2988.html 🌸Twitter: twitter.com/SakuraStaardust 🌸 My Anime List: myanimelist.net/profile/SakuraStardust 🌸 Business Email: Sakurastargaming@gmail.com
@Sukeban Deka Saki Sanobashi Its my hypothesis that her real name isnt Yui Saito. I'm thinking she was an adult film star who kinda parodied Yuki Saito cuz Sukeban and stuff ^^;
@Sukeban Deka Saki Sanobashi That would be rad, though Akina has kind of a deep voice. I think the singer may have more Seiko vibes than Akina vibes imo
I suppose the most likely explanation is that it's a demo track that never got picked up, and the cassette ended up in the thrift store when someone from the record label needed to clear some closet space. There's something about the thought that somewhere, there's a middle-aged woman with no idea that all these people are fascinated with the song she recorded when she was younger. . .
came across this vid late at night and this is my exact though basically. Since it was most likely tapes from record labels samples it could had been a demo for a radio station or for a broadcaster or just to see if the label can greenlit the single. Still, the thought of someone out there who did that recording and is living their normal life is wild and completely expected, specially since they never got their possibly one song greenlit with the possibility of no radio broadcast wanting the recording.
Yeah, exactly my thoughts, that isn't too uncommon tbh. Being succesful as a musician back then when you're trying to pierce an over saturated market is like trying to make a new company to battle iNvidia and AMD in making graphics cards. Maybe not a 1:1 but still, while music is back breaking work that requires years and years of preparation to be even slightly ready (I only ever appreciated this whenever I picked up an instrument), the industry is cruel. The internet has done a lot to help fledgling artists get started, but back then you either got heard or not.
List of Mysterious songs around the world Germany: "like the wind" Brazil: "fond my mind" Italy: "Come Back" Kenya: "Filthy frank Kenya song" Indonesia: "Tinggal Kenangan" Mexico: "Sin Efectos" Russia: "Urna" and now japan: "Fly Away"
12:27 The creepy part is, "gone to a distant country" can be often used as euphemistic expressions for DIE in Japanese. "Sleep" is ditto, and in very rare case "chair" can be refer to hang oneself. Also in the nursery story died person will turn into stars.
I actually think that the song is about suicide and the girl killed herself later on... It also says "dream of an unknown town", while unkonw town may stand for a place after death and "touch the bluebird's wings gently with your finger before setting it free" while bluebird stands for happiness.
When my sister told me about this cursed song I told her to play it and it seemed good so I tell my sister to play it when I want to hear it, it makes me think about someone doing a tango dance cursed or not idrc I'll listen to it when I want to it's a good song
I'm pretty 100% sure that if no one knew the artist, Jun Togawa, of the popular Japanese song "Suki Suki Daisuki" it'd become some "creepy" lost song too due to its sound and "unnerving" lyrics, so yeah...I don't think that because this song isn't well known that it's creepy because to me it fucking slaps lol.
The quality of the recording is deteriorated, probably because of the copying from cassette to cassette, so it's difficult to 100% judge. I'm sure this wasn't a full blown, expensive studio production, but from what I can hear the track could have been recorded pretty much anywhere. With a drum machine (like the Roland TR-606), synth (like the Yamaha SY-77) and multitrack (like the TASCAM Portastudio 414), all available to regular people since the 80s, you could record that at home. Also it's possible it was recorded at some indie/home studio for fairly cheap (not sure how that market looks in Japan, but in Western Europe and Northern America you could find something rather easily). So I would totally subscribe to the idea, that this is a demo song from some aspiring idol or other singer.
Fascinating! I used to own an SY-77 (that and the SY-99 are massive lol) myself, and it definitely has that kinda vibe. Thanks for all the info and thoughts!
yep, in the beginning the rimshot and the open hihat sound like that of a roland tr 707 or 505. if it actually is a 707 the song cannot be older than 1985. maybe that can narrow down the search.
i agree about the synths and drum machines being relatively accessible, however it's important to note that there is also a guitar part, including a fairly technical guitar solo near the end. whoever played that must have been pretty skilled. if it was a big label it's easy to explain, because they routinely have session musicians on staff or contract to come in and play parts like that for pop idol records. however, if it's not from a big studio, that makes me lean much more toward the idea that it was a rock band with a female vocalist. it seems unlikely that the backing track was created by just one person (though anything is possible of course.) it sounds very much like it could have been a band from a semi-underground scene that had access to some decently high end equipment in a home studio, but not a full professional recording studio.
@@capsaicinJT i cant stop thinking of some school music club in 80 said yeah lets make a song then nowdays they do something non music related and will never know how the song became one of the greatest japans internet mysteries. Just watched the end of the vid so, probably not
In many ways, I think you could be correct about it being an independent recording. The vocal track however, both performance and recording, sounds especially good. Too good in my opinion to be a 'home job' or even an independent recording from that period. Of course, I could be wrong, but if I'm not, it only deepens the mystery of who and why this song was assumed abandoned?
The OP says that he could recognize all the songs on the tape besides this one. Note "SONGS" I wonder what the other songs are because you have to think, "why are these songs on that tape, and why is 'Fly Away' grouped up with them?" I feel like Fly Away must have been a demo song or something of that sort. So you have a tape with a bunch of common idol songs, songs that any enthusiast could recognize, why would you have this random unknown song on there. Whether mixtape or demo reel or something, I feel like the songs and Fly Away are from either the same production company or distribution company, that could lead us somewhere.
I’m not really a music theorist but as a collector of music from the 80s and a performer of kinda retro influenced stuff I am thinking that this is probably a demo recording. It doesn’t sound quite good enough to be a final studio recording, the arrangement is too cheap and simple and could/would have been fleshed out with acoustic instruments or backing vocals for a final release. It might have been to demonstrate to a potential vocalist what a song should sound like when they recorded it, or a pitch to a record label to sign the writer or vocalist. One thing I think might help is finding out who the songwriter is of the other songs on the tape and if they happen to be the same one or if the producers happened to be the same, as it could also be like a showreel of their production/writing skills to pitch to a label or publisher :)
Yeah, I actually mentioned it could be a demo recording on the upload of it linked in this video, and I doubt I'm the first to propose that to the Japanese internet (as bad as my Japanese is). It feels very rough, especially in the backing instrumental.
There's a lot of pretty depressing lyrics in Japanese music from the 90s. I mean just translate the lyrics of any Fishmans song! Going even earlier probably the best known City Pop song Plastic Love has pretty depressing lyrics too.
Well yes, sad times creat sad songs, the Japanese economic boom just stopped and the economy was crashing down after the 1991 asian economic crisis, the 90s were a bad period for most of the world.
@@unassumingaccount395 Not really, Europe was still facing the fallout of the fall of the eastern bloc, Germany was trying to readjuste itself now annexing all of East Germany, also many eastern European migrants were flooding the west from the eastern bloc and the collapse of Yugoslavia with the genocides. Also the economic wasn't that strong neither, like Belgium was almost bankrupt, it maybe was better than the 80s but not so good.
This sounds like a sample the girl (and probably her manager and/or band) sent to the studio trying to get signed. And they just weren't, the tape got thrown out and this guy picked it up at the store.
Before Yui Saito quit her other profession and released her own single, Yui was in a girl group consisting of 2 other former adult idols... This group was called "RaCCo組" releasing their first single, "レモンのキッス" in 1988 and their last piece of discography in 1989 titled "RaCCo Party" which was an album. In total they had 2 singles and 1 album. However, due to poor sales, they had no choice but to disband.
I find it fascinating how this is like "inverted" lost media, because we got the media itself, but we ignore everything about it, most of the times there's a title, artist name, producing compamy recolections of people that have seen/listened/played it, but here we only have a song and no one has a single clue from where in the hell it spawned from.
What a strange song, it seems to be a blend of new wave, citypop and blues influence. I particularly like the contrast between the melancholic lyrics and the upbeat instrumental. I don't get what people find creepy about it. I just wonder why it's so obscure, its Depeche Mode vibes makes it a treat, definitely. The fact there's no proper label attached to it make me think the audio cassette might be a mix-tape, more than scrap from a production company as Victor. Many songs were probably recorded from a local radio broadcast and then copied to be properly ordered into a playlist.
This got me thinking- if Every Breath You Take was found in similar situations, people would definitely think it was super haunted based on the lyrics and there’d be creepypastas written about the mysterious stalker who wrote a song about his target
Yeah, people will go to all sorts of tenuous lengths to spin stuff as creepy and "dark" (the Internet's favorite descriptor) in an effort to hype it up. It can get silly fast.
I think songs like this show us there's a lot of actually fantastic music lurking in the cultural "throwaway" music but it's not noticed because there's just so much that there's never a chance for it to get any extra notice.
What I’m wondering is how this was recorded on the tape, since the song being on stereo also points to a certain quality to it. My two guesses are either the most common one of an aspiring idol who professionally recorded a song to send it to a company or scout or agent and never made it (you could go to a studio and pay hourly fees, expensive but doable), or that it’s a demo for an audition recorded in studio, and then discarded since the singer didn’t make the cut, that would explain why it was amongst other studio tapes. After that the tape was ‘recycled’ and tried to be used to record songs they liked, which was very common for tapes, especially those that were almost empty. The song is kinda melancholic as you said, and the mystery only amplifies that, in addition to the vintage sound and feel it has now. I think that’s real the reason it’s ‘scary’, it’s a voice lost in time and we can’t put a name to it, with no other proof this person existed other than one single song, so it ends up sounding ‘ghostly’ in the same way disembodied voices make us feel uneasy because those are the same qualities we assign to a disembodied voice. It was a great video, I’m new here and I’ll be sure to check out more from you!
Hello! 3 years ago, I've translated the lyrics to a not-so literal version of it, I hope that with this it is possible to have a better perspective of the song. ^^ Thanks for this video by the way! I love this song and it's backstory, so it's nice to see it being spread. [Lyrics:] Where are you going while following the wind, sunset colored dead leaves? The door may be striked, but there is no sound... While I sleep in the broken chair The light outside the window is lighting me I am dreaming about a unknown town... Goodbye, you are speechless (no say) With a sad smile, I will fly away Flying away, to a distant country In the sky I've started my new trip Aah... They took a star Before letting the blue birds escape, put courage in their feathers I want to escape the sky... I better stop my tears... Goodbye, you are gone(go away) Your gentle eyes are flying away Flying away, to a distant country In the night I've started my new trip Aah...
