At least with "the most mysterious song", we have the full recording. So even if we never figure out who made it, we have it in full. Having just a snippet is almost maddening.
There’s CZcams channels filling the rest of the song in or covering it from scratch - a couple of them sound good enough to download honestly. The snippet makes for a better challenge during the hunt in my opinion!
As someone who lived through the 80s and 90s and vividly remembers TV from that time, I can almost 99% certain say that this is from a TV commercial. It has that TV sound, not radio. And, also as someone who lived through the 80s and 90s, it's 100% plausible that a 7 year old kid decided to record some random music. That was how we made playlists back then.
People tend to forget that up until the mid 80s you rarely, if ever, heard contemporary music on tv so every commercial had to have its own original music.
Yeah and if enough people liked the ad song it ended up actually being released as a single. I remember that happening with a Coca Cola ad “first time” by Robin Beck
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
In Brazil we have a search for a incomplete instrumental song that is publicly known since the mid-80s, it's easily recognizable by the entire population of the country by multiple generations and is being searched online for at least 10 years yet nobody can trace its name or country origin. It's definitely the most heard unidentified song of the world. It was branded as the 'lost Chapolin Polka' and there are multiple posts describing the extensive search conducted.
My thoughts as a hobbyist music producer: This is NOT a hoax. This sounds EXACTLY like the mid 80's. Those drum sounds....the synth sounds, the reverb, the hooky melody. Especially where she sings 'tell me the truuuuth' sounds right on point for 1985 to me. Of course it can still be created today, but why would someone? Anyway it's a bop and I hope the full song is discovered. It will be in my head all day. 😂😂😂 My guess is he recorded this off his TV/monitor and this is just what happened to be on TV when he recorded the audio. It's just a random slice of some commercial or TV show intro.
Im a big new wave 80s music fan, have listened to over a 1000 songs from this era and you're right, it's sounds too convincing to be recorded today. I mean, in the 80s every small band was on a mission to write the most catchiest hook. It takes a music genius to recreate this sound and song structure so perfectly.
It doesn't sound like a commercial or TV show *intro* to me, but it does sound like a "fake pop song" written and recorded for an episode of a cartoon to reflect the drama in the show, because they needed a soundtrack song but didn't have the budget to license a so-called "real" one, so they had the show's composer cook something up really fast that was supposed to sound like a licensed song. That's the vibe I get. Especially with the lyrics. A character is worried (or has recently found out) that another character has ulterior motives, cue this song. Japanese cartoons do this all the time, and American shows do it somewhat less frequently but it happens.
The thing is, there's a LOT of songs that have been made throughout the decades by a LOT of small and obscure musicians and a LOT of them have really only been heard on stuff like commercials and are never heard from again because they weren't meant to be widely released like music singles and albums (unless there's some label that releases specifically albums with commercial jingles). Meaning that it's possible that OP just so happened to record a snippet from some generic 80s song used for a commercial that only aired in a few stations that no longer exists and that's all the proof there is of it's existence.
yea, this guy speculates on a different video that if he chopped up his grandpa's album and threw it online that it would spark an internet mystery. So he didn't do that, he just threw the entire album up. czcams.com/video/CIvaGPE1_Xs/video.htmlsi=6t5JLhqXrIs7xwP_
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
This is my thought as well. There are probably hundreds of little jingles that disappeared like tears in the rain because there are literally no records of them ever having existed. Off-topic, but i think of some of the best vaporwave is obscure songs that would otherwise vanish completely simply because no one is interested in listening or preserving it.
edit: WOW. I was SO wrong. This song ended up being found in a porno XD I lean into the commercial theory. I hear "Everyone knows that, she's...got ulterior motives" It makes me think of a food commercial where a woman acts like she wants one thing, but really just wants the food.
@@hannahblurp9360 If that's what you hear, that's what you hear. I hear "she." It's not like there's official lyrics or anything like that, so it's truly up to interpretation until headway is made with this song.
the pilot tone rules out both france(SECAM, no pilot signal) and spain(PAL, wrong frequency) anyway, PAL-M(system M video and audio with PAL color encoding) would only be found in brazil while no NTSC region is close enough to europe that their broadcasts would reach it, the light green countries on the map shown here are "no data" regions that are incorrectly coloured due to the fact that the map is a poorly recoloured version of an earlier map
@@alexisfreezeim getting basic U.S. geography wrong all the time, i used to think Washington, DC was in NY - I feel like that could be fairly described as a “European moment”. People know their own continent more than other continents, yeah?
It sounds like a demo written by a professional songwriter for a famous band or artist. Sounds like it but I don’t know if that’s what it is. It sounds 1984-ish to me and slightly sped up. I just wonder how this person ended up with this piece of music?
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
i remember when i found my own personal “lost song” many years later. it was a song called “mr.jinx” by the band Quarashi. finding it was an amazing feeling. oh there was also an episode of pete & pete where little pete found his lost song
This comment reminds me of when I found my personal "lost movie" from my childhood. The "movie" had haunted me ever since I was like 7 and the feeling of finally finding it was something I'll never forget
@@whatever5401 Man, I had one of those moments not long ago. I had vague recollections of a show I watched like 30+ years ago when I was a toddler. All I could remember was a pig flying on balloons, and the fact it was like claymation. A couple of months ago somebody on Twitch that I watch who does streams where we talk about old advertisements just happened to play a clip of the exact scene I could very vaguely remember. It was absolutely the wildest, most validating feeling I've ever experienced. I can't even put it into words. The show was called "Edward and Friends" and was based around the Lego Fabuland toys.
@@wardrich I also have vague recollections of a Vietnamese kids' show that I watched when I was a toddler. The most memorable detail for me about the show and also the one I'm most certain about is that there was a character named Đức. All I can remember about the plot is a single scene where Đức and his friends confronted the antagonists (?) only for the antagonists (?) to use magic to make Đức disappear. After Đức's defeat, one of his friends' said something that contained "Bây giờ anh Đức không còn nữa" (which translates to "Now that Đức is no more"). And there was also a scene where Đức returned much to everyone's surprise. I still haven't been able to find the show yet, but there are a few new leads that could be useful and my parents say that they find my description of the show to be strangely familiar. I really hope that one day I'll just randomly stumble upon this show again when I least expect it, since that's also how I rediscovered other "lost media" from my childhood
I was a kid in the Eighties, and I can at least confirm that they would definitely go "this hard" for a song in a commercial. Take a look/listen to the 1985 Plymouth Duster ad. It's basically a full on music video. I think "Everyone Knows That" is probably from a commercial as well, which would explain why it was recorded from a TV.
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
I agree and was an 80s kid too. Really hard to tell though . I mean every movie that had a bar or club scene had a no named cover band playing in thr background. I'm not sure I agree with savage garden...but I haven't listened to them in a while so who knows
Long reply on this one. I’m NOT at all convinced the singers are Japanese. I believe that theory is coming from people who haven’t heard how badly an aged cassette tape sounds. I encourage folks to record any ‘80s Wham! (George Michael) song to an old cassette tape, then play it back. While that won’t suddenly make a song mysterious, it will sure butcher the original quality and provide a different audio quality perspective. Pitch shifting to D is just a start, there’s so much more hours needed with trial/error patchwork. Not to mention that we don’t know various aspects involving the og media itself. What tape was used, what recording device, what’s a more reasonable timeframe of recording given the tape’s other content, where was the tape stored, what temperatures was it exposed to, etc etc. I have spent time helping track down leads for Like the Wind and On My Mind. I will be adding this one to my hunt, to which I hope to continue to help the growing community and the amazing volunteers give at least one of these songs a name and an artist in the next year.
I agree with you but because of a different reason. I used to be a massive j-pop fan, and whatever english songs they'd make, had far different pronunciation. Hell, the accent isn't even the same. It makes far more sense for it to just be a badly aged cassette.
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
leaving a comment to be able to see when cinnamon8863 responds and leaves an update. i am pretty interested in knowing what this song actually is called and have the full version ngl.
