thats the vibe i get when indie music fans comment things like "we need to protect this from tiktokers" bro, if you were really fans of that artist, you'd be happy if it got viral
you'd think that if the original artists really wanted their music out there so badly, and had a copy of their "lost" music on hand, that they'd release it themselves
@@user-yd3rs2mg4cit’s a bit understandable though considering how people will literally go to concerts for an artist that had a snippet of a song that went viral, and ONLY know that ONE snippet of the song. this exact thing happened to Steve Lacy and it was awful for him. he couldn’t even have the crowd interact with his songs because they literally didn’t know anything except the snippet of the song that went viral on tiktok
I’m honestly so happy that this concept exists: lost songs. While it is frustrating to not know the origins right away, it gives us the experience of a community effort to find them.
that bootleg doll one is exactly the kind of stuff i like. random, weird and trivial mysteries that barely anyone would care about are always so intriguing to me
6:50 The placeholder for this song is 'Just What I Want' and its also theorised to be a hoax 1: The story about how the op found it in the woods, phone battery still alive and just playing a song titled 'Unknown song' that is specifically 30 seconds long (which is common for most of lostwave hoaxes) 2: Op made a post talking about how he extracted the contents of the phone and the song was one of the only things on there. He followed it up saying he was going to do a file recovery of the rest of the phone to see if that could help out in the search. But when somebody (Fond My Mind discord server) dmed him asking about the file recovery (which could help us see the metadata) he said that 'his friend had misplaced the SD card and can no longer do a recovery' Still it could be possible this is real, since we've had crazier stories (damn munich for example) but it is a bit suspicious.
Yeah the whole “found it with some battery in a forest” bit was a bit much. It would be believable if it have no battery and when he charged it, found the song.
Yeah I was *immediately* suspicious when she said he found it in the woods with battery life still. I mean, I know older cell phones oftentimes had stronger battery life than modern ones, but that would still mean that the phone had been lost recently (as in a few days) before it was found in the woods, which is an extremely unlikely coincidence.
yeah i'm sus too now. i still think it's a real song though with possibly just a fake backstory. crazy shit does happen but "losing" the SD card is weird. i'd like to find whatever the song is even if it's a hoax, like digital girl
@@sombertoboggly Same here. The song is likely real, the story of how they obtained the phone seems quite far fetched to me. I would also imagine that the phone would have more signs of damage if it was out there for a long time considering the phone model is 15 years old & would have likely been in the woods for what I would assume to be no less than 5 years, likely more. I assume OP is possibly lying either to drum up attention or is embarrassed about the origin, like with EKT
This was in Motionless in White's early era, prior to their first album, so my best guess is the song is from a local band in their scene, probably friends with in some form. Scranton, Pensylvannia, if anyone wants to look at 2005-2007 metalcore bands from that area
real? i have a friend from there who was in that scene during 2004-2008 & is friends with some of the bands from then, if it's a genuine lead i can ask him about it. update: unfortunately i was mistaken and he was actually in the local emo scene, not the metalcore scene-i'll still ask anyway, just in case
The "Crocodile" song is crazy, because I also SWEAR that I've heard that somewhere, but I've never seen that movie. Before you said it was found, that was the first time I've ever thought, "Maybe I could solve this one if I just remember where I heard it from."
My favorite song that sometimes inexplicably ends up in cheap Chinese toys is the polish song about a guy with a drug addiction. I'm Polish and it's just amusing to me lol
Theres this whole album that was released on spotify a while back just titled amber sport, but it was deleted completely off all sites and it was driving me crazy because theres one song on that thats an absolute banger, luckily someone managed to find the album and reupload it but the artist themselves has virtually no information or social media presence. So not really lost media, but its something that might be interesting to look into
grew up in the scranton area and myself and a lot of my friends are big miw fans and grew up with them!! i’ll ask around my friends and their older siblings
my personal take on the skateboard girl one is that local bands and artists sometimes let skater friends use their unreleased work for videos as some kinda cool promo or reference to their friendship. at least it’s something i’ve witnessed happen before. it might be that but honestly i’m not sure why shouldn’t promo the band if she knew them, so idk i guess.
