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|Alt_name = Coming Home / This Winter / Season at the CIA | |Alt_name = Coming Home / This Winter / Season at the CIA | ||
|Year = c. 1984 | |Year = c. 1984 | ||
|Genre =Post Punk | |Genre =new wave / Post Punk | ||
|Search_started = 2020 | |Search_started = 2020 | ||
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'''CIA''' (also known as '''"Are You Coming Home", "This Winter"''' or '''"Season At The CIA"''') is an unknown post-punk song uploaded to YouTube in 2020 by DJFormaldehyde. | '''CIA''' (also known as '''"Are You Coming Home", "This Winter"''' or '''"Season At The CIA"''') is an unknown new wave / post-punk song uploaded to YouTube in 2020 by DJFormaldehyde. | ||
==Origins and Search== | ==Origins and Search== | ||
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DJFormaldehyde posted CIA to YouTube and the New Wave Outpost forums on July 20, 2020.<ref>https://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=43033</ref> The song was discovered on a tape made by a friend of DJFormaldehyde that included songs recorded from CFNY-FM Spirit of Radio,<ref>https://spiritofradio.ca/SongSearchAdd.asp</ref> a Canadian radio station known at the time for playing new wave, electronic, and alternative music.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q46N3IYg0Y</ref> | DJFormaldehyde posted CIA to YouTube and the New Wave Outpost forums on July 20, 2020.<ref>https://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=43033</ref> The song was discovered on a tape made by a friend of DJFormaldehyde that included songs recorded from CFNY-FM Spirit of Radio,<ref>https://spiritofradio.ca/SongSearchAdd.asp</ref> a Canadian radio station known at the time for playing new wave, electronic, and alternative music.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q46N3IYg0Y</ref> | ||
The song was | The song was almost certainly recorded after July 1984 because the song "You Think You're A Man" by American performance artist Divine, which was released in July 1984, was the newest song on the tape.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q46N3IYg0Y&lc=Ugy8fLb1rOtbRp6ihmt4AaABAg.9eBIl25Qaqt9eE84dacDLB</ref> Two versions of "You Think You're A Man" appear on the tape; both before and after CIA. The majority of the songs on the tape were British in origin, dating from 1980 to 1984.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1eg9tk0/regarding_the_cia_recording_my_friend_who_owns/</ref> | ||
The search for CIA gained traction in November 2021, with the song making its way to the lostwave subreddit and being reuploaded multiple times that year.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/r0tr1t/cia_unknown_postpunk_song_recorded_in_canada/</ref> This was also the year that Alan Cross, who was a radio broadcaster at CFNY from 1986 onwards, uploaded the song to his website, broadening the search.<ref>https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/interested-in-solving-some-musical-mysteries-try-to-identify-these-songs/</ref> | The search for CIA gained traction in November 2021, with the song making its way to the lostwave subreddit and being reuploaded multiple times that year.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/r0tr1t/cia_unknown_postpunk_song_recorded_in_canada/</ref> This was also the year that Alan Cross, who was a radio broadcaster at CFNY from 1986 onwards, uploaded the song to his website, broadening the search.<ref>https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/interested-in-solving-some-musical-mysteries-try-to-identify-these-songs/</ref> | ||
It is | It is suspected that CIA may have been aired as part of CFNY's 5th annual Great Ontario Talent Search contest.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1d5nyli/cia_an_update/</ref> That year's contest aired songs by 102 unsigned Ontario bands from October 8, 1984 to late February, 1985.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CIAlostwave/comments/1lug7ze/great_ontario_talent_search/</ref> | ||
==Leads== | == Leads == | ||
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| Alternative name(s) | Coming Home / This Winter / Season at the CIA |
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| Genre | new wave / Post Punk |
| Year | c. 1984 |
| Original poster | datafreq |
| Search started | 2020 |
| File:CIA.mp3 | |
CIA (also known as "Are You Coming Home", "This Winter" or "Season At The CIA") is an unknown new wave / post-punk song uploaded to YouTube in 2020 by DJFormaldehyde.
