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

@catherine6653

13 күн бұрын

This is Ponderous by 2NU

@peterd.9978

13 күн бұрын

Living on Video - Trans X

@bobdavis4848

13 күн бұрын

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

@christineml1476

13 күн бұрын

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

@vehicle22

13 күн бұрын

D.O.A. by Bloodrock

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

@flash001USA

6 күн бұрын

Lol but the idea would probably work.

@buzzlight2nd1

6 күн бұрын

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

@jamesfowley4114

5 күн бұрын

If they're still alive.

@MattStryker

5 күн бұрын

THIS WAS NEARLY EXACTLY WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO POST!

@TheRealRedRooster

5 күн бұрын

After 40 years????

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

@JohnHoganN8

13 күн бұрын

😂😂

@catherine6653

13 күн бұрын

So true 😊

@RBS_

13 күн бұрын

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

@fredbriggs2225

13 күн бұрын

Or, on the same note, Tom Sholz.

@ProfessorofRock

13 күн бұрын

Ha!

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

@cynthiabujak2368

5 күн бұрын

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

@asinromeo37

5 күн бұрын

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

@Phoenix2312

4 күн бұрын

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

@crochetchica4559

4 күн бұрын

Sounds a little like Modern English 🤔

@davidpeck3912

2 күн бұрын

Read the book, Hitless Wonder

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

@katycanino1566

4 күн бұрын

This is exactly what I think.

@dameonnelson3543

Күн бұрын

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

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

@NotHereToBeNice

13 күн бұрын

About his skateboard. Not wife--skateboard.

@milanuzelac9980

13 күн бұрын

Hey ! That's me !!!

@BismarckMandanBlog

13 күн бұрын

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

@jeremyrowe743

13 күн бұрын

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

@OlliGarch

13 күн бұрын

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

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

@TheDeadEndFriendsSound

9 күн бұрын

I already did… kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZmH1pOJormtibw.htmlsi=YBvoEq239CQ_Yf_f

@TheDeadEndFriendsSound

9 күн бұрын

I already did… kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZmH1pOJormtibw.htmlsi=YBvoEq239CQ_Yf_f

@EannaButler

9 күн бұрын

Crowdfund the lawsuit

@TheDeadEndFriendsSound

8 күн бұрын

Already did... kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZmH1pOJormtibw.htmlsi=d5FMLwn_AmAQ5wV0

@user-zi7rk6fi3b

8 күн бұрын

That's actually a good idea! 😅

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

@bennettgirard1047

5 күн бұрын

Did you find it?

@danas3765

5 күн бұрын

How's the search going

@Mindcrow

5 күн бұрын

Good luck bro. Thousands of people have been turning over every imaginable stone looking for this song for over a decade. But you're just going to "find a match" in your personal record collection. 😂

@ChristinaLVT

5 күн бұрын

I thought the same thing!

@LewStewls

5 күн бұрын

@@Mindcrow Unlikely, but worth a try.

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

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

@Neevie-Styx

10 күн бұрын

If only people were as amazing as dogs. 😝🐶

@strummercash5601

10 күн бұрын

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

@daryldixon5280

10 күн бұрын

Welcome to America

@daryldixon5280

10 күн бұрын

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

@CamoShirt

10 күн бұрын

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

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

@MannyBrum

11 күн бұрын

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

@TheDeadEndFriendsSound

9 күн бұрын

I already did. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZmH1pOJormtibw.htmlsi=YBvoEq239CQ_Yf_f

@TheDeadEndFriendsSound

9 күн бұрын

I already did… kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZmH1pOJormtibw.htmlsi=YBvoEq239CQ_Yf_f

@dougjenkins8749

9 күн бұрын

Sad but true

@TheDeadEndFriendsSound

8 күн бұрын

Already did... kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZmH1pOJormtibw.htmlsi=d5FMLwn_AmAQ5wV0

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

@trippinbawls88

4 күн бұрын

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

@trippinbawls88

4 күн бұрын

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

@jeremiahdavis360

4 күн бұрын

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

@genostellar

4 күн бұрын

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

@genostellar

4 күн бұрын

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

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

@ryanwalker8233

5 күн бұрын

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@0therv0ices

5 күн бұрын

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@angushume2054

5 күн бұрын

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@SatumangoTheGreat

5 күн бұрын

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

@charlee1150

5 күн бұрын

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

@javaskull

6 күн бұрын

I thought it was bbbff

@trucksr4gurls

6 күн бұрын

Most excellent, dude!