@@SakuraStardust I think this song contains lyrics to and by Okada Yukiko. Her song is like the lyrics of this song about a breakup lover. I'm not sure, but given that there was a song released after her death, there's a good chance this song was hers.
One thing I can say for sure: after hundreds of hours of listening to Yukko I can say with 100% sure that this is not her. Although I gotta admit the style is pretty similar to her late work!
@@kitsuretro5542 yukko's vocals did seem to mature on her later songs such as kuchibiru network, the songs in her last album "venus tanjou" and hana no image, so maybe? idk anything about music
@@wondertriplover Sure her vocal matured a little (all girl's voices do around this age), but albums sound was mostly a stylistical change. You can hear that when listening to her setlist live around 1985/1986. Her older songs sounded pretty similar to original recordings. Cinderella was this puppy-love, cute princessy material with galloping rhytm and bright vocals. Venus Tanjou on the other hand was supposed to represend her birth as a woman and lover (hence the title: birth of Venus). That is why compositions became more sophisticated, vocals got more airy etc. Still, 100% not her. Her vocal had this nasal quality, so you can't really mistake it for anything else.
I feel like the vagueness of OP's posts implies they themselves made the song. They don't share the name of the store they bought it from, provide no other cassette tapes from the same time period, not even the complete track listing of the tape itself. Are there only two songs on it? Why is the store itself part of the mystery? The lack of concrete details and the low quality of the recording makes me believe it's a hoax. OP made the song in an old style, created a mystery around it about as specific as most creepy pastas, and enjoys people loving the mystery of it. The song itself is not particularly unique and the mystery is why anybody would listen to it. It makes sense that OP created it, and the mystery that surrounds it.
高橋 由美子 (Takahashi Yumiko) being mentioned on the tape made me realize that she has the same name as 高橋 玲子 (Takahashi Reiko) So if it was in alphabetical order it could be even more of a possibility that Takahashi Reiko might be the one who sang it. Not to mention they where both from the same label Victor which is surprisingly also the same label as Ali Project and Pink Lady
i was actually curious about this so i looked up takahaishi reiko's song (using this song as a reference ruclips.net/video/TVfHeeuqfIo/видео.html) there's a particular part where they both go high pitch and it's virtually the same. my theory: because of the nature of the lyrics to be found especially creepy and haunting about possibly about unaliving, it could have been a demo for a future single and because yukiko okada had just committed suicide, it would have been severely poor taste and just never released. and when enough time has passed, they just left it on there and lost to time until OP finds the cassette.
This is so super interesting! I've listened to many 70's and 80's Idols over the years and it definitely gives me Nakamori Akina vibes for sure, even how some of her music is mysterious and almost somber sounding at times. She has also released under Victor having switched from her old label in 93 and going on to re-release many of her tracks with them on compilations, which makes me wonder if it could be one of her demo's from her early years. Loved the video~
That's an interesting suggestion. Listening through some of her earlier material, it's not inconceivable that it could be a demo of hers. Tonally, her voice sounds closer to 'Fly Away' than any of the other singers that have been suggested. 'Joken Hansha' actually has a very similar lead guitar sound too, so perhaps that's something to consider? Despite many people mentioning Yukiko Okada, I just don't see the comparison.
Looks like the algorithm has blessed you - you're popping up in a bunch of recommendations suddenly. I figured I'd click and wow, well done! I quite liked how it all came out. As for the song itself, given the OP claimed it was found in the early 90s, I can tell you this has extremely strong demo tape vibes. Everything about it is pretty cheap and proof of concept-y, and it being totally unlabeled would support this since it would possibly have been in a bigger package that made it clear who/what it was. The only wrench in that theory is the guitar near the end is pretty well recorded, but maybe that's intentional with the guitar being a central concept of the song they wanted to demonstrate. It's also likely that the tape had the name of the performer, but when whoever turned this tape into the store went to sell it, they erased the name so as to not accidentally dox someone. It'd be good courtesy to do so, if anything. I wouldn't assume this is a hoax; this seems pretty legit. It's easy to forget once you're in the RUclips bubble how hard it is to get things uploaded and edited properly by regular people; if my dad had a mystery song on a cassette he would've ended up doing something similar to the OP. It's totally possible the person lost the tape but kept the audio files the whole time, too; it's not like back in 2000 you didn't have tools to record at decent quality, you just couldn't push that onto 2ch because the WAV file would be too big. My money's on the tape being a demo for new idols ahead of their debut, and the one behind the mystery song didn't make the cut - or, the song itself didn't make the cut. It is pretty out-of-character compared to most late Showa idol stuff, so it wouldn't be too shocking.
Agreed. That’s the most likely answer for the tape. I don’t know how many idols fail to launch their career so if someone who is familiar with the business can tell me that would be great. As to the song I could understand the lyrics if written in romanji but I’ll admit it has a soft tone to it. I wish I could say I recognize the voice but the only Japanese singers I can recognize by voice are Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi (who I think have split), Changin’ my life and Hikaru Utada. And I can say this: that wasn’t Hikaru Utada singing the song. Hikaru was born in 1983 so assuming the tape was made sometime during the late Showa period it’s too late for Hikaru Utada. Nor does it sound like the female singer from Changin’ my life. She has a deeper voice as compared to the singer of the mystery song. Most likely the singer is a singer/idol who never managed to launch their career. I have to admit I can see why the song never caught on, it has a different rhythm to it compared to what I heard from Japanese songs, the lyrics also don’t sound as upbeat. I wish I could give more insight but I sadly have never listened to songs by Japanese idols.
To my ear, as a trained musician, it sounds like a demo recorded at home. But, I don't think it's DCT since it doesn't match what I know of DCT and especially at the time. Their Sonic 1 and 2-era stuff, which King Masa composed for, sounds different and that would have been from around 1989 to 1992.
Umm so I hate to be a buzzkill but is it possible it's just all a hoax. It's just a lot of things just seem so convenient. Like OP hasn't told us the actual name of the store they went to. How it took about 2 decades(sorry forgot the exact year you said) for a high quality release even though the OP has it all that time and there hasn't much headway in new information and the information that does come out has not gotten us closer to the identity of the person who made it. From my point of view I just see the telltale signs of a hoax.
On the second point, it could be argued that internet speeds weren't up to par at the time (DSL was only just starting to make its way to the developed world) and that could explain the low quality release at the time.
@@SakuraStardustTrue, it's just that 20 years and he never tried again with maybe a better connection seems strange. The way he found it seems strange. Also what are the odds that it's this strange lyrics were put on a tape of more audible and better quality lyrics. Also why would you sell a son like that at a 50 yen cassette type store like seriously why. I know I keep saying it but a lot about how OP found it seems convenient, but who knows for all you guys know I could be doing the exact same I mentioned the possibility of. Or I could be tired and not caring that this seems too long for a response.
@@SakuraStardust I came back to this video to ask you this since I can not figure out for the life how to traverse Nicopedia, but does anyone actually know the identity of the OP
Honestly once the OP started talking about how "scary" it was and that it was cursed, several alarm bells started ringing in my head that it was a hoax. I'm not saying OP is lying but come on lol, that's basically hoax 101 if I've ever seen it. I also think its really weird that OP has yet to show any pics of the original cassette tape 20 years later.
The makers of this and 'The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet ('Ride the Wind')' are out there somewhere... and we could have it ALL if we could only find them and bring them together for a mashup track...
True, but we have to consider that maybe it was made to sound like that. Maybe it was recorded to sound like 80's song or even was planned to be "unknown" from the beginning. Unlikely, but possible.
@@kitsuretro5542 one possibility is that the instrumental is a demo from the 80s but a more recent singer is singing over it, maybe as part of their demo mixtape for the label. Ayumi Hamasaki used to cover many 80s songs too.
Okada supposedly would have been in love with a boy named Tōru minegishi, for which she had not been matched, in her first suicide attempt, she said phrases such as "I would like to see you again", and "my heart has nowhere to go". Analyzing the lyrics of the mysterious song, one might have a conclusion that it may have been this song, a farewell to Tōru, and that for this reason she may not have released it. Because the message was for a specific person But that's just my theory, in my time devoted to research
Straight up, as a musician, there is something romantic about giving away recordings via tapes donated to second-hand sales locations. If it reaches the right hearts, it's instantly a treasure. It's like male birth, releasing a portion of the self out into the wilds.
I can’t get passed this sort of “RUclips video essay speech pattern/voice”. Without fail, every sentence is always UP then down, UP, then down. It’s hypnotic.
@@SakuraStardust I can tell, there are brief moments when I hear you as yourself coming out which seems loads more human/natural. No shade on your video though, it’s excellent, keep uploading! 👌👌👌
First of all, let me say that the mysterious song is a certifiable banger! Now, it's hard to really comment on the production, since the tape saturation degrades it, but it sounds well mixed to me, they knew what they were doing. The dissonant melody of the verse leads me to think it's some "underground" act, I haven't heard any showa idol song like this, unless it's some soundtrack for some spooky/horror themed anime series, like Ghost Hunt (I know it's much newer, but just to give a vibe) or some Gegege No Kitaro inspired stuff, for example. But the tone/timbre of the instruments definitely sounds late 80's, and reminded me of Kidorikko and other New Wave-ish bands of the time (but of course, the mysterious song has a much less eccentric vocal style), which, togheter with the melody, reinforces the theory that it's some more underground artist/band. BUT, they're definitely not amateurs, as everything is played super tight, and even has a very, very typical showa idol songwriting structure, but that could also just mean they were great musicians and influenced by mainstream pop.
My thoughts exactly. Whilst ignoring the characteristic of the cassette that this copy originates from, the production quality is higher than what could be expected from a garage or bedroom band, but not quite polished enough to be a full-on studio production. I'm personally leaning towards a professionally made demo. Whether that happens to be for a band, singer or TV/film production, perhaps we'll never know. Fingers crossed that we do though. I'd love to hear more from this artist.
