From interviews, the recording we've been listening to all this time is their studio version, but it's lost quality over time since it's a tape recording of a radio broadcast, recorded off tape and back to computer, probably mp3 compressed at some point, etc.
As the song was playing I was picturing them playing in a massive outdoor venue to thousands of people. Then the song ended and I heard the sparse claps of like, a couple people, reminding me that this is a very small band playing for a moderate crowd. The song has had such a large impact on me that I defaulted to imagining a large crowd of thousands, despite that not being the case. Except, now this song IS playing for a crowd of thousands, including me and you! It had already been played to millions before this too. Such an amazing thing.
I was in a band where we played a decent sized festival, but nobody came to specifically see us. They came for the bigger bands, and while a couple thousand people saw us play few of them likely remember us.
Well people get older y'know, and it does make sense for the older ones probably not exactly knowing the internet, this band was in europe (Germany), and not the US which i think mostly already had internet access back in the 90's. But eh i could be wrong
My House called this "Happiness has to be fought for." And it sure was. A ton of people on the net are joyed to find it, and being the receiving end of net fame over a single tape a guy decided to record from a radio broadcast and share online has gotta be exhilarating.
These guys sound amazing playing live! How in God's name were they not successful? I hope they get all the credit and success they deserve decades ago.
This is one of my favorite lost media mysteries. My mom sprung it on me today that it had been found. Funnily enough, my dad looked the song up and listened and casually says he had no idea it was lost because apparently he’s heard it before. When he was active duty in the US Amry, he was in Germany around that time and apparently remembers hearing lol
It’s definitely not a hoax. 99% of bands only last a little while, maybe record some songs, and then move on with life. Unfortunately FEX was one of those.
@superradness it’s confusing to me how anyone can even consider that FEX isn’t the real creator because “we haven’t found the version Darius recorded”. We have tons of evidence, pictures of the band playing together, 2 new versions of subways of your mind, more new songs, and it’s been confirmed by both Lydia and NDR.
@ there’s a high chance it’s a demo since most of the song is different. Also, I think the reason why the voice sounds stranger is because of the tape warping with age
All those people at their early shows, amazing to me no one remembered the song online when the search was going on! I wonder if people who remembered it came across TMMS, but just couldn’t remember the title or band name.
Until I was robbed recently this year, I had amassed a collection of rare music. One was a CD-R of local bands from where I am from. The CD-R was passed to me during a Melvins show around 2000. It had some good songs from completely unknown bands. There were also various CDs from a completely unknown hip hop artist. There is a huge pool of lostwave in reality. I even had old cassettes friends passed to me with songs that have never even been played live or recorded professionally. It happens often. I had been following this one for many years. Having this mystery solved is truly colossal imo.
Well look at it like this. The audience at this show was probably between the ages of 18-30, so it would put the youngest people in the audience in their early to mid 50's when the search really picked up around 2019. A bunch of German Gen Xers and Boomers aren't in the same circles at all as us here. And the even the few that are, aren't gonna be likely to have been around these guys in Germany or heard of em at the time.
How many of those people would randomly be browsing the internet and happen to come across a search for the name of a band behind a song that played at a festival nearly 40 years ago. Not very many.
You wanna know a sad thing about all the people that probably went to that live concert? That probably as today a lot of people are liking FEX's songs, maybe it were a lot of guys in that concert that also liked their songs in that times, and by the fact that FEX was a new band and not everybody showed interest in them, maybe even they have passed away without even knowing the name of the song that they liked it (and not necessary knowing about TMMS internet search story)
I have literally been obsessed with this song for like 2 or 3 years. It feels so damn good to have this conclusion. Oowee I can't wait for the rerelease!
I follow the case of this mysterious song since 1932. and now finally my spirit can rest knowing where it came from. thank you my fellow humans, goodbye! It has been a trip.
Um final digno e honrado para um mistério de mais de 40 anos!💕 É para isso que serve a internet! Reunir as pessoas para momentos de alegria e felicidade!💕
Given that they played it live in front of a large audience and gave out demo cassettes it is quite amazing that this song and band remained lost for so long.
1:24 it says „Entstehung der Musikkassette“ which means the production/recording of the music cassette, that implies that there was a finished recording of the song
This is an advertising poster from PHILIPS. The Dutch company launched the cassette on the market in 1963 under the brand name *MusiCassette®* In German, the correct name for _tape_ would be "Musikkassette". "Die Entstehung der MusiCassette" here means the origin/history of the product - so, the music cassette in general. Just a little explanation about the poster 😉
The version we've all been listening to over the years was their studio version, according to the synth player. They were possibly promoting their studio cassette, which had 3 songs on it.
