This should be an easily identifiable mystery song. I hope. [UPDATE: SOLVED!]

[This mystery has been solved. Scroll down for more. – AC]

If you’re old enough, you’ll remember sitting next to the radio with your tape deck on “pause” waiting for your new favourite song came on. Then you’d quickly un-pause the tape, record the song, and then pause it again before the DJ started talking. That’s fine so long as you remembered the name of the song you were taping.

However, memories grow foggy over the years and even though you were the one who recorded that mixtape from the radio, you forget the name of the song and the artist. Many years later, that tape is rediscovered and you realize it features all these songs you once thought were really cool but can’t identify anymore. This is one of those situations.

This week, I got an email from a reader who asked for help in identifying a song from what must have been the late 80s/very early 90s when 102.1 the Edge was still going by the name CFNY. I have no idea who this is, even though I was the DJ who played it on the radio (that’s definitely my voice at the end). Whoever made this tape cut me off just as I was about to give the name of the artist and the title of the song.

[UPDATE: That aircheck of me appears to be from 1991 but that doesn’t mean the song was from that year.]

It sounds damn familiar but I can’t place it. I’d like to say that it’s British, although I won’t guarantee it. Little help? All the searches I’ve done have turned up nothing. The maddening thing is that this sounds like a song I’d have bought on CD back in the day. I probably have it in my library somewhere.

So…little help?

Here’s a slightly better recording.

And if you feel like tackling another mystery, there’s this song. Any ideas?

UPDATE: The song is “Wavestation” by, er, Wavestation, a Canadian (I think) group who released the song in 1994. The moment reader Bleu sent me an email with the answer, everything came flooding back. The album was entitled Mona Lisa.