I’m a big fan Yukiko Okada and this mysterious song to me sounds incredibly similar to Mizuiro Princess. But I doubt that this is Okada’s work though given her popularity in the 80s. I thoroughly enjoyed this video, keep up the great work!!
It does sound like that song! :o But yeah, just something about it being a cancelled Yukko song recorded onto a tape and released into the wild sounds so cool to me. Like, if someone who worked with her snuck it out there or it was discarded accidentally years after her death. Unlikely, but fascinating. Thank you though! I hope you enjoy my future content!
@@SakuraStardust Yup! The idea of a lost Yukko’s song does sound fascinating. But having said that, it is also important to note that almost all of Yukko’s song are about love and romance, including songs in the October Mermaid album, which are more calm and serious in tone as compared to her other albums. With that fact, I think that kinda eliminates the possibility that this could be Yukko’s work given that the lyric of this mysterious song suggests nothing about romance. I have been a fan of your channel since your Lost Japanese Media videos and I am excited to see what you have in store for us!
@@Trinintyboy39 Well actually it sounds like a Love Song but a Sad one without a happy ending. that's the translation I came across. It was rumoured that Yukko had a Love Interest in an older Actor named Toru Minegishi. I speculate because he didn't love her back and because of all this stress at a Young Age with her career she only saw one way out of it. To actually Fly away like the Blue Bird in the Song. Maybe the Song is her way of saying Goodbye to everyone. Where are you going, chasing the wind, you withered leaves in the color of the setting sun? There is no sound of knocking at the door I sleep in a broken chair, the light outside the window is bright I dream of a town I don't know Goodbye, you are No say Fairway with a sad smile Fly away to a faraway land A star hangs in the sky as I depart Before you let the blue bird go, touch its wings gently with your fingers I look up at the sky and see a bird flying by Goodbye, you're go way My gentle eyes are fairway Fly away to a distant land Fly away to a faraway land Fly away to a faraway land・・・・
Although, to be fair, considering the lyrics and the way she died, if she recorded it at the end of her life, they could have filed the song away permanently because it wouldn't be appropriate.
Time to comment and boost this into the algorithm. Man, I love lost/unidentified media. So much just fades into history, so seeing these little snippets of the forgotten past get attention is super interesting to me.
There’s something about this entire thing that’s driving me crazy. First of all, the very first time this was posted on the internet was on my birth year, 2000. I’ve researched and followed SO many mysteries, it struck me that this is one of the only ones I’ve seen that has my birth year as a notable timeline note. Another thing is the fact that the full mysterious song that Sakura linked was uploaded on my fucking 18th birthday. September 8th, 2018. I may need to check up on this mystery a lot more often, if this is destiny then I would love to be a part of helping to find the origins of this song haha
It actually starts to sound a lot like Okada Yukiko after the pitch shift. Though I doubt it's one of her songs, the style and lyrics of the song sounds very much like it's from that era. So many singles were released and lost during the 80s... it makes me wonder what sort of music has been completely lost to time.
WAIT WAIT WAIT HAS ANYONE CONSIDERED NORIKO SAKAI FOR THIS???? YUKIKO OKADA"S MANAGER WENT ON TO MANAGE NORIKO SAKAI AND SHE TOOK OVER HER IMAGE AND LIKENESS AND MUSICAL STYLE IN THE LATE 80's EARLYT 90's! THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A NORIKO SAKAI DEMO ONE THAT WAS CONSIDERED TOO DARK AND SAD TO USE BECAUSE OF THE YUKKO SYNDROME INCIDENT OH MY GOD
From what i get (please correct me if i’m wrong) her death gave japan suicidal rate goes to 30% higher than the year before. This incident made big headline in japan
Bro, I LOVE your story-telling skills!! You really set the scene. Also, thanks for making a video about this lmao. Now I don't have to wait for Whang to ;p
Also just thought of this now. This could be a student project. Students can make some professional sounding things. It adds up if this idol has never made it big. It could have been some student that wanted to be a producer and had a classmate that could sing well. As someone that used to make short films at my school, this adds up.
I've genuinely and completely un-ironically listened to this song many times over since learning of its existence. Despite the initial creepy factor loaded onto the song through its discovery, it has managed to become its own thing and just be a genuinely catchy song. I do hope that we someday learn of its true origin, as it's rather unfortunate that its performer may not even be aware of its current appreciation. If I were to speculate, it sounds too polished to be a demo. It is reasonably well mixed and with numerous layers, which I doubt such effort would be made for a demo. The only logical conclusion to me is that it is an unreleased/abandoned song from a professional session. Whether that happens to be for a TV show that was never picked up, or an idol or band that never took off, perhaps we'll never know. I do hope we do find out though. I really think it's a cool song.
A more accurate translation: Where do they go? Dead colored leaves Chasing the wind... Knocking on the door Without a sound Asleep in a broken chair Bathed in light From outside the window Dreaming of a strange place No say goodbye to you With a sad smile, fly away Fly away to a distant place Take to the sky, aah Among the stars Before you set a bluebird free Be gentle And put courage in its wings Stop your tears as it flies off to the sky Goodbye, you go away With a gentle gaze, fly away Fly away to a faraway place Take to the night sky, aah
This original poster honestly seems pretty suspicious. They won't mention anything about what else was on the tape, won't picture it, won't mention the company they got it from, and mentions random key details years and years later. They may just be making things up, honestly, but don't want to make up enough to back themselves into a corner. I'd guess it's a hoax. Edit: Also, just an fyi, music theory wouldn't be very helpful in this situation. You'd want someone that's a music production/engineer to look at the song instead, as they would be far more aware of the technical aspects of music recording.
Okay. Maybe it's just be being hopeless fan over here; but that whole song sounds like Ali Project(Ant Project, depending on the date on the tape). Right down to the depressive moody lyrics, the guitar solo, and use of synth instruments. They had some demo one-off tapes included with girls magazines so maybe this is one of their songs.
What are the chances that OP made the song themself and just happened to be able to form this convincing story, just wanting to experiment and see how it would go? Just a thought I kept having since they’re the only person known to this day to have a physical copy? It’s very elaborate but I know there are artists out there who might do this, in fact there’s some out there that have nameless songs and channels and they do songs using Vocaloids, so this could’ve been a way for them to get their song out there without revealing it’s their song or having to name it?
Great video! I got really interested about the topic. On my opinion, since it sounds different from what was usually made on most of 1980's japanese pop, i don't imagine this song being a first demo of an incipient idol that wants to jump on the j-pop mainstream scene at that time. Also, guitars and synth sound professionaly arranged. Because of this, i think that rather the song was made by a relatively well known artist, probably an idol, but then they decided that the song didn't fit into mainstream j-pop and decided to not release it. Based on how it sounds, i think that this was probably recorded somewhere between 1983-1986.
If I didn't have previous context from your research I wouldn't feel uncomfortable listening to the song. Great work as usual and I'm pretty glad I didn't watch it late at night.
Yessssss I've been waiting for someone to make a video on this. 👀 Hopefully we can get some more information on this someday, this song is actually a bop.
This song is pure depression and I feel it. It doesn't look like a break up song to me. Feels like someone who wants to go back or just remembering their past. They left behind and maybe sacrificed things to achieve greater things. They left behind their home (or things that make them feel home) There's no knock on the door (Nobody comes to visit me/ they are lonely) Dream of an unknown town (maybe they never reached there.) if we look at 2nd part, it can also be interpreted as someone leaving you behind. or it's about the War your loved one left you but never came back, (fairway would actually be 'farewell') It maybe some hobbyist or aspiring singer's recording, they threw it away (intentionally or unintentionally) and it somehow ended up in that store.
Not sure why this video popped up on my recommends other than it's close to Halloween. Very well made video. This is the second video that I kind of want RUclips to drop a DMCA on so the mystery can get solved (the other is the video about Plastic Love).
So apparently RUclips wouldn't let me get notified for this video >:T Anyways, that aside, there's something I just cannot describe yet always love regarding Japanese lost media. I dunno what it specifically is, but I just love it and your channel never stops providing that goodness!! This whole mystery just feels like something you could only really see flourish in that era; a time where media sharing was as physical as it got. To me, that there is that special layer of magic that I love about these topics because they seemingly feel like time capsules. Oh, and the music itself is just truly wonderful to listen to. Sorry if this comment sounds incoherent as all heck lol. It's past 2:00 AM and I'm only marginally awake. Nevertheless, as always, this video was excellent~!!
Sounds late 80s, early 90s. $5 says it's the lone demo tape of some garage band that broke up & wants to forget about that period in their lives, hence never coming forth to claim it.
well as the owner of several promo tapes and test presses of records, it could be part of a promo tape, that was used for something, because some of my promo tapes look like a standard tape and no marking on them. on that record, i do have a test press of a record, where is a song never released by the band, luckily for me, i know the band personally, through my parrents. it was a lost song for them, so they were happy to get hold of it, it was never released. well you guys properly dont know them, as they are danish.
I believe that the song is likely a demo track made by a female songwriter during the Showa era that never released any music of her own and just demoed songs for idols. The lyrics of the song seem very detailed and are reminiscent of many indie singers of today, who are known for writing their own music and in some cases melancholy songs.
From your video's compiled evidence, my conclusion is probably someone's personal demo tape recording that got added to a personal mixtape. A likely scenario is that its a failed idol audition recording that a record label employee happened to like then slapped a couple songs including the mysterious one onto a personal tape to listen to. Failed Idol tracks can sometimes still be found to this day so this song could quite literally have only existed in this one case, having never been released.
What I’m intrigued by is how come the community have put so much focus on this track? I’m sure there are other tracks like this that exist that we don’t know the artist of or it’s origins. What makes this one in particular special? It could be a amateur artist who made music at home all we know?
Maybe its an audition tape and the record label probably just threw it away? Or maybe its a song in the works by an idol/studio then in the end they decided to scrap it? Or maybe the person was heartbroken, made a sad cryptic song, recorded it and forgot about it as time pass by?
Most Japanese stock music is purely instrumental, though. And much of it remains inaccessible to anyone outside Japan. t. someone who went looking for background music used in one video and went down a rabbit hole a few years ago
Was Kumi Miyasato ever considered? She was signed under Victor and I can hear similar vibes between her vocals and those in the mysterious song. It also sounds a bit like an 80s anime theme and given the amount of lost/canned productions from that era it doesn't sound impossible.