You ever notice how many of these mystery songs appear to come from the 80s or 90s? The 80s and 90s had so many bangers we couldn't even keep track of them all
I'm surprised that THIS isn't classified as the most mysterious song on the internet. Atleast for that song, we have the full version, but for EKT, we only have a few lines to go off of.
@@raeganj6744yes and no, back in 2007 when Lydia originally posted the song on multiple websites asking for help identifying it, she only put the first minute due to copyright reasons (which seems way too much for fair use, but that's besides the point). A couple forum users asked her for the full length recording, so she emailed it to them privately. When the search went viral in 2019, people had only posted the same minute-long clip she originally posted herself, but one of the people she had emailed the full one to came forward and provided that one. She's since digitized it in 24-bit lossless, BTW. So yeah, the "full track" was always available, just not publicly posted due to copyright concerns.
@@drfsupercenter yeah thanks for clarifying, I was talking about how only the minute long clip was posted for a bit but I didn’t remember the full story
Ah yes a video on my new obsession as of right now with lost media. I genuinely hope this song is actually real and gets found it’s too good 😭 that 20 second clip isn’t enough, I NEED IT IN MY SPOTIFY PLAYLIST-
Just a heads up, when or if the song is found, it is impossible for it to live up to the snippet that we've listened to countless times at this point. I've been involved with unreleased songs for close to 20 years at this point, and this is always the case.
@@i_used_adblock_to_watch_this very true. From djs I've idolized playing stuff without tracklists to local fm stations , I've recorded many clips and many times after finding the track I've actually found myself going back to listening to the clip I recorded for some reason. I've thought maybe it's because it takes on more of a live sound when played through speakers n recorded
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
I cannot accept that this was a stunt on carl92's end. I feel that the lyrics about lies and mystery are just coincidence and wouldn't be out of place in a pop song, especially one about love And even if we view the lyrics as evedience that this was made as a promotional stunt; then who in their right mind would self-release a snippit on a site dedicated to finding music, give it lyrics all about secrecy, only to reply to comments like "who made this?" and "can you give us a longer cut" with a shrug and leave? even for a cancelled project his reaction seems totally backwards to his own self interests if this was a song that he made However the seemingly interrogative lyrics do point me away from this being made for a commercial, not to say that people shouldn't be searching up Western European 80's-90's ads, but I do feel that this is more likely a personal project made by a very obscure euro pop artist
I've talked about this at length in the subreddit - I'm with you there that Carl didn't make this... the thing with trolls is that they generally don't want to put effort into their trolling. There's nothing to gain from it, they're just doing it for amusement. A far more likely scenario is that Carl92 just wanted to troll people on WatZatSong, for whatever reason - his first attempt was quickly identified (within 24 hours) as that Sinking Stone song, so he could have just picked another obscure Spanish Bandcamp artist, but this time wrecked the quality to make it sound like an old microphone recording, and then uploaded it next time he was bored. The Sinking Stone sample was also 17 seconds long and had the chorus of the song, suspiciously just like EKT. So I'm 100% convinced EKT is a real song, recorded by a real artist who was not Carl92, but it may be some indie group on Bandcamp just like Sinking Stone was, or it could be from a commercial, we'll never know until someone identifies it.
Not sure if im the only one to do this but you remove the beat to where there is just volcals And reverse the polarity and slow it down just a bit you can hear talking in the back and at the end you can hear someone say "does it work"
@@drfsupercenter If this is true, I'd like to know the artist, since this is SUPER 80s sounding, and anyone who can recreate the 80s sound that well will easily become a favorite of mine.
I've seen some people speculate that it may have been from one of those toys that played song snippets which would explain 1) why it starts at the chorus 2) why it's so compressed 3) why OP might have been 7 at the time of recording
I had that thought! Early 2000s I had a doll that came with a little music box thing and it's say something that sounded a lot like this song. Like it was an '80s vibe, and compressed and sounded like garbage. 😂 So that's where my mind went
It being a recording of a tv makes more sense as you would rarely be fast enough to catch the whole song, especially if he was 7yo. It being compressed isn't weird as it was a recording of a tv that was transfered from CD to a pc.
I feel like the recording we have has far too much low end to be from a cheap toy like that. The quality is bad, but it isn't tinny. It has bass. Also I was recording cassette tapes from CDs when I was a kid (in the 2000's.) Stereos used to make this super easy to do over line in. I don't doubt for a second that he could've recorded this when he was 7 years old. I strongly suspect that this is a recording of TV, and specifically a commercial that might've only aired in Europe and has become completely buried over the years. It very much sounds like the backing to an over the top 80's advertisement, when it was really common for commercials to have their own dedicated, super high energy songs like this. The only thing that gives me pause there is that the lyrics do not mention any product, which I would expect in that case.
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
Yes, this song feels familiar. I have a feeling it's TV related. As stated, a commercial, a TV show or featured in some 80s European movie. (As a Swede I would guess that it could potentially be swedish in origin since there were a lot of similar sounding music like that here during that era).
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
I'm not from Sweden, but when I heard the snippet I thought "well, this must be a 1985 Melodifestivalen entry" haha (it reminded me a bit of Kikki Danielsson's style)
Carl doesn't have a full song, he stated that the 20 second clip he posted is all he has. He got asked about it in the original thread and stated as such, so tbh a kid messing around with recording devices and recording random snippets of audio from movies, tv shows and adverts from a tv is honestly more plausible.
As a big Savage Garden fan, I'm shocked that the band could even be suggested in this. The singer sounds nothing like Darren Hayes and none of their songs sound similar. The duo are also very on the side of "our music belongs to our fans", so if this was Savage Garden, there is no way this would still be a mystery by this point. It's not Savage Garden.
Not a huge fan, but I was born at a time where I am old enough to remember chicking a cherry cola and laying like this forever 🤣 I was definitely "wtf"-ing at them being listed as a possibility.
Same with Roxette. When that theory started being floated around the /r/EveryoneKnowsThat subreddit I was facepalming that people were even entertaining that theory - some mad lad even went and emailed someone associated with the band and got a definitive reply saying NO it's not Roxette, yet people keep claiming it could be anyway (like the maker of this video) Groan... it's not a popular band, try harder, guys.
LIsten to their very early Demos. Geez we need to have him listen to it! The music in the background is Culture Club-ish, and you know Darren loves the '80's!
@@johngarcia1340 Just saw another video about it that played the demos, and while it sounds similar - much more than I expected it to, I find it strange how we have all these demos, but one random demo ended up with a TV signal in it that isn't kept anywhere else. The timeline and what we know about EKT don't quite match up. I'm more convinced than when I wrote my original comment, I've moved from about a 1% possibility to about a 5% chance. There are just too many known demo songs out there. It's too suspiciously absent.
I think one reason why people believe that Everyone Knows That could potentially be a full song is because earlier this year a song clip called ‘I’m Yours’ was uploaded that was later identified to be Is This Love? by DaYeene. Of course, nothing’s saying that Is This Love? is the reason for that conclusion. Honestly, after listening to the clip many times beforehand, I’m surprised no one considered the song to be part of a Barbie commercial or promo. EDIT: Well now, that's definitely what I wasn't expecting. Now we know why there was only a snippet of the song.
It's definitely longer than the 17 seconds, Carl92's upload cuts off abruptly in the middle of a word. Commercials are typically 15, 30 or 60 seconds; it's already longer than 15 so at the very least there's another ~10 seconds we're missing
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
Aside from it being potentially from a commercial, I think it might come from one of those made-for-tv movies or even a foreign film where they'll sometimes write music specifically for that project, and will usually try to mimic other popular pop songs instead of skirting around copyright or budget issues.
Ok so, this might be just a bit out there but I want to throw out my theory, take this with a grain of salt though I'm also from Spain like carl92, and over here there's this program called "Cachitos de hierro y cromo" which is like a compilation of short 70's 80's and 90's music video clips with text commentary, I watch it with my family around every new year's day and a lot of the song clips i've heard sound extremely symilar to EKT, and to add more to it, each music video clip lasted around 30 seconds or so, so It could explain the small sample we have, if It were to have appeared in some obscure airing of Cachitos de hierro y cromo, we could find the band and name of the song, I don't know if the program aired around 1999 though, but i'm just throwing out my own theory about It, hope It helps.
