The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
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The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
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#2I’ve enjoyed seeing the communities that form around these songs. There is a similar song called “Fond My Mind” that has seen many re-makes and adaptations despite having an unknown origin (likely from Brazil in the late 80s/early 90s).
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#3Recently discovered that this is the song playing on the radio in the crashed car you find near the end of the Doom map MyHouse.wad - because of course it is
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#4Still weird that they could not identify it. I often listen to recordings where I am an unique likely listener for years, as well as my own bootlegs. But it is never a problem to identify music or even find much more knowledgeable people to ask for pointers.
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#5I have like a billion demo tapes from the 80s and 90s from bands I tried out for or whatever, many of which include fairly well written pop songs in the approximate quality range of this song. so... this seems like someone's demo tape with a pretty good song that caught on regardless of not being identified? one would think this occurs often, at least if we put more old demo tape songs on youtube
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#6Recently discovered that this is the song playing on the radio in the crashed car you find near the end of the Doom map MyHouse.wad - because of course it is
That's hilarious because I watched a playthrough recently and wondered if copyright is ever enforced in stuff like this when I heard that, without knowing what the song was. Now I know that it's essentially (inadvertently) public domain.
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#7This song gives me major Russ Ballard vibes
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW3M-yio9tLtffeHaqZs-pXqK...
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#8I have like a billion demo tapes from the 80s and 90s from bands I tried out for or whatever, many of which include fairly well written pop songs in the approximate quality range of this song. so... this seems like someone's demo tape with a pretty good song that caught on regardless of not being identified? one would think this occurs often, at least if we put more old demo tape songs on youtube
Yep, same. Also there's dozens of songs that I totally lost to time, because of lost hard drives, tapes thrown away after being converted to disk, some stuff from 2010 that I lost the multitracks when moving countries.
Some friends had some songs almost 20 years ago that was actually played in the radio by a DJ friend of ours. It wasn't any good, but I reached out to the four of them and asked if they still have it. Nope, the four of them have no idea where the songs are.
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#9I have like a billion demo tapes from the 80s and 90s from bands I tried out for or whatever, many of which include fairly well written pop songs in the approximate quality range of this song. so... this seems like someone's demo tape with a pretty good song that caught on regardless of not being identified? one would think this occurs often, at least if we put more old demo tape songs on youtube
So many of us (myself included) have become accustomed to being able to find or identify just about anything with the right software, tools, or community. But there are just so many recordings out there like you mentioned - demos, one-offs, etc. that only one or two people would even be able to identify.
Despite the reach of global communication, there's a good chance those people never find out that others are searching for this info. They may not even be alive anymore.
A year or two ago, some friends and I had the theme of "rare or weird songs" for a monthly "bring your own music" listening party. Since the previous theme was "songs from your childhood/youth" and I like to throw in a bridge to the previous theme when possible, I brought in the recording of a practice session I did with a band back in college around 2000.
I'd since digitized the cassette tape and probably have the only copy of this recording in existence. The band played one show and it was generally just a fun project among friends. We never recorded a proper album, only set up a tape recorder during one practice session as we ran through the whole set.
There must be hundreds of thousands of similar recordings out there from bedroom projects and bands-that-never-were.
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#10Still weird that they could not identify it. I often listen to recordings where I am an unique likely listener for years, as well as my own bootlegs. But it is never a problem to identify music or even find much more knowledgeable people to ask for pointers.
Not really. Stuff gets played on the radio all the time by obscure musicians.
Example: I played (along with a few others) a tune once on BBC Radio 3 for a program about the blues. Since I just gave the lead sheet to my fellow musicians before the recording and none of us (or the song) were ever credited, there's absolutely no way that anyone could track down what that song was, who wrote it, who the musicians on it were etc.
I mean: I literally couldn't do it myself and it was my song and I played on it.