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'''The Most Mysterious Song | '''The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet''' (also known as "'''Like the Wind'''", "'''The Sun Will Never Shine'''", "'''Blind the Wind'''", "'''Check It In, Check It Out'''", "'''Take It In, Take It Out'''", and "'''Summer Blues''') is an unidentified song recorded by Darius S. It was recorded between 1982 and 1984 at the North German radio station "Norddeutscher Rundfunk," also known as NDR. | ||
== Origins | == Origins (1980s-2004) == | ||
Between 1983 and 1984, Darius S, a teenage music fan from Wilhelmshaven, Germany, taped a radio program on a BASF Chromdioxid II 90 cassette tape<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/eny5lg/year_of_basf_cassette/</ref> from the North German public radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). The tape included new songs from XTC and the Cure. He believes he recorded the song in 1984 based on the release dates of other songs on the tape and the Technics tape deck he had at the time.<ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/</ref> The synthesizer used in the song is a Yamaha DX7, which was released in May 1983.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/j05psy/just_a_video_for_those_who_dont_think_that_the/</ref> | |||
Darius' older sister, Lydia H, bought him a website domain for his birthday in 2004, which he used to raise awareness about the 25 unidentified songs in his personal collection. He then digitized his radio recordings, saving the songs as alif and m4a files, and uploaded them to his website, Unknown Pleasures, which is named after the 1979 album of the same name by English rock band Joy Division.<ref>https://www.spontis.de/musik/most-mysterious-song/</ref> | |||
== Early Search (2007-2017) == | |||
On March 18, 2007, Lydia requested assistance by posting the song under the pseudonym "Anton Riedel" on the websites best-of-80s.de<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190706172927/http://www.best-of-80s.de/80er-80s-musiksuche-sound-search-27/gesucht-80er-indie-wave-song-15895/</ref> and spiritofradio.ca<ref>https://spiritofradio.ca/SongComments.asp?SongID=1737</ref> where user Jugge suggested that it sounded like "Statues in Motion" or "Metro Decay". | |||
The song spread around the internet, first posted to WatZatSong on December 17th, 2009 by user Konstantinos,<ref>https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/31435.html</ref> and on April 16th, 2011, Spanish user Redalfo first uploaded the song to YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qus5eOALnMY</ref> | |||
The search received a surge of popularity in 2017, with it being reuploaded several times to WatZatSong that year<ref>https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/489269.html</ref><ref>https://www.watzatsong.com/fr/name-that-tune/530509.html</ref><ref>https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/511126.html</ref><ref>https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/520694.html</ref> and on September 17, 2017, the Spanish independent record label Dead Wax Records uploaded Anton's snippet of the song to YouTube, which would catch the attention of the person who would finally bring the search to mainstream attention. | |||
== Mainstream Attention and Current Search (2019-Present) == | |||
From April 20th to June 29, 2019, Gabriel da Silva Vieira, a 16-year-old from São Paulo, Brazil, posted the song 44 times on various subreddits with the title "THE MOST MYSTERIOUS SONG ON THE INTERNET!".<ref>https://www.reddit.com/user/gabgaskins/submitted/</ref>, eventually forming his own subreddit for the song on June 30, 2019.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/c7l2dw/themysterioussong_has_been_created/</ref> User newacountz quickly discovered Lydia's original uploads of the song, scrolling through the post history and determining that the uploader recorded it from NDR2 radio station, most likely off the program Musik für junge Leute (Music for young People).<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/c7l8az/comment/esh7mf0/</ref> They also discovered NDR presenters Peter Urban and Paul Baskerville. Paul was focused on because he spoke English and was known for playing completely unknown independent new wave music.<ref>https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Baskerville&oldid=157447844&useskin=vector</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/c7l8az/comment/esii4e2/</ref> | |||
On July | On July 9th, 2019, popular YouTuber Justin Whang discussed the search for the song on an episode of his YouTube series called ''Tales From the Internet.''<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90JvgNQicp0</ref> The next day, after searchers posted on the r/germany subreddit, a user named johnnymetoo claimed to have downloaded the full version of the song from Lydia's UseNet post<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/cbb2xv/comment/eteguvs/</ref>, uploading it to r/TheMysteriousSong two days later.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/cc8bhe/heres_the_complete_song_downloaded_it_in_2007/</ref> On July 21st, 2019, Paul Baskerville aired the song on his radio program "Nachtclub" after requests from the song's search team.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFPST7GgTgI</ref> On August 20th, 2019, Radio1 interviewed Paul Baskerville and played the song on the air,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwvnRZob3Gc</ref> which alerted Darius and Lydia to the search,<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/idayxm/anniversary/</ref> with Lydia joining the subreddit and Discord the next day.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/ct570y/comment/exkycuv/</ref> | ||
