the kmart cassette story reminds me of the missing episodes of doctor who, and how a good majority of the ones that were rediscovered were due to someone working at a television station who just couldn't bring themselves to destroy a piece of art and took it home with them instead. we're super lucky that there are such conscious people out there
they were mostly in far off places that didn’t bother to wipe the tapes or people who illegally copied them rather than someone saving them out of devotion or feeling obligated…
I believe even the audio of all doctor who episodes has been found, it's just the visuals that are missing from a lot of the older ones, mainly from the first and second doctors.
I already made my own comment about it, but I think saying Turn-On was canceled because it was ahead of its time is a bit of an oversimplification. A lot of the jokes were considered to be genuinely offensive or made purely for shock value (i.e. showing a swastika in the *first two minutes* of the first episode, which is something that would probably still be poorly received today but is probably even worse when a good portion of your audience can remember WWII). The "working class" joke was a good bit, though, lol.
@@user-kw7mr6xt9n I don't think it was cancelled _because_ it was ahead of its time, it was just underappreciated. Lots of media like The Thing and Xavier Renegade Angel are hated when they come out, only to be beloved years later. The difference there is that those actually got a public release and were archived, while Turn On only had a partial episode to go on for decades.
The parents of the kid with the broken arm were so negligent. They knew he had the disease and let them do that kind of challenge, where he could easily fall. I can't imagine breaking an arm 20 times just when you were a child.
@@mjriemenyou’re ok with forging papers and putting a chronically I’ll child at considerable risk just for them to have a chance at being in a game show? why not just take them to the game show to watch? it’s was incredibly negligent and I’m pretty sure illegal
it sounds very 2000 (which i happen to like, since that's around when i was 4 or 5), and the lyrics sound interesting, too! i'm going to have to look into it further.
The Panchiko Death Metal one immediately threw me for a loop, because the art on the front was drawn by Wataru Yoshizumi, the creator of Marmalade Boy. I was obsessed with that manga as a kid, so seeing her artwork like this was immediately recognizable.
it’s really sweet that you mentioned the victims of the bar shooting, and what their interests were and what they did. some youtubers only focus on the perpetrator and not enough in the victims
The ‘working class’ bit from Turned On is genuinely genius and good commentary on how lower classes who aren’t the classic idea of the destitute homeless man or the old shaking crack addict or whatever tend to over estimate their position in the class hierarchy (or believe they’re closer to the higher classes than they are with fellow poor or working class people) I absolutely love it lol
Wealthy people ALSO claim they are middle class. And I'm not talking about people LARPing as middle class or something. If you talk to someone who makes, let's say $175k annually, they are wealthy, but they will tell you they are middle class. Everyone is middle class but our middle class is shrinking...
@@itisyerdadto be fair I live in the Bay Area and to support a family 175k is absolutely middle class and might even be tough to make things work sometimes. That money goes quickly when you have a mortgage, car, pets, kids, etc.
that's definitely one of the show's better bits, lol. there are some others that are in a lot worse taste (the first two minutes of the aired episode had a swastika as part of a joke, the KKK appears in the second episode).
@@itisyerdadYeah it's a little more complex than that. $175k is absolutely not rich in a big city if you're raising a family. Comfortable MAYBE (depending on the size of your family), but no means upper class. If you look at how the 'classes' used to be defined, 'Upper Middle' used to mean you could send your kid to a private college without debt- something which is probably a joke to most people who make under $250k or have more than two kids today. If you want to go by comparative standards, I guess you could say anyone who makes over $50k is rich by historical (and honestly worldwide) standards
just want to say, i appreciate how you approached the bratislava shooting. some lost media/internet mystery youtubers seem entirely too eager to give graphic and violent details about people's deaths, and it is... frustrating.
Agreed, I absolutely loved how kylie put emphasis on the victims, their names, their lives. I watch a lot of true crime and one thing that has recently bothered me is how victims somehow become nothing more than the day they died. But they've lived lives, they had loves and hates, good days and bad days. They were so much more than that one day.