"Cachitos de hierro y cromo" started airing in 2012 and most of the music that appears there is from TV performances or TV specials that aired on TVE at the time. Someone could still write them about this song though in case somebody on the show know something...
Something about the song being completely lost to time gives it this eeriness. When it plays I imagine an old derelict mall frozen in the 80’s all the lights are out and darkness consumes the building, a blanket of dust lays on everything inside but the old PA system is still playing this jingle I dunno it gives me nostalgia for a time period I wasn’t alive to experience
The "counting all the sheep in the sky" line plays in my head all the time its so catchy. Also it 100% reminds me of a shampoo or lotion commercial and if he was a kid recording a song from an ad he liked why would he remember it came from an ad if he was younger.
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
Gonna throw this theory here, since I'm spanish... But maybe this is a recording of an old tv show that played clips of music. One of them, for example, was Videomix, aired in TVE1. I'm mentioning this specifically because, if it was recorded in Spain, I do not think this is from an add. Most back then were in spanish, and if the song acompanying it was in english, there would most likely be a narrator on top. Recording videoclip TV shows was extremely common back then. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a VHS tape of one of those shows being played in the background for this test.
Probably not Spain, but maybe New Mexico. Even at that time, there were a good chunk of Americans and a good chunk of Mexicans. Maybe it was a commercial made specifically there
I wish the subreddit community for finding this song was less hostile. I showed the song clip to my mom, who is in her 70s and lived in both Europe and the US throughout her younger years. I made a reddit thread with her ideas on the song, as well as my own input. Nothing but negative comments berating us. Because “everyone” knows the song and none of them actually do. Like. Geez, isn’t the point of the sub to help find it? How tf do you find it if you shoot down everyone’s perspectives? It was so jarring I deleted my post. Now I couldn’t care less if the song got found.
For someone who can't give a shit about this song you sure seem to have taken your time to write that comment lmao. Sorry that shit happened to you tho.
I’ve placed this comment in a few spaces already, but ‘It was common practice in the 80s and 90s for unknown artists to play their music on radio stations during ‘special hours’ where they can submit their songs in hopes that a talent agent was listening and looking for new talent’.
The vibe I immediately get off the song clip is...written and recorded for an episode of a cartoon. I know that seems a bit specific, but it sounds like one of those "let's have the show's composer come up with something really quick that sounds like a pop song" things. Either to be a pop song within the fiction of the show, or to be a soundtrack song that emotionally reflects what the characters are going through, that had to be made because they didn't have the budget to license an actual pop song. The lyrics don't scream commercial to me. "Ulterior motives" is not something you want to remind people of while trying to sell them something. It does however seem to suggest character dynamics. Lyrics reflecting, perhaps a bit on the nose, what's going on at a certain point in a story. Live-action shows would occasionally do this kind of thing as well, but it's something I associate more with cartoons. It could be from some obscure anime or something, if indeed the singer's accent is Japanese.
I was watching this with my dad and he pointed out that "counting all the sheep in the sky" sounds more like "counting all the shapes in the sky" which frankly makes more sense as a lyric anyway.
When I first heard everyone knows that, it made me think of the 90s when my mom used to take me with her to k-mart to get her pictures developed, because that's the type of music I remember hearing in there during that time. It makes me think of how magical and new life was when I was little. I think that's why I latched on to it all so much. The search, the song itself, and the little pink radio.
My Grandma used to own a single called, "Everyone Knows That," and her copy was from around 1985. I told her about this case, and she said, "I used to own a song called, Everyone Knows That, and it had the same rythm and vocals!" I asked her if she still had it, and sadly, she sold it.
For a while this clip had a HOLD on me. I was so sure that I heard this song somewhere in my travels. But after almost losing my mind trying to place it, to feeling like I can hear “everyone knows that, Saleen car, superior motors”, and following the search manically, I’ve come to a few conclusions. This clip is amazing, I absolutely love it and really reminds me of the nostalgic songs of 90s radio. That being said I believe, for me, I’ve never heard this, and cannot find an account of anyone else for certain having to either. The Same username people always come to carls defense whenever it’s brought up that his story is a little shady, most likely the creator, or possibly lying about being from Spain for some reason. This song sounds similar to “don’t you want me baby” and that’s why I feel like it’s catchy and feels familiar. I think there’s ulterior motives but none that are harmful. I have uncovered so many memories I have forgotten while I tried to find where I knew this song from. And that is the best thing about what I’ve concluded. I removed myself from believing that I know this song but always get happy when i hear the clip. Especially in a video to boost people’s awareness.
Could potentially be written by a professional songwriter who writes songs and sells them to Pop singers or bands. This could be a demo written for someone else to record. But how would this person end up with it?
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
In Spain (and Italy), starting in the 80's and throughout the 90's, there was this "megamix" records releases fever ("Mas Mix Que Nunca", "Max Mix" and others). Basically, they'd record obscure pop bands imitating hits (Madonna, MJ, whatever was on at the time) and that would allow them to do some crazy mixes. I believe that sometimes they'd also do some originals in the hopes that they'd be catchy enough to stick in the charts, so, to me, this sounds like one of those. It could be a pop song created from scratch for a megamix release, or a left over.
Spain picks up signals from a lot of different regions. Especially when it's France. (Maybe the arrows just randomly took that orientation, but lol. 😉)
I feel like with this, and other mysterious songs, unless they come from a source we know, the song will lose all its value once we actually know what it’s source is.
my experience isolating songs to get just the vocals, people typically use AI websites and services so this isolated vocal may be muddy due to the ai interpreting what it is hearing from the song. the song itself sounds old so the noise it outputs will sometimes mess up the ai separating the vocals and may add parts of the music. unless it was done by humans then disregard this but please take note beware when listening to just the vocals of any song old and new.
If this helps for the hunt, FL Studio just made an update and now you can separate stems more accurately than any other AI page I've seen so far (even paid ones)
@@flashmusicarchive9584 yeah it's quite tricky, although it's just a new thing that'll probably get better over time, but meanwhile there's also Izotope RX9, which is pretty good as well, although unfortunately expensive
You carry all the shame in disguise, Caught up in a world of lies, Everyone knows that, You've got, Ulterior motives (Tell me the truth), Every moves shows that, You've got, Ulterior motives (Tell me the truth).
15kHz signal means nothing here, European CRT TV's also supported NTSC 60Hz for import media purposes since the early 80s due to EU requirements. Also it doesn't mean the recording came from a CRT TV signal, it could've been a TV in the background running who knows what. Growing up we would get video tapes from family abroad in NTSC formats, we'd play them back on our tape deck in RGB (bypassing NTSC color encoding, but playing back at standard 60Hz like it should be). People saying that it's a lead don't factor in all these variables, it doesn't rule countries out.
