Lostwave: How the internet becomes obsessed with lost songs

Talk about falling down a rabbit hole.

I've been wasting most of the day looking at videos and reading articles about unidentified songs that people have been trying to identify, sometimes for years.  Now since the advent of tools like Shazam, identifying songs has gone from very difficult to a 2-second search -- that's how I found a song I recorded off an AM radio in 1969 -- but there are some songs that have resisted all attempts to identify them.

Some of these songs eventually get identified through crowd-sourcing, but a few are still out there as mysteries.  In particular this one has been burning up the internet since 2019:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Mysterious_Song_on_the_Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTNjIweFafU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY3IUQ9PDQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgp7JdmHibA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbnUtf7rdW4

Well, it was immediately obvious to me that 1). the lyric was "Ride The Wind" not "Blind The Wind" or "Like The Wind" or any of the other variants people have heard, and 2). the song was substantially slowed down, like 12-15%.  I thought hey, I can be a hero and solve this 40-year old mystery.  I sped it up and started searching... and searching... and searching.  Nothing.  Other people had tried speeding it up too without finding anything, it turns out.

After about 4 hours I'm giving up.  But what a fun afternoon this has been!

It has also reminded me what a cesspool of low intelligence and nasty spirit TikTok and Reddit are, sites open to 14-year old boys with zit problems.  One wades into those waters at his own peril.