Hey thanks for covering Turn-On! It was definitely ahead of its time (maybe a little too far ahead) and deserves at least some respect, even if its ideas suffered from poor execution. I can confirm that the Reddit user you mentioned is an acquaintance of mine and that he knows how I originally acquired the episodes.
Thanks for saving the show I've wanted to see it for years now I can finally check out not only the one episode that got pulled but the one that never even got a chance Thanks dude I'm also into archiving old-media I mostly archive old TV shows from the '90s that I grew up on
Yeah calling it progressive or just that people back then couldn't handle it is a little inaccurate. Even today the show is bizarre and the one sketch where the punchline is "I'm with my abusive husband because I want to feel love" is super messed up.
my brother is one of the people who’s absolutely convinced the whole panchiko story was faked for publicity, but it would’ve had to be a really elaborate hoax for that to be true. also even if it was, it’s still a good album and a fun story- i know this might be a controversial opinion, but artists setting up args to promote their music (think dj rozwell and the erratas situation) is actually really cool and i’d like to see it more often
Yeah a lot of lost media channels pretend like it’s the scariest or darkest thing they’ve ever seen and overuse the word “disturbing” to the point where it’s lost it’s meaning.
The vocal style used in the Sinking Ships track and the "Most Mysterious Song" is actually pretty common for 80s post-punk/new wave! If anyone wants to check out more in this style I'd recommend: Clan of Xymox - Obsession The Chameleons - Second Skin Asylum Party - Play Alone Lowlife - As It Happens I'm sure I can come up with more examples, but those are the ones that came to mind off the top of my head. Naturally it all goes back to Joy Division, but I feel these have evolved in a distinct direction.
The K-Mart tapes are so interesting, I love the preservation of literally anything. Even admittedly the disturbing, terrible things. History and anything throughout time deserves a place in preservation to be able to be enjoyed, studied, learned from, or just kept as memento of a time past. These videos always interest me.
If anyone’s looking, here are songs I recognized playing in the background: 0:21 Rituals by Windows96 (Gavriel) from One Hundred Mornings 2:21 Roygbiv by Boards of Canada from Music Has The Right To Children 5:29 Discovery by Windows96 (Gavriel) from Magic Peaks 7:56 Newsgroup by PrismCorp Virtual Enterprises (Vektroid) from Home™ 8:27 Heals by Gavriel from In The Worlde 14:23 リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing) by Macintosh Plus (Vektroid) from Floral Shoppe 16:03 Hello Earth by Windows96 from Enchanted Instrumentals and Whispers 20:31 Plantasia by Mort Garson from Mother Earth’s Plantasia 22:24 Peninsula by Windows96 (Gavriel) from Magic Peaks 24:43 Beauty Plus by PrismCorp Virtual Enterprises (Vektroid) from Home™
Had to go ahead and dig up the rest of the uncredited ones myself: 29:37 Bloody Tears - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest 30:42 Blue Restaurant Room #7 - Yume 2kki (Initial song I sought after) 32:32 Pretty Poppy - Chypho 35:24 Underwater - Super Monkey Ball 37:47 Concerto for Philodendron & Pothos - Mort Garson There's one between 34:07 - 35:23 that I wasn't able to locate and barley able to hear due to it's tranquility and the voice over.
Panchiko Death Metal is honestly a really wholesome story. I’m definitely gonna give their band a listen because the little I’ve heard from this video is STUNNING!
Turn-on does have a kinda weird vibe to it tbh- it’s probably just how loud the synth music is but there’s something almost overpowering about it tbh (Also loved hearing Plantasia in the background!)
Been searching lately for any footage to a really weird British animated TV show that I remember seeing as a teenager. It was a comedy where various dead celebrities all "lived" together. It followed each of them through various life challenges. For instance, I remember Kurt Cobain having difficulty writing a Christmas song and William Shakespeare trying to help Elvis lose weight. After many years of having this vivid recollection I started googling to find the show. This led me to a wiki article where I found out the name of the show, "Deadsville". Only the pilot was ever aired which was broadcast on Channel 4 on the 30th September 2006. However, I haven't been able to find any footage online and only a tiny amount of information/discussion.