It was a narration choice. I literally slowed the pace of my voice because I typically talk in a more upbeat way and didn't think my normal speaking voice would suit the content lol
i think the fact the song is in a minor scale probably doesn’t help the “creepy” factor. if it was in a major scale, people probably wouldn’t think its as creepy XD
@@georgetterenaud6617 Basically, minor chords are preceived as "sad" sounding, and major chords sound cheerful. Just type E minor and E major in RUclips and hear for yourself.
Every single time, these mysterious songs sound great. But I guess that's why people want to know more about them, rather than putting the cassette in a drawer and forgetting about the song. Maybe I should make a mixtape of them, for the next time someone passes me the aux cord
I should probably thank You personally for making a video of this topic, because thanks to it I got bust of inspiration and made whole animation using this song as a "story teller" of some sort. So, thank You, Sakura. I really needed that kind of an inspiration to work. Keep it up with videos like that, because it was genuenly interesting ^.^
The song itself sounds like an opening for one of those bizarre 1980's anime movies. You know the kind I'm talking about. One of those anime movies that popped up when you fell asleep with the tv on and woke up at 2am wondering what the really lewd and/or violent cartoon was. Just me? Okay my bad.
Hey, can you please do a video on Yukiko Okada? To be honest, when I heard about her and saw the pictures of her death… I went into a depression for like two days. It was the worst kind of depression I have ever felt. The thing that made me the most mad about everything was, in this one fan made documentary that I watched, they said that the Japanese news networks said it would not be in the best interest to report on the suicide… Right after the Japanese media published a picture of her dead on the ground… Blood running down the pavement along with little bits of her brain also visible… Can you say hypocritical? It's such a terrible situation.
Yeah, I'd like to cover her, but I feel that may be difficult for me to accomplish as I am also saddened by those images. Its very difficult to research her career as an idol without stumbling upon the graphic details of her death (I definitely feel that the documentary should not have used those photos at all), and I dont know if that's something I want to see again. I love her music, but her situation was incredibly tragic. I may consider a video in the future, though.
There's a detailed three-part English documentary, "KANASHII YOKAN: The Life, Death and Legacy of Okada Yukiko", by dubudavid from 2015. I'd like to hear what Sakura Stardust can add to it.
@@SakuraStardust I just looked up her story on Wikipedia and there's some information I hadn't heard before. The person who picked her up from the hospital actually gave her an option to either go back to her apartment, go to see her parents in Nagoya or go to their agency building. She chose to go back to the Sun Music building. I really wish they would have gently convinced her to go and see her parents. If she had done that, I'm sure she could have gotten the support and help that she needed and she could have recovered and then gotten back to her career as soon as she was rested and just had that time to unwind. Even a vacation could have helped her. I have had daydreams about what I would do if I were there back then and in the industry, I would have offered to pay for her vacation so she could take that time to recover. But sadly that just isn't a reality.
@@SakuraStardust Maybe you can cover Okada's radio recordings currently being uploaded by bien-0501 here on YT. If not for their uploads, those recordings would have remained lost media.
@@blueberrypitbull87 The person who picked her up was Sun Music former managing director Tokio Fukuda. The Wikipedia article quotes an interview Fukuda gave that was published in the Asahi Weekly site in 2016. The link is available on the footnotes in the Wiki article.
Actually, there are many singles and EPs from Japanese bands or artists from the 80s and early 90s. Many Japanese on the internet are amazed to discover that western people know more about their music from that time than they do. For example, Kingyo Hime, LIPS, Model-T and Lewisite these have only released a just one song or a 7” flexi-disc single by small studio or self released. (You'll find all these on YT) I'm sure it fits this theory that the band or the singer from Fly Away has sung before and this song is some lost track. A lot could happen like financial crisis, death or just a change of job. (I particularly believe that it will only be solved if the people investigating interview real people and ask if they have heard the song. The same works for “The most mysterious song on the Internet”, AKA Like the Wind.
What you're hearing is an unreleased demo. It's a work in progress that was probably never finished. Hence it being unpublished and sounding slightly "off". - Sound engineer
Well considering it's a cassette tape and not a CD or a vinyl, and this was the 90's it literally can be anything from amatuer recording to low cost professional studio demo. The track in Question is 100% done thru Midi so it's possible it could go either way. in the 80's and 90's and into the 00's people would make these singles cassettes and try to get a studio to take them on or studios would make these kinds of tapes to allow the artists to speed up their song writing process. However since it's an unmarked cassette or scratched over cassette there's possibility it was a midi composition proofing track which they used a midi track to make in a writing term a rough draft before hiring or having the band play a more finalized version. Now I'm willing to believe it was regardless of origin a Collection dump cause it's pretty universal that mix tapes and "custom tapes" are a no no in the forgotten used media market even in Japan and the only time a used media store would accept them is if someone would dump their music collection or a local studio was also doing a media warehouse dump(unreleased singles and concept tracks would sometimes get mixed in with extra copies of albums the studios would produce). Common practice was if these mix tapes or custom tapes propped up they had to be fire sold and were usually in the price bracket of 50cents to $1.50 or even given away sometimes cause the stores couldn't afford the possibility of a media company rep popping in and making a seen and forcing the store to close. unless someone came forward about the origin of the recording this may very we be a mystery of the ages.
if they were usually demo tracks and tracks used in commercials, they may be tapes from a radio station? i don't know how it is in japan specifically so maybe it's not a very helpful idea, but in many places demo/early recordings of songs will be sent to radio stations, sometimes then even being recorded into different copies, and then it's not uncommon for radio stations to take a bunch of their recordings and sell them to local music stores. for example, some of the rarer music i own is from my fathers collection of copies made specifically for radio stations that he later bought from his local record shops. maybe some people should look into what radio stations were around the area at the time?
Speaking of J-POP tapes, I have couple of them which I bought from Japanese thrift shop in my town and I'm using shazam app to recognize the song and nearly all tracks inside the tape had been recognized but finding the stream version in legal way is way too difficult until I found these songs on youtube instead.
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I MADE AN UPDATE VIDEO ON THIS MYSTERY!!
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The full mysterious song can be found here: ruclips.net/video/9Y3JUmERfY8/видео.html
If you hate the slow narration just speed up the video lol (was going for a spooky voice)
Midnight Sympathy: ruclips.net/video/HBLRkhujw6Q/видео.html
The OP's blog: tekibaka.asks.jp/2988.html
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ruclips.net/video/HBLRkhujw6Q/видео.html here you go! It was kinda tricky to re-find lol
@Sukeban Deka Saki Sanobashi Its my hypothesis that her real name isnt Yui Saito. I'm thinking she was an adult film star who kinda parodied Yuki Saito cuz Sukeban and stuff ^^;
@Sukeban Deka Saki Sanobashi lol I thought the same thing initially
No pun intended, Midnight Sympathy is a banger. It sounds like an anime opening
@Sukeban Deka Saki Sanobashi That would be rad, though Akina has kind of a deep voice. I think the singer may have more Seiko vibes than Akina vibes imo
Play the song on a twitch stream and whoever DMCAs it is the record producer, mystery solved
Lol tru
a knee slapper right there
More likely it gets claimed by some random future funk dj.
@@jsan2548 a fucking genius
If only lol
I suppose the most likely explanation is that it's a demo track that never got picked up, and the cassette ended up in the thrift store when someone from the record label needed to clear some closet space.
There's something about the thought that somewhere, there's a middle-aged woman with no idea that all these people are fascinated with the song she recorded when she was younger. . .
This was more or less my theory too!
Agreed.
it does make sense but why would it be in between other recognized songs? it doesnt seem like a radio rip
came across this vid late at night and this is my exact though basically.
Since it was most likely tapes from record labels samples it could had been a demo for a radio station or for a broadcaster or just to see if the label can greenlit the single.
Still, the thought of someone out there who did that recording and is living their normal life is wild and completely expected, specially since they never got their possibly one song greenlit with the possibility of no radio broadcast wanting the recording.
Yeah, exactly my thoughts, that isn't too uncommon tbh. Being succesful as a musician back then when you're trying to pierce an over saturated market is like trying to make a new company to battle iNvidia and AMD in making graphics cards. Maybe not a 1:1 but still, while music is back breaking work that requires years and years of preparation to be even slightly ready (I only ever appreciated this whenever I picked up an instrument), the industry is cruel.
The internet has done a lot to help fledgling artists get started, but back then you either got heard or not.
List of Mysterious songs around the world
Germany: "like the wind"
Brazil: "fond my mind"
Italy: "Come Back"
Kenya: "Filthy frank Kenya song"
Indonesia: "Tinggal Kenangan"
Mexico: "Sin Efectos"
Russia: "Urna"
and now japan: "Fly Away"
oh, what's the italian one? could you link it?
@@CommunistCatboy ruclips.net/video/9tW0yP7LfhE/видео.html here you go man
Well it isn't really certain that "like the wind" is from Germany, as far as I know
@@counterfeit1148 well it was found in a german radio station and only there so maybe it could be german but i say it's german :)
Never heard of the Brazilian one!
As a fan of melancholic synthpop songs, i give this the official seal of "this fucking slaps"
Melancholic synthpop songs arent ones I'll seek out but usually they're fascinating and even quite good
@@sirspookybones1118 I grew up on italo-disco, romantic/melancholic 80's synth music is my everything. :)
@@ElectroPotato It's a good day when I learn about a new genre of music.
It may be cursed but damn, is it fire man
It really does slap…
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The creepy part is, "gone to a distant country" can be often used as euphemistic expressions for DIE in Japanese.
"Sleep" is ditto, and in very rare case "chair" can be refer to hang oneself.
Also in the nursery story died person will turn into stars.
oooooh I never thought of that >_>
This is important context!!
Rare meaning no one says it and you're reaching.
