2019·The platform era·amazing
The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
A song taped off German radio in the 1980s that nobody could identify, and that thousands of strangers spent seventeen years chasing.
You might remember it as Like the Wind, Subways of Your Mind
This Moment began as a recording of sound, not as a video. Originally published on broadcast.
- SourceNot an upload originally
- MediaPlayable from the source
What this was
A sound classified under music.
It first appeared in 2019, during the platform era. The copy this index knows about is on YouTube.
It is the purest example of the internet's capacity for extremely patient, entirely unpaid collective research on a question of no importance whatsoever. Contributors learned German, catalogued 1980s regional scenes, and built databases — for seventeen years — to put a name to four minutes of music.
On 4 November 2024 a Reddit user identified it as "Subways of Your Mind" by Fex, a band from Kiel, confirmed by a 1985 EP and a live recording. The band members were traced and found to have had no idea. In January 2025 the daughter of the band's keyboardist posted to the community her father had unknowingly kept waiting.
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Behind the recordWhere it came from
There is no original upload to identify: this Moment did not begin as one. What it began as is recorded here, and what is shown is a later copy.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This Moment began as a recording of sound, not as a video. Originally published on broadcast.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- What happens
- A sound classified under music.