The 15 year mystery continues...
Despite all the music savvy people I know or have run into, nobody can solve this mystery.
http://mp3upload.ca/download/19673/mystery.mp3
And the story (again):
In 1993 I was 12 years old and really discovering my taste in music for the first time of my life. U2 had recently released Achtung Baby, and I was in love with the sound of it. I'd take blank cassettes and tape all U2 songs off the radio, including bands that (I thought at the time) sounded like them. So as you can imagine, I had a lot of INXS, Crowded House, Tears for Fears, and even the odd Chalk Circle song on my cassettes! Keeping in mind, although these songs had been around for a while, it was all new to my ears at the time.
Some time in early 1993 (I'm guessing April or May), I taped the last 2 minutes of a song that sounded like Bono's vocals and Edge's sustained guitar (circa Achtung Baby)... but I know it's not U2 or any Bono or Edge solo project. And nobody can figure out what it is.
We have a verse, chorus, and then a long guitar solo fade of what sounds like a cross of Bono, Edge, and Roger Waters...
Listen to it. Ignore the first few seconds of static - it clears up.
Endless Google searches and U2 mailing list posts and blog posts over the past 10 years have resulted in nothing. The lyrics are fuzzy, but the ones we can figure out are too vague. It almost sounds like...
"when I left you...
you said you loved me...
??? (sounds like 'nation wide')
how'd you forget me..."
And this repeats before going into a brooding, atmospheric guitar solo where the singer ad libs some "yeah, yeah..." and even sounds a bit like Tom Cochrane.
At the very end of the song, I managed to tape the a split second of a sound byte from the radio station's hourly "this is CKZZ " or "it's 12 o'clock and you're listening to..." that could possibly be from Z95 .3... but I can't remember, as I only managed to capture the first split second of it and it has been 15 years.
What we know:
It's not U2 or Bono.
It's a studio recording (the static and hiss is from the original cassette and my poor quality input cables when I made this mp3 back in 2000).
The song was played on mainstream radio on a Vancouver radio station in early-mid 1993.
The song could not have been recorded after 1993.
So who is it?
http://mp3upload.ca/download/19673/mystery.mp3
And the story (again):
In 1993 I was 12 years old and really discovering my taste in music for the first time of my life. U2 had recently released Achtung Baby, and I was in love with the sound of it. I'd take blank cassettes and tape all U2 songs off the radio, including bands that (I thought at the time) sounded like them. So as you can imagine, I had a lot of INXS, Crowded House, Tears for Fears, and even the odd Chalk Circle song on my cassettes! Keeping in mind, although these songs had been around for a while, it was all new to my ears at the time.
Some time in early 1993 (I'm guessing April or May), I taped the last 2 minutes of a song that sounded like Bono's vocals and Edge's sustained guitar (circa Achtung Baby)... but I know it's not U2 or any Bono or Edge solo project. And nobody can figure out what it is.
We have a verse, chorus, and then a long guitar solo fade of what sounds like a cross of Bono, Edge, and Roger Waters...
Listen to it. Ignore the first few seconds of static - it clears up.
Endless Google searches and U2 mailing list posts and blog posts over the past 10 years have resulted in nothing. The lyrics are fuzzy, but the ones we can figure out are too vague. It almost sounds like...
"when I left you...
you said you loved me...
??? (sounds like 'nation wide')
how'd you forget me..."
And this repeats before going into a brooding, atmospheric guitar solo where the singer ad libs some "yeah, yeah..." and even sounds a bit like Tom Cochrane.
At the very end of the song, I managed to tape the a split second of a sound byte from the radio station's hourly "this is CKZZ " or "it's 12 o'clock and you're listening to..." that could possibly be from Z95 .3... but I can't remember, as I only managed to capture the first split second of it and it has been 15 years.
What we know:
It's not U2 or Bono.
It's a studio recording (the static and hiss is from the original cassette and my poor quality input cables when I made this mp3 back in 2000).
The song was played on mainstream radio on a Vancouver radio station in early-mid 1993.
The song could not have been recorded after 1993.
So who is it?