One of the things I find fascinating from this mystery's conclusion is how people around the Internet gave it "Like The Wind" as a placeholder title because it's the first line of the song, and then turns out the actual title is the last line sung in the chorus.
Si en un futuro próximo. Se inventara una máquina del tiempo. A mi me gustaría regresar a esta fecha y vivir esté concierto y comprar un cassette de Subway of your mind de FEX Band .
"Dieses Stück ist auch auf unsrer Kassette" 😄 so ne geile Ansage 😂 da merkt man, dass die Aufnahme echt schon älter ist 🤣 aber immer noch so geil!! die 80er waren einfach die besten Jahre!! ❤️
Like the wind You came here running Take the consequence of leaving There's no space (space, space, space) There's no tomorrow All we need (is) communication Check it in, check it out Or the Sun will never shine Paranoid, anyway In the subways of your mind Like the wind The wind from somewhere Let a smile be your companion There's no place (place, place, place) For endless sorrow Like the young and restless dreaming Check it in, check it out Or the Sun will never shine Paranoid, anyway In the subways of your mind Check it in, check it out Or the Sun will never shine Paranoid, anyway In the subways of your mind Check it in, check it out It's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it down It's a good excuse Check it in, check it out It's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it down It's a good excuse Check it in, check it out It's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it down It's a good excuse Check it in, check it out It's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it down It's a good excuse
Mucha gente habia dicho recordar esta cancion, pero nunca supieron decir de donde, sin pensar que ellos tocaron esta cancion delante de muchisimas personas
no these guys lucked out and copied it a year after it was played on NDR radio, then passed it off as their own at a public venue. They haven't registered or trademarked the song as theirs. It's really a song from Statues in Motion sung by Alvin Dean!
What I find fascinating is, now that we know what the song is called, we basically had the title of the song the whole time because the title appears in the lyrics. Seen this way, nobody probably had the idea to use all the possibilities from the lyrics. But I'm really glad that the mystery was solved after such a long time.
Dj posts it on the internet,no one knows it,dj uploads full version,no one knows it,search begins,not statues in motion,search continues for 40 years,found fex in a newspaper,found full version (not demo,the new one),found live version. You really expect to someone to remember a song in a place that was played music after music 40 years?
@@perdrohenrique5058 I'm just surprised (not doubting, just surprised) that in the last 17 years none of the FEX band members stumbled upon it and went "hey, that's us!" I do accept that this is exactly what happened, but I'm really really surprised by it.
New: final complete version - combined radio version with demo and live + download
th-cam.com/video/fVST0Usk34g/w-d-xo.html
"This song is also available on our cassette" - he says. So, were they selling the demo tape? OMG... I'd like to have an original copy.
and if not they were probably at least PLANNING on releasing the songs on the cassette tapes
From interviews, the recording we've been listening to all this time is their studio version, but it's lost quality over time since it's a tape recording of a radio broadcast, recorded off tape and back to computer, probably mp3 compressed at some point, etc.
@@DaedalusRaistlin Incorrect.
@@DaedalusRaistlinif that’s they case why didn’t they provide STILL the original recording ?
@@LostHorizons0because cassette tapes degrade and time machines dont exist
That black FEX tape is going to be the holy grail if it ever pops up on the market
Martin Shkreli might be interested since he lost the one-of-a-kind Wutang album xD
True
Sadly original copies will surely be on sale for thousands of dollars
@@RomelioSanzprobably euros
As the song was playing I was picturing them playing in a massive outdoor venue to thousands of people. Then the song ended and I heard the sparse claps of like, a couple people, reminding me that this is a very small band playing for a moderate crowd.
The song has had such a large impact on me that I defaulted to imagining a large crowd of thousands, despite that not being the case.
Except, now this song IS playing for a crowd of thousands, including me and you! It had already been played to millions before this too.
Such an amazing thing.
I hope they put in an appearance at some huge festival, you know the crowd will go nuts!
I was securely told, that an American radio station played it a few days ago 🤩
It may be that if the audience isn't separately mic'd up, you'd likely only hear a few people in the front that the vocal mics picked up.
@@AlanOfDenby At least two stations. One in Massachusetts and one in Kansas City.
@@worldcomicsreview354 that would be awesome
Dude, look how many people at these shows, how did this song become lost media??