I actually think that the song is about suicide and the girl killed herself later on... It also says "dream of an unknown town", while unkonw town may stand for a place after death and "touch the bluebird's wings gently with your finger before setting it free" while bluebird stands for happiness.
it would be more eery if it is true that yukiko okada performed the song since she commited suicide by leaping off a 7ft building.
me: *listens to song*
me: oh that sounds pretty good
Sakura: "there's a long history of the song being cursed"
me: ... well, thanks for the warning
Ikr what a bad b
Ik I liked the song for split second and I just skipped it so I don’t get cursed
When my sister told me about this cursed song I told her to play it and it seemed good so I tell my sister to play it when I want to hear it, it makes me think about someone doing a tango dance cursed or not idrc I'll listen to it when I want to it's a good song
Dude same I was like oh pretty!!! Its cursed. Oh great just play a cursed sng for us 😭
Curses don't exist you absolute children
I'm pretty 100% sure that if no one knew the artist, Jun Togawa, of the popular Japanese song "Suki Suki Daisuki" it'd become some "creepy" lost song too due to its sound and "unnerving" lyrics, so yeah...I don't think that because this song isn't well known that it's creepy because to me it fucking slaps lol.
yeah suki suki daisuki sounds creepier to me than this song
aw hell yeah i love jun togawa's works, uncanny but still fuckin slaps
I never knew that song was cursed
My sister played it all the time
Can you imagine if Wowkie Zhang - Sunshine Rainbow White Horse is unidentified 💀
The quality of the recording is deteriorated, probably because of the copying from cassette to cassette, so it's difficult to 100% judge. I'm sure this wasn't a full blown, expensive studio production, but from what I can hear the track could have been recorded pretty much anywhere. With a drum machine (like the Roland TR-606), synth (like the Yamaha SY-77) and multitrack (like the TASCAM Portastudio 414), all available to regular people since the 80s, you could record that at home. Also it's possible it was recorded at some indie/home studio for fairly cheap (not sure how that market looks in Japan, but in Western Europe and Northern America you could find something rather easily). So I would totally subscribe to the idea, that this is a demo song from some aspiring idol or other singer.
Fascinating! I used to own an SY-77 (that and the SY-99 are massive lol) myself, and it definitely has that kinda vibe. Thanks for all the info and thoughts!
yep, in the beginning the rimshot and the open hihat sound like that of a roland tr 707 or 505. if it actually is a 707 the song cannot be older than 1985. maybe that can narrow down the search.
i agree about the synths and drum machines being relatively accessible, however it's important to note that there is also a guitar part, including a fairly technical guitar solo near the end. whoever played that must have been pretty skilled. if it was a big label it's easy to explain, because they routinely have session musicians on staff or contract to come in and play parts like that for pop idol records. however, if it's not from a big studio, that makes me lean much more toward the idea that it was a rock band with a female vocalist. it seems unlikely that the backing track was created by just one person (though anything is possible of course.) it sounds very much like it could have been a band from a semi-underground scene that had access to some decently high end equipment in a home studio, but not a full professional recording studio.
@@capsaicinJT i cant stop thinking of some school music club in 80 said yeah lets make a song then nowdays they do something non music related and will never know how the song became one of the greatest japans internet mysteries.
Just watched the end of the vid so, probably not
In many ways, I think you could be correct about it being an independent recording. The vocal track however, both performance and recording, sounds especially good. Too good in my opinion to be a 'home job' or even an independent recording from that period. Of course, I could be wrong, but if I'm not, it only deepens the mystery of who and why this song was assumed abandoned?
The OP says that he could recognize all the songs on the tape besides this one. Note "SONGS" I wonder what the other songs are because you have to think, "why are these songs on that tape, and why is 'Fly Away' grouped up with them?" I feel like Fly Away must have been a demo song or something of that sort. So you have a tape with a bunch of common idol songs, songs that any enthusiast could recognize, why would you have this random unknown song on there. Whether mixtape or demo reel or something, I feel like the songs and Fly Away are from either the same production company or distribution company, that could lead us somewhere.
THIS
Maybe someone should ask OP what songs are on there (unless someone did)
I’m not really a music theorist but as a collector of music from the 80s and a performer of kinda retro influenced stuff I am thinking that this is probably a demo recording. It doesn’t sound quite good enough to be a final studio recording, the arrangement is too cheap
and simple and could/would have been fleshed out with acoustic instruments or backing vocals for a final release. It might have been to demonstrate to a potential vocalist what a song should sound like when they recorded it, or a pitch to a record label to sign the writer or vocalist. One thing I think might help is finding out who the songwriter is of the other songs on the tape and if they happen to be the same one or if the producers happened to be the same, as it could also be like a showreel of their production/writing skills to pitch to a label or publisher :)
Yeah, I actually mentioned it could be a demo recording on the upload of it linked in this video, and I doubt I'm the first to propose that to the Japanese internet (as bad as my Japanese is). It feels very rough, especially in the backing instrumental.
There's a lot of pretty depressing lyrics in Japanese music from the 90s. I mean just translate the lyrics of any Fishmans song! Going even earlier probably the best known City Pop song Plastic Love has pretty depressing lyrics too.
The 90s were a rough time with a lack of jobs for the young adult generation.
It makes sense since the Japanese economy has been collapsed at the time.
Well yes, sad times creat sad songs, the Japanese economic boom just stopped and the economy was crashing down after the 1991 asian economic crisis, the 90s were a bad period for most of the world.
@@jackyex The 90s were great for the west for the most part- like its basically the american equivalent of the bubble era imo.
@@unassumingaccount395 Not really, Europe was still facing the fallout of the fall of the eastern bloc, Germany was trying to readjuste itself now annexing all of East Germany, also many eastern European migrants were flooding the west from the eastern bloc and the collapse of Yugoslavia with the genocides. Also the economic wasn't that strong neither, like Belgium was almost bankrupt, it maybe was better than the 80s but not so good.
This sounds like a sample the girl (and probably her manager and/or band) sent to the studio trying to get signed. And they just weren't, the tape got thrown out and this guy picked it up at the store.
Before Yui Saito quit her other profession and released her own single, Yui was in a girl group consisting of 2 other former adult idols... This group was called "RaCCo組" releasing their first single, "レモンのキッス" in 1988 and their last piece of discography in 1989 titled "RaCCo Party" which was an album. In total they had 2 singles and 1 album. However, due to poor sales, they had no choice but to disband.
I find it fascinating how this is like "inverted" lost media, because we got the media itself, but we ignore everything about it, most of the times there's a title, artist name, producing compamy recolections of people that have seen/listened/played it, but here we only have a song and no one has a single clue from where in the hell it spawned from.
It’s like it just, spawned from a Minecraft spawn egg.
I can't get enough of Japanese lost media videos! They're so fascinating, especially during the bubble economy.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks, will do!
What a strange song, it seems to be a blend of new wave, citypop and blues influence. I particularly like the contrast between the melancholic lyrics and the upbeat instrumental. I don't get what people find creepy about it. I just wonder why it's so obscure, its Depeche Mode vibes makes it a treat, definitely.
The fact there's no proper label attached to it make me think the audio cassette might be a mix-tape, more than scrap from a production company as Victor. Many songs were probably recorded from a local radio broadcast and then copied to be properly ordered into a playlist.
Most likely that’s the answer. It’s probably a mixed tape of songs the person who made it enjoyed. The question is who sang the song?
This got me thinking- if Every Breath You Take was found in similar situations, people would definitely think it was super haunted based on the lyrics and there’d be creepypastas written about the mysterious stalker who wrote a song about his target
Yeah, people will go to all sorts of tenuous lengths to spin stuff as creepy and "dark" (the Internet's favorite descriptor) in an effort to hype it up. It can get silly fast.
Definitely seems like a demo tape that just ended up in a second hand shop to me. Wonder if the people involved will ever come forward
Probably dead by now.
@@odysseus2k1 lol not likely.
I think songs like this show us there's a lot of actually fantastic music lurking in the cultural "throwaway" music but it's not noticed because there's just so much that there's never a chance for it to get any extra notice.
What I’m wondering is how this was recorded on the tape, since the song being on stereo also points to a certain quality to it. My two guesses are either the most common one of an aspiring idol who professionally recorded a song to send it to a company or scout or agent and never made it (you could go to a studio and pay hourly fees, expensive but doable), or that it’s a demo for an audition recorded in studio, and then discarded since the singer didn’t make the cut, that would explain why it was amongst other studio tapes. After that the tape was ‘recycled’ and tried to be used to record songs they liked, which was very common for tapes, especially those that were almost empty. The song is kinda melancholic as you said, and the mystery only amplifies that, in addition to the vintage sound and feel it has now. I think that’s real the reason it’s ‘scary’, it’s a voice lost in time and we can’t put a name to it, with no other proof this person existed other than one single song, so it ends up sounding ‘ghostly’ in the same way disembodied voices make us feel uneasy because those are the same qualities we assign to a disembodied voice. It was a great video, I’m new here and I’ll be sure to check out more from you!
Hello! 3 years ago, I've translated the lyrics to a not-so literal version of it, I hope that with this it is possible to have a better perspective of the song. ^^
Thanks for this video by the way! I love this song and it's backstory, so it's nice to see it being spread.
[Lyrics:]
Where are you going while following the wind, sunset colored dead leaves?
The door may be striked, but there is no sound...
While I sleep in the broken chair
The light outside the window is lighting me
I am dreaming about a unknown town...
Goodbye, you are speechless (no say)
With a sad smile, I will fly away
Flying away, to a distant country
In the sky I've started my new trip Aah...
They took a star
Before letting the blue birds escape, put courage in their feathers
I want to escape the sky...
I better stop my tears...
Goodbye, you are gone(go away)
Your gentle eyes are flying away
Flying away, to a distant country
In the night I've started my new trip Aah...
Thank you for sharing!!
@@SakuraStardust I think this song contains lyrics to and by Okada Yukiko. Her song is like the lyrics of this song about a breakup lover. I'm not sure, but given that there was a song released after her death, there's a good chance this song was hers.
How about doing a literal translation? Be succinct and not overly needlessly wordy and wrong.
@@Mrshoujo bro the literal translation is literally in the video?
sounds like she is sick, or dying, or a suicdal song, or too depressed and wanted to die.
It'd be kinda funny if someone just recorded this song and then hid it in the thrift store just to scare someone
One thing I can say for sure: after hundreds of hours of listening to Yukko I can say with 100% sure that this is not her. Although I gotta admit the style is pretty similar to her late work!