On September | On September 22nd, 2019, Lydia uploaded the first known tape of the song, known as BASF 4|1, to wetransfer.com.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/d7wgk4/update_6_from_lydia_full_tape_recording/</ref><ref>https://archive.org/details/basf41</ref>, containing songs from the United States,<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/85613-Ray-Parker-Jr-Ghostbusters</ref> United Kingdom,<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/63022-Heaven-17-Sunset-Now</ref> Scotland,<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/58954-Simple-Minds-Up-On-The-Catwalk</ref> Canada,<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/84580-Corey-Hart-Sunglasses-At-Night</ref> Germany<ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/971774-Willem-Wat-</ref> and the Netherlands<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/125615-Golden-Earring-Twilight-Zone</ref> ranging from 1982 to 1984. Numerous mainstream news publications began covering the story at this time, the first being Rolling Stone on September 24th, 2019.<ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/</ref> | ||
On | On June 26th, 2020, Lydia uploaded a mixtape containing the song, known as Compilation A, which had the song in lower quality than the previous tape<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/hghkee/another_mixtape_containing_tms/</ref><ref>https://mega.nz/file/fb4hGaxS#p0HATOWeaUyMSaxmW-Xxaq4taiZvVU9Z97_nG_BRz-0</ref> | ||
On July 9th, 2020, reddit user u/FlexxonMobil received a list of every song Paul Baskerville played on Musik für Junge Leute from 1982 to 1984<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/hofedh/world_exclusive_i_have_obtained_the_1984_song/</ref>, but after searching through the available playlists<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/hp0iam/breaking_paul_baskerville_likely_did_not_play_the/</ref>, the song could not be found, even after receiving the 1984 playlists from other shows including Der Club and Nachtclub.<ref>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SGKnBTvV7aBSM5Gi0BwUydxXkNooK6ZIVDfYvKUGJ68/edit?gid=274459647#gid=274459647</ref> Through this, searchers were able to estimate that the song aired in September or November 1984 based on several discovered playlists containing songs Darius had to have recorded during that time period, although several playlists from this period are missing.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1bhdizt/tmms_likely_played_on_sept_28_1984_or_november_28/</ref> There are still several missing Nachtclub and Der Club playlists that could contain the song, spanning August to October 1984.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1d9cmz8/a_few_crucial_playlists_missing_tms_could_be_on/</ref> | |||
On December 22, 2020, user fliere discovered a 10 kHz line in the song via spectrogram analysis, which was present on NDR broadcasts at the time. It is also confirmed that the 10 kHz modulation scheme was only used by NDR, because Darius recorded from other stations, like Hilversum, which did not have the 10 KHz line, effectively ruling out the possibility of the song being aired on any station other than NDR.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/kidd3m/update/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/l80581/the_10khz_line/</ref> | |||
On November | On November 7th, 2021, Lydia posted the final mixtape known as N01, which contains the highest quality version of the song, after discovering it in a box of tapes while renovating her apartment with her son.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/qkwo2x/higher_quality_version_of_the_song_thanks_to/</ref><ref>https://mega.nz/file/mGpUTCZa#UczM2QtoS8k5UUH5PEcosQ7Obu52WZ0kMRePWHLj2J4</ref> | ||
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== Lyrics == | == Lyrics == | ||
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| <strong>Presumed Lyrics</strong> | | <strong>Presumed Lyrics</strong> | ||
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| Like | | Like the wind (originally presumed as "Blind" by Darius) | ||
You came here running' | You came here running' | ||
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There's no tomorrow, | There's no tomorrow, | ||
There's no sense communication | There's no sense communication (or, "sense for 'munication", "sense communicating", "sense for new dictation". This is one of the most debated lines, with multiple interpretations) | ||
Check it in, check it out, for the sun won't ever shine, | Check it in, check it out, for the sun won't ever shine, | ||
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Paranoid anyway, in the subways of your mind, | Paranoid anyway, in the subways of your mind, | ||
Like the wind, you're gone in summer | Like the wind, you're gone in summer (gonna suffer, going somewhere), let a smile be your companion | ||
There's no place, and there's no sorrow, hear the young and restless | There's no place, and there's no sorrow, hear the young and restless dreamer (dreaming) | ||
