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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK8l0pkyiy0
Found online soo many years ago in a random website because it had a name similar to another track I was looking for.
And so we started searching for all the songs. There was one we couldn't find anywhere (this was pre-Napster days btw and back then lyrics weren't sufficient to find a song).
The hand-written text on the cassette's sleeves read:
"Zap Four - This is is reggae music".
Impossible to find.
Turns out, one day I found it. It was not "Zap Four" but "Zap Pow". For all these years I had misread the handwritten text.
Reggae fans, enjoy, because that's one heck of a good one (and not a very famous song):
For some reason, my BS detector is telling me that someone recorded a fake song a decade and a half ago, the long troll turned out far better than they ever could have imagined, and there’s no way they ever come clean about this.
Sort of reminds me the Reply All episode "The Case of the Missing Hit": https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx which involves a similar search for an unidentified song (though in this case, just one that someone remembers having heard, rather than an actual recording).
IMO This is the best single podcast episode ever made.
I have my own mystery song, but a much more recent one, one of the songs that was playing at Google I/O. The soundtrack for the weekend was largely popular stuff from groups like CHVRCHES, but this one I could never identify using every technique I could think of. I put a minute-long clip of it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gK7Krx0TQ if anyone here happens to be able to figure out its origin these d…
I 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 searc…
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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 w…
Were you invited on the show? Did they have your names? Did they make a list of who performed in what order? I've been amazed at how obscure recordings are often identified because someone kept a notebook or other recordings. It's not going to be 100%, but it's enough that it surprises/ intrigues folks when something can't be identified.
I’d only heard about this a few weeks ago. I’ve seen hunts for mystery songs go down before (“On the Roof”, what’s up!), but for some reason something about this one just feels off. Like that photograph of the track list - just seems a little too perfect that this is the one other bit of evidence. For some reason, my BS detector is telling me that someone recorded a fake song a decade and a half ago, the long troll t…
There were some major differences in song structures. All other songs on their album were all synth and drum machine, this one has a synth but also guitar and actual drum set.
Why would they fuck around with that equipment for one song that didn't even make the cut to be on their album?
If the singer who's a dead ringer voice wise and style wise however did it on his own, maybe the other band member is trying to take credit because he's trying to release the album with extra songs, potentially this one included.
This theory struck me as making a lot of sense.
I’d only heard about this a few weeks ago. I’ve seen hunts for mystery songs go down before (“On the Roof”, what’s up!), but for some reason something about this one just feels off. Like that photograph of the track list - just seems a little too perfect that this is the one other bit of evidence. For some reason, my BS detector is telling me that someone recorded a fake song a decade and a half ago, the long troll t…
there was a YouTube video by a guy, last name whang, Johnny maybe? He was going down a rabbit hole that it was this one band someone found they contacted one member who denied it but later said it was his, which is suspect. However, the lead singer is MIA, nobody knows if he's alive or dead, it's thought probably dead, but he supposedly did some stuff outside of the band. There were some major differences in song str…