I was in a band where we played a decent sized festival, but nobody came to specifically see us. They came for the bigger bands, and while a couple thousand people saw us play few of them likely remember us.
Unidentified media, not lost media.
remember this was during the cold war. Germany was still split then.
Well people get older y'know, and it does make sense for the older ones probably not exactly knowing the internet, this band was in europe (Germany), and not the US which i think mostly already had internet access back in the 90's. But eh i could be wrong
Idk but I'm still having doubts about the legit of this
My House called this "Happiness has to be fought for."
And it sure was. A ton of people on the net are joyed to find it, and being the receiving end of net fame over a single tape a guy decided to record from a radio broadcast and share online has gotta be exhilarating.
same happened with boards of canada
In the 1980s, there were so many bands they had such a similar sound
What's more is during the search of this song many then unknown bands and songs were discovered
True. It also sounds like belgian bands from that time
These guys sound amazing playing live! How in God's name were they not successful? I hope they get all the credit and success they deserve decades ago.
I'd love to see this go viral and become a hit
😂
This is one of my favorite lost media mysteries. My mom sprung it on me today that it had been found. Funnily enough, my dad looked the song up and listened and casually says he had no idea it was lost because apparently he’s heard it before. When he was active duty in the US Amry, he was in Germany around that time and apparently remembers hearing lol
I don’t even think it’s possible for FEX to be a hoax at this point, the amount of things you’d have to do to fake this is genuinely insane.
It’s definitely not a hoax. 99% of bands only last a little while, maybe record some songs, and then move on with life. Unfortunately FEX was one of those.
@superradness it’s confusing to me how anyone can even consider that FEX isn’t the real creator because “we haven’t found the version Darius recorded”. We have tons of evidence, pictures of the band playing together, 2 new versions of subways of your mind, more new songs, and it’s been confirmed by both Lydia and NDR.
@rkeistudio they even did a reportage on ndr
@@rkeistudiofr i bet the version darius had was just a random demo the radio station that the band either doesn’t have/doesn’t remember recording
@ there’s a high chance it’s a demo since most of the song is different. Also, I think the reason why the voice sounds stranger is because of the tape warping with age
Its amazing not only to have a live recording, but a soundboard recording!!
the ending (3:20) is so satisfying on the live version, it feels like going to heaven but better
Damn that's a banger version of this song! I really hope they can record a new version with drums and synths, those add so much to the song.
For some reason I always pictured them performing this in pitch black
The singing on the original recording sounded so gritty I thought they would be wearing all black with goth makeup
I always imagined a dark room, maybe some purple lighting with brick walls in the background.
All those people at their early shows, amazing to me no one remembered the song online when the search was going on! I wonder if people who remembered it came across TMMS, but just couldn’t remember the title or band name.
Until I was robbed recently this year, I had amassed a collection of rare music. One was a CD-R of local bands from where I am from. The CD-R was passed to me during a Melvins show around 2000. It had some good songs from completely unknown bands. There were also various CDs from a completely unknown hip hop artist. There is a huge pool of lostwave in reality. I even had old cassettes friends passed to me with songs that have never even been played live or recorded professionally. It happens often.
I had been following this one for many years. Having this mystery solved is truly colossal imo.
@@Slightly_Sadisticdam I feel bad
Well look at it like this. The audience at this show was probably between the ages of 18-30, so it would put the youngest people in the audience in their early to mid 50's when the search really picked up around 2019.
A bunch of German Gen Xers and Boomers aren't in the same circles at all as us here. And the even the few that are, aren't gonna be likely to have been around these guys in Germany or heard of em at the time.
How many of those people would randomly be browsing the internet and happen to come across a search for the name of a band behind a song that played at a festival nearly 40 years ago. Not very many.
You wanna know a sad thing about all the people that probably went to that live concert?
That probably as today a lot of people are liking FEX's songs, maybe it were a lot of guys in that concert that also liked their songs in that times, and by the fact that FEX was a new band and not everybody showed interest in them, maybe even they have passed away without even knowing the name of the song that they liked it (and not necessary knowing about TMMS internet search story)
The guitars are such a vibe!!
this is so much higher tempo compared to the one i have listened to the past 5 yr on yt this feels more upbeat love it
They were probably playing with no metronome live and the drummer got excited
The quicker tempo contributes to the satisfaction of finally knowing the case is solved!
this has the same lyrics though. That one played on the radio could have been sold to ndr and playyed, but just a theory.
Speeding up your songs when playing live is a common thing, lots of bands have done it, including Metallica with "For Whom The Bell Tolls" in 1985.