You know, that's something I hadn't thought about. I knew PAL TVs could play 60Hz but imported VHS would have been pre-recorded content, and if it's some movie released on VHS it would have been found by now. What's the likelihood someone in the US, Japan or other NTSC territory mailed a family in Spain some recorded-off-TV tapes? It could support the Japanese theory if it came from there, it just seems really unlikely unless Carl's parents were the type to spend money on importing random television recordings
Yeah, it does help. Just that it isn't that far fetched. We'd get a lot of tapes from abroad as I have family in north and central america. Just keeping the possibilities open, since it's so easy to dismiss things. @@drfsupercenter
I hate to hijack this, but question for the community: I have a similar (very frustrating) search going on in my head for a music video that was posted on CZcams around 2010, if I remember right. I canNOT for the life of me remember any details that would help me with a simple google search - no lyrics, no band name, no song name. All I remember is that i'm pretty sure it was an independent band, and the video was about a dude who could travel through different portals. It starts out with him in some kind of space-suit-looking uniform, he's just exploring but then suddenly is chased by this woman on a horse wearing a ton of like feathers and has a bow and arrow...and she almost catches him but he ducks into this portal and he's transported to a hospital...he's looking around the hospital for someone, finds them...and then the woman that was chasing him shows up and is pointing her weapon at him...and the video ends. I thought the song and video concept was SO cool, never heard from them again but I just want to watch it one more time! Please help :) Just remembered another detail: the band had other music but NOTHING was like this one song; I wasn't a fan of any of it but this one song just sent me every time. This has been driving me nuts for years; I have no idea why my brain decided to erase all the details like that :(
Way back in the 90s, my mom had a song she had no idea of, neither the name nor the artist. She even contacted various music labels and organisations. No luck. No one seems to have heard that song or written it. Eventually, she allowed me to listen to the only copy she had. All I did was search the lyrics online, and it didn't take me long to find them. Even before Google. The song is really sad and beautiful, and I now have a digital copy of it. The one thing that surprised me was that this was from an album by a now famous trio. The song was released before they became famous, yet no one seems to have heard of it. Maybe this is the same thing. If we had more, we could probably find it easily. But we don't, so I guess we'll never know. Media from the 80s isn't all saved, so it could be lost forever. Or the best prank ever. [Edited to add] To everyone wondering about what the song was? Du gav mitt liv en mening - Herreys. Here's the english version: czcams.com/video/jLdTPw_olR8/video.html
It doesnt help that there's a version of the song that was created from those lost lyrics that makes trying to track down the original even more difficult. It's the first hit when you type in the song lyrics in Google.
I've posted thousands of commercials from the 80's and 90's over the 15 years that I've been on CZcams. This song wasn't used in a single one of them...and people keep asking me about it. I think people need to accept that it's possible for just one person with some musical talent and production skills to just fake a recording that sounds exactly like a new wave 80's song, especially with the lo-fi nature of the sample in question. Either that or it is authentic but some sort of unreleased demo recording by some obscure band that nobody's heard of. The idea that a commercially released recording from 30 years ago could just "fall through the cracks" and not have anyone be able to identify it 35-40 years later just doesn't seem likely to me.
It's been FOUND!!! czcams.com/video/_rd4euNwCvo/video.html
HA HA HA he is a coomer 🤯🤯🤯
Everyone knows that what carl92 was doing that day.
*Freaky* carl92
Hell yes it has 😂
the answer lies in porn
Doesn't matter if it's from an adult movie, it's still a banger 😏
there's something beautifully ironic about a song called "everybody knows that" that nobody knows anything about
"No one, in fact, knew that"
@@CaptainJZH😭
bru this shit has been said so many fucking times
@@CaptainJZHin-fact.. someone had ulterior motives..
Lol that is obviously not the name of the song. Ulterior Motives makes a lot more sense.
At least with "the most mysterious song", we have the full recording. So even if we never figure out who made it, we have it in full. Having just a snippet is almost maddening.
There’s CZcams channels filling the rest of the song in or covering it from scratch - a couple of them sound good enough to download honestly. The snippet makes for a better challenge during the hunt in my opinion!
The one by motives is the best
@@geggy310 real
czcams.com/video/aRtCMJqnqOM/video.htmlsi=2b7UQt9xNqOLsg78
ppl already found that band who made that song lol it's alphaville listen to their other songs
carl92 definitely did not "lose interest," his ass was ashamed of the attention 😭😭😭
Bro trolled the entire internet and then disappeared from the internet forever
Yes
carl was definitely experimenting alright…
Lol
And now everyone knows that he had ulterior motives.
As someone who lived through the 80s and 90s and vividly remembers TV from that time, I can almost 99% certain say that this is from a TV commercial. It has that TV sound, not radio. And, also as someone who lived through the 80s and 90s, it's 100% plausible that a 7 year old kid decided to record some random music. That was how we made playlists back then.
Not American but this literally sounds like an 80s or 90s American TV commercial song recorded on a cassette tape from a VHS era TV.
I was a teenager in the 80s and I agree with you 100%
Pretty sure it was proven to be from TV based on the sound frequencies or something
I agree. This song sounds like it would be in a tv commercial around 1984/86.
100%
People tend to forget that up until the mid 80s you rarely, if ever, heard contemporary music on tv so every commercial had to have its own original music.
Yeah and if enough people liked the ad song it ended up actually being released as a single. I remember that happening with a Coca Cola ad “first time” by Robin Beck
I feel like this song is definitely from a old 80s commercial that probably wasn’t preserved especially if it wasn’t from some big business
Or maybe it's in a commercial compilation waiting to be found, like Carb Solutions!
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
@@cinnamon8863 sounds good! Keep us updated! 👍🏾
imagine how much lost songs we have from the 70’s/80’s/90’s era
We need them. Like NOW
There's more than you think. The sift of time has really done a number on it--especially the late 90s and early 2000s.
Gotta be at least 8 or 9 lost songs 😔
probably not very many.
And earlier😢
In Brazil we have a search for a incomplete instrumental song that is publicly known since the mid-80s, it's easily recognizable by the entire population of the country by multiple generations and is being searched online for at least 10 years yet nobody can trace its name or country origin. It's definitely the most heard unidentified song of the world. It was branded as the 'lost Chapolin Polka' and there are multiple posts describing the extensive search conducted.
Do you have a link to this one?
@@hectorthe501st The song: v=rZw2qm5PSAg
v=cx5jHRe7X7E?t=316 About the mystery (in portuguese)
@@hectorthe501st
Já encontram a música pelo q parece
czcams.com/video/ciHqHC1AhKs/video.html
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I think I know about that one the most mysterious song of brazil I think that's the name I heard maybe its a different song idk
this aged so well
So true lmao, fkn 80’s porn song lmao
That’s what I was thinking watching this 😂
My thoughts as a hobbyist music producer: This is NOT a hoax. This sounds EXACTLY like the mid 80's. Those drum sounds....the synth sounds, the reverb, the hooky melody. Especially where she sings 'tell me the truuuuth' sounds right on point for 1985 to me. Of course it can still be created today, but why would someone? Anyway it's a bop and I hope the full song is discovered. It will be in my head all day. 😂😂😂
My guess is he recorded this off his TV/monitor and this is just what happened to be on TV when he recorded the audio. It's just a random slice of some commercial or TV show intro.
Im a big new wave 80s music fan, have listened to over a 1000 songs from this era and you're right, it's sounds too convincing to be recorded today. I mean, in the 80s every small band was on a mission to write the most catchiest hook. It takes a music genius to recreate this sound and song structure so perfectly.
also isnt the audio file from like 1999?
@@deathwave8375 exactly. This sounds exactly like the stuff coming out in droves in the 80's. No way it's fake.
it's from a radio station. op took thousands of short snippets
It doesn't sound like a commercial or TV show *intro* to me, but it does sound like a "fake pop song" written and recorded for an episode of a cartoon to reflect the drama in the show, because they needed a soundtrack song but didn't have the budget to license a so-called "real" one, so they had the show's composer cook something up really fast that was supposed to sound like a licensed song. That's the vibe I get. Especially with the lyrics. A character is worried (or has recently found out) that another character has ulterior motives, cue this song. Japanese cartoons do this all the time, and American shows do it somewhat less frequently but it happens.
The thing is, there's a LOT of songs that have been made throughout the decades by a LOT of small and obscure musicians and a LOT of them have really only been heard on stuff like commercials and are never heard from again because they weren't meant to be widely released like music singles and albums (unless there's some label that releases specifically albums with commercial jingles).
Meaning that it's possible that OP just so happened to record a snippet from some generic 80s song used for a commercial that only aired in a few stations that no longer exists and that's all the proof there is of it's existence.
yea, this guy speculates on a different video that if he chopped up his grandpa's album and threw it online that it would spark an internet mystery. So he didn't do that, he just threw the entire album up.
czcams.com/video/CIvaGPE1_Xs/video.htmlsi=6t5JLhqXrIs7xwP_
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
Ohh yeah!, it very well could be a song made for a commercial !, it’s certainly gives commercial vibes !
This is my thought as well. There are probably hundreds of little jingles that disappeared like tears in the rain because there are literally no records of them ever having existed.
