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by nocoiner 1090 days ago
I’d only heard about this a few weeks ago. I’ve seen hunts for mystery songs go down before (“On the Roof”, what’s up!), but for some reason something about this one just feels off. Like that photograph of the track list - just seems a little too perfect that this is the one other bit of evidence.

For some reason, my BS detector is telling me that someone recorded a fake song a decade and a half ago, the long troll turned out far better than they ever could have imagined, and there’s no way they ever come clean about this.

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there was a YouTube video by a guy, last name whang, Johnny maybe? He was going down a rabbit hole that it was this one band someone found they contacted one member who denied it but later said it was his, which is suspect. However, the lead singer is MIA, nobody knows if he's alive or dead, it's thought probably dead, but he supposedly did some stuff outside of the band.

There were some major differences in song structures. All other songs on their album were all synth and drum machine, this one has a synth but also guitar and actual drum set.

Why would they fuck around with that equipment for one song that didn't even make the cut to be on their album?

If the singer who's a dead ringer voice wise and style wise however did it on his own, maybe the other band member is trying to take credit because he's trying to release the album with extra songs, potentially this one included.

This theory struck me as making a lot of sense.

Thanks for the context. I have not looked into this deeply at all, but you’re right, something like that would make a lot of sense.