The Search for The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet

There is no better name for this 80's post punk track than The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet. 40 years after being recording a song off the radio in the 80s, despite millions of views on YouTube, no one in the world has been able to identify this song. Will we even know who made The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet?

[arcusma]

I saw a comment saying “this song was so fire it burned all the evidence”

[Microtonal_Cats]

Shazam found it almost immediately and says it's "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" by "The Most Mysterious Band" lol.

[pamelaAlmaraz-ypby]

i love how the people who started the whole search are actually present throughout the whole thing, unlike *COUGH COUGH* CARL92

[ulischmidt]

Ah a rare occasion you can play more than a nth of a song that is less than 100 years old without getting a copyright strike

[Mrnotpib]

A favorite joke about this song is “what’s your favorite song?”
“I don’t know.”

[DestroyaMusic]

Finally a song you can play on YouTube without getting a DMCA takedown since absolutely nobody knows what it is

[harisk]

I am Greek and old enough to remember Statues in Motion. I had seen them live but hadn't bought their album.
I also happen to know the drummer A. (Akis) Perdikis personally.
I'll contact him and ask him if he remembers the song.
Doubtful, after 40+ yrs., but worth a try.

[TheDigitalApple]

Imagine an alternate world where this song is a music classic while we’re trying to find the title for All Star….truly a terrifying thought.

[AMZOD]

I genuinely hope I don't die before this mystery gets solved.

[LRENRZRR]

There's a similar story about a 90s song that They Might Be Giants fans only knew as "I Might Be Giants, Too". Someone had just handed the band a cassette with that song and they liked it and played it on their Dial-A-Song service and before shows.
After 30 years, finally the artist has been discovered last year, and he didn't know himself that the band had gotten his song, which was supposed to be an enviromentalist anthem that he had named after the band, even without being a particularly big fan.
He recently re-recorded it, very well, under the name "Louderman". It's a bit sad that the secret is not a secret anymore, but still it felt amazing to see it being solved after knowing the song for decades!

[hhdhpublic]

Some big artist should sample the song and wait for the owner to come knocking for the royalties.

[roonkolos]

Theres such a morbid irony in a song now being so popular and widespread althewhile no one knows who made it. Even those that made it seem to not know how popular it became

Sad in a way

[ajplays-gamesandmusic]

So, there's a disagreeable man in his 60s that swears it's not a DX7 on the track, and everyone assumed 1982 was the earliest it could have been recorded... but then they find a higher quality recording, on a tape that could have been dubbed as late as 1985... making the DX7 more likely. This detail should be looked into further.

[rabbitscooter]

She had good taste in music. I could actually have identified almost everything else on her compilation. On a personal note, I worked at a demo studio for time, and we actually once re-recorded the drums (I'm a drummer) and keyboards before submitting a single for inclusion on a compilation album because the original tracks by the band weren't great. We never told the band and they never asked even after the record was released. So you never know what happened between the original recording and being played on the radio.

[PedroBenolielBonito]

For my money, Statues in Motion were the real winners with this whole situation. Nobody knew who they were before TMMS, and now they're the talk of the Internet.

[ryanpeterson]

I was in a band for 10 years, about 14 years ago. Our lead singer emailed a couple of months back, having stumbled upon some more recordings from back then that he found on an old hard drive. There were songs that I didn't even remember. We played those songs a million times but still, after 14 years, there were some I had just forgot about. I can imagine people having difficulty remembering certain details. But regardless, this is a wonderfully told, fascinating story.

[emoife]

At least for this case we actually have the full song to listen too anytime we want even if we haven’t found the original artist unlike everyone knows that with just a small snippet

[glenmorrison]

13:51 Not only that, but the song is rather fully produced. Someone definitely spent a good chunk of change on that recording.

[karafaunt]

I truly thing that L.T.D.5 made the song. The name "farewell" fits pretty well with the song lyrics (at least what I interpret)
"take the consequence of leavin', there's no space, there's no tomorrow, there's no sent communications" I think these all fit pretty well with a couple that broke up or something like that.

[ethan]

It’s really interesting to me that so many lost pieces of music like Fond my Mind, Panchiko - Deathmetal, Kenya Song, HLWIT, and so many others have been found, but the one that kinda started it all still remains elusive. Only other big one I can think of that still hasn’t been identified is EKT/Ulterior Motives, but that search started far more recently than this one.