@certificateofvaccinationi.d.19

5 күн бұрын

We're not worthy

@ddre75

5 күн бұрын

😂

@daryelthomas9414

5 күн бұрын

Could have been on the movie soundtrack 😂 party on dudes

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

@marktait2371

13 күн бұрын

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

@aprilrich807

12 күн бұрын

😂

@mikeparker3865

12 күн бұрын

and if you play it backward you discover who killed Kennedy

@paradoxworkshop4659

12 күн бұрын

In

@radzsing

12 күн бұрын

🤣

I'm 60 years old, long-time rocker, and I've never heard this song before.

@BBulletin

3 күн бұрын

I am also 60, and I do not recognize the song at all. However, I could always claim to have written and recorded it if there is enough demand.

@MrJamezk

Күн бұрын

59. Me neither, but that means nothing.

Would be hilarious if the "?" Was the actual name of the band.

@red.aries1444

Күн бұрын

Funny coincidence: In November 1983 German New Wave artist "Nena", best known for her song "99 Luftballons/99 Red Ballons" released her single "?" and in January 1984 a whole album with the same name, just at the time the mysterious song has been recorded. English translation of the first lyrics of the ? song "Head full of things which one forgets too quickly Where do I start? When is the time? Nobody can tell me" 🙂

@treadtrick

Күн бұрын

Edited The band _? and the Mysterians_ recorded the awesome song *96 Tears* in 1966. :)😃

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

@reesaserik3759

6 күн бұрын

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

@Ravuun

6 күн бұрын

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

@Romiman1

5 күн бұрын

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

@jamesmangiarella7139

4 күн бұрын

13:52

@Cloxxki

4 күн бұрын

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

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

@ProfessorofRock

13 күн бұрын

Ha ha!

@loboblanco4426

13 күн бұрын

Spectacular!

@Fiona2254

13 күн бұрын

Under rated comment!

@karlshuler1011

13 күн бұрын

Eddie Lives

@theboyx323

13 күн бұрын

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

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

@michaelszewczyk9781

2 күн бұрын

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

@buzzbomb67

Күн бұрын

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

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

@izzpop781

5 күн бұрын

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

@Lordvestage1313

5 күн бұрын

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

@robertgilpin477

5 күн бұрын

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

@TheRoadWarriorUSA

5 күн бұрын

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

@MarkMay-cr6bv

5 күн бұрын

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

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

@LouisCasas

7 күн бұрын

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

@asunachidory

6 күн бұрын

Yeah totally desperate to know now too 😂

@ShonCope

6 күн бұрын

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

@imkluu

6 күн бұрын

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

@Cloxxki

4 күн бұрын

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

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

@hfw3

7 күн бұрын

I don’t know what Carsten Kaaz is up to these days, but I met him and have a signed copy of his book In The Shadow Of The Wall. He was one of the last people to go over the Wall from East Berlin to West Berlin. He was a huge music fan and I think he even ended up living near Graceland because of his love of Elvis. If no one can identify it, I wonder if it was part of the underground rock scene in East Germany. He might know.

@sarahmayer7026

6 күн бұрын

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

@Grichal1981

6 күн бұрын

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

@GizzyDillespee

6 күн бұрын

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

@sarahmayer7026

6 күн бұрын

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

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

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

@treetopjones737

5 күн бұрын

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

@mattrogers6646

4 күн бұрын

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

@mr_tantrum5051

4 күн бұрын

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

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

@ProfessorofRock

13 күн бұрын

RIght!

