i already thought it would never be solved, the secret about those few songs on that tape my english teacher sabine jones gave to me in 1996: this weird pieces of music with strange instrumentation, (too) depressive tunes and romanticistic lyrics about the modern urban world are performed by tuxedomoon, "the most european of all american bands" of the eighties.

"when the going gets tough the tough goes shopping to buy something a little nothing to fill up the hole in his heart." – tuxedomoon, "egypt" (from "holy wars")