My thoughts too! It reminds me of some of the tracks on Jugatsu no Ningyou.
I mean, the voice in the song sounds exactly like the voice in first date
@@delsywayys I don't hear it really. Yukiko's voice is pretty unique.
@@kitsuretro5542 yukko's vocals did seem to mature on her later songs such as kuchibiru network, the songs in her last album "venus tanjou" and hana no image, so maybe? idk anything about music
@@wondertriplover Sure her vocal matured a little (all girl's voices do around this age), but albums sound was mostly a stylistical change. You can hear that when listening to her setlist live around 1985/1986. Her older songs sounded pretty similar to original recordings.
Cinderella was this puppy-love, cute princessy material with galloping rhytm and bright vocals. Venus Tanjou on the other hand was supposed to represend her birth as a woman and lover (hence the title: birth of Venus). That is why compositions became more sophisticated, vocals got more airy etc.
Still, 100% not her. Her vocal had this nasal quality, so you can't really mistake it for anything else.
switch the playback speed to 1.5 if you don't like the slow voice
thanks so much. my brain wanted to jump off my skull.
I highly recommend playing this at 1.5x speed.
Yeah so annoying
yeah sounds more normal at that speed
It sounds normal at 2x speed TBH
It was slowed down on purpose it’s obvious 1.5X feels like more normal probably to make it last more than 30min
I feel like the vagueness of OP's posts implies they themselves made the song. They don't share the name of the store they bought it from, provide no other cassette tapes from the same time period, not even the complete track listing of the tape itself. Are there only two songs on it? Why is the store itself part of the mystery? The lack of concrete details and the low quality of the recording makes me believe it's a hoax. OP made the song in an old style, created a mystery around it about as specific as most creepy pastas, and enjoys people loving the mystery of it. The song itself is not particularly unique and the mystery is why anybody would listen to it. It makes sense that OP created it, and the mystery that surrounds it.
高橋 由美子 (Takahashi Yumiko) being mentioned on the tape made me realize that she has the same name as 高橋 玲子 (Takahashi Reiko) So if it was in alphabetical order it could be even more of a possibility that Takahashi Reiko might be the one who sang it. Not to mention they where both from the same label Victor which is surprisingly also the same label as Ali Project and Pink Lady
i was actually curious about this so i looked up takahaishi reiko's song (using this song as a reference ruclips.net/video/TVfHeeuqfIo/видео.html) there's a particular part where they both go high pitch and it's virtually the same. my theory: because of the nature of the lyrics to be found especially creepy and haunting about possibly about unaliving, it could have been a demo for a future single and because yukiko okada had just committed suicide, it would have been severely poor taste and just never released. and when enough time has passed, they just left it on there and lost to time until OP finds the cassette.
Shot in the dark, but could it also be a solo demo from Takarano Arika? People have mentioned it sounding like the early works of Ali Project.
This is so super interesting! I've listened to many 70's and 80's Idols over the years and it definitely gives me Nakamori Akina vibes for sure, even how some of her music is mysterious and almost somber sounding at times.
She has also released under Victor having switched from her old label in 93 and going on to re-release many of her tracks with them on compilations, which makes me wonder if it could be one of her demo's from her early years.
Loved the video~
A couple people have said Akina, which I find interesting!
@@SakuraStardust I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one ahah
That's an interesting suggestion. Listening through some of her earlier material, it's not inconceivable that it could be a demo of hers. Tonally, her voice sounds closer to 'Fly Away' than any of the other singers that have been suggested. 'Joken Hansha' actually has a very similar lead guitar sound too, so perhaps that's something to consider?
Despite many people mentioning Yukiko Okada, I just don't see the comparison.
The japanese back then fully embraced the whole "Songs to listen to while driving a 1985 Toyota Corolla" aesthetic... and i'm digging it!
or an 80's Fiat or Mini
Looks like the algorithm has blessed you - you're popping up in a bunch of recommendations suddenly. I figured I'd click and wow, well done! I quite liked how it all came out.
As for the song itself, given the OP claimed it was found in the early 90s, I can tell you this has extremely strong demo tape vibes. Everything about it is pretty cheap and proof of concept-y, and it being totally unlabeled would support this since it would possibly have been in a bigger package that made it clear who/what it was. The only wrench in that theory is the guitar near the end is pretty well recorded, but maybe that's intentional with the guitar being a central concept of the song they wanted to demonstrate. It's also likely that the tape had the name of the performer, but when whoever turned this tape into the store went to sell it, they erased the name so as to not accidentally dox someone. It'd be good courtesy to do so, if anything.
I wouldn't assume this is a hoax; this seems pretty legit. It's easy to forget once you're in the RUclips bubble how hard it is to get things uploaded and edited properly by regular people; if my dad had a mystery song on a cassette he would've ended up doing something similar to the OP. It's totally possible the person lost the tape but kept the audio files the whole time, too; it's not like back in 2000 you didn't have tools to record at decent quality, you just couldn't push that onto 2ch because the WAV file would be too big.
My money's on the tape being a demo for new idols ahead of their debut, and the one behind the mystery song didn't make the cut - or, the song itself didn't make the cut. It is pretty out-of-character compared to most late Showa idol stuff, so it wouldn't be too shocking.
Same!! I kept getting recommended and here we are :p
Agreed. That’s the most likely answer for the tape. I don’t know how many idols fail to launch their career so if someone who is familiar with the business can tell me that would be great.
As to the song I could understand the lyrics if written in romanji but I’ll admit it has a soft tone to it. I wish I could say I recognize the voice but the only Japanese singers I can recognize by voice are Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi (who I think have split), Changin’ my life and Hikaru Utada. And I can say this: that wasn’t Hikaru Utada singing the song. Hikaru was born in 1983 so assuming the tape was made sometime during the late Showa period it’s too late for Hikaru Utada. Nor does it sound like the female singer from Changin’ my life. She has a deeper voice as compared to the singer of the mystery song. Most likely the singer is a singer/idol who never managed to launch their career. I have to admit I can see why the song never caught on, it has a different rhythm to it compared to what I heard from Japanese songs, the lyrics also don’t sound as upbeat. I wish I could give more insight but I sadly have never listened to songs by Japanese idols.
To my ear, as a trained musician, it sounds like a demo recorded at home. But, I don't think it's DCT since it doesn't match what I know of DCT and especially at the time. Their Sonic 1 and 2-era stuff, which King Masa composed for, sounds different and that would have been from around 1989 to 1992.
Umm so I hate to be a buzzkill but is it possible it's just all a hoax. It's just a lot of things just seem so convenient. Like OP hasn't told us the actual name of the store they went to. How it took about 2 decades(sorry forgot the exact year you said) for a high quality release even though the OP has it all that time and there hasn't much headway in new information and the information that does come out has not gotten us closer to the identity of the person who made it. From my point of view I just see the telltale signs of a hoax.
Its definitely possible. Nicopedia actually has that listed as a possibility (or that the OP is the vocalist.)
On the second point, it could be argued that internet speeds weren't up to par at the time (DSL was only just starting to make its way to the developed world) and that could explain the low quality release at the time.
@@SakuraStardustTrue, it's just that 20 years and he never tried again with maybe a better connection seems strange. The way he found it seems strange. Also what are the odds that it's this strange lyrics were put on a tape of more audible and better quality lyrics. Also why would you sell a son like that at a 50 yen cassette type store like seriously why. I know I keep saying it but a lot about how OP found it seems convenient, but who knows for all you guys know I could be doing the exact same I mentioned the possibility of. Or I could be tired and not caring that this seems too long for a response.
@@SakuraStardust I came back to this video to ask you this since I can not figure out for the life how to traverse Nicopedia, but does anyone actually know the identity of the OP
Honestly once the OP started talking about how "scary" it was and that it was cursed, several alarm bells started ringing in my head that it was a hoax. I'm not saying OP is lying but come on lol, that's basically hoax 101 if I've ever seen it. I also think its really weird that OP has yet to show any pics of the original cassette tape 20 years later.
The only thing "creepy" was that I set the speed 2x on this video and you are now talking normal speed.
The makers of this and 'The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet ('Ride the Wind')' are out there somewhere... and we could have it ALL if we could only find them and bring them together for a mashup track...
Why are all these “most mysterious” songs all certified bangers
The song has a really mid 80s Kayokyoku sound, so I don't think it can be from the 90s or even any later than 1987.
I actually thought that too. Japanese music shifted dramatically during the early to mid 90's
True, but we have to consider that maybe it was made to sound like that. Maybe it was recorded to sound like 80's song or even was planned to be "unknown" from the beginning. Unlikely, but possible.
@@kitsuretro5542 one possibility is that the instrumental is a demo from the 80s but a more recent singer is singing over it, maybe as part of their demo mixtape for the label. Ayumi Hamasaki used to cover many 80s songs too.
That being said, even the vocal style is very 80s idol esque.
Okada supposedly would have been in love with a boy named Tōru minegishi, for which she had not been matched, in her first suicide attempt, she said phrases such as "I would like to see you again", and "my heart has nowhere to go". Analyzing the lyrics of the mysterious song, one might have a conclusion that it may have been this song, a farewell to Tōru, and that for this reason she may not have released it. Because the message was for a specific person
But that's just my theory, in my time devoted to research
It's funny how both this song and that other most mysterious song in the internet have wind in it's lyrics qwp
The wind takes away all information regarding them lmao
The truth, lost to the wind
Straight up, as a musician, there is something romantic about giving away recordings via tapes donated to second-hand sales locations. If it reaches the right hearts, it's instantly a treasure. It's like male birth, releasing a portion of the self out into the wilds.
I can’t get passed this sort of “RUclips video essay speech pattern/voice”. Without fail, every sentence is always UP then down, UP, then down. It’s hypnotic.
Ye I went out of my way to sound like that. Not my default voice, I assure you lol
@@SakuraStardust I can tell, there are brief moments when I hear you as yourself coming out which seems loads more human/natural. No shade on your video though, it’s excellent, keep uploading!