@@gav1233honestly i have no idea lol i say that bc that song was EVERYWHERE in the 2000s while fruitiger aero was also everywhere (at least where i’m from, which is brazil), so i associate the song with the aesthetic
The fact that there’s still a community with an interest in bootleg toys makes me so happy, I’m an internet veteran, and grew up laughing at those bootleg blogs people used to run on the early net, knowing it’s still got a fan base is really cool, especially with the audio from them! I’ve always wondered about the music and even the artwork used on fakes, so it’s really neat that others think about the same things, great video as always 👍
I don’t know if this has been mentioned before, but when you make little jokes or comments, it adds a sense of realism to videos like this. Many other channels just have someone reading off a script with no emotion.
14:31 / 15:28 oh hey lookie it's me! i'm happy that Every Time I Look Away made it to this list. it really sucks that there isn't really any leads for it but i still hope it gets solved eventually, as well as the others included in the video
not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but this song sounds so viscerally familiar to me. it reminds me heavily of 2009-2012 era youtuber musicians. alex day, chameleon circuit, and others associated with dftba
17:11 My daughter had a Chinese car toy that played a German europop song about rabbits, American dance music, a Chinese folk song about fathers and Oh! Susanna. We had this strange collection of songs playing on a constant loop. It was driving me and my wife mad, so eventually I managed to find all of them on RU-vid. It's not trivial, some of these songs are driving parents crazy!
15:39 I'm not the one to have this tech or know-how, but I heard you can port audio from electric toys back to a computer. Maybe that will get us a file name, or at the very least, a better quality version
Oh, additional content. You may not care but my top piece of lost media was found this year as well and I own it! It's a prototype stuffed animal of modern knuckles the echidna by the toy company jazwares. I can share why it is so significant if you would like to listen
That youtube subtitle searching site could be so useful for finding lost media! Maybe I can finally find the horror short I've been searching for that I thought might have been the solution for a lost short story! All I had to go on was a few lines of dialog so my search has been slow and painful so far. 😅
You called that Alice in the Fields song "Y2K pop" but I immediately knew it was mid 90s. Sounds like a lot of bubbly mid-90s pop-rock like Lisa Loeb and stuff. Glad my ears aren't failing me yet. The mid 90s had a very specific sound that was all but gone by 2000. There were big shifts in music around that time.
For the origin of the S-VHS song, I've done data recovery on MP3 players and voice recorders in the past and they tend to have formerly deleted test clips recorded to them - I have a clip of a presumably Chinese woman speaking into one that I ripped from the device using Recuva. I would not be surprised if factory producing these was just recording stuff that was playing around them to test the device.
19:24 new mystery unlocked, why is thst clown toy playing the Hatsune Miku version of Levan Polka (there's a lot of history about that specific song if you're not familiar, but it's very much in the realm of 00's internet history, not something I'd expect to see here).
I’ve been kind of inactive in the Lostwave community ever since EKT and LCDA were found. And I’m just now learning that in the time I’ve been gone, BACK TO BED, UPTOWN PEOPLE AND STOP MAKING ME CRY WERE ALL FOUND LIKE WTF-
So Familiar and Time and Again seem like such time capsules of 2000s music. Glad the latter was found, and fingers crossed the former is found some day. Great vid as always!
The names are take from the chapter select "Driving me crazy" sounds like it's in the style of Chaos Chaos... The reason for gate keeping could be due to the bands association with Rick and Morty and at the time cringe culture The song right after "No point in questioning" the screaming style sounds very similar to Oli Sykes early style so could be an early Bring me the horizon recording
I believe I might just be insane but doesn't the singer of "Every time I look away" sound a lot like Bo Burnham? You could have told me it was one of his older, unreleased songs and I wouldn't doubt for a single second. During the "looking outta my window" part, that slight sort-of-slur as he finishes saying window, just all about it screams Bo Burnham for me. The pitch could be slightly altered/raised, which is something Bo does a lot. I am not that well-educated when it comes to music so forgive me if I make no sense, but it really reminds me of him.
