It took the Internet thirty years to identify the group and the title of a song that has been called the most mysterious song on the Internet. On November 4, 2024, an Internet user shared elements on Reddit that seem to conclude this story for good.
The Internet is full of rumors and mysteries and then one day, these secrets end up being unraveled. This was what happened in April 2024, when the origin of a music extract, Everyone knows thatwas eventually found. This audio track, which has the Internet much obsessed, actually came from a pornographic film.
We have just experienced exactly the same scenario these days. This time it's a title that was originally dubbed Blind the WindThen The Mysterious Song (TMS), and which ended up being considered the most mysterious song on the internet. Or, at least, one of the most mysterious. Its origin has apparently been found.
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In the subreddit dedicated to TMS, /r/TheMysteriousSong, a new discussion topic was opened on November 4, 2024. Its author, marijn1412, says he has become certain that the song is actually called Subways of your mindand that it was composed and performed in the 80s in Germany, by the group FEX from the city of Kiel.
Perhaps you have already heard about this story: in a video posted online at the end of March, the videographer Feldup, whose specialty is telling dark and sordid stories, briefly discussed the case of Blind the Wind in a more general video titled No one knows where this recording came from.
The fact is that now we know it.
Blind the Wind, Like the Wind, The Mysterious Song
First, a reminder of the context. In the 1980s, a German teenager, Darius, recorded songs that were played on the radio on a cassette, so that he could listen to them again later. Problem: he chooses not to take comments from the presenters, to listen without the slightest embellishment.
In 2004, Darius received a rather special birthday gift from his sister, Lydia: a domain name. With this, he then launched a site and used it to serve as a starting point to try to find the origin of all the recordings in his compilation. This work of identifying the mixtape is progressing well, but it stumbles on one title.
This title is Blind the Windbut that's not his real name. This is the nickname that Darius and Lydia give him, for lack of a better word (the title is based on what Darius and Lydia hear, knowing that later, others thought they heard instead Like the Wind in the lyrics). The Internet is then called to the rescue, but without success.
In 2007, Lydia shared the title on German sites and forums for information. After all, perhaps Internet users had listened to the radio station at the time or recognized the title or the singer's voice. White cabbage. The title then circulated on sites specializing in music identification, and YouTube from 2011.
It is from there that Blind the Wind begins to be considered as “ the most mysterious song on the Internet », a status which, strategically, makes it possible to attract the public's attention more widely. The subreddit was created in 2019 (the title was somewhat forgotten between 2011 and 2019, before being “rediscovered”, according to this chronology).
A sign of the viral phenomenon surrounding this quest, press articles are interested in it (such as Rolling Stones) and Wikipedia pages are emerging (including in French). The subject takes over social networks and community platforms (X, Discord), collaborative documents are put in place, sound engineers lend a hand.
Still in 2019, the attraction for this mysterious title is growing as Internet users begin to create storytelling around it – in the style of Feldup. The investigation is not progressing particularly well, but better quality copies eventually emerge, thanks to the shares made in 2007 by Lydia.
These Internet users, who had kept the musical versions sent by Lydia, allowed better versions to be uploaded to YouTube. A radio even plays the song. Darius and Lydia discover the excitement around and come forward. Then, in 2021, Lydia finds a better version of the title and shares it.
Subways of your mindtitle of the FEX group
The search continued for three more years, until the surprise message left by marijn1412.
He explains that while leafing through an old article in the archives of the Nordwest Zeitung newspaper in October, he came across the story of a German group, FEX. We learn that he won a musical competition in Bremen in September 1984 and that the musical style is similar to what we hear in TMS (a rock band with pop and wave influences).
marijn1412 points out that the article also described the members of the group. One of them was recognized by the Internet user and he previously played in Phret, another group. He specifies that he was able to contact him to request recordings from the time with FEX and Phret… and that's when the title Subways of your mind a surgi.
To support his claims, marjin1412 published a photo showing a cassette of the group FEX showing a list of titles including Subways of your mindwhich lasts 3 minutes 54. He also published the song, which turns out to be slightly different from the song that has been circulating on the Internet for thirty years. The radio version is shorter (2 minutes 54).
It would therefore still be necessary to find the real good track.
According to marijn1412, the musician initially asked him not to say anything (hence the two-week delay between his discovery and his publication on Reddit), because he wanted to speak with the other members of FEX. It also appears that the song was registered with GEMA, a German copyright management company.
Since then, the musicians have agreed to make this story public. According to LordElen, a moderator of the subreddit, Darius and Lydia have been alerted and may speak out soon. It is also expected that FEX will share in a few days other musical elements in its possession (and perhaps the correct title corresponding to the recording)
The icing on the cake, according to marijn1412: the group FEX even planned to re-record their song. This would then be the most beautiful conclusion.
