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‘The most mysterious song on the internet’ tracked to German band and they’re overwhelmed

The hunt for the title of a song uploaded to the internet in 2007 ended this week. Now band behind ‘Subways of Your Mind’ want to reissue it

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A cassette by 1980s German band FEX including the track “Subways of Your Mind”, identified this week as the mystery song internet users had being trying to trace for 17 years. Photo: Reddit/@marjin1412

For the past 17 years a worldwide army of online sleuths obsessively tried to figure out the title of what has been dubbed “the most mysterious song on the internet”.

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Now they have the answer after a chance discovery by one intrepid researcher, who triumphantly reported his breakthrough on online forum Reddit: it is called “Subways of Your Mind” and was recorded by a little-known 1980s German band called FEX.

The former band members are “absolutely overwhelmed” by the news, 68-year-old Michael Haedrich, who played keyboard and guitar and sang backup vocals for FEX, told Der Spiegel magazine.

The band had been oblivious to the online phenomenon, he admitted.

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The mystery began in 2007, when a German brother and sister uploaded a track online that they had digitised after originally recording it as teenagers on a cassette from the radio.

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