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@@cutthroatnin3833 lol youre absolutely right. I went back to talking normal in my two latest uploads ^^;
I remember Junji Ito writing a short story about a mysterious record similar to this; 'In Old Records' if somebody wanna read it
First of all, let me say that the mysterious song is a certifiable banger! Now, it's hard to really comment on the production, since the tape saturation degrades it, but it sounds well mixed to me, they knew what they were doing. The dissonant melody of the verse leads me to think it's some "underground" act, I haven't heard any showa idol song like this, unless it's some soundtrack for some spooky/horror themed anime series, like Ghost Hunt (I know it's much newer, but just to give a vibe) or some Gegege No Kitaro inspired stuff, for example. But the tone/timbre of the instruments definitely sounds late 80's, and reminded me of Kidorikko and other New Wave-ish bands of the time (but of course, the mysterious song has a much less eccentric vocal style), which, togheter with the melody, reinforces the theory that it's some more underground artist/band. BUT, they're definitely not amateurs, as everything is played super tight, and even has a very, very typical showa idol songwriting structure, but that could also just mean they were great musicians and influenced by mainstream pop.
My thoughts exactly. Whilst ignoring the characteristic of the cassette that this copy originates from, the production quality is higher than what could be expected from a garage or bedroom band, but not quite polished enough to be a full-on studio production. I'm personally leaning towards a professionally made demo. Whether that happens to be for a band, singer or TV/film production, perhaps we'll never know. Fingers crossed that we do though. I'd love to hear more from this artist.
Every thing degrades eventually, there is no way to stop it.
I’m a big fan Yukiko Okada and this mysterious song to me sounds incredibly similar to Mizuiro Princess. But I doubt that this is Okada’s work though given her popularity in the 80s.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video, keep up the great work!!
It does sound like that song! :o But yeah, just something about it being a cancelled Yukko song recorded onto a tape and released into the wild sounds so cool to me. Like, if someone who worked with her snuck it out there or it was discarded accidentally years after her death. Unlikely, but fascinating.
Thank you though! I hope you enjoy my future content!
@@SakuraStardust Yup! The idea of a lost Yukko’s song does sound fascinating. But having said that, it is also important to note that almost all of Yukko’s song are about love and romance, including songs in the October Mermaid album, which are more calm and serious in tone as compared to her other albums. With that fact, I think that kinda eliminates the possibility that this could be Yukko’s work given that the lyric of this mysterious song suggests nothing about romance.
I have been a fan of your channel since your Lost Japanese Media videos and I am excited to see what you have in store for us!
@@Trinintyboy39 Well actually it sounds like a Love Song but a Sad one without a happy ending.
that's the translation I came across.
It was rumoured that Yukko had a Love Interest in an older Actor named Toru Minegishi.
I speculate because he didn't love her back and because of all this stress at a Young Age with her career she only saw one way out of it.
To actually Fly away like the Blue Bird in the Song. Maybe the Song is her way of saying Goodbye to everyone.
Where are you going, chasing the wind, you withered leaves in the color of the setting sun?
There is no sound of knocking at the door
I sleep in a broken chair, the light outside the window is bright
I dream of a town I don't know
Goodbye, you are No say
Fairway with a sad smile
Fly away to a faraway land
A star hangs in the sky as I depart
Before you let the blue bird go, touch its wings gently with your fingers
I look up at the sky and see a bird flying by
Goodbye, you're go way
My gentle eyes are fairway
Fly away to a distant land
Fly away to a faraway land
Fly away to a faraway land・・・・
Although, to be fair, considering the lyrics and the way she died, if she recorded it at the end of her life, they could have filed the song away permanently because it wouldn't be appropriate.
The whole video is better if the playback is sped up 1.5x
Time to comment and boost this into the algorithm.
Man, I love lost/unidentified media. So much just fades into history, so seeing these little snippets of the forgotten past get attention is super interesting to me.
Play in 1.5x speed so that the narrator doesn’t sound like they’re about to sleep😭
I really felt that and played it in 1.50
1.25 is perfect
Yup, not trying to be rude to the creator but their voice is very monotone and droning and it’s not very pleasant to listen to.
There’s something about this entire thing that’s driving me crazy. First of all, the very first time this was posted on the internet was on my birth year, 2000. I’ve researched and followed SO many mysteries, it struck me that this is one of the only ones I’ve seen that has my birth year as a notable timeline note. Another thing is the fact that the full mysterious song that Sakura linked was uploaded on my fucking 18th birthday. September 8th, 2018. I may need to check up on this mystery a lot more often, if this is destiny then I would love to be a part of helping to find the origins of this song haha
My husband really likes city pop, so I'm going to have to sit him down to watch this later. He'll definitely get a kick out of this mystery.
It actually starts to sound a lot like Okada Yukiko after the pitch shift. Though I doubt it's one of her songs, the style and lyrics of the song sounds very much like it's from that era. So many singles were released and lost during the 80s... it makes me wonder what sort of music has been completely lost to time.
WAIT WAIT WAIT HAS ANYONE CONSIDERED NORIKO SAKAI FOR THIS???? YUKIKO OKADA"S MANAGER WENT ON TO MANAGE NORIKO SAKAI AND SHE TOOK OVER HER IMAGE AND LIKENESS AND MUSICAL STYLE IN THE LATE 80's EARLYT 90's! THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A NORIKO SAKAI DEMO ONE THAT WAS CONSIDERED TOO DARK AND SAD TO USE BECAUSE OF THE YUKKO SYNDROME INCIDENT OH MY GOD
What's the yukko syndrome incident?
May you please elaborate?
People replicated Yukko's d e@th
Jumping....
From what i get (please correct me if i’m wrong) her death gave japan suicidal rate goes to 30% higher than the year before. This incident made big headline in japan
Get this theory higher up, it might be it
Bro, I LOVE your story-telling skills!! You really set the scene. Also, thanks for making a video about this lmao. Now I don't have to wait for Whang to ;p
her voice is so beautiful. i hope we find her so that i can hear more of her
Also just thought of this now. This could be a student project. Students can make some professional sounding things. It adds up if this idol has never made it big. It could have been some student that wanted to be a producer and had a classmate that could sing well. As someone that used to make short films at my school, this adds up.
The RUclips copyright system does not pick it up.
The "mystery song" is a banger, ngl ^^"
also, keep up the good work! ^^
you know if the timeline wasn't wrong this song could be about ash releasing his butterfree
You win best comment
I've genuinely and completely un-ironically listened to this song many times over since learning of its existence. Despite the initial creepy factor loaded onto the song through its discovery, it has managed to become its own thing and just be a genuinely catchy song. I do hope that we someday learn of its true origin, as it's rather unfortunate that its performer may not even be aware of its current appreciation.
If I were to speculate, it sounds too polished to be a demo. It is reasonably well mixed and with numerous layers, which I doubt such effort would be made for a demo. The only logical conclusion to me is that it is an unreleased/abandoned song from a professional session. Whether that happens to be for a TV show that was never picked up, or an idol or band that never took off, perhaps we'll never know. I do hope we do find out though. I really think it's a cool song.
A more accurate translation:
Where do they go?
Dead colored leaves
Chasing the wind...
Knocking on the door
Without a sound
Asleep in a broken chair
Bathed in light
From outside the window
Dreaming of a strange place
No say goodbye to you
With a sad smile, fly away
Fly away to a distant place
Take to the sky, aah
Among the stars
Before you set a bluebird free
Be gentle
And put courage in its wings
Stop your tears as it flies off to the sky
Goodbye, you go away
With a gentle gaze, fly away
Fly away to a faraway place
Take to the night sky, aah
That's a sad song
About suicide
This original poster honestly seems pretty suspicious. They won't mention anything about what else was on the tape, won't picture it, won't mention the company they got it from, and mentions random key details years and years later. They may just be making things up, honestly, but don't want to make up enough to back themselves into a corner. I'd guess it's a hoax.
Edit: Also, just an fyi, music theory wouldn't be very helpful in this situation. You'd want someone that's a music production/engineer to look at the song instead, as they would be far more aware of the technical aspects of music recording.
Tbh that song is not creepy, more like melancholic but it has a weird beauty. I like it.
I love Japanese lost media. It's so fascinating
I'm just going to ignore the fact that this song may be cursed and I've literally played it on repeat for almost an hour
Okay. Maybe it's just be being hopeless fan over here; but that whole song sounds like Ali Project(Ant Project, depending on the date on the tape). Right down to the depressive moody lyrics, the guitar solo, and use of synth instruments. They had some demo one-off tapes included with girls magazines so maybe this is one of their songs.
Ali Project is a *very* popular suggestion by people on Japanese sites. It's definitely possible!
Legit this is so awesome 👏 I love how trippy it is
Thanks!! :3
What are the chances that OP made the song themself and just happened to be able to form this convincing story, just wanting to experiment and see how it would go? Just a thought I kept having since they’re the only person known to this day to have a physical copy? It’s very elaborate but I know there are artists out there who might do this, in fact there’s some out there that have nameless songs and channels and they do songs using Vocaloids, so this could’ve been a way for them to get their song out there without revealing it’s their song or having to name it?
Other people: oh, it's kinda creepy
Me: hmmm, do I want to listen it for the 25th time today? yeah.
saame XD
Great video! I got really interested about the topic. On my opinion, since it sounds different from what was usually made on most of 1980's japanese pop, i don't imagine this song being a first demo of an incipient idol that wants to jump on the j-pop mainstream scene at that time. Also, guitars and synth sound professionaly arranged. Because of this, i think that rather the song was made by a relatively well known artist, probably an idol, but then they decided that the song didn't fit into mainstream j-pop and decided to not release it. Based on how it sounds, i think that this was probably recorded somewhere between 1983-1986.
I considered that possibility as well! Thanks for sharing your thoughts
I didn’t know so much drama can surround a song, but I’m oddly fascinated!
If I didn't have previous context from your research I wouldn't feel uncomfortable listening to the song. Great work as usual and I'm pretty glad I didn't watch it late at night.
this reminds me of that junji ito story about the cursed vinyl.
no wonder this video extends to 30 mins. this woman speaks like a grandma. set speed to 1.5, thank me later
It was an intentional shift in narration to try and sound spooky lol
Yessssss I've been waiting for someone to make a video on this. 👀 Hopefully we can get some more information on this someday, this song is actually a bop.
so excited to watch this one
Hope you enjoy it, bud!!
