Members of Reddit’s r/ThatMysteriousSong community have finally identified what they call “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet,” a new wave tune that a teenager recorded to cassette sometime around 1984, as reported yesterday by 404 Media.
The mysterious song’s digital trail goes back to 2004, when Darius S., the teenager who recorded it from a radio broadcast in Germany, posted it on a website along with other unknown songs, hoping others could help identify them. The search for the song’s origins went viral back in 2019 when a Brazilian teen uploaded the song to YouTube.
Now we know that the tune the Reddit community was after is called “Subways Of the Mind” by a band named FEX. Here’s a recording provided by Michael Hädrich, a…