@@JCJTC Thanks for that, it is indeed very similar in content. However, it isn't the same show as the animation style is different plus that aired in 2000 to 2002.
this sounds like Clone High too, not quite the same though you might enjoy it (note, i havent seen it but it follows the same idea of famous people doing stuff)
@@mothmadi_ Oh wow, another one to check out, thanks for that. I guess I now have two shows to watch in my spare time. Still a shame that I've been unable to find the particular show I remember watching though.
I have sent an email off to his manager for TV and film. It seems the only direct contact is if making enquiries about his music. However, if I don't get any response though I'll try that or send a message via social media. Anyone else interested is also welcome to try making contact.
I would absolutely love it but part of me worries it would be done by ChatGPT and that's already on RU-vid. I'd really love to see the original episodes though, as they seem so predictable of our modern humor which ironically wasn't of their current time's tastes. Explains why I can see a 60s show and stare at it, wondering why anyone thought it was funny.
Man I’m glad I found this channel. Especially love the new filler graphics! Also you’re even cooler in my eyes now, because of the bit where you named the victims of the alt right shooting and described a little bit of their lives; most horrortubers and even the news just describe the crime and the criminal, and kinda forget to talk about the people who got hurt. Very admirable of you!
the fact that all it took was some random dude searching up the last four digits of a barcode number, to reunite an over 2 DECADES OLD BAND to the point that they went on TOUR is actually insane. any mystery can be derailed by a literal twig
It’s interesting to hear about the Prism55 story here. I had gone to Bratislava this past summer and my tour guide had mentioned the incident that occurred last fall. I didn’t know there was a connection between the two until now.
The Panchiko-D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L story is really wild to me because I discovered the album before ever hearing about the history behind it. I remember I was listening to similar music on Apple Music about a year ago, and the track randomly popped up and I loved it. Never thought much of it until I saw it in a lost media video a while after and I realized it had been missing for years. It’s crazy they’re now touring after having an album be basically unknown for nearly two decades.
the story of panchiko is awesome!!! I stopped hearing about the search after the album was uploaded to youtube so its really cool to learn they got back together and released more music :]
the panchiko story is so sweet...as i was watching that bit, i looked them up on spotify in the hopes that someone had uploaded the high quality song they released, and was nicely surprised :+)!
ugh i wish we had access to every piece of media that was ever made. it drives me nuts to think about how many old commercials, store mixtapes, tv specials, books, etc have been lost to time.
There’s this one commercial that I’ve tried a few times over the years to find cause my mom likes to quote it but it doesn’t seem to exist online, it’s always so annoying not being able to find something
@@mind-of-neo haha thank you, it was a commercial for something Hello Kitty but the only part I know (I was pretty young) is when they showed a hello Kitty lunch box and the voice over said “Hello lunch meat” so I don’t think I’ll find it 😅
Just a small correction, there’s no confirmation that Saki Sanobashi is fake. The person who claimed to be op and said they lied turned out to be a troll and not the actual op.
My favorite thing about the Saki search crew: they keep finding more and more obscure/lost anime trying to do this. I hope they find it one day, because damn it would be disappointing if it was lost or didn't exist, but they need to make a task force out of these people after its all said and done.
@@MiniCerberus991 fr. I’m starting to doubt the existence of Saki, but I have nothing but respect for the search team. I actually at one point joined the discord server in an attempt to help, and the people there have so much motivation and they are so hardworking.
Thank you sincerely for covering the case of lost Zwerg Nase film. I've been invested in the search for several years and want to clear some facts that can potentially help newcomers. 1) The film was definitely NOT made in USSR. It probably comes from Germany, Bulgaria or some other European country. 2) There were squirrels inside the witche's house, not guinea pigs. 3) Some people remember that two heads from the witche's basket were men and the third was women and had a bonnet on it. 4) My mother remembers seeing the film around 1983-1985. She recalls the title not being "Zwerg Nase" or "Dwarf Nose", but rather something longer. The letters from the title were covered in flames. 5) The search was going for more than 10 years now, every known adaptation of the fairy tale was checked and none of them fit the description. However, mentions of obscure high-budget 1975 Bulgarian staging emerged. Not a single copy of the film were found, so it is completely lost.