That drum sounds so good wth
I'm so thrilled this song is found 🥺. Now we have exposure to all sorts of versions of this song and media of this band
I have literally been obsessed with this song for like 2 or 3 years. It feels so damn good to have this conclusion. Oowee I can't wait for the rerelease!
This is how they look 17 years of searching I love you all finally we can enjoy it
Imo best version of the song. It's just so nice to listen to.
I follow the case of this mysterious song since 1932. and now finally my spirit can rest knowing where it came from. thank you my fellow humans, goodbye! It has been a trip.
this song is from 1985 bro
@@wingsandbladesreal Get the joke.
@@charliegreekdominos69420 I will... soon... (:
I had no idea who these guys were just a few days ago and now I'm a huge fan lol
The best PR for a song over 40 years ever .
But nobody knowed in 1985 that would be exist a stage like YT to make the campaign perfect.
Damn, the synthesizer ❤
DX7 BABY
It coming in at the beginning added 20 years to my life
Um final digno e honrado para um mistério de mais de 40 anos!💕
É para isso que serve a internet! Reunir as pessoas para momentos de alegria e felicidade!💕
CUANTOS ANOS???
Sua foto de perfil faz parecer que está mesmo emocionado por terem encontrado a original kkkkk
@@YeaImDead199740 años
@@YeaImDead1997 40 anos desde que a música foi gravada da rádio e esteve sendo procurada até semana passada.
@@yukkod. Anos in spanish means anus xddd
Increible toda la ayuda de los melómenos de la red, esta es una banda grandiosa, gracias, gracias, gracias
Al fin un hispano!
We check it in, but not checking out.
This band definitely is that sun we need.
cool music! reminds me of early Depeche Mode songs.
Given that they played it live in front of a large audience and gave out demo cassettes it is quite amazing that this song and band remained lost for so long.
Salute 🫡 from Malaysia. Like this song and band, finally found
Might be my favorite version
I hope fez makes millions off of this. This is history
FEX
i love fez
I really like this live version of the song.
They DEFINITELY should re- release this cassette
they prahly have it tbh
Glad its been identified love this live version im getting 80s Swedish melodic metal vibes here
this one is me favorite version now
🎉🎉🎉Greetings from France🎉🎉🎉
1:24 it says „Entstehung der Musikkassette“ which means the production/recording of the music cassette, that implies that there was a finished recording of the song
This is an advertising poster from PHILIPS. The Dutch company launched the cassette on the market in 1963 under the brand name *MusiCassette®* In German, the correct name for _tape_ would be "Musikkassette".
"Die Entstehung der MusiCassette" here means the origin/history of the product - so, the music cassette in general.
Just a little explanation about the poster 😉
The version we've all been listening to over the years was their studio version, according to the synth player. They were possibly promoting their studio cassette, which had 3 songs on it.
Amazing how this song/band was a mystery for so long, and now we finally have answers
Great song!! 👏
The song is actually a banger. I never heard the chorus before!
That is great we have the full song now ON TH-cam.
Despite, or maybe rather because, the madness of these days, I like that this little secret of mankind is now solved. 😉
what a time to be alive
LO LOGRAMOS
Everything in its own time, kids!🎉
Que música interessante! Descobri sobre eles através de uma reportagem no canal G1 aqui no Brasil. Adorei a canção!
Esse final é foda, finalmente encontraram 🎉
One of the things I find fascinating from this mystery's conclusion is how people around the Internet gave it "Like The Wind" as a placeholder title because it's the first line of the song, and then turns out the actual title is the last line sung in the chorus.
AMAZING to see the guys of FEX when they were young 🤩 To me they are equally fantastic as the 1980s super groups 💯
What an absolutely bangin version of this song
Gostei da música 🇧🇷
Si en un futuro próximo. Se inventara una máquina del tiempo. A mi me gustaría regresar a esta fecha y vivir esté concierto y comprar un cassette de Subway of your mind de FEX Band .
"Dieses Stück ist auch auf unsrer Kassette" 😄 so ne geile Ansage 😂 da merkt man, dass die Aufnahme echt schon älter ist 🤣 aber immer noch so geil!! die 80er waren einfach die besten Jahre!! ❤️
i found the casette tape in one of my grandpas drawers but never listened to it. i woudve been lucky if i had a walkman
wait, you had / have a physical copy?
@@screambmachine .yeah
i just didnt haave a vcr so i coudnt listen, and i did not know about LTW
Oye vendes la cinta 📼 ? Cuánto pides por ella
@@AntonioLlaguno-wr3yl i don't understand, tell in english
Вот она!!! Песню которую интернет искал!!! Так много лет!!!
