The most mysterious song on the internet.

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The most mysterious song on the internet.

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Howdy all, back for my once or twice annual "I have a modicum of time to use the internet recreationally" post.

There's a song some kid taped off the radio in 1984. The band and song title is unknown and a search has been ongoing for 15 years or something like that. Here's one of them fancy articles people used to make: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... et-885106/

Anyway, what do you think it was? My belief is that an unknown song is not a mysterious song: my brother's dead guitar teacher sold some CDs out of his car. Don't remember the guy's name or what the CD was called. If I uploaded an anonymous song from that guy to the internet, I don't think it would qualify for a quest. Ditto all the little bar bands I grew up seeing open for friends who were all called like Road Hawgs or The Hard Knocks or some shit and all had a version of Mustang Sally. Some of those even had LPs.

If this song didn't have that kinda Tears for Fears thing happening and the mysterious and ghostly sounds of a Yamaha DX7 and tape hiss/decay and a non-English speaker trying to speak English, it would not rise to the level of being a mystery because the Road Hawgs are not a mystery. There are aesthetic things happening around the song that make it feel mysterious, but it's not. It's just a bad song from 1984, a bad year in music generally.

My theory is that the song was in fact generic: a royalty-free thing designed to be used in radio ads for that station or in the background of a TV show. You know, diagetic randomness. It could have been made by somebody like Tape-A-Thon, which did the generic music for the Kmart tapes that were the basis for a lot of vaporwave. I feel like it would have almost certainly been located if it was made by four people who were trying to seriously get on the radio in 1984.
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First, howdy, semi-stranger. Hope things are good with you.

Second, I love everything about this story. It seems the perfect set-up for a music-themed DaVinci Code kind of potboiler, ending with proof that John is still alive but Paul has, indeed, been dead since '66.

Third, my initial thought/guess is that it's a demo-ish recording sent by an unsigned band to a dj hoping, Peel-like, to be discovered. The dj played it but nothing ever came of the band or the song, aside from this home recording.
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My guess it will go to #1 in Spotify downloads then singles charts around the world.
An album will magically appear go straight to #1 then Mike Peters will confirm The Alarm’s world tour.

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101Walterton wrote:
10 Dec 2019, 9:48pm
My guess it will go to #1 in Spotify downloads then singles charts around the world.
An album will magically appear go straight to #1 then Mike Peters will confirm The Alarm’s world tour.
Hello,

I hope it does shoot up spotify so I can start to collect my royalty checks.

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It's really rather generic and unmysterious, isn't it? :rolleyes:

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You know, my wife still calls me Kaleeb sometimes to irritate me. Fuckin' Michael Savage.
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oh shit kaleb has posted TWICE now

yeah, i think it's just some marginal demo or backing type track as you suggest. it's kind of interesting as a reminder of how many minor pieces of culture are missing from the digital age, but I'd rather someone uncover some new jerry lee lewis recordings or something.
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If this was a demo a band did back in 82/84 and sent to a radio station to play chances are they are no longer anything to do with music industry and what would be the chances of them knowing there was a mystery surrounding their song? Especially if they are in a non English speaking country.
I mean until read about it i here how many of us were aware of the ‘search’. Anyone one of us could have done that demo and not known???

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CorwoodRep wrote:
12 Dec 2019, 4:14pm
You know, my wife still calls me Kaleeb sometimes to irritate me. Fuckin' Michael Savage.
We do love to irritate our husbands.
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The opening chords made me want to sing (I Just Died) In Your Arms Tonight over the top.

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Possible break in the case:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Jun 2021, 12:44pm
Possible break in the case:
Your recall of obscure threads is astounding.
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Kory wrote:
04 Jun 2021, 1:50pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Jun 2021, 12:44pm
Possible break in the case:
Your recall of obscure threads is astounding.
It's rather impressive, I must say, given my failing memory in most regards. Usually all I'm good at retaining is petty slights and grievances.
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Kory wrote:
04 Jun 2021, 1:50pm
Your recall of obscure threads is astounding.
Seriously, It's not like it has anything to do with buttplugs or amputated penises.
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