I already put this in a reply on another comment, but i think it stands on its own: As someone who's a huge fan of 1960s media and has consumed a lot of programs contemporary to 1969, I want to chime in and say that Turn-On was poorly received not necessarily because of its confusing format and premise of being computer-generated (though I do I think the speed and editing on some of the clips shown would be a bit whiplash-y for the average viewer), but also because a lot of the jokes were considered to be too controversial, in poor taste, or at the very least only done for shock value - some would probably get a video demonetized on RU-vid *now,* such as a swastika being shown *in the first two minutes of the show.* You have to remember that there were only a handful of major networks at the time (three to be exact) and EVERYONE watched them - all ages, incomes, etc., so programs had to have a lot more general appeal because they had bigger audiences to please. Combine that with a strange, disorienting format and jokes intentionally going for shock value, it's no wonder that Turn-On wouldn't have been received well. When one of the first "jokes" involves a swastika and at least 50% of your viewing audience can remember WWII, I don't think you're putting your best foot forward, to say the least. One of the show's creators, George Schlatter, had another show called Laugh-In, which was actually pretty similar to Turn-On - rapid-fire comedy and speedy editing, topical and controversial jokes (although all these elements were somewhat less extreme). It was pretty successful and ran for several seasons - so I think that was the limit of what general audiences would accept, and Turn-On, in trying to push the envelope harder, instead accidentally crossed a line. Also, the balding man shown in the clips? Yeah, that's Tim Conway, aka Barnacle Boy from Spongebob.
Not to mention that the... 'style' is a tad similar to The Monkees' movie 'Head'. Or really The Monkees show in general. It probably just didn't appeal, as you said.
D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L is one of my favorite Indie Rock EPs period. A lot of people call it overrated and sound like some discount Thom Yorke project. I mean, they’re not wrong. It’s probably a 7/10 EP objectively, maybe even lower to those musical experts who seek complexity in music and have exposed themselves with experimental-avant garde-proto-post-art noise stuff. It’s been a while since I played Laputa on repeat, back in 2020 when I was in quarantine and chronically online. So when the song was played in the video, memories flooded back. It’s sonically simple, the lyrics are quite basic, but something about it feels special. Glad to know that people also feel the same way I did with this EP.
The Panchiko ending is so wholesome, actually. You're right, sometimes things do end in that way like the fact that my mom drunkenly told my dad she was going to marry him years before they even really knew each other 😂
As someone with face blindness, I'm shit at differentiating voices of ppl I don't know if they sound similar lol Great vid as ever! I love the liminalwave visuals you create ❤️
i just want to say thank you for covering panchiko deathmetal, if i hadn't clicked on this video i never would have found out panchiko existed and i never would have found one of my new favorite songs. and thank you for choosing that specific song to play snippets of because i probably wouldn't have searched them up if not for it lol
It was so cool to see a Russian lost media case being covered! Even though Zwerg Nase is potentially a hoax and has no proof it even existed, I still think it's something 70s and 80s soviet animators could've came up with. The fairytale and all its adaptations are horrifying
Bro I had no idea about the Kmart tapes but I've been listening now for a bit and I'm gonna be listening to way more soon, thanks for including it here! All of these stories are fascinating and boggles the mind as to what else is out there like this that we don't know about yet. Again, excellent video and thanks!!
I'm glad that you acknowledged that some pieces of lost media don't deserve to be found. One example I can think of is how some people are really adamant on finding (deliberately) unreleased footage of people being offed, even though it's extremely insensitive to the victims' families. On a lighter note, the fact that multiple entries on this list are weirdly similar yet unrelated to TMMS is very amusing to me.
damn, Zwerg Nase, haven't heard that name in ages! so to summarize in supershort, people thought there were two movies (the one that actually exists and the other one supa scawy uuu), even though there was only one, and at first this story unraveled in a similar way to saki sanobashi. I remember reading through like 1000+ pages of rutracker forums, 2ch, asking relatives, "investigating" (this story blew up in late 2010s on russian-speaking imageboards). I guess now somebody just "translated" it to English-speaking ppl. In the end, it was collectively decided to be a hoax or deliberate trolling since it most likely originated from an imageboard's creepypasta. there were 0 proofs found and there were tons people researching it back in 2010s. so it is almost certainly a fake, but it was fun while it lasted. but great video as always, kylie! upd. oh yeah, and the person who "recalls" in in English, just basically copypasted the og post from russian and translated it word to word.