This song is pure depression and I feel it. It doesn't look like a break up song to me.
Feels like someone who wants to go back or just remembering their past.
They left behind and maybe sacrificed things to achieve greater things. They left behind their home (or things that make them feel home)
There's no knock on the door (Nobody comes to visit me/ they are lonely)
Dream of an unknown town (maybe they never reached there.)
if we look at 2nd part, it can also be interpreted as someone leaving you behind.
or it's about the War
your loved one left you but never came back,
(fairway would actually be 'farewell')
It maybe some hobbyist or aspiring singer's recording, they threw it away (intentionally or unintentionally) and it somehow ended up in that store.
Not sure why this video popped up on my recommends other than it's close to Halloween.
Very well made video. This is the second video that I kind of want RUclips to drop a DMCA on so the mystery can get solved (the other is the video about Plastic Love).
So apparently RUclips wouldn't let me get notified for this video >:T
Anyways, that aside, there's something I just cannot describe yet always love regarding Japanese lost media. I dunno what it specifically is, but I just love it and your channel never stops providing that goodness!!
This whole mystery just feels like something you could only really see flourish in that era; a time where media sharing was as physical as it got. To me, that there is that special layer of magic that I love about these topics because they seemingly feel like time capsules. Oh, and the music itself is just truly wonderful to listen to.
Sorry if this comment sounds incoherent as all heck lol. It's past 2:00 AM and I'm only marginally awake. Nevertheless, as always, this video was excellent~!!
Sounds late 80s, early 90s.
$5 says it's the lone demo tape of some garage band that broke up & wants to forget about that period in their lives, hence never coming forth to claim it.
well as the owner of several promo tapes and test presses of records, it could be part of a promo tape, that was used for something, because some of my promo tapes look like a standard tape and no marking on them. on that record, i do have a test press of a record, where is a song never released by the band, luckily for me, i know the band personally, through my parrents. it was a lost song for them, so they were happy to get hold of it, it was never released. well you guys properly dont know them, as they are danish.
Neat! Always cool to here about mysterious songs/media! :)
I believe that the song is likely a demo track made by a female songwriter during the Showa era that never released any music of her own and just demoed songs for idols. The lyrics of the song seem very detailed and are reminiscent of many indie singers of today, who are known for writing their own music and in some cases melancholy songs.
From your video's compiled evidence, my conclusion is probably someone's personal demo tape recording that got added to a personal mixtape. A likely scenario is that its a failed idol audition recording that a record label employee happened to like then slapped a couple songs including the mysterious one onto a personal tape to listen to. Failed Idol tracks can sometimes still be found to this day so this song could quite literally have only existed in this one case, having never been released.
What I’m intrigued by is how come the community have put so much focus on this track? I’m sure there are other tracks like this that exist that we don’t know the artist of or it’s origins. What makes this one in particular special? It could be a amateur artist who made music at home all we know?
Maybe its an audition tape and the record label probably just threw it away? Or maybe its a song in the works by an idol/studio then in the end they decided to scrap it?
Or maybe the person was heartbroken, made a sad cryptic song, recorded it and forgot about it as time pass by?
INB4 Whang picks this up
Seriously though, great job on this
Maybe the song is a production melody. Happens a lot and some artists started a career in library music.
Most Japanese stock music is purely instrumental, though. And much of it remains inaccessible to anyone outside Japan.
t. someone who went looking for background music used in one video and went down a rabbit hole a few years ago
@@20035079 Yeah, happened to me too hence why the suggestion.
Was Kumi Miyasato ever considered? She was signed under Victor and I can hear similar vibes between her vocals and those in the mysterious song. It also sounds a bit like an 80s anime theme and given the amount of lost/canned productions from that era it doesn't sound impossible.
Play video at 1.5x speed for normal sounding human.
I was gonna say the same thing, I wonder if the recording is actually in a slower speed Bc it sounds so weird as the “normal setting”.
It was a narration choice. I literally slowed the pace of my voice because I typically talk in a more upbeat way and didn't think my normal speaking voice would suit the content lol
i think the fact the song is in a minor scale probably doesn’t help the “creepy” factor. if it was in a major scale, people probably wouldn’t think its as creepy XD
What is the difference between a major and minor scale? I've heard the term but have no clue
@@georgetterenaud6617 Basically, minor chords are preceived as "sad" sounding, and major chords sound cheerful. Just type E minor and E major in RUclips and hear for yourself.
@@kitsuretro5542 oooo okay! Thanks!
It doesn't sound creepy at all, sounds pretty upbeat to me. But maybe that's just me.
quick, someone make a major scale version of the song XD
Every single time, these mysterious songs sound great. But I guess that's why people want to know more about them, rather than putting the cassette in a drawer and forgetting about the song. Maybe I should make a mixtape of them, for the next time someone passes me the aux cord
I should probably thank You personally for making a video of this topic, because thanks to it I got bust of inspiration and made whole animation using this song as a "story teller" of some sort. So, thank You, Sakura. I really needed that kind of an inspiration to work. Keep it up with videos like that, because it was genuenly interesting ^.^
Switch to 1.25x speed
The song itself sounds like an opening for one of those bizarre 1980's anime movies. You know the kind I'm talking about. One of those anime movies that popped up when you fell asleep with the tv on and woke up at 2am wondering what the really lewd and/or violent cartoon was. Just me? Okay my bad.
Hey, can you please do a video on Yukiko Okada? To be honest, when I heard about her and saw the pictures of her death… I went into a depression for like two days. It was the worst kind of depression I have ever felt. The thing that made me the most mad about everything was, in this one fan made documentary that I watched, they said that the Japanese news networks said it would not be in the best interest to report on the suicide… Right after the Japanese media published a picture of her dead on the ground… Blood running down the pavement along with little bits of her brain also visible… Can you say hypocritical? It's such a terrible situation.
Yeah, I'd like to cover her, but I feel that may be difficult for me to accomplish as I am also saddened by those images. Its very difficult to research her career as an idol without stumbling upon the graphic details of her death (I definitely feel that the documentary should not have used those photos at all), and I dont know if that's something I want to see again. I love her music, but her situation was incredibly tragic. I may consider a video in the future, though.
There's a detailed three-part English documentary, "KANASHII YOKAN: The Life, Death and Legacy of Okada Yukiko", by dubudavid from 2015. I'd like to hear what
Sakura Stardust can add to it.
@@SakuraStardust I just looked up her story on Wikipedia and there's some information I hadn't heard before. The person who picked her up from the hospital actually gave her an option to either go back to her apartment, go to see her parents in Nagoya or go to their agency building. She chose to go back to the Sun Music building. I really wish they would have gently convinced her to go and see her parents. If she had done that, I'm sure she could have gotten the support and help that she needed and she could have recovered and then gotten back to her career as soon as she was rested and just had that time to unwind. Even a vacation could have helped her. I have had daydreams about what I would do if I were there back then and in the industry, I would have offered to pay for her vacation so she could take that time to recover. But sadly that just isn't a reality.
@@SakuraStardust Maybe you can cover Okada's radio recordings currently being uploaded by bien-0501 here on YT. If not for their uploads, those recordings would have remained lost media.
@@blueberrypitbull87 The person who picked her up was Sun Music former managing director Tokio Fukuda. The Wikipedia article quotes an interview Fukuda gave that was published in the Asahi Weekly site in 2016. The link is available on the footnotes in the Wiki article.
I like your contents but your voice is so slow, I had to change the playback speed 😆
Actually, there are many singles and EPs from Japanese bands or artists from the 80s and early 90s. Many Japanese on the internet are amazed to discover that western people know more about their music from that time than they do. For example, Kingyo Hime, LIPS, Model-T and Lewisite these have only released a just one song or a 7” flexi-disc single by small studio or self released. (You'll find all these on YT) I'm sure it fits this theory that the band or the singer from Fly Away has sung before and this song is some lost track. A lot could happen like financial crisis, death or just a change of job.
(I particularly believe that it will only be solved if the people investigating interview real people and ask if they have heard the song. The same works for “The most mysterious song on the Internet”, AKA Like the Wind.
What you're hearing is an unreleased demo. It's a work in progress that was probably never finished. Hence it being unpublished and sounding slightly "off". - Sound engineer
Well considering it's a cassette tape and not a CD or a vinyl, and this was the 90's it literally can be anything from amatuer recording to low cost professional studio demo.
The track in Question is 100% done thru Midi so it's possible it could go either way. in the 80's and 90's and into the 00's people would make these singles cassettes and try to get a studio to take them on or studios would make these kinds of tapes to allow the artists to speed up their song writing process. However since it's an unmarked cassette or scratched over cassette there's possibility it was a midi composition proofing track which they used a midi track to make in a writing term a rough draft before hiring or having the band play a more finalized version.
Now I'm willing to believe it was regardless of origin a Collection dump cause it's pretty universal that mix tapes and "custom tapes" are a no no in the forgotten used media market even in Japan and the only time a used media store would accept them is if someone would dump their music collection or a local studio was also doing a media warehouse dump(unreleased singles and concept tracks would sometimes get mixed in with extra copies of albums the studios would produce). Common practice was if these mix tapes or custom tapes propped up they had to be fire sold and were usually in the price bracket of 50cents to $1.50 or even given away sometimes cause the stores couldn't afford the possibility of a media company rep popping in and making a seen and forcing the store to close.
unless someone came forward about the origin of the recording this may very we be a mystery of the ages.
if they were usually demo tracks and tracks used in commercials, they may be tapes from a radio station? i don't know how it is in japan specifically so maybe it's not a very helpful idea, but in many places demo/early recordings of songs will be sent to radio stations, sometimes then even being recorded into different copies, and then it's not uncommon for radio stations to take a bunch of their recordings and sell them to local music stores. for example, some of the rarer music i own is from my fathers collection of copies made specifically for radio stations that he later bought from his local record shops. maybe some people should look into what radio stations were around the area at the time?
Speaking of J-POP tapes, I have couple of them which I bought from Japanese thrift shop in my town and I'm using shazam app to recognize the song and nearly all tracks inside the tape had been recognized but finding the stream version in legal way is way too difficult until I found these songs on youtube instead.