In 1984 a family did what many of us experienced at that time, took advantage of cassette tapes to record the songs that were heard on the radio. Among them there was one in particular that they especially liked, but without information about the group behind it, it was impossible for them to discover who was behind it.
That became a kind of family mystery and, back in 2007, the sister of the boy who recorded the tape went to the internet for help. With all the music experts on the internet, it was clear that someone had to know that song and the group that had shaped it. It wasn’t going to be that easy.
The most mysterious song on the internet
Jumping from forum to forum, the mysterious song aroused people’s curiosity until, as usually happens in these cases, someone took the case to Reddit to see if they had better luck there. under the name The Mysterious Songthe subreddit exploded reaching up to 59,000 members.
Magazines such as Rolling Stone to try to solve the mystery by revealing the case, and YouTube was filled with videos of audiophiles and music experts doing the same. The result? More than 3 million views. In other words, more than 3 million people had heard the song and the mystery remained unsolved.
The problem seemed to be that they were looking in the wrong place. The logical thing, just as they did, was to turn to other music recordings in audio and video form, radio stations, DJs of the time… The answer, however, was in the coincidence that a simple newspaper sparked.
One of the Reddit members stumbled upon an article about a band called FEX and the chronicle of how he had gone to a recording studio during the month of September 1984. The user did not know the band or its repertoire, but curiously he did recognize one of the members who appeared in the photo who, years later, had become part of another band called Phret.
As luck would have it, he managed to get in touch with him to ask if he still had any recordings from that time and, among all the songs, he came across a call Subways Of Your Mind that, although on the recording it sounded slightly different from the mysterious song, there was no doubt that they were the same.
The group was completely unaware of the stir that their music had generated on the Internet, but they were also unaware of how the song had reached that family’s cassette tape in 1984. In any case, the good news for those who spent all these years searching, the song most mysterious on the internet is no longer so.
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