Off-topic, but i think of some of the best vaporwave is obscure songs that would otherwise vanish completely simply because no one is interested in listening or preserving it.
@@cinnamon8863 have you got any update?
"a young man by the name of carl was experimenting" aged well
edit: WOW. I was SO wrong. This song ended up being found in a porno XD
I lean into the commercial theory. I hear "Everyone knows that, she's...got ulterior motives" It makes me think of a food commercial where a woman acts like she wants one thing, but really just wants the food.
Except that it's YOU'VE got, not she's
“Superior motors?”
@@hannahblurp9360 If that's what you hear, that's what you hear. I hear "she." It's not like there's official lyrics or anything like that, so it's truly up to interpretation until headway is made with this song.
@@hannahblurp9360it could be she's though
People have made remasters that sound more clear and it’s definitely you’ve got
Mistaking France for Spain on a map is certainly one of the most American moments of all time
the pilot tone rules out both france(SECAM, no pilot signal) and spain(PAL, wrong frequency) anyway, PAL-M(system M video and audio with PAL color encoding) would only be found in brazil while no NTSC region is close enough to europe that their broadcasts would reach it, the light green countries on the map shown here are "no data" regions that are incorrectly coloured due to the fact that the map is a poorly recoloured version of an earlier map
I thought I was the only one who noticed
I studied French for a solid 8 years in school, and I 100% would still do this ngl
Most American? Another ignorant person generalizing Americans.
@@alexisfreezeim getting basic U.S. geography wrong all the time, i used to think Washington, DC was in NY - I feel like that could be fairly described as a “European moment”. People know their own continent more than other continents, yeah?
Carl definitely had some ulterior motives
As a GenX in her mid 40s, this one drives me crazy because it really feels so familiar!
It sounds like a demo written by a professional songwriter for a famous band or artist. Sounds like it but I don’t know if that’s what it is. It sounds 1984-ish to me and slightly sped up. I just wonder how this person ended up with this piece of music?
@@Taylor.Dude. i was thinking that it could be an 80s song sped up, reminded me of wham when i first heard it
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
@@cinnamon8863Have you gotten any information since then?
@@cinnamon8863Please do fr
i remember when i found my own personal “lost song” many years later. it was a song called “mr.jinx” by the band Quarashi.
finding it was an amazing feeling. oh there was also an episode of pete & pete where little pete found his lost song
If it's the same band, check out their tune "Bassline". It was used in the PS2 game Amplitude and is a total banger
@@wardrichthat's a good ass song! Respect!
This comment reminds me of when I found my personal "lost movie" from my childhood. The "movie" had haunted me ever since I was like 7 and the feeling of finally finding it was something I'll never forget
@@whatever5401 Man, I had one of those moments not long ago. I had vague recollections of a show I watched like 30+ years ago when I was a toddler. All I could remember was a pig flying on balloons, and the fact it was like claymation. A couple of months ago somebody on Twitch that I watch who does streams where we talk about old advertisements just happened to play a clip of the exact scene I could very vaguely remember. It was absolutely the wildest, most validating feeling I've ever experienced. I can't even put it into words.
The show was called "Edward and Friends" and was based around the Lego Fabuland toys.
@@wardrich I also have vague recollections of a Vietnamese kids' show that I watched when I was a toddler. The most memorable detail for me about the show and also the one I'm most certain about is that there was a character named Đức. All I can remember about the plot is a single scene where Đức and his friends confronted the antagonists (?) only for the antagonists (?) to use magic to make Đức disappear. After Đức's defeat, one of his friends' said something that contained "Bây giờ anh Đức không còn nữa" (which translates to "Now that Đức is no more"). And there was also a scene where Đức returned much to everyone's surprise. I still haven't been able to find the show yet, but there are a few new leads that could be useful and my parents say that they find my description of the show to be strangely familiar. I really hope that one day I'll just randomly stumble upon this show again when I least expect it, since that's also how I rediscovered other "lost media" from my childhood
Why does it have to be a bop tho?
Owls need HUGS
@@Margen67🫂🫂
@@Margen67hoo
I was a kid in the Eighties, and I can at least confirm that they would definitely go "this hard" for a song in a commercial. Take a look/listen to the 1985 Plymouth Duster ad. It's basically a full on music video. I think "Everyone Knows That" is probably from a commercial as well, which would explain why it was recorded from a TV.
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
I agree and was an 80s kid too. Really hard to tell though . I mean every movie that had a bar or club scene had a no named cover band playing in thr background. I'm not sure I agree with savage garden...but I haven't listened to them in a while so who knows
@@cinnamon8863anything happen?
@@cinnamon8863 And then you found out?
"Spain gets signals from a lot of places!" Arrows on the map all point to....FRANCE! :D
it reminds me how he always says pounds are euros 😭
Sprance
Thank you, I was looking for this comment. As someone from Spain, that moment made me extremely mad.
I was about to comment that...
I was looking for someone saying this because I was so confused and wondered if I was going insane
i love that the lost song from the 80s is associated with a boombox that was made 20 years later
Long reply on this one. I’m NOT at all convinced the singers are Japanese. I believe that theory is coming from people who haven’t heard how badly an aged cassette tape sounds. I encourage folks to record any ‘80s Wham! (George Michael) song to an old cassette tape, then play it back. While that won’t suddenly make a song mysterious, it will sure butcher the original quality and provide a different audio quality perspective. Pitch shifting to D is just a start, there’s so much more hours needed with trial/error patchwork. Not to mention that we don’t know various aspects involving the og media itself. What tape was used, what recording device, what’s a more reasonable timeframe of recording given the tape’s other content, where was the tape stored, what temperatures was it exposed to, etc etc.
I have spent time helping track down leads for Like the Wind and On My Mind. I will be adding this one to my hunt, to which I hope to continue to help the growing community and the amazing volunteers give at least one of these songs a name and an artist in the next year.
I agree with you but because of a different reason. I used to be a massive j-pop fan, and whatever english songs they'd make, had far different pronunciation. Hell, the accent isn't even the same. It makes far more sense for it to just be a badly aged cassette.
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
Agreed
@@cinnamon8863 Why the hell would you post this under EVERY SINGLE COMMENT ON THIS VIDEO???? Shut up! It's not him! GO AWAY!
@@cinnamon8863woah you’re right!! They sound identical
Man i wish this gets found soon, i love listening to 80s/90s music and it sorta feels creepy that literally nobody can find this song-
ME TOO, let's hope so
I love the mystery behind this. But I too want to k ow.
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
leaving a comment to be able to see when cinnamon8863 responds and leaves an update. i am pretty interested in knowing what this song actually is called and have the full version ngl.
waiting for cinnamon8863’s update
You ever notice how many of these mystery songs appear to come from the 80s or 90s? The 80s and 90s had so many bangers we couldn't even keep track of them all
Yep! And a ton of “one hit wonders”-type artists… 😬
I'm surprised that THIS isn't classified as the most mysterious song on the internet.
Atleast for that song, we have the full version, but for EKT, we only have a few lines to go off of.
that’s what i’ve been saying! while Like the Wind is the full track, Everyone Knows That (Ulterior Motives) is just a single clip.
Originally, there wasn’t a full track for Like the Wind, the full track was only uploaded a couple of years ago
@@raeganj6744yes and no, back in 2007 when Lydia originally posted the song on multiple websites asking for help identifying it, she only put the first minute due to copyright reasons (which seems way too much for fair use, but that's besides the point). A couple forum users asked her for the full length recording, so she emailed it to them privately. When the search went viral in 2019, people had only posted the same minute-long clip she originally posted herself, but one of the people she had emailed the full one to came forward and provided that one. She's since digitized it in 24-bit lossless, BTW.
So yeah, the "full track" was always available, just not publicly posted due to copyright concerns.
@@drfsupercenter yeah thanks for clarifying, I was talking about how only the minute long clip was posted for a bit but I didn’t remember the full story
Unpopular opinion but Like the wind is not even that good and sounds generic af. EKT is much better imo.
