Not to be confused with other songs titled or have previously had titles containing the word "Fool".
Fool In Love (formerly known as I Was A Fool In Love or In A Variety Of Love) is a formerly unidentified sophisti-pop/new wave song by New Jersey-based band Wind at Night, recorded in 1983 on the album Spectrum. It was never commercially released, although it was broadcasted on WFMU the same year.
Search History
2012-2014
The song was first posted to the New Wave Outpost forums by user Guglielm on August 23rd, 2012 along with multiple other unknown songs. He didn’t provide any information about the songs.
On April 13th, 2013, Guglielm commented on a WFMU.org page for a playlist made by radio DJ Terre T. He said all of the songs were recorded off of WFMU "ages ago".[1]
A week later, Guglielm commented on a WFMU playlist made by DJ Bob Brainen, specifying that the songs were recorded 20-30 years prior, specifically between 1981-1984 or 1991-1993, off of WFMU.[2]
Guglielm reposted the song to WatZatSong on July 12th, 2013. The song is most likely from the late 1970s-early 1980s, but could possibly be from the early 1990s.
On August 30th, 2014, Guglielm reposted the song To WatZatSong again. Adding that the title could be "In A Variety Of Love I Was A Fool". The song was theorized by many to be an unreleased demo.
Early 2020s
Over time, the song was reuploaded to YouTube by multiple users, such as Barni, JayKay, Q, UZ, Aspirations, Zumi, Yourfreakyuncle, Aero, Ofrix, Jcorsen, LostwaveTT, LostwaveFinder, S2h, AlianTheObscure, Murphy, and multiple others, amassing over 90k views.
On March 26th, 2023, Guglielm confirmed that he digitized all of his cassette tapes with the songs on them in the early 1990s, and no longer had any of them anymore.[3]
On January 6th, 2024, a channel for the song was made in the FMM Discord server after winning a channel poll, along with Back To Bed, There's A Man, Tension Rising In The Air, and World Was So Easy. This song was put in the "Other Unknown Songs (1)" category.
Around 2024, WFMU's general manager, Ken Freedman, who joined WFMU in December 1983, was contacted and did not recognize the song, meaning it was most likely written before December of 1983, but it’s possible he just didn’t remember it.
2025
On July 22nd, 2025, Discord user rocketballboi created a Google sheet that acted as a masterlist for checking and ruling out bands who performed at The Dirt Club, a rock venue in Bloomfield, New Jersey that was very prominent in the early 1980s, and hosted many bands of guglielm samples such as Strike, Pleasure Hounds, Whorelords, and Network.
On July 30th, 2025, while checking random bands on the sheet, rocketballboi discovered a band called Wind At Night, which had very similar instrumentation and vocals in their only song available online, Animalism[4]. More digging into them found that they played on WNEW-FM's Prisoners of Rock event.
After a day, user Murphy discovered a Cocatalog copyright entry that contained all the band members' names. Shortly after, Rocket found contact info for member Jerry Eckhoff, and user Basketry contacted him.
On August 1st, 2025, Basketry got a response that the song was indeed by Wind At Night, titled "Fool in Love" recorded in 1983, but HQ audio or proof would be needed to mark it as solved.[5]
Later that day, user Liah C posted the band's full self-titled EP to YouTube. This song wasn't on it, but a new version of Animalism and three other unheard songs were, all of which sounded very similar.
A day later, Jerry Eckhoff confirmed he had the tape for the song and would send a copy on CD to Basketry, which was enough to mark the song solved.[6]
On August 18th, 2025, Jerry responded to Basketry, and he said the CD was ready to be sent[7]. Four days later, Basketry received the CD and digitized the full, high quality version of Fool In Love, along with 11 other songs which were included.
Lyrics
[Verse]
Memories, photographs
Things we said when we were in love
You were so cool, I was a fool
I was a fool in love
[Chorus]
In a variety of love
I was a fool for you
In a variety of love
I was a fool
In this version of love
You gave a star performance
In a variety of love
I was a fool
[Bridge]
Talking to the people I know about love
Talking to my friends and thought
Some people are winners, others are sinners
I was a fool in love
[Verse]
Memory, photographs
Things we said when we were in love
You were so cool, I was a fool
I was a fool in love
[Chorus]
In a variety of love
I was a fool for you
In a variety of love
I was a fool
[Instrumental]
[Outro]
I was a fool! In love (x8)
Wind At Night
Wind At Night was a funk rock, new wave, power pop, and art rock band from North Bergen, New Jersey, who frequented the venue The Dirt Club in Bloomfield during the early 1980s.
The core members were Segundo "Tony" Farinas, Girard "Jerry" Eckhoff, and Robert "Bob" Gelormine.
The band had a few different lineups over the years. The lineup for Spectrum was: Jerry Eckhoff (guitar, vocals), Bob Gelormine (keyboards, vocals), Tony Farinas (bass, vocals), Gregg Bendian (percussion) and Abe Fogle (drums, vocals)
Additional members were Carlos Vaselino (drums) and Ray (percussion).
In 1982, they registered their first tape, Dirt Tape '82.
Around 1983, they recorded their only EP, self-titled Wind At Night, with four songs:
In 1983, they recorded their second tape, Garfield Tape '83.
The same year, they recorded their debut album, Spectrum, which made its way over to WFMU, where it was broadcasted. This album included Fool In Love along with 11 other songs:
- Walking (Different version than on the EP)
- I Can't Stand
- Why Don't You Say
- Animalism (Different version than on the EP, this version was originally posted by Tony Farinas onto YouTube in 2011.)
- Try To Be
- Red Sweat
- Be My Neighbor
- Rooster Herd
- I Want It Right Now
- Find The One
- Water Is Rising
Information on their disbandment remains unknown.
Trivia
- At least two users in the lostwave community, Kurty and SDB, had listened to the band before Rocket brought them up as a lead. Kurty never brought it up anywhere, despite commenting on Animalism, and SDB didn't think the band sounded too similar.[8][9]
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