@rickyjoeshippyful

13 күн бұрын

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

@dennis2966

13 күн бұрын

It was in the Upside Down.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

13 күн бұрын

Indeed!

@Bahama3ay

13 күн бұрын

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

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

@jenniferdnoseworthy2348

13 күн бұрын

Very good idea 😊

@friedemannkemm63

12 күн бұрын

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

@leeyaferguson9019

8 күн бұрын

YEAH!!!

@glasswingbutterfly

8 күн бұрын

Fil is awesome... Rock!

@jdaniels1313

6 күн бұрын

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

I LOVE that this song is being covered!❤ I have been obsessed with this song for a couple of years, and been eating up any information about it. So excellent that it's getting featured here.❤

@cayenigma

5 күн бұрын

The song has been found kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z31tqbyDfqe8mKg.html

Alright...it was me. That's my song. I wrote and recorded it with my band, the _"Pickled Herrings"_ in Fahrvergnügen Germany back in 1984. I've just been too embarrassed to admit it.

@pdxgrl1

2 күн бұрын

Great user name too!

@dougperkins4188

Күн бұрын

Fahrvergnügen lol

@DawnDavidson

21 сағат бұрын

😅

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

@ethelbailey3794

13 күн бұрын

@sleepyhollow783 Haha! 2 mysteries solved at once 😂

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

13 күн бұрын

Haha!

@HoonAgain

13 күн бұрын

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

@mocat1

13 күн бұрын

😂💀 Well played.

@user-mu9cw8xe4r

10 күн бұрын

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

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

@ProfessorofRock

13 күн бұрын

I love it!

@champdog76

13 күн бұрын

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

@karlsenula9495

13 күн бұрын

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

@chrisrj9871

13 күн бұрын

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

@dennis2966

13 күн бұрын

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

It's a strange thing to say on a video which is already excellent, but THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for using the correct pronunciation of "aforementioned." It pleases me immensely to know that Adam is most definitely a cut above the illiterate talking heads who go about putting the stress on the first syllable and changing the bloody vowel in a failing attempt to make their mispronunciation sound halfway euphonious. The Professor is even more awesome than I gave him credit for, and that's saying something. Thanks again. Seriously.

By the title of the video, I thought it was about The Akiba Tape (AKA Fly Away). Also AKA The Most Mysterious Song in Japan. Which is also from the 1980's or early 1990's and also from a mysterious cassete tape. Both stories share a bunch of similarities.

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

@dukecraig2402

9 күн бұрын

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

@michs342

9 күн бұрын

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

@dukecraig2402

9 күн бұрын

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

@HNScruffy

7 күн бұрын

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

@Hollylivengood

7 күн бұрын

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

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

@ms_prescott_regrets

12 күн бұрын

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

@tiffanymichaels2429

11 күн бұрын

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

@ms_prescott_regrets

11 күн бұрын

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

@user-mu9cw8xe4r

10 күн бұрын

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

@mikemulcahy52

9 күн бұрын

Lords of the New Church?

This is so 80’s underground. Recording from the radio via speaker to microphone and everyone passing cassettes around like Pokémon cards it is no wonder this is not easy to find.

@DavidRichards-lh2hw

4 күн бұрын

These were most likely done via a tuner feeding in to a cassette deck. (a similar method was used for all the audios of missing Doctor Who episodes - line feed from the TV audio amp). Mic to spkr recordings are very poor.

@richardvoogd705

3 күн бұрын

Sounds to me that it wasn't recorded by holding a mic up to the speaker.

@markcaldwell1245

3 күн бұрын

You both missed the point I was talking about me and my friends at school in the 70’s and 80’s not the specifics of this song. As a bunch of preteens yes we would record speaker to microphone so everyone could get a copy. Did it sound great no but it was good enough for us.

Great video!! It certainly piqued my interest and after watching this, I did a quick search on Spotify and not sure if you’re aware or not but Statues in Motion seem to have claimed this track and labeled it “Blind the Wind” and released it as a single on their profile in 2023.

