Dizzy (The Flying Lizards)

Dizzy by The Flying Lizards was released in 1984 as a B-Side to the band's cover of Dizzy Miss Lizzy by Larry Williams, on 7" vinyl. The track is an experimental, New Wave club song, with influence from both the Industrial and Noise genres. Before this discovery, the song was known by the placeholder name Amigos Míos and was uploaded to Youtube by Redoalfo on November 25th 2012. The placeholder name came from the specific upload by Redoalfo, where a Spanish-speaking DJ is heard over the top of the track.

History

On November 5th 2012, Redoalfo, a collector of mysterious and obscure songs, uploaded a version of Dizzy to their Youtube channel. Redoalfo was still relatively unknown when the upload was made, as this was before Lostwave went massively viral, so the unknown song sat unsolved. Redoalfo had also uploaded a snippet of Nefertiti by Two Big Boys and part of The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet.

In 2019, Redoalfo's channel was discovered as the search for TMMS exploded in popularity. The songs on the channel suddenly received a burst of attention as Redoalfo had preserved a very sought after song before it was popular, leading to renewed speculation there was more of the song out there. Dizzy also grew in popularity and was subsequently featured in C.W. Schultz's list video: Top 10 Most Mysterious Songs, released on 20th October 2019.

The Search

In their video, C.W. Schultz raised the possibility that the lyrics over the top of Dizzy could have been sampled from various different audio tracks, as they appeared to be random phases.

On r/themysterioussong, the instruments were analysed, dating the song to the mid 80s. There was speculation that the song may have been created in the 90s, when the Spanish club scene was taking off, and may have just used older instruments.

The dialect of the DJ was widely considered to be from Spain rather than Latin America, which was considered an important lead at the time.

An early lead for the artist was The Weathermen, a partly-satirical Belgian EBM (Electronic Body Music) artist. Redoalfo had suggested them as a possible artist in the description of the song.

The Discovery

In 2020, user Psche on Youtube suggested the song might be by the British experimental band The Flying Lizards, identifying the EP the song was on, but misatributed it as a remix of Gyrotastics, the B-Side of the 12" Vinyl of Dizzy Miss Lizzy.

This claim was discussed on the TMS Discord, where user Bluey Grifter decided to follow up on Psyche's speculation. It was discovered that the song Dizzy was the B-Side for the 7" vinyl, but on the 12" it was the second track on the A-side. The full song was posted to YouTube on the 25th of July by K.S. Archives and then later in September by VCC.

On the 12th of October 2020, C.W. Schultz uploaded another video called Five More Mysterious Songs That Were Eventually Identified, where they discussed Bluey Grifter's discovery.

The Spanish DJ on the Redoalfo upload is still unknown, as is the other song in the video that Dizzy transitions into at the 3 minute mark.

References

Redoalfo's Upload

K.S. Archive's Upload

VCC higher quality upload