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Points: 105 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2005 at 14:47

what does the morse code in spirit of the age translate to ?
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Originally posted by porter porter wrote:

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Genesis's Watchers is probably the most obvious.

really?! is that a morse code?!?! can you translate it?!?! I'm sooo curious!!!!



Always been called that and of course it makes sense to what the song is about. But translation????????????
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Originally posted by DEzerov DEzerov wrote:

Currently listening to Caravan's Golf Girl and couldn't help but smile when hearing the Morse code in the song. I can think of two other gems that contain Morse code.....Hawkwind's Spirit of the Age and Klaatu's Sub Rosa's Subway. Are ther others that I'm forgetting or haven't heard?

  


I've just clicked (to pun) I'm sure you are referring to  sound of manual hedge clippers (as in -Billy- Shears),  a very essential English gardening tool!
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There's supposed to be some morse code in Strawberry Fields Forever - I'll have to look it up as I can't remember what it says. I know it's not really prog, but it's not far off.

So what does the morse code in "Golf girl" say?
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Points: 340 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2005 at 16:28
Originally posted by lordoflight lordoflight wrote:

what does the morse code in spirit of the age translate to ?



Will do a google search


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Originally posted by lordoflight lordoflight wrote:

what does the morse code in spirit of the age translate to ?



Dunno... did a google search and found nothing....did find this though at

 http://listserv.ispnetinc.net/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9603e&a mp;a mp;a mp;L=boc-l&D=1&T=0&P=9111 

"Spirit of the Age - as well as opening with some morse code 
also contains a radio call signal (the snatch of music at the beginning) I
think it may be radio Albania but hopefully someone will know better        
than me."
Very interesting....




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Morse code is the intro to the stunning Barclay James Harvest's song Science Fiction: Nova Lepidoptera, from the 1978 album XII! The message is: U.F.O.
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i tried a search too but found nothing. i think simon house was just playing around on his keyboard, it probably means nothing.

quite original to use radio albania as a song intro

 
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There's a song on Marillion's Brave,can't remember wich one.It's 11 mins long.Keysman Kelley does those neat little sounds during an atmospheric passage.You can hear it goes ''beep beep beeeep!'' and so on...
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Originally posted by richeym richeym wrote:

Dream Theater - In The Name of God

theres a section of Morse that translates to 'eat my ass n balls'

yes! and i love it!
I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t.
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Yeah, what does the morse code in "Golf Girl" translate to? I can't even find anything that might be mistaken for morse code in that song.

And what about "Watcher of the Skies?" What does that mean?



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Slightly off topic but what a good name for an album by Steve Morse. 'Morse Code'.
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Points: 28427 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2005 at 19:39
Originally posted by BePinkTheater BePinkTheater wrote:

Originally posted by richeym richeym wrote:

Dream Theater - In The Name of God

theres a section of Morse that translates to 'eat my ass n balls'

yes! and i love it!

yeah

In the commentary for MP's Drums of Thought DVD, he mentioned a special "hidden nugget" that could be found somewhere in the studio version of ITNOG.

Over many weeks, many people on MP's forum were searching all through ITNOG to find out what the nugget was. Mike kept an eye on the discussions and let people know when they were wrong, and dozens of theories were proven false by MP.

One thing that he did say was that somebody had touched on what the nugget was in one of the various threads, but noone had expanded on it.

Eventually, Nick Bogovich (Bogie on the forum) discovered what the nugget actually was: the words "eat my ass and balls" spelled out in morse code from 5:51 to 6:07 of the song.
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My free prog group (Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata) used Morse for a drum pattern in our title track (also the second song we recorded).
If you're interested, you can check it out here: http://www.ogd-project.org/02.OGD.mp3




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Points: 705 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2005 at 22:49
Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

Originally posted by BePinkTheater BePinkTheater wrote:

Originally posted by richeym richeym wrote:

Dream Theater - In The Name of God

theres a section of Morse that translates to 'eat my ass n balls'

yes! and i love it!

yeah

In the commentary for MP's Drums of Thought DVD, he mentioned a special "hidden nugget" that could be found somewhere in the studio version of ITNOG.

Over many weeks, many people on MP's forum were searching all through ITNOG to find out what the nugget was. Mike kept an eye on the discussions and let people know when they were wrong, and dozens of theories were proven false by MP.

One thing that he did say was that somebody had touched on what the nugget was in one of the various threads, but noone had expanded on it.

Eventually, Nick Bogovich (Bogie on the forum) discovered what the nugget actually was: the words "eat my ass and balls" spelled out in morse code from 5:51 to 6:07 of the song.

Are you sure it's at that point in the song? I checked out the rhythm using http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html, and that rhythm just doesn't seem to be there.
The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.

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Originally posted by Biggles Biggles wrote:

Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

Originally posted by BePinkTheater BePinkTheater wrote:

Originally posted by richeym richeym wrote:

Dream Theater - In The Name of God

theres a section of Morse that translates to 'eat my ass n balls'

yes! and i love it!

yeah

In the commentary for MP's Drums of Thought DVD, he mentioned a special "hidden nugget" that could be found somewhere in the studio version of ITNOG.

Over many weeks, many people on MP's forum were searching all through ITNOG to find out what the nugget was. Mike kept an eye on the discussions and let people know when they were wrong, and dozens of theories were proven false by MP.

One thing that he did say was that somebody had touched on what the nugget was in one of the various threads, but noone had expanded on it.

Eventually, Nick Bogovich (Bogie on the forum) discovered what the nugget actually was: the words "eat my ass and balls" spelled out in morse code from 5:51 to 6:07 of the song.

Are you sure it's at that point in the song? I checked out the rhythm using http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html, and that rhythm just doesn't seem to be there.


It's a really quiet part in the background.
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Originally posted by Ty1020 Ty1020 wrote:

Originally posted by Biggles Biggles wrote:

Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

Originally posted by BePinkTheater BePinkTheater wrote:

Originally posted by richeym richeym wrote:

Dream Theater - In The Name of God

theres a section of Morse that translates to 'eat my ass n balls'

yes! and i love it!

yeah

In the commentary for MP's Drums of Thought DVD, he mentioned a special "hidden nugget" that could be found somewhere in the studio version of ITNOG.

Over many weeks, many people on MP's forum were searching all through ITNOG to find out what the nugget was. Mike kept an eye on the discussions and let people know when they were wrong, and dozens of theories were proven false by MP.

One thing that he did say was that somebody had touched on what the nugget was in one of the various threads, but noone had expanded on it.

Eventually, Nick Bogovich (Bogie on the forum) discovered what the nugget actually was: the words "eat my ass and balls" spelled out in morse code from 5:51 to 6:07 of the song.

Are you sure it's at that point in the song? I checked out the rhythm using http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html, and that rhythm just doesn't seem to be there.


It's a really quiet part in the background.

Yes, Mike approved it himself

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Originally posted by barbs barbs wrote:


Slightly off topic but what a good name for an album by Steve Morse. 'Morse Code'.

 I was just thinking about this. Maybe it should be his new band's name - The Morse Code.
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The name is already taken by a french canadian band.Since 1970!
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