Song from the future. Time machine exists! Great
Happiness has to be fought for
Happiness is worth to be fought for isn't?
Песня супер! Хочу версию в хорошем качестве.👍😊
A busca acabou.😊
Oh look, not a Statues In Motion member in sight!
GIORGOS DALAMBIRAA
wdym, can you not see alvin dean there?
1985 live? with photos? also with great vibes 😎
Все эти люди на фотографиях даже не понимали что присутствуют на величайшем для интернета событии
Love the ending..tight!❤
💖💖💖🙌🙌🙌
Whang! got me interesting in this mystery song and I'm happy that It is well known now. Cool video. ^_^
Great version!!!
❤Love the live sound❤ Good job!!!
It's pure 80s!
Like the wind
You came here running
Take the consequence of leaving
There's no space (space, space, space)
There's no tomorrow
All we need (is) communication
Check it in, check it out
Or the Sun will never shine
Paranoid, anyway
In the subways of your mind
Like the wind
The wind from somewhere
Let a smile be your companion
There's no place (place, place, place)
For endless sorrow
Like the young and restless dreaming
Check it in, check it out
Or the Sun will never shine
Paranoid, anyway
In the subways of your mind
Check it in, check it out
Or the Sun will never shine
Paranoid, anyway
In the subways of your mind
Check it in, check it out
It's the summer blues
Tear it in, tear it down
It's a good excuse
Check it in, check it out
It's the summer blues
Tear it in, tear it down
It's a good excuse
Check it in, check it out
It's the summer blues
Tear it in, tear it down
It's a good excuse
Check it in, check it out
It's the summer blues
Tear it in, tear it down
It's a good excuse
That's the 1983 version, this has the same lyrics as the og tape.
Quiero que esto salga en todas las recopilaciones de musica de los 80s ahora
supreme victory
Amazing! ☺️
3:02, nice variation to the original.
Loveit!
❤❤ great job
❤
All of this and yet certain people (iykyk), are still labeling it unsolved 😂
Mucha gente habia dicho recordar esta cancion, pero nunca supieron decir de donde, sin pensar que ellos tocaron esta cancion delante de muchisimas personas
😍😍😍😍
3:39 here I just imagine
“Subways of your miiind”
O poder literal das redes sociais hein! Uau! A música é bem legal.
Poder literal?
literal?
So many german lostwaves
Final boss now: Light the lanterns
i confirm this live is real and old song said it is "It is a real excuse"
Irónicamente el título del cassette es " El pasado nunca muere" de FEX Band. Y dicen que las coincidencias no existen!!!
Wait... what? Is it really THE song?
For sure, the're many proofs on YT now
yeah lol
Yup! Ik it's truly unbelievable!
The final seal has been broken. The end is nigh.
no these guys lucked out and copied it a year after it was played on NDR radio, then passed it off as their own at a public venue. They haven't registered or trademarked the song as theirs. It's really a song from Statues in Motion sung by Alvin Dean!
0:38 there's just some random guy in his underwear
bro got out of the shower 😭🙏
@@wingsandbladesrealplot twist: is some time traveler that went back on time just to see the live
They must have made a software update to the Matrix or something.
Wow
Mystery solved after 40 years .
Dave what is your affiliation? I appreciate the content!
his voice sounds like Eddie Vedder's
What I find fascinating is, now that we know what the song is called, we basically had the title of the song the whole time because the title appears in the lyrics. Seen this way, nobody probably had the idea to use all the possibilities from the lyrics.
But I'm really glad that the mystery was solved after such a long time.
Except they did try searching for every possible title and still couldn’t find anything. The song simply did not exist on the internet.
EUREKA!!!
Checking in on the great news!
Did you also check it out?
So how did this song remain so mysterious for so long?
My guy.. really?
Dj posts it on the internet,no one knows it,dj uploads full version,no one knows it,search begins,not statues in motion,search continues for 40 years,found fex in a newspaper,found full version (not demo,the new one),found live version.
You really expect to someone to remember a song in a place that was played music after music 40 years?
@@perdrohenrique5058 I'm just surprised (not doubting, just surprised) that in the last 17 years none of the FEX band members stumbled upon it and went "hey, that's us!"
I do accept that this is exactly what happened, but I'm really really surprised by it.
@@quasarsphere this also happened to: Bad Influence,Who's Who's and alot of orther bands that had lostwaves didn't know about the search.