Culture "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" has been found! The song is called Subways Of Your Mind by FEX.

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So here's the story in short:
About two weeks ago I came across an old newspaper article in the Nordwest Zeitung archive, while researching Hörfest bands. The article was about a band called FEX from Kiel, who won a talent contest in Bremen in Sep 1984 and their music was described as Rock with Wave and Pop influences. It also mentioned their members and one of them I recognised from a Hörfest 83 band called Phret. I managed to get in touch with him and asked him if he still had some old material from those bands. He then sent me some of the songs he made with FEX and Phret... and lo and behold, one of them was titled Subways Of Your Mind. It's a slightly different version from the one we know: https://vocaroo.com/19NFyeqYi7Zj
After I emailed him back that the song is actually quite a famous "lost song", he asked me not to go public with it until he spoke with his old band members. In the mean time though the song did get registered at GEMA and people found out about it. But I'm happy to say that the band members agreed for me to go public with it. So here it is.
I'm sure there will be a lot of questions and I hope the band can answer these themselves in the future. I'm just glad and relieved the search is over
EDIT (additional information):
https://preview.redd.it/x6lslr53jvy...bp&s=5d699794d26d8a0d998c3f9b7bee1a28b205ef7b
Heart In Danger: https://vocaroo.com/1kAK2RMZMO3T
Talking Hands: https://vocaroo.com/15IQ8yYROCAD

Spoiler: Subways Of Your Mind

Spoiler: Heart In Danger

Spoiler: Talking Hands

Spoiler: Image attached via the link in the edit

 

[Stoneheart]

The original tape of everyone knows that is still lost though

thats ion some porn companies basement...

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I sent the songs to someone and their favorite was Talking Hands. Mine's probably Heart in Danger. MAKE POLL

 

[Procrastinhater]

Holy shit this thing is concentrated '80's.
I'm gonna play it on my way to vote for Reagan.
Fuck Mondale.

 

[GR8 B8 M8 I R8 8/8]

Can't wait to see the Whang video on it.

Huge win for the lost media seekers. You love to see it.

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

Holy shit this thing is concentrated '80's.
I'm gonna play it on my way to vote for Reagan.
Fuck Mondale.

i don't even know why people are saying it has low production value. for an 80s euro wave garage band this is like professionally mixed. you can hear the lyrics clearly but you can still hear the music.

 

[ZipDisk]

The klebold harris shit is interesting in HOW haram the government went on it. There is no legitimate reason to hold the information back, it's not going to resurrect any of those kids, but even Eminem got stepped on trying to reference it.

still the definitive one was this

That's pretty much how Kurt did it on Top of the pops in '91.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPtJtbRXi3I

 

[FattyMcFatterson]

Eww why the fuck did they sign up with GEMA for?

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

Can't wait to see the Whang video on it.

Huge win for the lost media seekers. You love to see it.

MutaSA’AR is currently making one as well, I’m sure

 

[LiquidKid]

The subreddit is terrible. Zero archiving. Zero experts in audio analysis and the industry aside from a few self-professed ‘musicians’. The analysis thread is laughably amateur.

This is every reddit ever. It’s genuinely the most useless platform on the planet.
My favorite redditism is:
>post question
>deleted post
>reply: I figured it out.

Without ever giving any context or info as to how they figured it out

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

This is every reddit ever. It’s genuinely the most useless platform on the planet.
My favorite redditism is:
>post question
>deleted post
>reply: I figured it out.

Without ever giving any context or info as to how they figured it out

this is a plague across the entire internet; you find a post from 15 years ago of a guy asking some programming question or how to fix an issue he's having, and then you see a bunch of posts saying "nvm i fixed it, thread closed" like no one else will ever have their issue. fucking idiots.

 

[Yellow Rose Of Texas]

I'm glad there's still people going full autism mode about these kinda stuff,makes me miss the golden age of the internet.

 

[Ashkenazi Porn Actress]

The FBI supposedly has some of the tapes iirc

Looked it up, Jefferson County say destroyed the tapes but the FBI retains copies. Wonder if those could gotten with a FOIA request.

 

[Ilikeoreos]

I haven't had a spit take looking at the Farm's front page like this since I found out what Chris did to his mom

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

"Subways" in a lower key has some serious GDR doomer vibes.

Oh man, I love the late DDR music, it's same doomer-experimental wave as was happening in the USSR at the same time. Only the soviet one was darker.

Spoiler

 

[Syntaxion]

Another one that will never be found is the infamous yellowstone death video
>Sister and brother stray from the main path, brother climbs on top of a boiling spring. Sister starts filming but puts down camera to lend her brother a hand (camera on and aimed at the duo). Brother slips, falls in and boils to death. With the water being so hot and acidic, he probably dissolved within a short time. All captured on camera

Apparantly it just got deleted by the police when they got their hands on it.

Does the farms have a thread on lost media?

 

[LiquidKid]

this is a plague across the entire internet; you find a post from 15 years ago of a guy asking some programming question or how to fix an issue he's having, and then you see a bunch of posts saying "nvm i fixed it, thread closed" like no one else will ever have their issue. fucking idiots.

Or even worse.
“This was already asked in this thread, go there!” Only for the thread or page to be dead. It’s why I don’t like visiting old forums even if the OP has the same issue I do

 

[HansKlokBier]

Summary​

The mystery of the most enigmatic song on the internet, identified as “Subways of Your Mind” by the German band Fex, was solved after 17 years of investigation.

Highlights​

• The song, recorded in the 1980s by Darius, became a long-running internet mystery.
• Lydia, Darius’s sister, initiated the online search in 2007 under the pseudonym Anton Redell.
• The mystery gained traction in 2019 when Gabriel DVAVieira uploaded the song to YouTube.
• Various theories emerged, including connections to the band Statues in Motion and speculation about the song’s origins.
• The solution was discovered in November 2024 by Reddit user Marin 1412, confirming the song’s identity as “Subways of Your Mind” by Fex.

 

[White Room]

Summary​

The mystery of the most enigmatic song on the internet, identified as “Subways of Your Mind” by the German band Fex, was solved after 17 years of investigation.

Highlights​

• The song, recorded in the 1980s by Darius, became a long-running internet mystery.
• Lydia, Darius’s sister, initiated the online search in 2007 under the pseudonym Anton Redell.
• The mystery gained traction in 2019 when Gabriel DVAVieira uploaded the song to YouTube.
• Various theories emerged, including connections to the band Statues in Motion and speculation about the song’s origins.
• The solution was discovered in November 2024 by Reddit user Marin 1412, confirming the song’s identity as “Subways of Your Mind” by Fex.

Why are you posting with ChatGPT

 

[Str8Bustah]

not my kind of music but cool for people who enjoy this genre.

 

[Asperchewy]

I knew of this story. Awesome that the band was discovered finally.