Mysterious Music – C. W. Schultz

Lost studio version of “Subways of Your Mind” found and other Mysterious Music updates

Hope everyone is off to a fantastic 2025. I wanted to give everyone an update. There’s some good news and some bad news…

The good news: The missing high-quality studio version of “Subways of Your Mind” (formerly “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet”) was found and officially released earlier this week. While the mystery was solved in November 2024, including demo and live recordings from the band FEX to prove they were the creators of the song, the studio version that Darius taped off the radio was still missing. This caused concern that an official high-quality version of the song that we all know and love might never be released. Some of us were preparing to continue listening to the version taped off the radio 40 years ago for an eternity. However, over the holidays, the high-quality version was found! So, that was basically the last piece of the puzzle and the case of “Like the Wind” has officially come to an end. To learn more about how the higher quality studio version was found, please read this Reddit post.

The bad news: As stated in my 11/04/2024 YouTube post in response to “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet” being solved, I wrote:

Yes, I’ll make a video… eventually. When? I don’t know. There will come a time when I’ll crack a script for a video that expresses how much this journey, this channel, the Lostwave community and subscribers mean to me.

Well, I cracked the script a couple weeks ago and had since been editing an upcoming video for Mysterious Music. However, a lot of it focused on the studio version still being lost. Now that it’s been found, the episode I was making has become obsolete. As such, production on the next Mysterious Music episode has been canceled. So, it’s back to the drawing board.

Given that many of this channel’s viewers subscribed because of videos on the topic of “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet”, I really wanted my next video to be about the song. Unfortunately, after making content about Lostwave for over five years, the subject has just become too topical for the way I operate. Because I work alone, have other creative outputs (did you know I’m also an author?), family obligations, and am admittedly a bit of a perfectionist, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for me to work on videos about any topic that can be considered developing.

I wanted to explain why you may have noticed a reduction in my output, and the reason behind videos being less and less related to Mysterious Music. There will be more Mysterious Music episodes, but the next few videos I’m posting will be unrelated.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support. As always, keep your mind, eyes and ears open; spread the love and magic of music; and thanks, as always, for watching!

Alice’s Song: 64-second demo gets over 500k Views

When the mystery of “Alice’s Song” was finally solved back in May 2024, it turned out that the journey from its creation to identification is a story of its own. See the full story on the latest episode of Mysterious Music.

One of the longest MYSTERIOUS MUSIC searches comes to an end!

In 2005, a 30-second clip of an unknown song was uploaded to the internet. After music enthusiasts spent years searching for the complete track, a longer (but still incomplete) version surfaced on YouTube in 2024. This major development sparked a resurgence in interest to identify the song once and for all….

New MYSTERIOUS MUSIC episode every Thursday for the rest of 2022!

Mysterious Music – Episode 13

This special episode of Mysterious Music examines unknown or long forgotten bands, songs and albums through the lens of an iceberg chart, built by some of r/Lostwave‘s greatest music-detectives.

Mysterious Music – Episode 12

Sublime, a popular band from the 1990s, had an unlikely mystery floating throughout their second album Robbin’ the Hood. Three tracks contain the rambling and yelling of a man named Raleigh Theodore Sakers. The things he’d say ranged from humorous to troubling, but always entertaining; and these tracks fascinated listeners for 27 years. Aside from his name, however, not much else was known about him, until now…

Music featured in this episode:

- “Two Sides” by SefChol
- “S.T.P.” by Sublime
- Cold Cracks Us” by TrackTribe

January 2022 – Dearest Readers & Viewers

Dearest readers and viewers,

I hope everyone’s off to a wonderful New Year.

Some personal responsibilities came up which caused the Scream content I was planning on releasing in January to be pushed to February. I’ll be back on YouTube replying to comments and uploading videos in just a couple short weeks.

In the meantime, I’ve been able to push forward on the next Mysterious Music episode, which is expected to be released by the end of January. It’ll be a lot different than the previous episodes, similar to the Panchiko special.

Thank you for all the support. Talk soon.

Best,

A Mysterious CD Found in a Shop

In 2016, a mysterious CD with anime cover art was found at a second-hand shop. The only information was the name of the band, album and tracks, plus a copyright year of 2000. When playing the disc, electronic-rock music could be audible underneath the glitchy sound caused by damage to the CD. With no other information or trace on the internet about the band or their music, this would be the starting point of the search for Panchiko.

Click here to watch this Mysterious Music Special.

Snowy Valentine

Sometimes, I feel like I have all the luck. Other times, nothing seems to go right. Unfortunately, this post will be detailing the latter.

By delivering the most recent Mysterious Music episode over a week early, it allowed me extra time to achieve my next goal that I planned on sharing by 03/03/2021. But, for whatever reason, despite all the hours of work (and even about a half-hour’s worth of usable material), things just aren’t lining up right. The good news is, there are a lot of ideas I’m eager to bring to life for both my bibliography and YouTube channel; the bad news is, the projects keep hitting roadblocks. Admittedly, this isn’t the first time I’ve encountered this problem. Between 2013–2015, I had three false-starts with A Book About a Film. With the house-of-cards that storytelling can be, I just couldn’t get an entire level standing without collapsing. Luckily, I eventually cracked the story of A Book About a Film, so I have no doubt that I’ll do it again with the bind I’m in right now.

It’s difficult to give details about a project that hasn’t even been fully realized (and may never be), but what I can share is that I have ideas for content on Batman, Him, Indiana Jones, sleep paralysis, The Sopranos, the Tyrion Targaryen Theory, true crime; as well as more short-stories, Mysterious Music episodes (including Panchiko’s D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L) and Scream content. Some are ideas in my head, others have made it on paper, a couple even have videos in the editing process… but, unfortunately, nothing that I feel is worth someone’s time. You can praise my work or criticize it, but you can never accuse me of making something in which I didn’t take my audience’s time into consideration. Even to those who’ve given me a bad review, I appreciate them taking a chance on something I created. So, at the end of the day, I feel okay not delivering something because I know that when I do deliver it, it’ll be without regret—not rushed and not for the sole purpose of being relevant. I know that those who were looking forward to my March 3rd release understands and supports this. For that, I thank you.

Here’s something that happened, which excellently summarizes things: During the snowy Valentine’s Day of 2021, of all the dozens of cars parked on Holden Street in West Seattle, only one had a cock-and-balls drawn on it. Of course, my car. With my luck, it probably wasn’t a finger that drew it either. Anyway, I shall continue to write on, so please check back soon. Thanks for visiting.

Audio editing, done; video editing, started

Initial isolated vocal tracks for the next episode of Mysterious Music have been recorded and the audio has been edited. I decided to take a day off before the video editing process begins. In that time, I went for a nice long walk, where I stumbled upon a huge bush covered with awesome web patterns, accentuated by the dew of a late-morning winter in the Pacific Northwest. Afterwards, I finished Season 3 of Cobra Kai before giving Snowpuff a haircut. Despite her countless hisses, I came out of it without any bites or scratches.