19:02 (Doll collector here!) I wonder if they use IC chips which were purpose-made for a different toy? So the song could be created specifically for a larger brand (say something like Radio Disney's Pop Dreamers) and then any leftover chips were repurposed into these bootlegs. Original songs are created for doll lines all the time - for example, Betty Spaghetty had an entire album, which CHARTED!
Hello, I'm a collector of antiques from China (although not toys, but most of my items have songs in them). Generally, Chinese manufacturers (especially if they produce more of an item) will use a special IC that will be used for that item. Most Chinese producers use "pirated" songs (without asking permission from the creator/writer/producer of the song) which are cropped and looped. Manufacturers in China very rarely take leftover ICs from other toys. I've found this case a lot in my antiques. They have the same songs, but with different chips (even with the exact same song cuts). It's just that sometimes the song speeds up or slows down. Of my large collection, only a small portion of the songs have been explored (can be searched generally on the web, most of them are available on Chinese websites which are very difficult to find). So it's possible that they randomly found a song that could be looped for their toy, then put it into an IC, and made it in large quantities without taking care of copyright permission.
I'm so glad that Why was found, because as someone who's super nostalgic for the early 2000's, that is a _bop._ According to IMDB, another song of theirs titled Leaving was featured as the opening credits theme of an even more obscure film called _Three Below Zero,_ and like Why, it wasn't included on any of the few albums that they released. The movie is on RU-vid though, so the song itself isn't lost at least.
Driving Me Crazy sounds like it could be from She's Not Real. I don't listen to them, but their song "I Never Knew You" was the intro song to a roblox game I used to play all the time a few years ago. I almost clocked them as the same song.
A lot of these songs sounded so familiar to me. That metal one reminds me a lot of crystal lake, but it's quite a well known band now. And probably a different time period.
i say this a lot in your comments, but the paper mario ost (and the clip in your most recent video) always cheer me up when watching!! its such a small thing but to even hear music from something that met so much to me always makes me so excited :)) i really like hearing it whenever i watch videos, and the fact you use them in so many videos always makes me happy m
I don't really consider EKT 'found', but rather identified. We still don't have the original full length song, and I'm doubtful we ever will. It's cool that the original artist is remaking it, but it's the original we all sought after.
my friend says that maybe the metal song playing in the miw gag reel is from underoath? the vocal fry sounds similar. maybe that can help also has anyone attempted to reach out to the band? maybe they have an idea even if they don't remember exactly
I kinda have my own little plushie lost song mystery (kinda?) let me explain. A long time ago now, when I was a child, I received a plush from a show I'd never heard of prior (and still didn't know until recently) called Yoohoo & Friends, the specific plush was a Pammee plush with a leopard print skirt and hairband; but the plush being missing isn't a problem, is very prevalent still actually, my problem is that the Pammee plush I had SPECIFICALLY played a rendition of the BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM song, except instead of the actual lyric "Boom boom boom boom I want you in my room" (bc this is a kids toy intended for like 4 year olds) it went something like "go go go go waka waka waka go" (really fucking stupid ik, but again, kids toy). I, a few years later, saw the same plush in store and tried it expecting to hear the silly rendition from my childhood again, only to be met with a COMPLETELY different song entirely; this means that the plush I had was, at that point, discontinued. I see this plush online all the time and am tempted to buy one, but I have my doubts that it'll be the song that I remember. If anyone has this plush, or had this plush, please let me know 😅 I feel absolutely crazy typing this out but I'd love to hear that dumb rendition of that already silly as hell song again.
The voice for “Everytime I look Away” is eerily similar to an artist I’ve been hearing for years. I’ve compared and I’m double checking before I I’m 100% sure, but I’ve reached out to them on Twitter to confirm. Hopefully your video just helped find a lost wave!
at least EKT is found (If you didn't know, Ulterior Motives by Who's Who, also know as Christopher Saint Booth, and Phillip Booth). though it would be hilarious if more songs were found by people looking in adult movies
This was a great video, as always from you. I'm glad you are bringing up the weirder, obscure ones because trying to hunt down another song made me realize there is a A LOT of lost songs that deserve to be found. EDIT: 17:00 Oh my god those dolls are so creepy. The way they dance so realistic but their faces are so stiff. Ugh. 20:14 that sounded like something on Disney or Nickelodeon. I swore a heard a similar song in a 00s show.