Thanks for helping with that, I was a bit confused on that one as this was one of the few times the video shown while discussing it matched what she said exactly and was not a recreation. Seems like the one she showed is the one she talked about. Maybe someone watched it 9n a black and white TV or had a bad tube and their memory changed it a bit?
It really annoys me that the Mysterious Song might be a hoax, but credit where credit's due, he can write a really catchy song. If it is a hoax, I appreciate his tributes to 80s music. It's real creative for what amounts to an ARG. I think it highlights the importance too of archiving whatever it is you're making, no matter how conventional or weird it is. Someone out there will get something from it. More art in the world truly does make the world a better place.
@@RaphaPortoRPthe 10Khz line on the posted recording and the fact that every other song that's been able to be found on German radio playlists on Darius/Lydia's tapes suggests it's not a hoax. It would be such an insane amount of work to go to to match those things. I'm not even sure it would be possible to match the German radio playlists from the 80s so exactly at the time TMMS was unveiled on the earliest websites. Like we only know they match because of details found during the TMMS search. If it is a hoax, it's a twenty year long hoax that someone went to insane amounts of work to make everything around TMMS verifiable. Like if it was a hoax, that level of dedication to it would be honestly amazing to me.
20:32 Honestly if I saw this in the middle of the night i’d also be disturbed. I’ve seen something similar to this before at 4am in the morning, and decided that it was my sign to go to sleep.
A pieces of lost media that has mostly gone unnoticed is Gorillaz's "EMI music from the next album" it contains a bunch of unreleased songs from 2009-2010. As far as we know there may be only 10 8n the world, there is a discogs listing, but no copies for sale
the Kmart section reminded me of the time i was going through my grandparents CD collection and i found several nondescript CDs labeled things relating to disney and the theme parks. i assume they're something akin to what the Kmart tapes were considering my grandpa worked for disney imagineering for a time but i still think about them from time to time when hearing about lost media
GOOODDD I LOOOOVE PANCHIKO, I found them on accident by listening to recommended music on spotify and they started playing and it wasn’t until later I saw Whang post a video with that album cover on the thumbnail that I ever knew it was a lost media thing
as someone who loves shoegaze, I wouldn't say that op's description of Panchiko as falling into that genre isn't too far off, I mean, that's not what I would call them but the sound is close enough (minus the distortion that gives shoegaze its name and stuff) and it's certainly got the vibe. almost reminds me of the Vaselines for some reason(?) plus as mentioned, there was heavy corruption from disc rot so that may have thrown them for a loop not knowing definitively when the disc was from and/or much about disc rot
"Light the lanterns" is another possible "so do I" situation. The original uploader is a band's youtube channel. Alot of people started to turn on them with the suspicion that they recorded it. Apparently to subsequently get their bands music more exposure. I go back and forth rather or not the suspicions are valid, but in any case, they deleted the original upload and no longer want anything to do with the "search". Great song, tho.
