Kicker: Name that tune

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, better late than never the saying goes.

An obscure 1980s band from Germany knows that first hand.

See, 40 years ago a couple of teenagers, a brother and sister, recorded a song off the radio onto a cassette tape. 

The old tape sat around for decades and then in 2007 the sister made an mp3 and put a clip online looking for help identifying it—because they never caught the band’s name or song title.

And wouldn’t you know it? Someone on Reddit made a positive ID: It was “Subways of Your Mind” by FEX.

That Reddit user happened to be researching up-and-coming bands of the 1980s from Germany, highly specific. So the user wrote to band members who’d been completely oblivious to all this.

So for them, opportunity finally knocks. The band’s aiming to reissue the song all these years later.

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