Ah yes a video on my new obsession as of right now with lost media. I genuinely hope this song is actually real and gets found it’s too good 😭 that 20 second clip isn’t enough, I NEED IT IN MY SPOTIFY PLAYLIST-
It's one of my favorite lost songs at the moment, it's so catchy. I really hope the original full song can be found.
Just a heads up, when or if the song is found, it is impossible for it to live up to the snippet that we've listened to countless times at this point. I've been involved with unreleased songs for close to 20 years at this point, and this is always the case.
@@i_used_adblock_to_watch_thisOh hey your still trying to find EKT? Dam i havent seen you in a while after watching almost every video of EKT!
@@i_used_adblock_to_watch_this very true. From djs I've idolized playing stuff without tracklists to local fm stations , I've recorded many clips and many times after finding the track I've actually found myself going back to listening to the clip I recorded for some reason. I've thought maybe it's because it takes on more of a live sound when played through speakers n recorded
czcams.com/video/GcQe1qJKo5A/video.htmlsi=SbhCKU6sn_YxUMNn the full song I think
Someone should put it in a movie, and 1000 people will come out of the woods to claim it.
Only 1000? If there's no official copyright, you can bet your sweet potatoes that 1 million Americans alone will claim it.
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
@@cinnamon8863I’m just leaving this comment in case
@@cinnamon8863im going absolutely feral for this hunt. leaving a reply here
@@cinnamon8863 i am taking after gamerpizza and leaving a comment here! i'm gonna come back to this thread or please reply to me when you find
The lostwave community really came together to solve this one and brought this long and hard search to its climax.
Nice 😂
Guys.... IT'S FROM THE 1986 PORN FILM " Angels of Passion " AND THE SONG WAS JUST FULL OF SEX NOISES EXCEPT FOR THE ONE PART WE HEARD 😭
LOL
The "chip eating" was the bed cracking and Carl92's snippet matched an Angels of Passion torrent perfectly
6:43 That's not Spain bro... 💀
I cannot accept that this was a stunt on carl92's end. I feel that the lyrics about lies and mystery are just coincidence and wouldn't be out of place in a pop song, especially one about love
And even if we view the lyrics as evedience that this was made as a promotional stunt; then who in their right mind would self-release a snippit
on a site dedicated to finding music, give it lyrics all about secrecy, only to reply to comments like "who made this?" and "can you give us a longer cut" with a shrug and leave? even for a cancelled project his reaction seems totally backwards to his own self interests if this was a song that he made
However the seemingly interrogative lyrics do point me away from this being made for a commercial, not to say that people shouldn't be searching up Western European 80's-90's ads, but I do feel that this is more likely a personal project made by a very obscure euro pop artist
I've talked about this at length in the subreddit - I'm with you there that Carl didn't make this... the thing with trolls is that they generally don't want to put effort into their trolling. There's nothing to gain from it, they're just doing it for amusement.
A far more likely scenario is that Carl92 just wanted to troll people on WatZatSong, for whatever reason - his first attempt was quickly identified (within 24 hours) as that Sinking Stone song, so he could have just picked another obscure Spanish Bandcamp artist, but this time wrecked the quality to make it sound like an old microphone recording, and then uploaded it next time he was bored. The Sinking Stone sample was also 17 seconds long and had the chorus of the song, suspiciously just like EKT.
So I'm 100% convinced EKT is a real song, recorded by a real artist who was not Carl92, but it may be some indie group on Bandcamp just like Sinking Stone was, or it could be from a commercial, we'll never know until someone identifies it.
Not sure if im the only one to do this but you remove the beat to where there is just volcals And reverse the polarity and slow it down just a bit you can hear talking in the back and at the end you can hear someone say "does it work"
@@LoveAdairrYou should make a video on this showing it
@@LoveAdairri agree with above reply, please if you can make a vid abt it
@@drfsupercenter If this is true, I'd like to know the artist, since this is SUPER 80s sounding, and anyone who can recreate the 80s sound that well will easily become a favorite of mine.
there is absolutely NO WAY a song that goes this hard not only wouldn’t be immortalized, but would be forgotten completely
how do you feel about this comment now
@@moejirachiP apparently the term "goes this hard" has a new meaning now
I've seen some people speculate that it may have been from one of those toys that played song snippets which would explain 1) why it starts at the chorus 2) why it's so compressed 3) why OP might have been 7 at the time of recording
I had that thought! Early 2000s I had a doll that came with a little music box thing and it's say something that sounded a lot like this song. Like it was an '80s vibe, and compressed and sounded like garbage. 😂 So that's where my mind went
It being a recording of a tv makes more sense as you would rarely be fast enough to catch the whole song, especially if he was 7yo. It being compressed isn't weird as it was a recording of a tv that was transfered from CD to a pc.
I feel like the recording we have has far too much low end to be from a cheap toy like that. The quality is bad, but it isn't tinny. It has bass.
Also I was recording cassette tapes from CDs when I was a kid (in the 2000's.) Stereos used to make this super easy to do over line in. I don't doubt for a second that he could've recorded this when he was 7 years old.
I strongly suspect that this is a recording of TV, and specifically a commercial that might've only aired in Europe and has become completely buried over the years. It very much sounds like the backing to an over the top 80's advertisement, when it was really common for commercials to have their own dedicated, super high energy songs like this. The only thing that gives me pause there is that the lyrics do not mention any product, which I would expect in that case.
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
Can't believe people were going all CSI for a song from a 80s porno lmao.
Yes, this song feels familiar. I have a feeling it's TV related. As stated, a commercial, a TV show or featured in some 80s European movie. (As a Swede I would guess that it could potentially be swedish in origin since there were a lot of similar sounding music like that here during that era).
Interesting! last week on the EKT subreddit a user from Sweden said that they had heard it at a mall in the early 2000's
Exactly. That’s what I heard, TV ad spot. It’s a jingle.
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
I'm not from Sweden, but when I heard the snippet I thought "well, this must be a 1985 Melodifestivalen entry" haha (it reminded me a bit of Kikki Danielsson's style)
I got a slight Swedish vibe as well. I'm a Swedish-speaking Finn but very interested and immersed in Swedish music.
Carl doesn't have a full song, he stated that the 20 second clip he posted is all he has. He got asked about it in the original thread and stated as such, so tbh a kid messing around with recording devices and recording random snippets of audio from movies, tv shows and adverts from a tv is honestly more plausible.
You're giving the guy way too much credit.
This aged horribly
10:28 the OP released alright 😂
As a big Savage Garden fan, I'm shocked that the band could even be suggested in this. The singer sounds nothing like Darren Hayes and none of their songs sound similar. The duo are also very on the side of "our music belongs to our fans", so if this was Savage Garden, there is no way this would still be a mystery by this point. It's not Savage Garden.
Not a huge fan, but I was born at a time where I am old enough to remember chicking a cherry cola and laying like this forever 🤣 I was definitely "wtf"-ing at them being listed as a possibility.
Yeah I was surprised to hear this theory. The voice in this song has also always sounded like a woman to me too
Same with Roxette. When that theory started being floated around the /r/EveryoneKnowsThat subreddit I was facepalming that people were even entertaining that theory - some mad lad even went and emailed someone associated with the band and got a definitive reply saying NO it's not Roxette, yet people keep claiming it could be anyway (like the maker of this video)
Groan... it's not a popular band, try harder, guys.
LIsten to their very early Demos. Geez we need to have him listen to it! The music in the background is Culture Club-ish, and you know Darren loves the '80's!
@@johngarcia1340 Just saw another video about it that played the demos, and while it sounds similar - much more than I expected it to, I find it strange how we have all these demos, but one random demo ended up with a TV signal in it that isn't kept anywhere else. The timeline and what we know about EKT don't quite match up.
I'm more convinced than when I wrote my original comment, I've moved from about a 1% possibility to about a 5% chance. There are just too many known demo songs out there. It's too suspiciously absent.
I think one reason why people believe that Everyone Knows That could potentially be a full song is because earlier this year a song clip called ‘I’m Yours’ was uploaded that was later identified to be Is This Love? by DaYeene. Of course, nothing’s saying that Is This Love? is the reason for that conclusion. Honestly, after listening to the clip many times beforehand, I’m surprised no one considered the song to be part of a Barbie commercial or promo.