Check it in, check it out, but the sun won't ever shine, | Check it in, check it out, but the sun won't ever shine, | ||
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Paranoid anyway, in the subways of your mind, | Paranoid anyway, in the subways of your mind, | ||
Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues | Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues (song of youth, psalm of youth) | ||
Check it in, check it out, it's the real excuse | Check it in, check it out, it's the real excuse (it's the real in you) | ||
Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues | Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues | ||
Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real excuse | Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real excuse | ||
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== | == Leads == | ||
A constantly changing list of categorized leads can be viewed [[TMS Leads|here]]. | A constantly changing list of categorized leads can be viewed [[TMS Leads|here]]. | ||
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* [[Statues in Motion]] | * [[Statues in Motion]] | ||
* [[Wild Angels]] | * [[Wild Angels]] | ||
== Key Milestones == | |||
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DateFormat = yyyy | |||
Period = from:1980 till:{{CURRENTYEAR}} | |||
TimeAxis = orientation:vertical order:reverse format:yyyy | |||
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:1980 | |||
ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:2 start:1980 | |||
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id:blue value:blue | |||
id:green value:green | |||
id:orange value:orange | |||
id:red value:red | |||
Define $now = {{CURRENTYEAR}} | |||
PlotData= | |||
bar:Events color:gray width:45 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:L | |||
from:1982 till:1984 text:"Radio recording (1982-1984)" color:red shift:(45,0) | |||
from:1984 till:2007 text:"No significant events" color:gray shift:(45,0) | |||
from:2007 till:2007 text:"Online post by bluuue (2007)" shift:(45,0) | |||
from:2011 till:2011 text:"YouTube upload by redalfo (2011)" shift:(45,0) | |||
from:2017 till:2017 text:"Upload to WatZatSong (2017)" shift:(45,0) | |||
from:2019 till:$now text:"Subreddit search begins (2019)" color:blue shift:(45,23) | |||
from:2020 till:2020 text:"10 kHz line discovery (2020)" shift:(45,-10) | |||
from:2021 till:2021 text:"New tape (N01) found (2021)" shift:(45,-10) | |||
from:$now till:$now text:"Today" shift:(45,0) | |||
}} | |||
== References == | |||
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDtZaXuQ-XadFgS2ah0mC0lzB_xcCC6-uolcHECxi0k/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Lead Document] | |||
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SGKnBTvV7aBSM5Gi0BwUydxXkNooK6ZIVDfYvKUGJ68/edit?gid=1759222071#gid=1759222071 Playlist Analysis]<references responsive="0" /> | |||
[[Category:Unidentified]] | [[Category:Unidentified]] | ||
[[Category:The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet]] | [[Category:The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet]] | ||
[[Category:New wave]] | [[Category:New wave]] | ||
Revision as of 21:32, 24 June 2024
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| The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet | |
 Track list for the song. | |
| Alternative name(s) | Blind The Wind, Like The Wind, "Check It In, Check It Out", "Take It In, Take It Out", The Mysterious Song, TMMSOTI, TMMS, TMS, LTW, BTW |
|---|---|
| Year | c. 1984 |
| Status | Unsolved; Almost full version available |
| Original poster | Darius S |
| Search started | 2004 |
| Search community | various (mostly r/TheMysteriousSong) |
| File:TMS-new 32-bit PCM.wav | |
The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet (also known as "Like the Wind", "The Sun Will Never Shine", "Blind the Wind", "Check It In, Check It Out", "Take It In, Take It Out", and "Summer Blues) is an unidentified song recorded by Darius S. It was recorded between 1982 and 1984 at the North German radio station "Norddeutscher Rundfunk," also known as NDR.
Origins (1980s-2004)
Between 1983 and 1984, Darius S, a teenage music fan from Wilhelmshaven, Germany, taped a radio program on a BASF Chromdioxid II 90 cassette tape[1] from the North German public radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). The tape included new songs from XTC and the Cure. He believes he recorded the song in 1984 based on the release dates of other songs on the tape and the Technics tape deck he had at the time.[2] The synthesizer used in the song is a Yamaha DX7, which was released in May 1983.[3]
Darius' older sister, Lydia H, bought him a website domain for his birthday in 2004, which he used to raise awareness about the 25 unidentified songs in his personal collection. He then digitized his radio recordings, saving the songs as alif and m4a files, and uploaded them to his website, Unknown Pleasures, which is named after the 1979 album of the same name by English rock band Joy Division.[4]
Early Search (2007-2017)
On March 18, 2007, Lydia requested assistance by posting the song under the pseudonym "Anton Riedel" on the websites best-of-80s.de[5] and spiritofradio.ca[6] where user Jugge suggested that it sounded like "Statues in Motion" or "Metro Decay".
