The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet

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"The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" (real title unknown)
Name of the musician unknown
publication unknown
length 2:55 (radio version)
Genre (s) Post punk
Author (s) unknown
album unknown

The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet (also Like the Wind , Blind the Wind , Check it In, Check it Out or Take it In, Take it Out according to some modeled lyrics) is the name for a post-punk song, its recording - and the year of publication, artist, lyrics and title are still unknown today. Since 2019, the song has been the subject of a viral internet phenomenon , the origin of which is controversially discussed by many users of websites such as Reddit and Discord .

The song was probably played between 1982 and 1984 in the radio show Music for Young People on Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) by the British radio presenter Paul Baskerville .

Baskerville and his record dealer were questioned, where Baskerville does not remember the song and his record dealer was out of business and no longer wanted to know about it.

song lyrics

The exact lyrics of the song are unknown and are discussed by many users. Due to the comparatively poor recording quality and the singer's German or Austrian accent, there is still room for speculation. There are numerous post-processed versions of the song on YouTube, the speed and pitch of which have been corrected in order to better understand the lyrics.

There are many theories about what the song is about. The most popular is that the song is about the Cold War , communism in East Germany or the Berlin Wall . According to other theories, the singer is supposed to sing about a breakup with a person or other personal things.

history

On March 18, 2007, an anonymous user uploaded a 74-second excerpt from a song that her brother had recorded on a cassette from a German radio station between 1982 and 1984 to the forum spiritofradio.ca and asked if anyone could find the title of the song know where she got no answer. On April 17, 2011, the user redoalfo uploaded the song excerpt to YouTube for the first time under the name "Unkonow Song - Cancion Desconocida - Track Id." high. On July 1, 2009, the Reddit user Gabriel created the subreddit r / TheMysteriousSong, in which references to the origin and the song are collected and discussed. On the same day, user newacountz commented on r / TheMysteriousSong that Paul Baskerville may have played the song during his music for young people program , which often played music from unknown bands around the time the song was supposedly played on NDR, whereupon Gabriel contacted him on Facebook . On July 12, 2019, the user johnnymetoo posted the full song on r / TheMysteriousSong, which he said he downloaded from Usenet in 2007 . On the same day, this version was uploaded to YouTube, where it has had over 2 million views so far (as of August 2020). On July 21, 2019, Baskerville played the song during his nightclub broadcast . He replied to Gabriel that his audience was of the opinion that he probably didn't play this song between 1982 and 1984 and that there was still an opportunity to check his record collection to see what he said was a task for him given the amount of records in his collection when he is retired. In an interview with Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), Baskerville stated that he had 10,000 records.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b David Browne: The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet. In: Rolling Stone. September 24, 2019, accessed August 12, 2020 (American English).
  2. ^ A b Anna Hell: "Most Mysterious Song On The Internet": track leads to Germany. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. September 10, 2019, accessed August 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c Ekkehard Knörer: Who knows this song? In: The time . September 27, 2019, accessed August 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Internet at a loss: What is the name of this song? In: br.de. September 8, 2019, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Viola Ulrich: Mysterious Song: Who knows this song from the 80s? In: THE WORLD . September 11, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed August 17, 2020]).
  6. ↑ a b This is the text for the "Most Mysterious Song on the Internet". In: braunschweiger-zeitung.de. May 29, 2020, accessed August 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e f The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet. In: Know Your Meme . Retrieved August 12, 2020 .
  8. ↑ user "bluuue": Unknown Song Comments. In: spiritofradio.ca. March 18, 2007, accessed August 2020 (UK English).
  9. ↑ user redoalfo: Unknown Song. Youtube, April 17, 2011, accessed August 2020 .
  10. ↑ r / TheMysteriousSong. reddit, July 1, 2008, accessed August 2020 (American English).
  11. ↑ r / TheMysteriousSong - Comment by u / newacountz on "Unknown Song (Like The Wind) Investigation". Retrieved August 12, 2020 (American English).
  12. ↑ r / TheMysteriousSong - Here's the complete song. Downloaded it in 2007 from the link posted by Anton on the Usenet, and just found it on my hard disk. Hope it helps. (original filename). Retrieved August 12, 2020 (American English).
  13. ↑ Gabriel Vieira: THE MOST MYSTERIOUS SONG ON THE INTERNET - FULL VERSION FOUND! In: YouTube. YouTube, LLC, July 12, 2019, accessed May 17, 2020 .
  14. ↑ a b The unknown song. Youtube, July 21, 2019, accessed August 2020 .