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

@ProfessorofRock

13 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Del-Lebo

13 күн бұрын

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

@Iridescence93

13 күн бұрын

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

@Del-Lebo

13 күн бұрын

@@Iridescence93 yup and Yes! 🥰💪👍

@myrrhavm

13 күн бұрын

GenX goth?

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

@cnph7067

12 күн бұрын

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

@doccolour

12 күн бұрын

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

@dukecraig2402

9 күн бұрын

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

@msimon6808

9 күн бұрын

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

@msimon6808

9 күн бұрын

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

This video is a departure from your usual thing. I love it!!! :)

Fascinating for sure! Great vid!

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

@simonbone

11 күн бұрын

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

@larslevinberget9558

6 күн бұрын

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

@TheStormpilgrim

4 күн бұрын

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

@simonbone

3 күн бұрын

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

@simonbone

3 күн бұрын

@@TheStormpilgrim That's not how it worked.

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

@katarh

6 күн бұрын

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

@reidboggs4344

5 күн бұрын

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

@jamesfowley4114

5 күн бұрын

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

@daryelthomas9414

5 күн бұрын

Reminds me of a movie soundtrack song

@meliward105

5 күн бұрын

SAME!!!!

Great episode!

Very interesting episode from your show. Oh man, I wish someone knows who performed the song for sure and can prove it. I love your t-shirt, by the way.

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

@Gizathecat2

13 күн бұрын

Good one!

@NotHereToBeNice

13 күн бұрын

Good anaology!

@martinjaramillo2429

13 күн бұрын

Nice reference 🌺

@VikingMale

8 күн бұрын

Except you can understand what they are saying…

@mariamartinusz9699

5 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

I'm grateful that whenever I had a snippet of music emerge from the depths of my memory (thanks, brain, for prioritizing music in 2nd grade instead of geography) or from the radio I've been able to solve the mystery eventually. Whether it was figuring out it was "Hymn" from Ultravox eventually.... or the theme song from the soundtrack to the 1985 Carebears movie. Not being able to track something down like this would make me go nuts! Hopefully one day we learn an answer.

Somewhere out in space aliens are listening to a DJ introducing this song.

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

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

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

@gwts1171

2 сағат бұрын

Aztec Two-Step are a really cool band!

@jeanettethomas5806

Сағат бұрын

@@gwts1171 definitely, and not known widely enough!

I heard one version that was slightly sped up. The argument was that over time, cassette tapes stretch and the sound distorts. Honestly, it did sound better. The timing fit.

@peztopher7297

5 күн бұрын

About ten years ago, I heard a son on my local jazz station that sounded like lounge but had scandalous lyrics. I couldn't find it on the station site's play list (sometimes they had blank gaps for hours). Strangely, I heard it a couple weeks later in a documentary: it was Scott Walker's cover of Jacques Brel's 'Mathilde'. (I wasn't familiar with either of them; knew a Walker Brothers song but not the band, heard Brel's name but not his music.) The weird part is that I didn't remember the song sounding like Scott's version. But I haven't found out about anyone else covering it. I think I now know--or have heard at least once--every track SW has done, from when he was 13 to the Vox Lux soundtrack.

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

@honoratagold

12 күн бұрын

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

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

@pauloalmeida2294

7 күн бұрын

It happens to music, books and videogames

@Elle_55

6 күн бұрын

Some New Wave music lover might know

@johnnycash578

6 күн бұрын

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

@samanthareardon3330

6 күн бұрын

@@pauloalmeida2294 Yeah, I recently tried to find an old show I used to watch when I was a kid, so I could show my kid. My search wasn't super exhaustive, but I'm a little worried about it. Maybe I'll ask Reddit at some point.

Love spending an hour just reading the comments. Learn a lot. Excellent time drainer. This whole lost song, lost band meme is very interesting.

I'm glad you covered this! I first heard it a few years ago and would _love_ to know what it is.

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

@ohbebe

8 күн бұрын

That sort of thing can drive you mad until you figure out it, or forever if you don't.

