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Has anyone been keeping up with the search for "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet?" (hexbear.net)

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Basically the story is this: in 1984 a German kid named Darius was taping a rock radio show. In 2007 he and his sister Lydia found the tape again, but were unable to identify one of the songs. So Lydia posted the song online.

For the next 17 years millions of people around the world searched and investigated, trying to find out what this song was. The song became known as “The most Mysterious song on the Internet,” or “Like the Wind,” as that’s the first line in the song. The recording was old and not entirely clear in places, and people argued endlessly over what the lyrics actually were.

Multiple subreddits became devoted to the search for the band, and it spawned an entire genre called Lostwave. Many people devoted years of their lives to searching archives, not only online but searching through actual radio station archives and similar places, turning up in person and spending hours, days, weeks, months and eventually years of their lives searching for the band who created this masterpiece. Youtubers like Justin Whang made multiple videos documenting the search.

Even the radio station that originally broadcast the song got involved, trying to help but had no idea what the song was. It seemed a lost cause. People even started to believe the song had somehow crossed into our dimension from a parallel universe, as apart from this recording, there was no trace of it, like it had never existed.

Two weeks ago, the mystery was finally solved. Turns out it’s called “Subways of Your Mind,” and it’s awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwiEvPMANa8&list=RDDwiEvPMANa8&start_radio=1

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People even started to believe the song had somehow crossed into our dimension from a parallel universe, as apart from this recording, there was no trace of it, like it had never existed.

Its so weird in human context. 200+ years ago nothing was ever directly recorded in this way and nobody could have conceived of this cognitive problem.

Now peoples minds are fully adapted to the idea that if something happened there must be media of it. Pics or it didn't happen. Full adaption to total surveillance has been achieved.

Now going back to my dorm room for another bong hit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Its so weird in human context. 200+ years ago nothing was ever directly recorded in this way and nobody could have conceived of this cognitive problem.

Now peoples minds are fully adapted to the idea that if something happened there must be media of it. Pics or it didn't happen. Full adaption to total surveillance has been achieved.

Now going back to my dorm room for another bong hit.

The real tragedy is that there are thousands upon thousands of vital and important movies, music, art and books from the global south rotting away inside and outside of archives right this moment, things that are actually worth something, unlike any of those shitty children tv shows any "lost media afficionados" pretend to care about.