A Mystery Solved

 During my run tonight, I listened to the following video on YouTube:

Long story short: the unanswered question of who sang The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet has finally been solved.  A German band, Fex, only together from 1983 to 1985, recorded the song, performed it a few times, and then went their separate ways, not reuniting until November of 2024.  Turns out that the track was not called Like The Wind, but Subways of Your Mind, and one of the members has both a live recording and a demo version to offer as proof that they're the long-lost band behind it.  After learning (after years of mystery) that hundreds of thousands of people (this video has 169K views, and a similar video by a disheveled dude called Whang! has 258K views*), the original songwriter reunited with the band, performed an acoustic version, and has been inundated with press and interview requests.

I have to admit that a couple of days ago, when I heard the mystery had been solved, I was hesitant to watch the Professor of Rock video about it, because the destination is (nearly) never as good as the journey to get there.  But tonight, on my run, I went ahead and played it, and it turns out, I was wrong.  I found myself surprisingly moved by the end of this road, and felt pure, unselfish joy that these former bandmates have found an odd class of success forty-one years after recording this song.  And I hope they put out records, sign autographs, appear on late night talk shows, go on tour, and put out new music, like every hit band gets to do . . . but usually decades after releasing their hit.

Are there groupies that will sleep with band members didn't find success until they were nearly seventy?

A photo of the actual rediscovered demo tape.

I have a (very small) connection with the song in that, since 2020, I've been using Subways/Most Mysterious Song as the theme tune to my fiction podcast (The Podcast That Dares Not Speak Its Name), both because I really enjoy the song and got a little thrill of knowing I could never get in trouble for using it, not in a million years (the version of the song on my computer is from September 2019).

So now, I wonder: should I keep using it?  And if so (of course I'll keep using it), should I use the newly-released, clearer-lyrics version or just the original, tinnier recording?  And should I retire the bit where Fake Sean Connery says, "The theme is The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet.  If you know who sings it, then you are the only one."?

*Turns out, his video is much more in-depth, talking about the details of how the band was tracked down, and how close it came to being discovered over the years, with no luck.  I discovered two things: that there's a reason Whang's coverage is the more popular of the two, and that I have serious mental problems that explain why I became so emotional watching the coverage.

But let me play amateur headshrinker for a moment and say that, in a world as shitty as this one, with so much injustice and greed and hatred and indifference . . . people have to take their victories where they can, even if they're just happy for somebody else's success, or that an unanswered question has now been answered.