@stephenkeever6029

8 күн бұрын

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

@michaelhaines3451

8 күн бұрын

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

@theclearsounds3911

8 күн бұрын

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

@jeffdeupree7232

8 күн бұрын

@@michaelhaines3451 I’m looking it up.

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

I just listened to the song, and it is interesting. It definitely has an 80s feel to it. What is interesting to me is that KZread fed me this mystery. I only focus on Historic Mysteries, but apparently, KZread thinks this falls into that category. I wish you guys the best. Now, this song is in my head.

I've been posing this to many of the rock channels. Especially channels that cover punk, post punk, darkwave, goth/goth punk/ goth rock. Someone should do the story of Gene Loves Jezebel. The story that is a real life crazy drama of the twin brothers, Jay and Michael Aston, is wild. Just a quick run down, they started off doing really experimental punk with Julian Regan; who went on to form her own band All About Eve. They released one EP and several LP's before, as many saw it, selling out. Gene Loves Jezebel fell into the goth category to which only one of the brothers embraced. For some reason the two brothers had a falling out. They have sense been encompassed by legal battles over the rights to Gene Loves Jezebel and both essentially producing albums under the same name for a while. Because of this, there are two different Gene Loves Jezebel's that are almost indistinguishable, but they're two different bands releasing albums under the same name for a while now. If anyone where to actually cover the story, it would a very interesting one indeed. TLDR: Please do a story on Gene Loves Jezebel the twin brothers Jay and Michael Aston because their story is crazy. A family fued from hell.

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

@ProfessorofRock

13 күн бұрын

Good call!

@philpeterson7182

13 күн бұрын

Sisters of Curecy

@Disciple_Of_Lerxst

13 күн бұрын

I was thinking SOM as well.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

13 күн бұрын

It sounds a lot like the Cure.

@marktait2371

13 күн бұрын

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

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

This is a real mystery. I am a bit of an obscure song fan. I love those songs that I heard, I can't remember this one song and I know it when I hear it, but I couldn't tell you the artist or title, though it got frequent plays on our local radio station (then KY-102) in Kansas CIty. This song sounds a bit like Depeche Mode to me, but that would not make too much sense. I am interested in learning what you find out! Great Video.

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

@carriehinkel-gill4164

13 күн бұрын

Awesome share!

@andrewmorrow6982

7 күн бұрын

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

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

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

13 күн бұрын

This was a pleasant surprise.

Took me years to find out 'Tell the Truth' from Metal band Hawk. It had a real good drum beat but I've forgotten the melody and never knew the name of song and band. I really wanted to hear the song again but the Metal scene changed in the early 90's and no one would play the song on the radio. Then for the first time in over 20 years I heard it on KZread. What a relief. LOL.

