The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
If you consider yourself to be an expert on rare music, particularly 1980s new wave, then this puzzle is for you. Despite the combined efforts of the online community, the song's author and title remain unknown. In 1984, a German man by the name of Darius S. began recording songs from the radio onto his cassette player, mostly from the show Musik für Junge Leute, or "Music for Young People," on NDR station. He particularly liked one song, but he didn't remember its name, so he marked it with a question mark.
Twenty years later, he digitalized his collection, and in 2007, his sister tried to assist him by releasing a clip of the elusive song online. She originally had no success, but such things typically take time to get viral. Until 2019 when the story was picked up and began to take off like wildfire, the recording of this enigmatic song sat in the forgotten corners of the internet for 12 years.
Quickly, the song was discussed on podcasts, subreddits, YouTube videos, online magazines, and Discord servers, yet no one had heard of it. Even the DJ who worked at NDR in the 1980s, Paul Baskerville, was contacted by someone, although he was unaware of it. He said that he occasionally played obscure, underground music that was provided to him from Eastern Europe or from across the Berlin Wall. Although there have been some leads, the unidentified music continues to hold the distinction of "most enigmatic song on the internet" for the time being.
