The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
"The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" is an internet phenomenon involving the attempt to identify a new wave song that was reportedly taped from a German radio station around 1984.
Background
A person who identified himself to a Rolling Stone writer as "Darius S." said that he recorded the song from a program called Musik für junge Leute ("Music for Young People") that he listened to on the German public radio station NDR, probably in 1984.[1]
According to Darius S., he recorded the song on a tape he labeled "cassette 4" along with songs from XTC and the Cure that were released in 1984. Further evidence that the mystery song dates from 1984 at the earliest is that the Technics tape deck that Darius S. used to record the song was manufactured in 1984.[1]
In 2007, the sister of Darius S., posting under the pseudonym "Anton," began posting the song on the internet in an attempt to identify the artist and song.[2] The woman, who identified herself as Lydia H. to a Rolling Stone writer, posted a digital snippet of the song to a German fansite devoted to eighties synth-pop and to spiritofradio.ca, a Canadian website devoted to identifying songs uploaded by fans.[1]
Viral internet phenomenon
The mystery of the unidentified song gained viral popularity in 2019 when a Brazilian teenager named Gabriel da Silva Vieira became intrigued by the song and began searching for evidence of its origin. He uploaded a clip of the song to YouTube and to several Reddit groups.[1]
In July 2019, a Reddit user posted the entire song.[1]
Paul Baskerville, the DJ of the show from which the song was likely taped, has stated that he does not remember the song.[1]
To date, the song's artist or name have not been identified.[1]
See also
References
Sources
- Browne, David (24 September 2019). "The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
{{cite web}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Kim, Sam (26 September 2019). "What is 'The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet'?". Public Radio International. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