Wish U could talk about the lost/found songs from the mysterious album called " It's a Groove Thing" by Lorie Salvatera, and yes, it's now been found this year, but no one will ever believe me it was lost... but, one song is still lost from her last song called "Turn to You" year 2000 or 2? ( Yes, her song is not on the album because it was released 1996, in one song was on a separated album that's called Brown Bags to Stardom ), which it because I want each person could talk about her, ( what's happening, why this album been forgotten, etc. ). Also I responded to LSuperSonicQ, but I'm not sure when he's going to talk about a lost album / songs on his YT? ( I kind of not sure when? ), Also, hope you can talk about this, when you have time? Also, I'm going to find a link of the short song "Turn to You" a bit soon, in which I could find it? 🎶🥺🖤
8:40 confession time - I've been subscribed to you for a while and love the content, but had no clue where I found you... it was RU-vid throwing that Get Everett vid my way 😅
just wanted to point out the song at 19:21 is ievan polkka by eino kettunen. im a vocaloid fan and i grew up with the hatsune miku cover so i could recognize that anywhere. pretty sure the one playing is the hatsune miku version but i could be wrong because the audio is not very clear.
To answer the 1st song: lots of anime has included English songs and hired from overseas musicians that aren't popular in the Anglo sphere. Japan believes in being anonymous. Countless art and musicians have the option to be anonymous. One thing I do hate about lost media is talking not understanding the culture of music from Asian, Latino, and Afrian cultures in how they deal with musicians. I know Kylie is trying her best but do remember.
I'm betting 5 bucks that at least one of the lost songs here will turn out to be something from "prawn". Just like our favourite formerly-lost song EKT. 👀
What is the music you use in between each song chapter, Kylie? it would be cool if you could put the music you use in the description. Love your content! I find lost media very fascinating 😁
If you do another one of these I'd love it if you covered the VHF Production Music/Manis Studio lost songs - they're really underrated imo and a pretty unique case! Basically what I've gathered is that a youtube channel called VHF Production Music once existed and uploaded a bunch of unreleased demo songs, but ended up being deleted at some point. The only thing stopping many of these songs from being lost is, of all things, an Indonesian botnet content farm news channel called Manis Studio that for whatever reason grabbed the songs and used them for background music in their videos. People have managed to identify some of the writers and producers behind the songs, but the vocalists still go uncredited. Memory of You goes so hard i'm obsessed with these songs DX
"Every Time I Look Away" sounds like it could've been an early project by A Million in Vermillion (who makes a lot of music for Webtoons). I wonder how many [newer] lost songs might've originated on tumblr
On the Belinda dolls I suggest looking into North Korean music, but it's probably been pulled from their public websites after they lost interest in reunification.
I have something I want to add. There's a song from this video that plays while this person is drawing, it doesn't start playing till around the end and only about 30-40 seconds is played. In the credits of this video, this person says the song is called Fairytale by Sickleadz. Problem is that this song is NO WHERE to be found on the internet. The only existence of it is on this drawing video of someone drawing a sonic character. This video I'm linking is someone who took that music clip from that video and looped it a few times. All this to say that no one can find the full version of this song anywhere. Hopefully someone knows something because it's just a partial lost song at this point ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vdIblkYcrXs.htmlsi=3jhzI28FmdYaQVM3
Great video! I did not know about any of those songs. I hope that by the time of your end of year video, you will be able to add "Like the Wind," "The Fallen King," "Poor Christmas," and/or "Light the Lanterns" to the list of solved songs.
Unrelated but I thought I made up a song, like I thought I was a genius bc the lyrics were so good for my age until yrs later I was watching s1 of the walking dead and a bob Dylan song played and I was just sitting there feeling a fool for thinking I could write something that good in the first place 😂
Anyone know where I can find that spinning clown toy that plays Ievan Polkka at 19:20? My little brother loves that song and it'd be cool to track one down for him.
The first song reminds me how Nena sang they’re song 99 Red Balloons. In 1983, they originally sang it as 99 Luftballoons in West Germany before singing the english version in 1984. I can’t help but wonder whether this is something similar.