The song spread around the internet, first posted to WatZatSong on December 17th, 2009 by user Konstantinos,[7] and on April 16th, 2011, Spanish user Redalfo first uploaded the song to YouTube.[8]
The search received a surge of popularity in 2017, with it being reuploaded several times to WatZatSong that year[9][10][11][12] and on September 17, 2017, the Spanish independent record label Dead Wax Records uploaded Anton's snippet of the song to YouTube, which would catch the attention of the person who would finally bring the search to mainstream attention.
Mainstream Attention and Current Search (2019-Present)
From April 20th to June 29, 2019, Gabriel da Silva Vieira, a 16-year-old from São Paulo, Brazil, posted the song 44 times on various subreddits with the title "THE MOST MYSTERIOUS SONG ON THE INTERNET!".[13], eventually forming his own subreddit for the song on June 30, 2019.[14] User newacountz quickly discovered Lydia's original uploads of the song, scrolling through the post history and determining that the uploader recorded it from NDR2 radio station, most likely off the program Musik für junge Leute (Music for young People).[15] They also discovered NDR presenters Peter Urban and Paul Baskerville. Paul was focused on because he spoke English and was known for playing completely unknown independent new wave music.[16][17]
On July 9th, 2019, popular YouTuber Justin Whang discussed the search for the song on an episode of his YouTube series called Tales From the Internet.[18] The next day, after searchers posted on the r/germany subreddit, a user named johnnymetoo claimed to have downloaded the full version of the song from Lydia's UseNet post[19], uploading it to r/TheMysteriousSong two days later.[20] On July 21st, 2019, Paul Baskerville aired the song on his radio program "Nachtclub" after requests from the song's search team.[21] On August 20th, 2019, Radio1 interviewed Paul Baskerville and played the song on the air,[22] which alerted Darius and Lydia to the search,[23] with Lydia joining the subreddit and Discord the next day.[24]
On September 22nd, 2019, Lydia uploaded the first known tape of the song, known as BASF 4|1, to wetransfer.com.[25][26], containing songs from the United States,[27] United Kingdom,[28] Scotland,[29] Canada,[30] Germany[31] and the Netherlands[32] ranging from 1982 to 1984. Numerous mainstream news publications began covering the story at this time, the first being Rolling Stone on September 24th, 2019.[33]
On June 26th, 2020, Lydia uploaded a mixtape containing the song, known as Compilation A, which had the song in lower quality than the previous tape[34][35]
On July 9th, 2020, reddit user u/FlexxonMobil received a list of every song Paul Baskerville played on Musik für Junge Leute from 1982 to 1984[36], but after searching through the available playlists[37], the song could not be found, even after receiving the 1984 playlists from other shows including Der Club and Nachtclub.[38] Through this, searchers were able to estimate that the song aired in September or November 1984 based on several discovered playlists containing songs Darius had to have recorded during that time period, although several playlists from this period are missing.[39] There are still several missing Nachtclub and Der Club playlists that could contain the song, spanning August to October 1984.[40]
On December 22, 2020, user fliere discovered a 10 kHz line in the song via spectrogram analysis, which was present on NDR broadcasts at the time. It is also confirmed that the 10 kHz modulation scheme was only used by NDR, because Darius recorded from other stations, like Hilversum, which did not have the 10 KHz line, effectively ruling out the possibility of the song being aired on any station other than NDR.[41][42]
On November 7th, 2021, Lydia posted the final mixtape known as N01, which contains the highest quality version of the song, after discovering it in a box of tapes while renovating her apartment with her son.[43][44]
Lyrics
| Presumed Lyrics |
| Like the wind (originally presumed as "Blind" by Darius)
You came here running' Take the consequence of livin' There's no space, There's no tomorrow, There's no sense communication (or, "sense for 'munication", "sense communicating", "sense for new dictation". This is one of the most debated lines, with multiple interpretations) Check it in, check it out, for the sun won't ever shine, Paranoid anyway, in the subways of your mind, Like the wind, you're gone in summer (gonna suffer, going somewhere), let a smile be your companion There's no place, and there's no sorrow, hear the young and restless dreamer (dreaming) Check it in, check it out, but the sun won't ever shine, Paranoid anyway, in the subways of your mind, Check it in, check it out, but the sun won't ever shine, Paranoid anyway, in the subways of your mind, Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues (song of youth, psalm of youth) Check it in, check it out, it's the real excuse (it's the real in you) Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real excuse |
Leads
A constantly changing list of categorized leads can be viewed here.
Major Leads
- Artistic Control
- Blue Light
- Christian Brandl
- Ronnie Urini
- Stasi Archives
- Statues in Motion
- Wild Angels
Key Milestones