Way back when the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special aired on television, I had never heard of a VCR or anything like that but I wanted to have a copy of the first big thing from my favorite movie. We had a little 19' TV that sat on top of an old console television that hadn't worked in a few years. I stood up a cassette recorder that I had, one of those with a speaker at one end and the buttons at the other, so that the little microphone hole was close to the little TV speaker and recorded the whole show on audio tape. After having the recording I played that thind daily visualizing it as best I could in my head and in some parts my imagination filled in the blanks. During the show there was this song that was played in what was supposed to be like a hologram device. It was a rock song and it quickly became one of my favorite songs. I would stand on my bed with my flashlight style lightsaber, It was a big green plastic sword that looked more like it should have been from Conan than Star Wars, but it lit up and was the coolest thing how it lit my room up and I became Luke Skywalker. I would play that song over and over singing at the top of my lungs about the "Sky lighting on fire" and how this great mystical ancient god came down and gave me Jedi powers. Eventually that tape got mangled in a player and I tried my best to cut the bad part out and patch it with a tiny piece of scotch tape but with a broken heart I had to accept that the tape was ruined and a huge chunk of the song was gone and so was the magic. For years I never knew who it was that performed that song or even the proper name of that song but it would echo in the back of my mind periodically being triggered by the most random of things. Fast forward to when I was in my 20's and I was talking about this amazing song to an older friend of mine and describing it as best I could, along with the story of my standing up on my bed with this magic sword in my hand like I was on a hilltop, and when I mentioned the lyrics about lighting the sky on fire, my friend said he thought he knew what song it was and told me to wait there at his kitchen table. He came back a few minutes later and popped in an old cassette tape into his boom box and after some fast forward/rewind action I heard my beloved song from so long ago streaming out of those speakers. I cannot describe the emotions I felt at that moment having those memories and young fantastic imaginary visions come flooding back but lets just say I honestly think I almost started to cry, which was an odd thing to think of from a grown man in his egocentric 20's with long hair, leather jacket, and cultivating the "Bad Ass" image for himself. My friend handed me the tape case and it was Jefferson Starship's "Light the Sky on Fire" on the album "Gold". To this day that song, and the Holiday Special holds a deep, sentimental spot in my heart and always will. On that note, I think all the people who "Hate" on the Holiday Special are judging it with adult, modern eyes looking back instead of remembering it from the young child's eyes from back then. We didn't have any way of re-living Star Wars or even watching clips or anything. When that show came on it was the first time we got to see our newest heroes and the best crush other than little ad spots on TV or magazine pictures we cut out and saved. It was a very special moment for us and it is sad to me how people look back now and just forget what it was like for a small child, we didn't care about how corny it was or cheesy, hell we WERE corny and cheesy back then so it was a perfect match. Anyway if you want to join me in a little flashback, here you go. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lX-Aj5ircs63fpM.html

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

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

@catherine6653

13 күн бұрын

I am thinking about the first Happy Meal. 🍔🍟

@mournblade1066

13 күн бұрын

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

@anselpeneloperainblossom-s3489

13 күн бұрын

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

@juliao1255

13 күн бұрын

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

@jameslaidler2152

13 күн бұрын

All about those hash browns myself.

My "mysterious song was Happy Ever After by Julia Fordham. I heard it when a figure skater used it in her routine. This was before home internet. Years went by and people started loading lyrics to the web. I entered the lyrics I could remember. I read through several entries comparing the poetry to the cadence of the song as it played in my head. I FOUND IT! As fast as humanly possible, I ordered the CD and played it non-stop for days. The relief was incredible!

That era holds so many musical mysteries. For example, I have collected the singles reviews from the major pop magazines for every week in the mid eighties. Out of all the hundreds, there is one review of a single in 1985 and the band and track have never shown up anywhere. Even the reviewer himself could not remember it. It's going to haunt me forever probably.

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

@trishlarocca

6 күн бұрын

Howard Jones..

@txsurfnturf

5 күн бұрын

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

@josevillarreal5955

5 күн бұрын

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

@debbiebowman4211

5 күн бұрын

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

@glenngebhard1575

5 күн бұрын

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

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

I love the Mysterious song, and the story around it. How intriguing. ❤

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

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

@loginregional

13 күн бұрын

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

@laurallewien2165

13 күн бұрын

Anna!

@karlsenula9495

13 күн бұрын

😂

@jasonrackawack9369

13 күн бұрын

😂🤣😅😉👍

@bigal1863

13 күн бұрын

LOL Al Bundy is my spirit animal

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

Hi Professor, it REALLY does sound like Depeche Mode because Dave Gahan has such a distinctive vocal. Also you could look up a German D.J. called Darius S. Good luck.

I think it was that obscure rock genius Adam Reader. He never released anything commercially, but in his secret recording studio, he would make great music and release it to unsuspecting radio stations, hoping to get noticed. Once the unnamed track gained notoriety, he decided it was the perfect time to make his own KZread channel and call it “Professor of Rock” so he could promote the song decades after it was recorded. His ploy worked and now comes this episode to show everyone he got us good! Well played, Adam!! Well played.

@thomasrounds3337

13 күн бұрын

Time travellers. I need to know

@blaster-zy7xx

11 күн бұрын

Yeah, if only he could sing like that when he was minus 10 years old.

