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    Posted: September 23 2005 at 13:03
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?

  
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The beginning of YYZ, for sure.
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the starting riff in YYZ by Rush is actually a morse code used in a Toronto airport. The whole story can be found in some Rush fan sites on the web.
"my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III")
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Kraftwerk - Radioactivity



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Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

The beginning of YYZ, for sure.

hey you beat me for a second!!!

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Mike Oldfield - Amarok.
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Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Mike Oldfield - Amarok.


I was thinking about that...

Is it really a morse code,or just something that accelerates until reaching madness scales?
 
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Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Mike Oldfield - Amarok.


I was thinking about that...

Is it really a morse code,or just something that accelerates until reaching madness scales?
 


No, there's morse code too at another point, but it's more subtle. If you translate it it says something along the lines of "f**k off RB" - a charming little dedication to Richard Branson.
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Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Mike Oldfield - Amarok.


I was thinking about that...

Is it really a morse code,or just something that accelerates until reaching madness scales?
 


No, there's morse code too at another point, but it's more subtle. If you translate it it says something along the lines of "f**k off RB" - a charming little dedication to Richard Branson.
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Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Mike Oldfield - Amarok.


I was thinking about that...

Is it really a morse code,or just something that accelerates until reaching madness scales?
 


No, there's morse code too at another point, but it's more subtle. If you translate it it says something along the lines of "f**k off RB" - a charming little dedication to Richard Branson.


Wow,thanks for the info...Although I don't think I would have liked to hear that Oldfield is dirty talking...
 
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Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Mike Oldfield - Amarok.


I was thinking about that...

Is it really a morse code,or just something that accelerates until reaching madness scales?
 


No, there's morse code too at another point, but it's more subtle. If you translate it it says something along the lines of "f**k off RB" - a charming little dedication to Richard Branson.


Wow,thanks for the info...Although I don't think I would have liked to hear that Oldfield is dirty talking...
 


It was his last album for Virgin, don't forget.
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Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Mike Oldfield - Amarok.


I was thinking about that...

Is it really a morse code,or just something that accelerates until reaching madness scales?
 


No, there's morse code too at another point, but it's more subtle. If you translate it it says something along the lines of "f**k off RB" - a charming little dedication to Richard Branson.


Wow,thanks for the info...Although I don't think I would have liked to hear that Oldfield is dirty talking...
 


It was his last album for Virgin, don't forget.


In that case,he is excused...The last albums before Amarok were awful,smart move to leave...
 
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Genesis's Watchers is probably the most obvious.
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Watcher of the skies by Genesis.Right after the mellotron intro.
What's gonna come out of my mouth is gonna come out of my soul."Skip Prokop"
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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!!!!

"my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III")
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Close To The Edge, perhaps?

If anyone of you have watched "Wag the Dog" movie, there should be a prog act, who would put a morse code piece in his track, saying "Courage, Mom".
yet you still have time!
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If I remember well, I think there's some Morse code on Roger Waters' "Radio Chaos". Can anyone confirm ?

I don't remember well because I got rid of it at one point... thought it wasn't Roger at his best...

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A mega-obscure one: “S.O.S.” by the Russian group Ariel.

Also, didn’t Balaklava by Pearls Before Swine have some “naughty” message in Morse Code on one song?

Oddly, the Canadian group Morse Code didn’t actually have any songs with Morse Code on them (though I haven’t heard any of the early Morse Code Transmission albums, just the later prog stuff).
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Morse?
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Dream Theater - In The Name of God

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