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Comment by danirod | Hacker News Reader

I find stories about lost media intriguing and I am happy that this one got resolved.

There is an online subcommunity both on YouTube and Reddit trying to discover a lost song based on a 17 second audio clip found online a couple of years ago. So far, no luck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone_Knows_That_(Ulterior_...

Honorable mention to The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Mysterious_Song_on_th...

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Is there a subreddit for lost media?

Internet Archive reached out to me (personally?) because there was an audio file from the original Minecraft - the sound of a cow. I had made a comment about the sound on Reddit many years ago, so they reached out asking if I still have it on a hard drive somewhere

yes, r/lostmedia

If anyone is into musical mysteries, there's a bunch of Zappa fragments that might be quotes from his or others' works, something that he did all the time:

https://www.zappateers.com/fzshows/mystery.html

Every time I hear #4, I think a bit of La donna è mobile, ...

Definitely not. I’ve sung La donna è mobile a zillion times. Also, damn, was his guitar going out of tune or what? Maybe he’s playing one of those 1970s Stratocasters that just wouldn’t behave.

That does sound a lot like Darren Hayes, as Wikipedia suggests. Specifically the lower-pitched singing of "you've got"; it sounds exactly like a signature Savage Garden thing.

Every artist has demo tapes with songs they've written but never published, and a lot of obscure stuff got leaked in the heyday of filesharing.

More generally, these are instances of Lostwave: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/

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