@katycanino1566

4 күн бұрын

😂

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

As a record seller I found a few test pressings that I could find no record of on the internet, but because they were labelled and by bands no one had heard of people weren't interested and they were not worth much. If one had had the label ripped of it could have been a sensation. Also I had a song on a mix tape when I was a kid that I liked from the 90s and it has been driving me mad for 20 years trying to find out who it was by.

Interesting!! There was one part of that song that sounded so familiar to me but I haven't put my finger on it yet. If someone ever does claim rights to the song I'm afraid that they better have some kind of proof or the world will never truly believe them. Fantastic story & possibly the best mystery of the modern world!

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

@leinonibishop9480

11 күн бұрын

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

@RobertLuck-ij1yt

11 күн бұрын

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

@thomaslanghorst5738

11 күн бұрын

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

@leinonibishop9480

11 күн бұрын

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

@iluvj00

10 күн бұрын

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

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

Well done. Thank you..

My first thought is it's a track from a movie. In the states they often hit the radio to promote them, and then they kind of fade out. The title track to Jim Carrey's "Once Bitten" jumps out as one. You can track it down on KZread, but it's almost like the band doesn't want it to be downloaded or spread.

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

@KiltedHammer

12 күн бұрын

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

@johnsilva-henebry5819

11 күн бұрын

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

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

@raresaturn

7 күн бұрын

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

@masterq2.033

4 күн бұрын

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

I stay up at night thinking about all the unrealized albums sitting on hard drives in e-waste recycling centers, or disintegrating ampex tapes. Most of my bands broke up with our best material waiting for an official release.

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

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

@fstopPhotography

12 күн бұрын

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

@bettyparker3317

12 күн бұрын

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

@Muggashyte

12 күн бұрын

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

@mbsnyderc

12 күн бұрын

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

@sarahs5340

12 күн бұрын

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

This is a great video! It's complete story telling.. You should be creating television programming with this content ✌

@ericbgordon1575

13 күн бұрын

I'm wondering why VH1 or MTV haven't snapped him up by now.

@DveMcGuire

13 күн бұрын

@@ericbgordon1575 100% legit question for VH1.

@ProfessorofRock

13 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@ProfessorofRock

13 күн бұрын

@@ericbgordon1575 Thanks Eric! I don't think they do music much anymore.

@ericbgordon1575

13 күн бұрын

True enough, Professor. If they reverted to it, I would be on the horn to you first.

Thanks for playing the whole thing

@nathanwahl9224

5 күн бұрын

Yeah, I mean come on man, 3 seconds at a time??? Really?????

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

It's WYLD STALLYNS. There, I let the cat out of the bag.

@DanlowMusic

13 күн бұрын

"69!"😂😂

@steelandtreeE407

13 күн бұрын

Good one.........

@cheesesteak22

13 күн бұрын

😂 🎸 lyrics by So-crates

@abinashmishra329

13 күн бұрын

EXCELLENT!!!

@robhaunui3343

13 күн бұрын

Was that the she-male glam metal band that came out in the mid 80s ? Only ever heard the one song from them,wasn't bad but I've heard worse

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

@stpaulimdog

12 күн бұрын

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

@GtrMatt

11 күн бұрын

​@@stpaulimdogDX7 was released in '83.

The longest instance of this, for me, was years of searching for a song that I eventually found was Nymphetamine by Cradle of Filth. Apparently, no one in my family or circle of friends listened to Cradle of Filth. I kept getting suggestions of Nightwish and Halestorm even though those were female lead singer bands and Nymphetamine, to me at least, sounded like the female voice was support.

It would be easier to identify if we got to hear More of the song. The little clips are too elusive. Is there a link to the full song? I, for one, would love to hear it!!! Sounds so familiar, for some reason. It's Definitely a song I would love on a mixed tape!!!

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

@MetFan37

7 күн бұрын

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

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

@Cloxxki

4 күн бұрын

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