An old mystery story postulate the tape recording of an unknown strain has finally been puzzle out by internet sleuthhound , nearly four decades after it began .
The enigma start for one family in the 1980s , when a family phallus recorded a song off the tuner onto a cassette magnetic tape . The kinfolk clearly liked the song , but were ineffective to place who it was by . ten after in 2007 , the individual ’s baby , who goes byu / bluuelyon Reddit , beganasking for helpon various cyberspace forums .
" In the beginning , there were many unidentified Song dynasty on my brother ’s tape recording . Most of them were solved within a couple of days or calendar week because many radio DJs used to bet their fav songs more than only once . When the song in question got aired again , my sidekick mostly was able to get the set and the title , " bluuelyexplained on Reddit . " He recall ( or lease ’s say , hoped ) it would be the same with this birdsong . But as we all know , this fourth dimension it did n’t hap . "
Others joined the search too , with a subreddit dedicated to the " The Mysterious Song " amassing over 59,000 members . YouTubers and dweller of other arena of the internet join in the hunting too , with one retouched recording get over 3 million sentiment , and articles about the hunting catching the attention ofRolling Stone .
u / bluuely and others attempted to get more information about the vocal , includingasking a programmerat the German public receiving set station NDR where the recording is believed to have come from .
A few years ago , the hunt look pretty dusty . But regenerate interest has finally run to the ring and song being identified . Reddit usermarijn1412was calculate through old newspaper archive when they spotted an clause about a isthmus name FEX from Kiel , Germany , from September 1984 .
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The Redditor recognized one of the set extremity from another band he was in , named 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 , " marjin1412explained on Reddit , " and lo and behold , one of them was titledSubways Of Your Mind . It ’s a more or less different variant from the one we sleep with . "
The circle was incognizant that the internet had been searching for their music , but devote their boon for marjin1412 to post the newfangled recording and reveal the song title , ending a four - ten - longsighted hunting that began with one son not noting down song name with enough diligence .