EDIT: Well now, that's definitely what I wasn't expecting. Now we know why there was only a snippet of the song.
It's definitely longer than the 17 seconds, Carl92's upload cuts off abruptly in the middle of a word.
Commercials are typically 15, 30 or 60 seconds; it's already longer than 15 so at the very least there's another ~10 seconds we're missing
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
@@cinnamon8863 It's 100% not Savage Garden, or any other huge band with millions of fans.
Aside from it being potentially from a commercial, I think it might come from one of those made-for-tv movies or even a foreign film where they'll sometimes write music specifically for that project, and will usually try to mimic other popular pop songs instead of skirting around copyright or budget issues.
Ok so, this might be just a bit out there but I want to throw out my theory, take this with a grain of salt though
I'm also from Spain like carl92, and over here there's this program called "Cachitos de hierro y cromo" which is like a compilation of short 70's 80's and 90's music video clips with text commentary, I watch it with my family around every new year's day and a lot of the song clips i've heard sound extremely symilar to EKT, and to add more to it, each music video clip lasted around 30 seconds or so, so It could explain the small sample we have, if It were to have appeared in some obscure airing of Cachitos de hierro y cromo, we could find the band and name of the song, I don't know if the program aired around 1999 though, but i'm just throwing out my own theory about It, hope It helps.
"Cachitos de hierro y cromo" started airing in 2012 and most of the music that appears there is from TV performances or TV specials that aired on TVE at the time. Someone could still write them about this song though in case somebody on the show know something...
Something about the song being completely lost to time gives it this eeriness. When it plays I imagine an old derelict mall frozen in the 80’s all the lights are out and darkness consumes the building, a blanket of dust lays on everything inside but the old PA system is still playing this jingle I dunno it gives me nostalgia for a time period I wasn’t alive to experience
The "counting all the sheep in the sky" line plays in my head all the time its so catchy. Also it 100% reminds me of a shampoo or lotion commercial and if he was a kid recording a song from an ad he liked why would he remember it came from an ad if he was younger.
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
@@cinnamon8863 have you yet?
@@Sakuraahs not yet. Im searching for some informations, but I am 60% certain that savage garden made it
@@cinnamon8863 Thank you so much for responding! Let me know if you find out!!
any news yet? (i know it's only been a month 😭)@@cinnamon8863
🎵Everyone knows that you got ulterior motives Tell me the truth🎵 hits hard knowing how it was found.
Gonna throw this theory here, since I'm spanish... But maybe this is a recording of an old tv show that played clips of music. One of them, for example, was Videomix, aired in TVE1.
I'm mentioning this specifically because, if it was recorded in Spain, I do not think this is from an add. Most back then were in spanish, and if the song acompanying it was in english, there would most likely be a narrator on top.
Recording videoclip TV shows was extremely common back then. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a VHS tape of one of those shows being played in the background for this test.
Probably not Spain, but maybe New Mexico. Even at that time, there were a good chunk of Americans and a good chunk of Mexicans. Maybe it was a commercial made specifically there
We got those too! I'm Balkan and as a kid we were watching shows with music videos I which is basically how I learned about Taylor lol
I'm glad someone else pointed out the lyrics feeling meta
My mom is amazing with music, remembers so many random songs, but this one and the most mysterious song are 2 that she still can't place!
*Very fortunate*
A shoutout to the person who made it thru several full length adult movies to find this song.
The man really likes his movies
I wish the subreddit community for finding this song was less hostile. I showed the song clip to my mom, who is in her 70s and lived in both Europe and the US throughout her younger years. I made a reddit thread with her ideas on the song, as well as my own input. Nothing but negative comments berating us. Because “everyone” knows the song and none of them actually do. Like. Geez, isn’t the point of the sub to help find it? How tf do you find it if you shoot down everyone’s perspectives? It was so jarring I deleted my post. Now I couldn’t care less if the song got found.
Sorry that happened to you man :(
Yea I can't put my finger on if they're children or adults who treat finding a song as serious as a murder investigation
For someone who can't give a shit about this song you sure seem to have taken your time to write that comment lmao. Sorry that shit happened to you tho.
chronic reddit users typically have a stick up their ass so just disregard what they have to say
@@Jnglmperahuh?? They are just complaining about the subreddit
man carl was freaky freaky
“Sinister energy, it looks forbidden” 😭😭😭😭😭🤣😭🤣 the boombox wasn’t the only thing forbidden 😭😭😭
I’ve placed this comment in a few spaces already, but ‘It was common practice in the 80s and 90s for unknown artists to play their music on radio stations during ‘special hours’ where they can submit their songs in hopes that a talent agent was listening and looking for new talent’.
The vibe I immediately get off the song clip is...written and recorded for an episode of a cartoon. I know that seems a bit specific, but it sounds like one of those "let's have the show's composer come up with something really quick that sounds like a pop song" things. Either to be a pop song within the fiction of the show, or to be a soundtrack song that emotionally reflects what the characters are going through, that had to be made because they didn't have the budget to license an actual pop song.
The lyrics don't scream commercial to me. "Ulterior motives" is not something you want to remind people of while trying to sell them something. It does however seem to suggest character dynamics. Lyrics reflecting, perhaps a bit on the nose, what's going on at a certain point in a story. Live-action shows would occasionally do this kind of thing as well, but it's something I associate more with cartoons. It could be from some obscure anime or something, if indeed the singer's accent is Japanese.
It has an Japanese idol quality about it. Like it was taken from an OVA
No you're just a weaboo
I was watching this with my dad and he pointed out that "counting all the sheep in the sky" sounds more like "counting all the shapes in the sky" which frankly makes more sense as a lyric anyway.
counting all the sheep in the sky is a reference to counting sheep before you go to sleep
I mean the word shame makes even more sense given the rest of the lyrics
@@Katzelle3 Mhm, but how does shame fit in with the rest of this lyric?
@@AlexailyaPrime
shame and disguise
web of lies
tell me the truth
@@Katzelle3 huh, definitely more convinced by that than sheep in the sky.
No wonder he went missing…
he totally was experimenting....
When I first heard everyone knows that, it made me think of the 90s when my mom used to take me with her to k-mart to get her pictures developed, because that's the type of music I remember hearing in there during that time. It makes me think of how magical and new life was when I was little. I think that's why I latched on to it all so much. The search, the song itself, and the little pink radio.
I’ve found so many lost songs on demo cassettes at thrifts
it wasnt from a commercial😭🙏
Knowing from where it came from, he was definitely not seven
He prolly was
Who are we to judge? lmaoo
carl has some explaining to do 💀
after all this they found it in an adult movie
Sounds like any other 80's song. Can't be easy to find it.
My Grandma used to own a single called, "Everyone Knows That," and her copy was from around 1985. I told her about this case, and she said, "I used to own a song called, Everyone Knows That, and it had the same rythm and vocals!" I asked her if she still had it, and sadly, she sold it.
me when i lie for fun
when i show up to a spreading misinformation competition and my opponent is SimonToppLovesTheBeatles 😢😱☠
if ur gonna lie atleast make it believable
What was your grandma into dude..
1986. And good for her.
Where Does This Song Cum From?
Aw hell nah 💀 😭
I immediately thought it sounded like a commercial it just has that vibe, and being recorded from a tv helps that theory
Oh, Carl92 was experimenting alright, just not with audio recording lmao.
did not expect this to be found the way it was...
