The Search for The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet

Have we checked 1980s porn

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Awesome video! I worked in radio for 25 years, back when you could still call up a station, ask for the program director or music director, and ask them for information about a song. Not only would we be happy to help, but we'd also send you free swag.

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

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.

I think Alvin Dean is the singer, that he brought it to the band Statues in Motion, and they rejected the song. They might have made a demo or simply worked on the song and never recorded it. The recording we have could simply be Alvin Dean with a different band making a demo after Statues broke up. This would explain why Billy didn't recognize it at first (assuming that he did listen to the song). If it were a different recording, it might not have clicked with him that it was the song that Alvin brought to the band decades earlier. It could also be that this is Statues in Motion, and that Alvin took the demo when it wasn't used. It would also explain why it wasn't on the re-issue of Statues in Motion's album: the record company didn't have the demo.

There’s gonna be one dude out there in the future one day and just go: “oh! You mean XYZ by ABC? Yeah I have the cassette at home.” And the entire mistery is solved

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

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

Based on the accent I'm thinking more German or western European, Grew up listening to a ton of 80s euro post punk songs thanks to my mom who grew up during the era.

This was the most entertaining video on YouTube that I've watched, ever. I hung on every word waiting for the conclusion to be "we found it", but even not knowing the song makes it even more popular. I was in high school doing this period, but I didn't listen to this type of music so hearing it for the first time reminds me of songs which used to be played on the local stations on the weekends. Like "battle of the bands", where local bands trying to make it big, would submit their best song and each week callers would call in to vote for their favorite. Those bands and those songs are most likely lost to the ether, never to be heard again. 45 years later, those bands would have broken up, with band mates getting married and forgetting their past, or even passing away leaving behind unknown songs sitting in a closet or in a shoe box at a garage sale.