We can find many mysteries on the Internet, including the so-called “most mysterious song of the Internet”. It’s not the only thing for which its true origin is unlikely to be determined – but it illustrates how terribly quickly and quite possibly permanently we are losing our memory.
They say everything is forever on the internet – and it’s quite possibly the biggest lie we tell ourselves. Vast amounts of Internet content are gone forever, entire sites like The Inquirer, which were simply deleted after it went out of business—and what didn’t end up on The Wayback Machine is gone once and for all.
Who knows, maybe someone has some local copies, which may give the data a chance to resurface – and it may also give rise to mysteries, such as the case of “the most mysterious song on the Internet,” which even has its own Wikipedia page as “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet”. She is 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” according to her words, “Summer Blues” according to the overall sound and it is also called “The Mysterious Song” or abbreviated as LTW, TMMS, TMS and TMMSOTI.
It’s an 80s song that music experts classify as post-punk synth or new wave and it’s quite enjoyable – but there are still two tape recordings of this thing everywhere and only one is complete at 2:55 – and it’s definitely not neither original nor official.
It all started when, sometime in 1984, a German teenager known as Darius P. recorded the music broadcast by the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) radio, skipping blocks where they were talking – and over time trying to identify the tracks he recorded there . And it had holes in it, unidentified tracks, which no doubt annoyed him.
In 2004, his older sister Lydia decided to help him by getting him a domain, where he made a site where he posted samples of unidentified songs – and people helped him identify them. The list of unknown songs was gradually reduced, but there were still some items left, like this unidentified song.
Not even thousands of searchers
I will not tell you the whole history of the search, which includes the activity of literally thousands of people, producing often erroneous tracks, as well as an almost detective search, which tried to determine, for example, the exact year of creation of the composition using the acoustic characteristics of the synthesizer used, to prove that the recording is indeed from the GDR using frequency analysis of the track or rather crazy attempts to identify obscure bands from the Balkans that suggest it may have originated somewhere there.
Since there is no spoken word on the tape, what seems like the logically simplest procedure becomes quite complicated, i.e. determine the day of the broadcast, contact people from the radio, find out the exact daily broadcast schedule and through that get to either the list of broadcast songs or some archive recordings and try to identify it through them. In fact, it is not entirely certain whether the song was written in 1983 or 1984 (there are strong indications that it was not written earlier) – even trying to contact the band members at the time is problematic, as some of the singers and musicians are dead and others seem to remember things rather badly, so that at least two first claimed to be hearing it for the first time only to eventually come up with having composed and sung it themselves.
Source: pctuning.cz