I've seen lots of videos about this song but I feel you explained it the best here. thanks!
sounds like a Wham tribute act
5:26 this was so wrong lmao
this aged like
"Vegan milk"
6:45 thats France lmao
For a while this clip had a HOLD on me. I was so sure that I heard this song somewhere in my travels. But after almost losing my mind trying to place it, to feeling like I can hear “everyone knows that, Saleen car, superior motors”, and following the search manically, I’ve come to a few conclusions. This clip is amazing, I absolutely love it and really reminds me of the nostalgic songs of 90s radio. That being said I believe, for me, I’ve never heard this, and cannot find an account of anyone else for certain having to either. The Same username people always come to carls defense whenever it’s brought up that his story is a little shady, most likely the creator, or possibly lying about being from Spain for some reason. This song sounds similar to “don’t you want me baby” and that’s why I feel like it’s catchy and feels familiar. I think there’s ulterior motives but none that are harmful. I have uncovered so many memories I have forgotten while I tried to find where I knew this song from. And that is the best thing about what I’ve concluded. I removed myself from believing that I know this song but always get happy when i hear the clip. Especially in a video to boost people’s awareness.
You made the right decision
i believe that this song was recorded in a studio, but scrapped and now it is floating around the internet
Could potentially be written by a professional songwriter who writes songs and sells them to Pop singers or bands. This could be a demo written for someone else to record. But how would this person end up with it?
there is a theory that savage garden did this song. They were sending demos to a lot of music labels to get into music industry and some industries didn't wanted them. There is actually a video comparing savage garden's vocals with this song. Its THE SAME. THE VOICE IS THE SAME. I tried to talk with the vocalist of savage garden. I'll update if I receive news.
@@cinnamon8863 please do!!!
@@cinnamon8863omggg can u send the link to the video????
And now it's been found....can't believe it was made for a porn film!
Meanwhile, in another dimension someone uploaded a clip of never gonna give you up
In Spain (and Italy), starting in the 80's and throughout the 90's, there was this "megamix" records releases fever ("Mas Mix Que Nunca", "Max Mix" and others). Basically, they'd record obscure pop bands imitating hits (Madonna, MJ, whatever was on at the time) and that would allow them to do some crazy mixes. I believe that sometimes they'd also do some originals in the hopes that they'd be catchy enough to stick in the charts, so, to me, this sounds like one of those. It could be a pop song created from scratch for a megamix release, or a left over.
Spain picks up signals from a lot of different regions. Especially when it's France.
(Maybe the arrows just randomly took that orientation, but lol. 😉)
I feel like with this, and other mysterious songs, unless they come from a source we know, the song will lose all its value once we actually know what it’s source is.
my experience isolating songs to get just the vocals, people typically use AI websites and services so this isolated vocal may be muddy due to the ai interpreting what it is hearing from the song.
the song itself sounds old so the noise it outputs will sometimes mess up the ai separating the vocals and may add parts of the music.
unless it was done by humans then disregard this but please take note beware when listening to just the vocals of any song old and new.
Yes exactly
If this helps for the hunt, FL Studio just made an update and now you can separate stems more accurately than any other AI page I've seen so far (even paid ones)
@@AndrewYac it can be a bit tricky.
When songs are complete the layers are compressed into a single track but I really support that idea of yours.
@@flashmusicarchive9584 yeah it's quite tricky, although it's just a new thing that'll probably get better over time, but meanwhile there's also Izotope RX9, which is pretty good as well, although unfortunately expensive
Imagine if the actual song is Right under our noses but it’s just titled something no one expected, like smth like "As if the World Was Yours"
You carry all the shame in disguise,
Caught up in a world of lies,
Everyone knows that,
You've got,
Ulterior motives (Tell me the truth),
Every moves shows that,
You've got,
Ulterior motives (Tell me the truth).
CarlNaughty2 💀
😂
um..well..sure..smiles..
IT WAS FOUND! It's "Ulterior Motives" by Christopher Saint Booth and it's from a 1986 porn movie.
Carl92 was being freaky that day lmao
Now everyone knows that for real😂
15kHz signal means nothing here, European CRT TV's also supported NTSC 60Hz for import media purposes since the early 80s due to EU requirements. Also it doesn't mean the recording came from a CRT TV signal, it could've been a TV in the background running who knows what.
Growing up we would get video tapes from family abroad in NTSC formats, we'd play them back on our tape deck in RGB (bypassing NTSC color encoding, but playing back at standard 60Hz like it should be).
People saying that it's a lead don't factor in all these variables, it doesn't rule countries out.
You know, that's something I hadn't thought about. I knew PAL TVs could play 60Hz but imported VHS would have been pre-recorded content, and if it's some movie released on VHS it would have been found by now. What's the likelihood someone in the US, Japan or other NTSC territory mailed a family in Spain some recorded-off-TV tapes? It could support the Japanese theory if it came from there, it just seems really unlikely unless Carl's parents were the type to spend money on importing random television recordings
Yeah, it does help. Just that it isn't that far fetched. We'd get a lot of tapes from abroad as I have family in north and central america. Just keeping the possibilities open, since it's so easy to dismiss things.
@@drfsupercenter
So, no matter what we find, nothing points in a single direction.
I hate to hijack this, but question for the community: I have a similar (very frustrating) search going on in my head for a music video that was posted on CZcams around 2010, if I remember right. I canNOT for the life of me remember any details that would help me with a simple google search - no lyrics, no band name, no song name. All I remember is that i'm pretty sure it was an independent band, and the video was about a dude who could travel through different portals. It starts out with him in some kind of space-suit-looking uniform, he's just exploring but then suddenly is chased by this woman on a horse wearing a ton of like feathers and has a bow and arrow...and she almost catches him but he ducks into this portal and he's transported to a hospital...he's looking around the hospital for someone, finds them...and then the woman that was chasing him shows up and is pointing her weapon at him...and the video ends. I thought the song and video concept was SO cool, never heard from them again but I just want to watch it one more time! Please help :)
Just remembered another detail: the band had other music but NOTHING was like this one song; I wasn't a fan of any of it but this one song just sent me every time. This has been driving me nuts for years; I have no idea why my brain decided to erase all the details like that :(
This sounds interesting.
Did you posted this on reddits tip of my tongue? If not, you should
@@deathwave8375 I posted it on Reddit a while back, BUT can’t remember where 🤔 so I’ll try that, thanks!!
I mean it could be one of those bits in a movie with music.
@@deathwave8375 yeah that ended up getting no replies (well one kind soul who was wrong lol)
Way back in the 90s, my mom had a song she had no idea of, neither the name nor the artist. She even contacted various music labels and organisations. No luck. No one seems to have heard that song or written it.
Eventually, she allowed me to listen to the only copy she had. All I did was search the lyrics online, and it didn't take me long to find them. Even before Google. The song is really sad and beautiful, and I now have a digital copy of it. The one thing that surprised me was that this was from an album by a now famous trio. The song was released before they became famous, yet no one seems to have heard of it.
Maybe this is the same thing. If we had more, we could probably find it easily. But we don't, so I guess we'll never know. Media from the 80s isn't all saved, so it could be lost forever. Or the best prank ever.
[Edited to add] To everyone wondering about what the song was? Du gav mitt liv en mening - Herreys.
Here's the english version: czcams.com/video/jLdTPw_olR8/video.html
what was the song?
What was the song?
@@smolcow8169 Check the post. I added a link to the song.
@@little_wiing Check the post, I added a link to the song
I really hope we can find this song because I need to hear the full song its soooooo good!!!
It doesnt help that there's a version of the song that was created from those lost lyrics that makes trying to track down the original even more difficult. It's the first hit when you type in the song lyrics in Google.
Yup there's dozens of these on Spotify.
Idk why but im so interested in the mystery of this song
Its so catchy too
Imagine it was just a bunch of kids having fun making a song not knowing it would be an internet mystery
I've posted thousands of commercials from the 80's and 90's over the 15 years that I've been on CZcams. This song wasn't used in a single one of them...and people keep asking me about it.
I think people need to accept that it's possible for just one person with some musical talent and production skills to just fake a recording that sounds exactly like a new wave 80's song, especially with the lo-fi nature of the sample in question. Either that or it is authentic but some sort of unreleased demo recording by some obscure band that nobody's heard of. The idea that a commercially released recording from 30 years ago could just "fall through the cracks" and not have anyone be able to identify it 35-40 years later just doesn't seem likely to me.
There are probably hundreds of thousands of songs like this. Not everything that's been recorded has been heard or distributed widely.
Wait till you hear from where the song is 💀💀