Origins and Search
On February 21, 2020, user datafreq first uploaded the song to the New Wave Outpost forums, sourced from a cassette tape recorded in Canada in 1984.[1]
On April 8, 2020, the song's lyrics were uploaded to the music identification website Spirit of Radio by user Synthman78, claiming that it was a new wave song from 1985.[2]
DJFormaldehyde posted CIA to YouTube and the New Wave Outpost forums on July 20, 2020.[3] The song was discovered on a tape made by a friend of DJFormaldehyde that included songs recorded from CFNY-FM Spirit of Radio,[4] a Canadian radio station known at the time for playing new wave, electronic, and alternative music.[5]
The song was almost certainly recorded after July 1984 because the song "You Think You're A Man" by American performance artist Divine, which was released in July 1984, was the newest song on the tape.[6] Two versions of "You Think You're A Man" appear on the tape; both before and after CIA. The majority of the songs on the tape were British in origin, dating from 1980 to 1984.[7]
The search for CIA gained traction in November 2021, with the song making its way to the lostwave subreddit and being reuploaded multiple times that year.[8] This was also the year that Alan Cross, who was a radio broadcaster at CFNY from 1986 onwards, uploaded the song to his website, broadening the search.[9]
It is suspected that CIA may have been aired as part of CFNY's 5th annual Great Ontario Talent Search contest.[10] That year's contest aired songs by 102 unsigned Ontario bands from October 8, 1984 to late February, 1985.[11]
Leads
Possible
- Bradford Reaves: CIA Blues:[12][13] Unlikely, because Reaves' known music is in the folk rock style.
Debunked
- 4th Floor - Coming Home: An early lead suggested that the song was by the Alternative Rock band 4th Floor, as they had a song on Discogs called "Coming Home" that was released in 1984.[14] At the time, the album was not uploaded; however, when the cassette was converted and uploaded, this lead was disproven.[15][16]
- Zebra - CIA:[17]
- The Reform - CIA: In early 2024, speculation centered on the song "CIA" by The Reform, a rock/power pop song released in 1986 by a US band.[18] This was aided by the fact that the track length corresponded to the commonly uploaded length for the lost song CIA.[19] This lead was debunked after the vinyl was digitized and the song was uploaded.[20]
- Conditioned Response:[21]
- The Switch - Coming Home:[22]
Lyrics
| Presumed Lyrics |
| (Verse 1)
Are you comin' home for vacation Can you leave your work behind Will someone man your battlestation Will you give them all your time We all feel the same frustration And hope to God you're on our side (Chorus) Are you comin' home to stay Or will you spend this winter drivin' me insane Are you comin' home to stay Or will you spend the season at the CIA (Verse 2) Last year you studied Russian wheatfields Searched for silos you'd never find And when they found out, you struck a deal To bring back Levis on company time But you jumpеd ship once in lsrael And slipped away at thе Arab line (Chorus) Are you comin' home to stay Or will you spend this winter drivin' me insane Are you comin' home to stay Or will you spend the season at the CIA (Guitar Solo) (Verse 3) Can you paint a still life of your location Will the children wear a smile Do you believe that's liberation Or is it trimming for your file If someone deserves a commendation Let's present it at his final mile (Chorus) Are you comin' home to stay Or will you spend this winter drivin' me insane Are you comin' home to stay Or will you spend the season at the CIA Are you comin' home to stay Or will you spend this winter drivin' me insane Are you comin' home to stay Or will you spend the season at the CIA Are you comin' home to stay Or will you spend this winter drivin' me insane Are you comin' home to stay Or will you spend the season at the CIA (Outro) Are you coming Are you coming home |
References
- ↑ https://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=42844
- ↑ https://spiritofradio.ca/SongComments.asp?SongID=3233
- ↑ https://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=43033
- ↑ https://spiritofradio.ca/SongSearchAdd.asp
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q46N3IYg0Y
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q46N3IYg0Y&lc=Ugy8fLb1rOtbRp6ihmt4AaABAg.9eBIl25Qaqt9eE84dacDLB
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1eg9tk0/regarding_the_cia_recording_my_friend_who_owns/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/r0tr1t/cia_unknown_postpunk_song_recorded_in_canada/
- ↑ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/interested-in-solving-some-musical-mysteries-try-to-identify-these-songs/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1d5nyli/cia_an_update/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/CIAlostwave/comments/1lug7ze/great_ontario_talent_search/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/18vmgjb/i_might_have_found_the_artist_who_made_the_cia/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5fRCT1hWAw
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/12448615-4th-Floor-4th-Floor
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/embed/SDTrvxl8XOQ
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q46N3IYg0Y&lc=UgzVpvg3_93l-HR2MFh4AaABAg
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/embed/WCHmjJ72rXY
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/189yuf7/hmmmmmmmmm/
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/13839352-The-Reform-CIA-Gimme-Your-Love
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/the-reform-cia
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1amcyrf/conditioned_response_is_not_responsible_for_cia/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1d4u0r8/cia_isnt_coming_home_by_the_switch/