I've really been enjoying this channel lately, and have been binge-watching a lot of your videos and it amazes me just how much lost media there are and the mysteries surrounding said media. I really hope that blue-faced guy mystery of yours gets solved one day! I think I might have encountered my own lost media, but I am currently researching it before labeling it as lost, as it could just be really obscure but not lost. At least that's my hope. For those reading and possibly wondering about my lost media it's a horror film that I've seen I want to say between 2006-2008. 2008 must be the cutoff point as I saw it with a family member who passed away that year. The film could possibly be older and it just aired within those years, I saw it in Spanish and I don't know if it was native or a dub. It felt like a very low-budget horror which I think contributes to it being hard to track down. The film involved an unseen entity terrorizing a small town or village and when the entity would strike the screen would flash in a negative filter which would be the visual representation of the person being killed, or taken as I can't quite recall which is it as I was very young when I first saw it. When morning came the entity was gone and people emerged from their homes which they locked themselves away the day before in preparation, I can't recall if it was defeated or if it is something that happens, like the townfolk just live with the knowledge that this entity preys on them ritualistically. I've been hunting for this film for years on my own, but this past year I've decided to really make a push in finding this film and ask for the help of others. I hope you get a chance to read this comment, maybe one day it'll get featured in one of your videos, lol but I do hope I can find this film as I want to go back and re-watch it and have a better understanding of the film now as an adult, even if the film ends up being pure trash, I just want to track it down, lol.
Turn-On is a BANGER! The stuff happening on screen makes little to no sense but that low synth arp gives the whole thing an inexplicable feeling of importance and urgency, it's a lot like the type of music that plays during tv news broadcast intros, that type of vibe. But instead of news what you get is what seems like just a bunch of tv people in a studio fucking around with 60s era technology clearly under the influence of drugs and/or untreated mental illnesses xD Well that's my impression from the one clip you showed anyway, I'm definitely going to seek out and watch the rest of whatever remains of it now! So thank you so much for talking about this one
This is one of your best so far imo, good editing and transitions. Especially in editing. My one gripe is that the volume seems pretty low. I have it at full volume and it's still a little difficult to hear compared to other vids. Yt's auto subtitles aren't reliable so I've missed a couple words but that's alright. Thanks for the cool vid!
I really appreciate how you talked about the victims of prism! Most people just focus on the criminal, when the innocent people are much more important and worth learning about. Also the guy with K-mart tapes "thought they would be interesting someday" was completely right, haha. Cool pieces of history!
I can't be the only one who was expecting the Kmart muzak segment to basically end with "And then the copyright fascists showed up and now it's all lost again.". Glad it didn't though. Also, as a 90s kid, the clips from Turn-On give me trippy 90s vibes, they feel like weird late 90s pop culture randomness TV. Like, a 90s version of that with bits of random cool trippy 90s CGI footage thrown in could've probably worked in about 1999. Hmm, maybe I should watch the actual episodes at some point since they've been found.
Honestly I'm super happy that strangers by the sinking ships was found, it's a super good song, it's one of the best parts to come out of TMS unless we actually find TMS.
I'm not convinced the DCO stuff was genuinely recorded in the '80s and not modern recordings made to sound old - they just don't sound right, too clean. And some details don't make sense.
Lol it's weird to see my Reddit comment in a RU-vid video. The Turn On leak was definitely a fun and weird time. Schlatter's representative never got back to me, I may call her again this month but I doubt anything will come from it.
As someone who had to sit through two of them, I can relate. There were funny moments, but my dominant feeling watching them was definitely "holy shit, when is this going to be over?"
the panchiko deathmetal story is so interesting as someone who has enjoyed that band + album for a while without ever realizing it used to be considered lost media !!
The fact that Australian Double Dare is lost media makes me so annoyed, because my BROTHER was on that show and we used to have a tape of it floating around the family. As soon as I found out it was lost media, I asked around and NOBODY KNOWS WHERE IT IS NOW!! I am the only person in the family who can digitise the tape, too. ARGH.
Here are things I remember about it: my brother was introduced saying he wanted to write a book of short stories (he never did lol), the first round has him catching eggs in a basket attached to his head, and the final round had him sliding into a pool of baked beans. His team won. Also at one point, my brother was seen mouthing something that looked like "f**k" and he maintained he was saying "far out" lol
What a coincidence, I just discovered Panchiko Deathmetal two weeks ago when randomly browsing Bandcamp. I had no idea of their backstory, that's super interesting!
Holy shit, after listening to the non distorted version of panchiko deathmetal at the end of the video I realized I added that song to my spotify playlist a few months ago just thinking it was another ethereal song from tik tok. Crazy to think this was lost media and now its blended right into modern music genres.
